skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to dovetail with a growing ideology that American exceptionalism is a lie, that American history is a stain, and that America itself is racist. I’m not sure if it begins or end with the burning of books and tearing down of historical statues (Confederates and Abolitionists alike).

I guess it’s true that history is written by the victors. I guess it’s not so clear who the victors were and if they will remain so.

It’s strange for me, having been brought up on American idealism, and the power of freedom (of speech), democracy, that whole Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness thing.

This civil-warish thing has seemed to have escalated quite dramatically however quite recently and it’s hard not to see TFA within that context based on anti-BLM articles that ZH has been publishing.
https://imgur.com/a/iIvMi8p

This is turning out to a fine modern art generator.
I love Python, and generally I agree, but the place where an error is raised can be significantly distant from the event that occurred which caused it. The lack of static typing can really make it difficult to find such bugs sometimes.

A statically typed language with compile-time type checking would flag that immediately, and chances are your IDE will show the error before it even gets to that point.

Type hints are a thing, but then you are already moving in that direction while remaining in python.
Was github ever fun? It’s a tool, not a toy. I don’t expect my IDE to be fun either, I expect it to accomplish a task for me.
Yes that is Aaron Hsu's work for APL on the GPU. I was hoping for a J on the GPU toolchain.
"Everyone in the US was raised in an environment that inculcated certain racial ideas, subconsciously or not."

This is bolder than I think you think it is. It's maybe evasive, too -- which ideas, exactly?

"I'm sorry, please excuse me for the instance of racism I just perpetrated against you, I promise it won't happen again."

There's no doubt the person in question should apologize, but what "racism" has been "perpetrated"? (A) there are and have been few black CEOs in America. (B) the guy/girl in your example does not expect a black CEO as a result. (C) Guy/girl commits extremely awkward faux pas.

Where is the racism? Where is the "inculcated idea" about race, besides an expectation based on ... there being literally very few black CEOs? I'll even grant you that (A) might be the case in part because of historical racist behavior in the US. Surely it is! It still doesn't make the guy necessarily racist. He doesn't tell us that he believes that human characteristics are determined by skin color, for example, nor does he tell the room e.g. that by golly he didn't know blacks could handle being a CEO, or that they were even allowed to do so, or some such actually racist BS.

I think the definitions of a lot of things have expanded since the childhoods of people of a certain age, and they're grappling with those changes. I certainly am. Racism doesn't seem to mean what I've long understood it to mean. Racism exists, and it ought to be fought, but I'm not sure how productive the current mood is going to be for that. I kinda hope I'm wrong, but I'd also be worried to be wrong, if people like Do Angelio are a sign of what's to come.
Go automatically multiplexes goroutines on top of OS threads. You can peg all the cores of a multicore CPU in a single Go program using goroutines.

Edit: last I looked you could see how many OS threads would be used by looking at runtime.GOMAXPROCS. There was a time when it would just default to 1, but it looks like they changed it. When I last programmed in Go you had to override it via an environment variable or set it in code.
Well, Microsoft has never made any acquisition look good. It's not something they're known for.
They never implied there was no drama, only that they didn’t want any more.
I think just about all white people would do well to look around the neighborhood that they grew up in and think about the politics of how it got to be that way. I went to a high school of 1400, and in 4 years there were all of 3 black kids. Turns out this is because no black family was allowed by any bank to get a loan for a mortgage in the area until 1974. White blindness to their privilege is a huge impediment to change - people have literally no idea how different people are treated when there's a different skin color.

The tactic is to get people to actually listen so that they might agree its an actual problem and then actually do something about it.
What benefit would there be to someone that adopts your proposed philosophy?
I have to refute this 'simple and practical' claim.

Not having generics and neither having very common tools doesn't seem very good. You will have to write a for loop for what is a simple function call in python or javascript or <insert modern language here>. Such detail easily interrupts reading / writing flow.
I'm no expert on parallel algorithms but, based on some of the examples I've seen, I think MATLAB might be suitable.

At least when I program in MATLAB instead of python I think very differently.
The Doublespend Attack is not the same as the 51 Percent Attack
Thank you so much!
Keep an eye for further updates.
How does Java not have decent threading? Go doesn't even have actual threads.

I'm assuming you're talking about goroutines aka virtual threads/fibers whatever which are entirely different from actual threads.
That's a great quote.

In a lot of countries, you have to be married to even get family planning advice, so that's a hindrance.

The US has its own problems with requiring current prescriptions ($$) for anything, including the pill.

(For non-US readers, a doctor's office visit without insurance is typically $100 in SF, if you can find one with a patient list opening. Plus filling the prescription.)

