skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It was documented that police and city councils were afraid to go after perpetrators for fear of being seen as racist.

So you really think that "the left" would rather take that then investigate such a hot issue? Seriously?
Do you have a source on that documentation?

> This isn't about some leftist trying and failing to popularize, it's about nobody even trying to, over the course of 4 years.

So if "nobody" even tried, why is the left at fault? Wouldn't be "everybody" at fault? Maybe it's no racism conspiracy but something completely different? Whatever it is, it's completely different then what goes on in #metoo or #metwo where many people try. Many of them being affected themselves and so on.

> This is not suprising, the right has practically no cultural power.

Well, they managed #Brexit pretty well. That was 2 years ago.

> a) The left typically deals with this.

So let's wrap this up: not even the right cares about it even though it falls perfectly in their spectrum (as being the opposite of the left AND something with child abuse which is what they love to scream for death penalty), but the it's nonetheless the lefts fault...

> b) It would have been a massive deal no one forgot about if

Yeah, maybe. Maybe not.

> c) If the left doesn't come up with an answer to these issues, then only the far-right does, which dramatically increases their grassroots power, since they're actually responding to reality.

Where I come from, the justice system deals with such things. Not politics or the media or twitter. While you think it's the opposite and not only this, the left took the role of the justice system which has to be abolished if it doesn't do what you want.

I don't know man. It all sounds like the usual right wing madness argumentation which usually does not come from anywhere near reality ;)
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> It’s fucked up that being interested in this random programming language, not even for the reasons the fangirls love it

I'd argue that the real signaling here is the op showed genuine curiosity. This is hard to fake, and the "fangirls" in this example could be people pretending to like Clojure because that's the hip language/framework of the day.

Maybe people respect you more for being genuine.
I was (am maybe.) one of those douches that looked down on webdevs. I was so, so wrong. It came from fetishizing complexity and "smartness".

Even setting aside the issue of complexity, from a business perspective, web dev is immensely valuable and only becoming more so.

And as for complexity, I always thought I could learn it easily because its "not real CS" but man its a huge, complex, ever-changing ecosystem and not at all easy. And it takes a much broader set of skills (both technical and non-technical) than pure backend programming or whatever.

Mad respect to all web devs, and all devs. The sooner we get rid of the caste system within software the better.
Most aristocracies practiced primogeniture to prevent this sort of dilution - the entire estate was inherited by the eldest son. America intentionally abolished primogeniture, precisely to prevent the perpetuation of the aristocracy or the creation of a new one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primogeniture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee_tail

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2953276
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Is the knife swapping practice completely American or is it European? I've never heard of that being done here in the UK.
Do you think that they process your data in a secure manner?
It has been used occasionally for the last century, long before there were blogs or posts. I collected a few examples here http://imgur.com/a/NaFgA

The most compelling argument is that this character has been used on German passports since at least 1988 (I don't know whether they started this even earlier). On passports, names are written in capital letters by international standard. That character is necessary to accurately represent people's names.
> And I'm planning to kill myself before I lose it completely.

This is a common plan, but it doesn't work. When that moment arrives when you would want to, you no longer have the mental faculties to do it.

Before then, you'll be feeling like everything is going just fine, so why end it?

Assisted suicide or DNR's don't really work without family members to enforce them. Medical providers are incentivized to keep you alive: Both morally and financially (you can chose which counts for more depending on how cynical you are, but either way the two motives are in sync).
If fixing all our problems on earth is easier than going to other celestial bodies, why have we visited the moon but not done the former?

Nobody thinks going to Mars will make us immortal, you're kinda just throwing that straw man in there.

The disagreement is really that colonizing Mars does not make us any less capable of solving problems on Earth, but it could have many benefits. There are realistically zero downsides. The great thing about space exploration is that it's mostly a purely scientific endeavor. If you throw money at it, you can get stuff done. That's not how global geopolitics works. That's not how convincing people to take better care of their bodies works. You can't just throw money at that problem, so the idea that spending money on Mars takes money from those things is a baseless premise anyway.
https://github.com/daiyi/blog
AWS is arguably an original category.

Unfortunately this is really just an opinion piece. I’d like to see some empirical work examining Amazon’s impact on different markets.
Yes, if one was going to reliably archive information they wouldn't use FAT32 on a single spinning disk. Does this really need to be pointed out? The point is digital gives you ways to have perfect copies, correct loss, and the ability to transfer to the next storage medium with no decay. Things analog could never achieve.
It works great too, here's my GTX 1080 MSI 'Gamer OC Edition' running as an eGPU from back in 2016: https://i.imgur.com/jZgugWO.jpg
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I’m there and cannot stand it. In my company, for the native apps each problem has it’s own dedicated team. Including ML team which doesn’t have any results yet. I’m the only „cloud” person, everyone assumes that anyting „web” takes 0 time and effort to complete. I truly hate these people. BTW it’s Germany - when they hear „internet” their brains turn into a pile of rotten cabbage.
Why that particular one?
Can we stop with the blockchain trolling please? It only makes you look very ignorant.

