skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No you’re missing the point. It isn’t “trust is bad” it is that trust necessarily excludes people from different backgrounds.

If a bunch of your engineers (or whatever) went to Stanford, they people they trust are also much more likely to be from
Stanford, because those are the people that they know. The same holds for any university.

Then as time goes by the organisation becomes increasingly dominated by Stanford(or whichever) because the follow on hires also recommend people that they know — eg Stanford and the likes.

Now you have ensured that if someone cannot - for any reason - get into one of the feeder supplies, typically because going to those colleges requires a huge amount of money, or they’re super prestigious (the fancy UCs say) which have strong correlation to wealth (if you’re poor you can’t support the costs involved in getting a successful application).

So now you end up where large groups of people, for reasons outside of their control, and irrespective of talent, cannot get a job at your company.

At no point does anyone say “I don’t trust X”, it is simply the requirement that you have to /know/ someone to get a job there. Even if people are not trying to be assholes it is required nepotism. Even if you’re trying not to be biased, your hiring pool has already shrunk to match the backgrounds of your existing engineers.

If you want you could probably make a dumbass simulation of this, and I suspect if you start with X colours it will devolve to a small number fairly quickly.
It absolutely does matter.

The notion that making mockery of law that prohibits one's freedom of choice being the same as mockery of the said choice itself is astoundingly absurd.

The first, mockery of law-- specially one that imposes restrictions on citizens is a political consideration, while mockery of a personal subject outside the context of politics is an ideological concern.

To make it more clear, please consider that it is possible to be against prohibition of any choice while simultaneously find said choice unfavorable.
>Wait, what was the point of linking that article?

The bay area is the most liberal area. Comparing to other cities that happened to have liberal majorities is pointless. It's like calling a community with 3% minorities just as diverse as a community with 45% minorities.

>are you saying people are being run over by cars

If you think it requires violence to be intolerant, you need to expand your views.

>Are houses being spray painted?

Cars with Trump stickers vandalized, yes.

>Are wedding cakes not being baked for Republican couples?

I'm not sure. It would be a little hard to tell since political parties rarely show up on the cake request forms.
> Marketing is far more popular today as it was a year ago, 5 years ago, 10 years ago etc.

Although it might seem that way[1], I'm curious what you'd point me at to persuade me that that's true.[2]

> It isn’t specificaly a marketing activity…

By most definitions (and regardless of title), marketing is anything associated with buying and selling a product or service. It's a pretty wide net.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ... [2] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
Won't the oncoming traffic clear once the light turns red? That's usually enough for the 2-3 cars waiting in the intersection to complete their turn.
Lol this nigger is banned from Twitter or harassment
Thanks for the feedback! One thing you may be interested in, if you haven't seen it, is that you can right-click the video and copy a link to the current time code, so you can always go back to where you were (or just pause the video in a tab and return later).

Personally, I really hate the Coursera approach of lots of separate short videos - I totally get that some people like it, and that's fine, but it's not something I want to do myself.
Google does use GCP/GKE internally. And Google's internal Kubernetes team is basically the GCP team, according to googlers on HN.
> The gay couple's cake is a category of _people_ being refused service.

We aren't denying service to gun users, just restricting certain kinds of content. Gun users can make videos on the evils of gun ownership just like the grabbers can, no discrimination against a category of people here!

Just like gay people can order cakes for heterosexual marriages, exactly the same as straight people can.
What you describe sounds more like "proof of work" than "proof of competence." The bottom line of your story seems to be that anybody who publishes a book must have worked hard to write it. And we are to assme their expertise because... They wouldnkt have bothered unless they had something worthhwile to say?

That may appeal to some, but given the number of books written that are absolute dreck, the argument carries no more weight with the discerning audience than saying that you put in the work to get a CS degree, so you must be smart.

Now, if you write a book and get nice reviews, thatks a different signal. But absent that... I doubt it's more than an invitation to a conversation.

I wouldn't want to belong to any club whose sole requirement was that I had written and self-published a technical book.
Nutrition is a field, from the science perspective, that does not work in absolutes. It is too complex of a field for us to really pin anything down for populations or individuals. That is why we as individuals have to find a way to tune it, ideally with expert input. That is why I take issue with statements like "objectively worse," which is really the only reason I commented in the first place.
But I would like to see where you are getting 30g because everything I have seen (we'll include [1] link but my quick googling brought up comparable results) puts sugars, combined complex and simple, at ~40% to 65% of your daily diet. It is often quoted at about ~200g to 300g. Yes, people over-do their sugars, yes people think that eating all the fruit is healthy when in fact it is still a bunch of sugar, but in the end a body with moderate activity needs carbs to break down for quick energy. It would be inefficient for our bodies to go into fat stores or slow-burn protein every time we need energy.

