skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's very rational to see people being harmed and to want to do something about that. It's how many of the best policies in America have been formed. What's irrational is making it about politics, like it's somehow a leftist thing to empathize with the plight of others.

Rationality isn't about suppressing your emotions and your connection to other people. It's about integrating those emotions with your values, knowledge, and capabilities and deciding how to act based on that synthesis.

The fact is that we Americans are at our best when we're looking out for each other. And many of us are very concerned about COVID.
If you pay at the higher end of rates and go with Superhosts, your experience will largely be flawless. I've never had a problem and my stays have been amazing, but I'm also spending hotel-equivalent prices or higher.
How is a "custom domain" different from a regular one? What's customized about this one?
Advertising is already censoring these platforms, sadly. The gov doesn't need to get involved.
This is false. Android is famously narcoleptic, if you don't have a kernel wake lock, you sleep. Doze mode is orthogonal to CPU sleep.
I have a desktop that shuts down nearly instantly and a ThinkPad that shuts down nearly instantly.

I have another laptop that takes about a minute to shut down, and it appears related to the wireless NIC. While it's an Intel-based card (Killer-rebranded... absolute garbage), I've had nothing but trouble with it. I plan on swapping it out one of these days.
I did a quick search and didn't see it. Does this article cover why python has mutable default arguments?
Sometimes you can judge a company by the enemies it makes. It seems Facebook is making enemies of the people that think political censorship is a good thing, that do not value free speech as a principle, and that are appalled that people have different values and beliefs.

Now as is brought up every time there is a complaint that tech companies are violating the first amendment, these are private companies and can control what is posted and what it shows. So, if Facebook decides they want to allow these posts in the name of free speech, it is their right as a private company.

Frankly, I am glad that people who believe that we should have more censorship are leaving their positions of influence at Facebook.
Well, it is not like the old media/old media style companies love FB, that they would not spin it this way. Ironically, they are guilty of some of the same things they accuse FB of.
These prototypes don’t contain radioactive material though.
Yep, and, it really kicked off in March with Coronavirus. You could see it happening organically on HN with a lot of abuse of comment flagging.

I'm expecting at some point for global warming argumentation to be banned on social media.
A Sober Look at SPACs – Stanford Law School
IP Monopolies, Not Pirates, Are the Real Threat to Artists
https://archive.is/LHKKy
>> etc

John Backus, who can hardly be considered lesser than any of the others on this cherry-picked list, used his Turing Award lecture to rally for functional programming:

http://www.thocp.net/biographies/papers/backus_turingaward_l...
I mean the thing is: This obvious edge case was there since the start of the european emission trading system - and it wasn't adressed for more than a decade.

It's good that they're finally working on it. But it's also something that should have happened a very long time ago.
Thanks

https://youtu.be/A9zfYTWjZqk?t=80

"That's a bargain" :)
Not true. There are ads on new tabs that are opt out.
Eventually any simply metric like this will become warped because of the effects of both Goodhart's Law, and Campbell's Law.
Complaints about "whataboutism" are a pretty poor way to excuse the set of problems that you are actually positioned to help solve.
Granted, I haven't seen the data the people leaving FB are using to make their arguments, but at least they are saying that misinformation and posts arguing for assault or killing of individuals are much more prevalent among "conservative" groups:

> We have a very good idea which actors in the US drive the largest volumes of this kind of content. In the last 14 days, the 10 pages responsible for the largest concentrated volume of likely violating Hate Speech comments have been:

Breitbart

Fox News

The Daily Caller

USA Patriots for Donald Trump

Donald Trump for President

Donald J. Trump

Ben Shapiro

Conservative Tribune by WJ

US Chronicle

The Western Journal

These pages, and a few perennial others that didn’t happen to make the top 10 in the last two weeks, but that you can find by browsing the dashboard, are filling our platform with violent and hateful content at a rate and concentration that is simply overwhelming…
It's a special case of, there's too many people and not enough work (the real problem IMO).
I'd be curious what really crossed the line for some of these folks.

