skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I cried reading that book, and experienced intense feelings of animus
towards white people, even though my own mother, being Polish, was white.

I find this a little unfair, given that many white people do not have a
colonial past and some have themselves been subject to colonisation and
imperalism. This includes most of the peoples of Eastern and Southern Europe,
i.e. the Slavs and also my people, Greeks. While Russia had an Empire and
colonies in Asia, it never really colonised Africa [1]. Other Slavic countries
never had colonies [2] and neither did us Greeks who were ourselves enslaved
by the Ottomans for much of our pre-modern history and were a protectorate of
the Great Powers saddled by them with a foreign kingly dynasty [3] during the
time that the Western Europeans where having their little moment in Africa, in
the 1880's.

So it's no point feeling "animus" towards all white people- certainly not
towards one's Polish mother. It's no use lumping all "Europeans" together,
either. I would go as far as to say that even the majority of people in
countries that were colonial powers, like Britain or France, did not really
partake in the riches pillaged from Africa and its people, because it all
stayed in the hands of monarchs and aristocrats who often didn't treat their
domestic population any better than the people of faraway lands and certainly
didn't hold them in much greater esteem. If you hail from a long line of pig
farmers and washerwomen that lived in poverty and squalor while their "betters"
partied in India - how can you be held responsible for the latters' behaviour?

And then there were the white people colonised by other white people, as in
the colonisation of Ireland by the English during the 1550's, by settling it
with Protestants and establishing... plantations [4]. Has anyone asked the
Irish how they feel about the great British Empire? [5]

If we're going to have a historically nuanced debate about colonialism (and
not just race and racism, which are somewhat independent, in my view) then we
should have a nuanced debate and discuss the fact that colonialism didn't
really care about the colour of your skin, only about the degree to which you
were inhabiting land with useful resources that could be taken from you and
exploited for the glory of Empire (and the enrichment of its elites).

________________

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_colonialism#Imperia...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_colonialism

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_modern_Greece

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantations_of_Ireland

[5] Oh, but it's complicated, I know... probably because of the settlement by
Protestants as above.
"I can't possibly act on this without being compelled to by law"

Riiiiight.
Awesome Besu - Curating the best plugins & resources for this Ethereum client
The Stockholm Telephone Tower with approximately 5,500 telephone lines, 1890
Yep, a very expensive alternative to a powerplant, given that full gravimetric capacity will not be achievable, but think further if batteries will continue improving, and becoming cheaper.

If they can get usable flow batteries on a ship, this will be quite an option to powerships even today.
Why Software Should Be Free (2002)
I thought everyone ignored it because that is what would happen in practice. Like the actual Geneva convention only applying in an unconditional surrender or complete defeat.
> A Very British Obsession

> Edmund Hillary took [a jar] up Everest

Edmund Hillary wasn’t British.
I agree that packaging is horrible in Python. Poetry is mostly excellent, but I have one project where running `poetry lock` takes over an hour and I have no idea why.
I keep seeing this claim about Nix, and I keep trying to understand it, but every time I look into it I come out more confused. Nix appears to be an operating system (?) and packaging things _for_ Nix seems to be something akin to a dockerfile, but one that will only work on a machine with the Nix operating system? If I've got all of that right (which is a big "if"), I can see how that's useful for building a system's dependencies and deploying it to a Nix OS server, but I can never work out how any of it is useful if I don't run Nix OS on the servers or I want to distribute a Python package.
If you get the PM please share
In the transcribed hearing founder makes it clear that it's more about educated guess based on publicly available information. Net worth and not the owned assets which is completely different number (as celebrities usually have rights to their personal brands which are not transferable).

In general this in theory could be challenged, but mostly based on the name and photos and not about inferred information. This might get even worse since a lot of celebrities are using stage names which might be protected as a brand but go unprotected as a personal information.
As taneq says, it's presumably a joke on the Glasgow theme.

Scottish regiment knife doesn't have the same ring to it.
I don't think you can make some of the claims you are making without more evidence. State formation is often a violent process and often involves someone showing up with weapons demanding you pay them taxes. Does it matter if it is a European or a neighbor?

You often have what we would call colonialism in this process, just a more local version of it. Think about the Huns sweeping into central Europe, conquering those people's and adding them to their coalition. Or the Aztec demanding tribute from their neighboring cities. Or China conquering central Asian states and Korea. Or the Zulu building a confederation through conquest of Southern Africa. All of these were coercive relationships, built on a state or proto state dominating the "less advanced" people around them.

I'm not saying that this makes colonialism good, but the idea that there was some sort of peaceful prior existence for the people before colonization or without colonization there wouldn't be just as difficult violent struggles is not obvious from history.
Think more like a member of guild.

