skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't read the comments but...

I'm black and a developer (not just a dev, I'm a full stack, audiovisual generalist, animation, motion graphics, ui/ux, illustrator), started in the end 90s and professionally since 2008?!

Got no idea if I ever been put aside because of my skin colour, but my photo and stuff is public for anybody prior to any interview and stuff - so if that happened, great, fuck them, I don't want to have to deal with them.

I also don't wear suits and stuff like that, and for a lot of years I used to take my skateboard to interviews and always spoke my mind.

My afro is also huge, I also wear whatever I want, but managed to work in a fintech where people wear suits and stuff.

I do know that may pay is usually lower then other people but don't think that's related to my skin colour but because I don't do any ass licking! Or maybe because I'm shit :)

My biggest problem nowadays is that there are a lot of people in the scene for money and this obsession for long recruitment processes, literally putting people in risk of being homeless. I also find that this same people expect you to behave in a certain way and have a "certain culture" - there are countless youtube videos of people offering what seems to be tutorials on what to say in interviews, etc - I find that absolutely ridiculous and inhuman! Sick and sad people!

So that's who I relate with, good people, people who work hard and still struggle even though! But yes, of course I'd like to see other people like me once in awhile too.
Never too soon either. Then it was mostly the twentieth century. And now mostly ripples. Of which this is one.
Dairy was a regional economic engine. Production in my neck of the woods (upstate ny) provided jobs in agriculture, processing and trucking, along with the downstream industries.

When laws changed and made the market national, huge producers were able to takeover the market and are in the process of putting everyone out of business. Yogurt in Trader Joe’s is shipped in from LA.

Consumer prices haven’t dropped. As big producers vertically integrate, prices are going up for many commodities.
> I do think that Reddit fills an important niche - a place where any topic is open for discussion

This used to be the case years ago but Reddit is anything but open now. It's a giant echo chamber and if you harbor unpopular beliefs or opinions you are not welcome.
Amazfit Bip watches for the whole family. These are of the dying breed that can be used by open source software Gadgetbridge. Your HR, sleep patterns and tracks never leave your phone.
I actually have ordered a harmonica as one of my long shot attempts to fix this. Was inspired by the didgeridoo post. Apparently some hospitals use harmonicas for respiratory patients.
Where does the budget for fundamental physics come from, then?
I don't know, Lenovo and Dell constantly compete for the spot of first supplier of business laptops.
I beg to differ on that last point, if history serves well as an example.
Interesting points. Do you think YC actively contacts inventors which just share their work/research with the world and suggests mentoring or drives toward business forming?
Can confirm, I'm black, and growing up I would often hear my parents and aunts often say that the government jobs were the best because it was stable
Appreciate the correction about indirect cost math - I’ve applied for several grants but never did lab accounting so I interpreted it incorrectly when professors told me “50% overhead.” I’ll fix that when I’m at a computer.

I would characterize my position as less “pro DARPA and anti NSF” and more “I think on the margin the world needs more DARPA-like activity more than it needs more NSF-like activity”
Sql2slack – send SQL results periodically to slack
Is there an example somewhere on how to link without libc and make my own syscalls? I tried this a while ago (can't remember which version of macOS it was), fiddling with Csu, nasm etc. but couldn't quite figure it out.
I'm not sure where this comment is even coming from. Whether you agree or disagree with their agenda, these are all inherently movements of civil-disobedience, seeking to up-end a cultural status quo. Upending the cultural status quo is inherently short-term destabilizing even if it improves long-term state stability.

That said, BLM is clearly about finding a pareto improvement to individual well-being in the context of systemic racism, Antifa is as anti-government as the so called "Patriot" movement, and Communists value fairness over maximal well-being. Maybe I'm dense but I don't see how these three collectives are at all inherently related.

Organizations working to defend the State (like DARPA) are dedicated to both the short and long term survivability of the State. Any activist movement, right or left, is definitionally not aligned with the interests of the short-term status quo, even if they may well produce innovations that promote long-term stability. That said, those goals don't have an impact on the output of an R&D organization, except as they allow or disallow diversity of thought within an R&D organization. Any ideology, "left", "right", or "center", sufficiently outspoken enough, can be used to suppress the diversity of thought necessary to recognize/embrace true innovations when they are produced.
Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot
Not gonna lie, I have been scared to deploy to DigitalOcean after that debacle [0] posted here last year. It's worth the premium to me not to worry about that at night. Yes, AWS could shut me down too, but the probability seems lower.

[0] "Digital Ocean Killed Our Company", Hacker News, May 2019. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169
There’s also the posts that are marketing for ycombinator backed companies. Launches and stuff that are probably weighted a little higher so they stay on the front page longer. And of course selective screening for hiring from the group of people that are usually above average in the first place.
I've seen a couple of popular posts removed from the front page.

