skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This realization is what motivated me to start participating in charity over the past few years.

There has never been as much empty virtue signalling by privileged people as there is today. They declare the deck chairs on the Titanic to be offensive, remove a few of them, congratulate themselves and call it a day like their responsibility is absolved. Maybe they go the extra mile and try to get somebody fired for not speaking the same doublespeak as them.

But fixating on their theater achieves nothing. It just gives them more of the attention they crave. So I decided instead to donate my time and my money to good causes and actually help make things better, because this is in short supply.

The virtue signallers may or may not take note, but it doesn't matter. What matters is that if they're going to absolve themselves of doing the real work, someone else has to step up.
this should be considered blog-spam - saw the original original linked on HN from reddit from yesterday
knowing which part of town you are from means I no longer have to ask where you went to school, but there's still more to know, like:

What was your mama's name?

Can you make a roux?

(more seriously, New Orleans falls under my list of "civilised" places, because Carnaval/Fasnacht is still a thing there)
Implementing Privacy in a Real World Application
The FAANG interview process is pretty standardized, if you're pressed on time I suggest you learn and master just 2 things: data structures and system design.
I'm offended by this run on sentence.
> - Area: 0.999949 m² (should be 1.0 m²)

And it is! I mean, if you're not going to use an electron microscope to measure it :)

The real measurements should be 840.9mm x 1189.2mm, but I'll forgive them for the rounding.
I’ve never worked as a professional frontend developer, so even though I’ve been writing HTML/CSS/JS for 15 years for little side projects, all of the projects have been pretty small

I'm pretty much the same, and one thing I've noticed which continues to both amuse and sadden me is the fact that those whose main focus is not web development often make better sites/pages than "professional" developers. I once rewrote, in a few hours, an internal site that had been developed by another team over a few weeks but with many problems (it was an enormous SPA), and made it so much faster and easier to use that once my coworkers found out, they all switched to using mine. That didn't go over well with the team who built the original...

Another experience I've had with a dedicated frontend developer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18486124
Ask this guy, he knows.. https://twitter.com/ppk

He's shared the deepest insights into this topic for many years.

(https://www.quirksmode.org/about/)
I don’t get why it’s funny. Isn’t whitespace named because of the screen color which happened to be white?

Maybe I’m missing something?
Undefined behavior in 2017 (C++ Con 2017) [pdf]
In English school I was taught that when someone asks "How do you do?" the appropriate response is to also ask "How do you do?". Neither speaker gives or expects an answer to the question.
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>> The Legal format itself is quite rarely used, the notion that it is for “legal” work is a popular myth; the vast majority of U.S. legal documents are actually using the “Letter” format.

> Can anyone confirm that this is really the case in the U.S.?

I kinda randomly look at scans of trial court documents sometimes, and I don't think I've seen one that looked like it was printed on legal paper (but I've hardly been systematic and my sample has been minuscule).

However, all the printers at my office are stocked with legal size paper, and I sometimes would use it for printing diagrams were I needed a little more space to get everything to fit or tables that were a little wide (but not so wide that I needed to use tabloid paper). My mortgage statements from my bank legal size, as are my property tax notices.
Maybe radio is still better than all that stuff.
Kind of off-topic but it strikes me how 'tl;dr' has replaced usage of 'summary' in more contexts than I would have expected. Here perhaps feels a bit out of keeping given the subject matter.
Oh hey, extremely sorry, new user here. Also, thanks for the tip!
> How are you measuring impact?

And they'd say "why not do this change if it makes a feel people feel better".
Don't forget significant figures like your science teacher taught you. 841 mm has only 3, and both answers are correct to 3 sig. figs. So it's correct.

Another way to see it. What dimensions should it have for you to deem it correct?
According to George Hotz, we need to be careful how many computations we throw at a quantum computer, due to it making our simulation too expensive and cranking someone's hosting bill.
Well then obviously not. Note that turning the info off isn’t always enough. I can’t remember if it was my kindle or my kobo but it knew my WiFi password and would turn the WiFi home periodically without my knowing to call home anyway.
It depends what you mean by zero-copy. It can't be traversed without parsing the structure, but strings and binary blobs can be used in-place without copying. (This is also possible with JSON even, for example with RapidJSON's in-situ parser.)

This has worse performance for decoding, but far better performance for encoding. Encoding any traversible format is guaranteed to be expensive because you have to encode it inside-out, calculating the nested sizes of everything as you go. For messages that are only encoded once and read once, for example network messages, a format that is traversible in-place is a poor choice.
Which must be the bachelors of science then.
Forget about flying if you have any treated ADHD. The FAA will throw a hissy fit during the medical, and getting a medical exception is a spectacular collection of hoops - you basically have to completely go off meds, because according to FAA, being distracted while flying is a much better plan than just taking your meds.

