skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I hear you. But I disagree that the entire post is about that. It was just a paragraph (which I didn’t even really notice initially).
Personally I find it attractive to get away from the ridiculous bullys who attack other people in the name of pc .. I'm not debating those issues .. especially not with hothead radicals who bully those with nuanced perspectives with personal attacks
Are you implying only open, legal mandates count? I sure remember hearing a lot about russian interference in some election...
Well, here is some history (from 1992):

https://winworldpc.com/product/icon-do-it/1x

I remember it was not inexpensive ($19).
The majority of people in Silicon Valley are liberals. The loud, troublesome activist liberals are who he is ousting. Just look at Google.
I'm guessing the different metrics are collected through different means. Their blog mentions HTTP request to sites that use cloudflare as well as DNS [0]. It would make sense that domain popularity is meaused through DNS and bots and DOS measured by the systems built for handling those things.

[0]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-radar/
Steve Wozniak and John Graham-Cumming (Cloudflare TV Fireside Chat)
You should compare usa.gov data to data on https://radar.cloudflare.com/US, in which case it would be much closer.

Btw, one piece of feedback: the interface for selecting a certain country is rather confusing. A (non-tiny) dropdown selector at the top would be much more intuitive.
How will Seattle pay for it?
In this case: basic and functional equality of the members of a society. Like pornography, this is hard to define precisely, but I know when the violations are egregious enough, and the functional equality of black Americans through in the eyes of the police right now is certainly egregious enough.
As a supporter of radically free speech, I'm selecting for the widest possible grouping. That's tolerance.
Personally I'm more worried about companies outside the healthcare markets getting access to health data more than insurance companies. But it seems like everyone is in agreement on that.

I'd bet money that with consistent access to sleep cycles, heart rate, blood pressure, ecg, and body temperature combined with device analytics (screen time, content watched/listened to) you could easily come up with a behavioral model that identifies users suffering from depression and anxiety.

And while it could be useful and positive (for example, they already can identify and target smokers with smoking cessation ads), I'm more afraid of malicious actors targeting people already prone to destructive behavior with feedback loops that worsen their symptoms and profit off it.

For example: User 123 is experiencing a panic attack. Send notification that Uber Eats now delivers alcohol.
Interestingly, there is also some research suggesting that Vikings might have brought back Native American people to Iceland from their travels to Vinland.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.21419
> That said, I am somewhat sceptical about whether we'll see any reasonable results in a reasonable amount of time

As Element we are if nothing else highly financially motivated to get Gitter bridged into Matrix, so we can run it via our normal Matrix server backend farm rather than keep an entirely parallel deployment running of Gitter infrastructure. We also want to stick to our word :)
The action I'm referring to here is the indifference. The hiding, the denial. Using the phrase "boys will be boys".

That's the action that's speaking out here. And it's a problem that's broader than Varsity.
The problem is vulnerabilities. Your vulnerability scanner says you're pinned dependency has a vuln, and the only solution is to upgrade versions.

By and large, libraries don't backport vulnerability fixes. You have to update from 1.0.1 to 2.3.3 because they only were notified of the vuln after 2.3.2 was released. In practice, almost no open source libraries would also release a 1.0.2. Maybe some of the largest most well-run libraries will, but enough don't that you will run into this problem.
The real explanation might actually be that a lot of people on hacker news are easily taken in by marketing. A new look for something that was popular when people were kids at a 1000% markup should be easy to see through, but stuff like this happens all the time.
bangers!
We could use second to none middle-out compression and call it Pipernet. [0]

[0] http://www.piedpiper.com/internet-heritage/
1) The topic is political discussions at work. You made this thread personal by asking about my background instead of arguing the merits. What issues others are personally affected by has nothing to do with this.

2) What do you know about what I care about or my philosophy? I said I support strong borders and law enforcement. This does not stop others from becoming citizens, nor do I have any responsibility to anyone else.

3) You choose the company you work for, and you can always quit. That doesn't mean there are no consequences but that's life, and life isn't fair.

You're conflating several topics with random tangents and have attempted to personally attack me with assumptions, strawman scenarios and mischaracterizations. Nothing you've said is a reason to break the rules of the workplace and discuss whatever you want, especially when you have the alternative of leaving (and the company is offering a generous package to do so). The entitlement that you stay employed and yet break the rules and create disturbance is the very epitome of the privilege you claim exists in those that choose to actually follow those rules. This is precisely the attitude that this company (and many others) are trying to avoid. I'll end this thread here as there's nothing more to discuss.
I often try to explain mental models to her using some of the material from FS. We have covered Inversion, Second Order Thinking, Occam's razor
How are you solving the problem of scale? Wouldn't everyone else be using this approach if the need to e.g. maintain indexes was overruled by your table join technology?

