skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile OneWheel [0] is selling more $1800 scooters than it can handle right now. All made in California.

[0] https://onewheel.com/
I've personally seen more asian tourists riding them than white tourists. But why are we bringing race into this in the first place?
Even though many of us understand the issues around pseudonymity in our various tech and gamer scenes, this is a generational flash-point in general society.
It would have to be pitched as a shift to a points based immigration system in order to get buy-in, probably by a McCain-esque Republican. You'd create a fast track green card program that prioritizes immigrants who were educated in U.S. universities, people with advanced degrees, and people who have been working legally via H1Bs in the U.S. for a few years. Then, to get support from the right, you'd have to pair it with some cutbacks in other types of immigration, or maybe crackdowns on employers who hire illegal immigrants, or deportations for immigrants (legal or otherwise) who run afoul of the law, etc.

I usually lean hard left, and I know I'd personally support a proposal that cut back on granting 1 unskilled visa per year, in exchange for fast-tracking 3 skilled visa-holders to getting their green card, and I have conservative-leaning friends who would support such a deal as well.

What's the right ratio, though? They've been trying to strike a major immigration reform deal since the 90s, but neither side has been willing to make concessions, so we've just been just stuck with a broken system and its ill effects.
> Market share and attractiveness aren’t necessarily related.

Well, they are. You're confusing niche market segments with overall preferences. Veblen goods don't have traction in general markets.
tcc is part of the guix bootstrap project https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-b... which aims to be able to rebuild everything from source code plus the smallest possible binary seed
Reminds me of the nissan.com situation. If your brand is worth millions, why be so stingy with domain names? Just like with land, you're buying up common resources and depriving folks like Eric of their self-expression.
That hyperlink did not work for me -- I think that you wanted to post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J4QPz52Sfo&t=4511 ?

(just listened -- great story) :-)
More info about Fabrice: https://smartbear.com/blog/test-and-monitor/fabrice-bellard-...
what the hell is wrong with you. get your racism stuff off of HN.
Coffee + L-Theanine = Balance
I can’t say really, but my recollection is that the last decade of higher interest in FP has had Haskell as a fixture, and was significantly sparked by the need to program in a multi core world, and parallelization is made significantly simpler in the context of pure FP and controlled side effects.

I hear you though. I was mostly a lisp person and only really got into Haskell in the last couple of years. Even still I would have said that the FP zeitgeist had Haskell as it’s central example of FP.
This many times over.
Downvotes? This is not an insult. The guy is asexual.
Encryption is optional (or not available) in all of the proprietary digital modes used by amateurs, so amateurs simply don't use it even when the radio allows. As a practical matter enforcement can actually be quite difficult and I'm sure there are some folks doing it, but people on the amateur bands generally obey the rule in my experience.
60% of 330M is 198M.

10% will be hospitalized = 19.8M

10% of those hospitalized will die = 1.98M

Even if the IFR isn't 1%, say it's half that, almost 1M deaths.

And if you think 350k surplus deaths isn't catastrophic, you must have been nodding your head while watching Chernobyl (3.6 Roentgen? Not great, not terrible).
If the tanks are strong enough, is cooling required? My understanding is that you'd only need to cool the liquid if the structure holding it wasn't sufficiently strong enough to handle the pressures.
I remember spending far too much time on a forum built around what “it” was, called theitquestion.com. Nobody knew what it was going to be so there was a lot of speculation. Personally I was extremely disappointed by “it”.
I work at a $BIGCO and am inclined to do this, not because it will make any difference, but because it is the sort of thing they will do eventually, and if I raise it as an issue, it will look good for me.

The company is extremely good at pointless tediousness anyway (our issue types in jira have been changed three times in the last year, and I could not even tell you what a bug is any more), so more busywork will be par for the course.
Disclaimer: Founder of a GitHub competitor here

I use GitHub very little these days, and have mostly removed it from my daily workflow. But, on the whole, I mostly like the new design. It's more pleasing to look at, and doesn't really interfere with the things I still come to GitHub to do.

