skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say "deserve a backlash", but what does that really mean? How much of a backlash and who decides? Is the purpose punishment or rehabilitation?

I think you'll find that cancel culture is vigilantism. There's nothing to moderate how severe the "consequences" are.
What would it be like to grow up as the first mammoth-elephant hybrid?
When engaged in public speech the burden is not on anyone to give evidence. The burden is on the people to act independently to any messaging or advertising if they should wish to be so burdened or unburdened.
They also missed a lot of features. And IMO not needing the 'reveal codes' screen and having to clean up markup codes manually is the reason Word won the wordprocessor 'war'.
I don't hate the selfie stick due to the users of them. I first heard about a selfie stick when I was on vacation in Rome near the Roman forum. I couldn't walk ten feet without another street vendor trying to convince me to buy a selfie stick. It was constantly aggravating. I wanted to be left alone to enjoy myself, and I was constantly hearing people hawking selfie sticks to me. That made me really dislike the things. (I'll admit to also disliking selfies, probably because when I look at photos, the last thing I want to see in the photo is me.)
The sugar in semen makes HIV drugs less effective
I really relate to this. I LOVED Fire Watch. It was absolutely stunning.
I've seen exactly that fearlessness with my six-year old twins when they get a hold of my phone or iPad. They've found features I didn't even know existed. They also are really adaptable. My wife, who is used to using either her iPad or her surface for computing has, despite a much longer span of using mouse/trackpad driven selection, developed a hard to break habit of tapping the screen on my MacBook. My kids, when we switched them to the MacBook for their virtual class meetings, adapted to using the trackpad without a moment's hesitation. They were also infinitely better than any of my co-workers have been about muting/unmuting themselves appropriately during videoconferences, as have their classmates. They're just learning to read still but once they've unlocked that achievement, I can only imagine what they'll be capable of doing.
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Something ironic about your post being downvoted or cancelled depending on your point of view.

I think to an extent we seem to be heading towards a thought police society as evident by people losing their jobs over things they do or say that go viral online (if you need references I'll be happy to pull some up, but here in the USA at least its happened a number of times), this is often called cancel culture. We see it on HN all the time, sometimes I get downvoted to oblivion without a single response as to why. I come to HN for discourse and yet its too easy to shun out people without any consequence. I don't say things because I think every little thing I say is fact, I say it to share my view which now and then is unpopular so it holds me back from posting on HN a good amount of the time, I can assume there's other users with the same issue.
You will not like the path you are on.

- Google Namedropping is annoying like hell and i have seen it plenty of times. You will not feel great if you need to bring that up all the time
- When i google for Resumes, resume.io is the first hit with ad and it cost 3$
- When i go to your website, i don't even know that it is a paid product
- People really don't care that much about there resumes. I have seen probably 50 or more resumes. They just use the first thing on the internet or a latex template or a word template or they do it with a friend or with family or with a coworker
- Your webui actually is as cumbersome as all the companies who require you to apply through their webforms. It doesn't matter how your resume looks when you are looking for a job in a bigger and more known company because you will have to type that stuff in some webform again
- Recruiters exists and there are already recruiters who specizalize and are more edgy but you have to realise one big thing: You are entering this recruiter/hiring/resume market. That market is shitty for a reason.

At the end of the day, you are competing with customers which will never return. You have to build a product for this specific use case. If you are not in top 3 of Google Search results, they will not find you and they will not come back because they do not care for a resume after they got hired.

After they got hired and they might start using linkedin etc. recruiters will pester them and those recruiters will use their default templates and map whatever they are able to get into those default templates and no one cares.

I never cared about the layout much, i cared about the content.
>You know that feeling when you open an app, you know it's going to be a bit janky.

I've used Electron apps before, yes.
So there is no way to try {} catch {} it, right?
Many writers take on a pen name (pseudonym), for a variety of reasons, some of them related to issues you get at with your post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pen_names
> They care more about famous YouTubers and TikTok stars.

It sounds like they’re still interested in celebrities, it’s just a different set of people than older generations expect.

I wonder, is that gap new or just part of the cycles of life?
CleanShot X is an amazing tool for grabbing screenshots on macOS. I'm giving away 3 licenses worth $29 each on this post where I talk about my favourite areas of the app.
Government biases may feel great when they produce the outcome you want, but by codifying the mechanisms of bias in the first place you are paving the way for it to swing the other direction as soon as someone new takes the reins of power.

What you want is for laws to treat everyone equally regardless of how much money is in their bank account at the time.

You also have to remember you are sending signals not just to the victims but to the criminals. Do you really want a society where the rich have a target painted on their backs because law enforcement will not protect them? You might not like the world of private law enforcement they will create to protect themselves, should the need arise.
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If you know people around Bergame in Italy or Mulhouse in France, please ask them how it was, how it felt. How much did the 210% and 185% excess death affected them. Will the death of one of her child and her ex-husband will make the parent living a bit north, around Strasbourg, suicide, or is will this be caused by lockdown?

