skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in this case, now, no. But he's said plenty of things that some proportion of people find controversial enough to bother harassing his job to get him fired. If his name and website get more widespread acknowledgement, he expects the level of harassment to increase proportionally, which he fears could get him fired.
I mean it's obviously all about funding the right projects isn't it? Going to an obviously hyperbolic extreme for the sake of the argument, say that the EU invested billions in determining if the moon is really made of cheese then that's obviously a waste of money even if it is a scientific investment.

There's a non negligible amount of people, even those who have worked at CERN previously, saying that it just doesn't make sense to put more investment into a new supercollider which might just show that there's an energy desert of particles in the regime it's testing.

You're also falling prey to the fallacy that HN acts as a single entity, in reality everyone here has different opinions and can't just be all lumped in one bucket saying HN thinks this or that. It's obviously going to seem contradictory if you view it as if it's a single person
> Left-wing social movements, while initially well intentioned, tend to eat their own in escalating purity spirals.

That's not particularly true of left-wing movements; to the extent it's true of them it's also true of right-wing movements. The relevant factors are orthogonal to the left-right axis.
Your neighbor either has huge water needs for watering/a pool or he has a leak/leaky fixture in his supply lines.

$120/month where I live would be 33,200 gallons a month. That’s nearly a gallon a minute.
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I voted this up so that it would get attention and the people involved would get whacked.
unity and other engines are now capable of generating html5 exports, I think by the use of webassembly.

the only real good reason to learn how to write a 3D engine is to learn.

by now I've seen lots of people talking about how hard it is vs how bad the graphics will end up looking.

I found that to be amusing. Right after epic games release a tech demo on PS5 that blew everybody's mind, I'm struggling to get some 3D graphics to look good.

if nothing, this is making me have a lot of appreciation for well stablish engines out there, including three.js and babylon
It’s hard to flip your brain, but abstractions are bad. Copying code for different business purposes is good. Simple patterns are vastly better than complex frameworks, even if you think it improves unit or integration testing.
We are all living in a giant oxygen bubble!
Neil Patel: from shady businessman to no-BS marketer?
> They are using your statement to appeal to others to listen and accept their clearly racist ideas or provable wrong, anti-science ideas.

I don’t think anyone is appealing to others to listen to their racist, anti-science ideas so much as demanding that they be accepted and if not a mob may be sent after them. I wish it were only “appeals to listen”.
Does Elasticsearch lie? How does Elasticsearch work?
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FWIW it is also how you can use Win32 APIs introduced in recent versions of Windows when you want to also support older versions - call LoadLibrary with a system DLL name (no path) and use GetProcAddress to check if the call you want to perform is supported. AFAIK it is very rare for Windows applications to hardcode any DLL path.
I'd recommend this HN post [0] which links to a good background story [1]. It literally starts with "For those who just came back from a 15 year space mission: Wirecard is a German company that..." haha.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23598824

[1] https://valueandopportunity.com/2020/06/19/wirecard-the-germ...
All these seem like "fake becauses"[0].

Forget the rest, the NYTimes and the WaPo can certainly afford a team of public editors, if nothing else but for the long-term credibility of their own institutions, never mind the side benefit of keeping them honest.

[0]: https://www.scottadamssays.com/2016/01/28/the-fake-because/
The claim that cancel cultures appearance is single handedly responsible for a drop in violence that was entirely the fault of a more permissive attitude towards open debate seems quite a stretch to put it as politely as possible.
I am someone using React, NextJS and Typescript who really wishes they went with Symfony. It'd be so much simpler.

I've heard you can combine React with Symfony, which sounds really cool.
How about garbage? We pay about $100 a month for water, sewer, and garbage. We get biweekly pickups and large trash hauled for free once a month. They even take fridges no question.
You at least have an option. Here, we were not allowed to step out of the house even inside the apartment complex. Just sit at home.

From the outside, it feels great. We get to spend time at home. But it causes anxiety and mild depression, if I am using the terms correctly.

Also, lockdowns can't continue forever. Almost every country is now opening up their lockdown.
That isn't relevant. CERN isn't a US government project and the US doesn't provide funding. The cumulative budgets of the EDA member states €223 billion in 2018[1].

