skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use my real name, a recent photo (where possible), links to my own domain, and other personally identifiable information on every site that I use, even default anonymous ones like Reddit. I do not have alt accounts. Being able to live this way on the internet is a privilege that I recognize is not available to many people, but for those who can I highly recommend it; it ensures that I always think twice before posting and engage in good faith.
Flip it around, would you lend money to a startup? What interest rate would you want? Would you prefer to lend money to someone with collateral?
> When you visit the html webpage the key is in the hash property of the webpage, which is never sent to the server.

So it's only safe if you trust the server, which kind of defies the purpose?
As far as I can tell, that's a bad-faith misrepresentation of the position. The position is more like "we've got lots of expressions that associate `black` with `bad`, and maybe we should move away from them in a professional context." The claim isn't that the origin of these terms itself is necessarily racist (e.g. a black sheep is a sheep whose wool can't be dyed), only that their use helps to an unconscious climate of anti-blackness. Again, I'm not really convinced that this is true, but it's not the same as saying we should examine every "black-colored thing" to make sure it's not racist.

And crucially, I'm not irrationally upset over the mere suggestion that we should rethink certain language, and someone withdrawing from a conference doesn't immediately make me think of a fictional evil regime that tortures people for reading a book or saying the wrong thing.
99% agree with you. But as far as World Revolution, it's educational to see what the Stalin's USSR did to Comintern. Especially, German communists.
Why grant any exclusive rights to creator ? Why not let people remix freely and give back a standardized 20% to original creators ?
This is neat and has potential. But I was somewhat arrested by this feature:

"all pastes are cleared daily at 1:30am EST, so you have 12 hrs on average for your paste"

So, 12 hours on average... zero seconds if you're unlucky.
Just shut up. What is happening in Hong Kong is not at all comparable to the violence perpetrated towards black people by American police. Like through all of these HK protests, how many of them have died at the hands of the HK police? Zero.

Most reporting on the protests in Hong Kong are simply astroturf for the ongoing trade war with China. Let's not forget that these protests are not spontaneous at all, but also being pushed and organized by Westerners.
I don't believe it's merely a failure to be driven by data. Rather, it's a willful campaign by major corporations to shift responsibility away from themselves—and ultimately ensure nothing gets done in the process. Perhaps not so much for oil pipelines, but certainly for "eat local".

NPR did a great podcast episode on how plastic manufacturers responded to environmental concerns in the last century: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/757539617
Naff tables (along with poor graphs) was one of my key motivations to create WV Linweise, which spawns a tiny web renderer to make displays nicer... Love the terminal, but some things it is just not great at...

This mini example app renders CSV data from STDIN into a HTML tables - https://github.com/forbesmyester/wv-linewise/tree/master/exa...
Then perhaps we have different definitions of what "why" comments are. The usual reason we write code is to solve (business) problems, so to me, "why" implies a connection to business requirements. So even though

> The unchanged code still functions as it always did.

...the why of that unchanged code, i.e. the reason it exists at all, may change. And for that reason, the "why" (the business reasons) should not be in the code.
scipy, as far as I am aware. but that not change your stated fact on the role of Fortran in Python.
> A water scarce country like India should really not promote high consumption of soda and sugar based drinks.

I mean, I can see not promoting sugary drinks in general…but what does this have to do with water scarcity?
I think it's been expanded to 2 children
Etak’s 1985 car navigation system (2015)
I think it's an inevitable consequence of the well-intentioned demands that everyone should take action. If you're a conscientious big company VP, with a strong belief that you should take action but no actual power to reform the police, doing something performative but splashy is the obvious choice.
To centrally manage all of your LE certificates, keys, alerting, etc. You can also more easily use LE certs in a wider array of scenarios too. Check out the docs to learn more.
When Austin kicked out Lyft and Uber, local ride sharing thrived. However, the problem was they paled in comparison.
Some of the successful large-socket-count servers, specifically SGI Ultraviolet series (now sold by HPE AFAIK) actually use NUMAlink - a much updated version, but the basic remain the same as with MIPS and Itanium systems.
It’s wrong because of bikeshedding and spends resources on unimportant things.

Racism is important. Hacking is important. Spending cycles working in these areas is better than helping those who struggle with googling “is blackhat a racist term?”

In this case the speaker shut off discussion anyway by not participating. So he’s not “examining all phrases,” he’s issuing judgement on a phrase. And his judgement seems silly to me.