I still feel that the notifications redesign was poorly done, however, and that's where I spend most of my time. I ended up completely disabling almost all of my GitHub notifications as a result. The notifications redesign drove me from visiting GitHub a a few times per day to a couple of times per week. But to be honest, my usage was already on the wane by then, it may have just accellerated it.
Roundup plaintiffs' attorneys plead guilty in $200M extortion scheme
My theory because the protests happen outside and a lot of people were wearing masks, the total effective exposure is a small fraction of the population total. Bonus the groups protesting probably are otherwise doing a good job protecting themselves.
I intentionally reveal my identity on purpose for various reasons. It isn't unreasonable to believe that at some point there will be negative consequences for some thoughtless, unreasonable, or unpopular remark; maybe there already has been and I just don't know about it.

There is power and privilege in the ability to do this, and I like to think that one person openly being their flawed self in public might help a tiny bit push society towards accepting that everybody is flawed and everybody has done things which aren't socially acceptable to some whether or not they would continue defend every action in their past.

If I was getting death threats or had anything in particular. worth defending, I might change my behavior; but for now nothing I write really matters except maybe to a few people who read it.
I saw a picture of a pretty girl and...mainbated?
Interesting! Never seen that phenomenon, do you know if it persists in Modern Greek?
I don't think there is ANY slave connotation assosciated with git. Sure words do matter and your words are being used to see things that aren't there - the meaning of the word master has been added to by its use in git repositories and it was NEVER used in the way that is suggested here; the email thread claiming that it is used this way is dubious at best. Master, in addition to meaning "controller" means:

- main; principal.
"the apartment's master bathroom has a free-standing oval bathtub"

Because it's a master bedroom everyone understands and feels FINE that this is okay. EVEN in a master/slave hard drive setup (this adds a new meaning too) it isn't about subjugating disk drives, it's about slavishly copying another master (main, principal) disk. I'm very sorry if you're offended by words being used for very specific technology purposes but it isn't right that everyone has to conform to your way of seeing the world.

EDIT: damn, glad to see that article has been flagged and at this point I'm so happy that hacker news does not allow politics.
Yeah, very funny to hear “durability” blamed in the article - in that apparently they were too durable so people who bought them didn’t throw them out and buy new ones periodically.

Apart from how terrible the attitude of “we should have made the product more disposable to milk more cash out of the only people who bought it, creating a lot more e-waste in the process” is, do they really think that people would have kept buying them if they kept breaking?
Ugh. Yet another design by someone who keeps their browser window maximized (or has the luxury of an enormous display) and expects everyone else to do the same. A few things that leap out at me:

- Large margins everywhere

- Sidebar gobbling up 20-30% of my browser window's horizontal space, no matter how far down I scroll.

- Hamburger menu hiding the dashboard and other frequently used links.

- Latest commit timestamp hidden by mostly useless stuff like tag and branch count.

This layout wastes a ton of space. Information density feels too low, which might be appropriate for a product landing page, but is counterproductive in a development tool. It also makes things needlessly difficult for people who multitask with side-by-side windows or have small screens.

On the positive side, at least this layout is less annoying than Gitlab's "bury everything within javascript menus" approach?
Journalists need to take a page out of Assange's playbook and use ancient Thinkpads and Powerbooks and use VPNs which would make this technique obsolete.
It wasn't racist he said white.
The name 'main' feels overloaded, just like naming the default branch 'default' or 'development', with the risk of "Who's on first?" confusion, especially when branching off branches.

"What branch are you on?"
"I branched off the main development branch for this fix."
"Like...the `main` main branch or the main branch for the feature?"

