skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but fearing saying the wrong thing

Indeed, fear itself is not mob justice, rather, the actions of the mod itself is mob justice.

> emotionally raw time ...

This was a thing before the riots too. The Stallman case happened last year for example.

> Downvotes are expected from those ignorant of history ;)

I do not think that anyone sane is doubting the historical mob justice against certain groups. It is just that just as these instances of mobbing were wrong so are the modern ones. (plus I believe that some of the people downvoting do so due to how us-centric this comment is)
Or look at how other countries are running their internal affairs and perhaps learn from them. (Qatar, UAE, Oman, etc.) yes, they have issues pertaining to labor rights, but it doesn't mean they don't have solutions the US can't learn from, especially when it comes to SJW.
Curating your feeds to regain mindfulness: a Twitter thread on digital hygiene
What’s the difference? In both cases someone wants to take away rights from someone else because of their own belief system.
Just to correct the record, the Mozilla guy controversy seems like it was about Prop 8 and that they were worried they were losing users due to the controversy.

Here was Obama's position on prop 8:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/obamas-brief-agains...

The Obama admin's opposition and Justices appointed by Obama (and favored by Senate Dems) led the way to marriage equality.

Whether to 'cancel' is an entirely different issue, but I think you're being dishonest here. There was concrete action these Democrats took that defeated terrible discrimination.
> But maybe the new grad student didn't get the memo and developed his model in vim on the compute node.

Was trying to think through scenario's like that as well, but they don't really make sense.

If various staff members created a few weeks (or even months) worth of work on storage that isn't backed up, then the response from mgmt would generally be "Bad luck, you'll need to redo it".

But mgmt decided that work was worth paying US$1.1M+ for, and copping the reputation damage.

So, it's a weird mix of potential scenarios to actually get that happening. ;)

Maybe someone internal was actually responsible for that malware and is going for some kind of weird payday?
>The crazy part here is that EY did not verify directly with the banks if the account statements were real, which is very basic and very easy to audit. They just took what Wirecard gave them to confirm what Wirecard told them for something as important as accounts that were supposed to hold almost all the cash the company had. Absolutely insane.

Not insane at all, and you went on to explain why it's not insane:

>But the thing is EY , like all the big 4, have totally seperate entities for every country they operate in. Now that could mean EY Germany is an isolated case of incompetence and (criminal?) neglect

People believe that these firms are strict in auditing, which can be useful to some companies to have as a seal of approval. Case in point, Deloitte and the reverse mergers of Chinese companies with an estimated loss of $500 billions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_21st-century_Chinese_rev...
Not being scalable is much less of a problem when you want to make a living and help people than when you want to make lots and lots of money.

Because of that and because labor is cheap in most places where micro-finance makes sense, I would think not being scalable isn’t a huge problem for micro-financing.
Depends greatly on the charity.

Caritas has very little overhead because they work with voluntaries (mostly).

But yes, there is always overhead.
> Well, donating against gay marriage is some big-government bigoted shit,

So freedom of speech/expression isn't when it doesn't align with group think, got it.
You are nitpicking details that don’t matter in this game.

There is no “apparent wind” indication, only true wind. And the boat in the game is modeled like a regular sailboat, which means a typical 90-degree no-go zone.
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Goldman Sachs Created a Font, but You're Forbidden by Its License to Critique GS
Poll:

1. Wow, can’t wait to see that. I’m 12 years old.

2. Why not remake Casablanca with that kind of talent?

3. What’s Quibi?
Fair. Point still stands. My (misinformed) perception was that they were doing like 15 hot deals a year.
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His portfolio website arguably competes with Facebook, where artists sometimes have pages for their work. I doubt this case is a deliberate attempt to strangle a competitor in the crib (although I'm sure this does happen), but if Facebook were actually scared of anti-trust enforcement I think their whole blocking process would be a little less draconian.
Thanks for that. I was aware of this phenomenon but didn't know its name. Funny, the Overton Window article does link to DITF, but not the other way around.
Learn about lynching before you compare anything here as even close to lynching

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/26/lynchings-me...
Is it your experience that, when giving cash money as a donation/gift to a person does not result in positive consequences, giving a microloan to that same person produces different outcomes?

I assume that the people who use the (high interest) microloans for consumption would also use cash the same way, while those who use it to create a better future for themselves would do the same even when they don't have to pay it back.