I don’t know the subject so perhaps his material is great, but based on this one action it seems unlikely that his judgement would be great on blackhat hacking, but ridiculous in this area.
Yeah, this is clearly a situation where average is not the most meaningful metric.
Ten years later, ironically enough, Linux encountered a similar fate: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Internati.... ... and technically it’s not fully settled yet.
I think that first we would need to create a society where people have enough quality of life to be able to give some up.
Well, depending on the size of your bedroom ;) I've seen teams of two people running fairly impressive ML based stuff. They were good enough at it that they didn't remain at two people for very long but that was more than enough to be useful to others. One interesting company - that I'm free to talk about - did a nice one on e-commerce sites to help with risk management: spot fraudulent orders before they ship.

In the long term, and to stay competitive you will always have to get out of bed and go to work. But the initial push can easily be just a very low number of people engaging an otherwise dormant niche.

Yes, medicine has regulatory requirements. But as long as you advise rather than diagnose the regulatory requirements drop to almost nil.
> All that's happened is some oil companies are making less money per barrel because of transport expenses.

This reduces fuel supply, shifting the supply curve left. Ceteris paribus, this increases the world price for fuel.
Here’s what I’m surprised about — nobody has built a moderation focused social network that has tried to poach Reddit’s best moderators by offering to pay them.
I know we are not supposed to comment on voting here, but I would appeal to whoever is voting this response down to please consider making a reasoned rebuttal of it instead. Down-voting is supposed to be for something that is just complete noise. This comment is just a disagreement with my post. Hardly grounds for voting it down.

I disagree with the post because although I am in favour of all the initiatives suggested in it I suspect they are insufficient in the face of an economic system which is designed to keep expanding and growing.

In addition:

Nuclear power carries huge risks with it (which may become proportionally preferrable to climate destruction)

Solar is useful only for some parts of the world.

We lose massive amounts of energy in transmission from generation to consumption.

Storage is still a huge problem.

All of the above suggests that unless some realistic solutions for storage and transmission are on the table we need to shift manufacturing and consumption closer to the energy sources. Historically civilizations have clustered around such energy centers.

The small (but real) gains available from meat-consumption reduction and gasoline-consumption reduction start to look significant.
Does that include open or closed GPU drivers?
Yes, they are transparent about deciding not to offer the user the choice in a straight-forward upfront way (i.e. opt in) because "the vast majority of users will not opt-in". In other words, deciding that what the users want is not as important as the marketing stats.

And, as you say, users trust the developers with access to their systems and data. Deciding unilaterally to sacrifice user privacy to benefit other interests might be seen as a breach of that trust.
An imperfect system for granular democracy could be built fairly easily, or bolted onto an existing system (Facebook has the largest global membership I'd think).

There's nothing stopping anyone from building one (other than maybe reasonable fear of being suicided if it gets too much traction, etc), yet I don't think I've ever heard of anyone who's tried. It's so obviously useful that the lack of attempts almost seems like a glitch in The Matrix.
I agree. But in the end, we need to make products that are better overall than their "polluting" counterparts. For example, for many a Tesla is a better car, regardless if it's better for the environment.

We need to get there with food, too. E.g., can producers like Impossible and Beyond make burgers that are tastier, healthier and cheaper than their meat counterparts? I think they can, and in the end the masses will only change their behavior with products and services like this.

Of course, we still need action on a political and economic level such as a carbon tax.
Thoughts on the Raspberry Pi 4 and 10k TCP connections with Vert.x
The submitted title was "Is the title of the Black Hat conf offensive? Google sec. researcher withdraws", which broke the HN guidelines.

Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It takes a lot more than the volume of water to make the same volume in soda, beer and other commercial beverages. Consider bottle sterilization, crop irrigation..

Example: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/business/energy-environme...
> it's usually entitled white people who feel immediately offended by this

Judging by the name, David Kleidermacher is Jewish.

Edit: Flagged? But it was the parent post that brought up race, yet it remains unflagged. Why was that instance OK, but this isn't?
I don't think Julia is (or has ever claimed to be) the first system to make extensive use of multiple dispatch. But it seems to be first one to have gotten attention, if not widespread adoption, from the broader community beyond its first intended audience, i.e., scientific computing.

Others mention CLOS, which I don't know too much about. MIT Scheme also supports multiple dispatch (https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/stable...). IIRC this is widely used in ScmUtils, the software library used in SICM (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-...).
This reminds me of the riddle by the good soldier Svejk:

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"Would you know how to calculate the diameter of the globe?"

"No, I'm afraid I wouldn't," answered Svejk, "but I'd like to ask you a riddle myself, gentlemen. Take a three-storied house, with eight windows on each floor. On the roof there are two dormer windows and two chimneys. On every floor there are two tenants. And now, tell me, gentlemen, in which year the house-porter's grandmother died?"