What about the 26 year old dancer that will never be able to perform at the same level that she did before getting infected unless we manage to find a new medical technique to remove her lung scars? Will she work at Macdonald's now? Europe is mostly out of lockdown right now and yes, lockdown caused deaths too. But look at the addict admission to the hospital in Strsabourg/Mulhouse/Colmar and those in Britanny during the lockdown. Not having a crisis and only a lockdown did kill people, but not nearly as much as havong a crisis. In colmar, they had to close 3/4 or their bed usually used for alcoholic coma and/or OD. Im pretty sure it wasn't the case in Britanny.

Maybe you're right about the lockdown in the US though. It might have flattened the curve enough in some state and might have been useless in others, but it is obviously not working as well as it did in europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard
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I don't know who is to decide. But it shouldn't be children or pornographers.
> This is a core argument that keeps getting spouted, and it's irrational nonsense.

Because apparently recently "words are violence" and now we even hear "silence is violence".

This is so 1789 French Revolution style.
Is it even possible to create a Protonmail account with Tor? I thought it asks for your phone number if you do that? (And we all know hopefully by now, handing over your phone number is a big no-no if you want to be anonymous)
Just my 2c, I have no foot in the game.

I think the difference is that laws aren't proposed or created based on programmers being lazy (to follow your analogy). However, there /are/ laws denying fundamental rights of, say, LGBT people (marriage, etc.).

That might be boiled down to "denies their fundamental right to exist" in a heated debate.
Excerpt: "After the new measures were announced late on Monday, Facebook, Microsoft, WhatsApp, Google, Twitter, Telegram and others said they would not process information requests from the government until they had reviewed the law. TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, said it was leaving Hong Kong altogether."
I guess Apple will have to weigh whether they'll want to tolerate the Fb app on iOS, but more probably they have a deal with Fb (else they would've kicked them out already). Considering Fb is said to be the main portal for "the web" as a Fb user might see it (which I find still very hard to believe for a number of reasons), if the Fb app (or worse, WhatsApp) isn't on iOS, with Safari and FF already blocking most tracking on facebook.com, Fb might block Apple devices altogether, and Apple might or might not stand to loose in device sales, depending on the intersection of Apple's with Fb's target demographic. If it were only for Spotify (which is a direct competitor to Apple Music), they'll have to weigh whether them kicking Spotify out will be seen as anti-competitive vs having a good excuse for eliminating a competitor on their own platform. But maybe my speculations are way off, and Apple will just tell Fb to fix their shit.
It's not the fluctuations, but the zero-point energy.

In a supersymmetric theory the number exactly cancels. If the Standard Model is some low-energy EFT of a supersymmetric theory, it could be almost-0.
>For JavaScript, there is excellent js-joda library

Well that was kind of my point- needing an external library to manage datetime is ludicrous. That's why I'm talking about what C# has builtin. No matter what new project you start, whoevers code you are working in- you can just use builtin.

>give NodaTime a try. Standard DateTime is barely usable, compared to it.

Went to the website to see some example code.. looks basically the same? Anyway thanks for the heads up but I work with datetime stuff constantly and I am not missing anything. It's easy to create datetimes, convert between time zones, add timespans etc.
Curiously, this type of handwavy response reveals a not-quite-1:1 mapping between the sort of assertive, pro-admission, fail-forward balance that "move fast, break things" implies for me, and the apparent reality which seems closer to "haha crowdsourced QC go brrrrt"

:(
According to the article, there are 2 types of excess deaths:

- the virus can also cause death by exacerbating underlying health issues; the body’s immune system is weakened while fighting off the illness.

- the sudden emergence and rapid spread of the disease overwhelmed critical care units when the virus was at its peak, reducing the amount of care any individual patient could receive.

And the argument of "35% excess deaths not caused by COVID-19" is perhaps technically correct due to the reasons above, however, those are indirect deaths that had the root cause of SARS-CoV-2, which is the virus. Notice the difference between COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2? The former is the disease, the latter is the virus.

As Dr. Mike Hansen said in a few of his autopsy report review videos he made in his YouTube channel[1], there are very few direct cause of death in the death certificate he signed and issued for his ICU patients, most related to blood clots and lack of oxygen but the common indirect cause is the SARS-CoV-2. In other words, if it weren't for the coronavirus infection, these deaths could either be prevented or delayed.

