skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And why both parents need to take it

I think this is key to addressing discrimination (simply making discrimination illegal is insufficient because discrimination is so difficult to prove); however, getting both genders to take it in roughly equal proportion is probably nearly as difficult, at least apart from mandatory leave, which would be authoritarian and awful.

EDIT: Genuinely curious: why the downvotes? Do people not believe that taking leave in equal proportions is necessary to combat discrimination? Or do they think that it is easy to make people do this ethically? Surely no one thinks we should force people to take leave against their will?
For moderate to large projects, link time can be a huge factor even for incremental builds. It might be that faster IO is the better investment, though.
Packaging and labeling are different for bulk commercial and small-package grocery-store logistics.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoo...

His Twitter is a pseudo-blog
I think they're saying that wikipedia is an example of media not designed to be profitable. Maybe there couldn't be a similar youtube, but there could be other platforms, like wikipedia, that aren't built for profit but to inform.
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It seems like my comment was also vanished from the top of the thread? I don't see what guidelines I came even close to breaking. Help me out here? No one's going to see your reply, my comment is detached from the submission. But I do want to understand what's going on here.
Why did't anyone schedule quarantines,like you would be allowed to drive or enter a business during certain times of the day of certain days. Using things like drivers license or license plate numbering,immune system vulnerability and other factors.

Especially when lifting the lockdown, I would have lifted lockdowns strictly for people who have no violations during the lock down. And prioritize scheduling based on age and medical exceptions. Maybe have hours of the day strictly for vulnerable people with hard restrictions and a separate time for people that have already recovered.
It has been harder and harder every year, and frankly I'm really disheartened and demoralized these days. Articles like this one don't really surprise me anymore. It's not my department, but I feel complicit none-the-less.

But when I look out at the tech industry landscape, it is clear that I can do more good from within, because I have more freedom and influence on the work, and I believe that the work is net positive for the technology ecosystem.

Businesses large and small seem to have their heads on backwards here in Silicon Valley. Their founders are all highly profit-motivated, and don't truly seek to make the world a better place. Those that wear a facade of idealism give me no reason to believe they are any better than Google. If I left Google, where would I go where I can work without shame? I even have a hard time imagining starting my own business without falling prey to the same broken mechanics that brought us to where we are today.

At least at Google, I can say with confidence that there is ongoing work by people I trust - who in turn are given a lot of autonomy by the company - to make the world a better place with technology.
Happy to be in favor of this as long as there's an equivalent benefit for those who are childless.

For anyone downvoting: People should be incentivized to avoid having kids. It's without question the absolute best thing a random American can do to combat climate change.
You do not need to be "awesomely fit" to be physically fit in your 70s. You will be fine with _simple_ resistance and cardiovascular training along with a proper diet. The irony is that most people cause irreparable damage to their body in the pursuit of 'health'.

I hope nobody reads this and feels like it's too late. It is not. You do not need to be awesomely fit to be healthy. This is the most internet-of-all-internet advice I've read in the past month.

Ridiculous.
4 month old account with like no karma thinks the Russians didn't do it.
This is a great question. I'll use this as an icebreaker in the future.
Police are using surveillance helmets to scan people for Covid-19
A competent take to market plan would have included engineering towards a price point that customers would stomach.

If it's too expensive that is clearly poor engineering.
The founding fathers gave the USPS a monopoly on the major communication channel of the time. Maybe it's time to update those laws to give them a monopoly over online communication, too?

I see no way this could go wrong.
> Charts like these can save you a lot of money. But it will depend on the usage of course.

You have to be careful though. For example, the Radeon RX 570 is right next to the GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER at the top of the chart, but the GeForce costs almost 40% more. If the GPU isn't your bottleneck you may be better off with the less expensive one and save money to buy a faster CPU or more memory. Whereas if it is, you may be better off spending more for a faster GPU than either of those.

What these charts are great for is to look at the top fifteen or so as the set of candidates, which will all have good performance/$, and then if you prioritize better performance look at the fastest ones and if not then look at the least expensive ones.

