skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is inherent value to openly judging people, and there is nothing inherently wrong with having and expressing "negative" emotion. IMO where we are actually failing as a society is in our acceptance of /being judged/. And I do not mean acceptance in the way where you must feel positive about it - my point is exactly the opposite; openly judge them right back. If two people judge each other harshly and also are accepting of each other then they may still carry on with seizing opportunities to help each other rather than creating distance and trying to forget each other exists. Over time, the confrontation is a catalyst for evolving our behavior with each other but only if we are all accepting of being judged

If I am truly honest, I think it is ironic to preach for people to not do something (like judge) as a means of supporting an acceptance of people's behaviors. I feel like there is an underlying assumption to your stance that judgement and harsh language is inherently bad. You can both accept someone the way they are and judge them for it.. and I personally believe it is /required/ to accept them the way they are in order to provide a more "objective" judgement.

edit: to answer your question, yes i believe idle judgements are the grassroots to future formalized societal rules. formalism is a well studied idea in philosophy and is ultimately a self sustaining illusion built upon informal phenomenon. In other words, you cannot create a formal system to govern subjective behavior without informal subjective behavior laying the groundwork first.
China traps a lot of these countries in debt and then forces them to sell their existing infrastructure to them when they can't service it.

Sri Lanka had to hand over a port for example.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-07/sri-lankans-protest-c...
I've noticed a similar pattern on news sites that embed screen-height ads into articles: if you attempt to scroll by swiping up on the ad (or sometimes, within a perimeter of the ad), the swipe gesture is ignored and you're sent to the advertiser. Ever after, I never see another ad on that site because I immediately go to reader mode upon loading an article.

Eventually, advertisers will get wise to this. Ideally, that would take the form of embedded ad copy. Realistically, they'll convince sites to break reader mode.
No, what BigCache does isn't what hash tables do to resolve conflicts and the JDK Maps absolutely do not overwrite value upon collision of unequal keys.

Imagine a naïve hash-function, h(x), that simply mods x by 10.

Now, let's insert (key, value) pairs (20, twenti), (3, three), and (30, thirty) into the table in succession.

h(20) = 20 mod 10 = 0

(20, twenti) is inserted at empty slot, table[0]

h(3) = 3 mod 10 = 3

(3, three) is inserted at empty slot, table[3]

h(30) = 30 mod 10 = 0

Conflict. (30, thirty) which is not equal to (20, twenti) will be hashed to the same slot, table[0], as the latter.

Historically, hash-tables have resolved these conflicts via open-addressing or linear-chaining.

And, let's say we now insert (20, twenty).

h(20) = 20 mod 10 = 0

Update. Inserting (20, twenty) at table[0] is not a conflict since the key, 20, of the existing entry at table[0], (20, twenti), and of the incoming entry, (20, twenty), are equal.

In BigCache's case, if I'm right, all conflicts are updates.
So, Spotify sent a mysterious USB stick to journalists to promote a podcast (I’ll assume) about internet security/hacking. The journalists who plugged it in received a message saying they’d been hacked - I assume highlighting the entirety of the this article’s point, I.e. if you don’t know that you shouldn’t plug unknown USB sticks in, then this podcast is for you. So TechCrunch missed the fact that both were highlighting the same point. Spotify can send all the random USBs they want... journalists shouldn’t plug them in without taking proper precautions, as TC did.
[Boeing] engineers observed a tendency for the plane’s nose to pitch upward during a specific extreme maneuver. After other efforts to fix the problem failed, the solution they arrived at was a piece of software — the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) — that would move a powerful control surface at the tail to push the airplane’s nose down.

Source:
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/the...
The Myth of Cloud Agnosticism (2018)
> The best defense of democracy is Churchill's: democracy is the worst form of Government except for all the rest.

So Two Cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three. Only Love the Beloved Republic deserves that.

- E.M. Forster, "What I Believe", 1939, from a collection bearing the name Two Cheers for Democracy
It's not up you how somebody wants to be addressed after requesting it. You don't have to harbor cruel feelings about it. Singular they has been used in English for a long time historically.
stocks (on average) tend to always go up...
> Caches keep data, they don't delete them.

To be accurate, caches both keep and delete data. In fact, deleting data is a pretty important function of most caches as the nature of a cache is a fast lookup, not an infinite store.
Weird, I didn't mention it on the first post. I had 6 specific criticisms, 5 of which were technical.

If anything, this is an example of how the Redis community has actors that pop up trying to distract from direct criticism.