(Funny side effects: There are plenty of pilots who are pretty certain they have ADHD, but since getting the license was expensive, and this is now their job, they won't seek diagnosis)

Other things that make you skip PPL: Color blindness. Again, endless hoops needed. Night flights are out even if you get the exception.

In general, get the medical cert out the way first if you care about PPL. Be prepared to spend good chunks of money if you're anywhere around SV. PAO especially is a hideously expensive place to learn flying.
Don't force push it.
If little can do a lot just imagine what I can do with few megabytes: Google Gmail/Youtube engineers
Fuss is because we have both french è é à and german ü ö ä on our keyboards, so we don't have room for ß.

Luckily for shell scripting, $ is unshifted (shifted would be £. I far prefer USD GBP CHF etc.)

(nonante-neuf > quatre-vingt-dix-neuf. Fais-moi changer d'avis :-) )
For consumers and business users, you have Excel and Email. iPad already does 95% of what most Mac user do on their Desktop If not more and yet it hasn't taken over. It has not taken over by numbers, there isn't even a trend, projection or glimpse of hope anything has started.

The tablet and PC is simply a different paradigm best suited for their own purpose.

It is the same narrative that Smartphone will take over most of your computing needs. At first it seems obvious, Nations not been through PC era will go straight to Smartphone. And yet 5 years later the biggest growth area for PC are these Smartphone nations.
> I think it’s Moore’s law approaching its limits and the direction of chip improvements isn’t core speed but the number of them

Note that this is still Moore's law. You're thinking of Dennard scaling. That basically ran out 12 years ago.
CS:APP is recommendation over Computer organization and design.
Are you thinking or debating if getting a deeper understanding of CS will help you or your career?

I am thinking of the same. Even though I have a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer Science, it has been 14 years that I actually used any of it. I regret it sometimes since I know what it is to know how things work underneath the high level languages (PHP, JavaScript and Python for me).

Lately I have started taking more interest in CS and I think part of the reason is Rust. You could be learning Go, Swift or any similar language and come to similar feelings.

In Python (my language of choice for the last 7 years along with JavaScript) I do not really have to care about pointers, stack or heap allocation, how memory gets create or cleaned, etc. I also do not need to know if there is a virtual machine, a garbage collector, etc. Data types and how they are handled are somewhat important but I rarely get slapped by the Python interpreter for mistakes.

To me it seems that a lot of developers are choosing to go into more typed and lower level (closer to metal) languages. My gut feeling says this is happening because we can not crank up core speed from 2GHz to 3Ghz to 4Ghz and beyond as easily as we did pre-2Ghz era. Yes we hit ceilings of per-core power. But we have more users than ever before and the world seems to be eager to bring computing to even larger audiences.

All this is great, but it means developers need more refined and powerful set of tools that can work in low-power environments, boot up fast and deliver more computing throughput. The high levels of abstractions that most of us have enjoyed will stay but there will be new territories where you want to push code that is way, way more efficient. If we want to work with them, we need to know not only how to push a Template into an `<H1 />` but about the metal that is underneath. From how browsers work internally to how networks work, how processes work or communicate, how memory is allocated and so forth.

So this is a choice we have to make individually. I choose to learn and I am going with Rust and spending time to learn CS again. It is a slow process though, I have full time commitment to my product as a solo founder. Cheers!
It seems like since the last presidential election, /r/nyc has been getting brigaded by conservatives who don't live in the area.

Lately some these guys have a post history in /r/Seattle too, talking about CHAZ or whatever.

It's obnoxious, there's enough going on locally in NYC without a bunch of racists jumping in to defend stop and frisk or whatever.
Hey, I take back my rejection of your idea. I just saw someone else post this image [0] of a similar situation in Australia, and seems like that would work just fine, even for tall trucks that are gonna turn anyway. Make those dangly bits out of a weighted pool noodle.

[0] https://imgur.com/kYwsgEZ
Yes, I agree with that. I just found it odd that people jumped to defend the guy that clearly was doing something pretty unsavory, especially when the line of defense was "well it works for him" - spam and dark patterns also work, otherwise people wouldn't use them.
I agree that your screenshot is not very readable, but on the contrary, I think that if you make your browser window that large, you are naturally going to get text that's sized similarly.

Personally, I find the site readable --- and far better than a lot of others.
I like it on desktop. My only gripe is that when you mouse-over a scrollable list on the expanded noodle and scroll then it should scroll the list your mousing over instead of the list that opened it.
At this point of theoretical speculation, it's perhaps just as creatively interesting to visit sci-fi on first contact situations and evaluate their approaches to see how they mesh with our astronomical observations.

