skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Jerry Sexton said [1] it best in defense of the KKK memorial in the Tennessee capitol building.

> It was not against the law to own slaves back then. Who knows, maybe some of us will be slaves one of these days. Laws change.

Tear them all down.

[1] https://www.wsmv.com/video/tn-legislator-makes-controversial...
> And if you sign up and don’t like it then $22 is not that much money[1].

??

I'm not giving $22 to someone I don't know and then saying, "Well the service sucks, but it's not much money." He claims to give refunds, but the time cost for me - assuming I actually get it - would be far more than $22. Again, this is 2020, the world has moved on from this type of business model.
I guess my first question is, where's the line between "policing" and "investigating your own citizens"?
Groupthink is huge now because of the online echo-chambers that people can very easily surround themselves with.

Look on Instagram with the BLM stuff. There are tons of radical accounts that just post whatever in a cool infographic, and then it gets shared on peoples stories. And it's actually pretty anti-white and racist itself.
The extremes of A- are that when applied to the wrong group it can lead to actual violence. The extreme of B- is that group cohesion stagnates because the individual takes precedence. Group A is more cohesive than B, but is under internal strain.

If you have a highly dynamic group, meaning it changes every year, then you should consider culture B to reduce alienation. If you have a static group consider culture A to improve cohesion and cooperation.

A smart and intelligent manager can accommodate both simultaneously and realize that there is a happy medium between the two. As the culture matures, ie people stay around for a long time, it will go from B+ to A+ naturally.
WhatsApp isn't made by a single indie developer, and wasn't just released by that single indie developer a month ago. If it can't sync between Apple Phones and Android, then WhatsApp has intentionally chosen not to fix that and instead spend many millions of dollars on other stuff. It is on purpose.
I don't know what HBD is, care to explain?
Get to Know the HAProxy Process Manager
I've always thought that the talk to customers advice was bad as a starting point. If you don't have the domain experience to go to your first customer and say I built X and it solves your problem Y then I think you're barking up the wrong tree. Once you have customers it becomes important to talk to them for improvements. And when you have a product obviously you've gotta talk to people to sell it.
Just a hint, a lot of engineers I talk to are desperately in need of career advice and they don't find a port of a call.
I, too, used to be a grammar fascist.

Then I fell in love with an otherwise quite intelligent woman with dyslexia

At some point I just stopped trying to correct her to/too/two confusion

It would be nice if everyone used correct grammar. But you understood what they were trying to say, which is what made it possible for you to suggest the correction.

What I'm getting at is that I now think it's impolite to call someone out on their grammer in a public forum (I know you saw what I did, there)

The tone of online discourse has eroded so badly of late that I think it's best to become a politeness fascist now.

We don't call people out on their lisp, their tics, their stutter, their mumbling, their gait... but calling people out on their spelling online is OK apparently
Apple's refusal to support XPC and the ability for apps to launch secondary processes is the real underlying issue here. Being able to separate out execution and process permissions from the main app solves a ton of third-party SDK issues as well as just normal "why is my app crashing because of decoding?"-style issues.
Mulling on your comment, the latter might actually be the next wave.

After too much "polished" content from Brazzers/BangBros/RealityKings which is really your McDonald's megacorp productions of porn having a decentralised authentic "team of 1" indy authentic production via Porntubers is probably the parallel evolution that we saw in Youtube.

Not sure, I haven't really studied or thought about this issue very much. Although porn is quite fascinating in its universality and scale.
>up to 35% of excess deaths during the early phase of the pandemic may not have been directly due to COVID-19

Does that mean the other 65% of excess deaths were or "may have been" due to COVID?
> It's weird to me that people complain over "old and ugly" interfaces.

