skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd also challenge the admissions committee to really observe the way Asian-americans, particularly Asian-american males, are treated on campus at Harvard. It's bizarre and surprising. They're treated with the casual dismissiveness formerly reserved for 1950s housewives.

This.

Microaggressions do exist. I think they are a part of how we naturally arrange ourselves in dominance hierarchies. They are so subtle and natural, it's insane to make such actions a crime, or to create bureaucratic enforcement against them. Those are policies of insanity. That said, I've seen a lot of racially tinged microaggressions as an Asian male.
True, but until recently it was very uncommon to save first to buy a house.

This is because you could get a mortgage for up to 125% of the price of the house bought and the interest on this loan could be fully deducted from income tax.

And to worsen things, you were not obliged to pay back on a monthly basis, but after 30 years you cannot deduct interest anymore the bank can ask for their money back (in practice it is mostly no problem if you can still pay the interest)

Now you can 'only' get a loan upto 100% of the price and need to at least save up for the extra costs (bank, notary, taxes)
And you have to pay back a monthly amount to be allowed to deduct the interest paid from income tax.

But saving up very large amounts, which is common in many other countries, still is not done by most people...
Moving a 1,000,000,000 people is not that difficult? Do you have any idea what you're talking about? That would be the largest migration in human history, by a wide margin.

Recently, we've had something on the order of 2,500,000 people moving to Europe and it's widely seen as somewhere between a crisis and a catastrophe.
Mincing words isn't a good idea for this sort of thing.
This is becoming a standard that will be used to protect the data of a billion+ users over time as devices get upgraded.
I envy that you had BASIC; I never did. I don't recall if all of the instances from my elementary school career didn't have BASIC installed in the ROM, or if I simply never got the change to discover the world that existed beyond the approved set of educational programs (like Oregon Trail) that the computers existed to run.

I sometimes wonder if I'd have gotten into programming sooner had I had exposure more than just Oregon Trail or Number Munchers.
Isn't that exactly OP's point? FB might have counterfactually opted to bury Instagram rather than drop tres comas buying it. Conceivably this could have cost x < $1b. In that world, Zuck is a fool for wasting $1b - x dollars, rather than the one we live in where he's hailed as a visionary for making $99b off the deal.
There’s a subtle difference between the two statements that is more clear if you read the entire article.

He’s saying that Schrödinger didn’t think that _quantum mechanics_ in its entirety was absurd at everyday scales, only that the indeterminacy prior to measurement led to absurdities.
> Pointers were ... weird

noooo, why did you make me remember real mode[1]!?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_pointer#In_16-bit_x86
Using GCC still feels like comparing an early android to a modern iOS. I guess they have to sell it cheap when the features and quality is not there.
Yes, I still have the profile. If you send me an email to the address in my profile, I'll send it to you.
And this is why, no matter how many downvotes it gets (and believe me, I get them for it), I will continue to say Dennett's book should have been titled "Consciousness Explained Away."

He dances around the thing pretty much everyone else means when they say "consciousness" or "the Hard Problem" and says of everything he can, "Welp, that's not the thing they're talking about!", except the thing we're talking about, which he more or less doesn't even acknowledge.

"'Blue' means only Pantone-292. The sky isn't Pantone-292. Therefore, the sky isn't blue."

Specious, isn't it?
Why not create satellite campuses in Austin or Denver?
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All other arguments aside, I’m uncomfortable with a world in which developers are bullied and intimidated by large corporations over nothing. In this case, it’s 3 month old api docs distributed to myself, which may be absurd enough to possibly make a stand over.

The central issue appears to be the idea that in order to defend against anyone, they have to defend against everyone. And in cases like this, I’m not sure that’s to the public benefit.
That sounds eerily like what I hear about on campus. That's like the singling-out experienced by biology and science students at Evergreen.
I did look in about:performance, nothing obvious was there. I think it's rather because I have many tabs, not because of a specific tab.
Fake news...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13508035/general-purpose...
Ask HN: How do you deal with unsolicited bug bounty hunters?
I was emailed yesterday by someone out of the blue claiming to be a security researcher who 'found' a security flaw in our SaaS app.

I was highly skeptical, and asked for details on the severity of the bug, plus any past references and work history regarding his bug bounty work, but he refused to give me much information until after I agreed to pay him a minimum $250 bounty.

I refused to do so, but then I noticed on our 'God mode' dashboard that he created an account on our SaaS and then tried to upload an image with a malicious header as his avatar. Our system detected this, logged it an warned us, and stopped the activity. Our hunter then simply logged off and disappeared, and we terminated his account in the system.

