skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is it so hard for you to accept that people who spend the first 18 years of their life surrounded by other white Christians are more likely harbor racist beliefs than someone who grows up surrounded by people of many different colors and religions?

I spent the first 18 years of my life surrounded by other white Christians and had a completely different experience. It's still not hard for me to accept that happens. What's hard for me to accept is the complete lack of nuance in your reasoning. There's really no room left for discussion after you're through painting a picture, but that picture does not jibe with reality. That's aside from the siege mentality that isn't supported even by the picture but goes along with it.

> From my "outside" perspective, you're obviously stuck in a bubble in which people must go out of their way to pretend both sides of every issue are equally valid.

"Both sides." "Valid." You're framing the argument in terms of your bubble. It's not true, by the way, that I think every argument is equally valid. There's plenty enough bullshit in the world.
An ideal HR department would not yield to ultimatums unless they felt that not yielding is a sound, ethical orientation. Thus, a trained ethicist's position ought to be at least tentatively considered without rushing to a decision.
1. That is still Facebook violating my privacy. How about if I create a virtual profile of you on a page of my website, list it in a search engine, and provide unverified (and likely false) information about you that can also be damaging? Would your feelings change or would you continue to let me run your public profile out of principle as you've described here?

2. I have already answered this. I deleted it. I'm happy to share the email that shows I deleted it, not deactivated. I additionally deleted my data as well, so I have two emails to share if you so desire.

3. There are websites that do this and it's not considered censoring. Reddit regularly has rules against doxxing or naming as well as proper attribution. People have gone as far as to setup bots and alerts to remove information or give proper attribution. This idea is not revolutionary and your presentation of it is maximalist at best.
All of which is caused by her going public with vague accusations. Had she not fought with her boss, and made the unreasonable demand of knowing who her anonymous reviewers were, she'd be able to have a nice quiet talk with a lawyer while still on the payroll, and eventually write a well sourced article about it once she left calmly and under her own power.

So no. You don't get slack once you make heinous public allegations. You'd better have your ducks in a row before attempting to tear someone down.
Is "disc" British English?

I have always understood "disk" to mean a floppy disk or hard disk (as short for diskette), and "disc" to refer to circular discs like CDs. (Yes, disks have discs inside them but they are squareish to hold)

Seeing people refer to floppy disks as discs really bugs me for some reason.
Author here, happy to answer any questions! Life is good on Linux :-)
All I hear with your argument is "its different this time" and "we know better than everybody before". Anyway, I have been divesting my savings from USD to prepare for the coming dollar collapse.
Hiring people on a 45-day notice would only make it take longer...
A lot of things such as OTC cough medicine and some opiods contain the active ingredient of Tylenol so that's a good use case for avoiding it. Ibuprofen has issues of its own, but IIRC it's typically safe to take 2-4x the recommend dose on the bottle, which could be pushing it if you did the same with Tylenol over an extended period (especially if you're a drinker). I've heard anecdotally that if Tylenol were invented today the FDA wouldn't approve it because it's relatively easy to OD.

Meanwhile, doctors I've been to offer out prescriptions for 800mg ibuprofen pretty freely and don't seem too worried about side effects (IMO it's easier to just take a bunch of the smaller ones instead of a single horsepill)
Yeah Roku confuses me more than any of the other holdings but apparently it has also outperformed the S&P500 so it turned out to be a good pick.
Yes, that is one of the things I was amazed with when I moved from Australia to the USA. You can buy Acetaminophen over here in America in jumbo size 500 or even 1000 tablet containers over the counter - that's a lot of a pretty powerful drug.
There's a distinction between "It stands to reason that, if a company has had racially-biased hiring and promotion processes, there are unqualified people who benefited from the bias just as much as there are qualified people who lost out because of it, and we should re-evaluate people in a race-neutral manner, which will necessarily cause unqualified people who have benefited from racial biases to leave" (which is a claim I have heard "Gebru's crowd on Twitter" make) and "We should re-evaluate people in a non-race-neutral manner and cause people to leave because of their race, regardless of qualification" (which is not).

