skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, you can interpret the flag however you choose. That has nothing to do with the perceived rise in white supremacy though. Confederate flags have long been flown in the south, and if anything, flying the lgbt flag next to it is new.
I don't disagree in that a publisher provides some quality floor and they presumably wouldn't have taken your book on if they already have a superior library on the same topic.

That said, put a self-published book on your site and someone can tell pretty quickly from a few minutes with the PDF if it's obviously bad. (Honestly, if I'm doing a book primarily for reputational purposes and I self-publish, I will (and have) just given it away for free.
Microsoft using GitHub to promote their products
It is not the first time that I click on GitHub's Explore to see the trending repos and... Azure appears two times there with just 2 new stars on the day!

When we want to see the trading repositories we don't want ads, but this is a type of ad what we are getting there. And annoying as any unexpected one, hidden as an organic result.
How's that? I choose apps that store my data locally rather than their servers if I even do download apps.

I was discussing the storage and distribution infrastructure.
> The shift to the right coincides with a decades long attack on academia and intellectualism.

This is a comforting narrative for leftists, but it's objectively false.

The attacks on academia and "intellectualism" (isn't it interesting how progressives presume a monopoly on this, just as they do on progress?) are a reaction to the exploitation of the academy as a tool for political indoctrination.

Individuals with openly right-wing beliefs are personas non grata on faculty, in administrations, etc. There's a reason for that. The left is desperate to maintain its stranglehold on one of the major sense-making organs of the culture - and its stranglehold on the ability to socially engineer the next generation of educated professionals.
I think the Babylonians used impaling instead of hanging.
How'd you incentivize someone to keep these machines up and running for eternity? Or is there another jump here that the machines will be eternal?

There is going to be new threats that show up (covid is a great example / alien attack is on the other end of the spectrum) - how do you plan to protect against these? Are you willing to leave these to volunteer willpower?

If you also notice the set of folks for whom subsistence is guaranteed (countries with good social nets / folks who have made enough money) keep working and trying to climb up the ladder. Do you think there is a baser instinct here (peacocking / self reliance / pessimism about future ...) at work?

At some point, you have to move away from the 'spherical chicken in a vacuum' arguments to have a reasonable discussion :)
I'm the author, I totally agree.
> A headset mic will pick up your loud typing, ... and whatever.

Not necessarily. A cheap one will, since it acts as an omnidirectional microphone. A good one, however, will have a hypercardoid microphone and an externally directed second omnidirectional microphone hooked up to a noise canceling circuit that renders external sounds effectively inaudible.

I can type on my keyboard with my Antlion mic on, and it's not audible to others (even though it's fairly loud to my ears). And yes, I tested this with a local recording first.

That said, I agree that coughing, clearing your throat, and such are definitely mute moments.
OpenTelemetry Launchers: The easiest way to get started with distributed tracing
I envisioned this same concept a decade ago[1] but never implemented it. It's nice to see this actually work in practice!

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2576715/pushing-data-onc...
The companies that don't show prices are not trying to sell to the people that search for prices. They are applying a huge filter on their inbox, removing a lot of candidate customers that they don't think are worth the bother.

Of course, whether they are correct or not varies a lot.
What exactly am I opposing?
Is the most relevant metric bandwidth, page views, or websites?

They may not have the bandwidth as you point out, but they have a pretty big chunk of websites. (Obv not 100%)

(That said, AWS has a lot more than “just” the TLS connection on a large fraction of the web, including all of my web properties, so yeah, who are you going to trust and for how long?)
Looks like halting problem.
So i just migrated some domains there recently just for DNS for first time and i was really confused about that feature (some of it was turned on automatically).

Ux wise it seems they want you to have it on. Not sure why.
I feel like a lot of discussion is on floating point accuracy and artifacts and most of it misses the point completely.

It doesn't help there are IEEE standards for fp calculations which are also very misunderstood. The point of these standards is to provide reproducibility and repeatability so that different types of software running on different machines or with different compilers provide same results.

The goal of floating point never was to provide precise representation or calculation and in fact it is not possible to provide in general with floating point. The goal was to make it easy and relatively fast to perform real world calculations.

You understand your calculator gives approximate results except for very special cases, so why would you bicker over some digits that are very far to the right of your result.