Or is the idea that you specify the type of dataset you want, and then wait a few hours for the table to be generated from the activity stream?

Good luck with your launch, this is a cool and novel take on data analytics.
Any & all politics at work is unacceptable period..you are there to do the job you accepted and agreed to do. Nothing more! Go create your own company that embraces and hires only activists with various views...I wonder how successful such a company would be?

I was taught politics isn't polite to talk about it.... illogical (what politics are to me ...a pissing match driven by billionaires on each side fueling fires for their side and their sheep almost mindlessly following along ) views aren't a welcoming or warm human experience that fosters teamwork.

All companies should follow with this stance ..letting all know discussing politics at XYZ company is frowned upon and if troubles arise from it (other employees feeling harassed and or uncomfortable by it; report it) then XYZ company isn't the place for you!
You don't consider indifference to be acceptance?
What’s worse is that legislators themselves don’t know or care much about these freedoms or are easily misled by vested interests in the bureaucracy.

Oh, they definitely know and care about it. Except what they care about is to roll out the censorship and monitoring. They are openly anti-privacy and pro-censorship. This is especially obvious in the UK and the EU.
As long as any concert, large public gathering, or whatever else you want to go to inevitably results in the deaths of dozens of individuals, those events won't be going on as normal, no matter how deep you stick your head in the sand.
Oh let me hide this and repost without it
thanks for pointing out
Good places to start for writing fiction:

- Writer's Digest publishes large yearly lists of places to submit books and short stories.

- The Writing Excuses podcast covers all steps of the writing process, from research and planning to publishing with an agent or going the self-publishing route. The speakers cover a wide range of strategies on each topic.

- writing.stackexchange.com is a relatively useful resource on a range of writing and publishing topics
yup, but the experience is pretty dire, particularly on the Gitter side of the bridge. The intention instead is to be able to join #hashicorp-consul_lobby:gitter.im in Matrix, and have all the Gitter users natively there in Matrix... but also all the Matrix users there natively in Gitter :)
If you don't need it in real time and don't have a whole lot of points, you can do discrete Fourier transforms in even less code by just doing FT instead of FFT. Modern computers are fast enough that the most straightforward O(n^2) algorithm that is immediately obvious from the definition of the discrete Fourier transform given in Wikipedia will often be fast enough. E.g., something like this in C:

typedef struct {
double r;
double i;
} complex;

void fourier(complex * x, complex * y, int np)
{
int n, k;

for (k = 0; k < np; ++k)
{
y[k].r = y[k].i = 0;
for (n = 0; n < np; ++n)
{
double c = cos(2*M_PI*k*n/np);
double s = sin(2*M_PI*k*n/np);
y[k].r += x[n].r * c + x[n].i * s;
y[k].i += -x[n].r * s + x[n].i * c;
}
}
}

20 years ago, on a middle of the road desktop, that was fast enough that I was able to do an almost real time guitar tuner with it.
You don't need to figure out why the ad was run if you target the ad to people who match the demographic you want to identify. It runs because it fits the match.

I don't know whether Google will slap any wrists. It went so far that their ads hijacked the browser and redirected to scam sites. I've been on the debugging end on a few such attacks over the years, and it just happened once every other year or so on sites with a healthy amount of traffic. The scammers do try to fly under the radar (only targeting specific sites, only targeting mobile and specific demographics to make it harder to track). If they simply didn't allow them the access, the problem wouldn't exist.
It depends on the definition of pollute.

Pollute can mean anything that increases entropy.

Pollution can mean anything that alters the environment, and that certainly includes any human activity.

Pollution can mean anything that increases the probability that the parameters of the environment that allow human life will change. This can include human activity in sufficient amounts that cause environmental damage. Simples example is too many people existing, and their waste causing issues with water sources and then having to build sewage facilities and dealing with the side effects of that.

The point is that everything affects everything, and there is no “pure” solution. Causing pollution of one type might help mitigate pollution of another type, and the trade offs are impossible to completely analyze.

Obviously some pollution (emissions from fossil fuels) are easy to figure out and blame. But the benefits of those are also incalculable, such as increased life expectancy due to ability to travel, plastics to reduce disease transfer, etc.

But at its root, human activity, namely living longer and increasing number of human lives is itself the biggest polluting factor.
right about the same time we get the paperless office will we see a transition to video conferencing taking over in face. change is hard

hell at work that is one thing they want to get back in office for is face to face. they have mandated cameras for all managers working remote and looking to do the same for other workers. Still there are teams that are doing one day face to face meetings.
TE's quality is hit and miss if you talk to people who have used their devices a lot.

You're mostly just paying for the unique features, smaller production runs and look of the device.