Basically: is it the way/circumstances you got the money that makes the difference, or is the loan instrument just filtering out more of those that would "waste" it, because paying interest isn't attractive to them (and it wouldn't be 90% consumption credits, but 99.x% if there was no credit check and no interest)?
I have an XZ1 Compact. It's great, works really well, appealing design, every feature I need - decent screen, headphone jack, camera button, fingerprint reader, feels fast, battery lasts for ages. It's an almost perfect phone. Just one problem: it's too big.

Not by that much, but it definitely is. It's too big to use well one-handed, and it doesn't fit comfortably in a lot of pockets, especially since the corners are pointy.

The perfect phone form factor - and this must surely have been plain to anyone who ever held one - was the Nokia Lumia 620, a Windows phone with 3.8" screen and a curvy back with exchangable double-shot plastic covers. It was a bit like an iPhone 3GS in shape but lighter and with a marginally bigger screen. The phone itself was a bit crap in various ways, but how strange that we should collectively ignore the obvious rightness of this design and go on making them worse and worse for years afterwards. (I'm being flippant, but somewhere in my head I am puzzled by it all)
> He could easily have moved past what he did by making a short statement and a donation

What if he still doesn't agree with homosexual marriage? Who are you to force him to change his view?
Networking that doesn't use ethernet cables or Wi-Fi is always fascinating. I'm reminded of the way some labs in the pre-wifi days used infrared beacons and transceivers on laptops to create local wireless networks.
I dread the day the trick using Search to force Twitter to show a chronological view of just the people I follow will stop working:

- without replies: https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Are...

- with replies: https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3A&s...

They already send irrelevant notifications (sometimes even about tweets that I already read & even retweeted with comment) if they feel like you're not engaged enough.
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I'm reminded a bit of the JVC TM-L450TU LCCS (http://www.earlytelevision.org/jvc_tm-l450tu.html), which used some clever tricks to make a fundamentally B&W LCD show colour.
I don't know about Surveymonkey, but Zynga makes profit from games. Games are addictive, people pay.
I remember my professor Michael Bender teaching those M/B stuff and it was interesting (somehow related to origami). Sadly I pretty much forgot everything now.
You cannot rewind your speech to hear what you wispered two years ago or do a quick search to see everyone you have ever wispered to. Without secure encryption the collection and storage of data by the NSA will give them those capabilities on data. So in your scenario it would be like always having a mic pointed at you, always being followed by wired informants and having everything around you bugged.
As a professional game developer I disagree with most of your comments.

This code is clearly not perfect, but the from what I've seen, this is something I could work with.

- Function names are easy to read and understand.
- Indirections are kept to a manageable level.
Not saying it is. Also losing your job is hardly being “lynched”, but I’m not interested in wading into a threadnaught over this.
Only presidents facing an overwhelmingly obstructionist Congress of racist white people.
Great demo using GNURadio, which I personally find daunting.
The "life-mode" is nice, does anyone know if it is possible to create something like it for Android phones with the current tooling?
Buzzfeed has editorial standards?
Voltaire: "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"
> "Roadside Picnic" (1972) novel of Strugatsky brothers

Before his death, Boris Strugatsky gave a license for writing a sequel to Finnish author Ville Vuorela. Vuorela published The Hollow Pilgrim in 2014 as ebook. Something went wrong with the deal between the small Finnish publisher and Amazon, and now the ebook is annoyingly difficult to find.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23354402-the-hollow-pilg...
What we need is the ability to see this data by country, I think patterns might develop. It doesn't appear to be possible in the current webUI that I can find - probably an uncommon query for them.
I believe they are referencing James S. A. Corey The Expanse [0] series

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(novel_series)
The Last of Us Part2 Is Not the Ending of the Story? The Last of Us Part 3?
Majority backlash, grievance and resentment is inevitable. Encouraging that sense of grievance by weighting one majority life over countless minority lives is counterproductive. Instead, keep perspective by maintaining a sense of proportion of the aggregate injustice. One guy getting fired is a drop in the bucket.
Obsessing over productivity in your personal life seems like a mistake to me.

Sure, it’s good to get things done. But its also important to remember that we are human beings. Quite literally animals living on a rock that is flying through space.

Not every minute of our life needs to be tracked and judged and stressed over. It’s perfectly heathy to just do nothing sometimes. It is ok to have an unproductive day, or week, or period in your life.
When white people make a mistake they lose their jobs. When black people make a mistake they aren't allowed to breathe. Both are unjust but they are far from morally equivalent.
I feel like C++ makes it particularly difficult to jump around big projects (mainly headers especially back in the old days pre good-ide).