Refillable natural gas containers would also help reduce deforestation. They're commonly used in SE Asian homes, but should be expanded to areas still cutting down trees for firewood.
Thanks for your feedback. We are working on a linux build atm.
If you are interested to be part of the beta testing for linux just drop us a line on: https://kumologica.com/contact.html.
My initial point was that since they are already using web technology they could probably move it to a web app for mobile outside the AppStore.

But, as paulgb pointed out in another comment, Safari for iOS hasn't implemented push notifications from web apps which is probably a deal breaker for most users of an email app.
Does any language save you from explicitly screwing up error handling? Gorm is doing the Go equivalent of:

class Query {
class QueryResult {
Exception error;
Value result;
}
public QueryResult query() {
try {
return doThing();
} catch(Exception e){
return new QueryResult(error, null);
}
}
}

Gorm is going out of its way to make error handling suck.
Hello everyone, I am product owner of Proxycurl and our new Linkedin here.

We love (big) data and crawlers at our company, and many a times, we have tried building products on top of big data that we have crawled. But one of the hardest thing to crawl is Linkedin. While we have the technology and crawling network to do it, most of our customers really wanted a turnkey solution at a price that scales.

Eventually, after losing many inbound leads due to the developers not being able to use our rudimentary crawling API, we decided to overhaul our API and build in a dedicated Linkedin API endpoint.

The hard thing about Linkedin profiles are that they really hate HTML markup. Or maybe it is intended that way to deter scrapers.

Most of their content are placed in <code></code> and later parsed using their frontend javascript code. This is a cat-and-mouse game between developers and Linkedin. Instead of fighting them one developer at a time, we think a managed service for Linkedin Profile crawling might be useful. Your thoughts?
You're right that Walmart is massive but Amazon is the biggest ecommerce player in the US and it's not even close. 38% Amazon to next closest Walmart at 5.8% [1]. Pre-COVID Amazon was about 44%.

[1]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/walmart-surpasses-ebay-in-...
I hate to say that I actually like that idea. I'm swamped in random notifications for weird parts of the repo I don't care about. I'd really like a "high # of comments and reactions/loc changes" feed.
Fearless shilling or zero manners evangelism.
You can do it on Walmart. In fact, I was just about to post that this announcement is a negative for me. I have such a hard time shopping on Amazon these days and tend to try Walmart first but always select Walmart.com from the retailer filter. I don't want to see a bunch of random junk that I have no desire to purchase.
Ability to turn off all political content (not just ads) is the most needed feature right now. Once they start that feature, only then they will understand how many of us twats are really interested in consuming that toxic stuff!
The Hey Way
I’m mostly basing the recommendation on the last sentence, but welcome recommendations for other resources.
Social network features are such a 2015 me-too fad feature anyway. What they should add is AI, or maybe blockchain.
Interesting manufacturing output comparison list, but why is China not included in it?
>We haven't gotten smarter about drug addiction in general, which is why we have the largest prison population in the world.

Legalization and decriminalization of Marijuana is still a relatively recent phenomenon. It seems to me like it will eventually get legalized by the federal government. If that happens, wouldn't we expect this to get better? The right thing to do would be to release everyone that was in jailed on marijuana related charges as long as they weren't also convicted of something more serious (like violence). Maybe I'm being too optimistic.

I think a lot of Americans realize how insane it is that we jail more people than any other country. While progress is always slow, it seems like we're hearing more politicians talk about doing something about it.
Tell that to the baker.
How do you think they will force many thousands of poor people to repay money that they don't have, neither in savings nor in income, while holding on to a minority position in government?

They're just lying about being strict on TV to make everyone feel better about it. They don't have the capacity or political willpower to follow through. It's been months, it isn't urgent anymore, if they wanted to devise any sort of eligibility checks they would have done it already. But the only real eligibility requirement is being ballsy / desperate / yolo enough to claim it.
1.2 PB saved using gorilla compression! Didn’t realize how sparse this data was.
Look up micro-agressions. Not the ever so fragile anti-pc political rhetoric. Look up the peer reviewed paychological studies on it.

Most black people aren't directly affected by police killings. It's the day to day drip of racism that they have to deal with that saps their mental energy.
Not really. There is biobricks (https://parts.igem.org/Help:An_Introduction_to_BioBricks), but you would need to have some background in biology and lab techniques to know how to use them.

I'm skeptical this would ever be a thing since doing anything non-trivial really does require understand how things work, since there are so many confounding interactions at the molecular level.

If you really want a head start you just need to start learning the fundamentals of those fields.
You’re assuming that Github needs to provide a means for recommendations like a typical social network when I doubt it does.

I return to github repeatedly to interact with repos I’ve already found based on professional need. I neither want Github to recommend content to me, nor do I need it to; I regularly use services outside of GitHub to find content on it that’s relevant to my needs.

