skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also the question of profit -

currently, people of all ages can easily access commercial pornography which then profits from the activity (either through advertising revenue or overt sales).

So in effect, due to not requiring and not enforcing age restrictions, pornographers are profiting from distributing pornography to minors, which is a crime and should be a crime.

Even if this fails to block access by minors, it will certainly to a much larger extent block the ability of pornographers to profit from illegally distributing adult content to them, and with that, the potential incentive to market to them and the attendant cultural knock-on effects this situation creates.
The obvious justification is that increased government spending is balanced by increased tax revenues, which hasn’t happened in this situation because no one is able to work or spend.

I don’t see how the cost of furlough is an argument against higher spending. No one thought it would be anything other than mad spending with little immediate gratification. The payoff comes from, well, not plunging masses into poverty for not foreseeing the greatest economic disruption since 1939.
Are those list items really that bad, though? Paraphrasing #4: you're saying that we need to welcome, broadcast and hire people who we genuinely think are vile and awful?

Where's the middle ground. If we can't fire, say, violent racists, and we can't escape their words, and we can't avoid them socially, what can we do?

I think the answer to that, if you look at it carefully, is going to be pretty much isomorphic to what we're already doing. There are excesses and mistakes (David Shor shouldn't have been fired), but that's true of all things.

What I don't see is a definition of "cancel culture" as a "problem" that isn't basically a defense of conservative opinions.
How is "I got mistaken for a woman because of my hairstyle" a racist thing?
Just a bit of wry humor :)
> Have a look through history, and you'll find many examples where this statement is absolutely not true.

Granted, but this is in response to a side comment of mine that was not part of my main argument.

> you're really just arguing semantics

False. I'm arguing the difference between direct, automatic outcomes of speech, and outcomes that only happen because of the evil that was already in someone's heart.
It's funny (and quite stupid) how people try to define slavery and racism as a uniquely white American problem from the past, and not a human problem of the present.

Slavery still exists. There are more people living in slavery now than ever before in history.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/01/entertainment/kanye-west-slav...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lindsayfarber/twitter-reacts-to-kan...
In reinforcement learning, you typically need to run many copies of an environment (an Atari emulator for example) to collect experience for your agents. Environment code usually makes more sense on a CPU, because it’s a lot more branchy and stateful.

Think of two agents that run for awhile and end up in different parts of a virtual world, that require very different code to execute. This might be pretty difficult to parallelize on a GPU.

After collecting a bunch of experience, you update whatever function you’re optimizing. This could be something like a neural network that is the brain of your agents. The update step can happen on a GPU.

But then we need to go collect a lot more experience again, so we’re back in CPU land.

Experience collection often dominates overall compute time in reinforcement learning. Which means you want a lot of CPUs.
Uh, no - I am saying when opinions clash, the tie-breaker should be science. Everyone's entitled to their ideas/opinions... until it starts affecting other people. Like wearing masks.

Also: PLEASE note that "respect" and "respectability" are different. It is VERY important, especially if your first language is English. [/s]

I never said what Gareth Roberts said was a hate crime. It is just a heinous opinion, which in my opinion, deserves a backlash.
Ask HN: What data transfer protocol does Git use?
Git is the only program that can upload a 20mb file to a server even when I have 64kbps internet...
Downloading dependencies on cold start not only adds to start latency, but is also an availability risk. You don't want your starts to fail when the package distribution infrastructure is down.

Where possible, it's best to include everything your Lambda function needs to run in the function .zip. That means you can take advantage of all the work we do to make the scale-up and cold-start paths of Lambda highly available and reliable.

Having said that, it's very cool to see folks using Deno on Lambda, and getting real numbers like this starts an important conversation.

(Disclaimer, I work on the Lambda team at AWS)
Feel a bit sad about the author but I suppose they did learn some useful things they were not aware before. As for resume builder, the market is extremely saturated, it peaked probably 4-6 years ago when quite a few people made some decent money selling fancy looking templates on Etsy or even rolled out dedicated websites for it. My advice for all aspiring developers- entrepreneurs is to spend less time on developer oriented websites like HN or Indie Hackers which are often just echo chambers. Go out and talk to people who do some completely different things and your eyes will open.
>Sure enough that could be done by someone else within the community.

Sure, and usually in a hasty fashion, when they have time, understaffed, as is the case with many ports.

Instead, Microsoft wants this to be more high quality, to attract PHP devs to the platform and get PHP-based business on Azure/Windows, integrate it with their Windows dev tools, build goodwill etc, so they fund this and have some people working on it.
This might also benefit GDP (not just crime statistics).
Yes it's hard. But they got 1.8 billions in funding, and they are trying to get a foot in a crowded space, so expectations are high for them to deliver something. You can't stay long in the TV business with just a couple million paying subscribers
I am not an SRE, but in my years of working with them as a developer the unifying trait seems to be the ability to answer all requests with one of the following:

1. "Not now."

