skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But isn't this exactly what Symfony users accuse Laravel of - too much magic? Laravel's facades are as magical as anything in Rails and Laravel does a lot of code injection. It takes more than one man's opinion to establish a truth.
Show HN: This Dick Does Not Exist
Maybe you do. I sure as fuck don’t.
Church Sues Zoom After Bible Study Hacked with Pornography
Which exceptions for US senators were written into the patriot act?
They may have. Movie theaters and night clubs for example.
Are you talking about "successful" as "no fatalities" or "fewer fatalities than those caused by texting meatbag drivers?" The former is impossible, the latter is certainly not.
It called my penis an asparagus.
Sorry, there's really not much I can do

I don't think this is true. I think ordinary guys have access to knowledge that most women lack and just talking with women and taking their issues seriously makes a real and meaningful difference.

So thank you for conversing with me (as opposed to pissing all over me or just being blatantly dismissive).

I am not calling for a ban.

I'm sorry that you feel accused. I'm not trying to accuse you. But the logical outcome of your objections is a ban, if everyone agrees that you are right.

I'm just pointing out that this does not help women and in fact only hurts women in the long game.

I don't believe this is true. I believe this framing is rooted in broader cultural practices where a woman's sexuality doesn't really belong to her. It's a double standard that needs to be stamped out.

But I've had enough of sounding fighty on the internet for one day. So I will likely bow out of this conversation at this point.

Have a good day.
I trained a neural network model to generate dick doodles based on the dataset they released.

https://dickrnn.github.io/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23187529
That's largely the point I'm making ^_^ but I'm just trying to clarify that it's not necessarily some scary negative thing, or that I've been warped or something.

I think of listening to them largely in the spirit of Lincoln's “I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.” There's an entire machine telling me to hate these people, write them off, or that they're overall "bad." So I listened to a bunch of their content to see what it was about. That's kinda it, really.

I haven't turned into some conspiratorial nut job or joined some cult (I don't think!). I listened to a couple of podcasts to try to form my own opinions. The output of the exercise was that I don't think these people are evil demons. I think they're largely just... people. Complex, right sometimes, wrong sometimes, and fun to hate on by the general media.
The fundamental flaw in the original thinking on this topic was that people saw the digital frontier as a new wild west of sorts, where old rules and established lines of power did not apply and a bold, adventurous spirit could carve out a new realm for themselves.

The thinking wasn't wrong at all. It merely failed to extrapolate to what happened to the American wild west after the era of the gold rush. The vast, vast majority of humanity doesn't want to live in the wild west. And when given the option between a laissez-faire no rules world where those with better understanding of the natural rules triumph and a structured society, structure wins every time.

Nobody is really forced to use Facebook. Or Twitter. Or Google. Or Amazon. But they are, all of them, vastly more convenient than the DIY alternatives which were the only option when the internet was young.
This is wholesome
Wow, Beazley's course appears to be live, not a video series

I'm okay with paying, but my schedule wouldn't allow for a full-time middle-of-the-day course
Maybe not for undergrad, but undergraduates don't learn how to do semiconductor manufacturing.
Spare me.

Most self-driving is done in warm climates, in a circle. These companies are amassing thousands of empty miles on the same streets every day to impress people who don't know any better.

I lived on a branch of the main Google circuit, and often they were the only traffic for most of the day. Even saw three Google vehicles in a line, but two were more common.

What's the value of "self-driving" with no weather, traffic or route variation? PR and regulatory filing stats.
Testing Rates are directly linked to the Infection Rate. Is there a correlation between testing regimes and lockdown?
You're contributing to a stereotype that if a woman is having a relationship with someone at work that it must be to get ahead.
In that case I have been misled by that acquaintance of mine and I apologise for unintentionally spreading misinformation.

(In that case, let's replace Laravel with Phoenix.)
> Glorified camwhore site
Pretty much it, the jokes of Twitch being Chaturbate Lite are all too true. Worse is that they push the "Just Chatting" section too since they know it draws in a lot of viewers.
Always gets me that the above is a no brainer. But people married to the argument that we can't have renewables until we solve the storage problem just refuse to even consider it.

Disconcerting.
Trading is just connecting buyers with sellers and pocketing a spread. It’s been a most profitable activity for a long time. You just have to optimize the carrying costs and manage risk. but it’s the same thing everywhere, being average is useless in wide competition. You need an edge: be smarter, faster, better capitalized, better connected, informed etc...
Our data-heavy API returns JSON responses from our DB in ~40ms using ActiveRecord. So no, it doesn't waste 100ms on every request! We're serving around 6000 requests like that per second.
Related discussion today about the dataset: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23185131
Okay, that is pretty funny.
But past the thin mountainous band of Chile lay large,populous, and reasonably advanced nations of Brazil and Argentina. Likely they share some of the bandwidth.
Build and ship faster without boilerplate code
Doesn't matter what Lincoln said. The Civil War was caused by the South's attempts to protect itself from capitalism. Didn't work. Slavery ended in Russia at the same time. Slavery simply couldn't compete with free markets.

