skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what's unusual about this. Fires at night are dangerous because people sleep so they're more likely to be caught by surprise when the fire is already completely out of control.

All it takes is an electrical spark, a candle they forgot to put out, a heater too close to some fabric and you got yourself a fire.

Frankly this internet sleuthing is rather pointless and, in my opinion, in rather bad taste.
While I think this data should just be considered private, the reasons that a business would have for purchasing it worry me less than the reasons the government would buy it. Yes, both entities could abuse the data, but corporations also have the usual scummy profit based use as well.

The data collection companies say that they only sell to vetted clients. I agree that trying to make selling to the government illegal would be a poor move, but they should consider voluntarily barring government organizations in an attempt to prevent this becoming a bigger issue and laws being made to stop it
You can’t run Linux in a VM?
Thank you very much for this! With this background I can mostly make sense of the slides and appreciate the work behind them.

Edit: Also thanks to the other replies that have pointed out the interesting challenges involved. Don't want to comment on each one individually.
I think there are a couple of things going on that lead to the situation you describe:

One, there is a very strong ethos in our culture that the only thing that matters for results is effort. We want to believe that we are in control of our own destiny, and that everyone can each any level of success if they choose to exert the required effort. Any lack of success is tied to a lack of effort (or, occasionally, people will say the lack of success is caused by misapplied effort)... in both cases, the implication is that any person just needs to make the right series of choices to achieve any level of success that is possible.

The second thing is that even if we realize that some people won't be able to achieve at a certain level, it is probably still a good idea to act as if they can. Someone who thinks they can achieve something but can't will end up in the same place regardless of that belief, but someone who actually can achieve something will have a different outcome if they believe they can instead of can't.
And who makes up that share such that his point would be less valid?
For who?
Amazon reviews for scented candles, before and during the pandemic
Isn't declaring "the raison d’être of probability theory is to explain the decision-making of individuals facing uncertainty" basically a claim that the sole purpose of probability theory is an economist's approach? It's entirely possible that much more work in probability is done without a bet or payoff in sight than is done for the sake of decision-making models. It seems like basing epistemological arguments about all probability theory on a framing friendly to very specific groups of non-mathematicians.
First thing to remember when it comes to hitler and nazis is that it's all clouded by propaganada on all sides. Second thing to remember is that orwell worked as a propagandist for the british government. Though I'm a fan of orwell's work, he isn't above criticism and much of his works are propaganda.

> Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all ‘progressive’ thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain.

Is that why nearly all of the west heavily militarized in between the world wars?

> they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades.

Hitler didn't invent this idea. It's been around forever. It's rather shocking coming from a brit when his nation was brutalizing much of the world. Where they were taught to worship and sacrifice for their queen, country, etc. Isn't one of Churchill's most famous speech about "struggle and sacrifice".

> However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

Both fascism/nazism were a hedonistic conception of life. It was the idea of stealing other people's wealth and revel in the hedonistic lifestyle it would buy. As a brit, he of all people should know about stealing other people's wealth and leading a hedonistic life.

> The same is probably true of Stalin’s militarised version of Socialism.

More nonsense. Stalin's russia couldn't exist without militarization because it would have been invaded. Is it also true of britain's militarized capitalism?

It seems like we attribute to hitler and the nazis everything we don't like about ourselves or are embarrassed about. I know in america, it's become our national pasttime in the past few decades. Everything he wrote applies just as much to britain and its empire as it does to hitler and the nazis.
Kohli, Who Shaped India’s IT Services Industry, Dies at 96
What hurt Intel was missing the mobile CPU boat. If Intel wasn't so braindead in management, they probably could have won a substantial segment of mobile.

Because of mobile, TSMC had so much revenue to advance their process and catch/surpass Intel. Heck, Apple's M1 is probably due to the same reason in the Apple ecosystem, they couldn't win the iPhone either, and IIRC various "what's wrong with Intel" threads stated many of the best Intel engineers went to Apple.
We have a support contract for an app like that...

On the bright side, using it to learn refactoring and migration techniques.
Say it does sound infeasible to me that people would or even could do this —- could you clarify why you’re so sure?
I wasn’t saying they do or don’t have one... just that they didn’t get as big as they are today without the actual consumers. My wording could’ve been better.
Your loyalty belongs to people? No doubt that's why you called them "revisionist shitbirds" a few posts upthread.
yeah but the funny thing is it applies to the VC and tech scene more than to almost anything else. Tech people are niche conformists, a lot of them read the same books, speak the same language, share the same hobbies, look the same, and copy each others ideas.