Just curious as to how other DevOps or developers out there deal with unsolicited bounty hunters like this? What is the best way to ascertain if their request is legitimate or not? How do you handle the 'chicken and egg' situation of agreeing to payment just in case they have found a valid security hole?
> teaching nonsense to eager youth from the position of authority is an offense damn close to sexual molestation

You really think this?
How exactly does that solve the problem? Don't you have to do the same capacity planning to decide how many servers to buy for your datacenter? Except you get less flexibility because you can't buy servers and have them instantly available like you can for reserved instances?

Also, what kind of workloads are you running that don't require databases? The biggest expense in any distributed system is moving data. If you have a datacenter with all the data, you've to move that data to the cloud and back for every bursted request. Whatever you might save in running your own DC will be lost to bandwidth charges.

And on the topic of running your own datacenter, it's unlikely you can run it as efficiently as AWS. What you might save in not paying AWS's profit margin you will probably spend in not being able to be as efficient as they are.
The point of the comment, is that if you can do the same thing without JavaScript or with, the implementation that doesn't use JavaScript is not categorically preferable.
It is necessary, otherwise we wouldn't be observing this world, and nothing would seem to exist.
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You don't need to chain callbacks with await/async anymore.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Thanks jedberg. You've definitely captured how we feel about it.

I will say that while our sustained use discount (SUD) works as you describe, our committed use discounts (CUD) are more similar to the AWS Flexible RIs. For some customers, even if it's obviously cheaper to use on-demand and just get the SUD benefit, they prefer the predictable "let me be sure I pay X" model.

As a note, even though CUDs and Flexible RIs are similar, I prefer ours (obviously). It's just a pile of cores and RAM in a region that you sign up to. That is easy enough to do in arrears that no ETL is necessary, and like you imagine: we want to automate this, too. We also don't play games with upfront payment or not, but most enterprises don't care.
I have to think AWS will get there eventually. But maybe not.

Either way, there is way more $$$ consulting for AWS than for GCP because of the expertise required to optimize costs.
It varies from computer to computer. I could definitely see an older/weaker computer struggling with rendering the output from 10k rows, even with the truncation I implemented, but I wanted it to render enough rows that it could actually measure how long it took with some accuracy by default.

The Spectre attack mitigations mean that browsers only provide 2ms to 3ms resolution on their JavaScript/WASM timers now, which makes the measurement accuracy very rough in WASM unless the operation being measured takes a few tens of milliseconds.
People in that comment thread described it more eloquently and precisely than I could but it really comes down to "use it or lose it."

Would it have been _nice_ for them to send you a politely worded message like "oh hey soo could you take down our docs kthx!" but it lacks the legal precision to defend their copyrights.

Lawyer are, unfortunately, seldom paid to be nice.
AWS has different options for different companies/data. They even have options for US government data that are certified by DSS I believe, and they have options if you need PCI, HIPAA, and other types of compliance.

See:
https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/pci-dss-level-1-faqs/
The quoted article also says that 25% of downtown area apts are currently vacant.
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"20-30 years"
"those in power not to pretend to have power when they have none"

That doesn't describe the Mercers at all (billionaires who arguably played a large role in 2016 US election results, Brexit by being primary backers of Cambridge Analytica and Breitbart).

edit: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180626/11162540111/i-hel..., via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17404582
For me instagram is facebook lite. I don't need the bloat of apps, rants, or links. I just want to see everyone's pictures. I got sick of FB long before the privacy scares.
This is a great question! I have some slides that may give some background on the evolutionary themes of this question. ( Starts at slide 20 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pDZLkFTFjuZzM8lIKkuC... ). I personally don't have a real answer. But my understanding is that consciousness emerges as a simulation of the world in which we can test decisions without impacting our survival in the world, and is thus an evolutionary advantage. Why do we experience consciousness in the way that we do? I.e. why do we have a sense of self and agency? I think this has to do with the fact that we have a limited mental capacity and the complexity of the world requires us to focus on particular things, thus bringing all of our mind to a point -- which we experience as our identity. Is it possible for there to be intelligent beings that don't experience consciousness in the way we do? I think so, but now I think we are going into SciFi territory.
>DOS was just a program loader

DOS also provided a little bit of an abstraction layer with its system calls, and some utilities. I just wanted to make the distinction in case any readers took you literally
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By the end of the article the author seems to have forgotten about the postulate in the beginning. Much better article by the same author: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14677846
By the heat of the fire, and play their songs from LyreStore.

Floating plastic would go in the GyreStore.