2. "No."

3. "Hell no."

4. "Are you insane? Go away."

(this is sarcasm, it's supposed to be funny, I love you SREs)
Unfortunately, many people are so easily offended that they're willing to vote in favor of laws that ban impolite expression across the board.
Oh is this why I couldn't play anything on Spotify during my morning run as it kept crashing! Had to play Apple Music's Beats 1 radio instead.
Nothing is ever "accepted by all in the medical or scientific community", that's an impossible standard. Of course the models that we have aren't perfect and there can (and will) be mistakes, but most of the community agrees that they are the best we have at the moment.

I'm not sure what you mean by "over-simplified non-linear models", please elaborate.

I would say in general though that the problem is not the models but the parameters - this is such a new virus that modellers have to make various assumptions about things that we can't possibly know yet.
If this is a problem, then the government can create productive jobs for these people.
In some areas, the cops are in league with the violent counter-protesters, which is why they watch them assault law-abiding people and do nothing about it:

...dozens of police looked on, in some cases chatting and sharing pizza with the group. They included Officer Joseph Goodwin Jr., whose brother Richie shoved one protester and was photographed punching another. [0]

Maybe it's the same thing with the looters.

0 - https://www.inquirer.com/news/fishtown-philadelphia-communit...
It does give a little context if their support for free speech ends when your skin isn't white; only white British should be able to shape London.

Of course he has a point. We should absolutely resist creating thought crimes and police states, but we should also prohibit hateful action.

We can do both, sensibly. Shouting about every slippery slope on the way doesn't help anyone.
Thanks for the kind words.

I am not pretending there is a conspiracy at all. The PC is out in the open.
It’s too early to say that they were determined as employees in any of those cities. The cities WANT them to be employees because it takes the burden off them to get jobs for them, but the legality of those ruling haven’t been finalized. There are plenty of reasons why they shouldn’t be considered employees and there was a study released by Cornell this week that showed more than 75% of drivers are part-time anyway and want freedom, not full time employment.
The value of my $150k MBA is now in question
That sounds more like a jobs guarantee than a UBI. Many UBI proponents are against a jobs guarantee for fear of these kinds of outcomes.

UBI is untethered to any conditions on people. So there are no bad incentives created by the system (no good ones created either, of course) nor is anyone part of some group that they try to homogenize into something unproductive.
> Sexual reassignment surgery is, which increases the risk of suicide by about 20x, the risk of suicide attempts by about 5x, the risk of inpatient psychiatric hospitalization by about 3x.

No, it doesn't. The source for that claim [0] doesn't control for people being transgender, comparing instead recipients of the surgery to the general population, which is not be a fatal flaw for some uses of the research (such as the conclusion of the actual report, that sex reassignment surgery is, alone, seems to be inadequate as treatment and needs supplementation), but it certainly is for the question “is sex reassignment surgery harmful, helpful, or neither for transgender individuals?”

Studies that are actually directed at that question find that it is beneficial,

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/21447/

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/suicidal...

[0] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal..., mostly entering American right-wing propaganda as an argument for the position you use it for via https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/sex-reassignment-...
Money gives you brain worms.
For those who don’t know: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/customize-the-rib...:

“What you can customize: You can personalize your ribbon to arrange tabs and commands in the order you want them, hide or unhide your ribbon, and hide those commands you use less often. Also, you can export or import a customized ribbon.”
Don't include libraries which contain such code?
The real victim there wasn't McDonalds, though, but all the people who spent additional money at McDonalds to play a rigged game.
On iOS this was just in-app purchase, so you agree to start paying in 3 months when you sign up. So you never really have to manually type your credit card but you had to remember to unsubscribe within your iTunes subscriptions.
So you're just taking one of his statements as the n=1 example that he's not racist?

Just spend 5 mins perusing his Instagram, look at maybe 10 random posts and see the undertones.
Isn't that just on the cold start?

Each subsequent request would not need to go through that process as long as the lambda function was warm, right?
I am also not a fan of Zookeeper but I have come to respect it. In defense of Zookeeper, distributed systems are a GPITA. If you need to select some components why not go for ones that are solid [1].

