skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, thanks for providing your personal feedback.

Could you provide a little bit more context around where it's coming from so I know how to interpret it?

Are you someone who recently joined this company and is now having to learn Elixir? If so, are you finding it difficult? Has it been taking you months or years to learn it and still feel like you don't know it well enough? How long have you spent trying to learn?

Or are you someone who knows Elixir very well and has worked at the company for a long time doing Elixir work and you're observing the struggle to find new junior hires that are willing to learn it and finding it hard to teach it to them? It be nice if you could tell us the number of years of experience you have with Beam and Elixir as well.

Thanks
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Does this mean that every user account has their own data volume or that every user account has their home folder encrypted on a per-file basis? Or neither?

What is the privacy implications of two users (both with administrator accounts) sharing an Apple Silicon Mac?
Well, that should be solvable by giving people much better tools to manage their personal information intake. The crux of the problem is figuring out when it is OK to decide for them what they can or cannot see.
Yes, it is working on the latest releases. Note that for 9front tip, there's one small patch that you need:
https://github.com/golang/go/pull/43533
land is zero sum, but the economic value of land isn't. Farming actual food or other commodities provides value, and the better techniques allows you to provide more value.

I basically agree about pure land ownership though. Obviously this is one of the main leftist critiques of capitalist societies. I'm not sure if state ownership is any better on net though (in general, I'm fine with national parks or whatever), mostly for logistical reasons. There's a lot of external factors to consider with land too. You don't want people to do whatever and poison said land via poor management or irresponsible resource extraction.
Composition is Interpretation
I am talking about the latest Intel architecture which admittedly has not shipped on the Desktop yet, so benchmarks are not independently verified.

If you look at the mobile chips that did ship on 10nm, Intel is ahead as well.
Access has been restored, nothing to discuss here.
Really? You can't imagine any? Regardless of how unlikely it might be, there's a very real risk that shit's gonna go down in the next week and who knows what might happen. Even if nothing does happen, there's been an increasing amount of unrest in the past few years, it doesn't hurt to be prepared for the worst. You probably won't ever need to use the spare tire in your trunk, but it's reassuring to know that it's there if ever you need it.
That's what the Second Amendment, the close relationship between the NRA, Republican Party and conservative Christianity, and two hundred years of the South romanticizing the archetype of the militiaman patriot watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants will do.

Guns should be seen as just a tool, they should be legal but heavily regulated, they don't need their own Constitutional amendment. The basic premise of the Second Amendment became obsolete once the US had a standing army.
Doesn't the parent comment already anticipate this argument? They're saying that the corporation does provide value because it gets more from the land than individuals would.
I for one am glad that our new moral enforcers are keeping us safe from the possibility of free academic knowledge.
I don’t disagree with that, but there are large categories of guns that are completely unsuitable for that purpose: handguns (except very specific cases), automatic weapons like used by the military, grenade launchers, mortars, sub machine guns, tactical nukes, etc.

But we were talking about Parler and Facebook. I am sure some people have used Parler for things other than far right propaganda, but can you honestly make the point that it wasn’t its primary use case?
At least where I am, one of the tactics that the right-wing protestors engage in is to walk right up to the limit of the law and greatly antagonize the left-wing counter-protestors. When the counter-protestors respond, they play the victim card and the police arrest the left-wing.

Sort of like antagonizing a kid on the playground and then telling teacher when you get socked. Sure it may not be right for the person you antagonized to hit you, but you knew exactly what you were doing.
Reframe “donations” as “PR expenses” and his continual wealth increase will make sense.
This describes most companies, where ~30% does the work and ~70% rides the coat tails or steps in every once in a while.
As someone who falls under the LGBT designation, I think pronouns are an offensive joke for straight & cis people.

I don't care about liberals need to advertise their enlightened consideration for the imagined oppressed people they think they're advocating for.

Act like a normal person. Cause the trend towards immersing yourself in identity is dehumanizing. At this rate we'll be requiring 23andMe and a freaking D&D character sheet detailing all your traits to apply to a job.
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

― Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++ programming language

The fact that Elixir is getting some hate is a good sign - it's reach is growing.
That just means that one side has a crazy who is currently in power. It doesn't mean that the other side doesn't have just as much crazy.
The specifics must have been lost in translation on their way to me ;-)
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Other than regularly following Twitter drama or joining some Discord echo chamber, I honestly don't think there is any reliable way to know what is now considered offensive and what is not. The reason why All Lives Matter is considered racist is literally based on some obscure web comic about burning houses from years ago and everyone will get angry at you if you don't understand what the hell are they even talking about. Oh and by the way, silence == violence, so it's not like staying apolitical will help you much.

https://static.attn.com/sites/default/files/allhousesmatter....
> Inferno was a corporate reaction to Java

they even had a inferno-applet demo, which was a full VM in an activeX(?) container running on the browser.
Tcl is pretty cool as a historical curio but boy, every time I go back and look at old tcl code, even stuff that I wrote, it takes forever to wrap my head around the syntax.