You might be interested in checking out the work of Donald Norman. He makes a great case that attractive things work better. Old isn't necessarily a problem, but ugly is.

https://jnd.org/emotion_design_attractive_things_work_better...
I am honestly curious why, when you learned lesson 1 (Lesson: Don’t quit your job too early), did you not apply it? Find a company in a completely different space, carve out your business in your contract, and work your job while you hone your product. In 3 to 5 years you may very well have a solid growing product, or not, but at least you won't be broke.
My suggestion is to look outside of SaaS. Software is much easier to bootstrap in the past decade, increasing competition (from within a customer, and competitors). We're in the phase where every single permutation of what one can do with software is being exhausted.

Businesses using the same concepts and business models outside of this scope have potentially less competition, higher available market, and higher upside purchase exit.

Someone mentioned patio11, he essentially referenced the lower exit, customer fatigue as why he joined Stripe a few years ago
Looking forward to the new newsletter!
Sure, not all bugs are kernel bugs though.
People that champion UBI don't understand market incentives. It won't work without price controls, and we know that price controls don't work.

Let's go crazy though, and say price controls will work. How universal is universal? Is it $600 for every person alive, including children? How is that going to incentivize people's behavior? If it's not for children, how is that going to incentivize people's behavior?

Are you expected to pay housing costs out of this amount, or is that granted separately? Would a family of 5 splitting a single family residence be building wealth faster than a someone living in an apartment?

If you want to wreck the economy, UBI is the best way to do it.
Epic. Are you an American that moved there for that reason? Or just a really good/experienced local that can leverage that lifestyle/salary arbitrage?

Might try this sometime soon. I'm pretty well-versed, but which city in EE would you recommend?
The DJI Fly app is also affected.
Workaround: Start it in flight mode.
> Who use Microsoft build of PHP?

Surely I'm not the only person who has worked on PHP application that needed to stay running while it was being converted, piece by piece, to ASP.NET? Of course these days with dotnet Core this can all be done on Linux or the traffic routing can be trivially handled by nginx...

I'm trying to think of an answer to "We've got to do this on Windows!" but nothing realistic is coming to mind that doesn't involve legacy-ware that is over ten years old -- which is still beyond the scope of this general discussion.

Surely I would think that "PHP on Windows" going forward would be a feature delivered from WSL and not on Windows itself.
Would you be willing to share some pictures of your wife's hats? I'm very curious!

(also curious about the prices, maybe it's time for me to wear a fancy hat?)
I like dogfoot better ... it illustrates that if there's a bug that results in you eating dogfoot rather than dog food, you'll have some visibility to that.
The most popular apps on one of the most popular operating systems just plainly don't even open.

What has this industry become? How are we so goddamn inept at writing software? This is an industry where we can automate testing - not many other industries have this capability - and we still don't have a simple test regime of "check if the app opens" for any of those apps. Somehow, at the most valuable software companies of the world, nobody has set up a system that makes sure that you can't introduce a change that renders these apps unusable?

WHAT THE FUCK.

I have always been afraid of software engineering becoming a trade similar to medicine or law or (regular) engineering where significant barriers will be put up before you can enter the industry, but this sort of shit makes me feel like it could be for the better. I will have to go and get a degree, but that's the price I have to pay I guess.
My phone number is tied to a geographical location. (Sure, I can keep it alive, but now I am collecting phone numbers as I move around).

My email represents me, and I fully own it with minimal upkeep costs.
> The first version of Office for windows [...] is from 1998. [...] 9 years, vs 13 for the ribbon interface.

You are not even close to right. Excel for Windows is from 1987 (20 years with non-ribbon menus), Word for Windows is from 1989 (18 years with non-ribbon menus). And of course the menu bar paradigm itself is older still.
I'm a "Power User" and I've memorized every single hotkey on the Excel ribbon interface to the point that I don't care where they are.