Copying something well and then deluding yourself or others into thinking you've dug up novelty is in fact one of the best sales strategies there is.

Paul is also not accurate in one important way. Investors, by definition of how they make money, can't be too novel. They only can be ahead of the curve, because if you're so independent minded that the market doesn't catch up with what you believe you don't make any money. They're not independent-minded so much as they know what others want when they don't yet know it themselves. That's a different thing.
Tech Journalism Is Less Diverse Than Tech: Code and Data
> For who?

Anyone wanting to make money. The wealthy and influential predominantly use Macs.
Two first posts:

"A source just gave me the following information. A hospital in Wales, Nevill Hall in Abergavenny, has 250 beds. 200 beds are empty. The surgeons are bored & pass much time on the nearby golf course.
I think this might be one answer to why UK doctors are not investigating to find out why hospitals have no patients in them! Apparently all covid cases are currently being sent to this hospital.
This story tallies with the original evidence which drew me into this ghastly mess we’ve made of our country.
I’ve not mentioned this..."

What in it is a known lie?
People remove the batteries from smoke alarms precisely because they go off when they make toast...and then this happens.
> Obviously they turned out not to be necessary.

That is not at all obvious. There's a reason SQL is a thing. There's a reason that file name extensions are ubiquitous. There's a reason that security is a hot mess. It turns out that you really do need all these things, and if you don't provide them in the OS, then they will need to be provided at the user level.
No. Work for an organization who gives a shit about work/life balance and personal development.
Ask HN: Do you have a second income?
This is a combination of melt-blowing and centrifugal spinning - common nonwovens productions methods already used in N95 production.

Almost every N95 is made from meltblown materials (thermoplastics) with a polymer that holds electrostatic charge after production.
One of the definitions of possible is “that may exist or happen, but that is not certain or probable.”

If you take this as the definition, I do think the saying is accurate. Unfortunately, too many people understand the saying as “believe in yourself and you will definitely succeed”.

Look at it this way, if you don’t believe you can achieve some hard task, then you won’t start it on your own. If you do believe in yourself, you’ll almost certainly start the task. Whether you succeed is a different matter. But if you don’t start, you are guaranteed that you won’t succeed in that particular task.
I read this : https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02973-3

"Young children transmit less

Researchers suspect that one reason schools have not become COVID-19 hot spots is that children — especially those under the age of 12–14 — are less susceptible to infection than adults, according to a meta-analysis4 of prevalence studies. And once they are infected, young children, including those aged 0–5 years, are less likely to pass the virus on to others, says Haas. In an analysis5 of German schools, Haas’s team found that infections were less common in children aged 6–10 years than in older children and adults working at the schools. “The potential to transmit increases” with age, and adolescents are just as likely to transmit the virus as adults, he says. Teenagers and teachers should be the focus of mitigation measures, such as wearing masks or a return to online lessons when community transmission is high, says Haas."
This was certainly the weakest point in the article for me. Not explained nor backed up, and not easy to verify (unlike other points).

I did find a PEW Research article [1] that stated Hispanics made up 13% of democratic voters circa 2019, a growing metric (10% in 2012, 11% in 2004, 5% in 1996). Versus Replublican which was 7% in 2019. But I'm not sure how to interpret these (and what other context may be necessary).

It did illustrate Dems rather greater reliance on non-white voters, so if they lost many to Trump, that would at least support the general direction of the statement.

The Spectator article also states that in 2020 Trump grew his support among Hispanics by "two-thirds", but from what? Presumably 2016, but what was that number? From the PEW article it could perhaps be inferred to be 6%, meaning it would be 10% for 2020, a significant jump toward near parity with the Democrats, a trend which might well engender some of the requisite puzzlement.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/26/what-the-20...
> Because of mobile, TSMC had so much revenue to advance their process and catch/surpass Intel.

Intel never been chasing pure revenue. They were always conscious of their profitability, to please sock market analysts.
My Gift to r/macsetups: I created Pictag.app. What do you think?
Light a few candles at midnight; have a couple of glasses of wine; pass out on the couch watching reruns of Battlestar Galactica; candles burn down; candle holder catches fire; fire spreads to the curtains; full blown fire breaks out; wake up to a smoke filled room and start panicking; make it to an adjoining room and close the door; sit down on the floor trying to catch a breath; hyperventilating means more smoke inhalation; pass out; firemen arrive and door is blocked by man slumped on the floor inside, requiring forced entry...