[1] https://aphyr.com/posts/291-jepsen-zookeeper
But as a state they forbid sales of Mein Kampf and Nazi paraphernalia, so they're cool and anti-fascist... /s

(Not invoking the Godwin law, this is an actual comment on an actual situation, to point the hypocrisy of token anti-totalitarian moves - 70 years too late - vs actual totalitarian law-making...)
Maybe Silicon Valley really should have a war against the media. Because right now the media is waging a one-sided war against Silicon Valley. Media coverage of tech has become almost uniformly negative—the way the media used to talk about fracking or Wall Street. Silicon Valley needs to realize that being somewhat liberal on social issues will not protect it from a media that has set its sights on the kind of intellectual and (little “l”) libertarianism that characterizes Silicon Valley.
(not the person you were replying to, but)

"What they technically said" are the words that were actually used. "What they actually said" are the likely intended meaning, since (as I'm sure you would agree) any given moderately-complex sentence could have a number of interpretations, especially in different contexts.

"We must protect our people" is a sentence of five simple words, but has a radically different meaning when spoken by:
* A warlord invading another country
* A fighter resisting an invasion
* A doctor speaking about medical treatment

In this case, the OP is probably making the (reasonable) point that a speaker who has previously made overblown claims about the racial composition of a country, and has demonstrated xenophobia, can be reasonably assumed to also be on sketchy evidential grounds in his claims about political correctness
I think a big problem might be marketing. I’ve not seen Quibi advertised anywhere. I don’t know anyone personally who has tried it. I only know a few who have even heard of it. Even if you consider the conversion rate good, I don’t think they’ve had many people at the top of their funnel.
> "I don't know what HBD is, care to explain?"

> Yup, pretty much.

How do you propose I respond to your answer? I asked for clarification and you replied with a troll response. How would you respond if I did the same?
Your time-line is remarkably similar to what I've experienced, I also quit my finance job to start a business with a co-founder in 2018 at the age 26. It's also an online product but quite different so it's hard to draw additional parralels but I can totally appreciate your up and downs along the way. It kind of sucks sometimes but for me it's also why I did this in the first place, so I don't look back in my mid thirties with kids and a mortgage and wished I'd did something more with my life when I still had that flame in me. Best of luck! However it turns out at least you took your shot when you had the chance, sometimes that's all that matters
I think the good technical reasons are quite often the CAP theorem.
That's easy to say in hindsight, but I think if the pandemic wouldn't really happen there's a good chance their conversion would be even higher. Their whole business model is meant for consumers who are on the go with short time bursts, which is exactly the opposite of what we have today.

It very well could be that their shortage of content wouldn't have been as big of a deal because their ideal users weren't binging on their stuff, just watching while on a train or lunch break.

I'm not saying they haven't made mistakes, but it does feel like this aspect is missing in a lot of the bandwagon criticisms of the service.
And you have very active extremists in both sides, so it is guaranteed you are always wrong and always in danger of being cancelled.
It is about cancer whore, not the mistaken identity.

This term is only used by immigrants towards native women.
Ha, it's all good. FWIW, the validator is now giving me a "recommendation" on the feed that I haven't seen before.

I wouldn't have checked the validator without your comment so in the end it all worked out!
Eighty-Four Spellings of Amelia Earhart-Insights from 1M Trivia Responses
Why do you think the snowball method is irrational? Like any method it has its flaws, but studies from Northwestern and Harvard indicate positive results [1] which moves the argument closer to evidence than pure assertion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-snowball_method
We don't need any more escalation. The anti-China hysteria in the West is getting really out-of-hand. This is dangerous stuff.
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Transfer-Protoc...
What is intrinsic value?
It's a little different on HN since a comment that gets enough downvotes is made invisible to other people.
That picture of past you... what is going on? On the table I see the following beverages: wine, liquor, coffee, water. There's also a cheese grater. And what looks to be a bottle of pills. Okay. Now on the window sill behind you is ... I don't even know, coffee, a cleaning product, some napkins maybe, another wine bottle and other sundry items.

This looks like maybe a table shoved into the corner of a tiny restaurant, away from the main area.

Apparently it's night time.

I guess it's as good a place to write code as any other. :-)
We have a very long history with the flu, and know that historically, the season ends around March every year.

COVID-19 is new, and was barely getting started in March. Despite early claims that it would definitely taper off in the summer, apparently based on the fact that the flu does, it is not tapering off at all. We have no idea when COVID-19 will taper off, or if it will before herd immunity is reached (with or without a vaccine).

So we don't know yet when the end will be, and they have different dates because they are different viruses.
Can you see how the former is a link in the same "chain of destruction"[1] as the latter?

[1]https://youtu.be/c8N0TDsjpkE

You may be disinclined to watch this short video, but perhaps you would be surprised to see that it actually gives strong credence to the problems which you are seemingly arguing against, and which I too care deeply about.
Congrats on launching something with your brother! That's my dream, I'm the backend guy, he's the frontend guy. :D
Of course, it's called 'context'.