The book that came to mind is a classic, "The Mote in God's Eye." Though there are dozens of delightful variations and imaginative situations, such as with "The Saturn Run." There's an entire spectrum that's been imagined and explored.
Just don’t call it unbiased & it wouldn’t ring weird. Also listing codegiant first is obvious bias. Useful reading would be comparing your tool to other tools, I’d know where you argue from, and it’d help me figure out your products strength. The way it stands it feels like poorly masked marketing. Possibly that’s not what your going for, but that was my experience.
> Broadly speaking a rich kid at a mid-tier school will do just as well as a rich kid in a “good” school.

This is somewhat true but it's missing a component I didn't realize was as important - you're getting relationships/networking even at these "good" schools. I know that sounds stupid but being around people of high socioeconomic status helps you learn unspoken signals and norms. On top of that - your peers will likely be going into high paying professions and will be able to help you make your way into that profession as well. Some people I know who went to these rich kid schools are happy that they did because it helped them. I rarely meet people who were like, "Yeah, going to that rich kid school was pointless. It had literally no effect on my life." I used to think I could just parent/teach my way out of any shit school and then I've watched my friends have kids. There's too much social stuff that can't be made up for by parents.

I'd be especially wary of putting a kid in a poor school. If you go to a poor school (rated or, especially, funded) then you will have to put in a lot more effort as a parent to get satisfactory results - and likely your kid will lose all childhood friendships as they age. People in poor schools frequently don't break out. If you're putting in the effort or your child is just generally exceptional then they'll break out... Which means they're leaving everyone behind and forging a path that none of their peers have done. It makes for an isolated experience and a really difficult one. If you've done it - great, you can help your kid but is that enjoyable? The programs for children who would be average or above average at a good school frequently don't exist at poor schools. Think AP courses, college credit, computer classes, advanced math and english, foreign language options, etc. I know because I had to go to a school that could only afford 4 days a week and that had to cut almost every elective. I've stayed in contact with no one from that region because... well, there's not much of a point. I haven't spoken to anyone from that school in close to 10 or so years and I'm not even 30.

That said - if you or your kid has no large ambitions or only ones that /somehow/ don't rely on any social components at all then it doesn't matter.
Yeah, I think the author overgeneralises that videos are a bad medium for technical information. I watch a few channels with ML paper discussions and they are incredibly well made, maybe better than reading the paper itself for grasping the core message.

Yannic Kilcher - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZHmQk67mSJgfCCTn7xBfew

Henry AI Labs - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHB9VepY6kYvZjj0Bgxnpbw
yes I don't understand why people don't just stay in their countries for a while. people need to stop hopping around the world chasing $. leaving dangerous/unsafe places is a different matter. we are in a digital world and the work done in the Bay on h1b can be done from India. people can stay in their countries and build them up and keep the talent there. if US tech companies are desperate for talent they should just build engineering facilities in India and figure out the remote work situation. Honestly the talented Gen Z Indian youths aren't even fussed about moving abroad and have enough opportunity domestically, why should they put up with the hardship of being an immigrant where they are not wanted when they can stay near their parents and still work for Apple on interesting stuff?
Yeah well I’m only on European subs...
I tried to switch to Adobe XD, but sooner or later you can't do some sort of thing that is simple in Axure and you are stuck. Simple example. You have a settings page like this:

Setting 1 name [toggle]

Setting 2 name [toggle]

Setting 3 name [toggle]

You want to turn any toggle on and panel with subsettings should appear underneath clicked setting name, shifting down all other settings below. In Axure it is just a checkmark "push widgets below".
I have experienced this same situation in Zeplin and Invision, so I suppose this is not just Figma.
> These are technical terms, not buzzwords

The technical definitions of these terms don't support the claims you are making using them, so you're not using them as technical terms, you're using them as buzzwords.

> You seem to equate free market with unregulated market

Not at all. A free market is regulated by the voluntary choices of market participants.

> Markets fail to self-regulate in the absence of open competition

So your definition of "open competition" is "Apple can't choose the terms on which it is going to provide products and services that it built itself". By that definition, "open competition" has nothing whatever to do with "free market", since in a free market every market participant gets to choose the terms on which it is going to provide goods and services that it built itself. Forcing market participants to provide goods and services on terms they would not choose for themselves is not a free market.

> Imagine instead Apple owned half of the roads in the US and stipulated what businesses could use those roads

Roads are not the same as smartphones or apps; roads are exclusive in a way that smartphones and apps are not.
I’m trying to find a better solution for my wife’s family than Apple’s FaceTime. It does okay with just two participants, but beyond two, it starts failing miserably. I know it’s not a network problem, because I’ve had Chime video conferences with fifteen or more participants, and that’s worked fine. My wife has done zoom meetings with large numbers of people, and her problem is that when she does that from her iPad, the video angle makes her look bad, and we haven’t gotten it to work at all on her laptop.

