skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The best we can do is what we've been doing - regulate around it as much as possible, even if such attempts are doomed to be ineffective.

We can do much better than that. We can take a deep look into our own society and address the underlying reasons why people are trying to hurt themselves and others in such large numbers.

For instance, we could try to figure out why over 20,000 people per year are killing themselves with firearms. Is some aspect of their lives making them despair? If so, let's take a serious look into the causes, and try to correct them.

There are parts of the country with extremely low rates of violence and near universal gun ownership. Let's figure out what's going on in those parts of the country, and try to make the rest of the country like that.

Are there any commonalities we can identify between people who attempt to commit mass atrocities? If so, let's figure out what they are, and see if there's anything we can do to reduce the incidence of those commonalities in the general population.

How does that sound?
> I'm perfectly aware of that. The point is that everybody is echoing with the message, and not really worried about the delivery at all. Furthermore, if the delivery is suspect here I'm trying to suggest we should examine why we hate Amazon so much, and whether it's justified.

So examine it. Your post certainly has done nothing to challenge whatever assumptions you think people are making.

> Not right now, obviously. But where does the government's power to enforce things come from? Violence. That's the nature of the beast. That's also why I qualified it with "institutionalized", which you seem to have conveniently ignored. The government represents an implied threat of violence used to back the power of an institution that abstract actual violence away (most of the time). This is why people often can't see the violence; and because of that I find it helpful to point it out more explicitly.

So you're saying, "All regulation is insitutionalized violence." Okay...

> I know what the government defines as a monopoly, and would say Amazon skirts that line VERY closely. But I'm trying to get people from just saying, "it's a monopoly" and leaving it at that. That lets the connotation of the word do all the legwork, when we should be examining exactly what the real behavior is and whether it's actually wrong and something we should be attacking them for. It's all well and good to talk about the Law, but sometimes we have to talk about ethics and rights, too.

So examine it. Your post certainly has done nothing to challenge whatever assumptions you think people are making.
> Now, to support multiple processors on a single machine reading and writing from the same memory in a coherent way, only one processor on a machine can have exclusive access to a given cache line.

Does this also apply when multiple processors are only reading memory?
You're conflating defending the actions of an employee with judging organizations for doing business with morally questionable entities.

Do I think everyone should deny ICE contracts? No. Do I believe an employee should have the right to prevent their work being used for acts that they object to? Yes.
My understanding is that the problem is not that banks don't have money, but that they don't have the right kind of money.

They need fed reserves, which is the only kind of money that works intra-day for bank needs, but they have treasuries and other stuff, which only clears the next day.

Why don't they sell treasuries today so that they have the money tomorrow and thus no problem tomorrow I don't understand.
It depends on their rank. An A4 like the one in he article would be pretty low rank wise.
Yeah those are good points. I'm not really sure how that could be handled well. It has to be handled on a case by case basis. In this situation specifically though the CEO says that he doesn't support their actions either so seems like a simpler case of "Hey my employees brought this to my attention and I agree with them"
The Miracle Cure
Unfortunately, when you work for a company, you've, in most cases, chosen to trade your rights to your work over to the company. The company owns the intellectual property
The divide between these roles you mentioned has gotten bigger over time in my opinion. It's maybe easier nowadays to put together an okay-looking proof-of-concept app, but when getting into large apps and high traffic, the stack has gotten more complicated to do right. You don't just roll out server-rendered MVC app, but need front-end with 3 layouts for different devices and state management more complex than on the back-end. Or maybe that's just my feeling.
Ticking off the number of countries you've visited is hardly a benevolent hobby. You can learn the history, culture, language, traditions, etc. of any country by opening a book, if that's really what you're interested in.
How would a coal fired aircraft not emit water vapor, less hydrogen in the fuel?
For anyone else wondering, the art was made in MS Paint, the game itself was not made in MS Paint. I thought it would be like one of those Turing-complete Excel spreadsheets.
If you have a direct contact at Stripe, suddenly you can do things, and things become possible.
I had this exact experience recently too! Stripe was so easy at first so my estimate to upgrade was only a day, but the number of concepts and the muddled way they’re introduced meant day after day I was still working out if I really needed a payment intent, what would getting charge authority look like, do I even need any of this since I’m not doing business in Europe (in the end no, I migrated to the ‘old’ charges api, which the token api used to be). It ended up taking 5 days and causing quite a bit of angst with my cofounder due to a customer deadline

Combined with Stripe not refunding merchant fees, which was what triggered me to rewrite the payment process to delay processing until the last possible moment and making our own customer facing process more complicated, my most recent experience was less magical (like it was the first time) and more like dealing with a giant bank

I really like products like connect, and the original front end SDK (elements feels like overreach), but if someone hungrier came along they’d definitely get a look in
We used to show the new developers on the team a query generated by Entity Framework...23 pages long. We replaced it with a well formatted query that fit on half a page. When I switched the team to Java + JPA, we started writing our own queries if wasn't a simple CRUD and it has been wonderful for the entire team.

