skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of those examples you gave work here. The numbers that die from vaccines are much lower than the numbers that die without them, and it's a problem where a decision must be made. And nobody chooses or is convinced to be in a car accident. Shit just happens.

The people who get LASIK chose to do it either because they saw an advertisement or someone convinced them to do it. Nobody's life is saved by LASIK, and people can live a perfectly good life without it. They can wear glasses or contact lenses, or wait until someone comes up with a safe alternative to LASIK.

Read through some of the stories [1] from people who have had complications so you see that this isn't a minor statistic that can be easily ignored. Peoples lives are actually being ruined.

[1] https://www.lasikcomplications.com/letters.htm
Why is that bad? The result returned from an URL is always binary. In certain situations it could be text but it doesn't have to be. If the result was an image and you would want to convert the data to image, if it was sound file same, you should think of text as another distinguished type.

Of course urllib could have method text() that would do such conversion, but then urllib is not requests. It never was user friendly.

Edit: personally I use aiohttp, the interface is much nicer: https://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/client_reference.ht... if I can't use asyncio then would use requests.
I see your point, but this sort of argument depends on the assumption that productivity/enthusiasm is fungible, which it rarely is. You can't just chain Tom7 to an office desk and say, "ok, now channel your creative energies towards optimizing this Excel macro."

(The other prong of the argument is that this type of work is of little value, which is certainly debatable too.)
I'm really not sure. Perhaps it was flagged as unusual and they looked, saw the reference and then questioned it?
So tired of people perpetuating this "kids need to go to school to become socialized" myth. Socialization is about being with people who have similar interests and you enjoy being around. This does not require a school setting.
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What’s Mylar memory? Is it magnetic core memory?
It depends on where you went to school.
I'm not certain it is a good idea to to that but let me try to come up with a more constructive way to do it:

Of course people shouldn't pay to do their work, so this must be taken from their allocated budget. If they don't have a budget they cannot invite anyone without the permission of someone who has a budget and think the meeting is a good idea.
Height is positively associated with leadership for women, no effect for men
ASUS will also straight up lie about their product specs.

I once bought a router off of them specifically because it supported WPA2 Enterprise, but when I tried to tie it into my RADIUS server I kept running into weird issues. When I contacted support they said they only supported WPA2 Enterprise on the 2.4ghz band, not the 5ghz one. I pointed out that this wasn't said anywhere, but they claimed they were truthful because it does support the feature.
How is the parent comment overgeneralizing? The generalization jumping out at me is the grandparent's "all corporations are right-leaning by nature". The position of "corporations' executive decisions and internal culture can evolve separately" appears to be the nuanced one.
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Yes, I agree that these are often abused tactics. Just saying they have their uses. The fundamental problem is graph literacy.
This seems like a very personal take. Most kids I knew in school were also involved with sports and clubs, it wasn't just assumed they'd get enough socialization in school. I also doubt that socialization "often" takes the form of bullying, and while there's no doubt that bullying is a problem, it's certainly not the primary experience most people have in school.
I'm curious as well. Afaik, 32GB has been the documented max for both recent Ryzen Embedded as well as Intel NUC. Having said that, the Intel NUC (6th-8th) Gen can take advantage of 2 x 32GB SO-DIMM and I believe, I may have been the first to at least confirm this publicly [1].

I also recently did the same for an AMD M1000V system which I had shared [2] and will posting a blog post soon with more details on the unit which is similiar to the SimplyNUC Sequoia system.

[1] - https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2019/03/64gb-memory-on-the-i...

[2] - https://twitter.com/lamw/status/1194851757261611008
A problem with federated networks is that it eventually leads to centralization of just a few providers. For example, email is federated but most users are on gmail. IRC is federated but most users are on freenode. Diaspora is federated but most users are join the server with already most users.
The article starts with

"This unusual storage mechanism used a stack of Mylar sheets to hold 15,360 bits, equivalent to 1920 bytes."
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I think it’s interesting that people absolve management from blame, when they actively hid details of military contracts with employees.
Also in PDX - where did you end up going out of curiosity? Casey?
David Marcus (FB, previously PayPal) had (has?) a similar stated policy regarding meetings.
You are looking for NUC7i7DN(HE,KE). These SKUs do have AMT. They also have iSCSI support in UEFI. Yes, nice little machines.
Yes, but mostly because it informs the people you meet, and those are what end up really mattering.
I'd want the opportunity for a clean slate. An amnesty; I can tell you about the state of the project, processes, team, anything and everything, and then I'm off the hook and doing something about it (or not) is your problem, thank you very much.