I like redis' rename of their default branch to `unstable`. Just like commits are tagged with the release numbers, the latest code that isn't yet versioned is by default 'unstable'. If the industry as a whole is going to make this change, I would prefer we choose a name that can be unambiguously referenced in conversation.
Hey HN! Founder and CTO of Amplified here. We've been working on this for quite some time now and we feel like we've finally cracked it. The response has been really wonderful.

A couple of tech points: we're using Elixir and the app is entirely Phoenix LiveView. Building with LiveView has been such a pleasure. I'll write another post about taking the bet on LiveView, but it's been a great one for our small team.

On the machine learning side, everything is bespoke. My PhD work was on innovation economics and integrating machine learning into econometric models. We jumped into transformers early and we've been working on advances in handling long sequences that we'll be submitting to conferences over the next year.

We really want to make the patent system work the way it's meant to work. That means reducing the number of bad patents that get granted and making it easier for anyone to grapple with patent prior art. We're also keen to help out anyone being harassed by patent trolls. If you are, drop us a line and we'd be happy to get you set up with access to Amplified for free.
> You're in favor of not passively allowing people to say things, I'm for passively allowing people to say things.

You're misreading my position, and kinda missing the point I was trying to make to fixate on little part of the example I used.

> But you're pretending that free speech advocates should be for actively paying people to teach conspiracy theories, so you can make their view look stupid, when in fact that's never what free speech advocates were for.

No, I'm not. I may have been doing a bad job, but the general idea I was trying to get at was that you can judge a tree by its fruit, and that bad (sometimes poison) fruit exists. If we find ourselves with trees that produce too much bad fruit, changes can and should be made to improve the situation, and that doesn't mean bad fruit will be banned entirely or only one kind will be allowed. Maybe you cut down one big tree and replace it by several, smaller trees, etc. But I think it's unreasonable to say that too much bad fruit (and a few poisonings) are just the cost of having fruit.

There's not just one free speech system (i.e. people can have free speech in a society that allows megaphones, and in one that doesn't, but the results may be better or worse because of the difference), and I think it's a mistake to assume the costs of one system are the costs of "free speech."
When political figures name specific media as being the 'enemy of the people', what seemed absurd rings true in this instance. So much insight, perspective and open discussion going away here. It's sad. This blog was a beacon to many, and I will surely miss it.
Part of this is release timing--the Dgraph and Redis analyses were mainly done in Q1 of this year, and I was able to write and release the Mongo & PostgreSQL reports on my own schedule. Wish I were that productive! ;-)
The issue is that's completely impractical in our society to expect to be able to protect the 30-40% at risk from the 60% that has a lower level of risk.
On the other hand, the ARMv8.5 flag manipulation instructions almost certainly were added specifically for x86 emulation.
How do you feel about Eisenhower federalizing the Arkansas National Guard to enforce school desegregation?
Thunder is an ARM "little" core implementation. It's not meant to compete with a full performance core from anyone. It competes against other "little"cores.

I'm sure when Intel starts shipping their chips that mix Core and Atom, someone will start comparison testing.

As far as performance per watt and less waste heat, you don't even have to wait to see what their 5nm desktop/laptop chips look like, their iPhone chips with a tiny power budget and passive cooling are already competitive with Intel and AMD.

>Last year I’ve noted that the A12 was margins off the best desktop CPU cores. This year, the A13 has essentially matched best that AMD and Intel have to offer – in SPECint2006 at least. In SPECfp2006 the A13 is still roughly 15% behind.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...
You can actually import generated Donjon dungeons into Dungeon Scrawl using the TSV file
It’s not much different from all the autonomous driving stuff that was going to mean kids today would have a personal robo-chauffeur for the rest of their lives and would never need to get a license.
This is 100% right.

Company was bought and many of the great patent technology has been put to good use.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/tech/segway-history/index.htm...
Recently, I ran across this purportedly leaked strategy letter on VR/AR at FB.

https://www.scribd.com/document/399594551/2015-06-22-MARK-S-...

