skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because of geographic polarization, the majority of Republicans live in communities that are majority Republican, and the majority of Democrats live in the communities that are majority Democrat. The majority of Republicans face zero social penalty for admitting their support for Trump because most of their friends, family, neighbors and coworkers are also voting for Trump. The 0.1% of Trump voters who live in Silicon Valley are wildly overrepresented on HN, which is why you see so many people whining about being too oppressed by their lefty coworkers to admit that they are Trump supporters, but that is not representative of the actual lived experience of most Trump voters.
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They're infrequent, but they do add up over the years. You're probably picturing stranger assaults, but actually drunk and/or angry friends (more usually, "friends") and family are responsible for a good portion of said experiences. It'a rare that I'm the target, but I stand up for folks and generally step in when people I love are about to do something they'll regret.

And then there's the transgender thing -- I've experienced a big uptick in unwanted attention from the public, ever since I came out. Not just a "bad neighborhood" thing, I've had a dude try to follow me home in a sleepy burb, too.
Being a minority in fancy coding land: a Windows user
And Worst MCU SDKs
Wilderness cooking hackers. I can’t decide whether I think this is OK or not.
MacBooks and PowerBooks before them where about that 5% of power users who fell in love with their tools and preached to all their friends and family to get one too.

Now that apple has the remaining 95%, it is letting their power users down. But that is only natural, establishing a beachhead with the powerusers was "just" a genious marketing move that worked pretty well.
> How much difference could 8 to 16gb be in terms of price?

The RAM is embedded into the SoC. Maybe the 8GB are salvaged chips where half of the memory is unusable?
What does physical violence have to do with the success of your son?
It would greatly enhance the corrosive effects of lobbyists. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/01/18/five-reason...

If you want to make Congress more effective, pay them and their staffers as much (or more) than they'd make in the private sector. https://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/documents/keeping_cong...
> In fact, most of us have caustic responses to per unit pricing, often to the point of irrationality (e.g. $40 for 35 loads of laundry detergent v. $1.00 per load). Amazon Prime is based on the need to get shipping fees out of the way once, versus fight them over and over and over and over, even if the effective shipping cost

Huh? I consider both of these to be examples of volume discounts: in exchange for committing up front to a higher number of washer loads or shipments, I get a better per-unit price.

One of the biggest things that bugs be with subscriptions is they often don't provide this value, and in fact cost more than I'd normally spend.

Take toothbrushes: the first service I found has a $40/yr plan. For my wife and I, I usually pick up a pack of heads for electric toothbrushes at Costco when I see them on sale and can't remember the last time I bought some - this generally works out to about every 1 to 1.5 years, costing around $10/year each. Does the cognitive burden of bit having to remember justify and extra $60/yr? For me, no.
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Why are your daughters better off financially? This is against what I'd expect, so I'm truly curious.
Who should they be applying it to that they're not?
Do you mean traits rather than treats?
Seems that Mint also inherited this vulnerability.
I don't know about the new model but the 2018/2020 MacMini does have upgradeable memory.
An ENT doctor recently told me antibiotics don't cause tinnitus.

The doctor at the covid plasma donation center sent my wife home because her clearly labeled "positive" (1.4 threshold, my wife's result was 4.9, but the doctor wanted a minimum of "80") test was too low for plasma donation -- it was not, the doctor was talking about a different quantitative test. After 8 months of people donating covid plasma, this doctor had no clue. It makes my blood boil thinking how many other people didn't donate plasma because of this idiot-- I sent my wife back and told her to make a big fuss and ask for another doctor, who actually explained the idiot doctor my wife can absolutely donate plasma, they just ran different kind of tests, and my wife's test result was more than likely meeting their own required antibody levels.

This was not a medical issue, it was a common sense issue -- if her test had a positive threshold level of 1.4 and she had a 4.9 result, how could this doctor not realize something was wrong with her requiring a value of "80". Did she actually think that only Chuck Norris can donate covid plasma?

My psychiatrist bullshitted me about the mechanism of action of some meds she was prescribing (I knew because I looked them up as treatment options beforehand) -- she did prescribe the "correct" medicine as far as I remember, but she just did not know the correct mechanism of action.

The infectious dissease specialist in my hospital stay for COVID-19 told me the hydroxychloroquine she was giving me was a proven anti-viral medication that worked really well in their national acclaimed hospital. Again, she was really clueless, she was just following protocol, she could at least have shut her mouth if she was clueless.
They only gave hydroxychloroquine to otherwise healthy individuals because or cardiac issues the medicine was known to cause, OF COURSE those patients had really good outcomes, they were otherwise healthy, young individuals.

My wife is a dentist, she really likes her surgeon boss and his approach of telling patients the true odds of success of certain procedures and what to realistically expect out of them. But a lot of patients don't like that. They want to hear the doctor has a 100% success rate with every procedure and that all his dental implants last a lifetime.