I think it's easier to learn SQL than learn an abstraction of a DSL.
Sure, I didn’t mean that in serious way, just that this wouldn’t have been mistaken for a real cop car in China. How would the CHP know that, surely they wouldn’t.

It’s just so obviously fake in a tuhao way, like seeing POLICE printed on a Porsche or something.
"The system can only perform a single, highly technical calculation, according to the researchers, and the use of quantum machines to solve practical problems is still years away."
I am aware of how work-for-hire works. I've been in this trade for twenty years. It is why I only pretend to be passionate about "my" work. I know it is not truly mine, and embrace alienation from my labor as a coping mechanism.
I mean their trying to build something no ones ever built before and may be currently impossible.
An Engineer's Perspective on Command and Control Culture
> CPU branch predictors love that kind of access pattern.

My brain's "branch predictor" had some sort of issue. CPU prefetchers of course. :-)
> In an 8400-word official judgement issued on 21 July 2008 the British media regulator Ofcom declared that the final part of the film [Swindle] dealing with the politics of climate change had broken rules on "due impartiality on matters of major political and industrial controversy and major matters relating to current public policy". Ofcom also backed complaints by Sir David King, stating that his views were misrepresented, and Carl Wunsch, on the points that he had been misled as to its intent, and that the impression had been given that he agreed with the programme's position on climate change. Ofcom further ruled that the IPCC had not been given an adequate chance to respond to adverse claims that its work was politicised and that it had made misleading claims about malaria.

Do you have any sources that haven't been ruled misleading by OFCOM?
Why? They already own Github which is about to reduce NPM to “feature, not product” status
If anything, this sort of thing makes it worse for the immigrants awaiting asylum hearings: if it's harder to keep track of who's there, it's harder to process them. There was a company whose employees walked out when they found out they were making beds for ICE detainment facilities... resulting in fewer beds for detainees.
Does Wormhole Technology have a traditional website somewhere?

I wanted to tell a friend that you're looking for a Haskell programmer, but I didn't have any luck accessing [0] wasn't particularly helpful.

[0] http[s]://wormhole.technology
WeWork's WiFi Security Worryingly Weak
The market can only handle so many competitors. Only two, sometimes three (if you're lucky?) ever amount to anything. Videogame genres are insanely easy to over saturate. Even streaming services like Netflix and what not aren't actually going to become some subscription hellscape like everyone thinks. Everyone's time limited, so there's only so many competitors that will succeed. And from history, it's usually whoever gets to market first, and does it just well enough for it to work at all.

In the end, in the worst case scenario, you might be paying for one, maybe two subscription services for games. But you'll still have the option to buy games just like now, because not everyone gets to be king.
Praise, for putting people in camps with inadequate medical care and inhumane treatment? I'll pass on the praise,thanks
Looked into this. Turns out that the default extensions report 0 installs, so the original number is correct.

Though, the latest number is now ~137M installs.
A "support number" gets you access to an expert. No offense to OP, but it doesn't sound like he's got a deep knowledge of the internals of Kubernetes. Which is fine, because it also sounds like that's not his main job, just something he's tasked with taking care of. That's literally why enterprise support exists. If we all had infinite time and brainpower to be experts in everything, we could just roll-our-own. But we don't. Which is why AWS exists, and IBM bought Redhat for billions of dollars.
That pretty much sounds like a Tesla 3 marketing campaign? :D

There was a looong wait for those to start shipping too.
I think it is cost savings, to be honest. Probably a lot cheaper to throw a screen in a car and iterate on the design then spend the time to design a proper physical interface. With physical buttons it is very expensive to add a new button, with touch screens you just copy in some HTML.
Fake cookie stuffing ad blocking extensions banned from Google Chrome Web Store
You basically do get that, but it's hard to work around indirections. If I'm in company A and I give money to an industry lobbying group X (and so do companies B, C, D, and E), and then industry lobbying group X gives money to super-PAC alpha, and then super-PAC alpha donates to politicians Bob and Fred, then... how does that become digestible to the public? Some amount of "Company A's" money went to Fred, but it's gone through several fungible buckets since then, and you can't necessarily draw a clean link.