If you had a bunch muck it would go in MireStore.
Thanks for expounding.
I would enjoy seeing that comparison too, but I have been too busy lately to put time into more comparisons.

If someone can show that the Rust implementation of handlebars is slower than the JavaScript one, that would be really fun and interesting to see on its own! I would imagine the Rust one is reasonably efficient, but HashMaps are tremendously slower than the fixed enums my code is generating at Rust compile time, and the Rust Handlebars implementation uses HashMaps extensively for substitutions.
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Have they added IMAP Idle support yet?

Not having imap mail push on iOS is annoying to say the least.
It all a money game. The team with the most money can do better R&D and have a fast/more reliable car on the track, which seems to make up a large percentage of whether it is a point scoring car.

I wish it could go back to the days of guys tinkering in their garage to build a competitive car. We will never see the likes of the old days when Jack Brabham designed, hand built, and drove his own F1 car to a world championship title win.
I can't find any reputable news source for this, the article doesn't even mention a code name.
I'm sure you did, but could you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN? This kind of thing leads to low-quality discussion.
I think they're talking about mice, trackballs, etc.
Even if you have quite a bit of storage. ~40TB on EFS, and yet performance is abysmal due to the access time being about ~3ms.

So large files work well, but if you have many smaller files it's killer.

We built our app to do caching locally into NVMe drives though, so we async pull data from EFS and push back as necessary.

Definitely going to give Filestore a spin and see if it is a good fit for our use cases.
>For this reason, the International Association for the Study of Pain (I.A.S.P.) has a code of ethics, and its members are pledged not to inflict or increase pain except in an experimental setting.

What would we do without ethical codes?
Traefik creator here.
Wow, that's harsh!

You may encountered issues while using Traefik so giving your opinion is totally fine, but I don't think that's fair to overreact.

Many users (and I mean big companies) have been using Traefik in production for years without issue. I'm not saying there is not bug, which software can claim this, I'm just saying that many users have a good opinion on Traefik stability.

We follow semver, there shouldn't be any breaking change between 2 minor versions. But, yes, it can happen, sometimes, we may have forgot to check a specific use case. But hey, again, let's be fair, we don't want it. We are just human. And no, this does not happen at every minor version and this is pretty uncommon...

Finally, on Traefik size. You are including Traefik dependencies, in vendor/, which is a bit weird. In go, the convention is to push the dependencies in your repository to get reproducible builds, so that's not a good way to count.
If you exclude vendor/:

golocc --no-vendor ./...

Lines of Code: 58532 (2987 CLOC, 55545 NCLOC)

Which is rather tiny.

So all in all, I regret you had such a bad experience with Traefik, but I just wanted to express the fact that many users are using it without any issue :) I would be happy to discuss further on this.
They can just send Github a DMCA notice and Github will kill the repo without talking to you.
I can understand taking risks with radical sports, traveling, etc. Someone can weight the benefits (ie adrenaline rush, sense of accomplishment, etc) against the risk of losing their life. I can't understand why someone in good health (mental and physical) would choose to end their own life. In weighing the benefits of having life vs the benefits of not having death i don't see how someone would choose the latter over the former.
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Any hardware vendors announced timelines on hardware codec support yet?
video with sound on autoplay. a no-go for me.
What are the moral implications of creating and destroying simulated consciousnesses?
Yes really. The clone market made PCs very cheap. Certainly a lot cheaper than anything 'Amiga.' Atari ST had poor expansion; you could get a clone PC with 8 expansion slots for the same price, plug in whatever you needed, leave out whatever you didn't. The market spoke.
Yes, that is exactly a reasonable assessment of how the Chinese government works. The assessment you get from the Chinese media, which I look at a lot having been a long term foreigner in china, is much much worse than that, of course.
Squeezed thermal reservoirs for a nano-mechanical engine beyond the Carnot limit
http://www.boeing.com/features/2018/06/hypersonic-concept-ve...

It's a concept that is 20-30 years off. Neat, but not real yet.
> There is also the profound mystery of how individually 'unconscious' physical constituents of our nervous system can give rise to our conscious experience of the world.

The simplest explanation is that consciousness is a sort of fundamental field.
You have entirely sidestepped the question: Why did you flag the original post? It "got attention", but so do a lot of front page articles and they don't get flagged.

> What arguments does moderation have to moderate HN?

That wasn't the question, what's the argument for moderation to flag the original article? No arguments have been brought forth, not before and not now. Thank you for your reply, but it just doesn't address the point.

> We get accused of supporting white supremacism and misogyny...

