skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why would someone work for them when they could be working for world changing startups and big companies?

You can be a world changing startup that, say, sets up web sites for businesses, and early on a porn company can come in and want to be a customer, and have a fat bank account. I have seen and heard about it happening. You're not exactly working for a porn company, you're working for, say, a cloud company, half the bills of which are paid for by one company that is streaming VR porn, because maybe AWS/Google/Azure doesn't want to host them.

Most of the people I've met that have done tech work for porn were doing it in this capacity, part-time for one or two customers. I only met one guy who was a full-time porn tech guy. IIRC, he was in his mid-20s and was going to college full-time as well, and the company was willing to be flexible about his schedule since they had trouble finding good people.
Yes I have— Cloud Custodian (https://github.com/capitalone/cloud-custodian) relies heavily on its event driven serverless policies to enable compliance across a large AWS fleet— filling in the gaps that are otherwise missing in IAM. Currently there are in the order of magnitude of 1000s of lambdas deployed across 100s of accounts and it definitely does exactly what it needs to do with little maintenance. Monitoring is done with a combination of cloudwatch, datadog and pagerduty so getting alerted on failing or errored invocations is completely built into our workflow.
Is Java Card ready for hash-based signatures?
That is interesting, but it is also an answer to a different question. The question is "are there any blue reds?" not "can we see in some circumstances reds as blue?".
I’m one of those crusty old developers, but with C# not Java. But I see the writing on the wall that while there are still new implementations and companies wanting .Net, all of the cool kids are doing Node.

Even with developers who are doing .Net, hopefully they are smart enough to be slowly moving away from .Net framework to .Net Core. As I’ve gotten more into cloud, I’m seeing how much of a burden it is to stick with Windows - it’s more resource intensive, more expensive licensing and less well supported.
I think it's pretty irrational to care about the consequences of what we eat centuries from now given that you'd be dead centuries - ~1 century. I mean if that is the case surely you can't sleep at night since the Andromeda galaxy will collide with the Milky way in ~4 billion years.
Thanks! I'm one of those old farts who uses zip ties to organize cables around the house, I think those Klein scissors will stand up to my abuse quite nicely!
Why does it have to be a perfectly accurate litmus test in your eyes? As in, maybe there are very few false positives — who cares? A test that has a tiny false positive rate is usually still a very good test. So it could still function broadly to indicate who does or doesn’t take on-going racial disparity seriously, and if the relatively few genuine false positive people are seen by the public as somehow endorsing that the word’s generic use is OK, it’s probably going to lead to more widespread use by the much greater number of people who plan to use it in the racist, true positive sense, and then disingenuously say it’s “just a word,” or it’s ok because it “wasn’t targeted harassment.”
Computational Neuropsychology and Bayesian Inference
VGA has redefinable character sets. I tried doing some animation with them back in the day, but I ran into some kind of limitation that I don't recall. I was trying to accomplish an animation effect by altering the character definitions in realtime, which I recall being very slow. It never occurred to me to do something like this. Now it'll be everything I can do to stop myself from trying this on an old PC! Goodbye weekend productivity!
Yes and no. I mean, a "regular" pizza is understood to be a cheese pizza, the default or base pizza. I think vanilla ice-cream is the regular pizza of the ice-cream world.
Can we please just blacklist the NY Times? Their articles are garbage and induce flame wars about non-tech subjects.
Yeah, I’m not a CIA employee, but even I use different passwords for everything and don’t store them in the clear. This smells like a government hit job from a mile away, much like Assange’s “rape” case. Snowden would have no doubt attracted the same kind of “attention” had he not moved to one of the very few countries where CIA, FBI, and NSA can’t operate.
Like people getting married who never discussed finances I'm amazed when I hear that these arrangements don't happen....how do you not do that!?!?
This is a very naive view of Roberts own record as a conservative activist and politics more generally. No such “social framework” exists separate from a fierce and persistent demand for it. This is certainly how the wealthy maintain their power.
Cycling and Black in Toronto
A performance engineering team’s story
How does "map inc [1, 2, 3]" know not to do "inc [1, 2, 3]" and then pass the result to "map"? I'm guessing it's a language rule, but it could be the type system. (I last used Haskell in about 1999.)

It's certainly ambiguous to outsiders, which is kind of the point of the discussion. Simpler would be something like Python: map(inc, [1, 2, 3]). No ambiguity.
This has nothing to do with Americans its just simple human decency, if you want to be insensitive keep using that word.

Incase you are wondering, I am not an American.

No need to digress to the current geopolitics which has to do with the topic.
> To be good, scissors have to be sharp, even, and fit together juuust right. A tiny deviance creates a huge about of suck.

