skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit of an aside, the barber issue is interesting. I used to hate getting my hair cut because the social interaction was awkward. But when I became better off financially and had higher appearance requirements professionally, I started going to a high price salon. Other than the first trip, never felt anxious or like my social skills were lacking. That wasn't really due to me suddenly becoming better at conversation, it was due to the higher price salons hiring those with good communication skills. Likely this goes beyond just making clients feel comfortable but also is a good skill to have to understand what it is the client wants done to their hair.
A lot of people are piling on the original complainant for a ridiculous complaint, and rightly so. But they are not the only offender here, and arguably not even the worst one:

> To adhere to our values and the Code of Conduct, we had to delete a handful of comments, which is unfortunate but not uncommon. Our responses triggered more responses. Bots were being employed to create issues and comments. Temporary accounts were being created to spam the system. Offensive issues were being created. The repository was filling up with issues which, frankly, were uncalled for, and we needed to do something, fast.

Every person who felt the need to comment and create github issues (and even write spam bots to do so!) about a santa hat being removed is not a person that should be trusted with any sort of responsibility or employment in the software industry. The absolutely staggering lack of maturity here boggles the mind.

This is not how sane adults should act. On either side.
Saint Nicholas is hardly the same as "Santa", which has his own wikipedia page [1]. Modern day Santa has some partial roots in Saint Nicholas (as well as a few other figures), but other than the sometimes-used moniker of "Saint Nick", has very little to do with the actual saint. Santa is the one associated with the red hat, while Saint Nicholas has no such association. The only real link between the two is that Saint Nicholas was known for gift-giving and so is Santa, but I hope we aren't about to label gift-giving as a religious activity...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus
The animated adaptation [0] of this story is even better!

[0]: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/the-ballad-of-a-wi-fi-hero
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Don't know a place to get it prebuilt, but building an EPYC "desktop" can be a lot like building a TR one. There are ATX server mobos. TR4 coolers should work with EPYC; Noctua explicitly says theirs do, and the physical socket and TDPs match.

You might want TR for the higher frequencies, though. I guess you could use EPYC for a very expandable 16C machine, or to pay a bit less for lower clocks, though I don't know if it ends up worth the fuss.
Yes it is the same. Santa Claus comes from Sinterklaas which is Dutch for Saint Nicholas.
I have a location trace over the last year and I am using it for time tracking (how long was I in the office). Also I have a heatmap of all the places I have been that is really nice to look at.
Also it has helped me in cases where bike sharing companies said: where did you leave the bike on 27th of September? We can't find it.
Or the doctor claiming I didn't appear on the previous consultation and I should pay the appointment out of pocket.
One look at the timestamped map and I can recall the situation.
Microsoft went full-blown Seinfeld with this. Let's just do Festivus then!
Initially, probably perl.
Welcome to a world were engineers aren't paid to copy code from Stack Overflow, but to make actual judgment calls.

What's the chance of the grid going down? What's the cost of it? Is the expected value significantly higher than a power generator? Congrats, you just bought a power generator.

Backbone down would cause you huge financial losses? Well, whaddaya say, let's build more backbone.[1]

Any redundancy that costs significantly less than the losses it mitigates will be built. The only reason we're not seeing a private NATO yet is that it costs more than pretty much any company makes. But 5,000 people security forces? Damn skippy those exist[2]

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/data-center-engineering/building-...
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-off-duty-police-off...
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It shows a hand made depth map. You can't just 'raytrace' a 2D image and magically add depth of field.
>this behavior against Boeing is unwarranted because it has bias of 737 MAX issues. Completely different team, completely different problem.

Wrong. Do you somehow thing there's a different management team running these parts of the company? There's only one CEO at Boeing, it's only one company. And culture starts at the top.

Questioning Boeing's competence here is entirely warranted when the company has already PROVEN that it is happy to put profits ahead of safety.
Yeah, same. It's really nice to do all my Python coding in WSL. But Docker I run in a Linux env in a Virtual Machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_suit
America still has more money per capita that most of Scandinavia (perhaps not Norway). "Culturally homogeneous" is just a dog-whistle for "nordic white". Plenty of "cultural homogeneous" places are very bad, and many "culturally diverse" places are quite good.

At the end nothing of that has to do about the possibility of having a welfare state. The decision is just political.
I agree she isn't a liar. She was lied to, by 23andMe, and that's an important difference.

I don't doubt that the company's fine print attempts to disclaim all responsibility for whatever errors they make in their calls, no matter how glaring; I'm quite confident that 23andMe could claim someone's ancestry is 97% derived from thoroughbred horses, and if pressed on the obviously nonsense result, they'd refer to their legal boilerplate and claim that the fault lay with whoever was credulous and foolish enough to presume they provide a product of merchantable quality in exchange for the fee that they charge.