Facebook's anything goes type behavior and litany of various bad choices has been there for a long long time. I'm kinda wondering what exactly pushed these folks to quit?
A pyramid may work with a wide flat basin at edge, especially if core material is moderating itself (vs just separating).
That's helpful as it gives me a sense of how I can also try to bring value to the meeting. What kind of questions have you found useful/practical from these meetings? I always want to be careful not to ask something that comes off too basic or uninformed.
The point of the 9/11 comparison seems to be "we reacted with a hysterical response and permanently expanded our military and surveillance infrastructure as a result of 9/11, and therefore if the same death toll is occurring every day we should consider similar drastic and permanent measures in response to Covid."
FAANG - i think in this list only Google and Apple are run by MBAs.
Aren't democrats constantly calling for (and committing violence) against their political opponents? Didn't see any red hats out with antifa when they were hitting people over the head with bike locks all summer. Also Cynthia Johnson literally called for Democrat "soldiers" to "make Trump supporters pay".
I agree with the spirit of what you're saying here, but I think it's advice that needs some measure of backing assumptions. I think especially larger companies are failing at taking advantage of their much more reliable cash flows to take broad innovation risks. But for a smaller company or a company consuming investment capital with no positive cashflow at all, focus is the correct answer. Or maybe investment in innovation in correct proportion to resources is the right message here.
If you want to improve at competitive games, I recommend David Silrin's "Playing to Win": http://www.sirlin.net/ptw
Too late for that, already in early thirties. Aren’t great grand children overrated anyway? My grandmother was a great grandmother and aside from the early toddler years the kids didn’t really give a fuck tbh. We don’t live in a society where a great elder is looked upon with any kind of prestige, so why aspire to it? Hell, not even most adult children care. They’d rather shovel you off somewhere where they don’t have to deal with your old people problems or antiquated views.

The only thing that will keep you respected in old age is your lucidity, wealth and power, and a sharp wit. Spending more time with your young children in late life could help cultivate those things out of necessity.
> a little distressed, to see about a third of respondents use vi keybindings

Why would other people's preferences distress you?
I let recruiters do the work.

The insight is that I make their job easier by having the right resources and presentation in place.
I'd happily take a COBOL job for $250k + benefits and a 3% annual raise. That's hardly a crazy salary either. It's still a substantial discount over what a lot of technology companies pay, and likely inline with what most mid-level managers at banks and insurance companies earn already.

But COBOL jobs don't pay anywhere near that kind of coin, and they likely never will in my lifetime. The systems in place are solid enough that they can survive the resolving door of shitty, underpaid contractors who are hired to work on them. Nothing every improves, but it also never gets worse.
I'm still trying to figure out why a podcast covering Hacker News as closely as possible should exist.

I don't want personal opinions in more of news podcast, instead a focus on the articles and comments (this project demonstrates that leaving out opinions is tough!). At the very least sticking closely to most upvoted stories is a step in that direction... is this a unique claim to fame here?

Personally I can't justify the investment in creating this vs. other responsibilities in life, not without the financial support in place to help reduce some of those other responsibilities. Perhaps repping alternatives is slightly frowned on in a Show HN, but I'd personally appreciate pointers to similar audio resources out there. In my case I often suffer from FOMO if I don't spend a big chunk of time on HN, so even something as lengthy as this podcast saves me some time.
Interesting that he says it struggles with Wolfenstein 3D. I spent a majority of my time as a teen playing Bungie's wonderful Marathon on my Powerbook 165c, which was a 68030 running at 33mhz. In a pinch, it could be played on a IIcx with a 16mhz (?) 030, but only with a reduced resolution.

I still have the Powerbook, but it won't boot. I regret ever selling my PowerMac 9500 though.
It's a negotiation tactic.

What I found is that extremely high performers will simply ignore posts without salary information. So it only really works if you are looking at hiring average devs.
I think you're being misled here. The steps we're taking to prevent covid19 are also having a dramatic impact on the spread of other respiratory infections. It's not so much that covid19 is under control - it's that our attempts to control it are suppressing deaths from flu etc.
I'd be interested to learn the details of the scrambling algorithm. Hopefully the answer is not "it's proprietary".
Looking at graphs of daily deaths which extend beyond that one, that is just the through before the next big wave.
I don't remember anything that bad either. They didn't fit the thermal requirements of laptops that well, but even the G4 with Altivec was plenty fine for many things.

The Intel move still made lots of sense, but that didn't make PPC unuseable.
The left is suffering from mass hysteria on a level never before seen.
> Some people are going to buy a new pair of AirPods Max every year for $550. It hurts me deep down to know this fact, and it offends me on a level that's hard to describe with words.

Is this a reflection on Apple's product strategy or that there are inequalities in the world?
Arguably, death by old age is not a bad thing, it's the gold standard which we can all hope to reach.
Disappointed you're being downvoted. Everybody seems to have taken an "if you're not with us you're against us" approach. The left appeals to your sense of morality ("you're evil if you support this president") and the right appeals to your sense of intelligence ("you're an idiot if you support socialism").

My only issue is that it's become impossible to even talk about your opinions without being given a label. How does anyone grow in this environment?
Which is how it ends up structured to benefit the bankers.

People who only do something once or twice are more likely to defer to the 'experts', the only problem is the experts have their own incentives that are not directly aligned. The experts are also really good at selling since that's mostly their job so it makes it even harder to go against the grain.

I get why founders do it, but I think it's a mistake. Founders are also usually pretty good at first principles thinking and risk taking. DPO is also pretty solid ground now that a few companies have done it.

> "Eh, would you really though?"