Wrap text? Alt H A W

Open settings? Alt T F T

Change to page break view? Alt W I. Go back to normal view with Alt W L

Take the border I currently have on the top edge of a cell and swap it to the bottom? Alt H B M Alt+T Alt+B

Paste values transposing? Alt H V S V E. Want to follow the old accelerator? Alt E S V E also works

Power users don't need to care what the ribbon / menu looks like. They learn hotkeys.
The front page of reddit is straight up anti white
Thanks a lot for the thoughtful feedback, it's much appreciated it!

Right now the resume builder is general purpose for people wanting to work in tech. We went down the path of charging companies for access to qualified candidates and the lesson we learned is that you first need a critical mass (which is bigger than we initially thought) to make it scaleable.

To get enough job seekers looking for a specific job in a specific location with a specific skillset with a specific number of years of experience (companies are very specific with what they're looking for) requires a large number of job seekers on your platform.

We want to start with a resume builder to provide value to these people at the first stage of their job searching process so we can then layer in more services and tools as we grow to that necessary critical mass.

Eventually, we intend for one of those services to be the forwarding to companies when the candidate matches what the company is looking for and vice-versa.
It signals narcissism.
It seems that we are much more generous in how we count flu deaths, so that 15,620[0] confirmed tracked deaths in the most recent flu season ends up as an estimated 42,000.

All the comparisons I've seen this year have been using the 24,000-62,000 flu estimate uncritically when comparing to COVID-19, but apples to apples is apparently 15,620 for flu and
132,056 for COVID-19[1].

Perhaps flu-like estimates will come later, since the CDC tends to wait until the end of flu seasons to release those numbers. We're clearly nowhere near the end of COVID-19 season.

[0] https://news.yahoo.com/flu-deaths-were-counted-covid-0534499...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/case...
Good point; I guess that's really crux of the issue: we use it as a sum Type, but the compiler sees it only as a product Type
You're making a huge claim. Data, please.

The US, as far as I have seen, hasn't released any meaningful updates in suicide numbers for 2020, against a backdrop of suicide rates climbing since '99.
I think the biggest take-away from "cancel culture is bad" letters and articles is that they never come with specific examples. For example, Gareth Roberts says he was cancelled but never say why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Roberts_(writer)#Transg... He said transgenderism is "It's almost like a clueless gayboy's idea of a glamorous lady." It's ok to have an opinion, but if you insist it beyond being respectful and/or scientific evidences, you deserve a backlash.

It's almost as if actions have consequences.
Should We Be Drinking Less?
Basically start at Shaun King and then go from there. He's HUGE with that crowd and his posts are very questionable. At the minimum, the undertone is palpable for every post.
Sure, I really want multiple crashing Facebook spy processes crashing on my phone continuously.
The roll out of the current system was fairly slow and based on response to changes in TF2. Initially weapons were tied to in game achievements, and later a random drop system as well. Cosmetic hats were added to the drop pool in 09, and in 2010 a weapon, item and crate (loot box) shop, and later an update made of community creations. 2012 added a co-op mode MvM that required a 1$ ticket to play a round of the game that that count how many times you've played and can drop items, and the steam community market where items can be traded. It's worth noting that Yanis Varoufakis[1], the economist was a consultant for valve at this point. In 2015 skins for weapons were added, something that beforehand was free.

Valve's argument, which is significantly different than something like overwatch seems to be that content like hats and weapon models and skins has value, and when it's given away there's less incentive for creators to make things, which results in less things being available for players to enjoy and people who make things getting less money. A similar thought led to the introduction of the paid mods store for example. While that was extremely unpopular, there are a couple game mods for sale on the steam store2[2], and there are Patreon game modders[3].

Of course Valve's dog in this race is that they can and have made boatloads of cash in doing so[4], where in their ideal situation users make content and other users pay for it, and they just collect a fee on top for providing a platform.

[1]https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/category/valveconomics

[2]https://store.steampowered.com/app/280740/Aperture_Tag_The_P...