That's the whole problem. I have never ever seen an actual white supremacist or a bona-fide woman-hater on HN (or most anywhere tech related). What I do see all the time is people of the "social justice" persuasion labeling most any criticism in such defamatory terms. Then, if somebody jumps in to defend someone's right to hold a different viewpoint, they too get attacked as "enablers" (or similar). It's dishonest and disgraceful and it needs to stop. The first step is to not ever pander to those people.

> ... just as much as the kind of things you guys are saying here.

What's wrong with what we're "saying here"?

> It looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle.

I disagree with that.

> This is in the site guidelines, which we'd appreciate it if you'd read and follow

Let me cite:

"On Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

There is a strong need for this kind of open debate in the tech sector and it would be great if you didn't make an effort to push it under the rug, or even suppress it.
when I contemplate the available resources for a starting programmer, my mind is always stunned.
Nah, I don’t blame the formality. What seems true is that both ipfs and blockchain technologies will make these legal tools obsolete.

What if we were to set up a project in response to this that made the Magic Leap API docs available in a distributed fashion? As well as a technical breakdown of everything that can be learned from them.

Is there no way to disobey in a productive way? Or is our only choice to agree to being bullied into submission for pointless reasons?
A NetApp filer on 40 Gbit/sec will do NFS plenty fast for running VMs directly to/from the system using ESXi for example.

EFS is not even in the same ballpark in terms of speed :/
I think we would agree that non-academic considerations are important. I wouldn't say that academic performance is a disqualifier, which makes it sounds like there's an inverse correlation between academic performance and success.
> if you can encode it, of course

And here lies a really big issue I have with modern codec standardisation and development - it will be unfortunately many years to come until we see sufficient optimisations to make at a minimum realtime encode and decode of AV1 feasible. Ten years ago when Moore's law was actually a thing this can-kicking may have been acceptable but now I sincerely believe codec development needs to be more iterative, and to consider hardware optimisations (in particular, having even a HDL variant as part of reference codec) from the initial outset.

VVC I suspect will repeat history in many ways, by virtue of how these codec standards bodies operate.
I'm not saying they are script kiddies. I make no claim about their skills. I have no idea what it takes to pull of a conspiracy like this.

I'm just saying I don't believe sensationalizing journalists or law enforcement. Pretty much every time when I've known anything about the case, there have been wild exaggerations.
I think the biggest thing is you don't realize how big something will get. You talk about an idea you're working on in IRC or ask a question on stack overflow while you're toying with the idea, then clean up later when it (surprisingly) takes off.
You can see a complete example in the accompanying Gist for this article: https://gist.github.com/lopopolo-stripe/e00b4bfa0839c125ed7a...
Previous discussion is not the same as this one. This is the actual release.
Yes they do/have research. Facebook had 12 papers at the last computer vision conference I attended (CVPR '17) and won the awards for best paper and best student paper.
NFS is much faster to attach than PD to a GCE node, which can take minutes at times and lead to crash loops waiting for the storage to be ready. This is especially problematic if the disk needs to be moved from one node to another for some reason.
He's not completely wrong though. Instagram was a photo service when it started. The focus was on photography. Interesting pictures of things happening in the moment. It was about taking the best picture you could in the moment and being forced to post it.

I'm not even sure I'd call Instagram as a photo service anymore. The original core functionality (using it as a digital polaroid and applying a filter) doesn't even seem to be something people use at all anymore. I'm not even sure the majority of the posts are even photos—what between the random images with text above them, screenshots, and the videos.

Instagram was a photo service in a sea of other photo services. Now it's a generic social network where you just post whatever.
As someone who was the subject of the quota in USSR, and despite what the article says, I think the story is more nuanced: at least in part, it was an "affirmative action". It's a zero sum game, the number of places was fixed. Good universities were in short supply. Not so good universities normally didn't enforce any quotas (at least in Russia proper; in Soviet Republics like Ukraine, it was more complicated :)
(I cannot prove "affirmative action" part, it's just how I understood it then. Others might disagree)
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Sure go ahead if it makes you feel better. I appreciate the whole "information wants to be free, man!" mindset.
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> But illusion talk denies the phenomena, it's not merely saying it doesn't have a fundamental existence.

I don't see how. An illusion is a perception entailing a false conclusion when taken at face value. The perception clearly exists, but what it entails is the illusion.

Qualia would then fall under the same category as other perceptive illusions, like optical illusions:

https://pixabay.com/en/pencil-bent-pencil-pencil-in-water-24...

Just so we're clear, when you say "appearance of phenomenal experience", I read, "the entailment of a perception". And it seems perfectly sensible to say that the entailments of perceptions can and often are false.