The last one was criticizing Apple.
A couple other ways to compute the exponential function: The Intel 8087 coprocessor used CORDIC. The chip contained a ROM with the values of log2(1+2^-n) for various n. These constants allowed the exponential to be rapidly computed with shifts and adds.

The Sinclair Scientific calculator was notable for cramming transcendental functions into a chip designed as a 4-function calculator, so they took some severe shortcuts. Exponentials were based on computing 0.99^n through repeated multiplication. Multiplying by 0.99 is super-cheap in BCD since you shift by two digits and subtract. To compute 10^x, it computes .99^(-229.15*x). Slow and inaccurate, but easy to implement.
Absolutely fascinating! Hail to you Sir. Amazing.
I resent that comment; the way it typically goes engineers make something work and then an endless parade of scientist comes up with increasingly irrelevant explanations while engineers move on to the next challenge.

As the saying goes, thermodynamics owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to thermodynamics.

The cult of the scientist has gone too far in the US
> > So in the long run we have to either die or stop having children. There is no other option.

> This is a very different statement from your previous assertions that we have to die, period.

Actually, it's not. I would have thought it was self-evident that ceasing to have children was not a viable option, but apparently you don't see that, so I will explain: the desire to have children is woven deeply into the human psyche, indeed, into the psyche of every living thing that has a psyche, for a very simple reason: genes that build brains that want children reproduce better than genes that build brains that don't.

The only way to achieve immortality without unsustainable exponential growth is to asymptotically reduce the reproduction rate to 0. The more immortals you have, the fewer of them will be able to have children without exhausting the resources of the universe. And if you think this is a small price to pay for immortality you really don't understand human nature, or even life itself.

> Populations grow more slowly or not at all when people feel substantially safer.

That's true, but you will never reduce the growth rate to zero organically. You will always have some people who want a child. Among mortals this is not a problem. As long as the reproduction rate is <= 1 this is sustainable. But the sustainable reproduction rate in a population of immortals is zero, and you will never achieve that absent draconian enforcement because Darwin.

> I'm hoping that the observations above help in that regard.

Not at all. All you've done is provide evidence for my initial hypothesis, that you are hopelessly naive.

> (This will be my last comment on this thread.)

That's fine. Check back in 20-30 years.
At the first 'Real IT' job I had we started off as Waterfall using Jira.

We eventually did transition to agile, and while it was painful, having an Agile coach on contract worked out GREAT. Their job was to teach us agile in 6 months and be out.

Once we had switched, our Jira workflow was simple. I think it was the same scenario you outline above though; they had enough experience with Jira in waterfall that they knew what to use and what not to use. Which for us was Epics/Stories/Tasks/Tickets/Bugs, Attaching things, linking together (i.e. being able to track that a story was assigned to a ticket submitted by a user/customer was great for communicating with the business about priorities.) But that was about it.
Must say, his portrait of Rheinhold Messner's and Hans Kammerlander's double summit of both Gasherburms in one go is on another level compared to basically any mountain documentaries of that era. Name is Dark glow of the mountains, german speaking but I found some english subtitles.

You have dark aspects of protagonists revealed, questions about what to do with belongings if they don't come back and so on. Its not the style that was common at that time. I mean, it gives you perspective on extreme mountaineering and people doing it like few documents do, even in these days.

Whether you like Messner's personality or not, its a damn fine documentary and shows why these guys are not mere athletes like world champions/olympic winners.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15177/preferred-networks-a-50...
Any idea on magnesium dosage? Up to 450 doesn’t seem to do anything for my bruxism.
Chocolatey has Brave too, and other Chromium-based browsers : https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=tag%3Achromium .
>The biggest benefit is market manipulation and collusion.

Your claim would be more persuasive if you gave us a few specific examples.
Your writing reads as if you think of yourself as a person free of all unconscious bias and so self-aware of your actions that you would instantly spot any internal bias and immediately correct. It seems unlikely that is the case.
I am really curious about brown people.

How come Indians succeed in tech? Why do we have so many Indians in tech?

if it's just the skin colour. Why do Indians in tech rise to the top.

P.S. - Before you try to cancel me - I am not trying to start a flame war. I am curious about your explanation.
HTTP is one particular implementation of REST that happens to have nine verbs. Another implementation might only have two or three. But no RESTful architecture will have much more than nine.

Why?

Because your application is going to have thousands of nominal states, and each one is going to need to support all of the verbs because of the uniform interface constraint.

Why a uniform interface?

