skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am white, granted. However, I have no extraordinary power nor am I really wealthy.
Pushing these buttons, implying that I should be guilty for what I am, is only increasing the divide between the races.
Accusing me of playing an acitve part in supressing others is simply a false allegation.
This is racist. And you dont even realize!
Both sides will have to work on how they communicate with each other to improve things.
> was HN always this nasty

Yes, and that's good. We need harsh places.
I think that this article[1] is still relevant. In short, if you go Microsoft, you know you're locking yourself into an expensive ecosystem, one with no viable open-source escape hatch.

Moreover, you need to find developers that want to work on the .NET platform. Most of those people work in banking or in large organizations, and are unlikely to want to jump ship to a startup.

[1] https://blog.jonathanoliver.com/why-i-left-dot-net/
until progressives champion "private security for all" and just remake the police under a different name
Go has to embed it's runtime and GC into builds, so build size and performance will take a hit here. Same goes for most popular languages.

For me Rust offers the best WASM experience and tooling at the moment.

Rust has no GC and (almost) no runtime.

It also has official wasm build target support out of the box, including generating Typescript definitions for Rust types.

The ecosystem is somewhat well-developed:

* wasm-bindgen for general interop in both directions

* js-sys / web-sys for (low-level) type-safe and surprisingly efficient browser API bindings

* wasm-bindgen-futures for easy Promise <-> Future interop

* wasm-pack for easy building

* ...

Getting the code size low is still a challenge though.

A Rust implementation of the Krausest frontend framework benchmark takes a top 4 spot [1]. Despite this benchmark not favouring wasm at all since it requires little computation and mostly does FFI calls.

(ps: C++ is in a decent state as well)

[1] https://rawgit.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/master/we...
> Why is the emphasis on white people and not wealth?

Because that's who has wealth [1] and they have it because they stole it from other groups via forced labor and literal theft of land and other resources and then explicitly disadvantaged them in post facto competition.

[1]. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/black-white-us-f...
I don't feel you "push them" to a specific slot. Thinking is good but something needs to come out. A book, a paper, a.. something. A number of people thinking for a common subject need to produce something, not think for 3 months and then start thinking of something else.

The PM skills is to get them to produce efficiently and effectively. Not perpetuate the "sitting and thinking".
I think this is wrong (not to say you are wrong but this idea which is very common).

The idea that we develop AGI and it is this program that is what we run on a regular device, and then we can make it 10x smarter effectively by running it on 10 devices or 10x as fast. I think more likely will be AGI will be achieved first on the biggest teraflop supercomputers that we have, and it will for a long time be the app that takes a lot to run. And probably the first AGI will not be quite as smart as a human, but basically we will have no other reference point for what it is as smart as so we will call it that.

Also, I think there will be some sort of non-linearity effects that mean that you can't just "scale up" intelligence by adding more processors. It will work to a point, but then the curve flattens. Consider that the global total IQ is already approx 800 billion, but our planet is still pretty dumb. I mean this to also apply to scaling a "single" AGI up in speed. Linear speed gains will have diminishing returns I think.

Also, I speak about the productization and allocation of it. It will not be this "come one come all" "gather round" everyone can partake sort of thing. It will be a product, like night vision or GPS, and the secret government military uses will get the best quality, and the rest of us will get smarter shopping.

Further, if it really is linearly scalable, then it certainly will be controlled. It will be more controlled than enriched uranium in that case, and even if not so scalable is still going to be very controlled if it is at all transformative.

I think the various technological, political and commercial realities will distinctly flatten/soften/smooth the predicted "singularity" discontinuity blast wave into a humdrum speed bump that appears to most of humanity as a better iPhone (basically).

This is pure speculation. We shall see.
that is not a fault endemic to white people, but people who are well off. please distance yourself from identarian narratives and treat people as individuals rather than groups of people
> If you are a white man born in America, feeling guilt is what you’re supposed to feel, as a human being.

Nonsense.

You should feel thankful.

Thankful that you had the luck being born in the most prosperous time in human history, where you have access to better healthcare, transportation, human rights and democratic privileges, to name just a few.

Once you realize how good it is to live in this day and age and feel grateful, helping others who are a bit less fortunate will come naturally to you.