You can only do this once, and you can only do this at the start of your tenure. It's in your interests to do it, lest you find in six months that your legs were shot out from under you by the previous administration and you didn't even know it.
> 1. It's free

Blogger is free. LiveJournal is free. There's plenty of free offerings. Taken as an ecosystem, they are decentralized.

> 2. It's all under one site so it's easier for people to find a new community to join

The question was for a decentralized service. You can't really have everything under one site and be decentralized, because that one site can filter anything they want. I agree that people want that, but it wasn't the question.

> 3. You only need one account and it doesn't require an email address so if you have a one off woodworking question you can ask it without having to register on a new forum

Not really part of the question, which was whether the average person can make a forum through a web page.

I think your points have merit, but they don't necessarily apply to the question that was posed, at least as I interpreted it and intended my response to apply to it.
Amiga HD floppy drives spun at 150RPM rather than the usual 300 from my understanding because the chipset couldn't handle a higher bitrate whereas on a PC the FDC switches between 250/500Kbit/s modes so I wonder if a pc controller could indeed read an Amiga HD floppy at all or if there are other differences?
That can't be the whole story. Google is not the only provider of high status jobs for nerds. Why aren't Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook also rife with this sort of activism?
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In fact one of the easiest way to get disinvited from such meetings and get a less-good performance review next time around is to make a bit of noise about the utility of such meetings (edit: from my personal/anecdotal experience). Serendipity is good.
This is explicit. Binary changes and flag flips are very strongly split. This is almost always a good thing, as it means you don't need to roll back binaries to revert problems.
Say you want a model that takes in a picture of a person and tells you what emotion they are feeling - sad/happy/disgusted/whatever.

But you also want to know why it classifies a person as sad/happy/etc.

Then you make the model have 2 outputs. The first is just a classification of the emotion as you'd have normally.
While the second is which parts of the image contributed most to the classification - e.g. a heatmap over a smiling mouth in one case or over the squinted eyes in another.

You can do this with pretty much anything.
Not really. When I'm looking to buy product A at the lowest possible price, I don't care what somebody with totally irrelevant to my needs have purchased. Also, the quality of product names and description with Amazon is below any decent standards! They shut down my Amazon Pay account as I had an out of stock item, which didn't have Nutrition Facts. But, tell me, how many of Amazon products have those labels? Most of blury pictures, often outdated, etc. If only they apply the same standards to their stuff!
That's the polar opposite of my experience, and really weird to read, I order from Amazon so much in large part because returns (when I need them) are so easy.
> Anecdotally, I've worked for companies that test super heavily, and I've worked for companies that had no automated tests at all.

How did refactoring work at that latter company?
OK, I added another photo, cropped out of a group picture. I can't emphasise enough that compared to an iPhone X belt clip holder, these are small. Yes, I have two, but they balance out, and if I have my hands in my pockets, I can physically touch everything to make sure it's still there.
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Well, it may be that it goes like this: When you’re 30, where you’ve worked matters. Where you’ve worked depends (a lot) on where you went to school. Where you went to school depends (a lot) on what grades you got. What grades you got depends (somewhat) on how old you were when you took the tests.
At the same a lot of the kind of socialization you get forced to do at school is irrelevant in life. The minimum level of decency at an average workplace is much higher than at an average school and bullying much less common and you get to avoid most of the socially complicated situations school 'trains' you for.

Obviously there are a lot of benefits from socializing at school but there's really a lot you can do without. It would be much more beneficial to get kids to socialize in an environment where beating someone up actually ends up in the court.
Also, a (mostly) consistent user interface.
Interesting approach to the application defining a custom GC strategy. (I wonder why the author gave it this strange title, since the article is really about something that Twitch is not doing.)

I'll save this for the next time someone posts something along the lines of "you can't program X in a GC'd language because the GC is so unpredictable".
I liked the freedom contacts provided me in most situations, but I found two main problems:

1. I couldn't rub my eyes anymore in public. Rubbing my eyes would often end to with one of my contacts in my hand.

2. I had to always plan when I was going to sleep. This pretty much made napping impossible. Going to sleep with contacts was horrible.

Are there better contacts where the above two problems aren't an issue?
The article actually mentions that and compares the two: Rope memory has a higher storage density (important for a spacecraft) while mylar TRO is easier to change the programming (hole punch a stack of sheets vs threading a lot of wire through cores)
No.

From the article, it appears that this memory resembles paper tape, in that holes are punched or not punched, leading to a physical kind of "rom".