[1]https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
The 4 Event-Driven Architectures
> Someone or some group/process has to be in charge, be the final decision-maker for a group.

That is certainly true. And if this were a situation where, say, some subtle techno-political decision about the codebase or the license threatened to split the community, you'd expect a leader from high-- like Stallman-- to come in and lay down a prudent decision.

But in this case, the leader from high has come in and created a problem that would require a higher leader to come in and resolve. AFAICT that higher leader doesn't exist.

That's a weird situation to get into. I can't fathom why Stallman would force the issue when the stakes are so low.

Then again, perhaps it's serendipity that this puts a spotlight on governance on an issue nearly nobody cares about. There's much less possibility of splitting the devs than there would be if there were a big technical feature at stake.
If you genuinely believe that these are comparable situations (and you're not just making a strained comparison to argue in favor of the side you favor), I'm not sure how to explain my position to you.

Although I think I would start by saying this: where "spam" and "eggs" is used in Python, it is in the place of any other word, usually a nonsense word like "foo" or "bar", and its presence does not distract. I doubt anyone thinks of actual SPAM or actual eggs when they run across it, and I seriously doubt the documentation authors intended or expected anyone to.

The (so-called) joke in this glibc discussion is a) essentially a pun on the name of the function, i.e., introducing mental confusion; b) a political subject; c) an ill-explained reference to a political subject (did you know it's about the global gag rule? do you know what the global gag rule is?); d) intended to make you think about that subject instead of tuning it out.

Python's use of "spam" and "eggs" adds some character, that's about it. (Python's insistence on "eggs" and "wheels" and "cheeseshop", on the other hand... I find the names cute but if you wanted to get rid of them all in favor of slightly more descriptive words, I'd honestly be in favor.) This joke serves no purpose other than, at best, to distract the attention of the person looking up documentation onto a completely different subject.
I’m much more concerned about him playing the “childbirth is far more traumatic than having an abortion” card in the discussion about the patch. Until this moment, I wasn’t even aware that was a card. It’s difficult to fathom the logic that would arrive at that statement making sense to someone typing it, particularly a person who will never experience the situations upon which he’s speaking conclusively.

You’re right, the conflict is elsewhere. However, something about Richard Stallman making that statement, which marginalizes the intense conflict women often feel over intentional abortion in their own lives, not to mention traumatic abortions brought on by rape or medical issues, really speaks to a yawning gap existing between him and empathy for other people. It seems to imply that he thinks women leveraging their right to choose are pleased or joyful that they can do so, and this distantly makes the joke worth keeping. He might be pro-choice, and keen to defend it, but the way he defends it models an entire cadre of people who look up to him. He’s speaking from a position with multiple layers of privilege, on account of his stature, race, and gender, and basically saying “abortion, no biggie, right?” How does that help us recruit women in tech?

Did my nose find it, or do we care more about who maintains a C runtime?

Immediate future prediction: -4 on this comment, a disengaging reply from you, a barrage of comments below me lining up to defend Stallman (likely calling him Dr. Stallman) or tell me I’m misinterpreting a direct quote and/or its context, and I sign out again and return to dormancy and lament this community’s symptomatic demonstration of this industry’s faults: it’s about who runs glibc! That matters! Ignore everything else, it’s a tizzy! Just look at the top thread. Not an abortion joke, an abortion law joke. That makes it all better.

Edit: Oh good, we are on to the apt-get cow.
From [1]:

"One major problem with this argument is the lack of a definition with rent control. Yes, the statistic of 93 percent of economists rejecting rent control is all fine, but what specific rent control are we speaking about? Here is the question he either refuses to answer or does not know much about.

"In the Economics Anti-Textbook by Rod Hills and Tonny Myatt, they do talk about the neoclassical idea of rent control, but give an alternative view as well. They write:

But knowing the extent to which the ceiling rent is binding over
time is very tricky. It’s complicated by the fact that we cannot
observe the equilibrium rent. A second complication is that the type
of rent control prevalent nowadays is very different from the type
assumed in textbooks -- a rigid rent freeze.

"What Berezow is saying is that "first-generation rent control" is rejected by many economists. For those unaware, it is, as stated above, "a rigid rent freeze." However,
"second-generation" rent control is more flexible as it can allow "automatic rent increases geared to increasing costs, excludes luxury high-rent buildings and new
buildings, restricts conversions, decontrols between tenants, and provides incentives for landlords to maintain or improve quality.""

[1] - https://shadowproof.com/2013/11/11/why-is-alex-berezow-allow...
TIL elisp has iterators
The updates interrupt you work only if you have been pushing them back for too long which is a good thing when most users never want to update and then get infected.

