skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
croit | Linux System Engineer | Munich | ONSITE or REMOTE | Full/Part/Freelance

We are a small but very skilled and ambitious consulting and product development company in the area of software defined storage solutions based on Ceph. Our goal is to simplify the usage of complex technologies to address a broader market. The beauty of that: We get to play around with complex technologies the whole day.

If you are interested to learn and/or work on the whole package (OS, software, networking, services like NFS, S3, RBD, SMB, ...), reach out to us at jobs@croit.io
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25766204
From their keynote: https://youtu.be/Lzgij1q_W1Y?t=39

It looks like it is basically a LCD without backlight. So nothing to do with eInk technology.
Raku seems to be stuck in a "we'll optimise that later" dead-end, especially with string processing. Parse a large log file with a regex and compare Raku with Perl5. Raku has a long way to go.
This makes the assumption that the usage patterns for all drugs matches alcohol. It's more likely that alcohol simply really is not that addictive or harmful (compared to "harder" drugs like meth or cocaine).
Marcus argues convincingly and appears less biased than others who benefit from the current high level of investment in DNN.

It seems to be true that no better proposals for solutions have come from his side so far. But I think his criticism per se is valuable, especially his reminder that one cannot simply ignore sixty years of research.

EDIT: and of course he is not the only renowned scientist who calls for reflection; here is a quote from an interview with Judea Pearl: "AI is currently split. First, there are those who are intoxicated by the success of machine learning and deep learning and neural nets. They don’t understand what I’m talking about. They want to continue to fit curves. But when you talk to people who have done any work in AI outside statistical learning, they get it immediately. I have read several papers written in the past two months about the limitations of machine learning." (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/machi...)
He reacted to similar criticisms: https://twitter.com/Francois_Ruffin/status/13485575743843164...

> "Freedom of speech isn't without limits", I know, but it falls to the people, the tribunals and the officials to decide those limits. Not private companies.

He's not saying these are good people, he's saying the arbitrary nature of these decisions, and the fact that they're being made by unaccountable corporations, is dangerous.
Lol, the classic "why don't we debate the Nazis instead of punching them" line. Impressive that people are still able to convince themselves that this is ok.
Quoth wikipedia:

In 2001, Portugal became the first European country to abolish all criminal penalties for personal drug possession
Has anyone considered rotating setup from independent modules joined by tethers? For example, for voyage to Mars, launch two Starships, connect them with, say, kilometer tether and make them rotate for artifical gravity. On perpendicular axis to the tether.

Cons: you need EVA to move between modules

Pros: it's simpler, modules can be more easily added/removed and coriolis forces aren't an issue.
Did not expect to see this on the front page of HN - I'm nearly finished my MS at Stevens and have this class planned for next fall - really looking forward to it.
Isn't it just an example of democratic content moderation? We up vote, down vote and flag content. We don't get the ability to do so unless we are a community member of some tenure. It's augmented by centralized moderation by a handful of moderators.

How well it works is always a topic here.
I was shocked by this article, and Dr. Hart also supports our work at http://dnnyc.org.

That said I’m fairly sure only something like 10% of Heroin users become addicted.
The core problem is that you don't have intellectual freedom. You won't get funded if you are not researching the hot new thing.
> I expect to have to put aside very little for retirement

Which country? You should definitely be saving for retirement
Interesting data — and heartwarming to see! — but I’m not sure it’s the right measure.

A thousand tweets that are each seen by a different (non-intersecting) group of a thousand people, each tweet being an accusation of evil directed at a specific person or group, does as much damage as one tweet seen by a million.

I hope that this measure would show the same result as the two lists you linked to; my current guess is that if someone did this analysis, the result would be almost as positive, but not quite, on the grounds that hate-inducing tweets are against the TOS and will be hidden or deleted when they reach a visibility threshold.
And tax them and use the tax money for rehab centers for those that can't.
You can use a polyfill such as https://github.com/github/fetch.
Audio Chat Rooms
Audio chat rooms where you can talk to people to increase your friendship circles and share common interests.
The setup for Signal is basically just two steps: Open Google Play / App Store, click Install, open app and confirm SMS code (automatically handled on iOS and probably also Android). You search for other users with your existing phone contact list. How easy is the Matrix setup?
No and I wouldn't if they asked.

I don't think gender has any bearing on how one performs their job and to promote such a thing could do more harm than good.

When I see someone with their pronouns on twitter I usually don't engage with them. People who do this more often than not tend to make everything about gender politics where it would otherwise be irrelevant.
It's viewed by some as a political matter, but in reality, the intent is to ensure that everyone feels comfortable sharing their pronouns without making people feel awkward. So by mentioning my own (he/him), I'm enabling a non-cis person to share theirs without them feeling odd about it, which boosts inclusivity.