So I think it's more nuanced than simply saying we are attributing 35% the excess deaths to COVID-19 whereas these are indirectly caused by SAR-CoV-2 viral outbreak.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6h8TIxeg1g
Anecdotes!
Also GPUs really like predictable memory access patterns so that they can load the data that'll be needed next ahead of time into registers or dedicated caches explicitly. They don't have cache hierarchy features a CPU has to minimize the average disruption from only partially predictable memory accesses and they don't have out of order windows to paper over the occasional low level cache miss.
>That makes no sense. A man telling you "I feel way more like a woman" is not putting feelings over reality/data.

Clearly you and the person you're replying to have a different definition of "woman". To them, "woman" is a classification based on biological aspects, like having two x chromosomes, to you "woman" is something more abstract.
If you let the number of objects to sort go to infinity while keeping size of objects in bits capped, then they will behave like integers.
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It may not be a conventional null, but I'm not aware of any tech where calling "count" on a Null, .nil? or otherwise null-like construct won't end horribly.
How are you going to confirm you got the correct checksum?

Generally the solution is to get signed checksums.
This comes with the usual issues of how you verify the key used to sign.

Alternatively try and distribute the checksums out-of-band. So an attacker would need to MitM two channels.
True, but if it was Excel Skills that got me hired, I would see that as a red flag about the engineering position I'd be taking...
When corporations take a stand on an issue, they're just making a bet on who they think is going to win, it's got nothing to do with morals.

I guarantee if Trump got legitimately reelected with 80% of the vote, you'd see every company quickly replacing those "We Stand with BLM" banners with some bright red MAGA flair.
I really don't understand the motivation for netplan existing. It's such a primitive tool that provides very little abstraction over it's backends that aren't pluggable or really configurable at all.

It's super weird that they didn't just do the thing with NetworkManager since all they needed to write was a plugin a la ifcfg-rh to process turn YAML into NM settings and then you're done. And since they have NM as a backend they clearly are perfectly capable of doing this.
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>Imagine using your career position as a platform to argue that Black Americans should use “separate but equal” facilities in 2020.

Isn't that one of the core tenants of the BLM campaigns? "Separate but equal" community policing for African American neighborhoods..
Yep.

This is why statisticians take more than "basic statistics".
I don't treat bookmarks as a list of sites. I treat them as a list of jumping-off points for any kind of resource whatsoever.

Everything I come across that I might want to be able to find my way back to goes into Pinboard as a bookmark.

The full-text indexing feature means it's my own personal search engine of (most things) I've ever seen. I imported my previous bookmarks, which go back to 1994.

Everything I come across that I will likely want to go back to and digest later goes into Pinboard as a bookmark set to 'unread'.

When I have some time to relax, catch up, and read, I open my list of unread bookmarks and work backwards. Or I skip back a month, or a year, or several. It's amazing what I'm reminded of. Sometimes I decide I don't care any more and delete or just keep links as bookmarks, but more often than not I'll go and read whatever it was I'd left as a gift for future me.
I have to admit, I did not expect to see a Jezebel headline and think, "Well, that is an extremely reasonable thing to say."

A good section:

>"And like many religions, the cancel culture congregation is teeming with members eager to point out the sins of others to deflect from their own. Mass free expression is chaotic, clearly, which at the very least means we should be wary of pat explanations that attempt to squeeze the nature of the problem down to 500 words and place certain manners of expression in tidy boxes on either side of an ideological divide."

Jezebel has always (perhaps fallaciously) been considered something of a thought leader in some communities. Maybe this gutsy article, which some their audience may not like, signals a return to some kind of capacity for normal discourse among human beings.
Yes, the economics of mobile apps really are that tough. The App Store has been around for over a decade now, and the "race to the bottom" has brought us the almost exclusive use of in-app purchases for monetizing apps.

Market is a big part of app success which is why we see games and companies with real budget making the $$ in the App Stores. Gotta market to those whales!

Furthermore, users expect a very high quality mobile app these days and often don't want to pay for features. Got a great app with a few amazing paid features? Expect some negative app reviews. Everyone, app developers included, expect amazing, free, mobile apps. It's unrealistic.
To be fair Alyx is really fantastic looking I just can't afford a headset and I don't want to give Facebook my buck. Valve has always tried to do things that are next gen with every major game release. I have a friend who plays Half-Life Alyx and it is fun and he has fun playing it, but I'm not about to spend a thousand dollars on a headset.
Overwatch seems to have a different culture than Fortnite. People might say "heh" if the play of the game is Default Skin Reinhardt using the Heroic highlight intro... but that's as far as it goes. Playing the game seems to give enough skins that nobody is particularly concerned about it.

From reading the comments, it seems like Fortnite players make fun of each other for not having skins, thus people are pressured into buying them. I am guessing that because the game has so much downtime, there really isn't anything else to do.
There's a surprising amount of tu quoque getting thrown around here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

Please before you call hypocrisy on the US government at least engage in the quality of the action they are currently taking.
Unless your app is designed for browsing Facebook, there's no reason that anything on Facebook's servers should affect if your app works.