I'm being downvoted and flagged despite my post being substantive, on topic, and in direct response to a question. There are valid reasons not to use Redis.
Dancing is similar I guess, but less aggressive if people don't like boxing or fighting. Solo or with a partner or in a group, choose what you like.
Also made me think of Stephen Baxter's Ring...with those photino birds that drain stars.
I came here to comment the same tip. Great book that goes deep into this.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SFD21Q
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/23/tesla-lands-1-4-billion-fr...
I find this most with sites that use a 3rd party for something. Sometimes the 3rd party analytics won't load and that breaks the entire site.

There are plenty of sites that detect ad blockers and block content until you allow ads or pay.

Publishers like to make it all about ads and revenue while ignoring the train-wreck that is tracking for personalized ads. I'll look at first-party ads that don't track. Don't share my use and browsing history with others. Respect is a two way street, to get respect you have to give respect.
Pet Transport Services
Its probably because of the pickup truck that is priced very nicely (but don't rely on my personal opinion)
"hacking" your body is recipe for doing damage. Just relax and do what evolution has built you to do, sleep a little more and get ready for spring.
There are tradeoffs both ways. With multirepos you likely have a dependency hell problem and you often have to submit and release several PRs for otherwise small updates. With monorepos, (if you want reasonable build times) you have to be able to determine what has changed and what needs to build (including tests, etc) as a result. This is technically true of multirepos as well, but the problem is pushed into git and manual process.

Having looked seriously at both options, I think the monorepo world is the right one, but it presently lacks good tooling to sanely model your dependency graph AND create custom build rules while still being affordable for small or medium-sized orgs. Git/hub simply isn’t designed for this kind of modeling and everything I’ve seen built atop it is either way too manual or a kludge. Maybe the “kludge” solutions are actually reasonable, but my confidence is low.

Bazel is the right idea, but it’s execution disappoints. The documentation is abysmal, last I checked they advertised Python 3 support, but it’s been broken for years with no signs of progress. Building custom rules also looked hopelessly complex (by which I mean, “not something our organization can afford to implement and maintain”) but maybe there’s some undocumented happy path that I’m missing out on? These things seem easy enough to implement. We’re using Pants right now, and for it’s many similar problems (bugs, documentation, poor code base, difficult extensibility), it at least does a passable job at building Python projects.

I’ve thought about it a fair amount, and I think it’s reasonable to build something simpler that might not meet Google’s use case, but would at least enable small and medium sized shops to play the monorepo game.
With gerrymandering and removing people off of voter rolls, I think you can argue that some political groups are acting in an authoritarian manner.
I always assumed that this disconnect was because most domestic u.s. air travel is business related, so that in general, the traveler is not the customer.
> The reason why is the math changed. The gap between startup and tech giant is much larger now than it was in 2010. Also, unless you have insider access and join a very risky angel stage company, the likelihood of getting a good package that makes sense is low, very low. Also public companies have shown to get +3x gains, which can make the math even worse.

Unfortunately, nowadays, the only job titles at a startup that offer greater expected value than working at a tech giant are "Founder" and "Co-founder". The fraction-of-a-single-digit-percentage equity packages out there for Employee #1 adjusted for the risk of failure and the risk of getting diluted are often a very low number. And if you're Employee #10? Forget about it! I'd love take another crack at a startup but it only would possibly make risk-adjusted financial sense if I'm the founder.
Ventilation, and not just recycling indoor air.
> There is no normal height.

There more certainly is a statistically average height.

> Out of 4,063 pilots, not a single airman fit within the average range on all 10 dimensions.

This article is comparing 10 dimensions of variability and we're talking about just one here, the one you yourself mentioned, height.
Well, don't have version skew then? Require that anything merged to master doesn't break any tests? Require that tests exist in the first place? Google makes it work at a dramatically larger scale. Everything at tip-of-tree is always ready to go.

EDIT: Looks like I've misread the parent's argument as one against monorepo. It was in fact an argument in favor, and one I agree with.
I pretty much hate everything that is easily accessible...swimming is OK but TBH I prefer reading books or coding side projects. I purchased boxing classes and will try it out with a friend.

I think some people just despise physical activities, like there are a lot of people who just refuse to think.
> All a puberty blocker does is delay the onset of puberty. They're part of the medical standard of care, and have no permanent effects that require reversal; their effects end as soon as they're taken.

If that's true, then that's fine! But I was under the impression that there were still significant concerns about the long term safety of those drugs. (And other allegations besides safety - I've heard that many/most people who identify as the opposite gender prior to puberty begin to identify as their birth gender following puberty, but I don't have a source there)

And it sure seems to me like the debate is about more than just bathrooms. "Can there be legal repercussions for misgendering someone", for instance.
Yet the Tesla does 375 miles with a 100 kWh battery.