It is actually much worse with calculators because they tend to employ very different calculation engines and very different precision. You can actually identify a particular model or model family of calculator by running couple calculations and finding what kind of artifacts are present in the results, exactly.

Yet nobody will tell you calculators are useless as I frequently hear about floating point.

I work with Java and there seems to be this movement recently where developers use arbitrary precision arithmetic to do any sort of calculation on anything without actual idea of when this is needed. Supposedly flating point is broken and cannot be trusted. Sigh...
Every book you've read, movie you've watched, song you've listened to, play you've seen, etc. has been a direct result of our journey through the humanities, and I'm positive nobody thinks those forms of entertainment should just "cease to exist".

Ah yes, but how many of these would require obtaining a 4-year degree with 6-figure debt?

In the words of Matt Damon from Good Will Hunting “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”
Perhaps there are routers that don't handle well large amounts of data, but from my experience what typically is happening are two things:

1. the fairness in TCP is done per TCP connection, bittorrent opens many connections so they take over the whole bandwidth. You can limit number of connections or throttle the bandwidth used by BT (of course you will get slower speeds), maybe there are some other ways.

2. when you maximize your throughput ACKs might get dropped which slows everything down (I suspect that might be the issue you're talking about) again you could throttle or enable traffic shaping and give highest priority to ACKs. This worked well for me.
https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/131096945905453875...

https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/117000966338502656...

https://www.opindia.com/2019/09/the-life-and-crimes-of-amnes...

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/india-h...

https://swarajyamag.com/culture/how-northeast-india-was-chri...

https://tfipost.com/2016/09/christian-missionaries-conversio...
Well Gibraltar has practically zero unemployment and actually needs the Spanish workforce from La Linea and Algeciras to commute in daily...
Again, though, isn't that intentional? If it wasn't, what would stop someone from, for example, stealing a Time Machine HDD and then having access to all the files on it? It's one thing to steal the origin machine but I was under the impression that TM is specifically designed not to allow access from other user accounts unless you know the credentials for the original account from which the backups are created. Is that not accurate? That seems like a giant security hole if it's not...
ActivityPub... fediverse. The project page doesn't mention those. Very self referential and someone from outside won't understand anything?
Whither zombie retail
The alternative is work on blah-blah-blah but make literally half as much. For people who live in very expensive regions - FAANG and the similar are the only options to a semi-regular middle-class lifestyle. When non-updated 1930's homes that are 1000sqft on 4000sqft lots are regularly going for over $1.7mil - you can't really afford a typical middle class lifestyle on $180k/yr income.
Even if the constitution allows free speech, but practically if free speech is not possible, it is not freedom.

Note in the authoritarian totalitarian states there are no laws against free speech. And usually it is not government actors how punish you for expressing dissenting opinions, it is often mob and your employer. These states are not free.

So to some degree SV is not a free place, even if it there are no laws prohibiting free expression.
> people chronically underestimate the cost of driving (and many of them are fixed costs)

Once someone has paid the fixed cost of owning a car, that cost is sunk and shouldn't be factored into calculations for individual trips. The only thing that matters at that point is marginal cost.

For public transportation to be competitive, the overall public transportation system has to provide a level of service that makes it feasible for many people to not own a car at all. For example, having great inter-city train service doesn't help if I need a car to get to the train station. If I have to own the car anyway, and the marginal cost of driving is lower than the marginal cost of taking the train, I'm going to drive.

In most European countries, the overall public transportation system does provide this level of service. In most places in the US, it doesn't. A significant part of the reason for that is simply that people in Europe and people in the US have a different mix of preferences. Many more people in the US do not want to live in population dense areas that can support a public transportation system that makes it feasible to not own a car. (I'm one of them: I have lived in population dense areas and I know from experience that I prefer not to.)
Not the answer you are looking for, but I use https://cse.google.com/ and whitelist the places I like.

IBM Chef Watson was also pretty amazing sometimes, I really wish they hadnt deprecated it.
> Being prejudiced against choices people make is completely fine.

Wait until you read about the whole "free will" issue.
The $75000 Covid-19 Symptom Data Challenge
Add a heater to it and a house cat will have no problem defeating it's purpose.
Because Windows 10 sucks and is a spy machine and sometimes we need an installation for testing apps on this OS before release
It's been noted before that these highly specific niche titles can do very well.

