skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not believe that there is strength in racial diversity when every instance of multiracial proximity in history and today results in dysfunction and violence.

I believe that threatening my (predominantly White) nation with millions of foreigners is extremely hostile and hateful.

I wish nothing more for than my children and their children to grow up in a place of peace, harmony, belonging, unity, joy and fulfilment. I want them to love themselves, know their history, respect their ancestors. I want them to extoll the virtues of our people and to enjoy the many fruits of European culture.

I want for them a place where they may pursue their potential, free of the countless difficulties and dangers that the multiracial option, free of the daily hysteria and thinly-veiled anti-White hatred that my generation has experienced all our lives as the West demonstrates the unending division and tension that is inevitable with multiracialism.

I am motivated by nothing but love for my people, my family, and myself. I do not hate Africans or Jews. Or Chinese or Muslims. I do not wish for their children to grow up in awful conditions, I only wish for my children not to.

I owe strangers in foreign places nothing; I owe my family everything.

Is this view 'hate'? It certainly doesn't seem like it to me. Am I to understand that wanting a homeland for my people to exist in peace and prosperity is hateful, while the non-Whites openly celebrating violence against Whites, our dispossession, depression, and extinction, somehow act outside the definition of 'hate'?

'Hate' is not an objective term. It means nothing unless you also define what you hate. All-too-often, that thing is White people.
You listed the 777 which is an older plane. The newer 787 Dreamliner has been in service for almost 10 years. It is more comfortable because it's composite structure allows for higher humidity and higher air pressure. A normal flight has an air pressure equivalent to being at 8,000 feet altitude. The 787 is equivalent to 6,000. The humidity levels are also higher at 15% vs 4% for other planee. Both of these make you feel less tired and more comfortable.
I don't understand what you mean by frontpage. it is made only from posts from subs you subscribed to. if you don't like it, unsubscribe.

or the thing that bothers you is that other people like it and want to see it
> I don’t think we will ever be able to conceive a legal framework that can catch all these as hate speech.

Then why would Facebook be able to conceive a moderation framework that can catch all these? The underlying problem to be solved is the same, it has just been removed from democratic scrutiny.
That really is the key -- the manufacturers have little to do with actual comfort, which is up to the airline. The larger perceived cabin I suppose is somewhat due to Airbus choices, but that of course is heavily psychological.
You never elaborate the exact mechanism. But if you can consistently make accurate predictions, you're onto something.

The real argument is about the validity of the predictions. Core science - basically undergrad - is very good at making predictions in its domains of interest. Outside of that everything gets more speculative.

The real problem with soft science research is that it cargo cults data -> statistics into data -> weak correlations -> "truth." And that's not how good science works - because there's just a statement based on correlations that may be accidental, and there's no attempt to make a model at all.
I take it you weren't programming when Java was the new hotness?
NYC is a drastically different city than even the largest city in Switzerland. NYC has six times higher population density than Zurich. People behave differently, in Switzerland they are far more accepting the social distancing measures than people in the US. You can't compare two cities (or countries) just like that.
That was my plan, yes. World leaders constantly monitor my HN comments for ideas on how to handle this.
I hope you realize the irony of the fact that you're posting on a forum much more heavily moderated than Reddit.
Late post, but I'm just wondering why nobody has mentioned Briar Project. I think it's designed to remedy some of the issues mentioned here: https://briarproject.org/
> Also if the replies in here are representative of Silicon Valley as a whole, damn.

Unbelievable indeed. When is HN going to come out with their anti hate policy?
You're missing his point; what defines "hateful" is mostly subjective and is always influenced by the watchmen interests. And what is acceptable today may be considered hateful tomorrow, in fact back in the 1990s "gangsta rap" was considered hateful.
Isn't your own reply but a hyperbole? Reddit can do much better than this. The person suggested it should be a platform for open discussion, including controversial topics, rather than becoming yet another China. The person was saying you cannot stop violence by shutting up people.
Big discussion earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23430575
(I'm the person that wrote the article)

A few thoughts:

As you say, the thing that's really different about us is exactly that we are focussed on engineers not PMs with our tool. PMs are of course welcome to use it too, but it's a little more technical feeling.

We felt the people building the thing should have the context of usage data and this shouldn't only sit in another team - which was a behavior we saw happening quite frequently when we did user interviews early on.

We started with the fundamentals of product analytics with some features we wanted ourselves but are now focussed on features that are much engineering specific. For example, we are about to release (an optional) "inspect element" for usage data: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/870, so you can pop that up whilst working on localhost.

We had no idea if that hypothesis was correct - that engineers would care. We did a launch HN to find out and got quite a lot of good feedback and growth.