What I don't see is why anyone needs to take them seriously in the attempt. And, as other commenters have pointed out, when we have companies in the same industry attempting to market genetic analysis for purposes from skin care to law enforcement, it's very much worth pausing for a moment, just to make sure that we aren't at risk of accidentally reinventing the justly discredited pseudoscience of eugenics, a century down the line.
You're being downvoted, but I agree that Microsoft did the best they possibly could have in this situation: getting the off-topic (and potentially offensive on their own) threads and comments on the issue tracker out of view, making the Santa hat a configurable choice, and still maintaining a decent standard of transparency.
The red hat has nothing to do with Christianity though. It was created in the late 1800s and then popularised by Coca Cola in the 1930s. If the VS Code team had put a bishop's mitre on the update cog the complaint would be more reasonable.
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I think the main difference is actions is built around the idea of this ecosystem of "just include other people's code in your pipeline." With Team City or GitLab you're typically only running code you wrote in their respective configuration files.

That's super valuable because you get started faster - e.g. "oh here's how I can deploy a lambda" but brings up this security concern of running other people's code. As discussed in the article, this is something NPM solved after the left-pad debacle. And I am sure (I hope) that GitHub will either change the documentation or add features to prevent this.
cool! i'll definitely use this. kinda similar to something i'm working on but not for physical books. this could be useful for academics, journalists, writers, etc
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Github should ban all these accounts and try to track the real accounts for the fakes to ban these too. These intolerant people should not have the right to use this service.
Modern Santa was invented by Coca Cola based very loosely on St Nicholas. In American Gods he'd be the God of Capitalism I guess.

As a symbol of American capitalism it's rather fitting that Microsoft are using him.

St Nicholas (sinterklaas) is celebrated in The Netherlands on 6th of December. You may remember it from The Daily Show and other US TV outlets who were covering the archaic tradition of black face in the celebrations.
Then go get one of those other jobs. As an employee you are an asset to be utilized. Companies that are too heavy handed about it lose employees. IT is one of the cushiest professions in the world, if you want it to be even less demanding then there are people willing to take your place.
> Yep, that comes with gun ownership. Many people are knowingly making that trade-off. You'd want to compare murder/suicide rates with other countries for any meaningful comparisons.

And our murder rate is pretty bad, likely thanks to our extremely high rate of gun violence.
What religion has ever used a Santa hat as a symbol in any meaningful way? Maybe github should stop using stars which actually are used as religious symbols?
Bringing nature indoors, celebrating the Yule, and Santa were all pilfered from pagan and Norse people.
A national debate over politics, principles and impeachment – in 1868
It's interesting how perceptions vary. I've been working with SemWeb stuff for a decade or so, and I have never experienced what you describe here:

One of the worst isn't even technical, it's the community. There are some great people in the community but there are also a large number of extremely toxic people that drive people away.

Maybe it's just the subset of the community that I choose to deal with, but the folks on the Jena mailing lists (pre and post Apache) have always been very gracious and helpful in my experience. And Ralph Hodgson, one of the co-founders of Top Quadrant came to a Triangle Java User's Group talk that I once gave on Semantic Web technologies, along with a bunch of other Top Quadrant people... and despite the fact that my company competes with them in certain areas, they were perfectly cordial and pleasant to interact with. Likewise for the other times that I've had Top Quadrant folks show up at events where I was speaking.

Maybe it's just dumb luck on my part, or whatever, but I have found no major issues with toxic people in the SemWeb community. shrug
I mean, if you keep a guy who can't do the job, you still end up without a role properly filled.
You did a heroic job then. I was raised by a single, working dad. I spent a lot of time at my grandparents place, uncles and aunts, and at a home day care run by a family friend.

My dad spent most of his time on the road, as a travelling salesman. I did spend more time with him as life went on, however. My dad never volunteered though, and all of his social connections were former high school friends that he saw once or twice a year.

My dad did a heroic job, too. I’ll always be grateful for him raising me. I still wish I had had a mom at home though, like most of my friends did.
Unrelated info: Saint Nicholas is originally from Turkey :)
Is this an operating system? It looks like MacOS, and she mentions using Bear, which is only available on Apple devices.

This seems like it's just the list of tools that she uses within MacOS.

I was wondering how exactly one would leverage a custom OS to optimize your life; most of the OS functionality seems too low level to have any appreciable benefit on your ability to manage your life.
Moritz Plassnig on 1-on-1s
I downvoted you because wordy code isn't bad. "Prolix" is not a negative adjective when describing code. Golf is a game and not for real systems.
Lua, Ruby and Javascript all exist relatively independently of Python and have quite similar features sets.