[1] https://www.eda.europa.eu/docs/default-source/brochures/eda-...
Is there any option to go to co-working spaces or the like? Some people I know have started doing that and while it's different than pre-covid (strict limits on the number of 'attendees') it's been really nice to see people together again and for them to find some relief from mostly staying at home. it can work wonders!
What was the name of the other P2P IM client/net that was renamed every year?
Keep expecting it to get easier but being stuck with a toddler and two older kids with 1.5 jobs between me and my wife has been tough. It's exhausting, there's basically no downtime, and we end up in spirals of shame and guilt at being terrible parents, partners, employees. All of this to a constant backdrop of fear and uncertainty, trying to balance sanity with following the rules and the science, trying to mediate when family and friends have blowups about the science and ethics of lockdown, family members literally crying because someone posted mean Dominic Cummings memes, trying to hide all this from the kids but at the same time being honest and open with them about feelings, trying to ignore everyone's amazing and enriching family activities posted in photo albums on Facebook when our kids are sat in pyjamas on the Nintendo Switch at 2pm, trying not to think too much that if I was on my own and furloughed this might actually be bliss.

Keep finding it weird that 10 years ago I was trapped in San Francisco (after Twitter's Chirp conference) when the Icelandic volcano erupted. I remember the combination of excitement, despair and camaraderie that developed over the 2-3 weeks it affected me. But then it was over and it was a fun anecdote ever after. This, though, I dunno. Hopefully the kids remember we were here and we never stopped trying (even though a couple of times we probably did).
Is New York tech just fundamentally broken or is the whole industry going that way? In my time in San Francisco, companies seemed to recognize happy employees were productive ones.

Since moving here a few years ago, and passing through several jobs, I'm beginning to think there aren't any worth working for. There's so much broken:

- office-first culture

- heavy big design up front

- fealty to waterfall and middle-management

- nepotism and corruption
- relatively poor pay
Rosetta 2 is a binary translator, not an emulator. It merely converts x86 instructions to ARM instructions.
Transition to managing a team is difficult in normal times! I've been doing it for 10+ years and still suffer from the lack of direct feedback and a feeling of being unproductive. Be sure to remind yourself that your ability to impact is broader now and the results are longer term. Even when it doesn't feel like it, your team needs the leadership you are providing.
I actually feel a lil guilty about how well things are going for me. Its not really been any change for me, same schedule - same job. I think the key is as you said, mostly avoiding the news. Every day or two, I skim over the headlines on CNN but mostly I avoid it. I do check the stock market in the mornings - I swear the DJIA is just a yo-yo. But it's just out of curiosity as I still have 15+ years before I can retire...So not stressing about it even on bad days.

I think previously, I was just way too wrapped up in the news cycles.
Oh god this poor guy had to sell his boat since square decided to hold a portion of his transactions (well within their right).

The claims that square is not trying to help small businesses is just bullshit though. They've helped a lot of businesses get loans when they couldn't from the major banks and have also released a lot of new features to support contact free sales.
I suggest you read the article again.

I have training in weather interpretation, you bozo.
Isn't that what SRV records are for? If there's one for _http specifying ycombinator.com as the name, then any of those IP addresses should accept a connection on port 80 speaking HTTP. Without independent names, they should all be treated equally and your app (like a browser) gets to try just one or all of them.

If you're talking about subprotocols/versions of HTTP like HTTP2 then you can define subservices, so you could have _http2._http. But no one has proposed that yet :)

Of course with anycast, multiple A records can be redundant :)
Consider the alternative:

Social/political climates and the "cancel culture" always has something to target. If you look, at any given time, this is something that has been going on since we could communicate in a public sphere. There has always been and always will be a tension in the public conversation. I wouldn't say "cusp of actual war" though. There are many people however who are hoping and actively counting on you thinking that though.

I would argue, however, that all of this has been severely amplified due to social media and the current crisis of the news industries. We have to at least consider who is literally banking on your getting your attention - hijacking the fight-or-flight part of your brain is part of that equation.
Apologies for not tagging the title in the first place. Remiss of me, but no intent to mislead. Perhaps a mod might fix the title?
I broke up with a girlfriend shortly before whole hell broke loose, so February to April lockdown has been the loneliest time in my life, but I powered through it by working a lot (two fulltime jobs + startup) and having few close friends that I hung out with. Also started doing yoga and meditation which immensely alleviated anxiety and loneliness.

All in all, I held up pretty well, but I don't think I would be able to power through another lockdown. I'm from Belgrade, Serbia and looking to fly somewhere warm and remote for the fall and winter (Thailand/Bali/Mexico) where I'd have more freedom than being locked down in an apartment.
>has demonstrably not worked for 40 years

The beauty of Standard Model was affirmed with finding Higgs Boson mere 8 years ago, what is she getting at?
I’m in love. With someone I can never really be with, whom had always shown me affection and was never shy about her feelings for me, but I think I always refused to accept I was in love until she started seeing someone new. I’m not jealous, more like heartbroken. It’s one less person in the world that will love me now, and those kinds of people are in short supply.
Hey, thanks for the reply! I will look into this list sharing feature and consider if try to self-host Nextcloud! In the meanwhile I will try Tasks locally, really nice app :)
Try shoppinglist.google.com, is integrated with google home if you use that.
I am doing really well. Normally I do not like remote work at all, but since my wife & kids are stuck at home with me, I'm enjoying it a lot. When the kids go back to school and my wife (presumably) goes back to her office, then I will probably go back to spending most days at the office myself.

