skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's simply a polite term for deluded. I wouldn't read too much into it.

>Religion is just what someone holds to be ultimate reality, the highest good, and aim of life. In that sense, everyone is religious, so it's not a question of _whether_ you're religious, but how, and whether your religion is correct

Why would everyone be religious? Religious people act on beliefs. Non-religious people act on evidence.

Some people act out the rituals to avoid upsetting their relationships, but revert to evidence based decision making for important choices.
Sad event. Cool footage.
This sounded very exciting, but 'long acting' in this case is 8 weeks which, feels quite a frequent interval to have a jab. I wonder whether to what extent the people struggling with daily oral pills will be able to manage goig for injections every two months.

Still, every small bit of good news is good news.
Just tell that to your PMO and have them give you an estimate about how long it will take to migrate. Then talk to your developers and infrastructure folks and let them do a (bad) estimation about how long it will take to remove all of the hidden dependencies.

That’s not even including the training involved. At the same time, your competitors are actually trying to create products that meet their customers needs while your resources are tied up in migrations.
Successful sniffing of bitlocker keys via SPI bus
Uh, what? She's a researcher and this is a Google research division. A 1000 citations is a large number for any single paper, even in ML. And yes, even inside Google research, this aspect of impact plays a big role in evaluation of researchers.
It would be great to have very easy testing with a pin prick of blood. This dream is what kept Theranos going for so long, but hopefully that scandal does not scare off other people from trying.
> * avoid taking antibiotics unless you're really sick enough to need
+1 on this. I had to take antibiotics for a strep throat infection. Before this, I could eat anything and never have a loose bowel movement. I had various gut issues for almost an year after I took the antibiotics. I used to feel like I had a very healthy gut before.
Formal written Chinese is very different from the spoken form, essentially to the point it could be considered another language altogether. This situation isn't really comparable to anything in English.

In spoken Mandarin, lexical units are generally formed of multiple-character compounds (typically 2 to 4 characters). In such a scenario, the character being used can be figured out just from the context. If such an utterance is transcribed phonetically and written down, the same still holds. So your conjecture is correct to the extent it pertains to the colloquial language.

However, the same cannot be said for the formal written language, which is based on Classical Chinese, and much more succint: here, each character is often an independent lexical unit. At the same time, numerous more obscure characters come into play and annoyingly many of them tend to be homophones. In particular, in Mandarin, as a result of the phonetic processes it underwent, there are a lot of characters pronounced either /yi/ or /shi/.

At this point, figuring out the meaning of what is being said tends to become cumbersome or downright impossible (as in the case of the poem), unless the actual written characters can be seen, which is usually not an issue as this form of the language is used predominantly in writing (with the exception of a huge number of idiomatic expressions that educated people are expected to know by heart and be accustomed to).

And it is this latter form of Chinese that is the language of history, culture, but also anything more sophisticated in general, such as any better news publications. So while a basic, dumbed-down version of Mandarin would survive even when simplified even further, perhaps to the point of being written only phonetically, I doubt any educated Chinese would willingly sign up for it (particularly as there are is no incentive to do so since everybody learned the language as a child anyway, and for those who did it well, it is a marker of status).

If you want the Chinese to ditch their "written adornments," you could just as well be telling them to switch to Esperanto.
If given a free choice of literally anything they could do to contribute to the world, do you think Amazon warehouse employees would put Amazon warehouse work as their primary choice? Something they said they wanted to do "when they grow up"? "Something with dehumanising conditions, please!"

If not, what is your answer to the quesiton "why are they doing this job at all"?

Because they have to do something, and this is the best they can do? Then "have to do something" is the force, and they are the forced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_file#Batch_viruses_and_m...
She didn't offer to resign immediately.
To be clear, the commenter I’m replying to edited his comment, making mine look odd.
Previously it commented on braking distances falling 40-50% between the 70s and now, and didn’t seem to be taking ABS into account
As long as there are buttons to click, people will want robots to click the same buttons.

It is surprising, though, how much engineering is required to click a button.
Is that a fair criticism?

Seems to be a very broad brush that you're painting with. "Progressive people" encompasses a wide variety of individuals and beliefs.
I disagree with this. You have to explore the architecture first to see if the UX is technically possible. Once you know it’s possible, then you know the canvas you can paint on.
Yes! I'm not shocked to see that this response is the one that gets downvoted instead of the chorus of content-free agreements, but that's HN for you.
You seem to have read a lot of this so I'm genuinely curious: why do you refer to the country as "columbia" instead of "Colombia"?
Every time someone posts about Base-X encoding I have a little nostalgia for the Base-94 encoding I wrote as probably the first program I wrote from scratch solo (my idea, my design, my implementation), or the funky Base-32 design we did for a dev tool.