But even then you have to be careful. For example, on the CPU chart the Core i3-9100F is one of the best values. The Ryzen 3 3200G is only slightly faster for $17 more (i.e. almost 25% more). But the 3200G has an iGPU, which is worth a lot more than $17 if it means you don't have to buy a discrete GPU.
Browsers do, it's the reading mode feature. However of course it's not a default stylesheet.
Bulldozer series were that - 4,6,8 normal cores which could have been glued in pairs to make double wide cores (this also produced a metric ton of comments and articles how FX series "weren't really 8 (6,4) cores"). CPUs were good enough but apparently this architecture was hard to utilize fully (and had other issues, e.g. with IPC).
John Carmack stepped down as consulting CTO of Oculus in November 2019.
Not generally in the short term, but over the longer term increased heat is going to make it more likely that the chip fails prematurely.

Of course, if you do something like not attaching the heatsink at all, it's plausible that heat could spike fast enough to cook the chip before throttling or overtemp protection can kick in/shut the system off.
Seems like a child comment has been detached from this thread and moved into a separate top-level thread, that is currently at the top (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223772), while its' former parent (comment that I'm currently responding to) has been moved to the bottom (2nd page). QED.
But if Doordash never made an agreement with the restaurant in the first place, like in the article, the restaurant has no obligation to follow any of Doordash's rules.

That doesn't mean they won't fall afoul of some state or federal laws in doing that.
Google started breaking out youtube numbers in their recent quarterly results (once sundar became Alphabet CEO)
Damn! I am in midst of designing screens for almost similar web app(the Submit screen looks almost same)! You beat me to it! Very well done!
Apple is only better because it is smaller but it does a lot of the same things and often lies about it... A pure and open Linux phone is the only way that it could get better.
Lockdowns were not meant to stop people from getting sick, they were meant to prevent hospitals from getting overwhelmed.

NYC is about the only hospital system that came close to being overwhelmed and even they made almost no use of the temporary hospitals.

The record numbers of cases we see now coincides with record levels of testing- with such limited availability of testing prior to the lockdown, the majority of cases- those not needing hospitalization- were never counted.
Tell your legislators you want to see antitrust action taken against Google!

They're abusing the hell out of their status. AMP, removal of adblock capability, driving web standards to potentially be more opaque, walled gardens, automated removal and takedown, etc.
Here is your daily reminder to read "Masters of Doom", a book about the early days at ID Software. It's an amazing look into a really cool time in gaming and software as a whole.

It's a great book, mostly about John Carmack and the guys at ID!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom
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First world nations have mind-boggling tax revenue, so they should fund programs like paid family leave and higher education (within reasonable limits).

(I feel like humanity is inexorably tending towards the attitude "everything should just be provided to us, no questions asked", so I really hope full-scale automation happens in my lifetime. I think it's the best way we can maximize happiness across the planet.)
I'm all for paid paternity leave, but I've also heard that it does relatively little because men are much less likely to use it, and when they use it they use less of it.
Other symbols: * searches bookmarks and ^ searches history
Yep, rx 570/580s are selling for great used prices on eBay. I pretty much recommend them to anyone going a budget build.
> it's not surprising once you know about it

I disagree. My first link shows subtle but important differences across versions of C++, and it is surprising. It's a foot-gun at the heart of the language. I agree with the author's comment: This is one of the dusty corners of C++ that can drive you crazy.
Move fast and break things has its downsides: work that influenced public policy/political debate was retracted after an error in the model was discovered [1], errors have been found in widely cited databases [2]. These are things that should be avoided I'm sure you'll agree.

Science has this additional problem that its memory is short - mistakes seem to be discovered when work is in the long tail of the citation curve, once it's out of the news. Even if you retract a paper, there is no easy way to trace the contagion to the work that uses it. That's before you consider mistakes that might be deliberate [3].

I have no doubts that more software/data rigour would make science more accurate, but the cost would be substantial, and it would no doubt slow down discovery until the benefit of open source kicked in.

[1] : https://theconversation.com/the-reinhart-rogoff-error-or-how...
[2] : https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/mistaken-identiti...
[3] : https://retractionwatch.com/2016/09/26/yes-power-pose-study-...
Every country that has a constitution has a mechanism to modify it, but the US Constitution is set up in a way that its most severe flaws can't be fixed (small rural states are over-represented but have a veto over any attempt to change this because 3/4 of the states must agree to any amendment).
ACM Introduces New Award to Recognize Research That Uses HPC to Combat Covid-19
What is the barbaric alternative?
Counterpoint to your counterpoint. I agree that public transport is essential, but the level at which it was running previously was 100% non essential, because the majority of the workforce in places like London (where we have excellent public transport) can & should work from home. There's no need for accountants to sit in an open plan office all clustered on the same spot in the City of London and therefore putting a huge strain on public transport which forces London to run a train every 60 seconds.

