skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
D has a nice middle-road between a preprocessor and an AST-munger: mixins. The mixin function is essentially compile-time eval: whichever string you pass it gets compiled into the program at that point. Combined with solid compile-time function evaluation and doing wacky things like brainfuck-as-a-DSL becomes fairly trivial.
Firefox recently removed the facility to set user-agent on a per-site basis. It's only universal now.

So if you now want to spoof as Chrome to your bank, you spoof as Chrome to all websites.

Rather a foot-gun from Mozilla but on par for their recent choices.
The statement about not being handsome like a Mazda has some irony in it, as the Tesla head designer, Franz von Holzhausen, previously was a lead designer at Mazda, before he joined Tesla.

Speaking for myself, I actually quite like the design of the Teslas. They are very smooth and have a quite different approach than most mainstream makers. I dislike especially the overly edgy brutal look with huge radiator openings, which has crept into the car market since 2010.
Maybe it is me being a physicist, but I can also appreciate how the design maximizes aerodynamic efficiency, even if that means other compromises. Which is partly responsible for Teslas leading in range tests.
As I like simple elegant shapes, I appreciate how from the front edge of the windscreen to the very back of the car, there is a single smooth curvature of the roofline.
As we turn more of our lives over to the results of these machine learning algorithms, we need to keep reminding developers that any system that is not designed specifically to be anti-racist can still end up racist due to poor training data. There was a similar issue just a couple weeks back with Twitter. [1] We can't just ignore these issues and assume that an algorithm is inherently unbiased.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24530968
I just would like for wireshark or tshark to handle zstd- or lz4-compressed pcaps. Then all would be good.
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That's a valid point, and a good one. I certainly hope they don't. Is there precedent for them doing something like that before?
Try finding a TV-Sized computer monitor and you'll know my pain xD
No, you wouldn’t. You can’t turn off retransmissions in QUIC, for instance.
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https://qz.com/773738/how-non-english-speakers-are-taught-th...
So it's the year 2020, climate change is already causing major disasters regularly, and if we don't make major changes real quick, it's going to end the world as we know it in a matter of decades.

And yet here we are, admiring a plane that will probably burn ten times as much fossil fuel as a regular plane, which is already far too much.
Sure that is how 1€ product shops work, which doesn't mean the final product actually does what it supposed to do.

Then that screwdriver turns itself instead of turning the screw.

> probably were involved in drafting it

Which also isn't done for free beer, ISO processes have associated costs.
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This is not an opinion, it is a fact. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association lists pedophilia as both a sexual orientation and disorder.

"The essential feature of this disorder is recurrent, intense, sexual urges and sexually arousing fantasies, of at least six months' duration, involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child."

"The age of the person is arbitrarily set at age 16 years or older and at least 5 years older than the child."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/mgmzwn/most-child-sex-abuser...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09249...

https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi429
Clear but not easy. I’d be unpleasantly surprised if this is caused by someone having a line saying “if black & rand()<0.15 { reject() }”… although given the recent thing with the 2^16-1 Excel limit for Covid reporting, it certainly isn’t impossible for a U.K. system to be that badly wrong.
It doesn't seem that reduction in coffee consumption had anything to do with education, but with increased availability and marketing of carbonated sugared drinks.

Also, in recent years total coffee consumption started to increase again, driven by hip coffee shops.

It's hard to win against billions in marketing.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2007/june/coffee-consum...

https://qz.com/quartzy/1287862/american-coffee-consumption-i...
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The first point is a simple consequence of Relativity, and is as non-fringe as it can be. In fact, there was a nice youtube video about it recently… here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU6t8QvGZmA
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It would help to reduce your response to tinnitus. Most of us are able to "tune out" constant environmental noise; the same can be done with tinnitus.
Or maybe it's harder to find contrast in a darker skinned face in bad lighting.
either in-competent programmers that coded the system or bad training data that only had non-dark skinned pictures for training the system
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first it makes the flight longer while not decreasing the cost of the flight thus damaging the economics of such an operation.

second - those are very different modes. We don't know how to design a plane flying efficiently (and thus achieving a good range, and the range is already an issue for supersonics) in both modes, subsonic and supersonic (well, we do have B-1 and Tu-160 though that is well beyond commercial reach and i'd say those planes more like illustrate the issue than showcase the solution). Concorde for example was using afterburner to get to supersonic mode as quickly as possible, and while afterburner is very inefficient, such approach was overall still most efficient for Concorde because the plane was designed for the supersonic mode.
This is mentioned in the article (“attorneys for the social media giant claimed such a disclosure would violate the First Amendment rights of a user to be anonymous”) and further explained, with citations, in the court’s decision:

> “An author's decision to remain anonymous, like other decisions concerning omissions or additions to the content of a publication, is an aspect of the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment.” McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Comm'n, 514 U.S. 334, 352 (1995). The Ninth Circuit recognizes that the decision to remain anonymous extends to anonymous speech made on the internet … The Ninth Circuit has explained that “the ability to speak anonymously on the Internet promotes the robust exchange of ideas and allows individuals to express themselves freely without ‘… concern about social ostracism.’”