But making that distinction requires some critical reasoning skills.

In particular, I imagine there's a large crowd of people who are in the group that would be negatively affected by the first proposal trying to paint it as the second - possibly people who have convinced themselves that they have their job due to their genuine qualification, and if they lose it, it is because they were evaluated in a non-race-neutral manner. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Social media has both increased and decreased radicalization at the same time. For those who already had radical ideas, who previously couldn't find others with the same ideas, they are now more radicalized (think conspiracy theories and so on).

For those with open minds, it's allowed them to learn new things from people far away with very different ideas.
The real question. Remove tsla from arkk, how well did they perform?
Facebook's ad ban isn't stopping some right-wing sites
Shallow Trees with Heavy Leaves
Google has it’s own Google for their internal use
Me too. But when I got new hardware and installed Windows first (because setting up dual boot is easier this way and I had to work with LabView, which worked way better on Windows) I never came around to install Linux.

Main reason for this is the Windows Subsystem for Linux - -with WSL I could use all the tools I run on Linux and my workflow didn't change much. I use ConEmu with WSL as a drop terminal and it works totally fine.
You do realize that every civilization that has ever existed has both enslaved others and been enslaved in the past, right? Where do your reparations end? Are you going to forcefully take money from me because African Americans were enslaved generations ago, but then forcefully have money taken from them for the other Africans and other races they themselves enslaved in Africa before that? Where does it end?

Do you honestly think that forcefully stealing money from someone at the threat of imprisonment if they don't pay is really going to fly? Do you think putting a gun to my head and taking money from me really makes sense when my ancestors emigrated here only a couple generations ago? How do you foresee this working? How do you foresee this helping anything?

Of course my language is extreme, but that's what taxes and similar payments are. It's backed by the force of the government and if I don't pay, eventually someone with a gun will come to put me in prison, and if I refuse, that gun will be pointed at me.
https://archive.is/pKtWT
I think many of your first-time visitors are going to click the hosts' faces, get confused when nothing happens, and then give up.

That should at least take them to a description of the show, and ideally let them listen to a clip.
Yup, that's kind of the point, it really isn't a big deal these days (or at least less and less reasons one might have to be on Windows). The big one, games, has seen massive improvement in the last few years with Wine/Proton/Steam.
I had a feeling someone would point this out. But I would contend me seeing this was still good. I was able to provide feedback to the proposer, and others were able to comment and think about it as well.

At the end of the day we've all expanded our minds a bit.
Holding my two hands up--I saw this post on HN and wanted to help, and using a web app that I've built seemed to be the logical step.

But yeah, I could definitely see how it would come across this way, and I'll revert the links back to the PR! Hope that helps.
Not a doctor and I wouldn't listen to medical advice from HN, but you can find a lot on this:

>Therefore, it may be beneficial to administer APAP(Tylenol) in combination with NAC routinely to reduce rates of liver failure and death. Because NAC's main role is to reduce the accumulation of APAP's toxic metabolites, the concomitant administration of NAC should have no impact on the efficacy of APAP as an antipyretic and analgesic.

From: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01137591 .
> Crimea is the first time a nation state has meaningfully changed its borders that I know of since WW2.

I took a look out of curiosity, and there have been a lot more border changes in the world than I was expecting. Lots due to decolonization in Africa. The partition of India in 1947 was huge. Lots of European changes, of course. Many small border cleanups. The changes go on for page.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_border_change... (That page is since WWI, so skip to 1945.)
I've never really played Myst (although I have intended to for a while). My Apple IIe has a monochrome monitor, and it was a little bit too hard to follow what was on the screen. I'll have to try it on a color monitor, but both the computer and the appropriate monitor are rather heavy. :)
Don't schedule so many meetings.
Likely still better than the S&P500 and the Nasdaq 100. Hopefully someone else commenting will answer.
I think this kind of thing is really only economical for niche products like micro greens and fancy lettuce with high markups. It can be grown under perfect conditions, then transported and used the same day it's harvested.

