skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your reasoning is: there's a duopoly, not a monopoly, so each of the players should be able to act like a monopoly?

That's maybe the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. And saying "well they've always done this bad thing so there's no reason they should stop" is ridiculous on its face. There are countless examples in history of a company taking an action that was permitted when they were a minor player that is banned as they grow.

The fact that the US government has become criminally complicit in their refusal to enforce the Sherman act doesn't suddenly make the behavior they're ignoring OK.

This is literally textbook violation:
Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony

You don't have to strictly have a monopoly to break the law.
>We’ll use Ruby for our examples

I stopped there.
I don't know if the distinction is necessarily clear here - I think the idea b is so jarring to people is they can immediately visualize the edge case - where a baby is voting. I know you've probably got more nuance to that belief, but a naive person probably immediately thinks about it.

I'm not sure you've successfully identified an orthodoxy there because, also, I've never heard anyone defend the current voting age with any vigor.
If this guy has no reputation then who cares if he physically exists?

I blame social media. It comes with the implication that it somehow makes sense to care what total strangers think of things.
Why is outage history pre-acquisition removed from their history? If you try to go back in time it seems they only retain history up to a couple months after the acquisition. Is this just a 2 year retention policy or something being swept under the rug?
My experience is the opposite. I'm sure all in one water cooling varies, but water cooling can be done mostly with cheap parts from a hardware store. The most exotic part is the water block, followed by the pump. Radiators can be used, but a lot of computers can probably cooled by using soft copper spools and a 200mm fan.

The pump does not need to have air flow to do its job and airflow is what carries noise. The water just has to be able to flow through the loop, pretty much any rate of flow will be pushing enough water to move heat away. If you hold your hand to a water block with the pump turned off, let it warm up and turn it on, it feels like the water is going over your hand. The temperature change is immediate. If you turn off the pump while the CPU is running, the temperature will rise a few degrees each second. Once the pump goes on the temperature drops down immediately.

There is no reason that the liquid should evaporate unless there are leaks and joints don't necessarily loosen over time. Also leaks are unlikely to manifest in something bursting and water spraying, even if you had enough pressure from your pump, which you don't (a pump can probably only pump water four or five feet higher than the pump itself, even if it is more powerful than the loop needs).

I have never had to maintain or fix something after it is together. Use vinyl tubing from the hardware store over the barbs and use small pipe clamps on top of them.
I'm not well versed in these matters but I'd imagine it takes some effort to butcher a fully grown human body. Most likely the perpetrator went there with the intention to butcher the body for whatever reason. Possibly ease of transport. Seems like a lot of effort for robbery.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditMinusMods/

This must all be China. Your theory is no more than conspiracy.
You just "All Lives Matter"ed his "Black Lives Matter" argument.

And I'm not writing this as praise for your comment...
I disagree. I have been writing code with the icelandic layout for over 20 years and it has really never been an issue for me. You put your right thumb on altgr and hit the number keys.
As far as I'm aware, it's always been opt-in on Ubuntu as it is on Debian.
Fully agree. The only downside is that the data they receive is probably representative of a small segment of users (my guess is free software enthusiast desktop users, but I may be wrong).
Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
Boycotting and isolation of people for their concrete actions is one thing. But if you boycott and isolate people for merely expressing opinions, isn't it fair to characterize that as cancel culture?
I appreciate your willingness to continue this conversation in a constructive way. So let me ask you a question. You say the white-male interviewer power dynamic might affect your interview performance by 10% or less. (Personally I'd pick an even lower number, but then I'm a white male myself and also old enough that I've been senior to most of my interviewers for a while now.) Would a 10% difference in interview performance be enough, on average, to affect who gets offers or what those offers are?

My basic point here is that even 1% would be too much. If an interview process creates any inherent disadvantage for some groups, I'd say it deserves serious scrutiny. BTW, by "inherent" I mean beyond what can be addressed by bias training and such. That can enable interviewers to conduct any type of interview in as fair and kind a way as possible, but not to change the interview structure itself. If the structure is the problem, training isn't the solution. I think the in-person white-board algorithm interview is unavoidably weighted toward factors that have nothing to do with likely on-the-job performance, and thus should be avoided.
My wife and I have been trying for nearly 3 years now. We're both healthy - we exercise, eat right, and we're in our early 30s. We were saving up for IVF all of last year so we'd be able to do it this year.

Unfortunately, I'm a photographer and COVID has destroyed the chances of that happening. Minnesota's wedding season is really short and runs from early June to late September. That means we may not have enough until the end of next summer. When you've been trying for as long as we have every month you wait is absolute torture. My wife cries regularly, and while I've held together better I've had a few absolute breakdowns.