[3]https://www.patreon.com/JulioNIB

[4]https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/03/08/how-and-why-team-for...
We should give Manhattan back too.
Who needs basic features when you have marketing to convince everyone you’re already perfect in every way?
Yes because government officials know enough about technology to pass those types of laws.
My understanding of these problems is totally naive, but I wonder if you could mitigate speculative execution vulnerabilities (meltdown, spectre, yes I know the former does not apply to amd) by using the excess cores to speculate enough that a cache hit is no longer meaningful data.
I switched to my own xmpp server instead. Never going back.
The reaction to this pandemic is in fact killing a great many people. In a normal flu season the whole country doesn’t lose its marbles a̶n̶d̶ ̶d̶e̶s̶c̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶o̶ ̶g̶e̶n̶e̶r̶a̶l̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶o̶s̶.
> yes, this is a shameless plug. I am poor and cheap, and this is all I've got.

It will be difficult for you to know how much I empathize with this statement. Beautifully put.

Good luck to you Utkarsh.
An evolutionary perspective on why food overconsumption impairs cognition
If you make chocolate milk just a little harder to reach, kids at scale will be reaching for it less, and we're just talking about chocolate milk. You make returning your product just a few minutes harder and fewer people will be getting their money back.
Hmm, why is the $109k in revenue not counted? I'm a bit confused.
I haven't personally tried Flockport, but I have to say at a glance, it looks _way_ simpler than Kubernetes. It looks like it's trying to build on standard Linux features, instead of reinventing an entire alternate universe where you can only run a single process per machine.

I imagine it won't catch on (there's just too much momentum behind k8s) but still kinda nice to see them try.
Yes, as I say, we tried postgres as a DB running a graph layer and found it impossibly slow for network oriented queries (shortest path etc.).

The article is certainly taking a strong position, but I think it can boil down to the new base line for workhorse transactional DBs will be graph and other databases, while being valuable in special cases, will be niche.
> I have no interest in taking pictures of myself even more so sharing them

As an old git (45) it seems strange to me that today's youth have known nothing else but a world where sharing pictures of yourself on social media is the norm. It's like its part of the reason for living.
> I gave up after realizing that Signal will not deliver message for a couple of days and that message notification doesn't work.

That has never happened to me.
Anything, really, not necesarrily even creative. Imagine I gave your a piece of paper with my signature. How much would you get for it on ebay? No imagine, if on that piece of paper were signature of say, Stephen Hawking from 1960-ies instead.
The amount of creativity would be the same, the price…
I almost thought this article was sarcastic. It had all the elements of a “successful” founder. I was reading another article with lessons from the people, and I’ll have to say, this is a great mission: help software engineers put their job search on autopilot. It’s great that you learned a lot
That's also a good illusion. Which way does the double-helix rotate? For me most often the front sids sweeps left to right. And sometimes the direction of rotation can switch if I focus on a small part of it at the top or middle.
About people hating change,
in my IDE an update renamed a menu from "revert" to "Rollback" , for a while I had issues finding this menu because my brain was searching for the old text and just skipping over the new one.

Is it my fault that change causes productivity loss? Should we take a pause and train ourselves after each software/webpage does a change?
São Paulo Labor Judge Rules Uber Must Pay Full Employee Benefits to Drivers
The Genealogy of the Japanese Language – Tamil and Japanese (2003)
"Of adequate sample size," of course.

Let me quote book again:

A study by Iivonen analysed the defect detection performance of those involved in testing software at several companies. Table2.8 shows the number of defects detected by six testers (all but the first column, show percentages), along with self-classification of seriousness, followed by the default status assigned by others.

Six testers. Six!

Here's a small research about expressiveness of different programming languages: http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/techreps/pdf/TR141.pdf

Also contains six entries, if you include Haskell.

Expresiveness of language is measured by Halstead metric, which predicts density of defects in linear fashion: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8447959

The book quotes neither Personal Software Process nor Team Software Process research. It also does not mention at all the very basic thing about cost of software development: cost to fix a defect is proportional to the time between defect introduction and its discovery. On which I am sure there are plenty of publications to find research results in: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Cost-of-Fixing-a-Defect-...