So, I’m interested in finding a solution that is cross-platform (including mobile devices) and doesn’t require downloading an app. P2P would be a bonus, as would end-to-end encryption. But this is just for personal use, and I can make sure we are on VPN, so those two features would be a bonus.

Not FaceTime. Not zoom. Not Google. Not Chime.

I’ve looked at Jitsi Meet, but it doesn’t support iOS in the browser, although that is on the roadmap.

Anything else?
I doubt this.

When people see others in the neighbourhood that fit a 'pattern they might associate with criminality' this has nothing to do with viewing 'others that need to be punished' rather just a fearful view of difference, and probably lack of exposure to people that creates some low-key bigotry. Throw in some neuroticism and too much free time, possibly some mental health issues and it's a problem.
You made a contradiction and then gave an irrelevant reason behind.
Actually, according to the link you’ve provided, it seems that’s an alveolar “nasal” flap, which sounds different to American ears from the regular alveolar flap. It would sound like “itternational” pronounced by an American if an alveolar flap were to be used.
It is correct the English spelling is really messy. Maybe, it is because they use Latin alphabets; Latin alphabets are good for writing in Latin (and, I suppose, Romantic languages), but for English perhaps isn't as good; but, it is what we have now, so it is what we are going to do. Germanic (futhorc) alphabets might be better way for writing English, maybe.
> Thinking about how we use the term 'blacklist' doesn't seem like much of a sacrifice on our part.

Nor master, and whatever others terms one can come up with. I'm offended by your username, please change it.

At the end of the day it doesn't seem like it actually moves the world forward.
The brilliance becomes obvious when you combine it with the envelope sizes. Mailing things in the US always ends with you having to awkwardly tri-fold papers and hope that you didn't botch it, so that the result will fit in your envelope of a non-standard size.

Meanwhile, anyone can fold an A4 perfectly in half and it will always fit perfectly in a C5 envelope. Paper can't be folded? Mail it in a C4 envelope instead. Think a C5 is too big? Get a C6 envelope and fold it twice.

All the parts fit perfectly into each other, and it's obvious how they fit. Any size paper can be mailed in any size envelope simply by folding it.
I'm not the one you're asking, but... yes.

User stylesheets are even part of the standard. The fact that the most common (and maybe "oppressive") browser doesn't support them is itself a problem.
Air Force Investigates Military Planes That Monitored Protestors
> Building dense housing without parking in Houston would create painful externalities for everyone on the vicinity,

Turning that around: a lack of public transport options creates painful externalities on new construction (mandatory large parking lots) and the city (must put in multiplane roads for every new block).
Ephemeral ECDH over 25519 solves all of these issues. How is it not standard.
Is the goal to reduce crashes or increase them?
They may not need planets. They could build habitats in space.
Exactly.
How does attaining higher education and salary mean that healthcare disparities, underfunded inner-city schools, wage inequality, police brutality and lack of representation in corporate leadership does not exist for people of color?

Do Nigerians make more than their white counterparts with the same title and salary?

Do police choose to act with less violence to Nigerians than other people of color?

Are doctors more attentive to Nigerian women when giving birth at hospitals than Black American women?

Are the public schools that poor Nigerians attend equally as well funded as the schools in pre-dominantly white zip codes?

Does the fact that there are a handful of Black American billionaires and many more millionaires mean that systemic racism does not exist or that they have been successful despite it?

There are some 250 million Nigerians. It is the largest country in Africa by population. Sheer numbers alone demonstrate a minority of its citizens would excel despite the challenges faced in the US.
How can you tell which one is right for you? So many computer scientist graduates I know ended up pursuing software engineering that I've mistakingly conflated the two.
That’s not surprising. I myself have a lot of trouble understanding the way some foreigners speak Japanese because of the mangled pronunciations.
Probably a good batch of spaghetti code if you think vanilla can be used for anything serious.

Or rewrite react yourself as another commenter already did.
> I posited there is a cost to user in being locked into a single app store.

And the person to judge that question is the user, not two people having an argument on an Internet site. And not app developers either.

> You claimed if there was such cost, we necessarily would have seen decrease in user demand.

I said that if there is no discernible change in user demand, that means the users, who are the ones in a position to judge, evidently don't see a significant enough cost to change their behavior. Any change in the cost-benefit relationship will change the behavior of some users. Sure, they won't all switch from iPhones to something else, but some percentage of them will.

> Being able to give away things for free come from the giant profits accumulated through monopolistic vertical integration.

No, it comes from having some other source of revenue besides the users of the thing that is being given away for free. "Monopolistic vertical integration" might help in getting other sources of revenue, but it's not the root problem. The root problem is that the actual users of the service are not the paying customers, someone else is, so the incentives of the provider are skewed.