That's the intent. I haven't done it yet (I probably should), but while I don't see neutrality towards stating pronouns in the following manner, I do see resistance from people around stating pronouns as being potentially motivated by bias. Inclusiveness boosts work output from everyone, and assuming peoples' pronouns is a rapid way to alienate a measurable population of workers to a degree that could impact their success.

Of the three east coast firms I've worked in the last six years, I've seen it recommended at two. I've seen it dissuaded at zero.

Edit: made the change on HN. I did it on Twitter some time ago apparently. It's also interesting watching the points swing on this. I suspect it's equivalent to corona masking in a way: common usage of pronouns reduces exposure to hatred by non-cis folk much the way usage of masks reduces exposure to covid-19 and complications by vulnerable folk.
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, et al are the broadest method to broadcast.

They're not limited by geography, time of day, cable provider, and due to recording capabilities, the messages kept online easily without many restrictions. And potentially most importantly, they're easy for everyone to find.

In 2018, a number of people sued Trump for him blocking them on Twitter. It was viewed as unconstitutional to be blocked from reading and engaging with his messages. That went to the Courts and they agreed, his Twitter account was declared a "public forum" and he had to unblock them.

That's the real mismatch here.
Im an employee at a company (400 employees US) has an article in internal homepage suggesting all employees do, executives do it, most employees dont though
> If an idea is guaranteed to work then it moves from the realm of research to engineering.

The idea of the Dyson Sphere is guaranteed to work, so I guess the author is under the impression that there will not be research involved.
Wow that is amazing.

> How widespread this is across industry?

Not very widespread.

> Do you think this is a good/bad initiative?

Extremely bad initiative. It would seriously make me question whether or not I would want to stay at that employer. Of course I wouldn't set any pronouns and refuse it if they required it.

I am eagerly waiting for the ultra left-leaning HN crowd to downvote me to oblivion!
Along with the same kind of lock-in to Android or IOS smartphones and the forced use of phone-numbers as user identifier.

So yeah, great that it's not Facebook, but not very useful otherwise.
Only 1 in 3 chance
I work with two small non-tech consultancies. For one, some of us are doing this (informally) with support from management. In emails signature, zoom calls, mural/miro screennames etc.

For another, we do this internally but not externally. We work with a tremendously, broad spectrum of people to generate social good. Some of these stakeholders would not receive this well, but at the same time actively invest time and money on key common areas (be it women's health to child mental health).

So in this organization, I think we would have to think throughly about the potential to alienate some stakeholders that sets us back on other social good activities.
1912, the content would fit the term antique. It denotes, with proof, how accents evolve. The proof is relatively unique for its age. Hence, it is historic, it is history. Relevant history, even, given the uniqueness.

For me, personally (YMMV), I am going to link it to my mother (born 1951, my father passed away) who has been to Paris in the 70s with my father, as well as with me about 10 years ago. She's also far better in French than I am. I'm curious on her take. Same with my mother-in-law; she loves the French language.

Here's another example which shows how society changes. A Trip Down Market Street [1], San Francisco a couple of days or weeks before the 1906 earthquake. You can take from it what you want, what I found interesting I commented on in that item [2].

If people upvoted, it was deemed interesting. Regardless, you don't have to enjoy it. I know this is primarily a native English speaking website, but does that mean interesting history from outside of native English speaking regions is forbidden?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15944621

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16034871
Hyperoperators by The Damian.
My company encourages everyone to create an "operating manual" that includes things like preferred pronouns. Not required at all, but helpful to avoid missteps.

Since the pronoun movement I've found myself avoiding pronouns altogether. For example instead of "team, welcome Jane. She is our new lead designer. She previously worked at acme corp" I would say "team, welcome our new lead designer Jane who previously worked at acme corp"
I think weed is by far the most popular drug on all Darknetmarkets
Well that's just impossible. What I just noticed was that when I looked deeper on MUI components, their internals are bulky and almost always used a mixed of JS & CSS instead of just CSS. They even import an external library for their styling.

On low-end devices it's a bit too much (I'm talking about edge-case users with phones as cheap as $50). It was also quite a chore keeping up with their API changes every couple months.

I forced myself to cut down on components and just style my UI with CSS. It's more consistent, more predictable, and less strain on the end-user's device. It's a trade-off across looking good, better end-user performance, good user experience, good developer experience, and having more time for the product and users instead of maintaining and updating dependencies.
My current view is that I do not give pronouns as I assume an interlocutor will use a good-faith assumption, and I react appropriately if they are wrong. It helps that I have a traditionally-male forename. I do not conflate others' pronouns with their sexual orientations or preferences as they are rarely any of my business.

If I'm asked I am not uncomfortable to state my pronouns and I consider such a question to be perfectly cromulent.