Re scaling, you are spot on - this is definitely hard! We have users doing 5 million events/day on Heroku's cheapest standard tier dyno. We offer paid support for people who need something higher volume still if it doesn't work well out of the box. We're working on supporting databases other than Postgres as people need them.
So basically is Rust like C/C++ this way? In C++ you also have to know exact types of arguments and return types?
It'll still update behind your back after 60 days. It's deliberately designed so that the users does not have complete control over what their devices run. It's designed in a way that even experienced sysadmins will have hard time taking back control of their devices. Ultimately these knobs are just farce. What they are doing could be easily achieved by cron or any other task scheduler, but that would not allow Canonical to keep control of user devices.
I like the concept of

Edge ::= Hard | Soft | Lost

where hard edges are delineated, soft edges are blurry transitions (more area than edge), and lost edges are merely implied. Good pen & ink work uses many lost edges.
> if it performs even basic optimizations—this isn't a sufficiently smart compiler[5]-type case—it will elide all the reference counting overhead

I'm skeptical. How do you know this?

Are you assuming that borrows wouldn't be reference counted? If so, how would the compiler know that no borrow outlives the value?
But people of all races are required to know white people culture to attend to our needs.

In the situation you give, being white offers no special qualifications.
Good read, thanks.
Why would you need a p-hack if the effects are big?
What about this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-anti...

Also, you picked 5%, but in your article they also say it's almost 15% in some areas. You're not spreading lies now, right?
Just seen my other comment was downvoted to hell. Just shows the position of many users of this forum. Why can we not have an area where more people are represented and know fine well they wont be targetted with abuse? If this means banning racist or fascist outlets / users then so be it.
It would be great if that feature could be moved into the compiler, though!
As far as I know here in the UK we never went above 60%, and yet still had lots of deaths, so how is this a key metric?
Is it not generally the rich sharply criticising lockdowns? My impression has been mostly the capitalist class + workers who need to work to not starve are in favour of opening up as quickly as possible. Is my impression wrong?
That’s a similar argument I heard when slack cane around. “You don’t have to open the app if you don’t want to” or “You only reply when you want to” etc. But the expectation is that it’s way more synchronous than email for example, which was fine for tech communications because people actually thought for a bit before asking others for help. Slack killed it. And “engagement” is high At the cost of lost productivity.
Water cooler is way more synchronous than slack. So it’ll make things worse, IMO.
What do you think the water cooler growth guy will come up with next to increase engagement? Always on 1:1 rooms? Always on team rooms? How do you get anything done? What will you think of the team mate who is always missing from those rooms? Not a team-player?
Unfortunate. Looks like there will soon be a crackdown on any HBD discussion.
I was thinking of online platforms designed to collaborate on projects with fellow researchers. Jupiter Notebooks or even Github where you can track progress and issues.
Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks
The comments in this thread are evidence of HN's shared, yet latent, trajectory with Reddit. It's been a fun 10 years, idiots.
> Go proved that the world will make room for a less capable language (in Go's case, than Java) if it is simpler.

Is this a fact, is there consensus on this? Didn't it just prove that if you are a corporation the size of Google, you can push your libraries or languages that far and make them that popular, just by virtue of forcing some people to use them and spend a lot of resources on guides and development and marketing?
OCaml also does global type inference like this, and it generally works out fine (unlike Haskell, it's not idiomatic to write a type signature for every single top level function in OCaml). Maybe because the type system is more principled compared to Scala.
It's gotten better - I'm dual-running Riot/Matrix and Signal. Cross-signing has fixed the main issues affecting encrypted chat usability but there's still plenty of UI improvements to make.
I'm reading this thread and I still can't figure out the point or how it protects things.

What client would want to add some numbers without knowing what the result is?

I can't imagine any interaction with a database where I don't need to do an operation with the resulting data (even if it's just passing it into a different API/DB unchanged).

My interpretation of your example in human terms is "add your day of birth to your bank balance, but don't tell me the answer" and then walking away. What am I missing?

-- edit --

Maybe I'm looking at it in the wrong direction? Is it more like "here are some numbers that, add them up on your calculator but don't look at the result before showing it to me"?
> - Personal health is taken pretty seriously; there's a general emphasis on fitness and good diet - Switzerland has one of the lowest obesity rates in Europe for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Switzerland

That's also reflected on how insurance companies work and incentivize personal health in Switzerland, too.
Usage Statistics of Linux for Websites
This is a bit odd to me. I have have siblings who are married to high achieving blacks and having talked to them the issue is more complex than "white people are all inherently racist and don't want to hire minorities". There are cultural problems in the black community in terms of how educating oneself is viewed. To be clear: if you strive academically you are "acting like a white man". Not only do I applaud and know individuals who are able to shut out that garbage mentality but it is awesome to see them get into high paying engineering roles. They deserve it.
Which SaaS is that?
I needed a very low traffic chat feature for a website built on Django so i went looking too what existing code there was.