I wonder if numpy being fairly usable in 2005 is the bigger factor than Python itself.
This was a quite interesting and enlightening read! I was in Liberia at the time, from December 2016 through June 2017, doing a project for the Liberia Ministry of Health, and got acquainted with some people working for Cellcom. I also gained a great friend in one member of my team, who later worked briefly for Lonestar and is now employed by Orange. There aren't that many opportunities for a young developer in Liberia outside of NGOs (fickle) and the telecoms. Obviously I forwarded the article to him (coincidentally, Israel is his name).

Liberia's history is quite interesting indeed, and I actually like to compare it with the state of Israel -- both are the result of an unholy alliance of people wanting to help, on the one hand, and get rid of, on the other, another people in "their" land: African descendants in the USA, and Jewish people in Europe.

I went back to live in Liberia for three months earlier this year, to try and trace some ancestors of a family member. Things are dire, indeed, with an economy hit hard by the Ebola crisis, on top of years of military rule, civil war, corruption and abuse.

Apart from being used for resources, mainly by Firestone (now Bridgestone) for rubber, but also iron (Arcelor Mittal) and gold (large parts of which is being smuggled to UAE), it remains a strategic interest for the US (their presence is still huge, with CIA's only listening post in Africa), meanwhile trade is controlled by the Indian and Lebanese communities.

Also of interest is that some Cherokee opted to join the free African Americans, with one ending up a chief of the Vai tribe, and possibly inspiring the Vai script with knowledge of the Cherokee script, recently posted here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21737230
One of the scariest quotes for me was Facebook's Little Red Book in 2012 (a book handed out to every employee) that had this quote:

> "When everyone has a printing press [i.e., Facebook], the ones with the best ideas are the ones people listen to."

In retrospect, it gives a ton of insight into the flawed beliefs within the company.

https://twitter.com/nemild/status/1006533287378968576

https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-facebooks-little-red-...
As a resident of the Southern Hemisphere, I am offended by the use of a snowflake. 43 degrees Celcius here yesterday...
How we know global warming is real
That was definitely very cool: Larry Tesler joining the Dylan hackers in his sabbatical.
Predictions of the Future
Adding, just in case anyone wants to do this on their own: IANAL, but my understanding is that in the US it is not against the law to capture and decode these plain-text messages, but it is probably against the law to publish that information elsewhere or act on it in some way (an example from the link below was intercepting taxi service text messages in order to gain a business advantage for your own taxi business).

Source: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/interception-and-divulg... via https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/4nhg7h/legalities_o...

The text messages that float about in the ether these days aren’t messages between individuals, they’re monitoring alerts (refrigeration systems, computers), and medical (doctors being paged, order to clean hospital rooms, calls for medical transport). That’s the case at least here in my medium-sized town in the US Midwest. It could be very different elsewhere.
> Every person who felt the need to comment and create github issues (and even write spam bots to do so!) about a santa hat being removed is not a person that should be trusted with any sort of responsibility or employment in the software industry.

They should be punished, shouldn't they? Put to jail?
I believe this was blown way out of proportion, but I am uncertain how else the visual studio code team should've responded.

Where do you draw the line?

Was there a way to politely respond to this person without kowtowing to them?

Maybe by adding an option to disable the santa hat, where it's on by default, but you can turn it off?

Google has been sprucing up their search page for years now; Many a santa hat has been present, and people were both annoyed and happy, and also apathetic. Would Google have responded similarly, if some random person had a pipeline right to their developers?

It feels like even though some random person with a complaint got his wish, everyone else lost something. Like the ability to put something fun in your software without being overly concerned about offending one person.
The Secret and Power of Compound Interest
At most this looks to provide a linear performance improvement on each iteration (if it's not a one off improvement - which it looks to be).

Moors law implies exponential improvement up to the the physical limits we hit over the last decade on each process shrinkage (this is also explicitly defined in Moore's paper) i.e Dennard scaling, this is possible because roughly speaking when you shrink the process, you reduce latency (allowing faster clock with the same design or new larger design i.e double transistors with same max straight line latency) without increasing power consumption or absolute heat dissipation requirements - it's almost "free" if you can keep shrinking it which is why you get exponential improvement if you can keep halving.

Media have completely watered down the term into a flowery synonym for "somehow improve".
A sudden barrage of comments, including racist ones, smells like a chan op. Possibly including the original issue.
> even a single person being offended is one too many

That's a disappointingly defeatist philosophy. I really like VS Code and this won't change that, but it's a shame that they let a single crazy person destroy what was a nice gesture for the vast, vast majority of their users.
Chap seems to be a troll, in all probability as Christian as his name.