I hadn't heard of this before.
https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1195130656042496007

I don't think the number is a major factor but the media environment getting hostile against the tech sector in general. Sundar also mentioned about "a coordinated effort to share our conversations", which aligns with my observation.
I'm very inspired by inspirational things - but can't believe there's anyone left who would feel real inspiration from those. Perhaps the first company that decided their mission would be "to make the world a better place" would have sounded (and maybe even been) good - but now it's just meaningless word-salad disguised as a profound statement. It's the "trite motivational poster" of the business world.
Intel unveils its first chips built for AI in the cloud – Engadget
Made possible in part by Richard Feynman's development of electroplated plastic.
No, and often not after implementation either, for the same reason I don't write tests for my tests.
Buying an Elephant in Laos
Your accounts? As if they don't know who you are when you're not signed in.
Umm the state ia the government. It is socialized by definition already on every level.
You only have to pop off the back cover, you don't have to remove the battery.
There's nothing wrong with you privately expressing your concern about a project to superiors, and leaving the company if you don't agree.

When you protest against it publicly in the workplace and shout down others for as little as not vehemently agreeing with you, then we have a problem.

This is the difference between escalating concerns vs political activism, regardless of the actual issue at stake.
Slack is a useful product that is so frequently and heavily abused that an argument could potentially be made it shouldn't exist at all.

A friend of mine showed me her work slack for a company of ~100 people and no joke, they have over 20 channels for non-work purposes that are entirely random (#cupcakeparty) and are frequently contributed to with nothing valuable. Based on personal experience, I suspect that's not too unique.
Your personal data isn't worth $3/month to you?

There is this idea that everything should be free for everyone, but building and maintaining a platform like Facebook takes immense amounts of resources. If someone builds a social media platform and wants to work on it full time, they need some source of revenue.

It's going to be either coming from the users or it's going to be coming from advertisers. You take your pick.
And most reviews aren’t seller specific. What I see is reviews for a product, but some of the sellers for that product will sell a counterfeit version (Intel NIC in my case). The top (default) seller when the reviews were written may be replaced by a bad actor a couple of years later.
Actually they don't clog that isn't true. What inkjets do is pull ink and clean their heads on a semi-regular basis. This is actually one of the bigger costs associated with Inkjets that aren't used frequently as it wastes ink. Some models waste dramatically more ink than others and there are economical for long term inkjets available. At some point the laser will end up cheap on low use as the catridge doesn't get wasted but that pay back period is quite long verses a low ink usage inkjet.
I wonder if this is why the quality of Google search results has fallen so far? I've been blaming it on AI and personalization, but perhaps I was being too naive.
25$ sounds okay for a T-shirt for someone living in Slovakia (EU).
It is illegal, just not enforced on Amazon.
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Cold fusion: A potential energy gamechanger
This is a great idea. Any plans for a web version?
Ortho-k lenses.
The issue of "control" is pretty peripheral to this conversation. TGIF was a fixture in the company culture and as such nobody really "controlled" it. It was just expected that it'd happen every week, you'd go grab a beer, and watch the execs answer the top voted Dory questions they'd rather avoid, at least from time to time. That was a crucial feedback mechanism which is now at least reduced if not gone entirely. This will make the system (Google) less stable.
Do the instructions you use cause downclocking on Intel CPUs?
Which contributes to the easy of use/good user experience factor

You don't come there for because "it has a consistent user interface". You come there because "it's easy to use!" (and you find it easy because it's consistent, like you said)
May be they can't do it to 33%, but they might start with some smaller strata, Invidious users for example.
"programmers" are not a single uniform homogeneous group and it is dismissive to consider them as such.
It seem click-baity to call this a facebook rival until it has over a billion users and is having an impact on geopolitics and election rigging.
It also has a physical Escape key, which seemed to be by far the most common complaint about the Touch Bar. Physical F keys are quite a niche desire.
Decentralized ledger technology and the notion of value are different from manipulative pyramid corporations.
I really miss the news app Circa. vs it's later reincarnations.

Major stories broken down to factual info and direct quotes with each item a tile with the source indicated a link to their version of the story.

I could catch up on a dozen major stories in minutes and track them as updates were pulled in as top level tiles with the new information and again link out to the source.

Clean, accessible, felt very unbiased without any spin just data and events as reported, but no commercial value so floundered.

well, it was bought out by Sinclair in 2015 and that's about as biased as shadow owners can be. The original incarnation was incredible.
The problem I always have is "all my friends". I joined MSN messenger in the 2003(ish) only because that was the only away to join my friends. Facebook came next, and what's app moved them over to that. When it comes to " social media", the clue is in the name.

What is the solution?