Do you think the tolerances in a Samsung phone manufactured in China are laxer than that? High quality scissors can be manufactured in China. For people in UK to waste their time on it is unnecessary. And that's probably the reason why such endevours usually fail.
I never thought of language being a verbal “space” but it makes sense.

But it’s not only in Black culture. There was a Supreme Court case about an Asian band wanted a trademark on “The Slants” (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-racially-offens...). I think it’s domething that many minority cultures do.

Black people don’t need to go out of our way to create spaces - as soon as too many of us move into a neighborhood it will be done for us. (Is gentrification still a thing after the real estate crash in 2008?)
Yes from the US. Hell yes. Though the language is a must learn as it is a lot easier if you know it or have friends that can help you while you are learning.
I will never bail from .net to node. It'd be like cutting off my nose to spite my face. Javascript, and the ecosystem around it is so bad, I don't have words to describe it.
This isn’t true.
This logic doesn't square with what we observe in voting patterns. When high rent cities go from majority homeowner to majority renter, the laws start to change to legalize more housing.

That doesn't mean renters didn't care for housing when they were a minority, it just means they were efficiently marginalized.
Where “certain MacBook and MacBook Pro models” means every single one? Ok.
Sure women and black Americans don’t agree on everything, yet you can speak for all non-blacks and men lol.
Has anyone else found that the CloudWatch logging cost of millions of calls to Lambda is actually as expensive or more expensive than Lambda itself? I have to get rid of the IAM permission for it.
> I feel that it's perfectly reasonable to have a backup human driver if they are trained to act accordingly.

Agreed. I think the right analogy is an airplane pilot. Operating an airplane and an autonomous car require special training and require professional operators. Replace car crash with plane crash. My judgement is predicted on - did Uber train their drivers? Did Uber evaluate their drivers before allowing them to operate on their own? What policies did Uber have in place for drivers? What punishment did drivers typically receive for violating policies? Did Uber occasionally review footage of the driver to verify driver compliance?

It's hard to expect a layperson to pay attention for hours on end without input, but somebody appropriately trained should be able to do so.
I meant to say shared context. Everything you said is part of a shared context or not, those are the only two options.
Uhhh...what are i10n and a8y?
I love IRC. Use it every day. I'm developing my own chat stack though, which supports images, video, and audio changes as core features of it.

This is how an empty room looks like:
https://i.imgur.com/ir3qyUp.jpg

Code can be found in https://github.com/madprops/Hue

Been working on it since 2016
But nobody is offering it to them. It is just an aspect of reality. It would be like asking if the problem of breaking and entering is eased by describing the physics of throwing a rock through a window. The reality is just there, either to be respected or misused.

I would say that any official attempt to delegitimize the claim that use of the n-word is offensive and generally grounds for punishment or reprimand, however, would possibly do huge damage, as it would essentially completely wipe out the meaningfulness of a major symbol of racism in the US. So trying to “take away” the word likely won’t hinder racists at all, yet it will communicate to black people that their suffering won’t be treated with legitimacy.

It could even be basically a form of institutionally gaslighting black people at large. ... “It’s just the n-word. It can’t hurt you unless you let it hurt you.” Basically a nasty form of victim-blaming.
Observation? Who the fuck wants to live cheek by jowl with other people if they don't have to?
The typical cycle for problems reported on Apple products
Klein tools are borderline pornographic. I own their linesmen pliers and scissors. I also use their canvas zip bags as a man purse. Ridiculously amazing in every aspect.
Thanks for sharing. It’s a point of view I didn’t take even though I come from family owned businesses. Usually small businesses fail fast, so my thought that since it lasted so long it must’ve been ran at least decently well. Didn’t think documentation would be such a big problem for such a specialized company.

None of the family businesses I’ve been apart of lasted more than one generation lol. The children usually looking to not continue what their parents did, or sick of it since they were forced to help since they were kids. Passing on a company to the heir that has no interest except it was what was expected is dangerous. Happy you were able to turn it around.
It’s a design flaw. It will only be fixed with new design.
Also: It’s been good for us. We sold one of our homes. Paid off all our credit card debt. We rent a reasonably priced flat (100^2 meters/1350 Europe all inclusive, unfurnished though) and the commute to work is less than half what it was stateside. Not to mention the flat is nicer than the home we lived in stateside.

There are quirks for sure about Germans and German culture. But overall we love it here.

Also I think even with the high taxes my social health coverage is better than the one I was paying for partially with my employer in the states working at a health care company!
BLAG Linux no longer maintained, removed from FSF endorsed distributions list
> The use of “literally” to mean “figuratively” is nearly as old.

