skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if a house is burning and you have the fire extinguisher, you don’t get to be neutral buddy

you run a company and tell people they will feel included and then they face discrimination... well your house is on fire, you are the leadership and decide not to use you position to do anything

but yeah let’s make it zero sum and say that looking after the investor means that we can treat black people with some decency

BS
It's the number to eventually end the largest restrictions but keeping it low was always going to require either continued light lockdown or a large monitoring project to catch and quarantine random popup cases like China is doing. Just recently in the US I've only had two places doing temperature checks which is wild to me at this point, it was the local courthouse and a random artists collective store I was visiting.
well, the software industry is filled with non-software engineers. and if you go with the revenue angle, what do you do with companies that don't produce "value" (i.e. product doesn't sell)?
I look forward to seeing your open-source library that does this. :)
While I appreciate the humor, the crowd here doesn't typically take to it. To answer your question - I do not have much knowledge of available solar energy on the moon versus the Earth, but I think it's safe to assume it would be much less impeded on the moon than on Earth, which has an atmosphere, magnetosphere, and ozone layer at the very least getting in the way of solar rays.
They also seem to have added video codec decoders, because it can run 8k timelines pretty well in final cut. 4k without dropping frames even on the macbook air.
Cross-Service Music Downloader
I built a service-agnostic music downloader earlier this year and have rigorously been testing it for the past few months and it performs really well, looking for feedback.
Apologies in advance if this sounds excessively rude, but I'm not asking for anything as there's noone to actually ask to, I'm asking about that.

That distinction matters, since I personally find it easier to derive enthusiasm from concrete, tangible tools that may prevent the entire species as a thing from dying choked in a toxic miasma of our own creation than from the purely numeric advances in our grasp of the rules of a universe we're basically guests in.
Who cares? Total scamdemic. Virus is not dangerous. Open up society and stop reporting the number.
I'm wrapping up my second to last class for Georgia Tech's OMSCS. Here are some thoughts from my experience in no particular order:

- The program is suppose to be the same as on-campus, so the degree is the same (MS).

- It's dirt cheap as far as master's degrees go. My employer is paying 2/3, so that sweetens the deal even more.

- Since it's online and inexpensive, the program is growing a lot. I think in a few years it would be safe to assume that if someone has an MSCS from GT that it was obtained online.

- I've learned a lot of things that I wouldn't have otherwise been exposed to.

- The workload hasn't been bad, but it definitely can be if you're not somewhat familiar with C, C++, and Python since most of the classes are project based. The workload exceptions have been ML and RL which are pretty time consuming. For context, I work full-time and have two toddlers.

- I honestly don't think the online program is the same as on-campus. Maybe the topics are the same, but I very rarely had to study anything outside of the lecture videos, which are almost always very high-level, and the classes have been much less rigorous than my undergraduate classes (from a different university). Additionally, the online demographic is substantially different than on-campus (I imagine anyway). I think this translates to less stimulating discussion and larger grade curves.

- Expanding on the previous thought, the program has definitely been a "what you put in is what you get out" type of thing. You can coast and still get decent grades, so getting the most out of the program requires some discipline to study stuff that isn't required to get the A.

- There is almost no interaction with the professors, but there is an instructor and TAs for each class who may or may not be helpful in answering your questions.

I'm glad I did the OMSCS program overall. I wish that I had the opportunity to get a master's in-person at a top school, but I don't want to quit my job, move, or pay out the nose, so I'll take what I can get. I don't think that the degree will result in higher compensation, but I've thought about maybe one day teaching at a community college or something like that and I figured I'd get the credential just in case.

I honestly don't think very many, if any, employers will care about the ranking of the school you got a course-based master's degree from. I think it matters more if you're doing a thesis based master's and want to do research.
I agree. A few years ago, I read “The Conquest of Happiness” by B. Russell, and he made a compelling argument that living a boring life may be a prerequisite for great work in certain fields. One can imagine that in 500 years, we’ll still talk about results from Terry Tao—who I suspect is boring and conventional in many ways—while totally forgetting the work of exciting and controversial thinkers today.
> bullets made of ice

This was one of the topics on the very first episode of Mythbusters:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6pcm0l
Well sure, POWER7 implemented a strong-ordering mode specifically for x86 emulation a decade ago [1]

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=121382852909406&w=2
The arguments you mention have been done to death already online.
I’ve never been so angry in my life as when I was chugging up a hill in lower gear just to have some lady in her office skirt blow past me, Louis Vuitton bag in her side saddle. I get the animosity. But kudos to her! I hope she’s still blasting past idiots like me!
The htmx site uses htmx:

https://htmx.org

All link clicks are ajax'd via the hx-boost attribute:

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-boost/
Interesting. Does this also work with the Mac version of MS One Note?
Typically it would be a rotation (or torque, if we're talking load force/torque cells).
Swiss vote on making firms liable for rights abuse
We have a few customers beta testing liven.io right now, which does exactly this. Primarily we're working with venues to coordinate presentations / livestreams across multiple screens (think main pres on one screen, event agenda on another, speaker timer on another, etc.), then broadcasting that out for a remote or hybrid event. It's all browser based and runs on websockets - if that sounds interesting feel free to reach out and you can try it out!
Often not by the people in that situation but as a society yes it absolutely should be soluble.
That’s weird, it looks like you’re getting some old code, or possibly the css didn’t load correctly. Can you force a refresh with Ctrl F5 and let me know if that fixes it? I do most of my testing in Firefox, so it should definitely work, haha
You can have ext4 partitions that are readable by ext2 drivers, you just have to disable certain ext4 features.

But more to the point: If you want to open ext4 on a system that was written before the release of ext4 you can just implement a program that can read ext4. Meanwhile apparently the simplest way to open a StuffIt 5 file on System6 is to spin up a System7 VM on a different computer, extract the file with an installed copy of StuffIt 5, compress those files with a copy of StuffIt 3.5, then move that file from the VM to your System6 computer.
No, the guidelines aren't optional, as 'dang points out relentlessly. If you can't be civil and substantive, don't comment.
It’s like Facebook even signed in the ui is hostile
Complexity isn't only about transistors, but also about delay.

And sure, there's pipelining but than your limited by latency.
Many companies regularly work within mainstream political action such as LGTBQ+ rights, data privacy, homelessness, local housing or public works, and children's orgs such as Big Brother Big Sister. While these vary in controversiality, relevancy, and apolitical nature, it's not at all uncommon to see companies working in these areas (and others unlisted). Often companies grow into them along with size and profits, so I don't know if Coinbase historically can be taken as sign of consistency either. What Coinbase did was effectively say "well now that BLM has entered mainstream politics and other companies are taking stances, we no longer feel that the mainstream politics of the industry are agreeable to us."

The George Floyd spark very much "outed" Coinbase here, because it became an issue you couldn't avoid taking a side on. That's just the state of the world and you're right that they couldn't have anticipated it, but they chose to make a clear stance rather than trying to ride the thin line, and they became less diverse for it. I don't know why anyone would be surprised their prior actions match that recent stance.

Again, I'm trying to avoid the philosophical "Should companies be political" debate that's already been hashed, but simply stating how their actions translate in the current landscape.
Good Eggs delivery debacle leaves people scrambling for Thanksgiving dinner
Tasmania declares itself 100 per cent powered by renewable electricity
The problem is though that it didn’t just “slip by” if OP tried to contact you/your team through various channels (email, whatsapp) for weeks as he says. This was either a complete mistake (ie OP didn’t do work for you) or a purposeful, coordinated effort to prevent paying OP (and I imagine others).

Your character is at stake here and again, a sleezy ghosting for years is almost certainly worse I assume for most people than a phone call, email, whatever to tell someone you unfortunately just can’t afford to pay them right now but will as soon as you can. That’s the biggest issue here.
"Ms. Milosevich said the white employee lived in Philadelphia and was allowed to commute to and work from the company’s New York office"

Unless I am missing something seems pretty clear the employee switched from WFH in Philadelphia to commuting to NYC to work at that office.
PlayStations are hot with consoles drawing rare shipping crowds
what the hell did we think we were doing between August and November?

Starting the new school year, for one thing. For many of us that was critical to letting us keep working (and mass home-schooling and online teaching for young kids was not working).
frankly its a little surprising to me how quickly some people in this comment section are to instantly dismiss the experiences of the people in this article

yes the truth is shades of gray that article doesn't really give any answers to, but the unwillingness of others in these comments to even consider the possibility of some racism, discrimination, etc. experienced by others is just disheartening
The police are mostly peaceful too! But being mostly peaceful doesn't excuse the times when they're violent.
Following up, as the Australian state of Tasmania just declared that they're able to run 100% on renewables as of November 27th 2020 [1], with the local government targeting 200% renewable capacity by 2040.

[1] https://reneweconomy.com.au/tasmania-declares-itself-100-per...

[2] https://reneweconomy.com.au/tasmania-liberal-government-tabl...
I mean that there are contradictions in all of us between our beliefs/concepts/judgments on the one hand, and the reality of how we live/behave/act, and treat others, on the other hand. In that sense we are all hypocrites—but the word 'hypocrite' is mainly used to condemn such contradictions in others. You're right that I shouldn't have said "only ever"—other usages exist—but they're secondary.

Another way of making this point about self-contradiction is to say that anger at others for being hypocritical is itself hypocritical.
Should we expect to see a massive drop in real estate prices as millions of homes are foreclosed on and go on the market? Seems like it could be a good time to buy some property.