From that, it seems odd they'd be willing to give up control. So like you, I'll believe it when I see it.
Agreed.

Here are some of his recent comments:

Americans systematically avoid hard discussions, to preserve that "everyone is happy" feeling

Just look at a typical city council video in the United States. Everyone who is there is old (because they have nothing better to do than spending 4 hours in a city council meeting), 60+, and they're against anything new.
Those are interesting approaches. I'm pretty pumped about Lean. It may just not have fit into his narrative and he can't talk about everything. Fstar and Lean are more children of Coq and ML (at least syntactically) to my understanding than they are children of Haskell. They're cousins. Although everyone influences everyone of course.
I was getting several sites not working properly with AdGuard. Yeah you can add whitelists and such, but it’s annoying. Some of was it Safari not working.

In the end I just use a browser with built in blocking (AdBlockBrowser or now Brave) and leave Safari alone.
In addition to being 94% efficient in UTF-16 (!), this reveals some additional reasons why one might want to optimize for number of characters: fitting as many bytes as possible into a tweet which is bounded in the number of characters not bytes.
We use "mainline" instead. Same meaning, but it's a sufficiently uncommon word that there's little chance of ambiguity; it's very clear you're referring to a git branch.
But...why does this change anything about what was described?
Interestingly enough this causes all kind of weird distortion on my brand new 16" MBP. Not sure if it's a hardware issue, but it only happens in the browser with GPU acceleration turned on...
Original post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-...
This is also linked to the obsession with constant, never-ending growth.

Bringing in new users is more important than making existing users happier - you just need to keep them happy enough that they won't actually leave. It results in targeting the design towards people that don't use the product (yet) instead of the ones that already do.
"The main argument for changing "master" to "main" is to reduce the occurrences of problematic terminology in a team's codebase"

It's not problematic terminology unless you have problematic thinking, which seems to be more infectious these days than COVID.
Yes. The term "battery" is being thrown around too much. Are hydroelectric dams to be called "rain batteries"?
The helmets don't help. Without those... still dorky? Not sure. Less so, at least, but does the dorkiness decrease enough to pass under the threshold of ultimate dorkiness?

Dorky is such a razor-edge. Basically it means you're doing something culturally unusual that maybe has connotations of being "too technical" at the expense of, I guess aesthetics. Like using technology to get around instead of moving through the world like a graceful gazelle with pure and beautiful movements that approach art, you know like all of us do all the time when we're not on Segways riiiight? (cue 5 seconds of news report on obesity epidemic with the usual footage of random overweight people lumbering down the street)

Thing is, even iPhones were dorky at first. So then how did iPhones become cool (except secretly as a Gen-Xer who lived 10 years of life without so much as an Atari, I still think you're all dorks and myself too but anyway) but Segways remained dorky? Ironically the only explanation I come up with is that they (Segways) never became wildly popular. But that's essentially a circular argument. I dunno, I dont expect I'll ever be able to explain the behavior of "the crowd."
The grandparent poster is reporting their subjective feeling about something they've observed, so presumably race is being mentioned, along with assumed nationality, and inferred attitude because those are part of the subjective impression the poster was left with from their experiences.
I think the seeds of that good idea became the much more compact electric scooter (Bird and friends), and for those willing to climb more of a learning curve, eskate and onewheel.

The critical thing for all of those, though, is that they can work as last mile devices because you can carry them indoors, onto buses/trains, etc. A segway is strictly worse than a bike in that regard because you still have to park it outside somewhere, but it's an awkward shape that doesn't fit into the usual facilities for doing so (and obviously it wasn't supposed to get wet, either).
Wikipedia says defunct in 2009, though the decline started earlier.
I've always been somewhat skeptical of Haskell due to the scarcity of things you could point to and say "that was made with Haskell and it made it so much better". it's usually the same 3 pieces of software people point to, none of which are particularly noteworthy.

with rust, by contrast, which is ostensibly much less general purpose and hasn't been around as long there's already quite a collection and it's easy to see why it was chosen for those things.
What do you use it everyday for? Gaming? Or something else?