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https://english.radio.cz/good-soldier-svejk-a-literary-chara...
Please stop posting dross to HN.

Edit: since you've already ignored multiple requests to stop posting flamebait, I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break the site guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
She has the clout and independence that affords her that. Other people don’t enjoy that possibility.
I’ve long stopped using my real identity when voicing “deviant” political opinions.

The threat of cancel culture is very, very real.
I am not sure which link you mean.

Glen's Mealmaster archive is here: http://thehoseys.org/buster/recipes.html
Can you go into more detail? I'm not sure I see how it isn't the same. If we think any use of the word "black" to describe something negative causes "an unconscious climate of anti-blackness", it seems like that implies a commitment to examine every black-colored thing.
Just point at the story you like. No need for any attacks. If its a better story and it helps people it's all good. When they come at you with their story show them your story. Tell them how it has helped you. You will make a bigger impression.

People need stories. Elon Musk needs some story about Mars. Zuckerberg clings to some story about how the world needs Facebook etc etc. What is important is you offer a better story if you find they are clinging to the wrong ones.
As I said, China is now able to afford protectionism because of a much more foreign investment minded policy than India. It's weird to only focus on protectionism being a positive when almost all of the more protectionist countries are way behind economically. China has been the most successful when it has had the least closed economy and it didn't start producing Lenovo laptops because of protectionism. If that was the case, why don't we have Indian or Argentinian laptops by now?

Arguing that protectionism is good because you are producing beverages when the downside is literal decades lost to anemic growth and poverty is just missing the forest for the tree. India was at a similar but better place than China was, but China embraced foreign investment, liberalization, low friction to trade. And india got totally leapfrogged. Things are changing now, but for a while China was definitely much safer to invest in than India since the whole country was hellbent on not interfering with foreign investing. You were (and still are) much more likely to get your investment made worthless by aggressive "local at all costs" policies in India than in China. Look at what happened to Walmart recently. India wants desperately to skip the "industrialization" and foreign ownership phase and go directly to where china is now, but that's ignoring 30 years of smart policy in China.

Keep in mind, free trade and free international markets still allow for a very regulated economy and socialist policies. So protectionism, by reducing prosperity and investment actually cripples social programs. Scandinavia is known to be "social democrat" but still has a very open economy. Prosperity has been mostly induced by free movement of goods. Of course, China does not want to keep being a manufacturing only economy, and is moving towards a service oriented one. But that's what always happens
These seemed like fairly decent problems to put on a mathematics competition…
What if you want to express a thought or opinion that is not politically correct though, or might simply be controversial? It by think twice you mean not express it at all, then it sounds like subconscious self-censorship (if such a thing exists).

Just a reminder, politically incorrect != incorrect
I think as a civilisation we should be putting 20% of global resources into energy research.

Every leap we've made has been preceded by increased energy. Whether that's the tools that allowed us to be more efficient with energy when hunting etc, agriculture that gave enough energy to sustain large work forces or the technologies that have created enough energy to shift production away from human labor.

If we really want to progress as a civilisation I believe we should be primarily chasing energy production increases which are not damaging.

The rest will just happen as people aren't constrained by the previous energy limits and can do things that were previously not viable.
That's very nonspecific.
I just want to add to that under the current system very few artists are able to make a living off of it. Consider all the scripts that never get made into movies, the mountains of not-bestseller books, the musicians that have other jobs to pay the bills.

I know several people who wrote highly regarded technical books. Not one of them makes enough off of books to be a living. What the books do do for them is make their reputation and careers.

The artists that do make a living are doing artwork for web pages, advertising, packaging, etc.
We've decided as a species to do nothing about our emissions and let what happens happen. So who cares what does or doesn't make a difference?
The terms have nothing to do with skill or pay.

Freelance means working for different companies as an independent resource or expert, as opposed to an employee.

Consultant means someone who offers advice professionally.

One can do both at the same time. Orthogonal, as someone else wrote.

People who get jobbed out by “body shops” to fill chairs or boxes in an org chart are called temps, or contractors. Contractor can also refer to anyone who works according to a contract rather than an employment relationship.

In the real world the terms get used interchangeably.
I'm sure that customers still reached their destination just fine like before ride-sharing was a thing, perhaps with only some minor inconveniences.
From the Center for Environmental Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley

> The US can reach 90 percent clean electricity by 2035, dependably and without increasing consumer bills

It really is as simple as scaling up renewables, transmission, and storage.

https://gspp.berkeley.edu/news/news-center/the-us-can-reach-...