It just sucks it will come at the expense of so many others.
I'm personally constantly flipping between the two views. One day, I feel like I'd like the systems the article described. Save, backup and index everything. Give seamless ability to search and mix. But then the other day I just want to disconnect - because I have this sinking feeling that I read too much, and think too little. Like my own mind is being slowly eaten away by the countless topics I read about.
Certs make for good bonus fodder. The boss wants some sort of quantifiable achievement to pay out the MBO, certs are an easy way to go about it. The act of prepping for the test has value - even if the certificate themselves do not.
Not every bad is equally bad
The tweet author in the linked thread later writes:

"Weaker memory model makes acquire-release atomics possible to implement much more efficiently, in exchange for not hiding some classes of multithreading bugs"
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

Your post is what theory looks like when people forget the difference. Your theory leaves out tons of variables, including the condition of the road, and the differences in how materials deform under pressure. I've seen the stats you're referring to, and that's what it looks like in a lab with perfect conditions.

Go ride a $400 bike and a nice carbon fiber bike. The difference is much more substantial than 15 seconds per 4 hours. It's less fatiguing, the pedals feel stiffer (cheap bikes feel mushy in the pedals), my speedometer has a higher average speed, it's easier to climb hills (flat surfaces like in the lab are rare on real world streets--flat roads are almost never 0% grade), etc.

Sometimes you need to put down excel and actually do the thing you're theorizing about.
I have exactly the same practice of reading the comments instead of the item itself if it touches on a discipline or subject I’m not familiar with, e.g., it’s fun to read physics people discussing a physics problem I barely grasp.
Using data- which is the niche made for this in the standard, seems to be the solution that's more likely to still work 15 years down the line.
> reduced rotational inertia translates to faster acceleration

\aside why not smaller (radius) wheels?
Use higher gearing, and accept the bumpiness.

Though for touring aot commuting, there's something pleasant about higher inertia.
Perhaps, they meant Lex Friedman's follow-up to the interview
> The 60 people who left makes it clear this is not agreed upon.

Did all 60 people leave because of Coinbase's political stance, or did some leave because of the generous severance package of 4-6 months pay that the CEO offered in September?

I know that if I were looking to make a life change, I'd seriously consider that offer even if I liked the politics.
from what I gather (not an implementor) r6rs was too much to implement for the smaller 'testbed' scheme's popular with language designers, and perhaps a bit too proscriptive for the core - which is why r7 has the small/big split. small can be implemented more easily, and big can be added on as a portable library or alternately implemented at a more low level by the language runtime if desired
We even have a special designation that identifies our role in all this:

Consumer
Why it's almost as if Star Trek is fiction and the "canon" of a franchise spanning over fifty years of television, film and books has always been fluid and arbitrary.
It looks like about 1/3 more energy per area than the surface of Earth at noon. On the moon you should get about a 50% duty cycle of that as opposed to about 20% on Earth (the edges of the day and weather eat a lot of power), so it's safe to say "about three times as much" energy per year.
Did John McCracken Make That Monolith in Utah?
This article is utter bollocks. I tried hard to read to the end without laughing out loud, in particular this about candidates:

> 1. they give a shit about Scale

Most companies I interview for, I, shall we say, don't give a shit about at application and interview stage. Sure, they may seem like a good fit (tech and remuneration), and I try to fit if it kinda feels good after a couple of interviews. Yes I try and understand their business, methodologies, treatment of staff (am I on call?, what's that worth?) etc

But to expect me to arrive at a series of interviews with total commitment and "giving a shit" (which I read as hand-my-life-and-all-my-free-time-to-you). Nah, fuck off.

You're just another company, it's up to you to make me give a shit wanting to work for you.

Annecdote: Been employed at what I thought would be a nice company to work for ~five months, it's turned out well, now I give a shit. It doesn't work the other way around, otherwise you seem like a cult.

And whilst at this new company I really do "give a shit", I don't allow it to trap me and will happily tell them at which point I don't "give a shit" any more and the reasons why.
That behavior (passing over an employee due to their skin color) is not only problematic, it is against the law.

Did the editorial show that Coinbase is engaging in illegal discrimination practices? No, but they sure implied it.

Would it be problematic to encourage diverse representations to show up for company photos, if you did not ignore them for advancement? On its own, I think that's just common sense, and taking some PR advantage of the costly diversity programs.

A random/unplanned company photo I was in, was circulated online, to falsely claim that my company only hires white people. Felt really bad, especially for my multiracial colleagues present in that photo. Can you even give this movement what they want, without accusations of pandering/fake concern?

> Not specifically require Black employees to relocate to different cities while giving non-Black employees the opportunity to work out out whatever the nearest office is.