And precisely because public transport IS essential we still had all of it running, just at a reduced capacity to facilitate the essential public demand. So comparing public transport with Uber only highlights even more how Uber is non essential, because we can live pretty much without it, but we evidently can't without public transport (as seen in London).
So would they have banned an app that told people to wear masks when the CDC and WHO said they were not effective? I proudly went against government advice then and plan on doing a lot of things against government advice in the future. This pandemic has highlighted the rot in government institutions.
I am not relating the reader to my experience with SourceHut - I haven't told anyone to quit and start their own company rather than work for Google - but remininding them that the market for their talents is strong and that we have the luxury of choosing who we work for. I have held and spoken of these convictions since long before SourceHut. Read my blog archives or my old HN comments since pre-SourceHut and you'll find much of the same.

Who is using SourceHut to build software I disagree with on ethical terms? I am not aware of such a project.
> Our lockdowns were a disaster and "opening back up" is going to cause an explosion in cases.

That was in fact the prediction for Georgia, see for example the expert predictions here: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/infectious-disease-expe...

Of course it turns out not to have actually happened: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/georgia-coronavi...
Quest does the processing in the headset and it is very probably accelerated.
> It completely brushes aside the idea that if these agencies weren't acting as domestic enemies in the first place, whistleblowers and journalists wouldn't be adversaries

Even if the NSA wasn't treating them like domestic enemies, all of those other countries would likely want their own copy of the complete leak. And the rest of the article shows other agencies arw probably capable of such acts.
One of the best things about American culture is "fuck you" attitude towards authority and high risk tolerance. Of course the downside of that is in cases like a pandemic some more people will die. There's very little chance, in my mind, that Americans will be as compliant as Koreans regarding lockdowns.
>encourage social distancing, sanitation, masks

We're still in quarantine in the Bay Area and I'm seeing _more_ people not wearing masks or social distancing.

The next thing people need to hear is "quarantine is over" when they're associating quarantine with COVID still being "around." Once that happens, it's game over; I think a majority of people will just go back to normal without being careful.

Not that I don't want quarantine over but I just don't think most people understand the message it would send.
> there's no reason for highly educated people to stay here or immigrate to here when their quality of life will be significantly worse than elsewhere because our basic suite of mandatory and ubiquitous social amenities are entirely absent.

If you're wealthy enough, the United States is still an extremely attractive place to live.
the choice of metric that defines "how the world is" is where the subjectiveness lies, as my comment explains. the article was generally about "how bad the world is." if you find some result specifically about people's estimates of specific metrics, e.g. child mortality, poverty, etc, then we can have the discussion you're trying to have.
> I was able to buy flour at my grocery store for first time in 2 months yesterady

The experience for consumer-packaged flour differs a lot by region, but it seems it was mostly about the capacity of consumer flour packaging facilities than the capacity of flour mills or wheat farmers. Similar thing with toilet paper: people were pooping at home more, so they needed consumer-packaged toilet paper, thus there was a temporary shortage of consumer-packaged toilet paper while facilities adapted to demand.

RE flour: here in Hamilton, Ontario, flour in consumer packaging was a rare find for about a week, until retail prices rose slightly (10%?) and now things are basically back to normal in terms of availability.
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Most people who actually work in AI know that AGI being possible is still an IF and IF it is possible, it is centuries or even further away (basically some indeterminate time frame because we don't even know if we're on the right path). The techniques we're using today are likely not going to be applicable to AGI. John Carmack is very smart, but I wouldn't place him on the same pedestal as any of our great historical polymaths and IMO if a single person is going to make any progress in AGI it's going to be someone like Leibniz or Euler.
Mocking time and testing event loops in Go
Let's see what Reddit says.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gm5zwu/what_is_t...?
Nope, the market crash wiped out all the value of the house. Barely broke even after selling. Pretty much worked for free cleaning piss and poop out of walls, carpets, fireplace, and yard.
The issue I have with my relationship to the news is less so the negative slant in and of itself, moreso never being disconnected from it. Most of it is banal or fluff. You can keep track infrequently and be a well informed voter.