There is also a lot of fear of performance regressions by breaking up big chunks of code (arguably unfounded with modern compilers).
I’ve seen this done with New York City commercial real estate, ‘accidentally’ sold far-below market rate to a party which flipped the property within 90 days at (many) millions higher valuation. After this transaction occurred, coincidentally an IRS investigation into offshore Cayman accounts was decided to have no merit and dropped.
> new/delete, with no RAII

There is nothing wrong with this. Plenty of people have no issues keeping track of memory in their head.
That's a straw man argument. He represented a company that claimed to be progressive which isn't what the majority of people do.
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Micro finance is definitely not “mostly a scam.” My dad is in the international development field, and was an early fan of Mohammed Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist who pioneered micro finance.

The article doesn’t do a good job proving its case. Looking at interest rates in isolation is meaningless. Is there any evidence these micro finance banks are achieving above-normal ROIs by exploiting people who need loans? Grameen Bank, one of the original micro finance institutions in Bangladesh, has a return on invested capital of around 6.5%. That’s not very high at all, especially considering the risky nature of their portfolio.

Well-meaning people worries about the notion of profiting from poor people are actually holding them back. Capital is what turns poor people into middle class people. Capital is what turned Korea from a poor country into a rich country. Foreign assistance, addressing healthcare, family planning, and education, helps catalyze the process. But all of that is pointless without capital. Foreign direct investment is one piece of that puzzle, and micro finance can be another piece of that puzzle.
If someone takes nude photos of your 6 year old daughter and encrypt them, is it not still a crime?
If you really want to include NetBackup in that list, then for a real world deployment you'll generally be looking at more than US$1M+.

Assuming it's for an actual enterprise or at least large dept.

Source: Used to be a NetBackup engineer on enterprise accounts :)
This article calls out the dangers of corporate virtue signalling. I have many friends and acquaintances that do the personal version of this, and are part of the problem.

Honestly, I think the only way to combat this is to make taking these actions expensive for those who do that. The twitter rage/grievance machine is running on all cylinders.

That and making sure that companies that succumb to the mob, are roundly and publicly held to account for that. If they can't be bothered to make rational choices, then find alternatives to patronize.
The paper itself was posted yesterday, with a lot of criticism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23652804
Can you point to the source?

Last time I checked it, it was concrete. Forms for blocks are made from animal skins. Cement was made in kiln. At least one kiln has pretty modern look.
I do the same! Only catch is, doesn't always work if you're on a restrictive network that only allows udp/53 to a specific DNS (captive portals, corpnets etc). I use a small shell script that tries the DNS trick first, then falls back on HTTP if that times out.
Can you elaborate on this?

> ... full of footguns that it was unacceptable for a security-critical component.

What it not secure about it?
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There is a special type of entity that can raise money for acquiring other profitable businesses as well, they are called "special purpose acquisition companies" (SPACs). You can basically raise money out of thin air only by only using your reputation and your desire to invest in other companies.
This is an odd list. While it includes various topics is includes things I would expect many to already be familiar with as well as educational/entertainment sources. While I love 3B1B, I don't understand how it belongs on a list like this. Similarly things like Lex's AI podcast.

The list also includes very beginner things. Maybe this could be ordered as in a way to progress through subjects or at least something better than alphabetical (and have a section for "entertainment" which would include things like 3B1B, Lex, Robert Miles, etc, which are useful but not hard literature).

Additionally: Title should be "DeepMind AI __Resource__ List," many items here are not ones in which you can read.
I just run whatever the latest Ubuntu version is at the time of release for my XPS machines, and it works fine. Or at least no worse than Ubuntu normally works.
It seems to me as well -- we are in a witch hunt run amok. You do not need truth, you do not need actual witches, just keep raising fear. Once the fear is high enough, even those who do not support such causeless insta-firings would vote for it out of fear that if they do not participate in a witch hunt they may end up on a target list.

Personally, I work in a great place (large R&D lab), enjoy a lot of respect and an almost complete technical freedom to pursue interesting projects, good salary (not FAANG-level, but plenty for a comfortable life), etc. and I am seriously considering bugging out, at least for a year or two, exactly because of witch hunts. Our management is sane, but should I end up in a wrong bucket (and I will not participate in a witch hunt and will speak for a friend if he is attacked, so it is possible) no one would be able to save my ass.

A couple of friends that work in small companies (20 ppl or less) generally report a much saner environment, with no company-level witch hunts. I wonder if this is true overall -- smaller companies focus less on external politics and more on technical tasks, allowing employees to participate in politics, or not, in their free time.
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That was tried with peacefully taking a knee. He was ignored and called a “son of a bitch” by the President.