> race based slavery began under capitalism,

Nope. Slavery had gone on for millennia. How about the ancient Egyptians enslaving the Hebrews? How about Columbus enslaving the Indians?

(The native americans practiced slavery, too.)

Slavery died out in the northern colonies before 1800 because it was unprofitable, i.e. free markets killed it. It was dying in the south, too, until Eli Whitney revived it with his cotton gin. But that was just a temporary reprieve, it was dying again by the 1850s, and the South tried to save it by seceding.

Free markets killed slavery, because slavery simply cannot compete with them.

> the genocide of native americans happened during capitalism

As for genocide, that has happened since the Cro-Magnon killed off the Neandertals. The entire history of humanity is one of violently pushing other people off their lands. Until very recently, when societies have been getting more peaceful, along with the rise of free markets. (For example, after defeating Italy, Japan and Germany in WW2, the US (and Britain and France) gave those countries back to their citizens. How often has that happened?)
The book suggests Europe had the biggest head start followed by Asia due to geography and plant and animal species, with races being completely irrelevant.
I agree that on the surface it isn't / shouldn't be "left versus right" but the viewpoint differences seem to align almost 1:1 with "selling yourself sexually is good to with me" (left) and something more conservative (right)
Invest in a cat
The article uses an intuitive approach trying to find a way to crack the halting problem.

But the truth is that halting dilemma is real and despite any attempt to "unwind" or "simplify" the control and data flows, there is a real barrier. It is in the math.

My favorite example: finding an odd perfect number. Euler stated: "Whether (...) there are any odd perfect numbers is a most difficult question". More recently, Carl Pomerance has presented a heuristic argument suggesting that indeed no odd perfect number should exist. [1]

Does it exist? Definitely. Somewhere in 10^300 range. What is the exact value? Nobody knows. You can write a program that finds an odd perfect number:

def odd_perfect_number():
n = 1
while True:
if sum(filter(lambda x: n % x == 0, xrange(1, n))) == n:
return "OK! I FIND IT!"
n += 2

Will this program ever complete?

Maybe. However nobody can say for sure. Avoiding recursion or some kind of groups won't give you any favor.

This is the halting problem in all of its glory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number
Where do you work where something like this can go on that long?

I suspect somewhere with over 2000 employees. No way a slouch like that could hide otherwise.
All I see on there is painting the Web as a platform for global-scale consumerism, and nothing more.

Good work everyone, let's pack it up.
I wish in VMware vSphere I could easily spin up and down / offline migrate to cloud providers. I have some temporary heavy workloads that could benefit from this but there is no easy way.
Most enterprise customers have huge VMware investment. It is much easier for these CIOs to move to cloud with same look and feel as VMware and single pane of glass. Save ton of time in onboarding and operational overhead.
I was searching for container stuff and came across this video on crypto mining in a container:

https://youtu.be/IZ_bQJM5liM

I was a quite a ways into the video before I slapped my forehead.
I've got no personal hangups with the topic whatsoever. I think it is very fun to poke at the reality of what people online claim. Lots of trendy Miamians will claim it's empowering if somebody is a sex worker, then talk sh*t about them behind their back saying what a hoe they are.

I'm trying to gauge the pulse of what HackerNews thinks.
I am observing that there is no correlation between location of hosting and quality or user experience. OP used DropBox as a reference for a company that moved off AWS. My observation is that DropBox sucks.
Spotify Kids Lets You See and Customize What Your Children Listen To
You can always hide your penis so that it won't be detected.
For example https://i.imgur.com/JKiNNDE.png
We detached this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23185395 and marked it off topic.
> I think the larger problem is the degree to which men refuse to engage women in a substantive intellectual fashion.

First statement is a generalization across 50% of the population.

> I appear to be the highest ranked woman on HN. I've been here over a decade. It continues to be the case that most men don't really want to talk much with me unless they are hitting on me.

Second comment is decrying the fact that the population broadly smeared in the first comment does not want to engage with you.

I can only speak for myself, but the only times that I’ve ever been aware of the gender of a commenter are incredibly rare and only when I recognize the username as that of a personal friend of mine. In general, I’m pretty confident that the gender of a commenter on HN has no effect on how I reply to them for the simple reason that I’m almost always ignorant of it.

In your case, its possible that the mindset expressed in your first sentence contributes to the phenomenon or perception of the phenomenon in the second.

edit before anyone turns this into career suicide for me, I’m not saying that there is a link. I’m just observing the possibility
It became legal for ISPs to sell their logs during the beginning of the Trump administration. I began using a VPN consistently at that time.
What exactly is the problem?
Their whole selling point seems to be that their hardware + software can count people accurately without needing a camera. The premise being that cameras spook people.

