skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to hijack the thread, but why did you choose C instead of D? You can adapt your C program into D using a few find-and-replace searches, and you can #include arbitrary C headers (even Linux kernel headers) using DPP.
Snap CEO says in internal meeting he won't release diversity numbers
Can’t shoot the messenger if they refuse to deliver the message? Seems like a disdirect; if Snap had diversity numbers worth bragging about, they would brag. That they don’t release them at all suggests that they are not good numbers. They should not dodge the issue like they are doing. It makes it seem like they don’t care to do better. If they won’t release their numbers, this is just PR spin. Snap presents this like they’re withholding the info because they don’t want minorities to see the low numbers and become discouraged. Perhaps Snap should improve the perception of diversity in SV by actually hiring more diverse people instead of all of these parlor games.

Original title was too long. It was:

Snap CEO says in internal meeting he won't release diversity numbers because it would reinforce the perception that Silicon Valley isn't diverse

For those who have trouble with the link:

https://outline.com/4r23ht
Head Start and the Distribution of Long-Term Education and Labor Market Outcomes
It's an attempt to deflect the issue at hand by putting up some straw men, they say it because they feel personally attacked that their monopolist daddy is under some fire for world scale abuse and bad faith.
AWS Announces GA of the 6th Gen of Amazon EC2 Instances Powered by AWS Graviton2
Cool videos. Thanks for sharing.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9287426
YouTube was over 2.5M
To an extent I agree that most startups are made up of Caucasians/Chinese males, I think one of the reasons I left tech professionally is because I didn't feel comfortable/enjoy the lack of diversity.
I would urge you to reconsider your stance on this as "a PR issue". Having readily available realtime aerial imaging data involves numerous ethical and safety concerns. Stating that people who have these ethical concerns are "few" and that you would "like to brush them off" shows a lack of consideration for how your technology could negatively impact others. Based on a recent paper [1] , "the results show that Europe is 83.28 percent covered with an average of one aerial photography every half an hour and a ground sampling distance of 0.96 meters per pixel".

Assuming 30m intervals and a 1m GSD I can know when someone is or isn't home based on whether or not a car is in their driveway. For people living in the vicinity of an airport where the GSD and intervals would presumably be much higher I could track individuals to and from their home or office from the comfort of a coffee shop.

Either of the above capabilities has ramifications for things like:

- stalking and harassment (no need to follow someone physically)

- home invasion and theft (can determine when someone is out of the house)

- targeting of dissidents (can track who showed up at a meeting)

- kidnapping and rendition (can know when someone is isolated without committing physical surveillance resources)

Those are just a few of the things I can come up with off the top of my head.

Even if you limit your tools to governments and businesses what prevents illegitimate organizations from using shell companies [2] or other means for establishing legitimate accounts to your services, and what prevents individuals within legitimate organizations from accessing the tools for personal means? [3]

Calling this a "PR issue" grossly understates the potential damage a technology like this can cause in the wrong hands.

[1] "Aerial Imagery Based on Commercial Flights as Remote Sensing Platform" 03/2020 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339988238_Aerial_Im...

[2] https://money.cnn.com/2015/12/09/news/shell-companies-crime/...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveil-lance-watchdo...

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That's certainly a good rule of thumb.

The mental barrier is difficult to overcome, and you can't win them all. Distill the message too much with "We make money by selling data" and you'll never see a customer, but the opposite is true as well; "The startup doth protest too much, methinks"
You can add me to that list.
You're right that pure spinlocks are usually a bad approach in usermode. Most implementations use a hybrid approach, where you spin for a short while, on the assumption that another core holds the lock for only a short while, before you switch to blocking the thread.

You might want to read https://webkit.org/blog/6161/locking-in-webkit/ about how Chrome implements high performance locks.
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Hey dang, or whoever else is modding,

Consider, in the above post, that 'thug' is a well-known racist epithet. Not 'racially loaded'. Straight-up racist. We see you too.
> Also, there are plenty of people on HN that advocate for breaking down all of the walled garden app store

I think most (myself included) are just advocating for Apple to allow side-loading. They can keep their app store intact. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Pepper for more about an ongoing case
Probably not what you were seeking, but I have to imagine it would be similar to long periods I have spent in a non-verbal state. Being allowed to exist and just smile or laugh as a "part" of the conversation around me was like sunlight on a dark day. The range of human emotion and expression often overlaps enormously between people. Sometimes pretending you're voice is really the good you hear around you and not the throat mumblings that cause so much conflict is the most beautiful dream.
fwiw my best friends are SE Asian (not Chinese), white, black, and Mexican. I didn't feel this photo is as equally representative of that diversity. I'm not making a case it has any obligation to do so, just noting that it impacted my decision to not apply here a while ago.
Up-to-date job description: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/careers/
If you have 1Password it makes software-based 2FA so easy that you'll barely notice it's on. Though I haven't been able to find a single US bank that supports software 2FA.
I live there. This is correct in that the CHAZ itself has its biggest impacts through

a. having free snacks and
b. not allowing through traffic, but

it really hasn't been stated enough how awful it had been when the police were there. Helicopters all night and if you were unlucky to be close enough:
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/06/04/43840246/seattle...
It is not "...Paintings, Drawings and Illustrations from some of the best artists the world has ever known", unless you believe this primarily applies to Euro/Western art.