That is, Christian in name only, and actually interested in leveraging woke / victimhood culture and microaggressions to generate a political reaction.
I'm doubtful that most journalists actually want it to be that way. Those are just the economic and reader incentives in journalism today.

There are some great stats about just how much the number of professional journalists has shrunk in the social media era.
I was about to write this (except I think Ruby was influenced by Python). Then I deleted it, because I'm not sure what the point of the question is.
They can, and they often do (or used to). It works with both buttons and text boxes – the latter by connecting the text box to an adjacent label.

Have a look at some older piece of UI in Windows and hold down alt for a while. All we need for this to be taken further is for the programmer to pay a bit of attention to the existing feature and make use of it.

For a non-Windows example, I just looked at the XFCE appearance settings dialog. Hold down alt for a few seconds and you'll see that every single control has an access key: all the tabs, all the buttons, all the checkboxes, all the dropdowns.
I would personally love to add a response along the lines of "professional yes, but they should have..." regarding their stance, but no - you are right.

This is an exceptionally professional response and the discussion regarding PC, wokeness etc belongs elsewhere.
>xmas has cost millions of Jews their lives over the centuries

Can someone fill me in on what this is referring to. I know my history knowledge is a bit lacking but I normally am able to get references like this so I must have missed something.
heheh I have seen the strangest comments in this place. English is the world lingua-franca since the end of WW2 at the very least.
What age demographic still really uses facebook? American's 35+? All my friends us Messenger and the rest is on other social media platforms for content.

edit dont know why this got downvoted, it was a legit question because everyone knows who the primary age group of votes is, so Im wondering if there is data on age demographics of actual FB use.
Rampant speculation on my part, but I've always suspected that the number of community leaders is small, delicate and disconnected from governments. I've observed that informal leadership in religious communities has an enormous effect on how communities behave - I lived in a town where the baptists organised an almost suspicious number of things for the general community.

I could imagine diversity of religion with no economic incentives to standardise (as would be caused by general poverty) would lead to an element of fracturing in the community. Even without migration, rising trends towards atheism might have the same effect over the long term. It isn't obvious what is symptom and cause in all this though.
Fake people reading and writing fake news on fake websites? If this keeps up, we'll end up with a fake President. Don't give me negative points, for this is a fake reply.
Sure, I can add that to next major beta. Thanks for the suggestion!
Totally agree. I wonder if he's also complained to the Unicode Consortium about the inclusion of Santa and Mrs Santa emoji.
That's fustrating to hear about. What can we do to fix it?

I'm not affiliated but I'd love to see more postings here. https://30hourjobs.com/
"Discovers", yeah sure.
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>or employment in the software industry.

For commenting to point out contradictory standards on what is considered offensive enough to remove? Really?

Edit: One satirical (per my own assumption) comment I read was complaining about calling the main branch master. The idea that using terminology such as master is offensive to some people seems at least as plausible as the santa hat being plausible. Perhaps more so as there have already been some discussion about the use of the term master in tech lingo. That is the kind of comment I'm thinking of, but want to be sure we are thinking of the same ones.
Is there a browser extension that can automatically add a site that you bookmark to the Wayback Machine and fetch the bookmarked site from the Wayback Machine if it 404's? I really hate it when I bookmark something and come back to it months or years later to find that the page doesn't exist any more so having something to automatically pull it from the web archive would be amazing
“Humans had finally become a multi-planetary species” (2016)
People don’t want to pay for good journalism, nevermind spending time to read and evaluate if it is or isn’t good journalism. Maybe it’s not even realistic for everyone to do that.
Saint Nicholas, the bishop who lived in ancient Greece, is a saint, venerated in every form of Christianity that has saints.

I don't think that Santa Claus, the mythological person who lives at the North Pole and has elves to make toys, is venerated by any Christian denomination.
Article can be a bit confusing is that it discusses both GMO and normal cross breeding methods of inserting blight resistance into the American Chestnut tree.

It get's more confusing when it brings in the anti-genetic engineering arguments and it doesn't really ever mention if there is any opposition to using the traditionally cross-breed variant.
unsplash does not require credit be given:

"All photos published on Unsplash can be used for free. You can use them for commercial and noncommercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated when possible.

More precisely, Unsplash grants you an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash. This license does not include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service."
On a slightly related note: I searched “paper” and “receipt” in the latest version of iOS photos and was impressed with the results. Combined with date range and location, it should be possible to find a specific receipt fairly quickly.
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You buy a shoe: $50, you buy a shoe exactly the same quality, but it's a nike: $120. Cloud is exactly the same kind of product than anything else