Accept the updates when you are not doing anything critical and you won't have any problems with it.
KANYE WEST LIFT YOURSELF WHOOP DIDDY SCOOP CHallENGE
fast.ai 1 is much better than Udacity's ML if you want to do purely Deep Learning. Udacity's DLF ND is IMO better than fast.ai 1. However, fast.ai 2 is way better than Udacity's DLF ND, and only their self-driving car has some Deep Learning models that are even more awesome (imagine driving using Deep Learning only). Take both fast.ai 1 and DLF ND if you are a beginner; after that jump on Stanford's CV & NLP courses; Oxford NLP might be a good idea as well. Then do UCL's Reinforcement Learning and you are set.
Flashing back to Seg Reg class over a decade ago, I could not have imagined we'd talk about such a scenario -- granted, I didn't know what a pointer was, and that hashing in my vernacular did not involve cryptography.

Believers should really read the Howey decision: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/328/293

It's fairly short, and it will give people an appreciation of the discussion. There is a lot to consider in the analysis.
The usual case for this is a light where left-turning traffic must wait for oncoming traffic to clear, but at certain times of day oncoming traffic never clears. The only gap in oncoming traffic occurs when the oncoming traffic has a red light. But the left-turning traffic also has a red at that point.
I like this approach. Do you permaban the IPs? because a ton of ISPs rotate IPs across users
Amazon does sell directly to consumers via their Cloudtail store, which is a JV between Amazon and Narayan Murty.

https://www.livemint.com/Companies/1EdpKoAY7GoZLh57pXuwkO/Am...
OSSEC is a nice FOSS tool for this
Show HN: HP Kubecraft – Markov Chain Tweets of H.P. Lovecraft and Kubernetes
Human remains go back in Africa 300,000 years and they're suggesting the oldest song is around 3,400 years old?

Did I miss something? Are they suggesting the first song was also written? ... that there weren't songs before they started writing them?

I think they mean the oldest musical notation.
It is, in fact, a US policy[0]. Proponents call it the "Mexico City policy," and opponents usually refer to it as the "Global Gag Rule." It tends to be rescinded whenever a Democrat is elected President, then reinstated whenever a Republican is elected.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_policy
Consider that their roles are driven by relationships, spending time networking and building new relationships, and what you see as pointless is core to their role.

When my recruiter, who landed me a very well paying job out of the blue, calls me and asks if we can get lunch, I make sure I’m free for whenever she’s free. “When’s convenient? Your pick.”

Soft skills are usually more important to get and keep a job vs technical competency, except in rare microcosms.
Hyperparameter optimization
On the Tesla Model 3
> For the final decision-maker to actively step in and veto something the normal decision process already has consensus around, or just pre-emptively declare something decided against what seems to be a consensus buliding the other way... is unthinkable for me.

Especially on so trivial an issue. This is what RMS wants to throw his weight around for?
I worked in entertainment, so I had much incentive to stay.

The main factor was stress, which was causing me health issues. I transitioned to tech, and now my wife and I both work remotely, so we searched a bunch of cities with airports nearby on the West Coast, and chose an arean north of San Diego.

Our blood tests both show a marked improvement in health, and my issues (gout mainly) have gone away completely.
The craziest thing to me about this, from reading the comments, is people are on wildly different sides of this, yet no side thinks this is a big deal.
I have had a Meyers Parrot for 15 years. He is a lot of work but I really enjoy having him as a pet.

Please, please don’t get a parrot unless you have an hour or two a day to spend time with them. Parrots need lots of attention. Especially good is setting up puzzles, hiding things for them to find, etc.
And, kids are fascinating conversationalists
I think you're replying to the wrong comment...
Pull into the intersection and go when it’s clear (on yellow or red). Gunning it so you can cut off oncoming traffic is ridiculous.
In this case client side will have our algorithm (i.e in JavaScript) + private key which we will use to hash the password. If this is the case I could not see any different between giving hacker password or hash-password with algorithm and key.
They are in the present universe, where we don't have effective rent control.

And effective rent would require controlling evictions and controlling rents on vacant units (infringing further on sacred property rights, certainly).

Now, the most effective policy would involved rent control but with exemptions for new very high density units, incentivizing increases in the total housing stock for an urban area.

But we're here with weak rent control and tacit collusion of homeowners and builders, who talk about their property rights when convenient and use the state to keep their monopoly when convenient.
Extensive discussion of similar article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014807
>However, the fact they all gravitate towards the same kinds of answers is something that should not be easily dismissed if we want to move the discussion forward.

If you analyze their answers, you realize that the same questions remain after answered. Answering "why are we here" with "god made us" just changes the question to "why is god here?" Their answers are similar as they generally were not developed independently.

And again, all of their answers have no logical or scientific foundation. I could not develop Christian theology without already having a bible, while the philosophical debates presumably could be reproduced independently.
> LispKit is based on the R7RS standard for Scheme.

I think that it should be called SchemeKit, since it's based on Scheme rather than Lisp.