Nothing has made me feel like more of a failure of a husband than this has. Our infertility is unexplained, so it could be my fault. Worse is the fact that I have a degree in computer science and I could have had a job that paid better in the best of times, and right now could be done remotely. It's agonizing that all of this stress and suffering could be over if we just had some more money.

The problem is for most people there's no definitive answer, and IVF success rates aren't absolutely amazing. It'll cost north of $30,000 for just one try after the actual procedure, testing, and medicine. That has less than a 50/50 chance of working. How many times should you try before giving up? I've already put two years worth of savings/retirement in to it. I honestly think insurance should be mandated to cover at least one round of IVF. Isn't making babies our entire biological reason for being?
I feel like arguing over "no, your beliefs are the orthodoxy!" is counterproductive when the point is something we can all agree on, which is that everyone's ideas should be tolerated, orthodoxy or not.
"the culture where the victim comes" - The article didn't mention a single word about bangladesh, so why bring it up?
By the way, even that information is totally false, he NEVER lived in bangladesh, so he doesn't even come from that culture.
It clearly says that he was a New York tech entrepreneur.
I'd be cautious calling it a "true invitation"; it is true that someone who greets with "what's up" isn't going to be put off by a brief legitimate answer, but the greeter is likely not trying to introduce a conversation topic on your well-being, and may be caught off-guard if you launch into an extensive answer.

I would also caution against strongly saying that one should "never" fail to answer the question; in the US at least, it's such a common/generic expression that nobody is likely to be offended if you respond with "hey, how's it going?", or "hey, what's up?", or "what's up with you?".

The situation is similar to "howdy", which almost nobody outside the US south realizes is actually a question (short for "how are you doing?"). Sincerely answering "howdy" with e.g. "I'm fine, thanks" is a bit of a shibboleth that southerners can use to identify each other, but failure to do so is not any real faux pas.
The only security tip you can glean from these events is you shouldn't ride up to your own apartment with your own killer. Reports in actual newspapers, rather than local TV stations from far-away cities reprinting wire stories, mention these salient facts.
Awesome, none of us are perfect and improving isn't always simple :)
> If a poor person were murdered like this, it would be newsworthy.

> The fact that this may be a politically charged murder makes it even more newsworthy.

No, it wouldn't be. And I can tell you why.

A suitcase stuffed with parts from two (recently) dismembered bodies was found on a Seattle beach two or three weeks ago. [1]

Neither of the deceased were tech entrepreneurs, and, unsurprisingly, this did not make Hacker News, nor more than a whisper on the national media circus. I presume you haven't heard about it, either.

Now, tell me, was that also a politically charged murder? [2] What makes you immediately ascribe the politically charged label to the tech entrepreneur case?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=akai+beach+suitcase&oq=alki+...

[2] Hell, Seattle stopped talking about it after a few days.
Anecdotally, I can tell you that I am definitely getting up later. Between not having to be get my daughter to school by 7:20 and then a 45 minute drive to the office. I can roll out of bed about 7:45 and still be at my desk by 8ish.

Honestly, work from home has been such a quantum leap in my quality of life. The fact that I am not spending 1.5 hours in the car every day has given me a surprising amount of time and energy. I don't dread the alarm clock going off every morning, and I can do fun things (at least, fun things that are COVID-safe) after work.

I would be perfectly content to never return to an office. Probably won't happen, so I'll enjoy it while I can.
If you honestly feel that way, consider therapy. I don’t mean that in a mean way. I needed therapy too, and it helped a lot. That just doesn’t seem like a healthy outlook on life, and it will affect your and your daughter’s life more than you can know. If you have any questions, my email is in my bio.
At large bureaucratic organisations there's often political implications of changing the official status, so often it lags behind reality until it cannot be swept under the rug anymore

Not saying it's right, just an observation
Sorry; my mistake. Should have said user tracking is a feature the Firebase platform makes easy to build, not that its intent or sole purpose is that.
I find it remarkable that one person with just over a year of Rust experience can successfully rewrite ~6000 lines of well-tested, highly tuned Fortran in Rust and end up with similar performance on benchmarks without having in-depth expertise in the domain (simulation of fluid dynamics). The benchmarks (https://mckeogh.tech/post/shallow-water/84896735-54a97580-b0...) show similar performance across all input sizes for both the old Fortran and the new Rust code, with Fortran outperforming in some cases and Rust outperforming in others.
$6T and Growing Fast
>"The National Museum of African American History & Culture wants to make you aware of certain signs of whiteness: Individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, progress, respect for authority, delayed gratification, more."Oh, and emphasis on scientific methods.