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7223134-ORDER-RICH.p...
Ask HN: Is there a HN type forum for engineering managers?
Is there a forum similar to HN where engineering managers and other people in the leadership ladder of companies discuss events and ideas?
This is a really cool idea, but I did notice a full page refresh on mobile Safari. It’s not the app-like experience you get with SPA’s
So let's say you and I sit down, and do the following:

1) I roll a 3-sided die (or a 6 sided, wrapping) and keep it covered.
2) You pick a number, 1-3
3) I flip a coin. If it's heads, I pick the lower available number; if it's tails I pick the higher.
4) I peak at the die. If it's my number, we reveal and start over.
5) I (always, at this point) offer you a wager: if the die shows your number (so you would have lost if you switch), you pay me $7; if the die doesn't show your number, I pay you $5.

Assuming you believe the die and coin are fair, etc, would you agree to play that game 1000 times? In those games, is there a reason you would turn down the wager?

Is it the same game if I flip the coin secretly, peek at the die, announce my number (picked algorithmically in the obvious way), and then pay out according to whether switching would win (as above)?

Because (assuming I've explained these games as I intend... it's getting late) I would play the former with you not the latter (but I would play the latter if we switched the payments around - I chose 5 and 7 because 7/12 is halfway between 1/2 and 2/3).
Completely superficial and not worth reading.
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The problem with Lobste.rs (which arguably is also the key differentiating point) is their invite only system. Unless you know someone who's already in, there's no way to get an invite
There is definitely something to be said about the quality of pictures taken in photo booths, but the study specifically used pictures that were all of sufficiently high quality:

> Photos of politicians were collected from parliaments around the world. The gender and skin tone were recorded for each photo using the Fitzpatrick skin-tone scale. Each image met the Home Office standards for a passport photo.

That definitely suggests the software used for automatic image quality check simply isn't up to par.
I think calling it racist is making a wrong connotation. It is introducing a bias. Racism is something else.
Freedom of speech isn’t a right when it comes to a company deciding what can be posted on their site, right? So they could just have a policy where if they don’t know they don’t let it grow viral. Hell, even a limit of 5000 unique views on all posts probably won’t affect many people until the election is over.
I guess it is just a US thing. I read a lot of HN so naturally had the same very skeptical disposition, until we went to see one of those plants in town. Started recycling at home the same week.

Metals, Glass and paper are profitable to be recycled, plastic a bit less so, but still doable.

But in EU there are a lot of programs to cut taxes or subsidize recycling so maybe that’s actually working?
That story was flagged, what a sad state of the industry. It’s no wonder we have terrible racist tools when we aren’t even able to acknowledge it.
Oh I should have added it, thanks! (to be clear I'm not in/involved in military, sorry if my wording was weird)
Um no? For more colour correction, you can use the vectorscope to target the universal skin tone line which fixes contrast for all skin tones.
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187661021...
> Google could have used the Java language with completely different APIs

Well, no, because many Java language constructs are defined in context to the standard library, for instance all classes being children of java.lang.Object. They'd need quite a bit of java.lang at the very least.
Navigation and entertainment are moot points IMO. Practically every care has android auto/carplay these days.
> it's going to end the world as we know it in a matter of decades

You’re not helping your cause by making exaggerated claims unsupported by science or reason.
I’m not racist, I’m just biased against people with dark skin?
Methadone is even more dangerous than the real stuff: just withdraw syndrome can be fatal.
So you give the technical reasoning to my long-standing intuitive claim: USB3 is too fast for consumer-grade hardware to be really reliable.

With engineering solutions like Firewire it could have been as fast and more reliable. But more expensive, i.e. not mass market or consumer friendly.
They seem to simply take it on faith that it's impossible for darker-skinned people to just have a higher chance of taking poor photos. This could be mediated by culture of income or a hundred other things.