Informally, it may (or may not!) be that Fred was told by someone that his continuing to get these kinds of checks was dependent on him doing a specific favor for company A, but probably not everyone who receives some money that was originally sourced at company A did.
When I started web work ~9 years ago, it was with Rails and ActiveRecord, which turns out to be incredibly good for basic queries and pretty basic apps. So good to the point where I never bothered to go too far into SQL until years later, which was a mistake.

When doing work in python, I don't feel it has a comparable ORM, to where I kind of write my own files that have things like finders and updaters and creators. In most cases, I've found it's much better than SQLAlchemy. Dealing with joins, and things like math, meaning averages, sums, distributions, division, is so much better to be done in the query rather than more basic queries and looping through the results.

There are of course cases like injections to look at, but lots of things I have are calculations of data and showing it, so we're able to handle it with raw queries. Also, ActiveRecord has ways to enforce no injections.

In lots of cases, we've found that using an ORM to start, finding slowness, and moving towards raw queries is a great way to go.
The vikings are my favourite example for these kinds of interjections. We think we know a lot about the vikings, there is so much literature on Norse mythology, there is even a very nice Gabriel book turned TV show on Amazon prime.

Yet our only written sources on the subject were written by Christian monks.

You brought up Julius Ceacar as an example in another post, and he’s actually another great point. Because we don’t actually know that much about him, or his life. Most people think he was the first emperor of Rome, but that was actually Augustus.
I use a data mapping ORM and I've literally not have any of these concerns. They are all non-issues.

The first item about querying is relevant but all ORMs allow you to drop into SQL to execute a complex reporting-style query. It's not really necessary if you are just querying in objects to manipulate (which is what ORMs are good for).
it happens for all people. imo thats a major fail from apple. why don't they roll out the necessary backend changes in 12.4 or sth?
While in my younger days I would probably have agreed with this, now I think that it's more defeatist and nihilist than is warranted. The Civil War example I cited above shows why: all of the areas of focus really happened. Soldiers did experience the front lines of combat, but slavery really was the beating heart of the war. Society really was fundamentally altered in ways that heavily affected women (and men and children and everyone, even those not at the front), and Reconstruction really did happen, and the Redeemers really did overthrow it. Books about all of those topics won Pulitzer Prizes and were Best Sellers and all the rest. People did actually learn about these real things, and some of them did incorporate those changes into their world view. They were stories people were interested in, because they spoke to the struggles that they encountered, not as something that flattered their already existing prejudices. That's a hell of a lot better than you are arguing here.

And then something like Hamilton can come along and make a LOT of people reconsider a lot of things all at once. Hamilton might not be particularly accurate as history, but it definitely was a much needed correction to 1776, rather closer than the previous award-winning American Revolution musical.

As for the difficulty of checking primary sources, this is true in any field of knowledge. Just like I can in theory read the Declarations of Succession, I can in theory verify General Relativity, but I'm not actually capable of making observations precise enough to do so, so I have to trust that those who are do a good job. There are plenty of people who would claim that I am being duped, and that I am only accepting that GR exists because it fits my world view. For example, the entire Deutsche Physik movement thought it was trumped up sizzle.
This might have gone better if couched as an FYI instead of an imperative:

If you want to be contacted, you need to list your contact info in your profile. The "email" field is not publicly visible. It is a common mistake on HN to assume that it is.

Then you might not be getting trolled so badly.
Hofstatder's law: It always takes longer than you think, even after accounting for Hofstatder's law.
GCP support is a joke. I've spent over a week litigating the question of whether an obvious bug is a bug before.
> You can learn the history, culture, language, traditions, etc. of any country by opening a book

Is this a serious assertion? You think I can learn the culture of, say, Japan, from a book as well as by actually living there for a short period and experiencing it?

This strikes me as woefully naive. Learning things from books, from a distance is fine and good, but there's no true substitute for being there, for experiencing a thing in person.
The Supreme Court has been a treasonous organization since Wickard v Filburn (8 of 9 justices then of course appointed by Roosevelt)

NSLs are unconstitutional.

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Code thinks in objects and functions and values and pointers.

Databases think in tables and columns and rows and queries and indexes.

If you don't pick an ORM to help manage this translation layer, then you'll end up re-implementing your own. Maybe this is OK, because yours will be simpler for quite some time.

What else are you going to do? Stored procedures? Concatenated strings?
I have a Model 3, and ever since I added Alexa Auto, I have no reason to use the touchscreen other than adding a destination to nav. Climate is set to auto. All other configurations automatically switch between my preferences and my wife’s based upon who is in the driver’s seat. I was a skeptic, but now I’m a believer.
>they might make it economically rational for Amazon to automate the jobs away

Any jobs that can be automated will be regardless.
Republicans U-Turn to Back $250m Election Security Boost
I ask because people are often very quick to suppose that they are part of the educated elite but other people need them to protect them from their own bad choices.