You need a topic where the people who work in it are well paid, even by SV standards, and you can save them a lot of time and effort by condensing the state of the art into actionable information and examples.

So this is not "writing a book" - this is writing a book for a niche market that will pay well for non-obvious high-value technical content.

Something like "Xcode for Beginners" will not be nearly as successful - especially not now that app dev is so established.

Even though Xcode has a lot of quirks, the features and the build process aren't too much of a mystery and most people in the industry will be able to work out the essentials for themselves.
That’s why I noted it as a data point, not a fact.

Here’s another data point though, starting with the “Keep America Beautiful” campaign with Iron Eyes Cody in the 70’s, the Petroleum Industry’s PRopaganda position has been to transfer responsibility for the scourge of single-use plastics from their industry to the citizenry. This article, if propped up by Big Oil, would represent a major departure from that position.
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> What would mutual de-escalation look like?

Union representation on the board and broadly shared profit sharing as part of all employee compensation packages.

Get everyone rowing in the same direction.
> A headset mic will pick up your loud typing, sniffling, clearing your throat, and whatever.

It won't if you spend 2 minutes setting your audio thresholds.
> The whole idea is to make the downvoted comment less accessible, predicated on the idea that the readers don't want to read it. Evidence supporting that idea that they don't want to read it is the fact that they downvoted it (or rather those representatives among the readership who are able to downvote chose to do so).

I'm totally getting the motivation, but it doesn't solve the accessibility issue. If some people with high karma decide that a comment is low quality, then by all means, HN could collapse the comment by default. Totally fine with me, because everyone else can still access it if they choose to. With the current solution, many people don't get this chance. Accessibility is about equal treatment.
You can go ask every individual company you interact with for what data they have about you. The details should be found in privacy polices.

Response to "that's an unreasonable amount of work, it should be easier". Do you think privacy would be better protected if all the data about everyone was in one central location?
It's not tolerated? They're paying a billion dollars in fines for doing it.
Sort function C++ segmentation fault
I don't disagree with you from a language-designer point-of-view: it's an elegant, indentation-agnostic solution.

The problem is that after explaining -- for the 50 gajillionth time -- that "it's a tab, not X spaces", I get a little frustrated.
https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/131096945905453875...

https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/117000966338502656...

https://www.opindia.com/2019/09/the-life-and-crimes-of-amnes...

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/india-h...
Please tell me you teach 1984, for the sake of irony only.
“ With machine learning, you spent most of the time copying memory between the CPU and GPU”

- this is a sign that you are most likely doing it wrong. Yes, some operations are inherently bandwidth bound, but most important ones such as larger matrix multiplies (transformers) and convolutions are compute bound.
It doesn't matter, because the headline is the talking point, even if the article itself is so nuanced that it puts the headline into question.

I wouldn't say the article itself is bad, it shows you that the difference between EU countries is enormous (Figure 1).
The Wankel engine one is interesting. It seems the only way any of these make sense is with a new type of engine. Makes no sense to put a turbine in a plane just to run an electric motor, since it's more efficient to just use the turbine directly.
The Resurgence and Importance of Email Newsletters
There are real downsides to not working together. There is a reason my boss told me I can schedule a trip to India anytime I felt like it - seeing the people I work with there face to face was often important.
The costs really exploded in the past 15 or so years.

I'm in my mid-30s and managed to pay for the first two years of (community) college out of pocket while waiting tables. Quarterly tuition was ~$1500; I just cut a check at the registrar after scheduling my classes. By the time I went back for my BS a decade later, costs were closer to $10k per semester.
I've always thought of cloudflare as a plan to centralize the traffic that is not large enough to warrant their own CDN. All the examples you mentioned run their own content delivery in some way.

IMO cloudflare represents the death of the small player on the public internet, before it most small players ran their own internet-facing services, with it many choose to just run behind cloudflare.
Because despite their support saying the software works on Windows 10 -- and having half a dozen calls with their techs and doing everything they tell me to -- I cannot get my Primera 4102 disc duplicator running on Windows 10.
My Sony TV from 2014 has ads in the TV Guide that gets content from the Internet.
I haven't switched companies since I've written books (and am not a developer anyway) so I can't say about technical interviews. But it's definitely helped me in other ways within my company, with partner companies, etc.
Again, I'm fine with being bigoted against peoples choices. If you make bad choices you can be damn sure I'll won't respect you. I can't accept being bigoted against the way someone is born.
Author here!