E.g., Utagawa Hiroshige, the Japanese ukiyo-e artist who is "considered the last great master of that tradition" has just one entry.
Enough to cause a 2-3x increase in panel efficiency? Seems unlikely. Instead the panels must be getting more light somehow.
Cool! I figure now that it’s mostly used to cache (relational/made relational) datasets.
But this "cognitive freedom" is an illusion because for many people in many jurisdictions the lack of explicit patent clauses in the MIT license causes potential patent issues. As a business owner I'm actually increasingly worried about the patent trolling angle with MIT derivatives as time goes on (I believe MIT has legal precedent regarding patents in some places like the USA but not others). If you want a permissive license that's easy for people to use then you can always use Apache version 2 or the MPLv2, with these there's less worries of patent issues.
Yes. Can you imagine this used in a professional or collegiate setting?
> MMT (“Modern Monetary Theory”) is rejected by most mainstream economists.

Modern Monetary Theory isn't a descriptive theory operating in the space of econonics (it's descriptive aspects are purely noncontroversial conventional economic theory), but normative/analytical theory of government policymaking in the area of finance (and, perhaps more critically, of describing government finance policy) that suggest abandoning norms and descriptions based on the fiction of the fisc (from whence “fiscal” policy gets its name), as there is no finite purse of externally created money that a government operating in it's own fiat currency must fill by taxes and borrowing in order to have money to spend. Government introduces money when it spends and destroys it when it collects, and the key things that ought to be of concern is the monetary effects of that creation and destruction and the distributional effects of how it is spent and from whom it is collected.

Conventional economics disagrees not at all with the descriptive pieces of this, though, yes, many economists oppose the normative aspects and prefer that governments honor the fiction of the fisc as if it were a real thing, while recognizing that it is, in fact, not. It's also true that many economists prefer a closer balance of the two sides of the revenue and spending sides of the imaginary fisc (presumably, their preference for maintaining the illusion is because they think that this contributes to their preferred policy outcome) then many MMT advocates do, though that divergence of opinion is technically outside of the domain of either descriptive economics or MMT, which doesn't prescribe any particular preference as regards the imaginary balance of the imaginary fisc.
It’s a very fascinating idea for sure. But why? Is is because you want to give every possible combination a chance to prove itself, or are you hoping for extremely high performing individuals that would be impossible to find otherwise?
Sounds more fulfilling than a stand ups to be honest. Better stories too.
It is a simple page in large black text saying "You spelled it wrong.".
What was up with that confirm shaming? Weirdest prompt ever.
However, a computer glitch with one of Pepsi’s vendors caused them to manufacture 800,000 bottles with the number “349” on the bottle cap.

>> The number “349” was the $40,000 winning number.

>> Pepsi had explicitly told its vendor factories not to print this number at all. The two bottles with that number would be specially manufactured and sent to the Philippines by Pepsi themselves.

The lucky number that Pepsi had explicitly asked not to be printed not only got printed, but got printed in 800,000 caps?

I'm going to wildly speculate here but I'm willing to bet this was no "computer glitch" and someone did it on purpose. Perhaps a disgruntled employee, perhaps someone with good old hacker ethics, like those of Melvin Kaye:

The story as written by Nather involved Kaye's work on rewriting a blackjack program from the LGP-30 to a newer Royal McBee system, the RPC-4000; company sales executives had requested to modify the program so that they could flip a front panel switch and cause the program to lose (and the user to win). Kaye reluctantly acceded to the request, but to his own delight, he got the test wrong, and the switch would instead cause the program to win every time (and the user to lose).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel
Personally speaking, as a hearing, native english speaker. I've taken classes in French, Italian, Spanish, and ASL.

The romance languages were taught in English, with a strong focus on the rules. Progress was extremely slow. I've had opportunities to practice Spanish and Italian, and that's been way more helpful than those classes ever were (and let's be honest, Spanish and Italian are too similar for my muddled brain and "communication" is more of a negotiation). I've heard from quite a few students of French that after 4 years of formal study, they can't speak a lick. I didn't hang on that long.