What does that say about the life works of Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Ugh the last month has been pretty difficult. Hope they get better soon.
What a bad take. I would expect Paul Graham to be more educated on a topic before he says something so tired and uninsightful.

It comes from BOTH SIDES. The right wing also cancels people with social media. A few well-placed articles by right-wing publications and their targets will have a months long harassment campaign of people trying to break into their social media and bank accounts, constant death threats and hate messages and photographs of their house, insults, harassment at their place of work. Convenient that always gets left out of the "cancel culture" discussions.

We need to stop acting like conservatives have no power in this country. They do, they literally run the country and arguments like this are just people getting in additional body-blows against liberal opponents. You want to see what "performatice victimhood" looks like, look at the extremely rich Paul Graham whining that people get mad at him when he says things we don't like. We do not like the way we are treated, and we are going to continue to speak out. If that gets you fired: GOOD.

I understand it is frustrating, and I have said before: I don't like the cry bullies and woke-scolds on the internet. I do not think they actually care about the cultural movement, and I think they should go outside and get a life. But I honestly believe the progress we have made in the cultural consciousness for gay, trans, and people of color has been phenomenal, and it arises from the new "woke culture."

I think the cry-bullying and woke-scolding days are numbered, they are starting to eat their own and even allies are getting sick of it.
You can use more connections than 65k, since connections are identified by srchost, srcport, desthost, and destport. You are restricted to 65k NATted connections to a single server's* web site, though.

*Assuming the server is using a single IP.
I mean, they're a C-level executive, i could see why employees, especially women working under him, might be less than thrilled if they were still in power.

I think that his response in that article was appropriate, but I'm also not losing sleep for any millionaire airplane executives that now need to find something else to do with their time.
This article talks about formatting and other superficial stylistic issues.

The main challenge of writing a technical post is deeper: who is your audience? And how much do you assume they already know?

The temptations are to take extremes: either you have to reexplain everything in the universe, or you assume you're talking to someone who already knows everything.

I've found this surprisingly hard to balance. In the end, though, I decided it's always better to err on the side of comprehensibility. This is true even for highly technical writing like scholarly articles.

One way that I've found works is to first write it out, stream of consciousness. Invariably this will be too technical. That will be obvious after waiting a day or two and revisiting it. Then build a bridge between where you are now and where the article is, with a more general introduction, and revise the body to flow with that new introduction. It's okay to push details to a supplement or appendix or footnote if necessary.
Shifted semicolon is absolutely a non-issue. If there are any problems with the layout, it's hiding the symbols behind altgr, but the shifted semicolon is really not a problem.
You don't need to make it open source, you just need to make it available to researchers. Microsoft shares some source code with the US government, among others.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/
Thanks for the link, I wish I'd known about that before. I'll be sure to consider that for my next project.
Which part do you disagree with:

> but overpolicing and imprisoning them for nonviolent crime isn't. Yet they can't imagine doing the same to white people.

was and is (relatively) commonly stated. I claim that to believe this is alright, you must implicitly value black safety less than white safety. I'm open to counterarguments.
16:9

16:10

16:10.66 (almost 3:2)

16:12 (4:3)
I think we just disagree about the implications of "everyone disagrees with me". I may not be fully knowledgeable about many things, but in the few things that I do know a lot about, I know that many people have no idea what they're talking about; but this also means that even in the areas where I'm not necessarily 100% sure whether my opinion is right, I don't tend to just go with whatever everyone believes is true. That doesn't necessarily mean that I am correct, but it also doesn't mean that the other person is.

I do tend to believe well-respected and well-published scientists unless I have very, very strong reasons to believe the contrary, but that's about it.

edit: Furthermore, your statement assumes that it's always about a situation where you can be "right" or "wrong", but in many, especially ethical, questions, there is no "right" or "wrong", just different priorities and points of view. I think many people do recognise that "it can't be that wrong to disagree about this, whatever my personal opinion", but prefer not to object because why bother?
Cleaning fee is actually a discount on longer stays. Hotels offer such discounts too.
I watched an interview with an individual who after receiving a tetanus shot developed transverse myelitis. His immune system started destroying his spinal cord. He was young, healthy, athletic, and had previously received tetanus shots without issue. He is now wheel chair bound, can barely move and is in intense pain 24/7. The injection caused every muscle in his body to spasm causing unbearable pain.

One big question about this for me is wondering if any group is looking for why this happened. I feel that either the pharmaceutical company or the government should be spending significant research dollars understanding what happened in this case.

It also shows that vaccines are not 100% safe, which seems to be the general narrative.
When the truth maybe something more like you have a 1 in 10 million chance of living the rest of your life in agony, but you are required to accept the risk for the good of everyone.