In fact, I am starting to think certifications like PCI DSS are similar to oath: "I will not leak customer data, I will not leak card information". If the oath is broken, the PCI retaliation is swift: the whole company is totally cut off from processing payments. The company compliance is ensured on threat of bankruptcy.

So you push back: pushing this through means the company will fail PCI DSS audit once that comes up, and then we're all out of jobs. No salary for anyone. And the boss thinks again.
Yes, that's about right.

The true FP rate is probably a fair bit lower than 2%. However, even FP rates that sound very low can still be a big problem when the signal itself is tiny. The signal ends up dominated by FPs, which is a problem given that a positive test is being used to trigger harsh actions, like being unable to leave your house for two weeks.

The bigger issue is the conceptual problem. What are tests for? The ultimate thing we care about is detecting ahead of time people who would get severe symptoms or die, or who would be spreading the infection (assuming we take for granted that quarantining and isolation is a reasonable policy to hold indefinitely for such a mild disease).

The test isn't actually detecting any of these things.
If you are convinced they would have been better off, in what ways would Nigeria be different now?
You can get them, just tape needs the right conditions i.e. temp humidity, or it degrades. I think flammability might also be an issue.
Or an alternative take – A reader comes across something that seems interesting and submits it to HN to see what the more knowledgable (in the relevant topic) think.

As for the number of junk/low grade scientific papers that are being published at the moment, it is way higher than it should be, however a reader of the submitted article link would take it at face value as having some solid science behind it. Paywalled research papers are a bane and can hide a multitude of sins (so thanks for the Arxiv link jari_mustonen). I tried to read the paper but was soon way out of my depth so the comments here that more or less say ‘this is junk for the following reasons’ are extremely helpful.
The Netflix ‘Ta-Dum’ Sound Almost Included a Goat’s Bleating
A deep dive into the yearlong effort to create what Netflix terms the “ta-dum” sound — the short piece of sound that plays along with the Netflix logo before the company’s original series and films.
I don't think you can classify Julia like this.

It's kind of both.

Julia has types on bindings, in that sense it is statically typed.
Assuming they display AP-like abilities, the main signifiers of those who do not actually have AP are that

1. They consciously use relative pitch from a known reference tone when identifying another pitch "out of the blue", and

2. They have worked hard on acquiring relative pitch, which is something one consciously practises.
Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like they don't have any challenges left at work?
I have been at my first full time programming job for almost two years now. At first it felt like there so many new things to discover but now I feel like a cog in the machine, just implementing arbitrary requests done by the product team, each involving minor changes or variations of things I've done before.

Is this normal or is there a way out. Does it get better by changing jobs or is this normal in this career?
If you can break SHA1, that task would be easier.
DDD – the idea of solving problems of the organization through code
And yet we don't call what the Huns, Aztec, Chinese or Zulu did "colonialism" - why do you think that is, and does it change your point?
I didn’t know that and I don’t think we were taught that detail. He was from New Zealand and ‘we count that’ as some say. The teachers probably stressed the British expedition part of the truth.

I can’t stand Seville orange marmalade but lime marmalade is good.
A CEO coming out and saying "we should do better" is simply an admission that they didn't and still don't. I see it as a personal failure of the CEO, an institutional failure of the company, and an attempt to give it a positive "moral" spin in the media.

This isn't about what Uber can or should do, it's what everyone else should do so Uber can be in a better light without actually changing anything.
Well, for one, their infrastructure wouldn't be extraction-oriented. Right?
For Australia, to check if FTTP is possible (without spending five figures to connect) look for the purple dots here:

http://nbnmtm.australiaeast.cloudapp.azure.com/nbnmtm.html

Unofficial, maintained for years by some awesome guy. Govt refuses to share.

If you are lucky enough to move house, right next to a purple dot you can save $many $thousands getting FTTP because your neighbour has already paid for it, and houses nearby that want FTTP will still be up for a few grand but not ten grand plus, like your neighbour already paid.

Sucks that Abbott the onion muncher lied and spent $10 billion more on copper (than fibre would have cost) plus took 4 years longer than promised to deliver slow copper MTM NBN because he blocked the just-begun original FTTP NBN rollout (with lackey Turncoat effectively spruiking that nobody will ever need more than 25Mbps)

Except they are politicians and we have the "The Game Of Mates"

FTTP would have devalued Murdoch's 25 year old Foxtel copper that we are partially using for slow NBN that drops out when it rains.

Would love to see Abbott and Turncoat fully ICACked for their plethora of dodgy favours to donor mates, detrimental to everyone (except them and their donors).

Don't even get me started on Pyne (the fixer) and his $200Bn diesel MTM submarines.
I am also a Nigerian (from a different ethnicity from the author, which does influence my perspective). I've seen this discussion about "the good sides of colonialism" over and over again, and I've come to the conclusion that people keep tiptoeing around a simple truth: colonisation was wholly unnecessary, and that is what makes it unethical no matter how much good one tries to link to it.