I did start to gain a few pounds due to the convenient proximity of the fridge, but overall I am actually down a few pounds now. I can take a pause in the middle of the day and go for a walk, or even do more intense cardio, then go back to work for a few hours in the afternoon.
Once you bend the knee to offended and the Global LEFT it will never fucking end
I haven't looked too deeply into this, but I believe there are a few features supported by Tasks.org that aren't currently supported through DAVx5
Oh cm'on people are way too sensitive
Agreed. This feels similar to how armchair security experts will tweet about bad opsec every time someone is identified.

Obviously, Scott didn’t expect the blog to be so big or his anonymity to be such and issue when he started using his real first and middle names. It’s self-congratulatory to imagine that you would have made a different decision given the full benefit of hindsight. It’s not like Scott could go back and change his online name to something more anonymous after the blog became more popular.

> In the financial industry we get around that most commonly by giving people “desk names.” If you’ve called and spoken to Sarah Smith, you are very likely not speaking to someone who answers to Sarah or Smith outside of work.

His Tweetstorm is a long-winded way of saying “Scott should have used a completely fake name instead of a partially fake name.” That’s not really a guarantee that his real name wouldn’t have been discover. It’s also missing the point of the issue.
We have had a lot of plans which were cancelled, unfortunately. My in-laws live in Belgium. Since April they were supposed to come visit us twice, we were supposed to visit them once and we had rented an apartment by the sea which we were to spend a week in together. So, lots of trips were cancelled and now we haven't seen each other in ages.
> How would a security researcher catch the change without being able to examine the library files?

How would you know that Apple was loading what was on disk, before this change?
I have been reading Slate Star Codex for a long time and consider it a source of many great texts, but i do not really get this step from Scott Alexander.

Term 'doxxing' is a loaded term that may describe both revealing private information and revealing personal information researchable from public sources. While the former is condemnable, the later is more neutral and part of basic journalist work, especially if the exposed is a public persona.

Seems to me that for impartial third person it would look like a reporter wrote a neutral article about SSC mentioning authors name, SSC author overreacted and punished himself and its readers by removing the blog, and by Streissand effect much more people would know autors name now.
ok, PoliSci man:

Governments employ 20 percent or more of workers in nine states

https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/on-numbers/scott-tho...
Itanium is 2000s. RISC-V is 2010s.

Apple could make a great leap forward by adopting the Mill, an ISA so novel that it hasn't even been released yet!
ITT: people who disagree because searches for "vector" and "matrix" is going to be overly encumbered with mathematical references because they don't understand how SEO works.

Only a single search engine hit on the first page resolves in the mathematical definition of matrix. The others include the movie franchise, a hair products company, several dictionary pages, a computer warehouse, a vehicle tracking device, and several other non-math refrences to the word matrix. On google, riot.im shows up at #26 for me.
Fairly well, all things considered. I've been using the forced isolation time to set (and try to achieve) several personal goals that I didn't have time for previously. I've been contributing to open source and writing more, which has had a surprisingly good impact for career prospects (after publishing an article that got a good amount of traction I had a 5x increase in recruiters reaching out, even though I'm not actively looking).

I also got accepted to speak at a (now virtual) industry conference which checked another goal I had set for the year.

Outside of work I've also reconnected with a number of friends from college who live in different places. Lately I've seen a lot more people reconnecting this way; I suppose the forced quarantine changes the dynamics of who is "easy to hang out with" since everyone is confined.

My wife and I have been taking evening walks a lot more, which has been good for our physical and mental health.

The only things that have been difficult are not being able to visit older family members, not being able to enjoy the typical NYC activities, or hang out in person with friends, and traveling. We used to travel 6-8 times a year and are really itching to get out of the apartment these days.
How did you end up getting "Tasks.org"? Seems like that domain would have been taken a long time ago.
Surprisingly well, especially since I was diagnosed with lymphoma a week before they made the stay at home order. I already work from home, so that was no change. One thing that has been an improvement is the freedom to do nothing without feeling bad about it. I used to feel like I was letting myself down if I stayed home for a month straight, but now it's like I have permission.

For unrelated reasons, I had decided in December I would be sober all of 2020. I have a feeling that things would be much worse if I were drinking during all of this.
I just have to say thanks for asking. I don't know if folks outside of a given field understand the particular insanity one in that field suffers.