So part of the problem is the public that will choose a lying, perhaps clueless doctor with a god complex above an honest doctor that really knows his stuff and is honest and upfront with his patients.
For anyone interested in the concept of aria selectors: I created a pure JS implementation a while back: https://github.com/xi/aria-api/
> Can pure DNS site filtering really work these days? I have to imagine more and more of the internet is behind cloudflare / cloudfront / etc, and you probably can't block/grant access to a single site without catching a bunch of unrelated ones as well.

You're thinking about IP filtering. When site is behind Cloudflare/Cloudfront/... it _may_ share an IP with some other site, but it will most probably have a distinct DNS name that can be filtered upon during DNS resolution.

pi-hole/nextdns do this quite successfully for adblocking on network layer.
Yes I am saying that a Surface / Surface Pro is fine for most people - and that given the option of adding 8 cores or 8 hours of battery life most people will take the battery life.

Saying that you'll probably have a power supply nearby is fine - except for the cases when you don't - I can't count the cases when I've seen people scrambling to find power in a meeting and it's a pain and embarassing. People will take avoiding that over cores they don't need.
I thought this was going to be about Tartaria :)
> Are you suggesting that in the year 2030 we should expect 100gb of RAM?

100GB sounds like paltry for 10 years of technological advancement. In 2010 DDR4 didn't exist yet and DDR3 only supported up to 16GB per ram stick (8 on Intel at the time). Now we have ram sticks with capacities up to 256GB. The 2010 MacBook Pro only came with 4GB! But really "640K ought to be enough for anybody", am I right?
> 6 * 8 * 1024 * 1024 * <total_mb> is a big number.

No, when your chip has many billions of transistors that’s not a big number. For 1 mb that’s about 0.2%, a tiny number, also when multiplied with 1.85.

Next the argument is that x64 chips are better because they have less cache while before the Apple chips couldn’t compete because Intel had more. That doesn’t make sense. And how are you drawing conclusions on the design and performance of a chip that’s not even on the market yet anyway?
It's not like it's impossible to make the 737 Max safe but the problem is that Boeing took shortcuts and how can we trust them to not have taken shortcuts again?
Of course. However, I’m not sure this will achieve the desired speedup, because part of Resharper still needs to run in-process to integrate with Visual Studio. And it integrates a lot. And I’m sure at least some of the APIs it uses are actually not asynchronous. So, only limited room for improvement.
More females go to the university these days, and according to OECD reports girls received higher marks than boys for identical work (the deck is stacked against boys from the outset). [1] Then they're more likely to go to jail and more likely to get a higher sentence for an identical crime.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672
Toothbrushes should have tiny removable heads, containing essentially only the bristles, which slide in and you replace when you need a new one. Definitely for the Sonicare type. Maybe even for all toothbrushes. This approach would reduce their cost even further and reduce more waste in landfills, but I guess they want to make money and I'd expect the bristles only to be priced at like $1. The rest is just plastic but when it's a "toothbrush" they can charge $10 for it but I want the cartridge for 10 dollars for 10 refills, or cheaper.

I mean, some people might like subscribing for soap and stuff, maybe they actually track how often they need to replace it. I bought some of those razors from a subscription service and they send shampoo and I realized I probably don't run out of a bottle more than once per year. I think the large bottles have lasted me as long as 5 years.
I just want to say I love this community and am grateful for the heroic work Daniel (dang) and others have devoted through the years to maintain it, both technical and social.

The article showcased some of the more extreme comments out of what I've found to be, overall, a cornucopia of informative and thoughtful discourse.

This quote in particular was poignant and I think epitomizes a core value that makes this place special:

There’s often a strong wish to solve these contentious problems by changing the software, and, to the extent that we’ve tried things like that, we haven’t found it to work. What does seem to work better is personal interaction, over and over and over again, with individual users. That, case by case by case, seems to move the needle.
IFR is simply the percentage of those infected who die. Lifting the restrictions might cause more deaths, but it wouldn't change the IFR.
It starts to get really painful once they cut to Craig Federighi. Those are Zuckerberg levels of uncanny valley.
It's sadly being flung around as a bad argument against async in general though, even when it doesn't apply (e.g. in languages that can use an async function from a non-async function).
One of the first things I'd throw out is binary compatibility. Making it source-compatible at the assembly level would be enough and would free a lot of possibilities that being attached to old code wouldn't.
There’s a fairly significant performance difference between Apple’s new cores and the Pi 4’s A72s.

If you ignore that and the high-end display, touchpad, and keyboard, then I suppose it’s not too far off from a Pi in a fancy case, but then you could say the same for any laptop.
Do you have any plans for supporting versioned time series? As in "show me the time series as it was on 2020-11-11-08T:00:00:00Z"? Most of our time series are forecasts that change over time and that would be super helpful.