As a less morally fraught example, consider the reaction you would have if it was exposed that your browser was secretly sending your passwords in plaintext to some third-party service to check if they were secure enough. It doesn't matter that helping users avoid weak passwords is a noble goal and genuine objective; sharing users' passwords like that is completely unnecessary and thus indefensible.

The question then becomes: was there a better way to achieve the "good" of the colonial era - technological progress, etc - without colonisation itself? And the answer is yes, absolutely 100% yes. Colonisation was a betrayal, not the start of Europe's history with Africa and Asia. To give an example close to home, the Portuguese and later the English had a fairly balanced mercantile relationship with the Benin Kingdom (part of modern-day Nigeria) for centuries before the British colonial expeditions of the very late 19th century. You can even tell from the words of earlier visitors/tourists like Olfert Dapper that there was a respect for the people, their way of life and accomplishments (the Edo people were quite good at architecture, for instance).

The Benin Kingdom could very well have continued its natural technological, economic and social progression with the support of non-violent foreign partnerships and trade while retaining its sovereignty, but for the greed of the British. In fact, colonisation has most likely hampered its development, not accelerated it. Japan for example avoided colonisation entirely and has quite clearly caught up to and surpassed its near and distant neighbours that got that dubious "help". Or consider how quickly Hawaii modernised even before it lost its sovereignty to the United States.
As I understand, the board could (probably would) fire him if he added a $655M expense without having to legally pay that.

I'm not sure what the alternative is here, other than becoming a social purpose company.
Re: Slavs and colonialism, most of the money that built the Italian city of Genoa in the 1100s to the 1300s came from selling and facilitating the selling of Slav war prisoners (i.e. slaves) captured and transported from the Northern shores of the Black Sea to the Constantinople area (i.e. on the Southern shore).
Was formally changed in 2015...
Assuming all banks adopt this standard in that specified timeframe, the existing P2P solutions (Apple Cash, Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, CashApp) will ultimately become useless.

I wonder how these companies will pivot once banks begin to adopt this interbank service.
> the risk of cable cuts and future geopolitical changes

The two risks are intertwined: A hostile state in the region with modern submarines (gee, I wonder who that could be?) is likely to be perfectly capable of cutting the cable — which would give the hostile state the ability to hold Singapore hostage, perhaps in support of exerting power in the Strait of Malacca maritime choke point and/or in the South China Sea. If I were Singapore's leaders, I'd want at least one Plan B.
Isn't this a question if just scraping published data? How is this materially different from LinkedIn v hIQ ?
Freely accessible paper cited in the OP: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/0...
I'm not sure how it would terminate sort early, my initial assumption was that for small arrays there might be special-casing?

this seems to be a related thread on twitter:

https://twitter.com/ChrisGSeaton/status/1001582169578524672
I think most folks are missing out if they just try the british version of orange marmalade.

The Portuguese original 'marmelada' made from quinces is sooo much better IMOH.

But (again in my opinion) nothing surpass the Brazilian take on marmelade, the "Goiabada", which is made with guava.
It's crazy, Bill Gates as the Head of Microsoft was probably my hate symbol nr.1, but now he's is one of the most sane, intelligent and work for the better persons ever..really a 180 change for me personally.
What happens to vital particles on the subway
Could you perhaps elaborate on how Ethiopia apparently turned out compared to the rest of Africa?
Exactly. Ground biome is really good at recycling, especially once living matter.
Now that we’ve grown to dominate the space by fragrantly ignoring and intentionally breaking laws, we support creating new laws that will prevent others who lack our scale and resources from entering our monopoly.
I've built quite a few things for love over the years, including a blood sugar prediction app for my partner, a digital mix tape, and a silly not so me and my partner could give each other brownie points.

Here's a small summary: https://hrishioa.github.io/my-home-cooked-meals/
The same day and instant payment systems in Sweden were initiated and are owned jointly by major banks, and were not government-initiated. Specifically the Swish mobile payments started with a very small number of banks and it has been a race for other banks to join to stay competitive.

The main digital ID system was also made and is owned by the banks. The government just set legal standards for digital ID to fulfill to be legally valid, there were a few competitors (including one by a phone company), and the bank system won because everyone already had strong digital ID for internet banking.

The EU-wide international systems, however, have been pushed from above from the EU
I'm starting to wonder if titles such as these are actually "clickbait". Maybe we could call them sharebait - they don't encourage reading and speculation as much as social media outrage for or against the overly simplified, purposefully controversial headline. I don't doubt that a lot of people will see this and think "See? We weren't so bad!" or "See? They don't care how bad we were!", whichever matches their preconceptions.
Everyone have pretty much unlimited access in practice so I dont see that the press have any special advantage. The press have guidelines that they should only publish the tax of public figures and I have not seen them abuse this so far.