So, pretty cool from a technical and culinary perspective, but it's never going to produce staple crops economically. It seems kind of silly to portray it as being particularly eco-friendly or as addressing concerns like food security.
Again, this is false.

“The C14N-20000119 Canonical XML draft described a method for rewriting namespace prefixes such that two documents having logically equivalent namespace declarations would also have identical namespace prefixes. The goal was to eliminate dependence on the particular namespace prefixes in a document when testing for logical equivalence. However, there now exist a number of contexts in which namespace prefixes can impart information value in an XML document. For example, an XPath expression in an attribute value or element content can reference a namespace prefix. Thus, rewriting the namespace prefixes would damage such a document by changing its meaning (and it cannot be logically equivalent if its meaning has changed).”

https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n/#NoNSPrefixRewriting
I am not 100% convinced on the third transformation,

> The final optimization notices that q is never written to, so we can replace q[0] by its initial value 0:

Can we? q is at a language level, possibly aliased with the write immediately above to (p+1), and we know it's aliased because of the if statement.

Now, that's a C rule, and the article does note that it is only using C syntax to express LLVM. So, I guess, what are LLVM's aliasing rules?

(Indeed, there was originally a write to q, which we replaced with an aliased write to q, so it seems to me that on the whole, the various optimizations are assuming different things about aliasing.)
DTD does not know about namespaces and checks against "prefix:local-name".

E.g. the xhtml dtd will not accept this:

<h:html xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/>

If you want to change prefixes, use XML Schema or Relax NG.
Supposing you were terminated, in your view, without just cause; that you had issued what you viewed as an entirely reasonable ultimatum — the grounds of which, in this case, you can read about. Certainly there is a good chance you would be deeply upset, too, and might find it difficult to engage with individuals who are, by default, skeptical of her; i.e. to take a continued, defensive (as opposed to "offensive") stance. For the sake of argument: I would perhaps argue that the skepticism itself, which is held by many in tech at the moment, could be collectively considered institutionally racist.
For printing, I found it way easier to go with companies that actually support Linux like Brother.

Battery Life: can't argue with you here, it's certainly a compromise if you work on a laptop.
Ask HN: Nonprofit founder cumulative expense reimbursement
Does anyone have an HR consultant fixer/whisperer they recommend for helping a nonprofit founder sort out getting reimbursed for expenses I paid for from 2011-2019?
In a sense that was me too, where everything moved to emacs, Firefox, programs like that where I can run them where I want. Games was the big hold over, along with photo editing (hello Darktable). It is great to have that freedom now.
I don't know about other people, but for me paracetamol does very little, so if I had even moderate pain I could see why I would be tempted to take too much.

On the other hand, UK has OTC ibuprofen+codeine which can fix essentially anything.
iPhone Manufacturing Workers Allegedly Arrested/Beaten in India During Protests
Hmm, acetaminophen/paracetamol is listed here next to aspirin, ibuprofen and opioids are also listed there. I don't think it would not be approved at all, maybe not for over the counter sale. Here in Germany you get it only in pharmacies. No prescription is needed for buying up to 10g of active substance per visit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Model_List_of_Essential_...
The case of the extra 40ms. (Not TCP delayed ACKs)
Oracle's Larry Ellison: Snowflake Is Killing Amazon Redshift
Mostly, it's "'Of Men and Mice' isn't just a movie..."

But, also:

- Nature/Nurture is almost unsolvable for humans, at least within the confines of commonly accepted ethical standards

- Even where you can show statistically significant between-group differences, they are almost certain to be swamped by variability between individuals. Example: Women are, on average, slightly older than men (because of higher life expectancy). The p-value here is as close to zero as you'll get in the real world.