I refuse to believe that Coinbase based that decision on skin color, and I find it hard to believe anyone else sees that differently. As such, to follow this rule, you would have to overturn your decision -- based on rationale --, because it happens to negatively impact a person with a specific skin color. How is this a decent decision: "Sorry Chad, we can't let you work from home to care for your mother, because we just told some black-skinned support engineers to relocate, and we don't want to specifically require black people to relocate, and allow white people to work from home."? How is that fair? To who? It suddenly becomes justified if Chad was black, or if you allow everyone to work from home?
Looking at the votes on my comment jump up and down, I was very surprised to find that my opinion is apparently very controversial. I find this very intriguing, and I'd like to hear from your side. From your perspective, doesn't IDE intellisense and the like cover that use case? Or do you prefer to have all of that information visible all the time?
Even if that's the case, the treatment is still obviously disparate:

* The PHL employee has been given their choice of office to work from.

* The Black employees were required to relocate, not just show up at a particular office on a schedule.

Were the Black employees offered the opportunity to work out of the NYC office?
eeyo is single-speed tho, LeMond has gears.
Is there any reference/confirmation for all of this? The fact that the author types "Swift" under quotes and doesn't know that refcount is something inherited from Objective C and the whole OS rely on it makes the rest of claims a bit more gossipy.

Also, AFAIK MS translation of x86 -> ARM works different than Rosetta2, so the results aren't just because "Apple added Intel's memory ordering to their CPU" (whatever that means)
Queryable Logging with Blacklite
I've published a logging appender called Blacklite that writes logging events to SQLite databases. It has good throughput and low latency, and comes with archivers that can delete old entries, roll over databases, and compress log entries using dictionary compression; compression that looks for common elements across small messages and extracts it into a common dictionary.

So that's the sales pitch. Now let's do the fun question – how and why did it get here?

I started off this blog post by writing out the requirements for a forensic logger as if I had total knowledge of what the goal was. But that's not what happened. The real story is messy, discovering the requirements piecemeal, and involves lots of backtracking over several months. I think it's more interesting and human to talk about.
The Fujitsu chip is amazing too! But I am only familiar with common desktop and laptop CPUs, not HPC specialty hardware.

Sounds like part of the special sauce in the M1 is bringing supercomputer architecture to laptops. That seems like an amazing feat too.

Also, I don't think I was "screaming" about "100 years". Maybe you are thinking of someone else's comment?
>have a genuine question and I'm not trying to be snarky -- do people actually think this way in real life, or is it an elaborate social game of pretending to be more "passionate" than the next guy?

IMHO, if someone has not once wanted something in their life and worked really hard to get it then that does raise an eyebrow. It doesn't have to be a job. It could be an instrument, sport, extra ciricular, school project, volunteer work, or really anything. If you haven't, it means you either have never wanted to achieve something or didn't want to put the effort in to try.

Life happens and at some point we all make it to a point we are comfortable. So I think it's unfair to expect that out of a 45 year old with two kids. But if you get to be 45 without having really tried at something... well it's a bit sad.
"Ride up grades, not buy upgrades"
Awesome bike.

Miss ripping down Pioneer and Dreamcatcher with you guys. Hope you’re well.
But the article is saying that in Ruby, it's 1.5, right? So it's not the same as here? Or were you referring to the general notion of a midpoint of an infinite range?
However the zip files created by Windows Explorer can be opened without problems in Windows 95 (with additional software, OS support was only added 19 years ago in Windows XP). Similarly Excel 2019 still has an option to safe your files in the Excel 97 format. When it comes to file formats Microsoft is very dedicated to both backwards and forwards comparability, and companies love them for it.
Police are mostly peaceful
I apologize in advance because you seem to be emotionally invested in this, but I really do not understand the questions you pose in your comment. What did you actually expect from the discussion? Were there not enough comments against Coinbase? Were there not enough comments outraged about the perceived racist behavior of it? Do you think none of those commenters "imagine the possibility that racism is a problem in America in 2020"?

Let's assume that I am 100% certain of all the accusations. How many types of comments do you expect to see about this? Condemn the company, point out systemic racism doesn't just affect Coinbase but everything, offer condolences and sympathy, support efforts to reduce racism. All of these comments exist in the thread.

What if I don't believe all the accusations are true? There are multitudes of reasons why that could be the case, which reflects in the number of possibilities being commented on. By your own contention, racism is a problem in America, so you would expect at least some of the comments to be racist, or at least controversial. You seem to have focused only on the worst ones, ignoring the discussions that followed them, whether positive or negative. You've ignored all the nuanced positions or straw-manned them. You're dismissive of people's comments or concerns while simultaneously asking people to not be dismissive of your concerns. I really don't get it.