Working from positive emotions is a much better strategy, both for your own sake and - by extension - also for the sake of society at large.
A Note on Academic Writing (2014)
Which platform I must prefer for new startup (RoR, Python, Php, .NetCore)!!
I planning a new startup, build cloud based SaaS

1. Database oriented business application forms/grids/reports etc..

2. news aggregation/curation and some NLP; web + mobile (iOS/andoid) app for Media Monitoring

3. Remote learning platform for K12/University (Database, video streaming etc)

I could not decide to start with RubyonRails / PythonDjango / PhpLavarel / DotNetCore?? any ideas?
The money flows to the terrorists wasn't through complicated shell companies though, was it? Iirc, they were using the Hawala system of informal banking that relies on family/tribal relationships to quickly transfer funds without leaving traces anywhere Western authorities might see them.
What about cross platform solutions? web pages? or apps that are interfaces to seperate solutions.
What about apps that are written once that developers still receive royalties from without any updates?
Apple enforce a base level quality that mostly isn't that hard to conform to, some developers do not like this, but most apple consumers do, otherwise, they would be free to buy android phones and sideload everything
What happened that caused that? I remember from about a decade or two ago it was already relatively involved (on par with OpenOffice and the likes), is it worse now?
You should try a linux system. They have an app store equivalent, but where everything is safe (as in security).

But in this case you dont lose any level of control, since the appstore itself there isnt limited. The only thing not allowed is unsecure apps. Thats all.

Yes the iOS idea is great, but there is no need to impose arbitrary restrictions.
Even outside of e-commerce -- I would say anything on the web.

Run something like Ruby/Python for the majority of your web services, and deploy Elixir/Go/Kotlin/C++/Swift whenever you hit a data-munching need that Ruby/Python can't handle.

This doesn't fly if you're doing games, or augmented reality (AR), or mobile apps, or embedded stuff... but the web is still a pretty big place to build.
I love Stratechery, but I think this one gets it wrong.
Think of App Store as three products:

1. App quality screening

2. App promotion/distribution

3. In app purchasing

Ask any reasonable dev if they are willing to foot a fixed cost to get their app screened, a fixed cost per app download (bandwidth), and variable cost to get their app promoted in the store (not everyone needs this) and they would agree. What pisses people off is Apple’s entitlement to the revenue of a company when there is no value add from Apple after the customer has gotten the app. So Apple is using their monopoly to force #3 on developers at no less than 30% of revenue.
Ooh color, shiny

https://pocketbook.cz/cs-cz/catalog/color-screen-cz/pocketbo...
This point could probably do with elaboration.
As reported in the link, median net worth of a white family is $171k. Which is just about enough to buy a median house... Meaning, that the median white family has a house they live in and little else. That's certainly not a position from which you can influence anything.
ah yes, this is a very nice collection. especially fancyzones seems to be a lot more useful than plain snapping functionality.

and keyboardmanager! <3

and markdown preview in file explorer!

thanks!
Cold calling businesses is definitely not illegal in Germany if you got the contact info from their website.
Anyone know of something similar that ships to more countries? I've been looking for something like this, but I'm in South Africa.
NetApp to lay off 5% of staff amid the coronavirus pandemic
or get a package manager equivalent like linux systems, that solves literally all these issues
That may be a uBlock issue. On youtube at least, sometimes the ads don't get skipped, but you get a white "video" you can skip instead.
An article from 2014? You should know things have changed since then, with .NET Core and the open-sourcing of most .NET tech (Roselyn, OmniSharp and the .NET Core tooling).

No more lock-in with Windows Server, no more SQL Server. Bring your favourite Linux distro and open-source RDBMS.

I left .NET for Ruby in 2013, and in the last two years, I've come sprinting back to .NET Core. Microsoft is definitely hot again.
The channel "Counter Arguments" made a great video about why I would consider this kind of joke A-ok.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm739aB98-M
The world added 61GW of (mostly onshore) wind power in 2019, bringing the total capacity for wind energy to 650GW. (650 1GW nuke plants were not built.)

https://gwec.net/global-wind-report-2019/

76GW more wind energy was planned for 2020. Considering relative cost and time-to-build, it's far too late in the game to even consider nuclear.
How much money do I have to give the NYTimes before they give me a newpaper without ads? The answer seems to be that it's not something they're selling. I don't think they ever have, and I don't really expect they ever will.

Hence ad blockers, without a shred of remorse.
How many billable hours do you work?
If you're a freelancer or work for a consultancy or agency (especially if you're a dev), how many billable hours per day/week do you work on?

Also what do you bill for or not bill for? Do you bill for coffee or bathroom breaks, for example?
Anywayz... AI doesn't develop... AI's done subtly with "good cheap slave" thought in mind... AI is software done by organic individuals... AI PRINTS SOFTWARES BASED ON A PREVIOUS SET(injected ofc!)

I can define CIRCUS word too, if you feel like okay with that...
Apparently the following is the response from the editor. It sounds nice and mature actually. Hopefully this event has snapped them out of the delusion they've been afflicted with.