But, given two randomly selected people, one male and one female, knowing the above is close to useless! The probability of the woman being older differs from 0.5 by no more than a fraction of a percentage point.

- The difference b/w mice and humans is that humans have the ability to overcome biology with reason.
This reminded me of back in the day with Xbox 360 and the cat and mouse we played with MS. MS started making their games I believe 4.8gb in size and all the pirates could only buy DVDs which were smaller as nothing bigger was actually available. The first thing pirates did was truncate the games and removed some padding so they could fit all the security features the disc required to play and remain stealth. Then MS found a way to detect truncated discs and many people were banned. Then one of the 360 main hackers came out with a genius idea to take the discs we could buy and modify the firmware to a certain brand and model of DVD burner to allow the burner to burn right to the outer edge of the DVD. This was possible because all dvds are actually slightly larger then their listed size but standard DVD burners could not burn to the extreme edge. Some burns didn’t write perfect and sometimes you had to burn it a few times before it was stealth. They also had a program to see if the stealth worked and the disc passed or failed. I never did receive a ban and eventually moved to another mod on my 360 that didn’t require discs at all. What a flashback reading this article.
I went digging for citations to prove my point. However, since I last looked at it back in May there have been a lot of studies that have since completed and they seem to overwhelmingly point to it having no benefit.

Unfortunately many of the studies don't test it correctly in my opinion, as they often test HCQ alone or with Azithromycin. There were some early indications it works as a zinc ionophore to transport zinc into the cells and it's the zinc that has the effect. I personally supplement with zinc and quercetin for this precise reason - I will continue to do so.

I'm not entirely convinced that's wrong, but I will certainly concede that the data now supports that HCQ by itself doesn't seem to have a clinically significant effect on mortality or severity of illness with Covid-19.

I won't exonerate the media though, because they were quick with their early claims that it doesn't work at a time when the evidence was stronger in the other direction (in my opinion) or ambiguous at best. One need look no further for support of that than the sheer amount of studies that were triggered into HCQ for Coivd-19 treatment (over 150 registered clinical trials!) That would have been silly if there was no good reason at the time to think it might be effective.
also jack ma. brilliant guy but god damn is he hard to look at
Do we need to push legislation to ensure unlocked bootloaders? Or even a "click this box to void your warranty and unlock the bootloader".
I like the idea of users being able to directly reach to the advertiser , and maybe vice versa. Something maybe for a future technology
Platforms like Facebook are not realistically opt-in. Thats actually why social networks work. Its a self-reinforcing mechanism that makes it punitive to leave.
Me too, but I'm not a designer. Are Photoshop users still stuck choosing Windows or Mac?
Running on Rosetta (and looking like an x86 cpu without fma) is likely a contributing factor, but the M1 was much slower for sums and sums of squares than a Cascadelake (Intel, avx512) cpu here:

https://github.com/chriselrod/VectorizationBase.jl/issues/22

I do a lot of SIMD optimization, so it'll be interesting to see how the M1 competes once there's native support in Julia.
SEC filings: SolarWinds says 18,000 customers were impacted by recent hack

https://www.zdnet.com/article/sec-filings-solarwinds-says-18...
Ask HN: Seeking Ideas for next AI service
I am looking for service which should exist in AI field. Cloud provider has built the training platform, notebook as service, model as service etc. What other service should exist in this landscape.
> You do realize that every civilization that has ever existed has both enslaved others and been enslaved in the past, right?

Do you realize that's an extraordinary claim? You have proof for this, right?
WTF Is DeFi? List of Tokens and DEXs
It's probably not fair, but the side effect of it is that people don't freeze in their homes, and heating can be more efficient because they can use whole building systems.