If someone proffers pronouns I take great care in using them correctly, as I do the spelling of their name and how they express any title they may have. What's in a name? Respect is part of the answer.
Very cool! I like the idea of smart watches but don't really like the walled ecosystems or incentives of smart devices manufacturers to sell user data. Unfortunately it seems sold out for now.
Only if we have specific pronouns we want others to use. The biggest value it provides is saving that uncomfortable conversation where you correct/are corrected when first meeting someone.
FYI, Linode is hiring anyone with Kubernetes experience
As a user, I love having a single executable file and not worrying about anything else like alien dependencies that will usually not work on my outdated distro.

But from the developer point of view, I've seen some claiming that maintaining an AppImage is a PITA and pretty difficult / time consuming to get right: https://github.com/phw/peek/issues/502#issuecomment-58757433...
Missing (2020)?
it's me, or it sounds a bit like french swiss accent?
Bottom-Up Index Deletion Committed to Postgres 14
Twitter thread from Peter Geoghegan, committer of the feature:

https://twitter.com/petervgeoghegan/status/13494620034173788...
Can confirm that side windows are no where near as easy to break as hollywood portrays. I went to a pick and pull junkyard with a friend a decade ago to help him find some parts for his car. Well, it was slow that day and a huge back field and we happen to have a crowbar. We wanted to shatter a window for early 20s guy mentality reasons. I swung at it one handed and the crowbar bounced right off. Both of us were confused as hell. It takes a good effort, two handed batter swing to break those windows or put in a lot of effort one handed and make sure the hook end makes contact, not the backside. That scene from 2 fast 2 furious where he uses his elbow to break a window... I have to call bullshit unless certain cars truly have really weak windows. We broke 4 different windows in cheap USA consumer vehicles, all of which put up a good fight against crowbar.
Every nation, every corporation, entire cultures are but living collections of memes with agency. And they don't much care for any one individual host.
I am from Georgia, (the country not state). My coworkers are generally LGBT neutral or friendly, never heard anything bad from anyone. I personally attend most pro-LGBT rallies.
In our language, the Georgian language, there is just one pronoun for all genders, so we don't care.
I personally consider enforcing others' choice of specific words in their speech a generally questionable practice.
Ask HN: Pay-per-Minute Game Servers
Some friends and I are considering starting a pay-per-minute game server hosting company. Our idea is to use a cloud-as-a-service provider and only spin up game server instances as users request them. Thus a user can boot up a game server (e.g. Minecraft/Killing Floor/etc) anywhere in the world and only pay for the minutes it's online.

We'll charge the same as the cloud provider charges us, plus a small percentage to cover the overhead of storing game server config, running the admin console, etc.

From initial research we estimate charging a price of $0.05 per hour for a 20-player Minecraft or standard KF2 server. This works out to be much more than the pay-per-month equivalent, but we only expect usage for short bursts like on some nights or over weekends which should leave users with bills well under our competitors'.

Would you use such a service? Would you prefer it to the normal pay-per-month providers out there? What criticisms do you have of the setup?
I think with SIMD we have a language problem - the for construct is not what we often want to use, but a map. Also lack of distinction of pure and impure functions on most C based languages, basically disallow a lot of opportunities for proper simd.
Show HN: Learn how to query and visualize graphs with Cypher in the browser
Hey HN,

Karim from Memgraph here. We just launched a project we've been toying around with for a while now, called Memgraph Playground.

The initial idea was to let anyone to learn Cypher (a popular graph query language) and get an idea of what it's like to work with graphs without any friction:

- In-browser experience. No downloads required.

- No sign up required

- Preloaded datasets with many more to come

- Step-by-step tutorials with example queries & explanations

The project is still in the early days, and we're planning to add more functionality, but for now you can:

- Run read Cypher queries only. Wright queries aren't supported

- Run some popular graph algorithms (Breadth First Search, Weighted Shortest Path). We'll be adding many more.

- Visualize your results as a graph or in a table. We'll be adding more styling options.

I hope you find this tool useful and fun. If you have any suggestions or questions please drop them in the comments below.

Cheers!
> I do not want to finance health insurance for drug addicts

I do not want to finance health insurance for you. But I have a healthy understanding of risk sharing and know I am better off with more people, yourself included, in my risk pool, than with less.
The history of Dungeon and AD&D is an interesting lesson in licensing and IP ownership. Also a lesson in power of brands and marketing.

Pathfinder is the real successor to AD&D and Paizo had the subscribers communication channels to fans and yet people remained with WotC and moved on to the new WotC system whose only connection with AD&D was the name. Back when I was a more active DM this puzzled me to no end.
I disagree. I think a common antipattern is piping only one thing.

