skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it shouldn't have come as a surprise, but as someone who considers themselves mostly introverted, it took me a good month or two to realize how much I miss meeting strangers.

It might have to do with where I was raised, or maybe I'm just more extroverted than I think, but these days the two things I really miss most are 1) regularly seeing friends who aren't my absolute closest circle and 2) small, casual interactions with total strangers (but that are slightly more than "that'll be $7.62"). The second has recently started to weigh on me more; maybe that's why I write a lot on HN/reddit :D
Hm, not sure. We can easily resolve the structural detail within each grid, so does our brain just interpolate for colour? I wonder would a green grid on the sky make us perceive a green sky, or do we interpolate it here because we know the sky should be blue.
Like so many hot topics today, it appears to be a pipeline problem. See USA's Department of Health and Human Services statistics (kind of old data is all I could find):

https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/adoption-usa-chartbook-based-200...

Coupled with fertility rate data by USA's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which vary wildly by race:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_01-508.pdf

When the majority of kids up for adoption are non-white, and the majority of adult people are white, and the group that has the lowest fertility rate is also white, this seems like the perfectly expected and boring result...

But of course, data is like wolfsbane to professional umbrage takers, and is easily ignored.
What's the pricing structure look like?
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

They’re also much more common in locations with indoor plumbing. Maybe we’re on to something here.
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Even then it's wasting my time. The "17 days ago" is basically never what I want.
> It works really well.

The Weimar Republic did have hate speech laws, that were vigorously enforced and similar in spirit to modern-day Germany's laws.[1] Not only did that fail to stop the rise of the Nazi party, but the legal machinery was actively co-opted post-1933 to censor anti-Nazi groups.

In contrast, in the 1930s the most ardent pro-free-speech countries were the America and Britain. (Contemporary British hate speech laws not being created until well after the war.) Yet unlike almost all of continental Europe, any nascent fascist movements in the US or UK remained extreme fringe groups that never gained any political traction.

The historical record is pretty clear. At best hate speech laws, do nothing to disarm extremist groups. America's 250 year history of free speech absolutism, with virtually no extremist groups gaining widespread traction is evidence of this. At worse hate speech laws are a dangerous single-point of failure for liberal democracy.

[1] https://www.cato.org/policy-report/mayjune-2015/war-free-exp...
I'd say that for most bugs there is a fairly clear right/wrong rather than a social construction.

This bug contains both, I think. The correct result for round(5.5) is arbitrary. The reason that 6.0 is the correct answer is "merely" because that is what the IEEE standard says. That standard could have been different (round-to-nearest odd), but there is value in not lightly ignoring an existing standard.

Other cases are more clear cut. ceil(1e-10) should return 1. This seems non-controversial since ceil is defined as rounding up. Any number greater than zero and less than or equal to one should return one. And yet, some of the algorithms would return zero. That was probably the most serious of the errors.

How serious the errors are depends on how the functions are used, but I think they were all promoted as general-purpose-replacements so they could have ended up being used anywhere.
There are no new coal plants being built in the US.
Comcast ran out of RFC1918 addressing to manage all the devices on their network (think cable modems/set top boxes/routers/everything) and had a massively segmented network setup.

They rolled out IPv6 because it flattened that network again, and instead of worrying about being in the right segment for reachability everything now gets a globally unique IP address. It massively simplified their internal management.
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Also, gay guys exist and party quite a lot.
nothing can be encrypted on amprnet?
Data also shows African Americans to murder more than white people.
Not noted in the article that usage of car share, hotel rooms, and parks are all already highly correlated with local conventions for work holidays.

Sure, you can get an easy car share 95% of the time, but the 5% of the time that you actually need one is also the same 5% of the time that everyone else in the city needs one -- the long weekend when everybody wants to head out to the countryside. Likewise hotel rooms and the facilities in parks. So you may need to plan waaaaaaaaay ahead if you depend on access to these shared resources.
> Those things you worry about are already illegal.

This is where free speech absolutists lose me. They say that all speech should be protected and as soon as they find an exception that is just labeled "not speech". Why then can't we use a definition of "not speech" that includes Blood Libel?
Free speech simply does not exist in a number of (perhaps any?) European countries.
I go back and forth on WFH. The two biggest pros are I have an extra 90 minutes that I used to use commuting that I can now spend on myself or with my family. Additionally I do not miss the open office at all. My home office is quiet and calm. I can focus for a lot longer than I could at the office.