We had a new team lead who was a night owl like me. One day everyone left early but he and I were sitting around, and one of us, I forget who, was trying to implement a URL slug format that had the following qualities, ordered by priority:

* does not require URL encoding

* can be dictated or transcribed easily (it was a dev tool, in a time when pasting a URL into chat was not a given)

* as much as possible, could not contain swear words

We nerd-sniped each other into spending a couple of hours coming up with an odd-ball base-32 implementation with no homographs, and also that as long as you have vowels and leetspeak numbers you'd get swear words.

So we started with base 64 minus the symbols, vowels+y, homographs and leetspeak numbers, leaving us somewhere around 40 symbols left, so we just started removing consonants common in swears, starting with epithets and working backward. shtccks4vr is a bad url, but stick c--t or the n-word in a URL and HR is going to definitely have a talk with you then write an angry letter to us. Especially with a selection of choice verbs in the same slug...
Nice idea. If anyone is interested how the hell that works despite CPUs expose no instructions to handle cache misses in explicit way, here’s a quote from the linked article.

To access data (e.g., a tree node) in request t1 which may incur a cache miss, the thread issues a prefetch and switches to another request t2, and repeats this process. While the data needed by t1 is being fetched from memory to CPU cache, the worker thread handles t2, which may further cause the thread to issue prefetch and switch to another request. By the time the worker thread switches back to t1, the hope is that the needed data is (already and still) cache-resident. The thread then picks up at where it left for t1, dereferences the pointer to the prefetched data and continues executing t1 until the next possible cache miss upon which a prefetch will be issued. It is important that the switching mechanism and representation of requests are cheap and lightweight enough to achieve a net gain.
The character revealing bit is this:

> Have you ever heard of someone getting “feedback” on a paper through a privileged and confidential document to HR? Does that sound like a standard procedure to you or does it just happen to people like me who are constantly dehumanized?

She was told by her bosses boss to retract a paper. Whatever is it that paper, and whatever the reasons or the delivery method are, there is nothing somebody in her position can do about it, short of resign and, assuming the paper does not depend on proprietary information, independently publish. She instead decides to complain on an internal forum and call it 'constant dehumanization'. That is a serious accusation that she needs to back up, not just throw it around unsubstantiated.

This is the fundamental victim mindset of the social media woke: any setback is chalked up to identity based oppression. Reality check: everybody has setbacks, most of them unfair, or at least easily perceived as unfair, and definitely frustrating. Most have the decency to deal with it, pick up and go on without making a disgraceful spectacle by venting on social media. As it happens, I am aware of a similar situation between two people I highly respect at Google, where a VP told a paper author to abstain from publishing, in that case presumably to avoid spilling 'special sauce' information to the public. You never heard of it, and that's a good thing.

Something all of us need to ponder as we are ushered in the brave new social media era. Old school venting is ephemeral and limited to a small group of trusted confidents. Social media venting is permanent, and has the possibility to go viral. Proceed with caution.
Did avoiding lock in do anything as far as making them more competitive in the marketplace?

How many man hours was spent babysitting infrastructure?
I know in my country, Canada, a lot of the discussion around marijuana legalization involved how the US would react. Would the US retaliate with trade restrictions? border restrictions? etc. For a lot of the people I talked to, that was their only hang-up wrt marijuana.

We did eventually legalize it, but not until after some of your own states did.
Could they not just pay them whatever profit they would normally get to not produce anything?
Yeah I'm on an iMac Pro (which is the same display as the 27" iMacs) as my main display at its pretty glorious with 218 PPI. My older 34" ultra wide next to it is really showing its age, both in terms of overall quality and 110 PPI. The newer LG 34" that is 5K2K is not horrible at 164 psi.

If Apple just sold there 27" display for 1500 bucks or something they would make a killing for folks who want a really nice pro display but don't need the overkill of the Pro Display XDR.
In a way it’s a good self-regulating mechanism for modern capitalism. Dominant companies slowly become paralysed by activist employees, letting nimbler competitors outflank them in the market.
How do you handle decoupling your API model from your database model?
There was a piece in The Economist a couple of weeks ago about how some scientists made disposable coffee cups out of bagasse (wasteproduct of sugar production) which were basically as good as plastic on all the metrics GP mentioned but just fractionally more expensive. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/11/14/...
> unrelenting pursuit of business value

Who determines what value a business gets assigned?
Yes, but the difference is the animal is a prescribed as part of a course of treatment for someone's mental health.
I've been using 1Password for the last 4 years, both with a family account and a work account.