This is good and readable:

nuclear_missile
|> open_hatch()
|> open_fuel_lines()
|> fire_thrusters(:all)
|> configure_gps(%Coordinates{...})

This is unnecessary:

word_count =
words
|> Enum.count()

This is better:

word_count = Enum.count(words)

Pipes read like a list of bullet points. We can easily deal with up to a dozen bullet points, but a single bullet point is bad grammar style.
No. I'm on th East coast in a solidly liberal area, and the only time I've ever seen pronouns listed outside of twitter was the staff name tags at a college graduation.
There are many Perl projects used in serious applications.
Here's a few:

https://www.rexify.org/ -- an automation framework

https://mojolicious.org/ -- amazing web framework

https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Class::Manual - amazing ORM
imho - after the insertion of flatpak, appimage, snaps, and in some cases dockerimages...

i fail to see what problems we've solved. it seems to me we've just duplicated the problems of competing packaging standards across distros, except now they all take up more resources and disk space than before.

it may have made a couple of devs lives easier, but the average linux desktop now is messier than a Windows XP SP1 desktop. We have apps from official repos, downloaded DEBS and/or RPMs, flatpak apps, appimages that dont' integrate into menus, snaps (if you're locked into Ubuntu), maybe a docker image or two. Nevermind half these apps are probably Electron based regardless of their crappy packaging.
My guess is that this started small (“we shouldn’t let firewalls block security updates or Find My Mac”) and once that mechanism was there people kept adding other things to it thinking about support (security filters are notorious for people blocking things without understanding the implications and then file big reports) but not the users who would be upset about not being able to block those services.
I work in tech, not politics
Apologies this is my error, you are right - my brain just got muddled :)
> you refuse to take as a SWE in Europe

Refuse to take?
>They'd sell their stake in it and go for real resources locally. The actual real resources they consume are going to be made up for by the upper-middle class having less.

That is not necessarily true if you can produce more of the resource. The extra money would drive up prices and thus make it more profitable to run a company that offers the resource. Housing is artificially restricted but the technology to build denser housing exists. Taking the island is not really a sound strategy though, because it is much more efficient to just borrow money and give it to people through government stimulus. CPI inflation will eat at the value of unproductive capital like the island away on its own.

>If anything is done about income inequality, it is probably going to involve bringing the above-median types more into line with the below-median earners.

There is no meaningful difference between lowering the top and raising the bottom. Wealth tends to flee easily so increasing the bottom is a more reliable strategy. CPI inflation is generally a force that does both at the same time.
>The web was designed to be an open system and it's slowly being more closed in. There's still areas of openness, but they get smaller every year. And every time there's a new layer of restriction added there's always someone to point out that you still can do x y and z, it's just 10-20% harder than it used to be.

I agree with the tone of your post, but it's not the web that's open (every website is created/owned/controlled by someone), it's the Internet as a whole that needs to be open.

>When apps for phones came out it was "Well, you can always just make a web app. They have no control over that." but consumers are less likely to use a web app and you don't have the same access to the device.

I understand your frustration, but while we have freedom of speech and freedom of association, etc.

And while you certainly have a right to start your own business, you don't have the right to force others to make it easy for you.

Again, I understand your frustration, but what you're arguing for just doesn't make sense.

Why should other companies be forced to change their business practices to make your life/business easier?

That's a rhetorical question of course, but you don't have to treat it as one if you don't want to.
I have a number of acquaintances on social media who advertise their pronouns. They write, post visual art, engage in a wide range of discussions and sometimes involve themselves in gender or identity issues, but I haven't noticed a proclivity towards irrelevant politics. I wonder if the phenomenon you're seeing is one more prominent on Twitter?
I don't think looking at the 30 most liked / retweeted tweets is a good measure for deciding what kind of content is most engaging. BTS makes up more than half of both of those lists - that's just a list of popular twitter accounts.

The most tweeted about people on twitter are Trump, Biden, and George Floyd[1]. I think that gives a pretty good idea of the content occupying people's minds.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/insights/2020/spending...
My small employer has made no mention of the subject, and since my coworkers are ideologically diverse it would cause conflict if they did.

I think it's worth stating pronouns if a significant fraction of the people you work with have nontraditional ones. If it's just a tiny fraction, or none, it isn't worth the trouble. Like, if you're the only kosher person in a workplace it shouldn't make it necessary to partition food according to kosher law in the office kitchen, but it may be if the majority are keeping kosher.

A "significant fraction" is of course in the eye of the beholder. But maybe we can agree that it's somewhere between 1% and 50%.
When Apple launched iOS 6, it was the first operating system to include per-app privacy controls around access to things like microphone, camera, photos, etc. Controls we consider fundamental today. It did not mention it a single time in any of its PR or marketing at all. The first reference you find to it will be from Apple blogs who were surprised to stumble upon it in the iOS 6 beta. It took Android two more years to launch a similar feature.

Yes, Apple is doubling down on its competitive advantage here. But to claim it does not and never cared for privacy is just ignoring the facts and the history. It moved the industry forward.