They offer no way to evaluate the statistical validity of the conclusions drawn from "BBC Research". They looked at 1000 politicians, but what was the color breakdown of those? What was the actual sample size of dark-skinned people? Who coded the photos' skin colors and how? This is just utter garbage without any rigor at all.

Their "BBC Research" indicates that male faces read much better than female, but they don't comment on this at all. Why did they choose the race angle and not the sex angle?

Moreover there are real reasons why dark-skinned features are harder to read than light-skinned. It's the same reason things are hard to make out in the dark, or you can't tell the features of an object covered in vantablack. It's physics. Less light means less information.

This whole article is the perfect distillation of low-effort motivated race baiting. To an astute reader it proves the opposite of its bias - if this is what is considered racial greivance worthy of breathless BBC articles, there must really be nothing significant going on to complain about.

There is zero chance that anything like this would ever have been published if the results went the other way, no matter to what degree.
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It was originally supposed to, s-expressions (parenthesis) were supposed to be eventually replaced with m-expressions which were influenced by Algol and FORTRAN (the irony), but reviewers of the paper and the initial implementors of lisp preferred s-expressions, which stuck.

That being said, having worked professionally in Lisp, the “un-lispy” macros like Loop are some of the worst parts of that language. They completely violate the otherwise standard-ish syntax of Lisp, are very poorly documented, impossible to memorize, and are really hard to debug despite the otherwise excellent tooling available for top tier implementations like SBCL. It was our standard practice to replace these macros with more verbose but idiomatic lisp whenever possible.
The other half believes that Trump called neonazis and white supremacists very fine people and told people to drink bleach to fight coronavirus. Let's not pretend only one side is biased and uses misinformation for its purposes.
I'm talking about these "photo booths". A professional photographer of course can do a color correction in Photoshop, but there is no human involved in these.
To make it more obvious, assume there are 100 doors with 99 goats. And after you select a door, the host opens 98 goats doors
IMO Yes. (test)
Corruption usually happens on jobs with low pay that noone really want to do but does it anyway due to a good cause. But once in a while you get people that are driven by power and glory, and if the position holds any power they will use it to their own advantage.
I'm talking about a simple fact: being popular is easy, being right is not

I'm talking about the fact that being popular in school has nothing to do with objectively having a good life

Usually people good in sports are popular in high school because have more confidence, it doesn't mean they'll be happy adults

Nerds are not popular because they aren't looking for easy solutions, but to master something

It requires sacrifice and trying to be popular is the most useless of the distractions

I guess that's another of the cultural differences between US and Europe: the pinnacle of our life is way after school and who was or wasn't popular back then is not important when you reach adulthood
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> The punk ethos is primarily made up of beliefs such as non-conformity, anti-authoritarianism, anti-corporatism, a do-it-yourself ethic, anti-consumerist, anti-corporate greed, direct action and not "selling out".

TIL I was a punk!
While I’ve enjoyed my own time with an Aston (likewise my Alfa 4C), they fail on many of the same quality and reliability axes that Tesla do. So I’m not sure your experience is that different from OP.
Because most companies are private enterprises started by some entrepreneur that had some vision for the good/service that is being produced.

Presumably, you and your employer entered into some contract in which you are compensated for your labor. If you find the terms unconscionable, perhaps you should petition your legislators to change the labor laws (this is where democracy is appropriate).

As an aside, I do not understand where the notion that <something> + democracy is always going to be better than <something>. I never would have thought back in college that banding together with my fellow physics majors and demanding what we're taught and how we're graded would produce better outcomes; I choose my school/department because of the reputation resulting from the faculty's decisions. I imagine the same goes with most employees at most companies - a lot of engineers want to work at FAANG because of what <ceo> is doing. Democracy works well for things you can't opt out of, like society. I doubt Apple products would be as good if Steve Jobs let every engineer into the boardroom.
I think the connection between gut bacteria and human health is one of the great developing medical stories of the current time. It is almost on par with the development of the germ theory of disease. Scientists are aware that most of the cells in your body are not human, but the role of bacteria in your body's function is only slowly being uncovered.
Wow, do you get paid for being on call during the weekends?
Neutral would be good, but I doubt that they are serious about this.

Otherwise, they wouldn't build their plane around gas turbines, which create trust from burning carbon compounds.
Just because you aren’t explicitly racist doesn’t mean you have unconscious bias that you need to check and control.

The same applies to computer algorithms. The real danger is when those algorithms are treated as without bias.
Except anti-GPL folks have made GPL almost irrelevant outside Java, Linux kernel, GCC and a couple of GNU tools.
Racism is discrimination based on skin colour, which is literally what this system is doing.