1 was based on simple Ajax to server and a server backed message store.

About a dozen used WebRTC or other advanced techniques.

I wonder how many people who could quite easily cope with the expected traffic using brain-dead simple techniques end up going the complex route because they assume that's how you do chat?
In India tho, rich people demanded lookdown. Specially Bollywood celebrities.
I want to suggest what to try and understand between an task and the next one, and during coffee breaks.

I'd start by getting acquainted with the people, the tools, the projects and the processes in the company.

The idea is to understand what projects are being worked on, by whom, with what tools (languages, libraries etc) and following which process -- so that you can have an idea of what you don't know yet and who to ask to, should you need.
Do not pretend that "apt" (.deb) packages require un-bundling dependencies. That's just policy decision of Debian. You could just create Chrome package and put everything in /opt/google-chrome or whatever root path you choose. Ubuntu could have lifted this policy.
> back in the 1990s "gangsta rap" was considered hateful.

By whom?
NYC is peak COVID, and 20% is pretty far from 90%.
To do so would mean discriminating against the races you're not choosing. This is, by definition, racist. Also the mere fact that inequality exists is not evidence of racism.

I find it very troubling to see that race is increasingly the primary selection criteria by people who want to progressively "eliminate" racism. It might be good-intentioned but it's ultimately incompatible and doomed to failure. The only solution is to go beyond such attributes and focus on actions and character instead.
It is possible to use WhatsApp (on iOS, at least) without giving it contact access. I do this and it isn't too bad—you still see people's WhatsApp nicknames, so it's not like you're just looking at phone numbers. Of course, that does nothing to stop them from tracking who you actively communicate with.
There are abuses. But for cars, even with the insane markups, having car parts is still a win, specially compared to tech devices like iphones.

Also, cars are 1) a bit more complex 2) a bit more granular in design, which leads to more swappable components. This result in needing to replace just a few relatively small components in case of breakdowns (a pump, a filter, etc), and even with the markup, repair is often a good solution financially vs replacing the car. By contrast, on a phone, the individually swappable components are much bigger (a whole screen, a logic board, etc), making repairs less viable.

Last point is supplying spare parts is also quite complex logistically, which explains part of the markup. But not all of it, I agree, there has been numerous cases of price fixing/abuses, for example:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-software-pricing-in...
In modern C++, you can write:

template<typename T, typename U>
auto myFn(T x, U y){
return x + y;
}

Note the return type of the function is not specified; it could return anything, depending on what the type of x + y is. In Rust you can't do that; you must specify the return type of the function.
Of course people can be both very attractive and very smart, but statistics. Both are uncorrelated, and thereby having both properties is very rare.
What's 'extraordinary' about 'functional js', or async, or generators, or template literals? They seem alright. Nothing particularly extraordinary, though. They don't change the way I really think about problems which is what I usually classify as extraordinary.
What's HBD in this context? Urban Dictionary failed me I think.
LTS Ubuntu with a window manager I learned when using Arch (bspwm)
The borrows are reference counted. The compiler sees that a function unconditionally increments the reference count at the beginning and unconditionally decrements it at the end. It further knows the semantics of reference counting, so it knows it's ok to elide both of those.

Don't know enough obj-c or swift to show an example/disassembly, but here's a suggestive quote from the llvm docs[1]

> ARC may assume that non-ARC code engages in sensible balancing behavior and does not rely on exact or minimum retain count values except as guaranteed by __strong object invariants or +1 transfer conventions. For example, if an object is provably double-retained and double-released, ARC may eliminate the inner retain and release; it does not need to guard against code which performs an unbalanced release followed by a “balancing” retain.

See also from nim[2]:

> Plain reference counting with move semantic optimizations

1. https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html#...

2. https://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html
It's like pre-C++14 C++. C++14 added automatic return type deduction!
I also wonder how effective these anti body tests are, and their false negative rate.

In actual trials, has a single one actually been shown to work reliably?

Here in the UK there's a new story every week about how yet another antibody test has been withdrawn or rejected by PHE because it wasn't accurate.
Yes, that’s correct, if you have enough rep you’re able to “unghost the dead” and “see the dead” at any rep simply by creating an account, clicking “show dead” — though always assumed a user would notice or they’d just stop posting. Though there’s to my knowledge no easy way to only see the shadowban users aside from writing script that watches the new comments.