Do the math.
So far that seems to be how its done.
Not available where I live but yeah, snapchat has a similar app.
I think there needs to be an open source federated social media with stricter controls and from a more trustworthy actor than Facebook that you can self host or schools can.
So you can connect with your friends and classmates from school via federated link to your home one. Every link will require approval.
Though that seems like a pipe dream.
My immediate thought as well. But honestly, I would only call the first book of the trilogy great; towards the end, it's starting to feel like a drag, with quite boring walls of text describing alien landscapes and cities that serve no purpose for the plot. And the whole Ozzie plotline, while certainly entertaining and engaging, seems just like a distraction.

Brilliant portrayal of power and intrigue though.
If the pessimism in this thread bothers you, imagine how much your woefully out of touch survivorship bias and bothers everyone else in this thread?

One of the top comments that responds to your post tells you that the math changed. This is true. The fact that neither you nor Garry talk about the concrete specifics of this means that you're either unaware of it, or worse, intentionally sweeping over it.

You really think that what is "actively training our young people to avoid taking risks" is all the "negative takes" on startups? What about the changed exit environment where companies are staying private longer and equity shares are no longer outcompeting public company compensation? Poor or inexistant options for liquidating large holdings of early company equity? Liquidation preferences, dilutions, and founder enrichment allowing grey-hat founders to self-enrich at the expense of their employees? How about the increased ability of large companies to compete with startups and turn their products into mere features? Ballooning student loan debt, rampant social inequality, a collapsing middle class labor market and automation?

You know what I think is actually happening, based on the interviews I've given working at various startups where we lose great candidates to more established companies? I think candidates are getting smarter. If they're smart enough to make outsized impacts at startups, they're smart enough to make outsized impacts at large corporations and make sure they get commensurate compensation. They know that they have better access to a tried and true organizational structure around the software development and revenue line development lifecycle.

A lot of this completely changes if you're the founder. That's probably the one perspective where the ownership structure is so radically different and more advantageous that it's very much worth it over being a mid level manager or executive doing the same thing at a larger company, if you can pull it off. But if you're not a founder at a company any earlier than late series B or C, you're generally taking a proportional risk for a much less proportional reward if you join as an employee -- not just financially, but organizationally and directionally (in career trajectory).

And, if there's one thing I can't stand more than anything, it's when founders wear rose-colored goggles and can't admit this truth. Not implying you're doing this, but I'd advise anyone in danger of this to never drink the kool-aid you sell to the point where your reality-distortion field obscures your inability to see the very real reasons why people make (and remain happy with) these decisions, just because it threatens your life choices and identity.
Building a network is an important thing... But let's not kid ourselves:

Most startups offer very little % for equity.

And that equity often amounts to next to nothing. Look at Uber or WeWork.

Most founders end up as assholes. Some are great, some care, some what to learn. Learning as a manager/founder is someone else's job. Stress is real. People do shut down from stress.

If you are a founder, that's great.

If you are like first or 2nd employee, and end up as CTO and such, that's great. If you can get a few % equity.

Overall most startups you work at you will make just barely what you'd make at Google or Microsoft (I'm taking post exit). During 2003 engineers didn't have the leverage we do now. Right now a junior engineer can make close to 200k+ in total compensation at a large firm. The work is different, but definitely more money most startups will ever give you.
Social Media Myopia
> Dass bounced around between gurus that exploited women and men before returning to the US to do much the same.

The book "Saints and Psychopaths" talks about a case where Ram Dass was following an explotative guru in the US in the late 70s. I thought it was interesting that he was still doing that then, and also that the story isn't so well known.

But what do you mean by "the lies over the years"? He never struck me as a liar.
I'm confused about how the two sentences are related. Can you elaborate?
Ok - thanks. I'm not sure there is a bright-line distinction, then.

I use a set of chat-bot related APIs to implement CLIs for various EHR-related and clinical-related applications (Navigating kajillions of options in EHR menus requires, famously, too many damn clicks. Physicians are intelligent enough to learn simple syntax to avoid all that crap)

I'm probably using the wrong words when I describe it, but when I tell developers in the ecosystem that we have a "chatbot-like" interface, people seem to get it, so I haven't upgraded my nomenclature.
Does this mean you sleep less in Summer? And what latitude do you stay in? I imagine this would be more difficult in Scotland where in winter there's only 7 hours of sunlight but in summer there's over 16 hours of sun.
> From a pure cold war mentality AI is absolutely terrifying to me. We're right in the uncanny valley where AI for weapons systems is starting to get to the point where it can feasibly make human soldiers in some positions obsolete. Why do we want fighter pilots when AI can vastly outperform a human? AI doesn't break a sweat in extremely long mission durations, AI doesn't need a massive heavy cockpit and canopy to fly the plane, AI doesn't pass out at high G loads and can take negative Gs and lateral Gs just fine. AI can push jets right to the brink of what the airframe is capable of.

Yeah, that's why our plane systems are being designed as such.