It's a pity they didn't question the Home Office more on what they have done since 2019 to fix the bug since they knew existed from launch — e.g. how many times has the algorithm been retrained since then with good passport photos (since the issue still seems unresolved)

EDIT: Turns out from the New Scientist article linked that it actually launched in 2016, misread from the BBC one.
Is this really a bias? Or maybe they are less facial features and less contrast, that make detection harder? For example there is only one eye color and hair color.. And it was fixed with simple appeal.

Rant start >

I think this just derails discussion about how system is really broken. My friend applied for UK residency around Christmas. She matches all criteria, her husband studied and now works in UK, she is EU resident. Border service holds her passport for 11 months now!!! Only info we can get is automated paid call, for 15 euro they tell us it is in progress...

Meanwhile she got pregnant and is about to deliver. All faster before border service can even answer single question...
She is about to deliver, 2000 km from her husband, and can not even leave this country, because UK is holding her passport.
And yes, she happens to be black as well...

...rant end
"You fall to the level of your systems"

I really like that! Thanks, I'm going to check this out.
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It's called those who slow down progress with their despicable "business practice". Though explaining it to you is pointless - you very consistently support lock-in and the damage it's causing, whitewashing it as "that's what industry does", as if that was ever a valid excuse.
Are you trained with poor training data? My comment was on parent's statement. I did not say racism does not exist, but it is not the only word for situations where there is a bias involving pepole's color.
I invite you to read up on climate change. All credible sources point to hundreds of millions of displaced people, large swathes of land rendered inhabitable, etc. To me that's ending the world as we know it. And it's not me saying it, it's the best experts on the topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_climate_change#On_h...
Cool project, the first question that comes to my mind is, how did you succeed to have icons in a terminal application?
Kind of, but C and Python have undergone many iterations to try to become as good as they can be, while Go has lagged behind and almost prides itself on how uncomplex it is which is unfortunate only because people crave for it to be more complex. With languages like C and Python, the complexity and capability is there; it’s on you to decide when to use it. With Golang, you are just SOL.
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I think he just generally meant stop using oil for all uses for maximum carbon sequestration
The VW emissions scandal and them being forced to switch to EVs in the US as part of the settlement/punishment (which by the way was also a suggestion Elon Musk made before it happened), is probably what will save VW in the long-term.

It really started a fire underneath them that they couldn't just ignore, as most other carmakers, including VW continued to have the ingrained thinking that EVs are just a "fad" or a "niche market" that they need to address "somehow", but mostly not put a lot of effort into it.

Tesla Model 3 having 400,000 pre-orders in week 1 probably freaked out most carmakers, too, though. I'm glad VW, as well as other carmakers have realized by now that EVs are the future of the vast majority of road vehicles, and there is nothing stopping it.
.Net team is doing a lot of performance improvements recently. It is great to see such big improvements is a mature platform.
Windows did not get much attention in ARM world but with Macs moving to ARM, Windows also have a great oppurtunity.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/regex-performance-impr...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...
I never have problem hearing what is said, but I continually have to turn music down! It's almost normal to have a scene with quiet talking, then scene with really loud music, then quiet talking.

So I guess for people who don't adjust the volume throughout, either the music is way too loud or the dialogue is often inaudible. I don't get why music in movies is so often so relatively loud. Not sure if it's just US movies or not.

But mostly I watch movies/series with subtitles, in other languages than English - as a side benefit, don't even have to turn it up when planes go over!
And this story was the number 1 story on HN when I posted that comment 10 minutes ago and it has now been flagged down to number 37 and off the front page. I will repeat what I said in that thread. HN doesn't like talking about race and racism.
I’ve been thinking of something like that. One person has what? Perhaps 100 people tops that they want to keep track of in their lives? Make it less, and now you are forcing someone to actively manage who they want to keep close with. On top of that prevent re-sharing or sharing of links and pictures and you have a more personal experience. No public profiles.
It's not an unattractive piece of hardware and, by pure luck, the aesthetic will probably work well enough in my living room, but it's absolutely massive, and I have no idea where I'm going to put it.

I know it's not terribly exciting but I do wish console makers would give a little more thought to this kind of thing when designing their devices. Weird and wonderful shapes - not to mention form factors biasing toward the vertical - are all very well but, for me at least, something that's about the same size and shape as a typical hi-fi separate is a lot easier to slot in to my media centre.

Also, options on colour (which I imagine will come in this case) would be appreciated.