If it's porn, you don't have to answer, but it's a genuine question what you're spending all your time in VR doing.
Because it's not included in the cheapest GoDaddy plan....
What do you think of “T”
T is a person of undeterminable gender and they catch pedophiles on Omegle. T is never seen in person but on almost every on the Internet they are "Winter_Lily56.

T has a YouTube channel and TikTok account the names are "The Voiceless Revolution. T wears a yellow scarf and black jacket, but they sometimes wear casual clothes with there scarf.

T has mentioned one person as his friend. But T asked if we didn't talk about them. T said "I catch the pedophiles so the kids are safe and they get what they deserve.
> This cannot possibly be more efficient than lithium batteries...

It really depends on what you perceive to be efficiency.
Here's the big question: Who is defining "problematic"? Furthermore, what will be "problematic" 5 years from now?
It's an election year. Breaking up tech monopolies polled well among millennials. This is a phishing net for contact information.
At risk of treading into dangerous territory, I've never actually seen any minorities uncomfortable about master being named as such, just non-minorities uncomfortable on their behalf.

Master dates back to 12th century latin and has numerous definitions, most of which have no connection to slavery.

This seems very much like modern slacktivism - a feel good action which doesn't benefit anybody, least of all the group it was intended to benefit.
Oh contract terms! I completely forgot, you’re right. I’m actually pretty happy with my final retainer contract. It limited damages to the last three months of retainer spend.
I would like to hear chess grandmains' opinions on this.
Masks really do a good job, which is why I'm still irate about the CDC guidelines in March. I think they were a tremendous disservice to the country. Yes, we didn't want to use up our small supply of N95 masks when they were more valuable to healthcare providers etc.

But cloth masks work very well if used by a large percentage of the population. Manufacturing them would have been a very fast win, possibly cutting the infection rate in half, and a corresponding cut in fatalities.

My daughter was sewing cloth masks by March 15 when it was almost impossible to come by an N95 mask. She's made over 20 reusable masks. How hard would it have been for the rest of the country to do something similar, had we been given effective leadership?
Agree. Kudos for being thoughtful and reasonable and not falling victim to mob shaming from people standing on soapboxes of false moral superiority.
To add on and support this, I found this page: https://www.wordnik.com/words/master

Not overly familiar with Wordnik, but a summary examination of this page shows a demonstrable variance in different senses and meanings drawn from different dictionaries.

Check the etymology at the bottom; “Master” still retains this sense.
H-1B salaries at time of hiring are public information. No need to guess. :)
It has its own issues, not the least of which is safety. There is lots of energy in compressed air, that's the point. I would look heavily into the risks of structural fatigue. A lithium ion battery might catch fire, but an "air battery" can go boom.
I don't have a problem making this change if it actually makes people of African descent more comfortable in the workplace and programming communities. I can understand it more easily for terms like "master/slave", and terminology that defaults white to "good" and black to "bad".

My problem with this, though, is that it feels like the ultimate in "slacktivism" mainly put in place to make white people feel better about themselves. I have rarely (or, actually, never, but to be honest I haven't scoured Twitter looking for posts) seen black people pushing for these kinds of changes (as opposed to many other areas where changes would actually make a difference in the workplace).
Honestly, we could really use a movement around slacktivism. It's lazy, helps almost nobody, and it discredits movements in the eyes of the general public.
Agree. I did tours twice with them and they’re really fun to ride. I’d sure rather own an ebike though to actually get around (or a bicycle or a moped or most other things)
maybe they should accept pull requests
[I'm Eric's cofounder]
>>it isn't right that everyone has to conform to your way of seeing the world.
We're not forcing anyone to conform to our worldview. We're just sharing our perspective and providing instructions for developers who do want to change their production branch to "Main"