Do you, for example, not use Google because you are concerned they are getting too good a deal from you? Duck Duck Go exists.
Containership.io Shuts Down
In one of his essays on startups, Paul Graham said (quoting from memory): "One minute you're going to take over the world; the next you're doomed. The low points are worse than the high points, though, not because they feel worse but because they make you stop working."

Despair can be self-fulfilling. Fight it. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

> How do you deal with feeling there is no future?

Well, I'm a Christian. I believe that there is a future for me, and it's not here. That doesn't make me uncaring about problems here, though. It lets me approach them without despair, even when I can't see how they can be solved.
notice that all of that only exists to _you_ and that _I_ have no idea what you're on about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMqNRUILvHc
Dwarf Fortress is IIRC mainly limited by RAM latency. So you really should be trying to get 3600 MHz RAM with as tight timings (maybe CL16 timings?) as possible.

Dwarf Fortress's simulation is all about pointer-indirection and jumping around memory. The CPU doesn't really do much except wait for RAM most of the time. It takes ~50ns to talk to RAM, but the CPU is clocked at 4GHz (0.25 nanoseconds), giving you an idea of scale. The RAM tightening can bring your latency anywhere from 50ns to 200ns depending on how well you tune your RAM parameters, and depending on chips and stuff. (Servers usually have lots of slow LRDIMM RAM over multiple-sockets that can be 200ns latency or worse).

AMD takes their design out of the server-playbook, and seems to have ~100ns main DDR4 RAM Latency. So Dwarf Fortress probably will be faster on Intel i9-9900k (monolithic design with integrated memory controller and 50ns main memory latency).
Eh. What private company can't decide to cease doing business with you without recourse? People just seem weirdly blind to counterparty risk in financial services.
Someone’s about to get a stern talking to on Monday it seems.

I wonder though, if it was someone from NASA or from Google that made the mistake of uploading the paper earlier than they should have.
Do you think Federal investigators in the 1980s did a lot of work to round up criminals in Nigeria?
You should to look at hardware buttons as often as on software ones. Just try to turn heat on in latest MB.
How the English Failed to Stamp Out the Scots Language
His complaint seems to be, not that he was laid off, but that the way it was communicated to him was insensitive.

That's a very common thing, laying people off in an insensitive manner. Lot's of companies (even big massive successful companies) do that all the time.

That doesn't make it right, but, whatever the reasons their board had for letting go of their CEO, laying people off in an insensitive manner is unlikely to be among them.
I hope they dock the girl to the right of center a few points for piss-poor heart-hands.
nice. i've used this simple one in the past: https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/#FFFF00:0000FF:1...
Thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15949144

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11981045

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8133835
He also might be thinking of Mary Ainsworth who was an early attachment theorist with John Bowlby? Although not German.
Gah the best thing about VWs is their boring and traditional interiors.
We're a hell of a lot closer than we should be. The Japanese-American internment camps during WWII were bad enough, but this? This is worse because these refugees we're mistreating are fleeing the consequences of our dealings in Latin America. If these refugees are indeed a problem, they are a problem we brought upon ourselves, and we are making it worse.
See if you can be radically open minded about it and notice the implicit metaphysics of your anti-woo default position
Current rails developer here, I've found that using ActiveRecord for basic queries and moving to SQL for more complex stuff to be a very good combination.

I agree that ORM users should learn SQL, but SQL and an ORM are not mutually exclusive.
If every paper company got together and denied service to ICE, then ICE would be forced to limp along without paper. They wouldn't cease to operate - even if they wanted to, they couldn't; that's not up to them. They would just operate inefficiently. It would be frustrating to the DHS officers, but actively detrimental to the immigrants in their custody, slowing things down even more. Unless you actually believe that immigration law shouldn't exist or be enforced, you should be happy to work with ICE to help them process detainees as quickly and efficiently as possible.
> I do know one thing: I won’t fall into the “ORMs make it easy” trap. They are an acceptable way to represent a data definition, but a poor way to write queries and a bad way to store object state. If you’re using an RDBMS, bite the bullet and learn SQL.

I don't think i'm alone in saying I'd rather hire a developer who is native with an ORM and can dive into SQL when things get thorny, than hire one who's going to fight me on the very merits of an ORM at all.

I mean, hey. To each his own. But lets be clear: this is ridiculous, and if you think it's a position you want to take up, make sure you can get hired holding onto it.
Palantir to seek at least $26B valuation in fundraising push
Amazon pledges net zero carbon emissions by 2040 and 100% renewables by 2030