The biggest downsides are a lack of human interaction with my coworkers. I've gotten used to Zoom meetings but they just aren't the same. I also miss the organic hallway conversations. Instead of running into someone while grabbing coffee or water I now have to go out of my way to book time with people. Its totally changed how I interact with people beyond my immediate group.

I suspect I'll WFH for as long as possible while going in a few times a month to socialize.
I wonder if that may be intentional so that when people to litigate it, it's going to be pretty obvious and leave very little room for doubt.
I wonder if a self-healing mesh network would make more sense... just set up a mesh that readjusts for satellites going in and out of range...
This is awesome. Thanks mods for rolling this out.
> recall the Hispanic utility company employee who was terminated for making the 'ok' sign inadvertently or the data scientist who was terminated for Tweeting a prominent black academic's research on the efficacy of nonviolent protests or the journalist who was harassed by coworkers and nearly terminated for interviewing a black man who expressed concern about crime in his neighborhood

Which of these are things an employer would reasonably fire an employee over? I don't think any reasonable person would believe that these people would have been fired if it weren't for the concerted canceling. Otherwise why would people bother petitioning the employer if the employer would have fired them anyway?

Moreover, do cancel-culture proponents really want to cement the precedent that employment is just an ordinary association, and that anyone's employment (and thus livelihood and health insurance) can be terminated on the whims of their employer? Would they feel comfortable allowing a Trump-voting employer to casually part ways with an employee upon finding out they support Biden? Bear in mind that you and I and those we know are probably much more likely to be in high-demand tech positions than the median American.
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> American societies, in general, is much more violent.

I disagree with this assertion. It's very hard to generalize this type of property; really the only way is to use some type of normalized data, and that faces the problem which plagues all generalization, in that it doesn't apply to large swaths of what is being generalized across. I think that Detroit is a violent place, and if you generalize across all of Michigan, you'll see Detroit isn't representational.

There are some places in the US, mostly in dense urban areas, where gang and organized criminal violence is a problem. These places need to have well armed violent response units. Cops should not be engaging every situation in these places as if they are all extreme violence situations, but in the case that there are people shooting at other people, call on those violent response units.
i grew up in a rural area and appreciated the freedoms that entailed, but in no way is that the only, or best, way to develop independence in children.

what you're describing is more an indictment of poor risk assessment, that parents are paranoid and over-protective for no good reason, than some inherent difference of rural vs urban living. crime is not a serious concern anywhere, just like getting eaten by a bear is not a serious concern anywhere.
Are you surprised given how the space he's in trains him to put out material like this (and actually think like this)?
I used to think such things, then Ballmer left and they dropped IE like a rock, and started renting Linux on Azure. Apple had made it cool to reinvent a company every ten years, and shown it to be potentially more profitable.

Don't forget, it was a long time ago but MS used to be quite cross-platform. My Commodore featured their BASIC "OS". They could be again.
Will it happen today? Of course not. But it's not hard to imagine ten years in the future where NT is creaking from under-investment and finally abandoned in favor of much cheaper WINE/VM or ReactOS support. Operating systems and tools are now a commodity.
A cursory search reveals your characterization to be inaccurate. Note: I had no real interest in this topic until I read your critique which just sounded totally outlandish to me. The ONLY people complaining about this limitation are people with terrible motives? No legitimate philosophers, political scientists, free speech activists exist with valid critiques? They're all just evil historical revisionists, eh? Doubtful...

Sure enough, plenty of well-reasoned critiques exist from Jewish groups, Noam Chomsky (hardly an anti-Semite), Christopher Hitchens, and others.
I didn't say they were all rear-facing. lisper asked "Why couldn't you put a car seat in the front passenger seat of a two-seater?" I don't know anything about safety of front-facing or booster seats for kids in front seats. But I think my response was a reasonable answer/example of when you wouldn't want to put a car seat in the front passenger seat.
If you replace “Holocaust denial” with “spam”, we would be having a very, very different conversation here on hacker news.

Why do some folks think removing spam is ok, but not content the owner of the publishing platform finds abhorrent?
The points are all valid, and grey-balling content like this is a common pattern to prevent abuse; if it is clearly deleted, it will just be re-posted.