Anyway, thanks for your work!
You can also write Elixir/BEAM NIF extensions in Nim and Zig as well using Nimler or Zigler, resp [1,2]. Also I’ve found writing native extensions for the BEAM is simpler than many other dynamic languages since it relies on immutable data. It’s roughly the same as just a function to deserialize/serialize data with some extra references to GC’ed data. Especially with dirty “NIF”s (they allow the functions to run for as long as they want without messing up the BEAM scheduler).

1: https://github.com/wltsmrz/nimler
2: https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler
The thing that makes me fairly bullish on this transition is these are the low end devices. It will be interesting to see what they replace the 16" MacBook Pro, iMacs and Mac Pros with.
> I understand lived experience and how it impacts a person's ability to speak on a matter.

I don’t. „Lived experience“ is just experience, but woke.
At least you didn't have to call them and wait on hold, like many services were until recently (maybe still are).

When I realized I paid for SiriusXM on a car that I had totaled 18 months prior, boy, that was a hell of a phone call. In their defense, they did refund me the price I paid (maybe completely - can't remember) since the device went in-active, and they could see that it was not used since date mm/yy , September 2013, for example.
This will sound tongue in cheek, but presumably, if a boy is allowed to beat other boys, then he feels better about school. I had the "opportunity" to watch how fighting and being rough played out in class where my daughter was. There were like two boys who attacked other boys, verbally or physically.

Majority of boys were unhappy about the situation, did not liked being insulted or pushed or being attacked. Their parents complained about issue, because their boys stopped liking going to school for that reason.

I really don't think the solution should be "boys are boys and therefore more aggressive one should be allowed to attack other boys". That literally harms boys that done nothing wrong. The thing about "boys fighting among themselves" is that pretty often, it is not consensual, it is one boy attacking another.
Sincere thanks to Ugur Sahin and Oezlem Tuereci for their dedication, hard work and incredible achievement.
Apple being Apple, we won't know much before someone grinds down a couple chips to reveal what the interconnections are, but if you are feeding GPUs along with CPUs, a wider memory bus between DRAM and the SoC cache makes a lot of sense.
According to the Stackoverflow Survey 2019, 45% use Windows, 29% use MacOS, 25% use GNU+Linux
That used to be kind of true, but if you're using encrypted filesystems and such it becomes much harder, at least for your average hacker/criminal to get something useful off the system.
The iPhone has a very smooth process of upgrading the phone. You turn on the new iPhone next to your old one, it prompts and voila. It's like upgrading hardware of your current phone.

I'm unsure if we're at a point where these things are even feasible. e.g I have configured my MBP a lot, the .zsh file, home directory and endless configuration.

I would not be surprised if they ditch the kernal completely, and make everything an App (much like chromebook)
“that they worked on a go program that works five years later (which language does this not apply to). ??? ”

Doesn’t apply to most that I’ve used. Java, JavaScript, Ruby, python, PHP.
...or maybe it’s important feedback? Why immediately assume malevolence or ill-intent?
Well they should be worried about their daughters too. Being a "successful" single woman is not a fulfilling path for the vast majority of women [1]. Most of them will want children and a physical human male [0] to care for them, not the government.

Feminism is equal opportunity. It's bad for everyone.

[0] I initially wrote a trigger word here, "real man".

[1] Here's a top HN article from a "successful woman" showing how unhappy it makes them: https://tracy.posthaven.com/reflections-on-being-a-female-fo...
The performance of the phones seem to be smooth compared to Android phones with similar ( or more) RAM. The difference comes from vertical optimization, so the raw numbers on RAM would not give us a full picture.
Many things will probably work fine. Would be interesting to know what will not work, or work less smoothly.

Things requiring exotic drivers could be such a thing.
I'm not sure what accident you are talking about but the MCAS in the 737 Max overrode pilot input. The real problem was that pilots did not know that the MCAS existed, nor did they know how to disable it.
It's interesting that left leaning people are worried less about boys in general, but when it comes to their own sons, are more worried about boys. I suspect that this has something to do with gender politics, which most prominently falls within the sphere of the left wing, predominantly focusing on issues affecting women. It makes sense that if you're tuned into spheres primarily amplifying issues impacting women, and not men, that you would assume that your own son's issues aren't necessarily representative of the population at large.

Over 60% of college graduates are women, and up until the age that many women choose to have a family (early 30s), women actually out-earn men. There's nothing wrong with either of those things, but certain models in our collective understanding of society need to be more cognizant of these facts, among others. People that speak about the problems with the way we conceptualize gender issues, people like Warren Farrell, Karen Straughan, Janice Fiamengo, and Christina Hoff-Sommers, actually face an embarrassing amount of vitriol from institutions, when invited to speak on these topics.
This comment reminds me of the classic "640K ought to be enough for anybody" quote.
The new raspberry pi 400 ?
Not OP but there was something centering about beating the shit out each other as kids. As long as you didn’t break anything or end up in the hospital it just was let be.