I own an OP-Z and luckily haven't had any issues but the forums are full of people who's units are bent or have the dials pop out.
perhaps take a step back and realize that the HN demographic of young white males is exactly the type that would have the least issue with this policy...
SF did shove black people out with urban renewal but aren't demographics mostly like this in the West since the slave trade wasn't as extensive?

The real indicator for the tech industry's lack of diversity is that CA's 39% Hispanic population reflects as some minor fraction of the tech population.

Some extraordinary filter is occurring somewhere that's keeping Hispanic people out. Not alleging malice, just the scale is so huge.
Kind of off topic, but is Substack the new Medium? Seeing a lot of stuff from them lately.
How do you explain to a child that something is valuable but should not have a price? I am worried "love is free" is dangerously adjacent to "sex is cheap", the opposite of what I want to convey. Maybe the "price" in this analogy is time or commitment? Avoid the whole market comparison? Open to suggestions here.
It doesn't change my stance on what I would prefer companies do but it seems like a multilayered issue on the tides to pay attention to here and at the very least makes me not want to espouse my own thoughts about "Yeah! mission focused companies!" publicly.

Here are quotes from my feed:

"The path to an IPO is to purge Black and Brown people from Coinbase ... this is very unbecoming of a federal contractor"

"Over a dozen diverse crypto industry leaders [are] calling it out as racist."

"Sweden took 60 years to admit its neutrality policy was racist. How long will it take Coinbase to do the same? Being neutral is a position in support of the status quo - it always has been."

"Coinbase's CEO's recent statement of neutrality is unacceptable and complicit."

An out of context comment unfortunately adding to the gradient of the same context: "IBM's first computer sold to Hitler. Ford converted cars to tanks sold to Hitler. Why???"

The people posting are all identifying as black, in San Francisco Bay Area, and using their platform in support of black communities.

What's going on is that there is more context than Brian Armstrong's post, there is the context of what actually occurred within Coinbase amongst Coinbase's employees, something I have an incomplete picture of. And I think all of us miss that.

I like Brian Armstrong's post - in isolation. People with more context don't like it, and are galvanizing support against this very quickly. That's too bad. I hope Coinbase gets their IPO.
Honest answer: I carry portable FM radios around with me all the time and enjoy my local stations immensely and wish I could rewind to hear a title or composer's name, or some melody or similar, almost daily. I realize I could build something like this myself if I put enough time into it, but I'm pretty sure the pricetag would be excusable for me.

Honest question: Do you have any suggestions for how I can duplicate all of the above (portable, FM, good sound, rolling digital audio cache) for cheaper, and without spending weeks soldering and coding?
Got it. Very much appreciate your additional thoughtful insights.
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Hmm, to your first part: maybe. Adam Serwer (in that same article) argues that exposure to tales of southern violence, after the Civil War, was instrumental in changing northern Republicans' willingness to push civil rights legislation. So, similarly, in the 1960s.

Yet your conclusion is far too final: it's not a "myth" that people didn't support these changes; some people did and some didn't, as with anything. At one point in the end of 1964, a majority of people oppose the protests that led to these changes.

And in fact, the 24th Amendment faced substantial opposition from southern states; I'm not able to find contemporaneous opinion polls (and I'd be interested if you have any), but it's far from the case that it was without controversy!

I strongly disagree with your last line, however—not because violence is acceptable or productive, necessarily, but because your interpretation exculpates reactionaries who regrouped and pushed back against such changes, which I think is a highly relevant lesson for the Trump era:

Race is such a good predictor of a vote for Trump. The simplest explanation for Trump's rise is that he is a counterreaction to the election of the first Black President.

So too with the success of a cynical Southern Strategy following on the heels of the Civil Rights Era.
80%+ of Uber and Lyft drivers have other jobs and drive in their free time to make extra money. In those cases it seems like flexibility is much more important than a floor on earnings (which will prevent them from being able to drive during times when earnings are less than that). Currently those drivers are showing up because it's the best possible opportunity for them to make extra money.

The 20% of drivers who are full time will benefit, but the 80% of drivers who are part time will be worse off. I'm not convinced that the government should be telling those 80% of people that flexibility is no longer viable. Being able to make some money in their free time (and they're indicating they're willing to do that) seems better than not being able to.
I'm not sure anyone has written an irssi plugin specifically, but there's an excellent weechat plugin (https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix). As others have said, there's also matrix-ircd which exposes all of Matrix as an IRC server you can connect to from whatever IRC client floats your boat, but you end up speaking the subset of Matrix which can be represented as IRC, which is a bit of a shame.
Up to college, cheerleading is a serious sport (see, e.g., the Netflix docudrama or even the old movie Bring it On which is surprisingly accurate).