That being said, I'm not sure I understand the destruction of evidence concern... are we to believe that Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc ever actually delete anything? Even if it's totally removed from Facebook externally, I have 0 doubts that Facebook could product the content if required.
> Moreover, he championed Microsoft's worrying new Virtual Commute feature, which asks participants to consider what they want to accomplish that day. And then asks them to fill out a questionnaire at the end of the day. (A little tiresome, surely.)

This is a terrible way to measure loss of productivity if you weren't doing this before the pandemic. Numerous times I've missed my day's targets because something came up or one of the task was more difficult than I expected is too high to count, remote and in office.

I know I'm being pessimistic, but this sounds like a way to micromanage your employees and build plausible deniability to fire whoever you want whenever you feel like it.
Haha, a few years back? That tweet about the stranded car is from February. I blame you zero percent for perceiving it as such though...
> I mean, it's just how our eye+brain work

That's what optical illusions are
> So what motivates people to plan for occasional peaks and idealized usage, rather than actual daily utilization?

The question presupposes the answer.

I fondly remember being a kid and riding around in the van-with-a-tv owned by the family who for whatever reason enjoyed being the family who drove the van-with-a-tv filled with their kids with all their kids' screaming friends.

You don't want to be that family, and that's fine. But you should be explicit in stating you don't want to be and are not that family. Don't convince yourself you could rent that minivan in the case that it becomes socially necessary at some unspecified time in the future. Everyone in your life has almost certainly already heard you quote your statistics from the article, and they have adjusted accordingly so as to route around you-- for example, when they decide how to vectorize transport of their offspring.
The tech shows up in another Ferrari. God damn, nice company car! Obviously a loaner because the tech flew in from another city, but damn!

Edit: Oops, that's probably the tech in the bricked Ferrari, not in his company car.
While this is a clever hack, it's brittle (as the article points out), with too many cases where it doesn't work right. It's just not going to be maintainable.

Overloading in C++ needs to be done sparingly so the compiler doesn't run into multiple possible conversions, which result in complex and confusing error messages.
From your comment we don't actually know at all what we're (or rather, you) are 'talking about'. Asides from you about what these people are really like, whoever they are, don't amount to a salient point. Perhaps you can give an example instead.
You can’t maintain a cluster of things in orbit without actively expending propellent. At best you can have either a long line of cube sats in the exact same orbit, or so many of them in different orbits that you can always communicate between orbits.
The GP established there are legitimate conversations being had about aspects of the Holocaust that do not deny that it happened. This is a nuance that sets a precedent for other discussions of controversial topics. I think it’s important that common people understand the difference between Denial, Revisionism, and legitimate debate, and have a way of discovering this information without being lumped in with antisemites

I somewhat agree that it doesn’t “need” to happen on Facebook, and I think it’s OK to stake that out as a rule: Don’t debate anything about the Holocaust on Facebook, take it elsewhere. Meet with your history buff friends on Telegram and hash it out.
Ask HN: What are fastest paths to financial success?
> At Digg, one mentor gave me the savvy advice that the fastest path to financial success was working for four years at three different just-about-to-IPO companies. A surefire way to retire by forty. (This is, for the record, pretty good advice.)

https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/

What are other fastest paths to financial success? Currently am a software engineer, so looking for advice in this career choice.
Thank you for your work here! Not only is the info displayed handy (having several useful items all on a single page), but it brought a nice smile to my face! Kudos!
My grandparent's families were mostly wiped out. We lost over 300 on my Dad's side, and there's no number for how many we lost on my Mom's side - everyone was killed. I grew up listening to my Grandmother screaming when she had panic attacks and night terrors, and the stories we heard were horrific. I'm so so glad that Facebook has done this. Maybe it hurts freedom of speech, and maybe it's overreach - I don't know - those are large and complex subjects. From the subjective point of view, it just makes me happy that they are putting a stop to it.
The author has other articles about how he's taught his children how to use the bus on their own to get around, and how they ride it to school daily. The "take the kids to school" use case isn't true for everyone, and I feel like people are also missing the point of the article.