It does look pretty neat. It's extremely odd that lists are immutable (but cons cells are mutable — are lists not conses‽), but maybe that's okay in the Scheme world nowadays?

Edit: LispPad[0] is a really interesting-looking Scheme IDE from the same author.

0: http://lisppad.objecthub.net/
Are you claiming that ALL foods — whether they’re sugar or grass-fed beef — affect your hunger-related hormones the same?

Also, where’s the evidence for people consuming processed sugar longer than meat?

Never seen that claimed before.
It seems like choosing a screw drive is almost as difficult as choosing which programming library, framework or environment to use.

Well, maybe not. New ones probably aren’t added quite as often.
> In other words, why are some classes protected while others aren't?

Protected classes tend to be things about themselves that people either can't change (race, nationality, gender, age, sexual orientation, family status, disability) or that it would be unconstitutional to force them to change (religion) and that people have been discriminated against on the basis of in the past.
50/50 ?

Should be like 10/10/90 .. 50/50 only makes sense if you are making enough to bootstrap.
> At least according to a Netflix documentary on India, there are some brahmins outside Kerala that have been chanting the same song since before the invention of speech. The claim is that the chant makes no sense in any linguistic or even musical tradition and is more closely related to birdsong, indicating a pre-oral genesis.

That's Michael Wood's documentary about India if I recall correctly. However, the implication of that segment was not that it represents a pre-speech musical pattern, but rather that contains uninterpretable elements that might be onomanopaeic. The first modern humans to arrive in India arrived speaking languages as fully developed as any we have today, as they diverged from the same fully verbal Africans as everyone else in the world.

EDIT: Here is an answer from the series' website where Wood himself admits that they sacrificed clarity for drama's sake in their description:
http://www.pbs.org/thestoryofindia/ask/answers_2.html#q3

What makes the Kerala birdsong chanting unusual is that it is systematic despite having no obvious denotative meaning, unlike the rest of Vedic hymns which directly rendered in the Vedic language [1].

Also, it only occurs in Kerala. Vedic recitation elsewhere in India does not include the birdsong element - rather it contains only the Vedic language hymns.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Sanskrit
> and have no turn lane.

Urgh, that's something missing from the other comments. Now it makes sense to me.
The Invisible Sculpture [video]
I can't even get this guitar tuning site to work by adding it to the whitelist...
I think the parent's argument is that it's not a custom to think of this as really accepted behavior. That is, an agressive driver turning left in a hurry may gun it, and the driver going straight may let him through to avoid an accident, but it's not "custom" to the point that that word implies it's accepted.
I thought we were talking about the Pittsburgh-left. That's not what you're describing. The Pittsburgh-left occurs immediately after the light turns green, when both the oncoming traffic and the person making the turn have a green light.

My point was, why do you need to do that when you can just enter the intersection during the green light and complete your turn once the light turns red?
One thing that may not be well-appreciated:

This is walking very close to the line of outright political advocacy. If you read the entire email thread, one of the examples [1] clearly crosses that threshold. Once that threshold is crossed, it is illegal for a government employee to contribute to glibc in an official capacity, or even a private employee contracted by the government. This includes things like people who need to modify glibc to get them to run on government supercomputers.

[1] Someone suggests blocking out code with #ifdef REPUBLICANS.
And here's a blog post about when she had it installed in SF MOMA http://elevr.com/would-you-like-to-see-an-invisible-sculptur...
What is "an attack?" You need to define this better to get more focused answers.

Log monitoring is good for finding bad access patterns, but can't be trusted to find a problem as it happens.

Look for repeated errors. Hitting the same service over an over? Login attempt failures from the same few IPs? It's either a script, or the Bing crawler. Write application level code and network level configuration to mitigate the problem.

How about legitimate users doing social engineering attacks on each other? Sybil attacks in ratings or voting? Attempt to reuse mobile purchase tokens on different accounts? Some new SSHD credential leak zero day? Using your cat picture upload service for storing pictures of dogs? Each of these need different approaches, and a good logging system that can change with your needs is super helpful.

But you can't read the logs in real time, looking for bad patterns. That needs customized analytics.
It's a comment that doesn't actually lend any knowledge on the issue. Striking it makes the documentation clearer to the end user.

Seems like it's time to fork the repo.
This isn't about "freedom of choice", and the fact that you're even suggesting that means you've missed the point. This is about the fact that a joke that has anything to do with a sensitive topic like abortion is wildly inappropriate to have in technical documentation. Even if you ignore the abortion angle, this is still a political joke, which is also inappropriate for this context. In fact, most jokes are fairly inappropriate in this context, but I'm having trouble thinking of anything more inappropriate than an abortion joke.

Edit: I'm really curious what kind of people are downvoting me. To those who are, I'd really like to know what your rationale is for believing that an abortion joke belongs in technical documentation.