Please please don't say that. It is not being used to mean that. It is being used in a figurative way to mean "very". This is an ironic but relatively minor shift. It's in no danger of becoming its own opposite.
Recently I had a similar question. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17262538

I am waiting it out.
The people who intend to use such a word in a racist sense will already be expressing racist ideas, so what? I see no reason why the common usage of every word should not be normalized. There should be no word that the simple utterance of it, context-free, is taken as offensive. Not profanity, not slurs, not dialectic variations, whatever. Because that simply acts as a roadblock in communication in that people get hung up on the specific word used. I don't think it has to be a perfect litmus test, but I don't see why it's an even marginally accurate one.
It’s precise and factual, and several people have had they’re laptops replaced more than once. It is not hyperbole.
I can think of multiple reports of cp payloads being directed at enemies of the CI@. ...going back to 2013 they have been known to plant the cp on their enemies inside USA> interesting thing is that it's the same year the domestic spy operation was made legal by the defense authorization act 2013.
"he doesn't have the best delivery"

I think he is very good at keeping the content interesting. I never get the urge to fast-forward and I've got the attention span of a 2 year old with ADD.
Take the risk. Network your ass off and find a company or friends to help you emigrate to a western country to find better work. Even with all the shot that is going on politically the US would be a good place to be — the salaries are insane and if you ever want to start a company the VC funding available is great. (Or so I am told.) I’d prefer settling in Europe if you can pick up languages quick though.
It's not a surprise they're being downvoted because while their claims are technically accurate, they're pretty disingenuous.

I lived in an "urban" area and I didn't have bars on my windows. I'm sure the chance of me being mugged was higher than a suburb, but that's more a function of population than anything else. It's still low enough that it's a negligible risk for me and my girlfriend. While I've certainly seen discarded needles in big cities, I've never come across them on the lawn of major parks and actually tend to find them in the more suburban areas of cities. Most big cities have at least some schools that are very good, even if some of them are sub par.
IRC revival? What do people think Slack, Hipchat, Discord, Stride, etc. are? They're IRC derivatives. I spent my formative years online in IRC rooms so for me I feel like the "revival" has been going on for years.
The problem is one of humility. If you admit that something is at this point inexplicable then that is where you should stop explaining it. Sometimes I don't know is the only real answer. Because if you want to make this statement:

> It doesn’t seem to occur to people that consciousness itself is completely inexplicable and therefore all bets are off regarding its true nature.

You have to, ahem, explain it.
`getChar` is not of type `() -> SomeType`, but directly of type `SomeType`.

(Though yes, `f` also is a constant... it's just a constant that happens to be a function, which `getChar` is not.)
The attributes, from the paper:

The device type (for example, tablet or mobile), the operating system (for example, iOS or Android), the channel through which a customer comes to the website (for example, search engine or price comparison site), a do not track dummy equal to one if a customer uses settings that do not allow tracking device, operating system and channel information, the time of day of the purchase (for example, morning, afternoon, evening, or night), the email service provider (for example, gmail or yahoo), two pieces of information about the email address chosen by the user (includes first and/or last name and includes a number), a lower case dummy if a user consistently uses lower case when writing, and a dummy for a typing error when entering the email address.
It was not in fact a racist view. It's a view about power dynamics in a system that is racist and sexist.

If you really can't get over your feelings of personal insult and your need to defend white men, then please go back and substitute "part of the socially dominant racial group" for "white" and "part of the socially dominant gender group" for "men". In US history, those terms are equivalent. If you don't like that, talk to the founding fathers who set it up that way.

The reason it's material here is that a large portion of Twitter abuse is related to this. You can look at famous incidents, for example. Leslie Jones received a giant wave of racist, sexist abuse: https://www.thecut.com/2016/08/a-timeline-of-leslie-joness-h...

And the company admitted they had failed massively: https://people.com/movies/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-speaks-out...

You could also look at the differential experience of white men versus others on Twitter. E.g.: https://www.theroot.com/twitter-has-a-serious-harassment-and...

Note also your standard here. You, a white man, refuse to accept that race or gender could be relevant to a social problem until other people take the time to spoon-feed you. Why isn't it your job to know something about American history? Why isn't it your job to learn about the problem of online abuse before deciding that the privilege afforded to white men couldn't possibly be the relevant? Answer: because you were raised to believe that whiteness and maleness were the default and were good. So you choose that as your supposedly neutral stance, and require others to prove you wrong.

The true neutral stance would either be "I don't know about this problem and would like to learn" or "let's assume that online culture has some relationship to the existing offline social dynamic".
The weight of each uninflated plastic balloon is apparently 2.5g.

That's 3.75 tonnes of plastic they released into the environment.
Funny enough it's the opposite for me. TouchID would always fail at the most inopportune times - when I'm sweaty or it's humid and I just want to unlock this damn thing. FaceID fails when it doesn't really matter, I'm in bed and just checking morning email or something. Also the solution for FaceID not working is usually simple - just lift your head. When TouchID wouldn't work it was a lost cause and I'd have to resort to entering my long-ass password.
But the utterance comes with conditional probability of racism.