I'm not sure why I'd reach for Tcl today when lua exists.
Yeah, ultimately this is the really sad consequence of non-local land ownership. Homeownership has been put out of reach for pretty much any American.

Hell, I read here yesterday that 44% of Americans apparently make less than $18k/year.

I'd kill for 10 acres. Even 1 acre near any kind of town is currently out of my reach as a lower-paid software engineer.
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>A super-wealthy technologist is investing in _farm land_. Why do you think that is?

They have so much money they want to grow everything for their own consumption on the highest quality? If I were Gates rich I'd definitely do that. Don't even have to be that rich tbh

So I can give multiple answers, even contradicting ones too
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> gas and electricity and companies shouldn't have the right to cut you off on ideological grounds or because your spew out so called hate speech

All of us here in the US are entitled and reserve the right to do business with whom we want as long as it doesn't violate discrimination laws, which focus on race, religion and things like that - not opinion about whether there are lizard people ruling the government or that an election was "stolen" because a few people made up some good stories about it but there is no actual proof that can be viewed in person...at all.
I was thinking it was something having to do with original Microsoft.

That or he owns the Atari burial site with the E.T. Games.
“Buy land, they aren't making it anymore.” – Mark Twain.
Hah, I had this happen when doing some work in Rome. The CEO of the startup remarked that I had a heavy American accent, which... I was a bit taken aback by, because I rarely hear that, and I work hard to speak Italian well. Later, he heard me speaking with another guy at the company who was from near where I lived in Padova, and it dawned on him (I don't think he was the sharpest tool in the shed) that my accent was more 'Veneto' than American.
> Japan's rent-a-family industry was completely fake

That's really not what that article is claiming. It's claiming that a particular individual has lied about the industry and made it seem stranger than it actually is and the western media has sensationalized that even further.

There absolutely are rental services for boyfriends, girlfriends, mothers, fathers, etc. in Japan, they're just not as bizarre as some of these articles would lead you to believe.
The general solution in most if not all cultures is not allowing what you're worried about. Some languages don't have pronouns. Some just have gender neutral pronouns. Some have gendered and neutral pronouns.

Some cultures have 4 or 5 genders. But their systems wouldn't work in English speaking cultures where trans men and women identify as just men and women.
>I really think people over emphasize the power that social media sites have.

You say, in the midst of a discussion amongst an international userbase on the political ramifications of a policy decision.

Let's be real about this. Social media, when you really look at it, propagates signal that makes remote events local in terms of sphere of influence. Any content can touch anyone, the globe over assuming an internet connection.

Frankly, and I apologize if this is out of turn, but I think you underestimate the power behind choosing what conversations won't take place.

Just look at the big difference that a U.S. Senate Majority leader can have in terms of the realistic chance of something being discussed.

Never, ever, underestimate the power of negation or deprioritization. In fact, it's a little funny, because being in the position to make those decisions at all is really the common definition of power/authority.
I mean, PRISM was a post 9/11 thing and yeah, Snowden's leaks directly noted Facebook, YouTube, etc. There is really no telling what exactly is out there, but we know the NSA has massive Data Centers and a massive budget. Basically, even the most personal private information about literally any citizen is just a FISA Warrant away. Things posted in a public forum are a cakewalk.

Maybe they aren't doing anything novel with this data, whatever, this is beside the point. The point is, we can't really count on the State to regulate this stuff, even though, you know, creating and enforcing laws is literally the reason the state exists...

IDK, I hesitantly have to side with big-tech on this, but this is a problem that the State either can't fix, or will not fix.

The internet is a wonderful thing, but it is also very dangerous. Having unfettered access to information, be it true or false, can wield some horrible side effects when such a large swath of the population lacks basic BS detection, critical-thinking and like, base level understanding of civics. Do we need a Vanguard? I wouldn't trust one coming from either side of the aisle in the current climate. Seems like 'censorship' from the platforms is the only viable solution I can see, but that can take a pretty dark turn. At least if it's a private company, you can always leave, create your own thing or find something else...for now.
Does elixir have good equivalents of JS's prettier and eslint tools?
I've also realized in this past year that the first thing I miss when going back to Node or another stack is Ecto.

That doesn't diminish anything about the Elixir language, either. In many languages, Ecto's DSL wouldn't be performant, practical or even possible.
Another "I want to love Alpine but can't" user here.