Yes, there is a humongous number of scammy projects. But there are also projects working really hard to succeed and they deserve a chance. Right now I'm particularly impressed by what Augur pulled off, it's not certain whether it will succeed long term but credit should be given where it's due.
I did the very same thing 2 weeks ago! Out of curiosity, were you using the lambci image as a starting point?
I presume the hatred comes from the purists looking down on the entire mess of web stack: PHP gets a bad rep, JavaScript is at the butt of every joke from an embedded C developer, and the front end of the stack is a total nightmare - CSS, w3c and all.

Web Dev is hard __precisely__ because of this mess!
Disclosure: I'm fairly dubious that we as a modern discourse fully understand the reality of life, and propagation, shaping of life.

I have a lot of reservations. And I often times find myself rather disgusted by the attitude and approach of many people in the scientific worldview.

That being said, I do believe there are some interesting numbers out there about how much more efficient dairy is than just simply eating your animals. It also produces a relatively large amount of fat, which is is incredibly important (for your brain, and much else) and is one of the more difficult parts of a diet to attain in most ecosystems.

There could possibly also be advantages related to the ease of lactobacillus fermentation.
I think it's fair to say that American soldiers brought back those memories. My grandfather served in the Army towards the end of the conflict in Europe and, when he would speak about it, he spoke about seeing destruction. (It was not something he spoke about easily or lightly.)
This is the correct answer. Whenever someone argues for a certain technology (e.g. for rewriting in a different language or framework), ask for the benefit to the customer.
Funny, I had the opposite impression. Vue outsourcing a lot of custom non-HTML compliant properties into the DOM code made me think it would be a harder job to get rid of it if I decided to switch. React's state updating does look a bit more circular, but at least it stays within the file.
A number of years ago, one of the co-founders at work asked various people, "how would you feel if I said you looked like a $LANGUAGE programmer?" And he substituted Perl, Ruby, Python, and PHP for $LANGUAGE.

We often mock up in our minds what it means to work in a language or framework and bucket people based on these poor signals.
> Which genes are selected from which progenitor is random.

IIRC that's not completely true. In mammal females, there is competition at the chromosome level to determine which member of each pair will end up in the first polar body (which is discarded) and which one ends up in the secondary oocyte (which then splits up to become the ovum and the secondary polar body).
I think the negative comments on webdev come from the php era where websites were not much more than information portals. Nowadays webdev is more about web apps, considerably harder to create and maintain. In addition the usage expanded so scale became a thing. Over time it is more that the apps traditionally seen as "true programming" moved to the web but the stigma is only starting to fade.

On the writing style; hope you are more fun over lunch talks :). Hope it is a jokingly written article because the dark writing style can easily be confused with a negative attitude for people who can only judge by the article. Cheer up!

P.s. the fangirl comment is a little out of place in an article on signaling written in this tone. It's like you think less of people who love the language for reasons that qualify them as "fangirl" in your eyes. Just saying.
> anything you’re going to build and run at home will be a small-scale replica.

If you’re OK with the performance of a top-tanking 2010 supercomputer, and the task is a good fit for GPUs (=the numbers being crunched are single-precision floats, not too much bandwidth is required, the “hot” set of the data is within a few GB i.e. fits in VRAM), you can build one at home spending very reasonable amount of cash.

Here’s a top 500 list for June 2010: https://www.top500.org/lists/2010/06/ As you see, the system at #10 delivers 433 TFlops. That’s just 40 modern GeForce 1080Ti GPUs. What once costed many millions of dollars and consumed 4 megawatts of electricity, now costs $40k and consumes little over 10KW.

And because cryptocurrency craziness, many-GPU motherboards, cables, PSUs and other components are available on the market and aren’t too expensive. For example, Asus offers B250 mining motherboard with 19 PCIe slots for $140.
Think about your usage of the word word people - as opposed to the singular. In a purely random natural selection driven system, propagation relies on the success of a single mutated individual until we get to very large populations where randomness could more regularly yield similar mutations among different people. Because of this, in the purely random natural selection system the magnitude of an effect is extremely important. Let's imagine we can somehow quantify exactly how likely a specimen is to survive in a certain area per year, we'll call that value x. Imagine x is some percent per year. How much would a random specimen suddenly developing lactose tolerance increase that percent?