I follow tech news aggregators more but could use less of that as well. There's just too much time spent on mindless bullshit.
Seems like your comment has also been detached. I'm seriously confused right now.
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Hmm, but consider that it works in both directions. In places that are not as dense and expensive, the public places won't increase rents of the surrounding properties as much, but neither will they take away as much tax revenue. Both scale proportionately. I think this applies just as much to a park in small town as it does to Manhattan.
For what its worth, I was also shocked to see your entire comment thread, with over 110 children I believe, deleted from the thread without mention. Before this, I thought HN handled deletion with graying out, [flagged] or [dead] etc.

I only found it again by checking @dang's profile.

I've also emailed HN support strongly objecting to this complete deletion.
It was an upgrade over app stores run by your mobile carrier, which is what it replaced at least in USA.
Well, a lot of people feel, I think accurately, that the lockdowns are what are or were keeping the case load relatively low.

Regarding absolute numbers, in the early phase when we had a 2-3 day doubling rate, per capita numbers didn't matter very much because you only needed ~2 days for it to double, so any difference in per capita cases saw that gap closed pretty quickly. So for instance, I saw people downplaying the danger by saying "sure Italy has it bad, but the US has 5x the population". That missed the point a bit. It didn't take that long for the US to become the leader in absolute number of cases, then a bit more for it to exceed per capita rates of Italy. Probably both would have happened sooner had there not been any intervention.
> omnipotent

You seem to like that word, it being your nick, but that said, it would seem to me that any management that believes it is omnipotent ought to be fired on the spot. That sort of delusion can only end in tears.
Do you avoid spoilers? I do, and that doesn't mean I'm "afraid of ideas". Actively avoiding certain information doesn't require a curated internet - it helps when other people respect that (spoiler tags/warnings and such).

I expect most people who hang out on HN would understand that there are no good outcomes when PII is in the wrong hands - that's not even a controversial idea.
I have my own yacy search engines running internally (non-peered) for similar reasons. One crawls some key code documentation sites that I need for work, and another crawls a whole bunch of music blogs.

While I typically still use RSS for reading music blogs, I find having the search engine is a great way to go back and find something or discover something new! Every time I find a new blog, I just add it as an index to yacy to crawl.

I think it'd be great to see people spinning up larger instances that are highly specialized. For example, maybe a search engine that is dedicated solely to sci-fi and only crawls high quality boards, personal sites and blogs, and skips all the spammy, seo-optimized sites.
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Hey, dang. I've sent a letter to hn@ycombinator.com 5 hours ago, questioning why my AskHN submission "Self-censorship on HN" has been flagged and blocked for further replies. Have you seen it by any chance? I'm really concerned about the issue.

> Do you really think we're suppressing discussion of the suppression of the phrase "communist bandits" from YouTube? I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a.

Also, can the suppression of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23221264 (which missosoup is asking about) be connected with my "HN censorship" related comment in it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23221622 ?
They rapidly hired staff from Lotus, Aston Martin, Jaguar land rover, and many others to try to set up their supply chain, engineering, and manufacturing capabilities. They could get 'the right' kind of people in.

Think they underestimated how eye-wateringly expensive it is to start producing cars (many thousands of parts from many hundereds of suppliers) without so much as a sniff of people putting deposits down etc. to confirm market demand.

No doubt if they showed a car off at geneva motor show they could get a decent order book even off hype alone for the first 6 months.
I'm not sure RedHat is a good example any more, since they were aquired by IBM.
Minorities are most often the targets of hate speech. Which is why LGTBQ youth are often bullied both IRL and online and they commit suicide. And yes, it is a crime. But this thread is talking about deleting comments; not about law enforcement.
Slightly off topic. What's tier 1/2/3 in the US? I had just heard that kind of system applied in China
Just tried this on one of my own youtube videos. Got deleted after only a couple of minutes.
Was it really bad for US until China started working on 5G and trying to become independent in semiconductor sector? Because until that time globalism was pretty profitable in terms of trade and relations for US.
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Request for Feedback: Racket Review
I ended up writing a review for Racket from the perspective of a package author here: https://sagegerard.com/racket-review.html

While I did my research, I'd like to know if there are any inaccuracies or unanswered questions that I should address. I'll make edits accordingly with my thanks.
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This seems to be a function of the people you hang around with.

Hobbies for most people are a way to spend money, not make it. No one I know has "side hustles"
What is the line of reasoning that favors a Friday for layoffs?
I'd guess that meat shortages are caused more by recent covid outbreaks at processing plants and less by waste.