ASL is often taught immersively. You might have an interpreter for the first day or the first week, but after that, it's voices off (and if you're lucky, your instructor is Deaf). You start with letters, to bootstrap from English, and mimeing, because that forms a basis for a lot of informal ASL. Subsequent vocabulary is communicated through a combination of fingerspelling and mime. Grammar is considered a fairly advanced topic; and by the time your teacher gets around to that, you'll have absorbed more of it than you realize.

In my experience, learning ASL is more akin to riding a bike, than learning a romance language -- much less Chinese.
More years ago than I care to admit, I suspected that Intel's Multibus II design showed evidence of the use of "nose candy" in SV...
The Russian MiG-35 Fighter Jet's Voice Assistant Will Advise Pilots in the Air
Maybe it doesn’t make sense to think about large organizations as monolithic entities. They’re composed of numerous sub entities that may follow different rules. A platoon may be ordered to shoot, but it’s conceivable that not all soldiers will comply. This is not at all contradictory.
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Its a reconstruction of sorts, but arguably pretty much the worst possible reconstruction and pretty far from lovely, compared to e.g. the near perfect reconstruction filters in audio.

I wonder if there have been any experiments constructing displays with optical filters to provide better reconstruction. I guess the visual analogue would be image upscaling, and in that sense the reconstruction what LCDs etc provide would be comparable to nearest neighbor scaling (which generally sucks)
I am a software engineer for 10 years, and have been dabbling in audio engineering / recording / mixing for the past couple of years. I haven't made the transition, but I wouldn't rule it out in the future.

I'd probably never stop coding though. It would just be a matter of switching from pro to hobby, and vice-versa.
Hahaha so funny, thanks for that. Yeah, I guess that's how that 'evolved'.
What examples do you have in mind when you say this? The main case studies that I see get brought up are Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War and the Paris Commune, but the wartime pressures that led to their collapse strike me as much different from the present situation. I think the CHAZ will be an interesting experiment given the context.
> Do we, the relatively tiny population of humans who have had the luck to be born, have a duty to the much more vast population of “genetically possible humans” to bring them into existence?

Nope.

Not even a little.

Why would you think we would? Is one of the possibilities Hitler with laser eyes? I would argue that we have a responsibility to PREVENT that particular person from being brought into existence.
Seems like overkill in that case, unless you were using just because. Thanks for the additional information.
Also... Learn sign language. Some of the most beautiful and overlooked people are non-verbal. I've met several truly speechless people who had families that never learned to sign. It's sad for them.
I think it's pretty much a hallmark of engineering that the cheapest physical solution will overcome 99% of all clever solutions that cost more than a fraction more. This also goes for conventional solutions vs exotic ones.

It's like "better, faster, cheaper - pick cheaper"
the annotated maps are funny, portraying a vibe of relatively relaxed occupation. but serious too, monitoring police activity nearby, like swat.
Desktop browsers are hardly invulnerable to zero days.
Former Apple engineer Jim Keller resigns from executive role at Intel
Google's ad business has doubled in size in 3 1/2 years. They're not in decline and neither is their ad business. They'll be at $200 billion in sales soon; they're one of the largest, most powerful corporations in world history.

Amazon's ad business is a small fraction the size of Google. Facebook's ad sales are less than 1/2 that of Google.

Market share isn't the only factor to consider in pursuing anti-trust.

However if it's market share you're interested in: Google has three other monopoly positions and their ad business is the cornerstone that makes it all function, providing an excellent reason to target the ad business to inflict a reduction in total system power in one shot. This is the proper way to view the giant tech companies: with a holistic view of how they maintain and integrate their overall monopoly positions and extend them, rather than focusing on very narrow abuses.
I think its the best way to learn
Does 1Pass support 2FA or otherwise handle it? I have been using 1Pass for years, but use a different app for my MFA.
AI Generated News Article about new Snapchat features
"they were so proud of what was built"

Curious, since I can't trust news media to not sensationalize this:

What has been built, according to your friend? Have they set up infrastructure of some sort for housing people? Kitchens, latrines, etc?
> That being said, even in evaluating alternatives there wasn't anything much better.

Do you remember what issues were there with NX? I found out pretty much to "just work" and with a really good performance too.
Thanks for asking. We don't comment on individual acquisitions beyond what is in the OP. For everyone else there reference our handbook page about acquisitions is on https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/acquisitions/

We won't necessarily open source all the acquired technology like we did with Gitter and RedHat does with every acquisition. We'll follow our buyer based open core model https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/commercial-open-sourc... Maybe the relevant product managers have more to say about the current plans.
> creating anything new ends up being really hard in part because while you struggle everyone is shouting "lame!" from the sidelines

This reminds me of the 'curse of development' from the Gervais Principle.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/04/14/the-gervais-principle-...
Industrial Society and Its Future – Dr. T.J. Kaczynski (1995)
It's probably future proofing for VR. 8k@60Hz is the same bandwidth as two 4k panels as 120Hz, which is a reasonable target for the next generation of VR. You can't render a 3D environment at that resolution, but you can do a layered rendering where text is higher-res than the rest of the environment.
>and there was a scuffle that ended with the tagger walking away.