I have strong feeling I am doing the job of the author here. It is very sad.
I feel they do stuff in a whatever way, and that signals other developers on what matters, and leads to working on something to do that properly. Like, their solutions don't get used but if they are not done than no good solution comes up.
Lol it's hilarious and also sad. Hey the cabal or whatever achieved their goal of making it trendy to be anti-white. Using anecdotal evidence or misleading statistics (most readers can't properly understand statistics anyway)
The problem is that for most of us, we find some actual truths unpleasant and inflammatory. It's unfortunate that we're not all adept at accepting opposing ideas with more equanimity. But sometimes hearing difficult or poorly conveyed ideas can be helpful and healthy.

Think of how many racists didn't want to hear about social justice and would have gladly used any means possible to ostracize those challenging the status-quo. Some civil-rights activists lives might have been saved had they been able to work anonymously.

We should all be talking about how we can better manage our emotions in the face of trolls and opposing ideas -- rather than how to make all such discomfort disappear from view.
The reality is that men profiles on online dating apps are terrible! I have tried to check for fun both male and female profiles and there are so many women with attractive pictures while men have really poorly curated profiles.... Are women naturally more attractive than men or culturally, women are "forced" to take care of themselves and show how attractive they are while this pressure does not exist for men (men have other type of pressures, like a good salary)? I do believe is the second one. As woman, I'd love to see handsome men, online and not only.
> Hypocrites (after the high up officials in charge of Guatanamo Bay are still walking unsanctioned).

Guantanamo Bay and the Xinjiang camps are not comparable. For all its faults, Guantanamo is essentially a POW camp that contains enemy combatants. No American citizens are detained there, and none were ever meant to be.

The Xinjiang camps were specifically built to forcibly indoctrinate civilian ethnic-minority Chinese citizens and suppress their community and culture. They operate on a much larger scale, and also provide a captive labor pool that's being exploited.
It only became obvious to me when I found out about the transgender debate, and that you aren't allowed to discuss reality. Just repeat 'transwomen are women' and anything against that is hate speech. You can't acknowledge they are male. It's insane. So many people are banned from twitter just for saying men can't be women, youtube channels are demontized, and the big Gender Critical sub on reddit was recently banned, for 'hate speech'. Simply because they don't believe transwomen are women.

It's identity politics and this push of feelings and individual's 'truth' over actual reality and data. I've never felt so terrified. You can't talk about reality, about a lot of things. The BLM movement is the same. If the actual facts don't fit the narrative, you can't say them. How can we fix the problems if we can't even acknowledge what is real?
You can read the article before commenting, you know.
> the youngest mayor in Massachusetts who get's caught in numerous controversies

To put it mildly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasiel_Correia
Sure but it can always go up more, like when the extra unemployment money ends (if we're talking about the US).
More handsome attractive men!
We need to turn to propaganda. If you support tracking and insecure communication, think of your children who will get burnt by insurance companies having access to their data. Thousands of [company] employees will look at your nudes if you share it on there. They might look at your kid's photos that you don't want them to. The republicans and democrats (depending who they support, switch) will look at your kid's pictures. The FBI will look at it. The cops will have access to it and then will target your kids in future. Why are you ruining yours and my kids future?

are you OK with THAT? You support children harassment by cops?

Throw some biased media page calling big companies bad. Not a hard thing to do today or write an opinion piece on popular news journal site and reference it. Medium works too.

We also need to cancel people for supporting these platforms.
On Windows 7 and earlier.
This is likely the best advice in practice as the complexity kafka introduces really only becomes apparent at scale. We ran managed services for our primary production in the 50k+ RPS range that needed a constant stream of tweaking. On the other hand, the isolated EU cluster was self hosted and ran without incident or intervention for 18 months at 1-3k RPS.