TL;DR: on paper I have a perfect job/damn good life but I legit cannot force myself to do any work.

Let's look at the brass tacks for me and why I should be so happy:
1. 5+ years salary in the bank. 2. Several rental properties, all operating normally, covering all of our monthly expenses. 3. A high-paying remote job with infinite autonomy. 4. 10-month old baby, our first. My mom provides free childcare.

This person has it all, right? Oh my god no I have never been this miserable. Our partners are insurance companies, and they are always slow to work with. With COVID they are effectively non-operational when it comes to implementing new software. This means we just spin our wheels.

Life have never been so meaningless from 9-5. There are days when I don't even open my editor or attend meetings. There is just this incredible detachment amongst the whole team.

When I clock out, life is perfect. I never liked going out or anything anyways, so it's just the perfect excuse to sit and home and work on my creative projects.

I am currently working on a plan to take a leave of absence because the alternative is that I just resign. Sitting so close to the life I've always wanted (being a couch potato) and having my beautiful son to be with all day has made it impossible to contribute to my team and the guilt of that is gutting me.
My girlfriend and I of 3 1/2 years broke up last month. I do partially blame the virus for showing us that maybe we weren't as compatible as I thought. I'm not great right now but I'm channeling my energy into self improvement, being active again, work, and being more social.
I was just thinking about this now after reading attacks on Yann Lecun on twitter. He's a prominent AI figure (head of facebook research and turing award recipient). My interpretation - he was saying that bias in AI is mostly a problem of data. He didn't say there's no bias or that you can't solve bias with modeling. Just that the model itself isn't what causing the bias. One woman researcher started attacking him and everyone is backing her up... even calling him a racist. I guess a lot of people who work on fairness in AI got offended because they feel he calls their research BS. (which I don't think is what he meant)

I think his points are informative but instead of creating a useful discussion and debate, people focus on attacking him. I wouldn't be surprised if some people will request FB to fire him... (which thankfully won't happen) It's likely next time he will think twice before saying his opinion on social media. That's how toxic social media has become.

Update: Great to see this got so many upvotes so quickly. Just shows how biased (no pun intended) social media like Twitter is, and how concerned people are to say their opinion publicly these days.
I mostly work on desktop programming, and I've dabbled in web stuff...

And I don't know what GIS is. I see it talked about _a lot_ but I don't understand how there can be so much money and interest in geography.

I understand web stuff being huge, because I'm online almost all day. But what _is_ GIS? Is it something businesses do and consumers don't see?
Surprisingly well, given the circumstances.

Before lockdown, I had already been looking for jobs. Since then, I've been rejected pre-interview by a handful of companies, and have bombed out of a handful of interviews at the final stage.

I was also made redundant a few weeks ago, so I'm nearing the point where I need to find myself a new job.

Despite that, it's been weirdly nice to sit at home, on my own, and simply learn again. Obviously, I'm freaking out about being out of work soon, but I'm hopeful that the stars will align and at least one company will offer me something.
I feel a little guilty too enjoying quarantine. My partner and I are both homebodies, and so we've enjoyed the extra time we have together.

It's also been doing wonders for my stress since we recently relocated to another country (can't avoid packing and doing stuff to get set up for another country if you're stuck at home.)

I definitely don't miss the traffic from my old commute at all.

I can see how if you're single and unemployed how the quarantine would be terrible for your mental health.
I'm not sure why people don't run their own caching server instead of stubs. Or at least for the LAN? You don't have to use your ISPs DNS servers, unless they are evil and capture port 53.
Better now.

I was in the process of moving in Netherlands when the lockdown happened most of my day-to-day stuff were already there when the borders closed with me on the wrong side. I had to live with my mother during two months in my teenager clothes doing remote working and my job as a TA with a 13" Fedora laptop remotely connected to a Windows workstation and screen sharing through Teams. It was painfull and very hard.

I managed to cross the borders last month and now, I am finishing my contract in Belgium before going back to Netherlands and finding a job (and an appartment) there.

I managed to put more money on the side during that time but it was the only positive thing that happened the last three months. My focus was off, I was highly unproductive. I have already WFH in the last year and it was good because I was able to balance it with a active social life. Being stuck at home with the space as a working desk, a sleeping roam and the only part of the appartment where I could be alone was... well not a good time.
How about you and your partner being fired from your job because your 13 year old wrote 1 year ago in Instagram : "Guacamole nigga penis". Is that shame treatment good enough or you prefer it more severe?
I am from Europe as well, but I'm not sure how relevant that is. I regret using the word "obvious", I should instead have said "it can safely be assumed that it's the city that's much larger than the others that is being referenced".