That was just the beginning of the confrontation. If you watch the full video the group then followed and hassled the tagger for several minutes before the tagger was hit in the face and had their glasses broken (and their smartphone was stolen from them). Someone also threatened to blow the taggers brains out.
Starlink is not competition for cable companies, unfortunately. Any area dense enough for cable is too dense for Starlink. There may be more competition in wireless carriers than wired ISPs, but that's not saying much. It's still not nearly the competitive market it should be especially with even more consolidation happening recently.
Once you’ve been around long enough. It just doesn’t matter. There are many ways to write a resume that don’t focus on job history, so you can market yourself in a way that makes you most appealing to the company you want to be hired by. You also get bonus points for having a “unique but standard” resume that’s tailored to the work you’d be doing instead of where you’ve worked (unless that’s something you want to highlight because it might get you in the door faster.)
How can they get away with these deceptive obfuscatory practices without breaking web accessibility standards (e.g. screen readers parsing alt text and meta data for the visually impaired/blind) without opening themselves up to serious liability and class action lawsuits?
The Mathematician and the Mystic: André and Simone Weil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_Nati...
> Here you go: https://pypi.org/project/html/

That’s not even the same thing - it’s a (horribly old) library for generating HTML.

We’re talking about forms: sets of typed fields including validations that can be optionally rendered to HTML. Think wtforms[1]

> There is no use case for metaclasses.

There are, that essay (about Python 1.5 no less) does little to dissuade people from using them, going so far as to offer concrete code samples.

It’s also hopelessly outdated: nobody uses metaclasses like that at all, especially not for tracing! It’s hard to blame it though, this document was written before even decorators where introduced.

And let’s not ignore the call to authority by pointing out that GvR uses metaclasses extensively while working on type hints, GaE libraries, and even in his early asyncio code.

In actual fact metaclasses a few use cases, including the most common: syntactic sugar. Like anything this can be heavily abused and is most useful when creating libraries rather than used within traditional application code. In any case, shunning it wholesale is stupid.

Half remembered issues with junior developers are not great arguments against a useful part of a language. Who’s to say that it was even related to metaclasses, and your apparent allergy to them isn’t colouring your memory?

1. https://wtforms.readthedocs.io/en/2.3.x/crash_course/#gettin...
Would that not be some astronomically large number of humans? Trillions or even more? DNA is huge and there are a lot of different combinations that would vaguely resemble Homo sapiens.

I feel like this concept hinges upon the assumption that genetics determine a person, which is not true. In my opinion, it's more important to raise people in all kinds of environments than to have every genetic individual in existence. Two genetically different individuals raised in an identical situation would likely behave similarly.
In any case, View -> Source

The source code of a public website is automatically provided to everyone who visits it. This fact is unfortunately not well-known.
The images are sourced from museums and libraries with open access policies all over the world. We are currently working on adding sources, locations and other metadata to all the images as well as an API.
Seriously big news for the SAFE Network project.
A major milestone ticked off. Learn about how to join in the fun with the worlds first truly autonomous network at https://safenetforum.org/t/safe-network-testnet-vaults-from-...
I used Visual Group theory as the basis for some workshops. It's a really good read.
Explained: What’s the difference between Logging, Tracing, and Profiling?
Ask HN: What's Next After Facebook?
For you, what are the next social-networks that you know about, currently in the market or in active developpement, that can replace Facebook one day (hopefully very soon) ?
I can't help but think of the legal system.

You would think it was rigorous and logical and would have parallels in science in some way, but when you can "exclude evidence" you realize they are different animals.

as to large organizations... Look, it's just Game of Thrones all the way down.
You mean installing apps via your less-safe computer?

Browsers used to allow any software to side-load extensions and you know how that went: They all moved to store-only installs because all kinds of software were able to affect the browsers.

Same way for side-loading apps to your phone. Sure it’s more difficult than just tapping something on the web, but it doesn’t mean it’s safe for the end user.
Ranking Indie Hacker Side Projects by the Quality of Their Descriptions
My bank recently switched to 2FA but only allows authentication via SMS when logging in. I wish they didn't do that considering how relatively easy it is to sim-hijack those things.
Aren't you forgetting about epigenetics? Human being's development is not only defined by the DNA code.
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Sounds a lot like Occupy