I’m sure if we had a PS4 or sweet gaming rig and the Internet it would have been different, but we didn’t so...

(Edit to watwut’s point this wasn’t bullying. We actually didn’t have a ton of that)
You also have to understand that shoving async down our throats is part of the philosophy of how aspnet core and kestrel (built ontop of libuv) is implemented: the whole stack is built to run async and with DI in mind. aspnet core itself uses the same DI system to manage itself.

No part of aspnet core is built to run synchronous. Its all async all the way down.
At a glance, they look pretty good to me. If I had taken notes of that quality when I was a graduate student in mathematics forty years ago, maybe I would have become a mathematician after all.
that's kind of sad if you really think about it.
right - since google is well know for its privacy and telling the truth.
These HR problems have a negative influence on the quality of the work.

To me it looks like "killing the messenger". Listeners want the most accurate data irrespective of the fact that some unknowns can be controlled for or not.

Furthermore to respond to the culture war that you brought up, I think Shor's theory fits my personal experience that some people stopped stating their political opinion in the open. So it is on topic.

That may very well be due to "HR" being a problem or those that play HR on public platforms. The explanation might be correct or wrong, it might resonate with people or not.

Your comment is just a data point here.
I agree with you that the whole society have changed the framing of what is right and wrong in a way that is beneficial for women. If one look at the news nearly all the victims are women and all the perpetrators menn. Earlier this was somewhat balanced that most of the success people on tv was men but these days there is gender parity or more women in these positions as experts/politicians.
More single parent homes which in most cases means children living with their mother, means fewer male role models especially when in kindergarten and primary school is mostly women. This also affect the other children since the framing of the world is more "feminist" and children try to fit in as well as possible with other children.
I believe with seteuid the process can temporarily assume the uid of the user in question and later restore the original uid.
Nobody is suggesting the system is good.

Your question is about the current process though, and the answer is if you really do not have access to a room with internet that you can use for a couple of hours, the best thing you can do is to contact your school and see what arrangements can be made to accommodate you.
Putting a person in prison for life for three separate shop-lifting sentences is inhuman (just an example I thought of myself right now but I'm pretty sure it's real).
iMac as well.

Also, the previous Mac Mini has 64G max memory and not the laughable 16G.
A very odd choice...to create the heat equivalent to deliver the electricity, you need to use a lot more energy just to...convert it back to heat. Chances are, even if you are in SF, that electricity came from fossil fuels which is completely the opposite effect of what they intend for the original law. It's much more environmentally friendly to let all heat purpose around the house to be natural gas.
Can't you just have another time key?
church culture likes to make buildings (and fantastic ideas) gigantic and super powerful whilst individuals are thought of as small and insignificant and devious and vicious. of course this is not the way the church hierarchy regards itself, but this is the style they will impose for their "art" as a form of propaganda, to push their narratives.
https://xroom.app/
Fun thing about classes. I've had the opportunity to spar with people twice my size. I bounce off them. No, it is not rational to put hope in a method that has no chance of success, unless failure is certain death. Sometimes, the best that training can do is teach you when to accept defeat if that will minimize harm.
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Sounds like they were bullying the other kids.

I've never been a fan of violence but as a kid I loved playing rough, especially wrestling and these days enjoy a bit of a judo; but have zero desire to get into a pub brawl. When it comes to kids I think people confuse unwanted and mutual roughhousing.
>there is no correlation between when a Dem condemned violent protest and whether they won their election

Even assuming this unsupported claim is true, it's not necessarily relevant because correlation isn't the same as causation. For example, it could be that Dems are pretty good at reading their local electorate, and left-leaning areas are more tolerant of violent protest in the name of left causes. So Dems in lefty areas did not condemn violence, whereas Dems in swing areas did condemn violence. If this was true, ceteris paribus you would expect Dems who condemn violence to be more likely to lose, just because they're running more competitive races.

BTW, I think people are unfortunately quite tribal nowadays, and tend to assume that extremists have control of the other side even if that's not the case. And disavowing extremists is only partially effective at changing that perception. Think about it--how much have Trump's many disavowals of the far right shifted your perception that he's in bed with them? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd0cMmBvqWc Probably not much.

>So either that’s not actually the critical factor, or it’s not possible to control for this factor in any sort of reliable way.

One failed attempt doesn't mean that something can't be done.
Perhaps they're shorter modules than usual? That does seem pretty intense to me
Less lazy, more realistic, more willing to explore different opportunities. (At least that's the general case for women vs men in my family/friends circles)