skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it that African-Americans (not including Black Africans in this) tend to seek acceptance into White institutions and power structures, instead of building parallel ones? For instance, TiE[1] (The Indus Entrepreneurs) was specifically set up to fund Indian founders. At the time, there was pervasive bias (not that it doesn't exist today) against Indians as being good enough only as rank-and-file engineers, but not as founders or leaders [2]. TiE was instrumental in funding some of the earliest Indian founders many of whom are successful VCs today. They effectively forced the White VC power structure to sit up and take notice. Today, there is a flourishing ecosystem of Indian VCs and founders.

On a related note, as an Indian, I'm envious of what China is doing today - they realized pretty early that the Western world order would never have a place for China as equals. Hence, they began to develop viable alternatives to Western technology and institutions. Those efforts are beginning to bear fruit today. The borderline insanity and paranoia that the West has developed [3] about China is justification enough for those efforts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiE(https://en.wikipedia.org/w...
[2] [https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archiv...
[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
I didn't say they should have restrictions. But I'm also saying a 20 year old isn't (usually) an adult, in the mental sense.
when I want to learn about history, I don’t check my local city hall

If you want to learn about local history, you absolutely go to city hall, or wherever you local clerks office is.
Some articles including/about u/maxwellhill:

"Meet the Reddit power user who helped bring down r/technology": https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-maxwellhill-moderator-...

"The Story of the Most Successful Man/Woman/??? on Reddit": https://gizmodo.com/the-story-of-the-most-successful-man-wom...

"Reddit Is A Shrine To The Internet We Wanted And That's A Problem": https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/reddit-is...
I really love this feature and I hope that it receives more love and polish in the future. It's unfortunately unusable with foreign language videos as the subtitles don't pop out with the video. Not sure if this is due to the lack of such an API, or if the major video providers (Netflix, YouTube, etc.) simply haven't implemented it.

My other wishlist feature is to have rewind/forward controls natively in the PIP window.
I just don't really buy it. I imagine those people back then were also complaining about how the kids these days don't care enough to communicate properly.

https://xkcd.com/1227/
do you have a source on this? I've only seen assertions that recaptcha is against GDPR from US sources
We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)
> Part of the answer I think is that we often underestimate the level of sophistication of people who lived a very long time ago.

I couldn't agree more.

> Tupaia was born at Ha'amanino Harbour on Ra'iatea around 1725 and became a leading ariori priest for the Taputapuatea marae. Tupaia was trained in the fare-'ai-ra'a-'upu, or schools of learning, about the origin of the cosmos, genealogies, the calendar, proverbs and histories. He was also taught how to be a star navigator. His memorized knowledge included island lists, including their size, reef and harbor locations, whether they were inhabited, and if so, the name of the chief and any food produced there. More importantly, his memory would include the bearing of each island, the time to get there, and the succession of stars and islands to follow to get there. These islands included the Society Islands, the Austral Islands, the Cook Islands, plus Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau and Fiji.[1]

> when asked for details of the region Tupaia drew a chart showing all 130 islands within a 2,000 miles (3,200 km) radius and was able to name 74 of them

> The chart he drew for James Cook in August 1769 shows interconnected voyaging routes ranging from Rotuma west of Samoa, via Samoa and Tonga, the southern Cook Islands and the Austral Group, Mangareva and Pitcairn all the way to Rapa Nui. A second major composite route leads from Tahiti through the Tuamotu Group to the Marquesas Group and on to Oahu in Hawai'i. Tupaia invented a cartographic system for Cook and his men which located a northern bearing from any island he drew in the centre of his Chart (marked by the word 'avatea', this is '[the sun at] noon'). This allowed him to translate his own wayfinding knowledge for island-to-island voyages into the logic and terms of Cook's compass. The Admiralty manuscript of James Cook's journal indicates that Tupaia told Cook that he himself (or his ancestors) travelled to most islands drawn on the Chart excepting only Rotuma (north of Fiji) and Oahu in Hawai'i. [7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupaia_(navigator)
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Unethical Life Pro Tip (takeaway): Pay people to submit five star reviews about your competitor’s product that obviously look fake. Bonus points if they're all submitted on the same day.
I agree that this is gross, but I do want to add some subtlety to the discussion. Reddit is trying to combat a different kind of activity than traditional spray-n-pray “buy our pills” spam. It is a large and influential enough forum that corporate and nation-state actors try to manipulate the tone and content of conversation with both words and votes. None of that is necessarily a volume-based issue, which is what proof-of-work is effective against.
Your single server is a CA service.