Their use of musl libc makes it a very poor choice for running python in a container, because it forces a lot of manual rebuilding since the PyPi wheels don't work on Alpine, among other issues [1]

[1] https://pythonspeed.com/articles/alpine-docker-python/
My view is from a small startup with little to no room for single purpose employees.

When I first started hiring and working with data scientist my view was this: If you can only manipulate data and run it through pipelines to generate models then you can't do enough to be highly valuable. You either need to have a strong enough background in CS to build the pipelines / tools or a strong enough mathematics background to be able to propose cutting edge new ideas. From my experience it is hard to find someone who has one of these skill just from a University "data science" program. At a small company (at least ones that I have worked with) being only proficient in R and basic Python isn't enough. That being said, I have met and handful of Data Scientist who were very smart and self motivated enough to pick up on the lacking skills when given the chance.

My question to HN is this; are there rolls at these larger companies for a Data Scientist who who primarily just crunches data in R and Python without the ability to actually build the pipelines / tools or conduct research?
I wouldn't worry that much about it. It isn't entirely uncommon for a farm or ranch to be registered as an LLC even if it is a small family operation. That land ownership would count as 'corporation owned', but in practice, it is just a normal family farm/ranch.

source: I grew up in, and live in Nebraska. Family ranch was registered as an LLC, but we were just a small family operation, and by this point nonexistent (parents sold out and retired).
In Iowa there are laws against corporate farms (I think this means publicly traded, but I'm not sure exactly what). They have loopholes so that seed companies can grow seed (but nothing else), and other companies can test their farm equipment.

John Deere employee, but not speaking for my employer.
The 9/11 truthers were left wingers. The Bernie Bros seem pretty cult-like. Obama certainly had a bit of a cult-of-personality around him at the beginning of his first term.

The difference is that on the right the inmates are currently running the asylum, and a significant portion of the right wing media / messaging apparatus has been pushing this stuff.
Probably taken with cameras with mechanical shutters? That doesn’t seem very curious.
Yes, that's certainly confusing. I'd like to be able to offer a popup keyboard that makes it all clear.

The Alto had line-feed at the top-right, and we used LF for our do-it character. "\" is in the upper-right and not otherwise used in St-72 so i chose it. I'll work on some better visible support. Thanks!
> Why would anybody follow Russians and their discussions

You misunderstand the situation. They weren't posing as Russians. They were posing as Americans as individuals, as news outlets, as political organizations:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russian-t...

Quoting a bit from this:

They posed as local news outlets, such as "New Orleans Online," "El Paso Top News," and "San Jose Daily." The majority of these accounts were created between May and August of 2014, but lay dormant until January 2015, when most of them started tweeting. This suggests a significant element of advance planning, Symantec said.
>The statistics, based on law enforcement responses to more than 13,000 protests across the United States since April 2020,

13 000?? how the...

it's >30 per day. everyday
Can you give an example of what you mean by “idioms and syntax rules”?

I’ve been using Elixir for a long time and I don’t know what this could refer to. Even with macros, all code still has to follow the same Elixir syntax. You can’t actually change that syntax nor can you extend it for the most part unless you are using libraries that are somehow writing their own control structures they are forcing you to use or something? I’ve never heard of that.

Also, if you are just talking about enforcing consistency style wise, there's https://github.com/rrrene/credo which is very popular, and the build tool Mix comes with a formatter by default which can standardize your codebase.
do you happen to have a draft version available somewhere? i'm diving into ML with Swift soon
I think it totally makes sense that a minimal distro optimized for containers should be a different project from a minimal distro optimized for desktop use.

Off the top of my head, Tiny Core Linux uses glibc and has desktop users as a primary goal.
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Some top tier witch hunting
Isn't it illegal for foreigners to donate in a way that influences US politics?

If it isn't can't the CCP or Putin simply donate to a side that supports their cause?
Having done a lot of research myself, there's a ton of folksy "tricks" online but precious little real research information available. A lot of the "tips" boil down to "be young and healthy" and "don't be old and unhealthy."

I've read some peer reviewed research as well but most of that is focused on outcomes and genetic testing of IVF embryos rather than natural fertilization. I get the impression that fertility isn't something that's well-studied outside of really generic health indicators like weight and age. And a lot of fertility information seems to focus on ages 20 to 35. They seem to assume that after that age you've given up on starting a family or that you already have one.
Kids, a story from the Old Days, c.1981.

DRI (since absorbed into McGraw Hill) had EPS, an advanced economic/financial analysis scripting language, provided via timesharing (mainframes on the East Coast of the USA). I was a customer support programmer in San Francisco the day that they rolled out a powerful arrays feature on the testing mainframe (no clients, but lots of real work going on).