In the case of something like Darwin's birds, the percent improvement from beak changes would be very substantial. That mutation would open up entirely new, and vast, resources of food available at all times and completely independent of everything else. In the case of milk, you need a lactating animal to start with. That already implies you have multiple sources of food in extremely healthy shape. That little catch there already ensures that this mutation would not provide a substantial benefit in a one-off scenario.

By contrast, imagine our mutations are not entirely random. And that our bodies, somehow, trend towards more desirable mutations over time -- meaning we don't see just a one-off instance of favorable mutations but them tending to occur over and over again. In this case your language of "people" would be entirely appropriate. Over time, even a small survival edge means a lot and, given enough samples, we'd certainly expect this trait (and any trait for that matter) to start to 'stick' in any area where its net effect on survival was basically anything above 0.
That reminds me of something Old Bill Burroughs wrote about in his last trilogy. But then, he had some outlandish fantasies about reincarnation through simultaneous suicide and conception. Or asexual spiritual materialization. So it was best to die in prime health.

In reality, he died at 83, after a heart attack.
* CSS-in-JS

* Written as actual CSS

* Styles that are easily extended / composable

Would be my main reasons for liking it.
120wpm involves stenography
People who create and sell puff of smoke will make some money, but may not last long. The others may be side victims when they go down.

But if you can not see the potential of trustless censorship resistant value transfer and smart contract among other things, you will also be a victim.

There is money to be made, without any need for shenanigans.
Thanks for the input!

I hope the sociopath comment wasn't triggered by my question. I tend to question widespread assumptions, perhaps more often than I ought to. But I find that, more often than not, people don't have a good reason for the positions they hold. I abhor groupthink which, sadly, dominates our culture today.
Just drop a line about "my startup" and put wage slaves to shame.

If you are in front of other startup founders, and they know you also have a startup, then drop the line that you own multiple income producing real estate properties.

If you are with real estate investors, who know you also have a mini real estate empire, then drop the line that you own a tech company.

If you meet someone who has a successful startup, has multiple real estate properties.... then flex your arm and chest muscles at random to show them who's boss.

If you meet another guy that has the same things as you, then go out for a beer with him and be narcissistic assholes together to slay chicks.

Works every time
(2016)

Nice article, the self-deprecating/funny tone is rather sparingly found in tech blogs (well, apart from Julia Evans).
It's hard to unthink a thought when it's transcribed online.

> If Kyogen was asked 3 times, would he change his answer?

Probably depends on some stuff I don't have the awareness yet for.
> Growing old

Ever heard the saying "Age is just a number"? If you took care of yourself you never feel like "Now I'm old".

It's typically only the young that look at the elderly and think "they are old".
Rereading my original comment, what I meant was "it's impressive that they can get away with not retesting and recertifying when making material changes to safety-related elements of the vehicles."
never said they were
Google has shown they can handle DNS with 8.8.8.8

I trust Google to have the internet's best interests at heart way more than I trust GoDaddy and their ilk.
Not to mention; web developers are constantly having to context switch between HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Old school days they also had a backend language like PHP or Perl. Many still do. Then there was/is SQL. By my count, that's at least five different languages to know all at once.
> Thus, we are able to catch all double faults, including kernel stack overflows:

“All” is a strong word. If you implement page table isolation, and you goof the page table switch, your double fault handler may not work either.
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Time will tell, I guess.

But re medical providers, why would they keep me alive if there's no money left? It's a pretty good bet that even AmEx would start declining charges, at some point.
Often when people perceive signalling it is a confirmation bias -- they feel something and think it exists in the behaviors of others. e.g. I'm doing something I think is cool, therefore positive interactions are because of it. I'm insecure therefore everyone is dismissive of me.

Having said that, I don't know what timeframe this person is referring to but web development went from extraordinarily hackish and ill considered (the WebForm/php/intermixed render blocks era) to being a quite disciplined portion of the industry. I remember when the overwhelming bulk of web developers wouldn't grok that JavaScript had closures, and they didn't have to use globals to store state during an event handler.
At this point, I think it's fairly common knowledge that there are rare and common pieces.
So you could take a chance registering some not-yet-defined code point, and possibly end up with the next poop emoji as your e-mail address!

Worst lottery ever.
It's not about ML, AR, or react native, these are just examples you're getting distracted by. There are a ton of other examples anyone could give, but it's a distraction to focus on a specific example when the premise is ignored.
I agree with you for most of that, though I have definitely run into cases of "React" as a paradigm getting in the way. I'd love if someone here has a good solution.

The inherent problem I run into with React is that it's "context-less", in the sense that the "React way of thinking" makes it hard to represent things like animations where you care about the previous state and how you got there. So in my case, I'm doing a multiplayer boardgame. Someone plays a card, I want to animate the card getting pulled from one deck and shuffled into another.