You're supposed to analyze for yourself if you need to own a car full-time, and if the answer is yes, perhaps a smaller one might do? If you're constantly shuttling large groups around, then the answer to both might be yes, and that's fine too.
Censorship in the form of moderation often makes sense for businesses seeking to maintain their properties. If I run a forum for car enthusiasts, I should be able to curate the community and limit discussions on locomotives.

But what of the platforms that make my forum possible? The Cloudflares the protect from DDoS, the DigitalOceans that provide the servers, the ISPs that provide transit, the Facebooks that provide social media support? Should they have the freedom to decide they don't like my forum and kick me off? I've come to believe that the more general purpose a service is and the more communication it controls, the more harmful the business's freedom to censor is for a free society.
This is definitely satire. It took me until the "interviews must be six hours" before I realized it. Well done.
I mean death threats are clearly the line. That’s not the issue at hand though.

Death threats are already banned from facebook unless their against celebrities / politicians - which to me is a weird distinction to make.
Windows backwards compatibility is shite. It's so shite that Wine on Linux has better Windows compatibility then Windows itself.
I wonder why they can't just take the Android approach and let each .exe define an API level that it wants to have, and then never change how that version of the API behaves, just release new versions and let apps update their code on their own schedule. I feel like they shouldn't be knee-deep in patches if they do that ... but I'm not familiar with Windows development at all.
Auction theory is excellent at predicting how other economists also using auction theory will behave.
> censorship actually protects freedom of speech

I believe it does. And I don’t believe it’s a dishonest argument.

But I sincerely respect your position (to use the cliché: I understand where you’re coming from...). And I agree to disagree.

Will you agree to disagree with me, though?
I genuinely can't tell if this is satire or not.

Yes people died for the right (yes, the right not the duty) to vote, and? People die for a lot of things, is it an argument that makes these things automatically vertuous?

> Refusing to vote is no longer a viable means of protest, no longer the smart-arsed thing to do; it’s just a wasted opportunity.

So what is a viable mean to protest? The post itself mentions that elections are most likely rigged, that all candidates are equally despicable. So what is one supposed to do to express disagreement with the current system?

Furthermore, there is a false equivalence here between "vote", "election" and "democracy". These don't automatically go together.

Anyway, the style makes it too hard to understand if the author believes their own writing, or if it's just mockery.
Do you buy car insurance by the hour?
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Generally ambiguity leaves more, not less room for doubt, but IANAL.
Agreed. But doing SIMD optimizations could quickly become 2-3 weeks project for me just for one platform. Adding NEON would be another 1 or 2 weeks. Need much more dedication I guess.

Your work on simdjson is awesome! Thanks for saving the world so much unnecessary power consumptions :)
It is amusing that you propose the vigorous use of force (“Ban Them. All of them. Today”) to eliminate voices you deem fascist. If you feel this strongly about the harm of holocaust denial, have you considered working to convince people the holocaust did in fact happen? It’s pretty easy—-plenty of evidence exists to suggest it happened and all attempts I’ve encountered of people make a case otherwise have been debunked. I guess it’s not worth the effort to actually talk to people though, easier to just convince someone they’re wrong by threat of force.
You're right, but the market isn't the same as when horses were the primary means of transportation and (literal) horsepower. Horses are a hobby for rich people. My comment was kind of a throwaway but I have seen articles that of course there will still be gasoline cars once EVs (and possible AVs) have taken over. But you won't commute in one, the same way you don't commute by horse anymore. They'll be expensive toys that you take out on weekends to enjoy. And everyone that has one will also have an EV for everyday use - the same way everyone (in the first world) with a horse also has a car.
Let's hope no IoT company is stupid enough to send customer data over this. Stuff like LoRa is very popular these days, but they are low bandwidth. Would not be surprising if a company decides that MVNO providers are too expensive and rolls their own communications infrastructure.
I think the people disagreeing with this greatly overestimate what is actually contained in a library like Redux. An entire ecosystem sprang up around it and most of it is completely unnecessary and overly complex. The base library itself is almost nothing at all and should not be hard for anyone with experience to independently create.
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Disk storage for the WAL and periodic checkpoints can get you sub-second recovery targets easily.

Ninja edit: or a UPS and a shutdown procedure triggered by it that writes the database to disk. You can write 100GB in a couple minutes over a 10Gbps network. Faster to a local SSD.