Cameras are already commonplace enough where I work, for security purposes. So not sure how easily cameras can be eliminated.

The dashboards they provide don't seem to be have to be coupled to the kind of ($850) hardware they are selling. Like you said, cameras should be able to do the job.
Viruses don't care about how many people are in a room, and this doesn't seem like something people are going to worry about much 10 years down the road.
No law could permit uncompensated seizure as it would violate the 4th Amendment. Forced labor would violate the 13th Amendment. A better to way to look at it is that the DPA sets the rules for commercial activity--if you want to undertake commercial activity, you have to do so subject to the regulating law, which in the case of the DPA includes the possibility of building and selling whatever the government requests. You could always choose to just walk away, of course.
Can I answer your first question with a question: do you think you are better than somebody who performs sex work?

As for middle ground I understand that some people might “personally disagree” and I get that. There are a lot of things in the world that I personally disagree with, too. Like marriage, for example. I wouldn’t be caught dead getting married. But I understand that some people want to and it makes some people happy. And even though I choose not to participate I still support my friends and family who do.

The difference, in my mind, is “X is not right for me” vs “X is not right”. One is about personal opinion and the other is about forcing that opinion onto others who might not share it.
I guess the old "Safety in numbers" adage is going the way of the dodo?
Most CPU intensive functionality in the core Ruby lib is implemented in C anyway, to ensure performance.

The vast majority of overhead in the rails app I work on is poorly build data models and poorly written queries. It makes no sense to talk about marginal gains of a few percent or a few ms per request when there are DB queries that take multiple seconds to complete.

In our case, a large part of that is due to the decision that someone made 5 or 6 years ago to store large amounts of data as serialized ruby hashes in the DB, rather than JSON (unsure if postgres supported it at the time), or simply as separate tables.

None of the poor performance of our codebase is down to Ruby itself. Most of it is due to features and data models being implemented with no thought for performance, a lot of which wasn't an issue when first written but as we've grown have become a constant thorn in our side (e.g. retrieving a multiple-MB serialized hash from the DB just to grab 3 values, then doing this 10 times in a request)
Okay, now I see what you mean. They were going in the right direction, but they did mess up. Everywhere they talk about moving a particle in a loop around the other, they really should have talked about moving two particles to exchange them. An exchange is of course topologically distinct from doing nothing. A loop is two exchanges in a row -- which is, as you say, topologically trivial in 3D (so the loop phase must be 1, and the exchange phase is +1 or -1, allowing for bosons and fermions).
I wasn't specifically thinking web frameworks but a number of projects that I found surprising and performant. One example I can recall is Graphite (Whisper, Carbon).
So this is who I talk to on this site...
> but firmly disagreeing with folks they personally know.

That's what I'm trying to poke at here in these comments. It's almost as if you do not support sex work/aren't ok with the theory of having it in your household, you're the enemy. You aren't cool, you're behind the curve, and you need to work on yourself to get your views more in line with the rest of the more liberal folk. That's how it reads to me anyway.
Holmes was absolutely not succeeding on merit. She was so very not succeeding on merit that there is a criminal case charging her with fraud.

I don't think it helps to turn a blind eye to the issue that women can sleep their way into positions, careerwise, and men typically cannot. We have expressions like the casting couch for a reason.

I've spent a lot of years trying to analyze this problem space and find a viable path forward based on actual merit. I'm not going to refrain from criticizing the likes of Holmes. She has done enormous harm to the status of women by her actions, which include sleeping with an investor to get money for a project that had no real merit because it was straight up fraud. So she probably wouldn't have been funded at all if she were male.
Here's the backstory on Boeing and the military.

US air doctrine is that they will always buy air dominance, so Boeing will be funded for military programs. However, the US govt. historically has had the influence to tell military aircraft mfgs. what to prioritize, and what lines to drop.

An example is Northrop. They were told to drop the popular F-5 and F-20, and focus on the B-1 program. They were also told to merge with a competitor, but declined.

It's weird when you first study it, but the US Air Force wants zero risk missions into enemy skies.

So that's why they're ok with a handful of $200 million fighters and $2 billion bombers, if they're stealthy enough not to be seen.

(Stalin on the other hand is often attributed with saying, "Quantity has a quality of its own." I would argue a balance is needed between a perfect fighter, in the case of the F-22 with under 200 airframes mfg., and having 10,000 slightly less perfect ones, like the F-16.)

W: F-22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor
Google only has status pages for services with an SLA iirc.
That's interesting that you feel that way. Living in SF I see self driving cars all the time - how do you account for that?
I've spent a decent amount of time learning over the time that this quarantine has been going on.