> Honestly, I don't mind if you revert all of my edits, delete my articles, and ban me from the wiki for good. I've already found out that my "contributions" have angered countless people, and to me that's all the devastation I can be given, after years of my thinking I was doing good (and yes, obsessively editing). I was only a 12-year-old kid when I started, and sometimes when you start something young, you can't see that the habit you've developed is unhealthy and unhelpful as you get older. I don't care about defending myself, I only want to stop being harassed on my social medias (and to stop my other friends who have nothing to do with the wiki from being harassed as well). Whether peace can be achieved by scowiki being kept like it is or extensively reformed to wipe my influence from it makes no difference to me now that I know that I've done no good anyway.
>Any fraud is their liability.

If you don't keep your card safe, it's your liability, just like with passwords. Read the manual.
Was the Sun once part of a binary star system?
He bribed people for sure. Microsoft products had completely overtaken the public sector IT of several countries back in the 90s/00s. To get into the public sector of several third-world and not so third-world countries, bribing is more or less mandatory, business as usual. We've seen scandals like these dozens of times with all kinds of big companies. Bribing to get big public infrastructure projects from companies like Siemens, bribing to get pharma machinery into public hospitals. No such scandal was ever published for Microsoft that I know of, but this is how things work.
The guide was booked - the assumption was they were arriving on the normal train from Beijing. They didn't, and that meant they had unescorted time alone in North Korean villages on the way from the border. I'm not even sure that the secret police managed to monitor them. They benefited from bureaucrats not knowing what to do and waiting for instructions from up high.
I don't really get this obsession with preserving the status quo. It is not universally good and by doing so we may prevent good things from happening.
Quite frankly, I need to see a reason why one would use WASM. Figma is a fully justified implementation.

If you don’t like JavaScript, like get over yourself already. Enough is enough.

It’s a a simple language, you will still have to deal with browser apis and UI development patterns no matter what language you pick, and no, type checking isn’t going to magically solve your shitty UI codebase.

WebAssembly is going to be the new Tensorflow on people’s LinkedIn unfortunately, a small word to signal ‘hey, I’m more than just a web developer’.

Unless you are compiling a video encoder or a video game, like please, just give a rest. Solve the fact that your simple app is more than 3-4 files and over abstracted first.
> the one level of indirection apparently makes that okay

This is a pattern I've seen from America in general, loopholes against the spirit of the law, healthcare through 3rd parties, it seems there is always somewhere to kick the buck down for liability purposes. There is always a quest to find a technicality for a way out of some rules, the spirit of the rules don't seem to matter much.
I use this service but I think there's something wrong with their servers because I don't seem to get any emails? Oddly enough emails from my gmail account works but literally 0 of the 100+ job recruiters I've emailed has responded so I think there's something wrong.

- I.R. Agne (i.r.ange@420blaze.it)
True. I've even had the "interesting" experience of writing low-allocation JavaScript (for 3D mostly).
I'm willing to invest time, but I start from the assumption that the slogans and symbols of the marchers are honest attempts to explain what they're marching for.
Forgive me, what is the benefit of having counter-rotating segments? Does it reduce the overall angular momentum of the object...?
Depends entirely on the dynamic of the two people since backend and frontend has to work well together. When you're in a early startup, you want everyone to be on the same page, so you want people to collaborate closely. If they are people who like to work in silos without talking with each other, you'll have bunch of impedance mismatches at that stage. So you'll want a close team early on and if you can find someone who is good with both frontend and backend and could build it as one person, that'll be better for the early stages. Or two people who can collaborate closely.
Cynicism and Burnout in Information Technology
In short, what is needed are new laws built for the Internet, which is why it was encouraging that Congress is holding hearings about these issues, and also frustrating that Apple received relatively little attention.

That's because the Google and FB monopolies are a much bigger problem. If you don't like Apple then there are plenty of other choices. It's much harder to avoid Google or Facebook.
> back in 2007. It feels like yesterday

As you get older, memories of time compress dramatically. What used to be measured as "oh wow that's a year away" is now measured in decades. It's depressing, and inevitably leads to a mid-life crisis.
Is there any good alternative? I think the main problem now on Android is Google Store wall. There would be much more Open Source alternatives if Android users could use another App Store. I wish we have something like an audited Store of Open Source only Apps.
If you have eight figure net worth or access to same from external sources it's not particularly difficult to start your own offshore bank.

It's also pretty easy to buy a passport and create a fake identity.

And not that much harder to create nominee directors who will never be vetted. And/or to create "legitimate" businesses with interests in art, property, and other high-value items - including in-game currencies - which can be used to transfer assets in creative ways.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/money-laundering-hmrc-tax-up...

And if you've been following the history of Wirecard you'll understand how easy it is to create a legitimate cover story for what appear to have been some rather less legitimate background operations.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/07/18/wor...

And even if you go with a traditional bank, KYC is mostly box ticking. And some of the biggest banks have been directly implicated in money laundering, AML laws and all.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/netflix-documentary-re-exa...
Ruby as a language doesn't. It's more about the ecosystem and the popularity of Ruby comes from the popularity of Ruby on Rails, that is what makes Ruby have an advantage of getting started quickly.
* Assuming a mixed stack, the ability to communicate to with the other devs is important. Often front end devs think they know everything about the product and don't get on with the back end apis and vice versa.