Neither 3:30am or any of the other details are automatically suspicious. This stuff happens, all the time, and there's no reason to suspect foul play until investigators say so.
I once had an Emirates flight from Dubai to Hamburg where, by pure coincidence, no one else was in the seat group with me--exactly the convenience Lufthansa is offering here. If I may be a bit tacky on HN--oh brother didn't I travel like a king that day! :P It was also the last half of a longer route so it was really a pleasantly surprising luxury to be able to stretch my legs like that.

Granted, that was an Emirates flight, already known for its luxury. If my experience with Eurowings is anything to go by, I don't know if $260 USD would be worth two seats, a blanket, and a pillow. Buying a second seat might be a wiser way to get a bit more comfortable.
Haven’t gotten a flat since I went tubeless, you might want to give it a try. Changing and setting up the tire is more involved but once done you’re much less likely to have to do it again.
Really missing the forests for the trees, here. It's clear that there are under-represented groups at CoinBase that are routinely discriminated. It is unthinkable to me for HN readers to defend that, but here we are regardless.

Maybe I should have used the term 'under-represented minorities,' because I don't see a single black or latino person (admittedly, this is what I meant as 'brown' since I'm Hispanic).
If you have a variable representing the length of an array containing user accounts, would you prefer the name "length" or "price"?
From my experience, with people in my circles, it's a sign of depression - not having had Covid. That's especially the case for those that haven't ventured much outside the home and have far less social interactions than before.
you’re assuming he was sleeping...nothing in the article says that he was asleep in his bedroom when this happened.

it also doesn’t explain why the firefighters say he was “trapped in a portion of the house” and they had to “force entry”. implies there was some blockade within the house that prevented them from easily getting to him.
> If such a thing existed and was in wide use, you — a random passerby to the codebase, who doesn't yet understand it — wouldn't need to struggle to do any dynamic filtering, because static filtering would already have been done for you.

That's the thing, it's impossible to create a generic ignore list that caters to everyone's interest. Could the_mitsuhiko, the creator of flask, provide such a list for flask? Nope. Some people want to understand how register_blueprint is implemented and don't want to see anything from test, docs and examples. Some people want to learn how to use register_blueprint, so they specifically want to limit themselves to examples. Some other people want to check if there are test cases for a certain API. You can't ignore any file that may be interesting to someone, which is basically all of them.
I hate those cheesy, halftime-talk lines as well, but there's a balance that needs to be found. Some things are outside of your control, and it's just silly to believe you can change everything by sheer force of will; but most things are at least somewhat within your control, and blaming everything and everyone except yourself is equally bad (and extremely more common).

Blaming yourself, or at least thinking what you could do differently, is the sane default when something goes wrong.

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference."
The only ARM IP Apple actually used was the ISA. The architecture in the M1 -- and all the A chips -- is 100% custom.

No other gadget maker has the internal engineering chops to do what Apple has done. And it'll be a few years before ARM releases a chip architecture that comes within spitting distance of the M1's performance -- by which time Apple will have released an even more powerful chip.
I’ve noticed a strong tendency for older systems to accumulate “spaghetti architecture”, where newer employees add new subsystems and tenured employees are blind to the early design mistakes they made. For instance, in this system, it sound like they added a complicated health check mechanism at some point to bounce faulty nodes.

Now, they don’t know how it behaves, so they’re afraid to take corrective actions in production.

They built that before ensuring that they logged the result of each failed system call. The prioritization seems odd, but most places look at logging as a cost center, and the work of improving it as drudgery, even though it’s far more important than shiny things like automatic response to failures, and also takes a person with more experience to do properly.
The Three Phases of Appsec Engineering
Maybe we don't need encrypted DNS for each request... instead we should all have a securely downloaded mirror of all DNS records so that individual requests don't go to third parties...
"let us overcome the inferiority complex, the superiority complex, and the equality complex"

This is a lot easier to do if we're alone on a desert island or in a cave on a mountain top. Even then, most of us have a lifetime of baggage to let go of, as we've been taught to idealize superachievers and geniuses, and despise underachievers and mediocrity from an early age.

I'm reminded of the start of one of my favorite Hardcore History episodes -- the first of the Death Throes of the Republic series[1]:

I want you to think back to the house you grew up in as a child. I want you to picture a room in that house that didn't exist. I want you to pretend it did, and the whole time you were a young child, growing up in to your adolescence and until you leave home you're aware of this room in the house.

The room has faces on the wall, dead people's faces -- the faces of dead people who were related to you. The faces are made of wax, and they were made immediately upon death of the individual whose face it was.

The wax was put on the face and, like a modern version of a wax museum, an accurate representation of your dead ancestor's dead face was made and was put on your wall connected by a painted line to his ancestor, your even earlier ancestor whose wax face made after death is also on the wall, and that is connected by another line to his ancestor whose wax mask is there as well.