A lot to say about this, but basically, the set of verbs is an abstraction of the state machine that is your application. If you have a million states and a million verbs, then you have no abstraction. If you have ten states and a hundred verbs then you have too much abstraction (i.e. you ran afoul of YAGNI). A good degree abstraction is somewhere in between, but if you care about scale (which is the raison d'être for REST), then the size of set of verbs is going to have a logarithmic relation to the size of the set of nominal states.
Blitzortung.org: Network for Lightning and Thunderstorms in Real Time
From the article:

> It’s not obvious why Fielding thinks anyone would ever attempt to build such a thing given that the web already exists; perhaps in 2000 it seemed like there was room for more than one distributed hypermedia system in the world.

It’s worth remembering that Gopher was still a common thing in 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
The social discomfort is par for the course for American POC. Did that white lady cross the street cause she's afraid of me, or my dog? All day, every day. Now you and I get to experience some of this discomfort and through our experience we can work to make the world a bit better and more equitable.

Specifically for your social distancing example, I've found it's far too confrontational to ask people to step away from me. In lines, if someone is up my asshole, I simply offer them to go in front of me, then give 6ft of space. Or in a grocery store, I walk away and come back to get what I need later.
Flagging is done by users.
Most of the points you mentioned there were not immediately obvious to me from reading either of the pages we cited above, so I'll have to take your word that there is something relevant available even if I can't readily identify it. But to be frank, if it would cost that much just to get a useful Windows 10 licence, or even a handful of them, it's hardly going to be attractive compared to the other options anyway, even if there really are no other shenanigans.

I do appreciate your time writing these comments, but unfortunately what I'm seeing so far doesn't really look any more promising than anything I've come across in any previous discussions on this subject. If Microsoft ever decides to offer a simple licence at a reasonable price for a fully controlled edition of Windows 10, and if we haven't already got everything we need from the combination of six other platforms we currently use at my businesses anyway, maybe we'll take a look. For now, it seems their business model doesn't include having businesses like us as customers, and we're certainly not going to go out of our way to work around that and give them money anyway. After all, why on earth would we?
Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Hmm. My tongue is always t the roof of my mouth when awake. But my nose gets stuffed when I sleep. Does yours with allergies?

I ordered some breathe right things for the nose for sleep to try to improve this, hoping it helps with bruxism. If they work and I still have it, will try tape. Want to make sure I don’t suffocate first due to blocked nose haha.
I thought it meant like 7 anonymous companies (‘a’ being a function that takes in a param) that he/she had to go through. We’re dealing with a real weirdo here (or a real a(7)) :p

Sometimes you gotta take the good with the bad.
This is a great step at stopping not just the spread of hate speech but also at stopping hate itself. Platforms like Twitter and Facebook have done and continue to do too much to encourage and then monetize rage.
Nearly everything I have worked on in my career is now dead in a ditch, never of my choosing. I’m at peace with this, but I’m also not fooling myself about what we’re up to, here in this industry. The flipside of “moving fast” is that most things have a very short half-life. It’s not an excuse to be careless of course, but it is a reason to think and proceed practically.

I don’t think the remedy to this is making industrial-strength faberge eggs. (Unless you literally fabricate those, which sounds pretty interesting!) I think it’s to do something entirely different part of the time, gardening or woodworking or trains or whatever.
Who is going to be the main beneficiary of this move? Where else are these advertisers going to shift their ad dollars
I don't know who is right, but I always think it's always good to look at important issues from multiple points of views.

If anyone is interested in understanding another point of view, check out Tucker Carlson. He has black guests on all the time who make a pretty good counter-case and provide their perspective.
Interestingly no one suggested YC could actively contacts inventors which just share their work/research with the world and suggest mentoring or drive toward business. It could be seen as a super early lead generator. How common/possible in this scenario?
1. TFA treats universities as fungible, when it is a truth universally acknowledged that most colleges won't open any particularly interesting doors. (the ones that do are a handful to a dozen which vary depending upon one's interests)

2. The upper class still has yachts, backyard tennis courts, and polo ponies. The $300 cotton T-shirts and $400 sweatpants are for the working class.

where:
working class - needs a job / middle class - has enough property to do without a job for few years, but couldn't maintain their lifestyle without an income / upper class - their property provides their income

alternatively:
working class - acquires things whose TCO doesn't involve external employment / middle class - acquires things whose TCO involves fractions of an FTE / upper class - acquires things whose TCO requires multiple FTEs
Sure, HN is a curated site. Posts get removed from the front page all the time. This can be because of user flags, software action, and/or moderator action, in any permutation.

Edit: we don't moderate HN based on who is being criticized or praised, be it Apple or anyone else. If you're noticing stories criticizing Apple getting removed, you're probably a critic of Apple. If you were a fan of Apple, you'd notice stories praising Apple getting removed. I call this the notice-dislike bias (crappy name, but I don't know a better one): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... This bias dominates people's perceptions of HN to such an extent that I don't think I've ever seen a single counterexample.
You're right I don't understand the plight of middle America, and I bet they don't understand a thing about the problems the coasts face. Maybe we should split up and go be separate countries. They can take the south with them while we're at it.
My read was similar, I also couldn’t get through Lo and Behold which set off bullshit alarms [0] and just gave me the impression of confidence being used in the place of actual explanation.