* Understanding of things outside their scope such as databases, server setup and deployment

* Good knowledge of a couple of frameworks, but the flexibility to pick up others quickly too and not constantly complaining if they have to deal with legacy code or frameworks they don't like!

* Communication, humility and the ability to teach or mentor more junior staff

* Knowledge of base JavaScript and programming in general should go without saying. Ability to do reasonable design / css / html even if that's not their area

* Remember one persons expert is is Brendan Eich or Ken Thompson. Another persons might be any career developer with 3-5 years experience!
Pretty much. Solve the problem first, then measure where the bottlenecks are and focus on those.

The premature optimization adage has been touted around since forever but it can be widely applied.
Clearly they should have used a higher performance programming language. :-)
My favourite is Wernher Von Braun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio
Why do you still believe the bullshit corporate PR? Snowden, Manning, Assange... Crypto AG, Cambridge Analytica, etc. How many times does it need to happen for us to see it?

The only real solution I've found is to help build the fully agent-centric web, where there are no third parties - full P2P Protocol Cooperativism. [1] [2]

[1] https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-reinventing-applicati...

[2] http://developer.holochain.org
Growing underwater heat blob speeds demise of Arctic sea ice
Isn't that a feature to make sure you can use it when you travel? Not everywhere supports chip and pin, do they? Has it ever been rolled out in the US, for example - or is 2FA something everyone can get? (I know it wasn't generally a thing before I moved).
Potential of this tech was discovered 2 decades ago: https://www.israel21c.org/new-israeli-electro-optic-processo...
Looks like it's potential wasn’t unleashed during this time.
No, but it prevents precession IMO.
Interesting! I did some reading, and it looks like Yugoslavia managed to escape the work camps and genocide thanks to Tito, who split with Stalin early on, and was able to maintain power in Yugoslavia (which was then excluded from the Warsaw Pact).

Also looks like there was US aid involved as well. Interesting. Not sure why the Soviets didn't push for military action, though.
Don't say that he's hypocritical,

Say rather that he's apolitical.

"Once ze rockets are up, who cares where zey come down?

That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.
> There’s a word for it, but can’t remember it off the top of my head.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendaku
Presumably you take trains rarely?

Earlier this decade I'd take 100 planes a year, but (day) trains only a few times. Trains had a similar feeling.

Now (well pre covid) I take planes maybe 10 times a year and trains 100 times a year, and the feeling reversed.
Tom Lehrer is incredibly witty and funny; he was a mathematician and performer who was active in the 1960's until the 1980's. Some of his stuff is a little dated but most of it is as relevant as ever.

I found three albums of his - "That was the year that was", "An evening wasted with Tom Lehrer" and "Antoher evening wasted". They cover the more famous parts of his repertoire, and for the rest you'll likely have to look through YouTube and the internet.

Highly recommended.
They actually give you an incredible discount on bandwidth, if that's important...it's a a known AWS "hack" :-)
Many Polish government leaders were killed in 2010 in a crash in Russia when their pilots attempted to land in bad weather using a radar altimeter over rough terrain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolensk_air_disaster

(In Eastern Europe, pilots are pressured to continue VIP flights despite risks. So the PIC was likely told, "Fly and land, or be fired/arrested on the spot."

There were "non-crew" reported in the cockpit, likely demanding a landing at the intended airport instead of an alternate.

Some US regional airlines have also been caught firing pilots when maintenance problems are reported, but US civilian pilots (and dispatchers) are the final authority, and thankfully regional airlines are mostly gone since the FAA 1,500 hour rule.)

So there are aviation use-cases for 3d radar/lidar navigation.

Source: commercially-rated airplane pilot.
But I'm sure you can recognise that .NET has a lot of err, negative inertia; it is becoming a more viable solution, but it's not there yet.

I did end up in a project a little while ago where they picked .net and azure as their technology of choice. Not sure what factors were in play there.
There is a real risk in politics that people mean literally what they are saying.

There is a situation where a group of people have together under the slogan "defund the police". There is a very high risk that if they get the power to do something they will, literally and only, defund the police.

Not many people are reading policy documents. The point of unity in politics is usually the literal meaning of the words being used. Secret signals of "really we meant this other thing" tend not to work.
On my phone, pull-to-refresh doesn't work in Chrome if I only do a short swipe. It seems to reject anything shorter than 3cm or so. And that's only if I'm already at the top of the page.
I do agree with your sentiment here, but to clarify: 272,000 children died of maleria in 2018, or 745 per day. Still a terrible number, and I don't think anyone would say that its okay if it takes a week for as many children to die from malaria as were lost on 9/11, but statics do matter