It is one of the most physically demanding sports, and in terms of injuries it is the most hazardous sport for competitive athletes. It's basically gymnastics, but faster, with a dozen or more other people within the same limited space, and people are getting tossed around or jumping off other people, or balancing on top of one or more other people who may themselves be balanced on top of other people.
This argument rests on an undeseriable business practice. Essentially we don't want insurance companies to discriminate on the health of potential buyers so let's stop Google from acquiring that data. But if that's what we want it makes more sense to ban the thing we don't want to happen. Namely, don't allow insurance companies to discriminate on the health of buyers.
You don’t get a guarantee of write ordering from not just the disk (pretty much any kind) but the OS IO scheduler.

Journaling filesystems can still implement atomic appends with only metadata journaling.

Updating in place is generally not atomic because of the way writeback works for buffered IO.

If you use unbuffered IO you bypass the OS scheduler but still have the disk reordering things if you don’t use write barriers and they still don’t guarantee atomicity for regular writes.
Funny how the protocols that are federated and distributed (SMS, email) are the ones that stick around forever. You'd think there'd be some lessons to learn from this, but instead we keep getting more walled-garden-style chat apps that keep spawning and dying.

I get it though, it's hard to make money off something that doesn't have vendor lock-in.
John Gruber on the Apple Marina Bay Sands Store
But isn't the repair being harder a net-benefit for the consumer? It's not like the repair is arbitrarily harder. It's harder because the repairs in question deal with the TouchID sensor and the SSD, like you said. I wouldn't want someone being able to access my data just by replacing a component on the computer that then bypassed all the security systems present on the computer. It's the same situation as when replaced displays on iPhones were causing issues because repair shops weren't moving over the TouchID sensor. The cost of that security is that I need to have my data backed up but that's a best practice anyways for anyone that values their data.
> and Apple sells more products when people trust them.

I am interested to know how you have estimated/measured this increase. Is it 1%? 20%? What does your data show?
#2: Due to the differences in language design, Fortran admits better generated machine code optimization than C does.
The popular domains metric is probably measured through the 1.1.1.1 dns service and firefox recently defaulted to resolving domains through cloudflares DoH service, so popular domains may be biased toward firefox users. Browser popularity is probably less biased as it would have to be measure by HTTP requests to sites using cloudflare.
Oooh. How nice.

Just a few days ago I considered setting up a Gitter-bridge for my Marrix-instance, but decided that it was both too involved and not well-enough integrated to be worth it.

This is really good news!
Ironically enough, I actually wrote about just this topic...

https://austingwalters.com/talk-to-yourself/

IMO it’s all about giving kids time alone, Not stimulated, to learn how to think about the voice in their head. A lot of what we do is try to inject more stimulus to teach, instead (and this is similar to the Montessori school of thought) they need some time to formulate a self image and learn to reflect and build an ego (self).
> Apple spends lavishly on what they care about and consider important.

While Gruber seems to be writing in defence of Apple, I find that sentence pretty damning. His comment says of Apple that they care about spending money as long as it’s to take your money, but don’t care as much when it comes to giving customers a reliable and—in their words—magical experience.

I can’t imagine a single Apple customer today thinking “boy, Apple has been screwing up its hardware, software, and developer relationships, but I sure am glad they build pretty stores I’ll never visit”.
I'm not too familiar with SV culture, but wouldn't an employee exit from Coinbase for the next few months also act as a signal to future employers? Since google has already been bitten from both sides with their "bring your entire self to work" culture, you'd think they'd want to avoid ex-Coinbasers.

Maybe I'm reading too much in to this.
In a philosophical sense yes, but there’s degrees to both of them, and once you consider practical issues your options will often be a mix of good and evil.
If you want to scream in frustration, watch a video about the "training" involved in stretching legs so kids can do the splits. They're regularly posted to YouTube by proud parents.

I have no clue how a parent can "proudly" watch their child crying and screaming as someone forces their legs into unnatural positions.
He or she did indeed do that.

I find the constant ranting about taxation here very trying, I frequent many financial and more "right-wing" forums, but HN is the only place I commonly see the taxation is theft argument made seriously on a regular basis.

I'd love to know why that is, but it appears to be one of life's great mysteries.

My mother's advice on this still stays with me: never look at your gross pay, and you'll be much, much happier.
> any reduction in a gym's quality generally boosts its nearby competitors.

Right, but the question is how visible that quality is to customers. If you skimp on your ventilation or equipment maintenance, your customers will notice pretty quickly. If you skimp on background checks for your cheerleading coaches, nobody's going to notice on their own until the scandal hits.

The only way customers know there's a difference in the coach vetting if the gym or the cheerleading company tells them. And while it may be possible for Company A and its gyms to distinguish themselves from Company B, it may not be; it depends a lot on the particulars. If they can't, they'll be at a disadvantage.
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