Conservatives always bring up the “The Three Boxes of Liberty”. Minorities took their advice - it’s time for the third box.
Since the curated boutique App Store idea got perverted, perhaps the cure is to go back to Steve Jobs' original plan to use PWAs.
They had one partial positive test result from one random sample taken in March 2019. None of the samples taken during the following months tested positive until Jan 15, 2020. The paper is a preprint that hasn't been peer reviewed.

The overwhelmingly likely explanation is one incorrect test result due to something like an imperfect test or cross contamination. You would need much better evidence than that to rewrite the entire timeline of this disease.
> Rule #5: Schedule and limit your exposure

I wrote a simple Go program to email me weekly updates of the RSS feeds I follow. It runs on AWS Lambda with weekly triggers from Cloud Watch and sends emails using AWS SES. [0]

If you are following a high number of feeds, it is a life-changer to go from the mentality of "let's see if there is something new" to "let's wait for the email on Monday".

[0]: https://github.com/ege-erdogan/rss-email-lambda. You have to setup some environment variables and then set up the cloud services.
I have a lot of respect for Recurse Center, and am a fan of the work that comes out of it. However, I feel that it is a very exclusive place, and if you are not good enough, you're just not welcome.

I applied for an internship there a couple years ago. After writing an essay on why I want to do RC, and an interview where, IIRC, I shared my camera but my interviewers did not, I was rejected with a boilerplate "not for us" explanation, and that was that.

I would've felt much better about it if they had at least invited me to visit, but this experience gave it a very corporate and impersonal feel.
They don’t need ammunition. They will never see Black people as the “Model Minority”.
One of my professors used to encourage the heavy use of helper functions that just... well, like in A or B in carmacks article, break your code into chunks with clear names that can be unit tested.

How common is automated testing in AAA games?
As a counter example, police unions seem to have played a large role in creating/perpetuating the problems so many have been protesting lately.
I think, like it or not, the end goal of the AI industry will result in people with less and less rigorous education creating models used in production. It may not be solid science, but it doesn't have to be. It will end up changing entire fields anyways. Especially for less serious applications, no one cares about rigor.

It's just what happens to a field as it becomes more universally accessible.
I don't think it's necessary. With modern C++ it's possible to encapsulate high performance code.

The issue with games in particular is probably partly due to the performance optimizations being directed at a moving target (it's not just your supercomputer nodes, it's every computer CPU). C++ doesn't really help you much in that regard (or at least better know but certainly not 10 years ago)
Let's stop firing people for arbitrary reasons, rather than going through a process negotiated between the employees' union and the employer to end someone's employment.

A lot of this whining about celebrities (and sometimes others) getting canceled stinks of special exceptions in employment law being made for people who say offensive things. That's even dumber than the religious carve-outs, i.e. the rights that have been exclusively granted to people who believe things that cannot by definition be proved, and that if you fail to have beliefs that cannot by definition be proved (no matter how minority, or how discriminated against) you are excluded from.

The problem is the lack of process. I don't somehow care more about the suffering of people who have tweeted things that look racist to someone, than the suffering of others fired because they were accused of being unproductive on the job then fired with no hearing or documentation of that lack of productivity, or somebody fired because the company thought it would be cheaper to outsource their job.

The idea that random companies and academic institutions carry the authority to either define somebody as racist, or can lose that authority to credibly point out racism by unfairly exercising it is laughable. Maybe, instead, random companies shouldn't be allowed to arbitrarily take away someone's living by a functional government working in the public interest.
It would be fun to try this with a 96kHz audio card (audiophiles, this is your moment!) and trying this with a large band like 20kHz-40kHz (you would need an ultrasound transducer and amplifier, of course)

You could probably get, I dunno 200kbps?
The Barriers to Overthrowing Internet Feudalism
Tip o' th' hat to Ken Hansen @ Neustar for bringing this to my attention. The author, Geoff Huston, is a credible observer.
This part impacted me a lot really, almost teared up.
This is a truly important part of how SQLite works
The details of how the data is stored are described in this 1979 paper by Douglas Comer: "The Ubiquitous B-Tree" [1]. Since it was invented, much hasn't really changed: practically all relational databases use some variation of this structure. I wrote about it in [2], which might help explain some aspects of how it works.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/356770.356776

[2] https://grisha.org/blog/2013/05/11/relational-database-on-to...

Edit: also [3] is about how to store SQLite in a Redis hash (rather than on-disk file).

[3] https://grisha.org/blog/2013/05/29/sqlite-db-stored-in-a-red...