Github is a tool, not a social network. I don’t want them to maximize for “engagement”; I want them to fill my professional requirements and charge me a fee for their services.
Newegg commingles inventory just like Amazon, so it's not much better. I don't know if Walmart does, but I try to spend money wherever I don't have to deal with sellers, and directly at the manufacturers website if possible nowadays.
The trouble with boilerplate is that we have tools that write it for you but almost nothing that reads it for you, much less reviews it for manual edits. Anything that can be generated from a high level description and then thrown away, should be.
> Such features are only conducive to drama and anxiety

Great point. I haven't used a social network yet that didn't result in me becoming at least a little addicted at one point or another. In high school, I was constantly on Twitter, seeking the dopamine rush from those likes and retweets. Getting out of there has done wonders for my personal life.
> I'm skeptical this would ever be a thing since doing anything non-trivial really does require understand how things work, since there are so many confounding interactions at the molecular level.

What are some examples of these confounding interactions?
> Biphasic and triphasic are actually pretty normal, historically.

Is there evidence of this? I'm not doubting - I think I've seen this suggested before. I just don't know how people figured this out?
Have you seen Azure Data Studio? It uses the same code base as Visual Studio Code and has first class support for notebooks. It includes a PowerShell kernel
This is exactly the same thing I can relate to coming from a Go background trying to use Rust.
That's a bit of hyperbole.

Walmart, Costco, The Bay all did more than a billion in revenue for 2019. Home Depot, Canadian Tire, Best Buy, Home Depot had more than 500 million and less than a billion.

They wouldn't be doing these numbers if the state of e-commerce was as "eye-watering awful" as you make it out to be.

These numbers are for the Canadian market which ended with about 40 billion in total "e-commerce" sales for 2019.
Will you be inspecting the code every single time it loads to ensure that has not changed? You are receiving this code from an untrusted 3rd party every time you visit. There is a big difference to trusting a known entity like lastpass, 1password, etc, all of whom are vulnerable to supply chain attacks. It is another thing entirely to trust a random website on hackernews.

Payload decoders and password generators are some of the biggest honeypots out there. Combining this with an attack taking advantage of hidden form autofill, you could gain quite a bit of information to go along with that password.
What is the norm though is a "do something, anything" mentality that has led school districts to dump billions into unproven initiative after unproven initiative, from macbooks to netbooks to SROs to anterooms and buzzers on a neverending keeping up with the times treadmill of pointless education reform.
The hivemind strongly believes moral relativism isn't a thing and western culture is the only valid one.
For any content marketers out there reading this:

If you want your SEO’ed content to get upvoted on HN it must be about a controversial approach to nutrition, wellness, mental health, or exercise.

Ideally, your thesis will be that the approach you’re writing about is a terrible idea and doomed to fail. Be prepared for the “well actually” from anyone who has had even moderate fleeting success. If possible, get a small detail slightly wrong so commenters will rush to correct you.
I can't tell. Is this a trick question?
Haha. Nothing like `zoom:1`.
I guess advertisers do not want to manually maintain thousands of exclusion domains.

If an advertiser did not explicitly excluded a certain domain, it doesn’t mean an advertiser wants to place ads on that domain.

Sorry for using this analogy again, if Google banned some porn site, but an advertiser did not add that porn site to the exclusion list, likely it still means that advertiser agrees with Google moderation and don’t want to be advertised on that porn site.

Google ads has a policy for ads and for hosters (which prohibits hatred, for example), both advertisers and hosters agreed with it when they joined the Google’s service.

One might disagree with the fact that such policy exists in Google, but that’s topic for another discussion.
Every day now I see one, a comment, a blog post, something that reminds me of the words of Charles Babbage:

> I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Babbage was talking specifically about Members of Parliament asking him whether putting wrong figures into his machine would result in the correct answers, but I find the remark generally applicable to so much more.
YouTube’s Bitcoin Scam Problem Appears to Be Getting Worse
I like to fly X-Plane’s Cessna with radio.garden open in background, tuning it to nearby city on the ground below.
Indeed! I realised that after posting. So I went back and sorted by 'best' and 'oldest'. But I think the comments server is getting hammered at the moment and did not return.

That 'best' comment is extremely pessimistic, but nothing particularly objectionable.
i don't think we're at the diversity training incorporated stage yet, so while there may be a lot of money to be made and more to come currently I assume what is being made is a lot of very comfortable livings.

That said while I haven't read the DiAngelo book the scenario I imagine for situations like this is generally not someone waking up and saying I will write something to get some money out of these people but rather I will write something about this situation, later getting offers of more and more money and then behaviorism takes control of the journey.