Prob(racist | utters n-word) is high. You’re essentially saying to ignore this fact unless you happen to have extra info to further condition on extra context.

But I see no reason why anyone would. It’s just a matter of basic evidence, basic posterior probability.
Two books on relativity that I found pretty accessible and enlightening were:

Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything[1] - George Musser

and

What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter[2] - Jeffrey O. Bennett

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848266-spooky-action-a...

[2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17938849-what-is-relativ...
Ezra Klein has a stat --- I'm trying to track it down, so this is a paraphrase --- that for any given level of income, a black family in America also lives on a block that is 30% less affluent on average than a white family with the same income level.
> For non-Black people, the word should not be spoken as there is almost no context in which it is appropriate or constructive (even when singing a song or reading a script)

That last part is pretty silly...
100% agreed. And I definitely don't mean it as an excuse. Just an explanation for why conspiracy is unnecessary.
A lot of potential for injustice via false negative judgements; after all, you aren't doing anything wrong by using a particular OS at a particular time of day, etc.
Function application in most languages in which 'f x' means 'apply the function f to the argument x' is left associative.

So `map inc [1,2,3]` is the same as `(map inc) [1,2,3]`.

This is consistent with the fact that -> is right associative.

So in Haskell, we usually say

map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]

Which is usually interpreted as 'If you give me a function which can turn a's into b's, and then you give me a list of a's, I can give you a list of b's.'

But it is exactly equivalent if we write the type of map like this:

map :: (a -> b) -> ([a] -> [b])

Which I like to read as 'If you give me a function which can turn a's into b's, I can give you a function which turns a list of a's into a list of b's.

It's certainly the case that ML-style languages have a syntax that can be unfamiliar to outsiders, but I would disagree that the syntax is ambiguous. Indeed, Standard ML (another functional language) is one of the few languages to be formally specified.
I dont think time is any more mysterious a concept than space. Asking "what is time" is just as enigmatic as "why are there 3 dimensions and not 1,2,4 or many more?"

How can you have a thing that is "left" or "up" of another thing? How come "all the things" aren't in the same place?
IRC has fine support for emojis, works for me on a CLI IRC client.

it's up for your input method to allow inputting them, and up for your fonts to display them, and up for you to not force a stupid encoding.
Maybe he had encrypted files with a password on his cell phone, the CIA just added the CP files later and ofcourse changed the created/modified dates of those files.
was this mostly cold starts or another architectural choice causing a bottleneck?
It's not up to you. There is something resembling a consensus among black people and the very large number of people who agree with you about the problem of racism in America that using the word --- even to sing along to a hip-hop song --- signals that you don't care about the word, and are willing to use it casually. You are free to disagree with that consensus. But knowing about it, and using the word anyways, makes a statement. You can't pretend not to know, and people won't care if you try. And there is no amount of message board reasoning you can apply that will reliably scramble the signal you send when you use the word.

You might get lucky --- hell, you'll probably usually be lucky --- and no consequence will befall you for saying the n-word. But eventually your luck will run out.

That's what happened here!

Notice that Netflix makes it pretty clear that this chucklefuck had an opportunity to climb out of the hole he dug for himself. There was a black Netflix employee group. He apparently even addressed it, after the incident. And didn't mention what he'd said. He's not a recent arrival to this country; he's a well-to-do middle-aged white executive. What would it have cost him to mollify their concern? How much sympathy can you muster for him?

Also, it's not like this is unique to black people and the N-word. LGBT people have similar words and we have reached similar detentes about them.
Right it can also be seen as a power play to be dating your superior.

But I still hate to see a company policy stop 2 people from loving each other. The intelligent thing however would be for 1 person to quit the company and work in a different company.
Master of Ceremony? Scrum Master? Master Chief? What are they on about?
I really want to. Any idea on how to network with like minded community while being on a different timezone?
It's nice that this doesn't bother you, but if you're not going to learn about and respect how words make others feel, at least have the decency to keep your dismissal to yourself.
Actually it looks like this is the one I was responding to: < https://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/building-the-next-... >.
NeutralinoJs – New concept to build apps with Js
I agree completely. I hate everything about the JavaScript ecosystem but like Kosh said, “once the avalanche has started, it’s too late for the pebbles to vote.” I need JavaScript in my back pocket just to stay relevant.
In databases master slave is replaced by primary secondary. I think being inclusive means removing obstacles you might not see yourself.
I think Johnathan Friedland is really wishing right now that his comments were evaluated within the context of the content of his character, and not the context of the color of his skin.
I know it sounds weird but I started using a Pixelbook for development. With the Crostini project you can now run Linux in a container. It is improving with each release. Mark my words, this will be a developer's workstation of choice in coming months.
Well that's one hell of a touche, but I guess now we know why you have such a hardon for outsourcing.