It works perfectly for team management, since you can categorize passwords by vaults and give individual members. or teams, access to specific vaults. You can give guests outside your organization access as well. Beyond passwords, you can also share company cards, credential files, and 2FA tokens.

In addition, 1Password does a great job of letting you know when you should rotate your passwords, when you've re-used passwords, and when any password you've used has been leaked (in conjunction with https://www.haveibeenpwned.com). This helps ensure better security practices across the team.

Only downsides I've come across:
- Granular permissions are really hard. For example, at my last job, we had vaults per client we worked with. However, not everyone that works on that client needs access to all of those passwords. The only way around this was to make/manage hundreds of vaults for Client+Function variants.
- There's no way to guarantee security of passwords stored in someone's personal vault.
- Users can create a vault and remove owners/admins from it (unless this has changed).
That (first paragraph) sounds like a different issue than lock-in.
> in most cases.

Are their cases where you do support using Payments for loan repayment?

I've had an idea for an "informal loan" platform that facilitates loans between friends, but paid back automatically, but I haven't ever acted on it because of the ban on using Stripe for loan repayments.

Synapse offers something like this, but is geared more toward loan origination than to strictly facilitation.
IMHO, material transparency is the only difficult to meet requirement. Paper works fine to wrap most cold cuts and it's already used extensively in packaging for fruits and vegetables.

People are already willing to pay premium for organic and other hard to inspect/certify labels; it doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility that people would be ok buying paper-wrapped prosciutto that has some similar stamp of quality.
> Satoshi Nakamoto came up with the Base58 encoding in the original Bitcoin whitepaper

There is no mention of Base58 in the whitepaper. http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Any idea how much of that 1.8% that issuing banks charge goes back to cardholders in the form of rewards and cash back?
When "inconvenienced" means a trip to the ER or landing a plane because you have severe allergies (like me) then the definition of who is being a jerk in the "emotional support animal" situation is a big more vague, no?
> Be careful what you wish for. X86 is the most open architecture right now

You might want to take a look at PowerPC/OpenPOWER.

ARM not being very open is mostly because there's been limited development interest in it, aside from specialised devices, and those companies have no real need or interest to have open things. Doesn't mean ARM itself can't evolve past it.
I know very little about this space, but presumably that will change if/when a significant portion of the laptop space (and probably the server space as well) moves from x86 to ARM? It might be painful for early adopters for a few years, but I would expect this stuff to get ironed out in time, no?
I think that as an ethicist in the field of race and AI there's really no way to escape politicization. If you identify bias in a company centered around race (note, not using the term racism, as I think often the bias isn't intentional), its hard to take action w/o politics coming into play almost immediately.
But honestly, does it matter?

People buying a threadripper today don't care about it.

What matters to them it's the performance, my gf is a 3d artist, she doesn't care if some cpu consumes more or less power than another (when I say she doesn't care I mean she doesn't even know that CPU have very different power requirements), she needs the fastest gear she can buy on her budget.

Apple M1s are not it.

There are many other that do not care because the hardware stays at the office, where someone else pays the bills and they too don't care because the electricity bill is the last of their problems, fixing it buying more efficient computing devices would mean spending a lot of money in advance to replace at least half of the stock.

How many more months of electricity could that money pay?

A lot.

People buying Apple for its M1 low power consumption are a niche inside a niche.

So I think the reasoning stands: Apple M1s are not a real threat for its competitors because the market that really cares about its strengths is smaller than the one that doesn't and Apple will keep to largely miss the second one.
Good. This was rife with abuse from people gaming the system, and delegitimizing the use of support dogs by handicapped people who actually needed help.

And the airlines would do nothing because they couldn't be seen as the bad guy (or it's just unfashionable to have rules that need to be respected these days).
Why is the partition function dimensionless?
Partition Function (statistical mechanics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_function_(statistica...
Based on the same logic, not letting black people in your neighbourhood is the same rational economic response to crime. That is why we don't allow for discrimination based on race or gender.
Can you point me to that Twitter thread?
There are several HIV vaccines and monoclonal antibody treatments for HIV that are going, or about to go, through clinical trials in the US if anyone is curious about them or wants to contribute to the research.
Without the specific wording of the original email, I don't think that you can draw this conclusion.

I'll note also that this is rather unusual practice for Google. There are a number of people, far more critical of Google, who have resigned, and who have been able to rampdown for 2+ weeks.
When everything is racism, nothing is racism.
Ask HN :)
This is pretty close - https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/gaming/49--ody...
So it's like Glassdoor or Salary.com? That's not a union, that's not HR, that's not armed protection.
Dang, can we please adddress this Twitter-style outrage and attacking people without any substance here?
"How will the (cocaine) tourism and local & international communities be effected when people start dying because of overdosing or potential violent behaviour under the effect of these harmful drugs?"