A major issue that I've seen is that of most beginner-focused educational content not being fast enough to learn with for the more experienced developer. This along with the fact that time is often a big issue for us. I've had numerous times where I had to learn a new framework within a 1-2 week time span in order to plug some work gap or speed up a project, and found no legitimate resources that could allow an intermediate developer like me to learn faster.

This is why I am currently creating content targeted specifically at intermediate to advanced developers and teaching new languages and frameworks (using the 'constructivist' method) in a way that makes the process of learning them much more efficient. In short, faster.

It's a little rough around the edges but you can check out the blog where I share my current tutorials here: https://fromtoschool.com.

To gain a better understanding of why the method of teaching that I've described is more efficient than others for the intermediate developer, check out this post: https://fromtoschool.com/why-most-programming-tutorials-are-....
The logical outcome of my objections is not a ban. I don't know why that has to be the case. Like you say, if we did more for women, they wouldn't have to do sex work. Then there would only be a small amount of women who do sex work purely because of passion, not because they were broken and grinded down by a profoundly sick society.
It's San Francisco 1919 all over again, but on a larger, stupider scale.
Hey there, I've been working on unusual whales! I'm trying to sniff out "insider" trading and alert users. There is still a lot of work to do, but so far, good progress:

https://twitter.com/unusual_whales
I’m currently working on a similar proprietary system that is similar to the one described in this article, and I can tell you that there is much more involved here than “counting people in a room”. Claiming someone with a clicker in front of a door is a better solution misses dozens of other use cases where this isn’t at all possible or cost effective...

But you know, everyone on HN is an expert in everything.
extremely niche and right up my alley
I think this happens fairly often in Manhattan. There's lots of box trucks simply making turns at 5mph and pedestrians crossing obliviously with headphones on or looking at their phones.
I didn't know JB wrote a book about this! His prose is def in my top 5. Groundbreaking for the time. This article mentions him as a "big name" but I'd argue he should have been more famous
Fantastic! This is the most informative and relevant comment I’ve read all day. +1 ;)
5MPH is roughly as fast as a brisk walk... it should not kill anyone.
Synology hardware is pretty close to what you're describing. Light on front goes from green to orange and you get an email, you plug in another drive, click a button in the GUI, and wait for the volume to reshard/resilver/remirror.

A freenas box does this as well, but won't have the pretty drive light indicator if it's a home-built box, but then you're not limited to proprietary hardware.
This is completely crazy. Its just one of these absurd Americanisms that we should take a look at during COVID and not continue.
next implementation of Arc

Are there any details about this anywhere? What's it written in?
That's the thin end of the wedge happening. Once you're ok with this, then they scope creep.
I'd also be interested! Is there any way I could give you my contact info without publishing it here on HN?
Well i've got a few, but finishing a number of "digitization" projects I've had on the back burner for years. As I type this, i'm flipping 3.5" floppies from the early 1990's I've had stashed away in a closet for the past 25 years. Its mostly automated. I'm using a high speed floppy drive (with laser tracking) to image the disks. Then I mount them and copy the files off to the NAS. The drive also has a soft eject (like all the old mac drives). So it just sits there buzzing away until its done then it ejects the floppy. About every 40 seconds or so I pick it up, and stick the next one in the pile in.

Working from home puts this within arms reach all day long. So while sometimes I get really busy and ignore it, when I become aware of it I start flipping floppies again. Once every few dozen floppies when a label read fails/etc then I type in a new disk series and let it rip.

I did all the music CD's a few years ago, most of my 8x10 photos last year (the fastfoto 640 is awesome, it needs a bigger feeder though).

Next up are the 5.25"s, and a bunch of QIC80 tapes I used like floppies in the mid 1990's. I've also got a stack of harddrives from the past ~30 years I need to capture.

Of course I've got the usual set of small projects as well, but I have to be careful about doing those because I can accidentally lose a day that I should be doing actual work i'm getting paid for. The flipping floppies/etc is a good background no brain activity.
Well, you likely have a dedicated (or pretty strong) server.

The Heroku dynos I've tested with some years ago performed quite horribly. Only a proper Xeon server was able to achieve sub-100ms responses.

But hey, if Ruby improved in the meantime, cool.
I've been an interviewer at Cruise, including on panels where Kyle was part of the committee. Trust me, there are many employees who want to have a decent recruiting experience, and a lot of engineers who want to ask questions that are actually worth your time. The bullshit you experienced is 100% top-down from Kyle. For years there has been tremendous pressure to hit headcount goals and to throw money at the problem versus trying to establish quality. (why? well headcount is one of the only needles Kyle can move himself that suggests to GM that there is progress). Kyle claims (explicitly) he's trying to build a strong "brand" for Cruise resumes, but the data and employee feedback just don't support that claim. It's just one of the several areas where Kyle insists on shooting his feet off year after year and won't actually listen to feedback (yes even when he asks for "direct feedback").