Impossible to know, but I think so? After you're worth 5+ Billion it's more about money you can leverage via your company to grow and build. I think personal wealth has diminishing returns a bit before that point. Losing out on that much money for the company would irritate me.

There's a funny story (I searched briefly, but couldn't find) that when Elon took Tesla public via an IPO and the bankers told him the initial price he just said "no, at least $XX or no deal". I think the bank price was $17 and he said at least $19, but I could be off on the numbers. They did his price and that price was still too low.
"BFD" here means "big f#$%ing deal", not "b??? factorization domain".
Look at what Amazon's MBAs are doing with Whole Foods. I've never seen a great business destroyed so quickly.
We do have a means to affect the outcome: stay at home, wear masks, practice general precautions.
> Due to Apple Pay’s privacy architecture it can’t recognize transfers and always charges full fare.

I don't think this is the case—in London, I'm pretty sure you can pay with Apple Pay and have your fares "capped" (so you never pay more than the price of a full-day ticket). You can also set up an account with your card number (the one on your physical card) and view any recent journeys you've made.
Ah, this is my bad. Sorry. I thought I saw a Show HN the other day that linked to a blog post. And I also did it because the ‘How’ got removed from the title when I tried it originally, which I guess is house style. Is this why the post has been taken down from front page? If so, is that fair given it was an honest mistake?
https://archive.md/rIWgE
> Linux beta 5.4.81 with amdgpu

I don't know anything specific about AMDGPU, but if I were you, the first step I'd always try is to reproduce it in the latest mainline kernel, it's currently 5.9. Check the documentation of your distribution to see how can you get one. Often a partial fix exists in a newer kernel, and you may be able to identify and debug a different part of the issue.
Seasonal storage?

That's not a thing. You just scale your solar/wind installations to the part of the season with the least resource (solar and wind do not often have the same low point, either), which is economically feasible because it is cheaper than nuclear (and coal).
I found the Netlify CLI pretty exasperating to use. In addition to it just being straight up information overload at any given step, the feedback it does print out is often misleading or the opposite of helpful in some other way. More from my notes on that day:

> My use case is to deploy a static site. I have a directory containing the pages. I've installed the Netlify CLI (itself a stupidly fiddly process). [And I've read the docs by now.] I should be able to init and deploy, trivially, right?

Wrong. Without even trying I ran into some crash bugs in the CLI, for what seems to be a bog-standard use case. On a hunch, I decided to check what would happen if I moved the .git subdirectory somewhere else and re-ran. And whaddaya know, I found that it worked reliably when there was no .git subdirectory anywhere to be found, and it reliably failed when it was present. So even though the contents of .git/ are completely irrelevant for the use case, the CLI is evidently both (a) trying to do something with it, and (b) making some bold assumptions about what's in there and failing hard. My money is on "Nobody at Netlify is even testing this."

(FWIW, no I didn't report this. The overall "feel" of their stuff leads me to believe it would be a painful experience with no upside. Several years ago, I interacted with some Netlify folks early after their launch to give some feedback that was more of the sort "I'm reaching out to inform you of a problem for your own benefit and help you resolve it" than it was anything like "I'm here to get you to help me with my problem". The overall tone of the responses were pretty obnoxious under those circumstances, so I noped out and never gave them any serious consideration until this year, where I discovered the situation above. I have to say it pretty much validated my early opinion.)
There is no formal difference between masters and PhD courses. I think he calls it a PhD level course because it is "research oriented" and requires work that perhaps a Masters student looking to complete credits might not be interested in.

The evaluation criteria is also fairly subjective and rough, which might not work for a larger masters level course.
So there we have it: the majority of users do use custom configs rather than starter kits.
> This has no safety benefit, since generics are resolved at compile time

It's not only safety. That's why C++ concepts were invented. https://cpp.godbolt.org/z/8Gcrj6
Maybe not murder, but I know women hesitant to stay in AirBNBs due to the stories of hidden cameras.
I have seen just about every election related post flagged and then unflagged in the last few months. Does not include downvotes against people who disagree with each other. The community is being resilient to this behaviour and it’s going back to normal but it was a weird few months
Oh yeah hospitals all benefited so much from having to postpone expensive well-compensated elective surgeries for months, after which many of the heart, cancer, etc. patients were just dead so it wasn't so much a postponement as a cancellation. Their CFOs were turning cartwheels. Q people are really tying themselves in knots trying to explain away the excess deaths. (Hint: this goofy argument doesn't work either.)
I guess Apple is done. Just doesn't matter at all. Wrap it up boys.

Groan. Alright buddy.