So maybe collecting the blood markers suggested by the parent poster would be a step in understanding why things go so badly for some people.
Anything else? I mean taking money from Chinese corps is probably ethically problematic but that's about it. We don't know who got rounded up why and if Tencent is related to that beyond being a Chinese company, right?
I could have been more precise and said “in part due to AirBnB.” AirBnB increased the demand for housing (from investors) without increasing supply. So home ownership costs go up. Conversely they do increase the rental supply.

I concur with you that zoning and regulations definitely impact the supply quite a bit. (Mostly reducing supply)
Famous short-seller Jim Chanos appropriately called Zoom a "Covid stock". It is clear why after seeing this story.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/02/jim-chanos-says-beware-the-v...

Will people really want this monstrosity around post-pandemic? I hope we can somehow miraculously get back to normal work just as this device enters the market in August, and we will have an epic failure called DTEN ME (which sounds like "detain me") as a cautionary tale.
Are you really taking these as promises?

Link 1: "will probably"

Link 2: "I think"

Link 3: "He said he expected…" and "It is not possible to know exactly when each element of the functionality described above will be available"

Link 4: "He predicts"

Link 5: "He thinks"

Link 6: "I think"

And in some of these he's not talking about production cars, but is talking about prototype vehicles in Tesla's development fleet.
Out of naivety, do you believe that a black person cleanly shaved wearing a button down and slacks would still have that experience?

Do you think a white person dressed in gangster clothes would be unscathed?

My current opinion is that the biggest factor is not race but likelihood of fitting a stereotype of "criminal" based on dress code
That's fine. If you have your own system or motivations for focusing, you don't really need any of these blog posts anyway.

My point was that it's important to recognize that "This doesn't work for me" isn't equivalent to "This doesn't work for anyone."

In this case, the Deep Work concept and associated writings really do work for a lot of people. If they don't work for individuals, that's fine too, but it's not really productive to try to detract from the material without proposing a better alternative.

Also, no one will dispute that there is a lot of questionable or bad self-help material out there, but that doesn't mean that you should immediately discredit and disregard 100% of it. If your skepticism heuristic is so sensitive that everything gets dismissed before you even get into reading it, you're going to throw the good out with the bad.
> tiny minority of elders ... in my experience

That can be true. There is a difference, in my heart, between an "Elder" and an "old person".

I would advise you, if I may, to expand your experience.

By holding onto that narrow view (can we dare call it ageism?), you could be missing out on some truly amazing individuals whom might have something very important to convey to you and your generation.
> To many people, that means I don't support socialized healthcare.

Well, in a way, you don't. Because you apparently think socialized healthcare should not be an agenda priority in the short term, and what's the purpose of political activism if not agenda setting? Many other people who "don't support socialized healthcare" at this time might well regard it as worthwhile, if the other blatant issues w/ the healthcare system were addressed first.
Finally a post I can wholeheartedly agree with!

Most of everything is trash, there are no exceptions -- if we think there is an exception somewhere, it often comes from emotional bias.

Old or young, most people live a dull live of no practical value. People may be angry to hear that, but the fact they don't try to randomly make friends outside of their usual circles only shows a degree of hypocrisy.
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The core message of this article is that it's possible for even large groups of people to be wrong about things and that those people won't think they're wrong (they're wrong about being wrong). The author summarizes this mechanism as: these people are so accustomed to being "right" by appealing to consensus that they can't imagine being wrong.

This argument seems to generalize not just to large groups but also to small ones. The problem I see is that in the case of large groups the author calls this "privilege" and in the case of small groups he doesn't. Since the size of the group doesn't really effect the nature of group orthodoxy and adherence the argument seems to collapse to "large groups are privileged."

I agree that large groups are privileged but to claim that part of privilege is not being able to conceive of your group as being wrong seems tangential and potentially just incorrect.

Perhaps the author is assuming that people in small groups more frequently encounter other groups which
(1) they disagree with
(2) they eventually determine are right

but it isn't obvious to me that (2) would be more likely to occur in a small group than in a large group. There have been fanatical large groups and small ones which do not tolerate deviation on certain points.
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Science-y explanations like this, especially anything involving brain structure or imaging, totally put me off. Almost always they're simply plucked from the research by someone who has no deep knowledge of the subject in order to provide an argument from authority.
His family is Bangladeshi, and his startup was founded in Bangladesh.

https://nypost.com/2020/07/15/who-was-fahim-saleh-the-tech-c...
If the ads are targeted at "Hacker News Viewers", that's one thing. But if a baby crib shows up on HN that's well beyond just "looking" targeted.