Many of the apps crashing are using Facebook for a portion of their app, such as one login option.

Letting that take down the whole app is insufficiently defensive coding, whether in the app, sdk, or glue between them.
Summary:

Two companies are profiled, Synthesia and Rosebud, that specialize in Machine Learning-supported video alteration.

They help their customers build videos where:

- The speaker uses different languages than the source recording

- Human avatars are generated from model captures, and these avatars will "read" scripts, without needing to put said human in front of the camera again.

- Current use is for PSAs, marketing videos, and training materials.
Their Princess Bride home movie is fantastic.
Yeah not hacked but thanks for confirming your whiteness.
> if China wants to be a world leader equal to or above the US, we need some guarantees that they aren't going to plunder the world for their own nationalism.

While I'm personally incompatible with many (most?) of the Chinese values as seen from the west, I'm sure most Chinese appreciate them as they came attached to personal prosperity like their parents never dreamed. You believe US values are or should be generally accepted by the world as "the gold standard" for everyone. Did you have to handwave anything and say "yeah, except that, and that, and..."? Or "but what about what they do?" This is a very self-centric view of the world.

Chinese nationalism doesn't agree with me, but neither does yours. The difference between the 2 is that I'm on your nationalism's good (less bad?) side, so it suits me today. Most of the world is on their bad side and do not share your enthusiasm about your values. Many other Western countries are already distancing themselves from the US with regards to many actions (take as an example the Iran sanctions) because it turns out in the end it shares the same "plunder the world" principles. Perhaps a bit more carrot, less stick than the Chinese one. Even citizens are showing less and less appreciation for it in the streets. I applaud the fact that they are free to do it, not that they're fearing just less retaliation than the average Chinese would in the same position. I can't unsee that so many condemnation-worthy violations piggy-back on these real values, in the end making the whole thing a "chocolate-poop-cake". It has chocolate, everyone likes chocolate.

Just pointing out the hypocrisy of assuming your personal world views and nationalism happen to be universally above the rest and the fix is for everyone else to "feel the pain" of our nationalism until they accept it. If that didn't sound a bit off then you would have used you regular account.
Well sure, I get the reason behind.. but the reality is it's just a horrible convention, especially when you pass multiple inputs (year, month, day, hour, minute, second) and "month" is based on 0 index but the rest are not.
So why not use pastebin with a burner phone ? Write your blogs air gapped at home and then upload them using tor or a proxy.
Similarly, how do you know those radical accounts aren't intentionally-so in order to divide us? I interpret your comment to suggest that there are U.S. based actors trying to discredit the BLM movement because they disagree with it. I suggest that, in addition, there may also be non U.S. based actors spewing purposefully radical content just to inflame tempers here. Honestly, I don't really know what to think of some of the radical content anymore... is it genuine? Is it malicious? I'm genuinely struggling to know what I think about most of the really radical content that I see online....
Full disclosure - I am co-founder of https://kesque.com . We provide Pulsar as a managed service and different tiers of SaaS plan. My opinion can be biased.

For a new project, you should try to document different aspects of requirements. Is it data streaming, queuing, or both? What's the data retention policy? Message rate? How many consumers and producers? Any inbound or outbound integration with 3rd party destination (i.e. S3, Flink)? Both Kafka and Pulsar have so many features to offer. It is not a simple task to pick one vs another. If you ask for guaranteed delivery, both will satisfy that requirement. A level up question would be who can guarantee in-order delivery.

Managing Kafka and Pulsar require knowledge. I do not think any of these durable messaging software is maintenance free (or industry is not there yet). Any reliable distributed system is complex out of necessity. These system more or less require log consensus algorithm to achieve high availability. They all use either zookeeper or one of raft implementations requiring multiple nodes to perform leader election. This is common in all distributed architecture (kafka, Pulsar, Cockroach, etcd...). I would attest Pulsar can be administratively simpler than Kafka, because of separation of broker and bookkeeper (data persistent layer). But this does not mean any dev-op without knowledge can proficiently manage the cluster. We use Kubernets/Helm to manage all of our Pulsar clusters. I would not credit Pulsar alone with low operation upkeep. It is combinations of Kubernetes, Helm, in-house tools, and engineering knowledge to lower the operation cost.
If I have the time, I like to open up /recent[0] to see what's in there. /popular[1] is good too, but with /recent you usually find some obscure less popular (but still good) link that always surprises me. I am glad the Internet still has little rabbit-holes like this that you can get lost in.

[0] https://pinboard.in/recent/

[1] https://pinboard.in/popular/
And pornographers will also find a workaround to reach there addicts... euh... audience.