Factory farming is an entirely separate issue. You have to make low meat and no meat diets sexy like Tesla made EVs sexy.
So why on earth cite her as an example?
Hey, please don't engage in hate speech against tin foil.
Well, the general idea is similar to what CSS has at the moment with grid and flexbox. You get containers with configurablr automatic widget distribution and reflow that you can nest.

The difference is that in Qt, there are no such weirdnesses as widgets painting outside their container, broken scrollbars on resize, unwanted scrollbars, etc. Corner cases such as min and max size are more configurable and less broken.

Overall, I also think that Qt looks more like a proper design overall, thinks have been designed together to work together. CSS feels like it has grown and festered into its current state between "works fine" and "uh, thats weird"
You need to be creative. But one example - colorizing old photos: https://twitter.com/citnaj
He he! Souped up IBM PC box drawing characters, circa 1981: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character
> How long have you been on HN? Begin by assuming good faith, please.

You should really take your own advice considering you asked them to assume in good faith but then immediately prior did not assume good faith at all.
It can, but mostly due to the fact that the amplification of voices would be less, since people won't be talk to thousands of people, unlike twitter.
> some people will wear the labels of "Nazi", "racist" or "alt-right" with pride

But that isn't relevant to all situations. If you call someone a label they do not attach to themselves, the fact that other people willingly accept that label isn't relevant. In fact, it would be a case of trying to associate a person with a group they do not belong to (or do not self-identify with).

> they're to do with objective damage to the over-all society in which they live

In which who live? Actual, self-confessed "Nazis", or people labelled as such by their enemies?

> I'm avoiding "mansplain" and "TERF" as I'm a male and can't really add anything of authoritative substance to those debates, but can only listen and learn

Who does have "authoritative substance"? If you don't consider yourself qualified (or permitted) to comment because you are male, there's your "identity-politics". This is especially pertinent in the case of "mansplain", since it is a label usually used to attack men.

> Ad-homs are a zero signal .. If you're of the belief that you win the argument because you had the last say

I'm not sure what you believe an "ad-hom" to be, but I take the definition "attacking a person versus their arguments" - which is relevant in case of argument from authority when a person lacks the authority they are invoking (which is also an ad-hom), or any situation where a persons status or reputation is seen as boosting their argument e.g. pointing out hypocrisy; since political debates are usually about a person being given some kind of position of power, their person is usually relevant. Also, any situation where personal judgement, or testimony given that trust is relevant in those situation, so any reason to think someone is compromised, biased, or untrustworthy is relevant.
You say that, and yet I have seen so many projects large and small transition between various code storage platforms and lose history of random ancillary conversations, due to how all of these tend to be locked up walled gardens of tools that prevent a useful "import" :/.
" You will not find a single example of any country becoming developed following free trade except for island nations like Singapore"

Canada, Australia, New Zealand and in reality, the US as well.

The US has always been pretty open.

But yes, if a nation is in shambles, it may very well make sense to make major strategic investments for the national good, but ultimately, it can't last.

Korea, Japan etc. would be much poorer today if they had continued to manage their economies in a post-war fashion.
There is an option for mods to accelerate or slow the decay function of the post.

This is a practice that all content platforms use and few know about. Burying content down, or removing from feed (for Facebook/YouTube) is a soft censoring that avoids user and regulatory backlash.

I would like the platforms to be more transparent about the practice. They could display a ‘derank’ or ‘delisted’ label to all users.
> we should not condemn children for their parent’s crimes but that doesn’t mean that we should forget that those crimes happened.

But then what do you propose to do about it? All of those people are dead. We can't bring them back to life and punish them.

> In this case it’s especially important because those children were treated very differently from their siblings

It was no doubt a very important distinction to the children. I wouldn't want to have to argue it was a very important distinction to modern day descendants seven generations later when that ancestor represents less than 1% of their ancestors from that many generations ago.

And the usual argument is to want to assign guilt if you benefited from a bad thing one of your ancestors did. But having existence is a pretty huge benefit, which makes that argument taste quite sour.
Oh, I wrote this :) I submitted it last week but it didn't get much attention then.

Happy to answer questions as far as possible. I have used Pandas extensively but I don't have deep experience with all of these libraries so I learnt a lot while summarising them.

If you know more than I do and I made any mistakes, let me know and I'll get them corrected.
That’s deliberate. I don’t want to identify my friend on this forum. I am disputing the parent’s assertion that “cancel culture” is limited to a few high profile cases. It is far more prevalent than that. The high profile cases are obviously just the ones that most people are aware of.
The study abstract compares moderate drinkers to a group they refer to as "never drinkers", so I guess they avoided that "all non-drinkers are former alcoholics" trap.
Likely because those specific people value it, rather than everyone on earth.