Why would they overdose if cocaine is legal?

Overdosing on illegal drugs is primarily caused by people taking too much of a drug due to a misjudgment of its purity or contents.

So that (for example) when someone thinks they're taking 1x of a particular illegal drug, they could actually be taking 2x of it (and that 2x is lethal, whereas 1x would have been just fine).

Alternatively, someone might think they're getting 1x of drug X, whereas they might really be getting 10x of drug Y or some unknown mix of drug X and Y, and the quantity of drug Y is lethal.

Such misjudgement, in turn, is caused by it being difficult or impossible to judge the purity or contents of drugs you buy on the street.

When drugs become legal they are labeled as to dosage and constituency, so their users will know exactly what they're getting, and overdoses will be minimized because non-suicidal users will simply choose to take non-lethal amounts.

Quality controls of the legal drug manufacturing process will further minimize adverse effects, compared to black market manufacturing which is a free-for-all in terms of quality (or lack thereof).

Users could, of course, still overdose if they mix cocaine with other drugs, but education campaigns should hopefully mitigate that risk, and in any case it won't be any worse than what happens when those same people mix effectively unknown illegal substances.

As for cocaine use causing violence, from my understanding it's alcohol that is most likely of all drugs to cause violent behavior, yet most people are not seriously calling for it to be made illegal because of that fact.

The violence associated with cocaine is mostly caused not by the drug itself but by organized crime syndicates warring with each other over control of the illegal cocaine market. This source of violence, of course, would be completely eliminated were cocaine to be legalized, as the market would be completely controlled by legal entities, and legal entities (like Pfizer and Merk) don't tend to war violently with one another over turf.
> why?

while true:
select count(*) from huge_table

thats why.
I'm especially introspective about this line in the post:

> You are not worth having any conversations about this, since you are not someone whose humanity (let alone expertise recognized by journalists, governments, scientists, civic organizations such as the electronic frontiers foundation etc) is acknowledged or valued in this company.

It feels more generally accurate to say that no ones humanity is respected at companies like Google. That isn't to discount or lessen the difficulties minorities and women have in tech companies; those are substantial and significant. But if someone in a diversity role is slighted, the natural place to jump is a diversity motive; its far more likely that the company just doesn't give a shit about anyone.

And that's true of nearly every company. It was immature for us, as a community, to believe big tech would be any different than any other megacorp. They say they care about diversity, inclusion, and people; they don't. They don't care about any individual. Companies, as a collective intelligence, care about two things: Money and Self-Preservation (in that order).

That being said, I totally support the fight that people like Timnit are fighting; they're fighting for the recognition of humanity, through the lens of diversity and inclusion, a critical component of a much larger fight intrinsic to a capitalistic society. That's the value of a hire like this; its just the unimaginably unfortunate case that this value hasn't been realized at Google, and probably never will.
Microsoft Office 97 most probably
Atlas was priced right, but we had a negative experience with it. Document templates were wrong, spouses never got emails for signature, workflow steps were out of order, tax id issuance took very long, and on top of that they are extremely oversubscribed, so hearing back from their support team took a while. Atlas has a lot of potential, but needs a lot of work.
> The man page for bash says that /dev/tcp and /dev/udp actually can be real files that any program can use

But that's really just a bit of wishful thinking -- those files/directories don't exist on any mainstream UNIX OS I'm aware of.
We want to be a place where most anyone can feel at home, but that is a fine line. We don't want to be another politically biased or polluted forum. We have blocking for users and will be extending that to Channels and our upcoming Groups next week.

As for API's and scheduled posts, there aren't immediate plans for that until we nail down a proper OAuth implementation to roll out with the officially supported API's. Though there are 4 of us all together, I'm the only engineer of any kind working on it, with potentially some more help on the way here shortly.

Your questions are good ones. We asked ourselves very specifically how would we avoid being another parler yet at the same time not alienate one political crowd over another? Was a difficult question. The 4 of us span the political spectrum and I think that has helped keep us centered so far.
I'm sorry, I don't quite understand the question.
Same with the Series X, I want one of the boy for Xmas, co-worker of my missus managed to get 5 of them, he wanted 650 for a console he paid 450 for.

I told her to tell him where to shove it.

It's not that I can't afford it, it's that scalpers can go fuck themselves, the boy will be more than happy with Quest 2 and my current gaming PC in the new year when I can build another.