"those 3 have less than 80 million citizens combined"

Those three combined have a GDP almost double India's. And the rich of India overwhelmingly carry iPhones, as an aside. The rich everywhere carry iPhones. The middle-class everywhere carry iPhones. If you're trying to sell a product or service, worldwide, there's a reason the iPhone is the first-class market.
I mean, Doordash just IPOed this week, and that come out of Stanford GSB. If you want something with an arguably more innovative product, Stitch Fix also came out of Stanford GSB, and it was a pretty unique business model at the time.

Some MBAs are pretty good, although I suspect it’s mostly selection bias (the people would’ve been great even without attending b school).
Is heart disease transmitted from person to person?
I have to be completely honest here...

Entertainment is a multi billion dollar industry. Companies like Disney are making record profits. Instead of relying on taxes and fees to make government-approved entertainment why not simply... make content people want to watch?
Note the US data for 2020 ends in early November; before the large November surge.

I would not take that much comfort given the surge in case counts. I don't doubt we are better handling cases now vs April, at the same time hospitals will soon hit the triage stage.

Positive tests tend to trail exposure by 1-2 weeks, while hospitalizations trail another week or two behind positive tests. Deaths can lag even further (not sure on the numbers here). So we're only just getting into the beginning of the post-Thanksgiving spike impacting hospitals.

While most serious cases hit those with compounding factors (age, health, etc.) if you look at the percent of excess deaths, it spans all age groups (again data ends early Nov):

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores...

The other good resource is John Hopkins has a chart overlaying date of policy changes vs cases (or deaths):

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/state-timeline/new-confirme...
> Traits and fixed array bounds do not play well together. This is considered a bug, and it's been a bug since at least 2017. Generic parameters can only be types, not numbers.

FWIW the remedy for this is being stabilized soon: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/79135
The difference between the peak of this year and previous years is about 50%. The graph makes it look much larger.
Please don't go into personal attack, and please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments to HN. You've unfortunately been doing a lot of that lately, and it's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Honest question, why do the liberals feel in danger?

I personally don't attribute myself to either side, nor did I vote for either. However...

I've seen rioting (been caught up in one and feared for my safety), noticed stuff being blocked by the left (1st amendment), going after firearm ownership (2nd amendment), and a constant attack on all conservatives & their ideals / objectives.

What exactly are the conservatives doing? I don't see anything necessarily being blocked / attacked? Am I missing something?
Mainly, China has to work on cutting coal, and the USA has a stubbornly slow-to-green transportation sector. Then there's agriculture and manufacturing, those are much harder long term trends. I'm thinking EU and progressive US areas may drive cost premiums down for green options, so that then other economies can come in at lower price points afterwards.
All true. But ...

1) our response to 9/11 was wrong
2) it's all about perception of risk and control. 9/11 appeared to be a situation where the US, individually and as a state, had zero control over a nearly existential threat risk. Rightly or wrongly, a lot of the US, individually and as a state, seems to believe that in the case of covid19, we have large amounts of control over a rather small risk.
Y-axis starting at zero is essential for bar charts, but not necessarily time series / line charts. Insisting on a zero axis can crunch the data and obscure the trends and is unnatural for some data sets (e.g. the mortality time series—if that trend line ever goes to 0...something has gone awry).

Quote from Tufte on the subject:

> ” In general, in a time-series, use a baseline that shows the data not the zero point. If the zero point reasonably occurs in plotting the data, fine. But don't spend a lot of empty vertical space trying to reach down to the zero point at the cost of hiding what is going on in the data line itself.”

https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...
> A modern linux machine boots in seconds.

Into a clean screen, without any of the webpages, terminals, and other applications I've been running.

Recently upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 and found out GNOME3 doesn't even support session save. (Seriously, WTF?) So sleep/hibernate is the only thing that allows me to get back to what I was doing.
Looks more like design-by-committee to me e.g. committee decided "we need more uniformity across our logos" and then some poor designer gets landed with the task of making that happen.
Why use stainless steel? I thought "stainless" is mainly useful because it doesn't rust (is there water & oxygen in a MSR?). Also, couldn't the steel have another layer inside (e.g. just iron or something else non-reactive) so that it never comes into contact with the salts?
No offence, but parsing (in a compiler, not in general) is probably the most boring part of a compiler.

As this is a PhD course, I'd expect the goal of it to be preparing students for research in the field, not writing parsers for some industrial company.

Also, there are definitely courses that teach you how to write a parser. But we usually don't call them advanced.
The US is free to plunge millions of its own citizens into poverty to take advantage of this "loophole" if it wishes.
I took it as a like IC promotion - senior to staff or something - but you raise an excellent point.

A promotion into managing people comes with dealing with people's ego and emotions and you have their compensation and well being tied up in it as well...

I've had some gigs where I've sorta shirked managing people - I hate dealing with performance reviews and the like. But I have liked mentoring people, so I've accepted dotted-line reports where the actual management responsibilities fall to my boss and I help people build cool things while leading some team that does that.