These may have been full color versions of these ancestors of yours and their names were there and from your very earliest childhood memory you're aware of this room, and you are aware of who these people are and you are aware of what they did. It's sort of freaky, though, isn't it? Now you know how Julius Caesar felt growing up.

Now I remember being terrified by paintings -- completely innocuous paintings -- in my house when I was a child, and I know my children get freaked out at the slightest thing like that, but to Julius Caesar and people like him this "ancestor room" as it's sometimes called, had a profound effect on firing their ambition.

The ancient historian Sallust said that the Romans described their children's spirits as blazing like flames when they would look at the sight. The ancient historian Polybius said, "It would be hard to imagine a more impressive scene for a youth who aspires to win fame and practice virtue."

To these people who spent time amongst the Romans or who were Roman themselves, they thought this was a good way to create in your young people this desire for achievement which was the hallmark of Roman society during this time period...

[1] - https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-death-thr...
"No.

The majority of police are mostly peaceful.

Violence at BLM protests is real."

See how we can continue talking past each other?
Why is WindowServer using over 2 GB of RAM in the Activity Monitor screenshot? That seems absurdly high. Does it have a memory leak?
Thanks for sharing your story and important advice. I'm glad you made it out ok!
Curious why specifically a Pi? Is there something specific you want to build?
Well-meaning people can make a big mess and people let them because their heart is in the right place, even if their head is up their own ass.

I’ve resigned myself to the idea that there’s two diametrically opposed way to run a software project.

One is by rote memorization. The people on the team have been there a long time. Seniority is hard to achieve because everyone makes dumb mistakes for a few years, instead of six months, due to the code being rife with tribal knowledge. This group gets very, very cranky when you refactor, because you are moving things out of place. Things they spend a great deal of effort memorizing. You’re threatening their seniority, their job security, and their control.

Another way is to design for people getting in and out quickly. The knowledge is curated, the code tells a story you can follow. Important assumptions are encoded plainly, perhaps documented there or in a wiki. This team can size up or down more quickly without bloodshed. Which is great if there are other projects that need attention, not so good if the company is a one trick pony with money flow problems. Counterintuitively, your best people may choose to stay a little longer here because they don’t feel trapped.

Early in my career I had a lot of luck changing engineering culture for the better, and I mistakenly assumed these techniques would work anywhere. They work lots of places, but they don’t work on a team that is collectively smarter than you are. Like doctors, clever but misguided developers can make the worst patients. There was one team in particular in a vertical I really wanted to be in, where I should have quit four months in, when it was obvious we would never see eye to eye. How can you hate your own code but refuse to change how you write it? Sometimes the smartest developers are the dumbest people.

Good severance package when the layoffs happened, but I suspect to this day the manager thinks I was part of their decline, rather than the harbinger.

In a way we are both right. My energies would have been better spent elsewhere. I’ve thought a lot about how to detect this sort of dynamic at new prospects but the best I’ve come up with is maybe don’t take a job where you’re the first new hire in n years and everyone else has been there forever. It might be okay, but it might be hell on wheels.
Reading "Delivering Happiness" inspired me to quit a legal career I hated, learn to code on nights and weekends. Today, I'm the CTO of a promising startup. Thank you, Tony.
This is how WindowServer usually is.
I understand the concern, but the idea is for the user to be fully in control, and to not hide stuff so much as to give some warning to them (if they enable that to be happening, in the first place).
This is great. I like that the policy is named the ‘student travel window’ rather than ‘staggering’, which would be a good overall summary.
There’s no denying that mindset is incredibly important. As a business owner myself I can attest to this. But I think the advice gets twisted. The way I see it is this:

Everyone who succeeds in business believes that they can do it.

Not everyone who believes they can do it succeeds.

Therefore, believing you can succeed is necessary, but only a small percentage of people who believe are actually correct.

Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t believe, but chances are you are wrong.
Or as Roland's teacher Cort put it:

> "Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing."

- Stephen King, "The Drawing of the Three"
Late on this...but what are you using to block googletagmanager?
But it seems like this is in addition to a seat, not instead:

> “The concept is designed as a pod you go to during the flight,” she said. “You will still have your economy seat separately for the other portion of the flight.”

Which of course avoids all the regulatory problems of evacuation during landing, etc. But also must make it expensive -- if you are buying twice the floor area, then you could have a business class seat.
I wouldn't say "more important", but certainly important. I've now spoken to quite a few (very capable) white friends who believe they didn't get the job due to their color - and I couldn't tell them they were wrong. It's definitely creating racial divides.
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