If you want CP or AP, then you need a "fad" database.
The people who concluded Polynesians may have reached South America based on their seafaring abilities are somewhat more likely to be vindicated by this than Hancock's writings about pre Ice Age Atlantis, never mind his writings about the pyramids' connections with civilizations on Mars...
Honest question: If you are using RH as a buy and hold investor and you have other brokerages that you consider your primary savings, why are you using RH at all?
I pretty much agree with this. But if strength training is a goal, getting a weight set and using it earlier (before the temptation to do too much weight because you’re already strong) is a good way to avoid issues with form and injury later.

Regarding a tree branch, I agree. But good trees are hard to find here in the western part of the plains, and a good six months out of the year I can’t reliably go outside for exercise (and for a couple months pretty much can’t). That’s really the main reason I want a pull-up station in the house.
I largely don't use clipboard with my password manager and I'd guess plenty of people are similar.

In my case I have zx2c4's pass and a Firefox extension named PassFF, so the extension just gets the usernames, passwords and anything else via IPC.

It does have a clipboard mode with an expiry timer, but I very rarely need that for anything.

Firefox's built-in password manager similarly doesn't use the clipboard, Google's doesn't, I believe Apple's doesn't.
I disagree. Some people cut their own hair or build their own furniture and would say everyone needs to know how to do that stuff instead of depending on and paying someone else. There's a reason cooking is also a profession, and there's nothing wrong with depending on them.

People who like to cook don't seem to understand that others (like me) just hate cooking and have zero interest in learning since it wouldn't bring me any benefits. I can order healthy food, I'm not overspending, and I can eat stuff that would be a pain in the ass to cook at home. On the other hand, I also hate exercising, but it brings health and mental benefits that are undeniable.

In summary, just like I don't want to cut my own hair or building my own furniture, I have no problem paying a professional to prepare my food.
Spammers don’t mind doing work
Lots of sites use "DRM" (content protection, obfuscation) techniques to fingerprint for anti-abuse. Somewhere, there's a truly excellent writeup from (I think?) Mike Hearn about the work they had to do to build anti-abuse for Youtube; it involved nested VMs implemented in Javascript.
AP systems are where actual scale is. Cockroach is a CP system. Spanner is probably similar, hardware clocks or not.
It's definitely a timeslice, and that throws off your comparison wildly. Otherwise you'd be able to rent a 32 core dedicated machine at the same place for $48 a month. Can you?
I actually meant "dolefully", but it came out "balefully". :)
This is one of those places where strong opinions, loosely held should be applied. And I can imagine those people getting more invites simply on the basis of possibly being more agreeable to interact with.

Programming is an abstraction (a perspective on what the computer is really doing) that is very much shaped by the tools we choose to use. Meta-religion is probably a fair way to describe it, and can be every bit as divisive in some circles.
>Why can't they just use something like a proof-of-work mechanism to combat spam?

I don't believe there is a level of work that one could do that would both be too expensive for scammers and not grind your battery to a halt.
Yes. There is huge difference between:

a) One Snap package that supports all Ubuntu distros from 14.04 to newest, and also many other distros than Ubuntu

b) Compiling separate .deb package for all those Ubuntu versions from 14.04 to newest.

Chromium has huge amount of code that takes a lot of time to compile.
i.e. the main redesign domain, not old.reddit.com

If the old one didn't do this, there's yet another reason to use it...

I still believe that part of the reason a lot of sites are moving to JS-only SPAs and the like is that it becomes much harder to block things like this. Regardless of sandboxing, the idea of letting a site execute Turing-complete computations on its visitor's computers, just to display what could be done without, is quite repulsive.
Or a kick ass software manager that automagically integrates with flatpak, snap craft, and all the others. Maybe even Steam.
Absolutely! I agree. To be clear, I brought up the linear sum assignment problem because it’s relevant, I liked reading about it, and perhaps someone else here would like to read about it too. At work, we applied the linear sum assignment problem when comparing results from a tracking algorithm to the truth data.
I wish it worked by using the regular web fullscreen API to pop out. Instead of going fullscreen it would just spawn a chromeless window that I can position anywhere I want and control using my regular window manager controls. As an advantage this would give sites full control over the content including having the full video (or other content) controls instead of just play which is what Firefox PiP gives you.
I’ve never heard obfuscation referred to as DRM. The author is referring to the DRM browser checks.

> Specfically, it looks for Widevine, PlayReady, Clearkey, and Adobe Primetime
Reddit could require users associate a mobile number with their account and use an SMS to validate. Zelle (the payment network) performs fraud validation using your mobile number as a signal, for example (using a Google Voice, Twilio, or similar virtual number will cause onboarding to fail).
The "No" in NoSQL is No DBA.

A lot of stuff like Mongo got popular because devs could start fast and there was no DBA group to get in the way
Separate from GDPR, I'm wondering whether using security exploits (such as ones the article listed) will be considered violation of US law pertaining to unauthorized access of a computer system.
> It’s not a myth. In the trite examples provided with tiny datasets they scale.