It is difficult to get someone to change what they're doing once they start getting paid for doing it.

This is of course all separate from whether I might agree with the book if I read it. I can still agree 100% with someone and think that their perspective is constrained by how they have begun to profit from it.
I think it’s more likely that the claim of “Russian propaganda” is itself a form of propaganda. It’s like the new boogeyman of 2019/2020.

I worry that people tend to use such a device to shut down discussions on a “reasonably well researched” article which espouses a widely held viewpoint that they might not agree with.

Most people were told they weren’t allowed to hold funerals for their loved ones, but thousands of people can protest together. The rules are undeniably slanted in their application based on politics. I think the tipping point was the open letter from healthcare professionals claiming that BLM should be exempt from social distancing rules that shut down the economy and put 40 million people out of work.

Another recent article on ZH showed a video taken in a predominantly Hasidic Jewish area of Brooklyn of city workers literally welding the gates shut at a park, in the same weekend that massive protests for BLM were being held. They mentioned in the same piece I believe that NYC has ordered contact tracers not to ask residents if they had attended a protest.

The first amendment protects freedom of speech, assembly, and religion. The State here is picking favorites. It doesn’t take a “Russian troll” to tell you that.
Honest answer - submit a lot of stuff you think would be popular on HN. If you see something on a tech subreddit super interesting, and it's not here yet, cross post it. If something new from rachelbythebay.com comes up in your RSS reader - submit that ;-). But genuinely interesting news (as in reported in the media) that is aimed at this audience is best, if you get there first.

Or do what I do, submit odd stuff I think is really cool, but lose out on karma because it's cool but not popular.
You don't think slavery has carried any effects forward two or three generations? You don't have to have experienced it directly to be experiencing it's effects.
So this sort of works if you use those numbers, but for the more hoardy sort of us, we're using completely different scales and prices, especially since the relationship between HDD price and size is distinctly sub-linear as compared to the super-linear SSD price scaling.

Let's bump this up a notch. WD RED 8 TB drives are 213 now on newegg (base price). Two of those quadruple the SSD storage for the same price. You're now reaching 4x prices. If you go the data hoarder approach and shuck 8TB drives, that drops it to 290 for to 8 TB drives, putting you at 60% of the cost for 4 times the storage.
In no way will Facebook play a positive role in politics. They have already shown their bias and it continues on a regular basis.
Snapchat firm unveils platform plan to take on Google and Apple
OK, expecting multiple years of savings is just flat-out unrealistic. Even the more hardcore financial advisers only recommend 9 months.

Plus, who owns 2 t-shirts? Are you doing laundry daily? Hate to break it to you, but that isn't exactly great for the environment either. My father grew up poor as hell on a farm, and even he had 6 shirts. To this day he will comment that they were darned to the point of being patchwork, but owning 20 shirts doesn't seem like a huge extravagance. Even with homemade clothing, that isn't a ridiculous wardrobe.

There is definitely a consumerist culture and people buy stuff they don't need, but in the context of this article & the pandemic the people receiving this aid need it. I don't mean to be negative, but there are 0eople making the decision between paying rent and eating; calling out consumerism for this is in poor taste.
Used to work on a cement tugboat, 12 hour days 28 days a time. Unfortunately, it wasn't 12 on 12 off, it was 6 x 6 x 6 x 6. Meaning you could rarely get more than 4.5 hours of sleep at one time for the whole hitch. Depending on if the Captain had it out for you or what your route demanded, your sleep schedule could be even more irregular.

It felt unsustainable to me. You'd come off the boat a zombie, and in just 12 days of drinking and disrupted sleep later, you'd get to do it again.
This would make GitHub Issues a bit more clean for sure. Lots of people use it for asking questions/for help instead of reporting actual issues/bugs.
Have you ever tried pointing out the obliviousness to your German friend?

I'am an ethnic Chinese living in Japan and essentially blend in. I've also spoken with a lot of other expats, often white who complain a lot about (sometimes positive) discrimination and just once, rather offhandedly, I replied that now you know what it feels like to be a minority. The instant reaction is to become defensive, but after a while, the bulb lights up.
the more upvotes it gets, I think reversed flags.
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Not if it’s a grazer
> One of the things I like most about Rust is that it forces you to think through your design and address complex tradeoffs, and often won't even compile until you do.

I have heard this bullshit enough times. "Orange crab god doesn't like it so you are doing it wrong". No, you shouldn't have to care about memory management nuisances when that's not relevant and rust being a language suited for systems domains with correct static memory management (Good thing for systems domain), makes those irrelevant details surface in implementation.. what you said isn't true for other domains.

This kind of shilling is what leads to rust evangelism strike force memes.