Pro tip, if normally people vote or comment on your comments, you’re not getting either, access HN via a private session without cookies and not signed in, then click to where your comment would be, if it not visible, you have been ghosted; to be extra sure, then create a throwaway account, click profile, turn on “show dead”, load the profile that might be shadowban, click comments, and if the comments say [DEAD] with no [FLAGGED] you have been shadowban; email mods if you have questions via the “contact” mailto link in the footer.

Now, looking at all the comments, some which intent appears to be helpful, makes me wonder if shadowlands for users are not as toxic as the behavior they seek to remove; that is they isolating a user, making they think no one cares to reply to them, etc.
iOS may get updates faster than Android and have emojis, but iOS can't backup or transfer your messages to a new phone. This basic feature has been an open request for nearly 3 years.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/2542

The inconsistent features between iOS and Android are annoying.
Preliminary results of representative sampling in Munich indicates that a low single digit percentage of thw population had it so far. Nothing close to 90%.
By the time a single AI system can prove those theorems and learn to perform well on very unrelated tasks, it could be too late to think about AI Safety.

AI Safety researchers and I are not arguing that AGI will certainly arrive in a specified amount of time, it just that we can’t be sure.

There are a significant number of AI researchers, however, who believe it might get developed within a few decades.

OpenAI, for example, is aiming for it; DeepMind as well. Both have research programs on AI Safety.

Do you have any other objections to the reasoning in the OP (no fire alarm..)? Subjective implausibility is not a good one. Your argument rests on using only “existing techniques”. When thousands of brilliant minds are working in the field and hundreds of good papers are being published every year, how can we be sure there won’t be a novel technique that can perform outside current limitations within a few decades?

At least two top computer vision researchers I talked with a couple years ago said they didn’t believe what their groups could do just 5 years before they did it.

See this thread for more on the rationale for preparation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23414197
There is no such thing as "reverse racism". What a silly term.
Culture is not race or skin color, nor dependent on them.
These companies have such breathtaking contempt for human beings. Mind you that's not that unusual for business.
I think the original criteria was "easily accessible at a low tech level". Civilized societies are efficient and can access difficult-to-reach resources. It seems the OP's argument is that to be a tribal society you need easier-to-access resources, resources that are now controlled by the civilized society.
How is this performance-wise? Would be cool to apply to a video, where you'd drop ~4/5 frames and then start drawing, but instead of starting with a blank for each frame start with the previous frame.
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Since when 1 in 5 means 90% now?

> Also, you picked 5%

You mean, the actual title of the article and the average of the whole country?

> Antibody study shows just 5% of Spaniards have contracted the coronavirus
No it is not. This is not the innocent, pristine untouched garden of eden before Adam and Eve ate the apple. This is a society where the ancestors of one group of people auctioned off the ancestors of another group of people like cattle. This is a society where 38 years ago, the KKK last lynched someone. This is a society, where 30% of all black males in Alabama permanently lost their right to vote. This is a society where you get a slap on the wrist if you are a rich white coke-head but get years in prison if you happen to be black, poor and are caught with a bong.

The counter-example to your argument: Imagine a company with a serious sexual harrassment problem, where men abused and raped female staff. You argue that in such a situation, giving a voice to a female victim is sexism! No!
It's interesting how you go in two sentences from returning to goals of historical universities to suggesting that medicine shouldn't be part of it.

A classic full university was supposed to cover the four historically major fields of study - theology, medicine, law and philosophy (which includes all the modern subtypes of PhD's e.g. physics, math, biology, etc). Three of these fields were pretty much designed to prepare students for the specific needs of knowledge intensive work (clerics, doctors and lawyers) and only the philosophy studies were less practical.
>not going out of your way to hire people with some specific skin colours is racist.

Sorry to be painfully cliche but this is some straight up war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength stuff.
Seems that a new thing these days is that we need to be lectured on what the content mean. And that we are incapable of understanding ourselves. When did we get so dum that some individuals/groups gets to do the explaining. What makes us sure that these actually have the right answer. IMHO, I’m not sure.
A while back I went down the USB-C charging rabbit hole with the simple goal of finding a 3rd party charger that could charge all my USB-C devices (13" Macbook, Motorola phone, Nintendo Switch) as fast as the charger that came in the box.

I found it tremendously difficult to make a purchase decision; the device manufacturers and 3rd party vendors provide very little information and everyone wants their own trademark: USB-PD, Quick Charge, PowerIQ, iSmart, VoltIQ, Turbopower... it just goes on and on.

However, I decided to hope for the best and get some well-reviewed USB-PD chargers and bought the following two chargers:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PLR7T1M/ (RAVPower 61w wall charger)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075WQQG7C/ (Necktek 45w auto charger)

They work out really well and met my requirements, with the exception that the Necktek doesn't provide the full 60 watts the Macbook can use, but I knew that was the case.