The point of the article is that in general nested loop joins based on index scans/iteration scale in the sense that the amount of I/O incurred grows at logarithmic intervals, at least once you assume a fixed amount of rows are returned. The amount of I/O incurred is practically fixed past a certain point. It doesn't matter how much data you have!

It may be that there are practical difficulties with ensuring that everything runs smoothly in the real world (e.g., availability of good statistics), but that doesn't make the author's point any less valid.
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I don't know you, but please don't consider yourself a loser. Ever.

There might be many reasons why you were never accepted to YC, despite applying nine times. Heck, I actually plaude your "stubbornness" / "determination", which is not common.

Don't despair. Sometimes life is hard, sometimes life has other plans for us. Perhaps there's a big success for you just around the corner.

And if not... There's nothing wrong with not being YC-backable. You are still a human being.
Yes, but this time it will work on Apple products.
One could argue that peer pressure and forced convenience are often more effective approaches than compulsion by the state.
> The fact that you have to post on a forum and argue with people why you need permission X for your snap package was enough for me to abort publishing on this platform. I should ask permissions from the users not from the platform publishers on a forum post.

The only reason to go on that forum is to ask for automatic permissions. If you do not do that, then it's your users who have to give you that permission.
Ok, but what does that have to do with the immigration status of their students?
For those of us who haven’t re-read the rules in the last couple weeks:

> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.

(Added 11 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23664008)
>Topics of interest: hacking (actual, not just in the name), startups, entrepreneurship, internet marketing.

I'm curious why you feel being able to use offensive language and express "opposing views" (whatever that means, I assume politics) is particularly germaine to high quality discussion of those topics.

If all you're looking for is a place where you can be an edgelord without consequence then there's always /g/ and 8chan (on the dark web as 8kun,) and maybe Voat and Gab.
> are josh@gmail.com and jоsh@gmail.com the same user?

You made me think of an interesting hack. We could pass public messages or make public statements that are forever ungoogleable. I could write: “Hey, jоsh, you can bring up the secret menu in еріс games by clicking six times on the blue icon.” But you’d never find this message again by searching the Internet for josh or epic spelt the normal way.

By the way, a quick way to perceive the lookalike Unicode above is to paste the words with an appended .com into the address bar of your browser. If you paste jоsh.com or еріс.com, you’ll see punycode.
+1 on this one. I've fiddled with angular dart for instance and tbh as someone who is horrible with doing frontend and hates js with a passion, this was enjoyable. Yet the release of the newer version[0] is taking forever.

[0] https://github.com/dart-lang/angular/pull/1892
Frequently, when one is using SIMD one is more concerned about throughput (how many operations you can do per second) and less about latency (how many nanoseconds until you get there first result back). I'm not sure if you are equating the two in your comments, or have an actual preference for lower latency, but realize that one can often gain in throughput by giving up some latency.

I mention this because I don't share your certainty that avoiding duplicate loads is necessarily "faster". I've occasionally been able beat compilers at getting higher throughput by making the duplicate load, despite the fact the latency increases. This is because vector shuffles (and I think aligns and inserts) are limited to a single execution port (at least on recent Intel processors), while loads can be executed twice per cycle. Depending on the mix of the rest of instructions, this means that sometimes the redundant load ends up being the better choice.

Which is to say, rather than being sure, measure!
As if people won't complain about that, especially if they want a throwaway identity.
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Correction: not different skills: some of these are domains and subdomains; others are approaches; others are approaches and (sub)domains. They are all mixed up in your answer, which I found to be very insightful, by the way.

Although I am admitedly far from an expert in the field in question I am not a layperson either. I say the types of activities you mentioned are of the same group of skills, in different domains, which often requires a different but similar set of approaches (based on both convention and the subtleties of the domain).

For instance making wrist watches, grandfather clocks, steam punk sex dolls, and the ankagathera(sp) machine are different use cases and require different types of mental projections and organizational methodologies in execution (approaches), but the skillsets have an undeniable amount of overlap. They overlap more with each other than they exclude. In SQL terms the size of the output of the inner join is much greater than the same for the outer join. Therefore you can say that they are of the same skill set, just like doing abdomial flexibility helps with running and bicycling hill climbs helps your breast stroke. Different muscle groups, but share many types of synergy: all part of physical fitness.

Source: 10 years as a learning specialist in business setting and aspiring triathelete.
This isn't slashdot.
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On what planet is the US’s immigration policy “extremely generous”? Have you experienced it? The costs and hoops and sheer years it takes?
How has Reddit not had its Digg 2.0 moment yet? They are blatantly user-hostile in so many ways nowadays.