The best solution I've found so far is to add extra "annotations" (using terms loosely) into the current "board state" that represents the changes that happened, and that allows me to queue up the necessary animations. But that feels clumsy because it means persisting stateful data into the data structure alongside the actual "pure board state".
There's also something to be said for us working hard at getting rid of the complexity in web development.
What do you mean by “On a side note, at least that apartment had very poor natural lighting coming in?”

Do you mean that “at least one apartment in Japan has poor light” or do you mean “the article/the person’s life/something else was bad but on the other hand it’s good that the apartment had poor light”

I can’t really make sense of it at all.
That's awesome news. Good luck!
Thanks for making that game! When I was trying to learn better rhythm, I found it really interesting. I never got very good at it, but it was an engaging tool.
Each person has two chromosomes of each kind and they are mixed during the formation of the egg and sperms. For more details see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal_crossover

So, ignoring mutations, the next generation gets a never before seen chromosomes that are a puzzle of the chromosomes of the mother and another never before seen chromosomes that are a puzzle of the chromosomes of father.

I still can't find how common is the crossover, but in one link I got about 70 crossovers during the formation of the egg (with a lot of variations), that is approximately 3 crossovers per chromosome. I guess the crossover rate for the sperm is similar.

There is an exception with the X and Y chromosomes in males, that can't crossover, so the Y chromosome is inherited without crossovers, and it's much easier to track the male ancestor line in the Y chromosome. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam
Excellent, I'll check it out, thanks!
Every time i see an article like this I get my hopes up that it's about the eGPU behaviour on Mac OS. Turns out it's yet another Bootcamp article :(
The comment you replied to had the phrasing:

They may have heard of the company but haven't tried it, or they tried it in the past and just need the brand occasionally refreshed in their mind until they try it again.

Nobody but you claimed that these people "haven't heard of" Facebook. You seem to be under the false impression that ads are only for people that have never heard of something. That is almost the opposite of the truth.
> how competent apple's code review practices are.

Thousands of developers over a decade have touched code going into iOS & Mac OS and so far have a pretty good track record on internal espionage and back doors.

> remember that time you could bypass the root password

Pretty dumb mistake, but willing to put money on them that it won't happen again. I think you severely underestimate just how competent Apple (and Google, Facebook, or Microsoft) are at their job given the enormous complexity of the problems they solve.
Does everyone mean the same thing by "wpm"? I almost always score over "125 wpm" on Typeracer.com, and there are plenty of people there who score higher than that. So I suspect there is some inconsistency in the counting between that site and the article. (I don't even consider myself especially fast.)
I absolutely agree. What is a tactful way to convince others of that benefit?
I'd imagine some recognition technology could take into account body proportions, posture, (commonly worn) apparel, etc. to make facial recognition less needed.
"Before each bi-annual game, Jacobson arrived at the drab Dittler Brothers’ office at 5 a.m to observe their Omega III supercomputer making the McDonald’s prize draw."

Does anyone know what the 'Omega III supercomputer' is?
I was about to make a snarky comment about sitting next to one idiot on an airplane and coming to a conclusion about a whole field. But then he sort of covered it in the last paragraph:

> although the dot-com crash walked back valuations and chastened investors, a mature climate of internet businesses emerged in its wake. Today, technology firms account for 7 of the 10 largest companies in the world. The market didn’t overestimate the Internet, only the current crop of entrepreneurs.
That's a browser I would love to use on my desktop. Two thumbs up!
Believing any company cares about anything else is naive.

It's very sad that your experience is so limited. There are plenty of companies that actually care about things other than profit. I had the pleasure of working for one once, and through that was introduced to others.
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I got a eGPU too for machine learning work. I have a 1080ti which I put in the Akitio Node Pro. Its nice because it has a handle on the top, is portable, and sits on my desk at home.

I also have a desktop machine that I built with another 1080ti in it. I use the desktop machine as a remote machine for longer running jobs, but like the convenience of running files directly on my machine.

If anyone has questions, I'm happy to answer.
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This has been my experience too, unfortunately, and I'd like to try something different to leaving. I work with amazing people, very smart, and very approachable. I'm questioning whether I should leave whenever I'm in this situation or if there's a more tactical approach I could take to guide them into a more diverse & adoptive mindset.
I bet you that if you asked those people they’d tell you inheriting $100k would be a life changing event.

Life changiness scales with your environment.
> ack in the day (as in a couple years ago) when I told other software people I’m a web developer, I got treated like shit.

I see this a lot in our field unfortunately. "You program in X? A real programmer would program in Y because...".