We don't call "AI Fighters" "AI Fighters". We call them surface-to-air missiles, air-to-air missiles, and drones. For the case where a human needs to be close to support our "AIs" (aka: missiles and drones), we're creating F35 as nearby stealth supporter. Thats why the F35 isn't good at dogfights, its assumed that drones / missiles will take care of that sort of stuff in the future.

The dogfight race has been lost to air-to-air missiles. Humans can't take the kinds of Gs that a missile can do, you can't outrun something like that in a "fair" circumstance (outside of Blackbird-style "too high / too fast" situations).

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> We already have drones that have dramatically lowered the costs of waging war. We don't need to put boots on the ground in a lot of cases where drone strikes are feasible. What happens when it's not just a reaper and we can put tanks and guns on the ground while only putting actual soldiers inside of some small maintenance and supply base to support the machines that are actually on the front lines? Would the American people care even less than they already do about e.g. Iraq and Afghanistan?

It seems odd to say that war requires human cost in order to be important. Perhaps the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were considered failures not because of their (relatively low) human costs, but because the politics didn't work out in their favor.
If you're like me an dread the monotony of working out give climbing a try! Every climb is different which keeps the workout fresh and exciting and it works out every core muscle group.
In the example where you have equivalent equity packages available at Google and Stripe/Airbnb, I think you're right -- it's hard to see how equity that has an uncertain liquidity horizon is equal in value to Google's, which you will definitely be able to sell in a year. However, I've found that offers from these companies compensate for that -- Stripe/Airbnb will offer more in equity than Google precisely because of the liquidity premium. Then it comes down to, how much of a liquidity premium do you demand as an investor?
> The government is elected by the people, it doesn't fit that definition.

At the risk of invoking Godwin's law, the Furher was elected by the people. It's a disservice to society at large to so casually brush off judgements about whether a Government is "authoritarian," especially when the question deserves a nuanced answer.

I would say the United States can be quite authoritarian, when it's given the leeway to. The militarization of the police comes to mind. Overpolicing of certain communities, the ongoing struggle for many marginalized groups to attain the same rights and freedoms as the majority, the way the United States swings it's foreign influence and military around worldwide to get what it wants, etc.

I mean our current President was elected on a platform of building a wall on our southern border to solve a completely imaginary problem, and the Government is now trying to seize privately owned property to make that happen.

Is that authoritarianism on the level of China or North Korea? No, not even close. Is it authoritarian? I would say yes, it absolutely is, and that should be a warning to future generations so it never has the opportunity to become authoritarian like China.
> Wait, Windows exports kernel address to userspace?!

Dont know about these particular calls. But info leaks where a kernel address is leaked are apparently quite common. They're usually fixed when found. But this is the reason OpenBSD relinks the kernel every boot in a random order. [0]

Its's too easy to leak a pointer and invalidate KASLR, because now you can calculate the KASLR offset.

The 'well known' part does seem a bit weird though.

[0] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/163565/openbsd-...

Edit: https://github.com/sam-b/windows_kernel_address_leaks/blob/m...

Seems windows patches them too, sometimes. Checking the rest of the repo they don't seem to care much though.
Woof, what a title. FTFA:

> The formula shows that the efficiency gain of bifacial solar cells increases with light reflected from a surface.

Perhaps a better title would be "Newly discovered formula explains efficiency gains from bifacial solar cells"
I thought heat engines in space are nontrivial because it is hard to radiate off enough heat ti actually have a usable differential
Your stories are great to listen to. Is there any other place I can follow you other than YouTube channel?
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Handling Authentication in React with Context and Hooks
> despite the wishes of the parents

This is a complex subject and you're entitled to your opinion, but please don't misrepresent facts. The kid and the mother want the treatment, but the father is trying to block it.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/06/trans-teenager...
No need for "some scumbag" when "someone" will suffice.

The original title was "Why Your Brain Needs Exercise" (the article title) which is highly misleading - looks like it fooled you too - so I agree with the change. I didn't read the article when I saw the first title, which I assumed was about solving sudokus or something along those lines, but I did click with the new title.
I don’t understand... why is the goal to convince a bunch of naive youngsters to work for you at 1/10 their value? You shouldn’t exist unless you can pay competitively for the same people, end of story. Until then, don’t hire
Yes, it is more likely for a serviceman to die in training than in combat.
I feel the comments in the threads are a bit too sour. Sure, you probably will not make 200 million dollars or even 20 million dollars. I am going to make that a bit stronger: It is highly likely you will end up broke as fuck. But so what?
Starting something up is really fun and if you are young (20 something) and don't have many obligations yet, just go for it. It doesn't matter if you fail. You will learn a broad skill set, which will be useful in the rest of your life. It will build character. Even if you fail, it is not a worthless experience.
And that does change things!
Yet the stock is now $421.