A system that using a unique ID I can contact anyone else in the world, the two methods are voice or message. :)
Another option is to just find some related hobbies and improve other skills at the spare time you got since math is too easy. A kid can learn programming or statistics or some operational stuff like how to be really good in excel. Skills that might be useful in the future and does't necessarily requires formal education or certification.
I don't understand it either, particularly because I've been a customer for over a decade and have spent a ton of money with them over that time... and I've only had problems with orders four or five times. But each time, they treated me very poorly and I was never able to actually resolve the issue.
Just like how there are literally thousands of people who work on ensuring customers' privacy at Google?
Voyager 1 and 2 had to happen in a narrow window of time to take advantage of favorable planetary alignments. If we launched something like this now, it would take an order of magnitude more fuel and still not be able to go as fast. The next window for exploring interstellar space so efficiently isn't until 2150.

Of course there are other long-term missions we could be trying now; but it's not quite so straightforward (due to the mechanics of space-time) as we're led to believe.

For that matter, we could consider this whole anthropocene climate change thing we're doing to be one long-term experiment. You're welcome, children of the future, for all this wonderful data we're generating for you.
So... usenet? But with voting? I'm down. NNTP is due for an update.
> everyone is a racist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RovF1zsDoeM
I religiously wear eye protection. Sticks can make their way around glasses / goggles. The flap created during lasik doesn't need an object in the eye to dislodge though, a blow to the head will do it in the right circumstance. Lasik makes your eyes more vulnerable to damage, PRK does not. This is why police/military/sports require PRK for corrective surgery, rather than lasik.
I recently wrote one of these salary-sharing surveys for my college. Making one survey that is comprehensible and also includes all the different compensation options is HARD. I'm impressed by their ability to do so in this survey.
> some demand for a social network that isn't evil.

What are the chances that actually exists though? Like, for more than a couple years?
While it's stated very explicitly here, it's also in the manual for every monitor you've ever bought, you need >n dead pixels before the monitor is seen as defect and good for warrenty replacement.
I presume he means to be able to make it easier to use eye protection (as one does not need glasses), not to avoid wearing eye protection.
If it's a simple dollar-value calculation on the part of Amazon, then it's sure to be wasteful, in that negative externalities will be ignored.
As a new GitLab product manager, I was glad to see among the Updates that dispatch.sr.ht can now build GitLab commits. And we are looking at the mentioned GitLab bug (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/16491) to assess efforts to resolve; and unblock the ability to run build.sr.ht for GitLab merge requests.
But of course now Ubiquiti has silently added a “feature” that phones home with telemetry data. Does that count as a bait and switch?
Deep Dive into Python Memory Management
They don't use kubernetes.
> Isn't this basically what Disqus was trying to do?

I don't think so. As far as I can tell, Disqus is not decentralized at all. It's basically the same as Facebook comments but from a different company.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments/
This has interesting parallels to the issues folks have with autoscaling in AWS. When people first start using autoscaling it can be frustrating finding the right heuristic to scale on, with the automated system over-shooting or under-shooting what the capacity needs are.

What works well is when you calculate your own capacity needs, then just set the autoscaler to change to that new capacity number. In other words, using your knowledge of how your system works, you'll make better decisions than just looking at secondary metrics like resource utilization.

I know I've done manually triggered GC in Ruby and Java but I don't know enough about Go to say if the article's suggestion is reasonable.
It feels like in almost every office kitchen I've been in in Norway there is some sort of label that say something that is supposed to be witty like: your mother does not work here, tidy up after yourself.

It mostly doesn't work.

Three places I worked had tidy kitchens. None of them had these labels, but more importantly: in all three of them management would fix it if others didn't. I guess most people only see their bosses boss tidy up a couple of times before they realize everyone is supposed to do that.
Only if you use a binding to a traditional UI framework. There is an opportunity here to research wholly new classes of UI frameworks. Data binding like in React lends itself nicely to ownership/borrowing semantics, for example. The React-like Relm may only be a first glimpse of what's to come.
Oh yeah. Where you were/who you knew at 20/22 has huge, cascading effects on where you end up at 30, 35 years old. I won't get in to details here but a connection I made working at a coffee shop at 22 can be clearly traced to where I am now at 35. There is a lot of truth in "it's not what you know, it's who you know", particularly on the other side of 30.
Unrelated but my last employer wanted a full design document and then a full test plan down to each individual unit test before we wrote any code. But then we would constantly be called out in review about not having enough detail and if you.out enough detail you'd get called out for skipping ahead in the process. They also had no coding standard or style guide to speak of. I'm glad I left that job.
Somebody know the situation in EU for that?
I'll go out on a limb and say, "small".
Facebook usage is mpre healthy than its ever been in the U.S.

I think a lot of HN sentiment has to do with age and timing.

Lots of tech-savvy, younger people used it 10+ years ago when it was hot and semi-exclusive. Now their older and it's less hot and exclusive.