But arguing that previous miss-steps invalidate current arguments is irrational.
Saving USD is a terrible bet
To be completely fair, it never looked like a Java application.
I never understood their pitch in first place.
Why pay for quick bites when I get decent content (~10min) for free on youtube?
Generally, I would assume people watch netflix/amazon/disney content for entertainment and expect their originals to be of the usual or slight longer duration. That's content to enjoy watching over a longer period of time. People like this format, hence binge watching is a thing.
I can't see why people would rather watch a highly produced quick bite while waiting in line for a coffee instead of watching a new upload from a subscribed creator on youtube for like 10 minutes. There are plenty of famous youtubers upload almost daily, with daily/weekly views much higher than the total app downloads quibi has so far. And they don't have a ~2B$ war chest.
Indeed. I created this initiative some time ago, but sadly have not been able to get folks responsible for deployments involved: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Guidelines_for_public...

I guess it's just another reflection of the passivity we witness everywhere.
The link doesn't even work yet it keeps getting upvoted... man that's some headline catnip right there.
Looks like we crashed it
Assuming the majority of hn is US-based, you folks have to understand that PC culture is often seen as a joke at best and an extension of typical American hypocrisy at worst (i.e. the usual double-speak and fake politeness that covers actual opinions and motivations). Sure, the PC/SJW wave is gaining momentum outside of the US as well, as the cultural influence is significant but it still remains an odd thing for most. Having to work with Americans used to be a chore because of how indirect they can be (not to mention the widespread tendency for workaholism) but now it’s becoming insufferable. Taking this “philosophy” to its logical conclusion, I cannot see how anyone can rationally deny we’re destined to a nightmare where you need to learn how to speak and act “the right way”, just like what happens in China. At least over there they have no pretenses about what they’re doing, and are not hiding behind supposedly noble ideas of equality and tolerance.

Make no mistake, American society is to a large extent Machiavellian in nature, especially the urbanite population and even more so the technocratic elite. Political Correctness is merely a tool of oppression and cynical exploitation at this point (just look at the Gillette ads if you still are unconvinced).
Good.

Uber is trying to weasel out of this in Switzerland by letting drivers set price but it won't fly.
AutoCAD went ribbon around 2010...
A question on a related topic, then: given that hats are dead, how can a person appear reasonably good if they want to wear a hat for comfort/practical reasons?

Clearly one of the big no-nos is mixing formal and casual. Fedora wearers without a suit, also the weird college-student fad of wearing a waistcoat ("vest") with casual clothing, much ridiculed. But on the other hand, wooly hats and baseball caps are more casual than a lot of general leisure and business clothing. We have the flat cap, but here in England that seems like an affectation unless you're from particular places where it's traditional. What alternatives are there?
Good job? Maybe on a beefy first-world computer. The UX goes down the drain if you try to run a few of those apps at once.
High Agency: what is it, why its important, and how to cultivate it
If you played around with the Agat you should write some blogs. Agat seems really interesting from what I've been able to learn about it - it was like a 32-column Apple II with SECAM color.
Isn't Blender 2.7 to 2.8 widely considered a successful redesign? Blender is experiencing continuing and dramatic industry support. I've heard Blender is comparable to the proprietary alternatives.

I've not used Blender much though.
You're worrying about a business with a estimated minimum profit margin of 79%, using the most pessimistic assumptions I could think of. I wouldn't be worrying yet.

In 2017^: revenue was $259k, costs were estimated $17k, archives 31.8TBy, 126M URLs.

In 2020: revenue was $212k, costs were not specified, archives 82TBy, 192M URLs.

Archives are 2.58x higher, URLs are 1.52x higher. So taking the higher of the two multiples and pessimistically multiplying the 2017 costs of $17k (the cloud has gotten cheaper but let's ignore that), we get $44k in costs (this is probably too high by 2x), leaving a profit of $168k.

Users dropped from 29K to 19K, so you should start worrying when users reaches 5K, assuming that costs scale linearly with data (which they definitely do not).

In all likelihood, you probably don't need to worry until users reaches 2K. At current rate, that's probably about a decade, assuming ten more years of no changes to the site (such as mobile support) and etc.

^ https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/07/pinboard_turns_seven/
I am in the same boat as you. For me, I didn't dislike the people -- I pried myself away from that habit -- and grew to dislike the tactics. Seeing them taken up by the formerly oppressed is very disheartening. That jackboot that has been stomping my face in, I wonder if it fits me?
California Assembly considering hiking fire insurance rates
I filed https://github.com/mbonig/node-vs-deno/issues/1