I absolutely agree it's hard to go head-to-head with s3 in the short term --- this is why I am most excited about sharing sources. Once the ecosystem is bootstrapped, it will make more sense to use IPFS for binaries too. (e.g. if you wanted to build some fancy multiple build farms and reputation system.)

> https://www.softwareheritage.org/

I do really want to work with then!

- IPFS as CDN means software heritage can be "seeder of last resort"

- Original authors uploading to CDN, using IPNS or similar for git tags/versions, should make it easier for software heritage to archive the code in the first place.
Obligatory: https://mobile.twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?la...
For anyone interested in a more philosophical look at how this affects people, Byung-Chul Han has some great writings about how modern technological society affects the individual in books such as The Burnout Society.
The other solution is shrinking the size, scope, and complexity of government. Trump is able to abuse the tax system because the code is impossible to understand, which creates the conditions for corruption.
Yes, that is the case. Look up the Human Mortality Database and it's documentation if you're truly interested. I would say 200+ years of quite adequate data is available for some countries (perhaps undercounting things like infant mortality). My view is that Napoleon taught us well to register future and former tax payers.
Once again we are looking at history with a modern eye. What you say is true, but irrelevant.
I have a 2012 Bravia too, albeit a smaller one, something like 42" - the black levels in particular are absolutely amazing.
since 1993 - before animated GIFs*

Animated GIFs have been around since 1987.
Also see

Countries by Percentage of Population Living in Poverty

Communist Body Count
On the flip side, be careful when claiming skills on your resume. You may just encounter an interviewer who wrote the book on that topic who decides to ask you a few questions about it...
Because Americans are sold bullshit narratives about university educations intended to justify the mountains of debt required to finance the lifestyles of the people who run those institutions.
Unless the site uses certificate pinning its possible to do a downgrade attack that forces browser off of HTTPS. The extension HTTPS Everywhere is a stopgap against this
I thought about doing something similar but instead using Reddit or HN.
There's a practically throw-away line in Ready Player One where the Bad Guy says, "And research has found that we can cover 49% of the screen before our customers begin to experience seizures."

Yep, sounds about right.
for who?
It's an analogy. Personally, I think human lives have intrinsic value. I want my species not just to survive but to prosper as much as possible for as long as possible.

To answer your question, people aren't always seen as intrinsically valuable, nor their suffering meaningful. In the wrong context, corporations, congregations, and other populations are only valued for what they produce, like how cows are valued (and raised) for their milk and meat.
Immigration Pathways and Plans of AI Talent
> Spain has a similar prevalence, but far higher mortality

Which numbers[0]; spain only is a bit above (6%) in deaths and below (28%) in prevalence.

Belgium is far higher in deaths; there is an actual significant difference (26%) there, but not many people live there ofcourse.

Outside the UK (is that still the EU), most countries are a quite far below the US in covid mortality.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
I'm assuming what you meant is "the project page doesn't explain those" rather than it doesn't "mention" those.

And it's true that it doesn't give a definition; presumably at this earlier stage, the people most interested in the website are people who are already interested in some way in the federated social web. The ActivityPub spec is linked to though, so it's not hard to find out more info about it.
Have the metrics used by models changed? E.g. can you hypothetically define away inflation by excluding property prices from the basket?
Out of tens of millions of cases, we have had 2 reinfections, one of whom had symptoms. To me that is very very strong evidence that reinfection is not a factor.
I believe these arguments based on mortality rates will, eventually, be considered "racist". And I say that with some trepidation, the label is easily thrown around today.

It is almost certain that some sub-populations are more sensitive to COVID19. The causes may be genetic, environmental, cultural. Societies taking equal measures and similar socio economic backgrounds could experience vastly different outcomes for no other reason but the natural response of their bodies to the disease.

Take African countries for example, is anyone here seriously considering that Tanzania or Niger had a better response and better health systems dealing with the disease than Belgium?
Not sure why this is being down voted. Perhaps some consider it punching down?

While a generalisation it is true that some economically disadvantaged spend a lot on 'luxuries' like shoes or cars. Often this is for social signally and sometimes because it's a luxury they can afford now vs those which appear completely unattainable forever.

Some rich people too spend extravagantly beyond their means. It's just less obvious since they aren't obviously hurting for money on other ways.