For those who don't know, a UI change at Digg triggered a mass exodus to reddit years ago.
This actually played out on the reddit-alike notabug.io (federated all js thing with proof of work anonymous voting). What happened was a couple users had the programming skill to write better than JS could ever be voting bots and then they controlled the "front page" and only looking at all posts by 'new' worked. This of course meant the anti-spam proof of work voting was not working and so useless.
> If you have clothes to donate, meet any homeless person they will get most from you or tell you where to go to give it all out to other homeless people.

That sounds like an excellent suggestion. And even if they can't use any, the kindness will do you both good.
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You can see anonymous proof of work voting in action over at notabug.io.
While many Redditors are changing their "avatar" to dancing rainbow cockroaches, I had the idea to set mine to the Digg logo as an act of protest. I'm hoping it catches on. I suppose Reddit's new userbase may not even know what that means.

Why the hell do we need avatars on Reddit anyway? Most of them are animated, strobing distractions.

Reddit has jumped the shark. If there weren't significant opportunity cost, I'd happily work on a replacement. It's become a low-signal, high-noise ad-laden dumpster fire.

Advertising is eating the Internet alive. I fucking hate it.
This is just another way of saying there's a "pipeline problem" (myth/fallacy/etc.)

You might feel ignored, but statistically you'd be even more likely to be ignored if you were from an underrepresented group.
Bonus points: Start a fire with feathersticks and a ferro rod.
Well, I'm sure that I could have done better than to marry someone with manic depression.

I'm biased. But given her dating history since, I don't know that she would have done better than me.
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Follow the incentives. Any individual employee is massively incentivized to keep their job. There is a slight chance that a certain leader may be incentivized to bring success to the company. That is the exception, not the norm. I learned this the hard way by caring about companies that didn’t care about me.
She uses the Peloton app on her tablet, yep. Says she loves it and it works great.

And it still became a clothes rack within a few months.

So far the only thing she's tried that consistently worked for her was a personal trainer. Something about being accountable to an actual in-person human really did the trick for her.

Unfortunately quarantine put an end to that. It also gets real expensive real fast.
> Not only has that particular piece been debunked, shredded, put back together, debunked, shredded again, and (metaphorically) left in the dumpster

Not at all. Damore's memo was reasonable, accurate, and the criticism of it has been, like yours, entirely without substance.
> We just use the circumlocution.

I think it is an ambiguous category. At least to native (American) English speakers and heathens like me. The only evidence I can offer of this is that in my language culture, I routinely hear "spicy hot", and often enough when one should simply say "spicy", anticipate the question "spicy hot"?

That qualifies as a circumlocution to me. BTW, I didn't think you Greeks learned Latin since all the classy Romans wanted to speak Greek ;-)
As if another reason was needed to leave that cesspool behind.
single server sql databases are not "CA" it doesn't make sense to talk about cap theorem like this.
> The 100 year "registration" used to even be a good deal.

Yeah, but then you're dealing with Network Solutions for 100 years. That's not a good deal at any price. :P
> And offset by the fact that trying a class & aborting after 45 seconds is a 'class'.

I don't know what Peloton displays to end users, but FWIW, the definition they use for prospective investors is much more stringent. From https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639825/000119312519... page 66:

> We define a Workout as a Connected Fitness Subscriber either completing at least 50% of an instructor-led or scenic ride or run or ten or more minutes of “Just Ride” or “Just Run” mode.
Indeed. The history of the Chatham islands is enough to dispell any notion that polynesians are somehow incapable of mass murder and enslavement. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Islands

This history also illustrates that peacefulness is also within the capacity of any people.
While I do not agree with storing user-deleted information, you can change the "reddit" URL to "removeddit" to see most of the comments. Alternatively, "ceddit" will only show mod-deleted comments.
> Author chooses to show a particular political bias again and fails to mention the other major event that caused a uptick in cases (nationwide protests)

I'm tired of having to constantly address this point. I had hoped that people on HN would be able to do independent research, but I keep encountering this claim. No, the nationwide protests did not cause an uptick in cases. Multiple studies [1] [2] [3] seem to indicate that the coronavirus doesn't spread nearly as well outdoors as it does indoors. In fact, studies have indicated that one of the greatest surge predictors is card-present transactions in restaurants [4].

That is partly why here in Texas we're seeing such a strong resurgence. We reopened our bars and restaurants with reckless abandon and the result is a massive increase in cases across the state. At this point if you're claiming that the protests were the reason then you're showing your own political bias at play.

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/494348-new-study-finds...

[2] https://apnews.com/a288340b3bd3fbc62e564b3d0adfaa2e

[3] https://www.nber.org/papers/w27408.pdf

[4] https://fortune.com/2020/06/26/is-it-safe-restaurant-coronav...