It feels like an emperor has no clothes situation. For some reason people think it signals high status or intellectualism to like Herzog so they say they do.

I haven’t watched all of his movies so this may be unfairly harsh, but that was my initial impression.

Portal podcast also came across that way to me. First interview with Thiel was interesting, but I stopped somewhere after the next couple.

Too much “the media doesn’t want us to talk about this” and “the Clintons are a globalist conspiracy against the people”.

If you have real arguments then make them.

Don’t just confidently state things as fact without backing them up.

Thankfully when Sam Harris was on he at least pushed back on some of the bullshit.

[0]: https://youtu.be/Bqx6li5dbEY
Are You a Workaholic? (2010)
> I don't even think it is aiming to perfectly replicate dairy cheese

It isn't, indeed. I've tried a whole bunch of different vegan cheeses, and while they sometimes call them "mozzarella", "camembert" or other dairy cheese names, they do not try to match the taste. It would be an obviously losing battle as the best they could do is to be as good, most probably and understandably falling short of that. They instead create new kinds of cheese-like products, sometimes taking inspiration from dary cheeses sometimes not, and the results are actually pretty good espectially considered how recent the art of vegan cheese is!
Bruh. You can buy literally any ThinkPad (choose your size, choose your spec) then get a ThinkPad-compatible LTE/whatever compatible card off eBay for 50$ or less.

Try doing that (adding/replacing hardware) on an iPad.
I actually had similar concerns, in my mind OVH was always one of the lesser regarded providers with cheap hardware and attracted not-so-nice customers judging by the amount of spam I used to get from their network.

I ended up moving my personal projects to OVH as a trial (and due to some some gross incompetence by Singlehop). After a few months of everything looking great, I moved our company's production services and couldn't be happier. I now consider them one of my tier one options when looking for hosting options. The hardware on the higher end models is all enterprise grade - Xeon, ECC, enterprise SSD / NVME drives, etc. You also get full IPMI access with virtual media, so setting up full disk encryption etc is a breeze. Network has been very reliable, their DDoS protection in particular is almost magical - I barely even see the malicious traffic before their network filters it. I only have a handful of servers, but none of them have experienced any hardware or major network issues. Currently have servers in their Vint Hill, Beauharnois and Roubaix datacenters and it all seems to be equally reliable.

The value-add features like FTP backup space haven't been great, speed / reliability problems but I don't care too much for it anyway, I ended up using Hetzner for backup storage as they have a ridiculously good $/GB ratio. I can't speak much for OVH support as I've rarely had to contact them, the few times I did they resolved the problem satisfactorily. With IPMI access and being an unmanaged service, you're probably on your own for anything software related.
I just allow myself to wind down thinking my own thoughts, generally a calm reflection on what’s happened in the day which often turns into what I want to do tomorrow.
My more top level view is that DARPA and such are just side channels to sneakily funnel public money into research.

In theory free market should take care of the economy. It's really good at optimizing manufacturing processes and getting stuff as cheaply as possible into hands of as many people as possible.

However there's one thing essential to the economy that free market sucks at. It's research. And that's not because companies are bad at doing research. It's because companies are bad at funding research. Research is inherently risky and no sane capitalist will invest in anything beyond tinker level research because he will loose. And he's not supposed to loose.

In theory you could fund research overtly with country budget, but no one is going to support that. Why spend money on eggheads playing with useless stuff if people are hungry and streets are dirty?

What nobody opposes is giving more money to the military. And what anyone can't oppose is military spending money in whichever way they please. So they can spend it on research. Most will be wasted, very few will have actual military potential. The rest can be graciously dumped into the economy for companies to tinker, optimize making of, manufacture, market and sell.

IMHO military is the core of USA success (or even success of global capitalism), not through might, but through ability to get plenty of public money and ability to allocate it into things that would never get funded in any other way.
Thanks for that. Really appreciate the answer.

I remember having similar struggles with infinite-scroll product page a while back ( ~5 years ago ), with variable card height. I thought this could be done with CSS nowadays, but I guess css grid & flex-box specs don't go that far.

Awesome work!
"constantly talking about race leads to more racism not less"
Isn't an effective argument against diversity and inclusion efforts.

Racism is real and POC Americans (to scope the discussion) are experiencing it. Maybe Morgan Freeman has the perspective that pretending it's not real will make it go away, but that doesn't change the fact that black programmers are underrepresented, or that police forces are staffed with avowed racists, or that... Etc.
Heavy triboson production in leptonic final states in proton-proton collisions