And at the end of the day, the tenants basically pay for it anyway as part of their rent. It's just spread out more.
Is there a Linux friendly GPU you recommend? I have a NUC with Ubuntu and 32gb of RAM that I wouldn't mind plugging an eGPU into if it meant I could play my Steam library (I haven't touched Windows for home/gaming about in 4 years)
Surprised to see there's still people using the term "Software Craftsman" in a positive way.
As someone who both plays videogames and tries to improve with a piano, think there's a key difference: piano exercises me mentally, I know when I get to a point where my head isn't going to get anything out of more practice for a while, and I want to do something else. I go to bed in a similar state like after going to the gym, that is, eager to sleep and rest.

With videogames, the experience usually is very different. I'll blink, and suddenly it's time to go to bed and my whole free time for the day is gone. I don't want to go to bed because my mind is telling me that there's still more day left, no way it's all done already; so I usually go to bed really late.

Days feel far longer when I'm not playing, in a good way. Gaming is like presing the fast forward button on your life.
Nice! It looks really cool and definitely more useful than what I've built haha. I'll check it out!
> When the & operator is used on 'a' it should mark it as unsafe to place the 'a' on a CPU register

Not necessarily, as the compiler might be smart enough to adjust the other operations and enregister the a variable anyway. There's no ceiling on how smart the optimiser can be. An extreme case:

int a = 42;
&a;
// do things with 'a'

This uses the & operator but doesn't even save the result of the expression, so the compiler will presumably chop that whole second statement as dead code, and may still be able to enregister a.

> optimizations should never affect how the program behaves (except making it run faster, of course)

Most of the time a C++ compiler's optimiser must preserve observable behaviour, provided undefined behaviour is not invoked, but not always. C++ permits elision of certain copy/move operations even if this changes observable behaviour. [0]

Also, if the program is multithreaded and has race conditions, an optimiser isn't required to ensure that the relative speeds of different threads remains unchanged, which may lead to a change in observed behaviour. Of course, in such a case, except making it run faster contradicts never affect how the program behaves, so you've sort of covered that anyway.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/12953129/
Thank you so much for the kind words! For what it's worth, we're mods of video-dev, but we don't see that as "our" Slack, it's run by a bunch of folks in the online video community. Demuxed is similar in that we're organizers, but we 100% avoid it being a company conference.

Also, WebRTC for the Curious was on HN a while back, but for those that didn't see it the first time around: https://webrtcforthecurious.com/
I'm also seeing lots of gmail bounces for legitimate gmail accounts today (starting around 14 Dec 2020 22:36 UTC).

Seems to be ongoing and blocking many (but not all) emails to accounts being reported as not existing.
Ok, want to login to Dominion Voting Systems' SolarWinds instance? Here you go. So much for "powering it off"... [0]

[0]: https://dvsfileshare.dominionvoting.com/Web%20Client/Mobile/...
Show HN: A digitally mindful website blocker
Wasn't Jesus a victim?
That’s sound advice for the day-to-day of programming but I think it still misses much of the power of abstraction. If you choose a different abstraction you might find a completely different way to express your solution which could be orders of magnitude less code.

Perhaps the most absurd example of such a thing I can think of is when people figure out they can replace some gigantic mapreduce cluster with an awk one-liner and have it actually run faster.
This reminds me of a lecture I saw a while back from Robert Sapolsky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY1x8k79bZE&ab_channel=Chris...

TLDR[0]: dopamine is released during anticipation of reward, not when the reward is actually obtained, and the amount correlates with the uncertainty attached to the risk.

[0] It's been a while since I saw it and I don't have time to go through it again, so hopefully I'm summarizing accurately.
The Japanese authorities understood Covid-19 better than most
Email has priority levels. Sorting tasks into quadrants is a popular technique. People understand who should see a message, if it's important, and if it's urgent are 3 different questions. Slack just doesn't have a way to tell them apart.
It can actually be better at best. But yes, tediously frustrating at it's worst.
Isn't there some limited amount reproduction fair use?
With WSL2 there was never before LESS reason to switch away from Windows. Some people are happy with the windows ui/ux, believe it or not.