We are a country with a high degree of social trust, and that is what I believe makes our country great. I realize that our system is not for everyone and that is fair.
> Then, the data won’t be updated. So then google will have to drop the info box

Google won't drop the info box, they don't care if the information is accurate.
To be honest, Malaysia is probably no better and indeed actually much worse than Singapore in most if noy all areas of comparison. Given the choice between living in either of them, my choice would be neither.

But I suspect that most people prefer Singapore even compared to the rest of the world and I personally think they are falling for the trap personally set for them by the Lee family.
A uid of 0 being root is just such a bad idea to begin with because 0 is a default value of so many data types. It’s an accident waiting to happen and, in this case, a good way to hide something malicious as an accident.
That's rich coming from a lawyer who has been with Microsoft since the early 90's..

Maybe the oath is yet another hollow ritual and what Software Engineers need is what everyone else needs, a sense of morals and a spine.
This is rather cynical, isn't it? Mr. Khosrowshahi is suggesting that rather than finding ways of making employment more flexible, let's remain in the gig economy and re-invent benefits, conveniently forgetting how long it took to get to the benefits of employment in the first place.

The calculation is ridiculous. According to his example, if someone had been working almost full time for a year, they would have accumulated enough funds for a whopping 2 weeks of paid leave OR medical insurance -- but not both! And they couldn't have done it any other way because they wouldn't be so big otherwise.

Further, his central argument revolves around the fact that since Uber recruited drivers as gig workers promising them flexibility, their survey shows, unsurprisingly, that their drivers want... flexibility. Proof that nobody needs benefits, for sure.

Mr. Khosrowshahi isn't even trying to sound convincing.
U.S. Agency Sidelines Planned $765M Loan to Kodak Amid Probes
Simon Property Group sets the lawyers on tenants not paying rent
“Julia is squarely in the dynamic camp” - Stefan Karpinski, Julia co-creator

https://stackoverflow.com/a/28096079
Go for it. I got my first job at 31. At the time my background was a little bit self-taught via codecademy, etc, then I took a 3-month web dev intensive at General Assembly online. Started my first job 2.5 months after graduating. I regularly mentor people who are switching careers into software and have seen over half of them (6) get a job, less than half generally need to still improving their skills, and one or two are actively searching and should have a job within a month or two.

Here are some of the best resources you'll need

* https://www.cscareerhackers.org

* https://booksoncode.com/articles/learning-code-for-free
I actually don't know, maybe you are right. Do you have any ideas on what it would be instead?
The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of each element
I disagree. I only have one point of data from past experience (not a backdoor, but working on a potentially unethical system), but I would say most developers know exactly what they are doing, or they know deep down but don't try to clarify in order to absolve themselves.

If we go back to backdoors, yes, sometimes, in the simplest cases (e.g. a "root" account), it might get in prod through trickery. But anything more complex and you need to know what you are trying to achieve.
> I don't disagree that the values of the United States have always been an aspiration rather than actual reality.

The US is a constitutional democracy that was created in a world of kingdoms. It has the oldest constitution, a code of laws that grants its citizens rights which the government is prohibited from violating. And while the UK may be considered as an (perhaps only) older running democracy, it had a king, where the US replaced this role with the invention of a popularly-elected president. Sure it's not so special anymore, since everyone has democracy and presidents these days. But it most certainly was not always the case, especially back when the US was stumbling at times living up to its ideals. I am old enough to remember a world where the most common form of govt was still a dictatorship, not democracy, and there were despicable authoritarian regimes on almost every continent. US history is certainly not all positive, but the positives are there. A constitution and popular elections are not ideals, they are results. People who have positive opinions of this country throughout history were not as blind and irrational as these dismissive posts think.
"Government, I beseech thee, make my industry more complex and regulated than even telecom!"
This is the most posh thing I've read on HN so far. Don't share this with strangers unless you want everyone to know you're elite.
TruffleRuby: [a,b].sort(0) yields same machine code as simple comparison
I recently heard about Benin and the British "punitive expedition" that looted the country in a Vox video, of all things, about the world's largest open crime scene - the British Museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoTxiRWrvp8
> I'm all for calling out big companies when they do crappy things, but you have to be seen to defend your trademarks & the system to allow businesses to contest trademark applications is there for a reason.

I always see this "defense" when big corporations abuse small companies by frivolous lawsuits... but with this you're actually saying that there's a chance someone will mix up a fruit logo of that small company with Apple's which is ridiculous. Especially since they don't share the market.

Please don't defend abusive corporations with this :/
Helping kill Gaddafi does nothing to help the situation.