One could put anything as an element inside an array.
So I tried:

X=array(123, "abc")
Y=Array(X)

and it worked. You know where this is going, right?

i=loop from 1 to 1000
x(i+1) = array (xi)

It crashed the mainframe at i=67, if memory serves.

So far, so good, excusable as "clever programmer tests the limits". And then I ran it again.

Same result, plus, 2 minutes later, a call for me from my friend Kevin, who was a lead developer on EPS in DRI HQ:
"Chris, what the ^&^&^!@@ are you doing?"
As an American, I respect the German perspective on what these liberties mean to civilization. We cannot bend the protections based on our personal beliefs. The structure and what it protects is more important than the specific case. When we subvert it, even from righteous causes, we break the system for everyone.
Well the one lie we like to tell ourselves (I am an American) is that if Twitter/Facebook/Amazon/Google takes action against someone we don't like we don't run afoul of pesky First Amendment and other issues.

However we are fooling ourselves because these companies very much are bending to political pressure and acting on the behalf of that. You can pretty much try to throw up all the exceptions to that claim you want but in the end you a few issues which show it, first being they don't want to invite further regulatory control over their industry, second they don't want legal liability for actions of those who use their platforms, third they respond to the whims of their management and to a certain point their employees on who they let use their systems.

People must recognize that politicians exert undo influence over all businesses simply because they can change the law and regulatory structure they operate under. It easily explains why so many politicians move into cushy business jobs in not slot their friends and family into the same. Its the cost of doing business. Established political players simply have too much power.
Aye, but op has misremembered. A Texas-sizes PV farm with 20% efficient cells, and assuming 25% duty cycle for night and winter, would produce ~35 terawatts.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=texas%20area%20%2A%2010...

Worldwide power consumption is about 18 TW, electricity is about 3 TW.

And current PV looks like it’s good for 20+ years so you’re getting that power at about $3 trillion per year. The only reference I can find to current energy costs is this from Wikipedia:

"""In 2010, expenditures on energy totaled over US$6 trillion, or about 10% of the world gross domestic product (GDP)""" - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

On that basis, you’d be getting roughly twice as many exajoules for roughly half as many USD.
Good for them, no point going to a press conference where a rude orange man just insults you screaming Lügenpresse.

I don't think I'm the only one who switches channels whenever that man is on.
That approach would not address the, in my opinion, valid concerns about speech that is harmful to society overall. There is a real problem here with disinformation and incitement to violence. I do not know that letting the self-virtuous tech sector decide what is or not allowed is the answer, but the problem is real.
More evidence that Google can't create any good, innovative products anymore - they just acquire them.

Can't make good watch hardware OR software? Just buy part of Fossil and Fitbit to handle that.

Can't make good smart home devices to compete with Amazon's Ring or Simplisafe? Just buy Nest, Revolv, and a huge stake of ADT.

etc. etc.
Probably not for any given single app. Some apps need more JQuery-like functionality some less
it's ~971 square km, which would mean a 30km by 30km square of land. It's very large, but yeah indeed not that massive either at the scale of the country.
Maybe Google will be a bit faster with new features. It took almost six years and a 544 post thread in their community forum to finally provide the ability to use kilojoules instead of calories. It's just a multiplication factor like feet to meters or pounds to kilograms. https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Suggestions/Option-t...
A mistake as in it's not something that should be banned?

Or a mistake as in now people will realize that giving Twitter power over what you can and can't say [in public] online might be problematic?
VScode as a piece of software is profoundly incompatible with the philosophy of Alpine so this isn't too surprising.
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These passengers were still subject to quarantine requirements (enforcement may be a different story). There are no direct flights between Toronto and Buffalo so the helicopter charters were filling this gap, while also skirting the physical border closures.
Not sure what you're talking about. Neural networks are powering a LOT of the internet.

> Siri/Cortana/Google Home/Alexa, powered by DeepSpeech+language models

> Google Search, powered by BERT

> Tesla, powered by variants of YOLO

> Facial recognition powered by MTCNN+FaceNet

> AirBnB product search+recommendations

> Amazon product recommendations

GANs are a bit artsy, but JFC they're not even a decade old - we've gone from shitty MNIST clones to fully synthetic faces in the span of 5 years!

Predictions:
1. I suspect we're going to see DeepFakes in Hollywood - famous people might license their faces to movies that they might not have the time to star in

2. People are going to start building even more powerful versions of search, like combinations of CLIP

3. Neural networks still aren't optimized for edge devices - we're going to see a deluge of cheap drones with cutting edge computer vision by default