skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Living in Detroit and knowing a lot of people who work in the auto industry I can tell you that for every ounce of goodness that comes from a union there is an equal and opposite ounce of badness. The shit that I hear people get away with is remarkable. And yet they continue to come to work day after day with seeming impunity, continuing to assemble vehicles, etc...

I am personally anti-union because inevitably they become so large that they succumb to their own internal forces and become beurocratic and misguided.
Oracle (Sun) latest CPUs support something called DAX (data analytics extension, not the same thing as the Intel DAX - direct access extensions). It's a coprocessor that allows offloading simpler operations closer to RAM, apparently:

"DAX is an integrated co-processor which provides a specialized set of instructions that can run very selective functionality – Scan, Extract, Select, Filter, and Translate – at fast speeds. The multiple DAX share the same memory interface with the processors cores so the DAX can take full advantage of the 140-160 GB/sec memory bandwidth of the SPARC M7 processor."

https://blogs.oracle.com/bestperf/accelerating-spark-sql-usi...
Unions tend to incentivize low performers and prevent companies from adapting to changing conditions.

Since it's next to impossible to get fired from a union shop, lower performers and less ambitious tend to stick around because it's easy work and they can't really get fired. And because pay in union shops is often tied more to tenure than performance, your higher-performing workers tend to get resentful and leave, as they are not rewarded for their contributions.

In terms of inflexibility, markets and conditions can change very quickly, which means people's roles and responsibilities need to change.

Unions tend to (but as a rule to "have to") push back against this, even when the employer is offering re-training programs. Typically unions define what a "job" is and then fight to keep said jobs, which can prevent companies from making the changes they need to. Ironically, this often leads to more, not fewer job losses, since the company can't adapt. This is why many cities in the Northeast still have "typists" officially on their payroll. The union will fight to keep a person's job, _as it was defined the day they were hired_. You can get away with this sort of thing in government, up to a point. In the private sector it can gradually grind companies down, as it prevents them from making the necessary transformations the need to in order to succeed longer term.
Nothing changes in the past, including your arrival, because your arrival would have always happened. The past stays consistent because it was already determined to have happened.

How this would work going back in time to kill your toddler self is that, well, you don't. Gun jams, you have an aneurysm before you can, or maybe you killed the wrong toddler and there was just always a toddler killed in the past.

The fact that you are alive to go back in time means you were not killed in toddler form.
Are you notified of the location of the reviewer?
> Urbit

Truly, the TempleOS of decentralization. Not surprised it's not covered, it absolutely should not be taken seriously in any manner.
Dumb question: is this in any way related to California Proposition 22?
Blocking by hostnames is a big part of adblocking, but if you want to really block all ads and also not break the Web, you need an in-browser tech to do things like element hiding, scriptlet injections, etc. Which cannot be done via host files.
My understanding is that SMART is not effective because it only catches (some) mechanical problems and that about half of the time it is the logic board that went bad.

You can filter out some of the bad drives ahead of time, but you will still get blindsided much of the time.
But what percentage of ants find themselves the subject of human curiosity? We look at a few ants, but not most of them. Maybe it's the same with aliens. We're just another mound of monkeys; nothing they haven't seen before.
>both for the dues unceremoniously rippéd

I mean, yeah, you owe dues. How else should it work? When I was part of a union it amounted to 2 hours of wages per month, not exactly onerous.
> Yes america believing it has the right to interfere anywhere in the world and police other countries to put in governments sympathetic to US interests is a problem. At least to everyone outside the US anyway.

I'm not so sure about "everyone." Also, this principle of noninterference you seem to advocate is morally bankrupt, at least when taken to the extreme you seem to take it. Some very shitty, powerful people find noninterference in their affairs to be a very useful concept, and I deny they have any right to that. That's not to say interference is always justified or always done for good reasons, but it's definitely a valid option on the table.
VR space (no headsets needed)

I’m confused. Does it work with a headset? The mobile site isn’t clear on this. I have an Oculus Quest, and for a moment I got excited to see a browser-based VR chat app (the Firefox Reality browser has good VR plugin support). If it doesn’t work with headsets at all, then in my view VR is a misleading adjective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment_theorem

You've broken the full employment theorem for compiler writers.
The journal I edit has a policy that the code and data has to be made available to the reviewers. I was surprised at the number of reviewers that dig into the code.
The union workers I know generally are pleased by their union, especially if they worked in their location prior to organization. They are able to remember and appreciate the difference between how management treated them before and after. Even my friends who worked as management in union-shops appreciated what the org was able to do for the people they supervised (even if it was frustrating during 2018 strikes to have to manage entire hotel restaurants short staffed).

Out of curiosity, what field are your union friends in, and do you happen to know what union represents them?
I'm just worthless
Read about them earlier today, they are getting ready for IPO. Can't help to think news like this has to do with building a better offer. The market likes these kind of news.
Seems like some more feature creep from systemd.
I have to say, I don't quite understand why services find it so difficult to remove this material. This has been a long standing problem with Twitter. They've improved a bit, but there's still problems.

Young people approach these platforms and say "here are some images of child sexual abuse that you're hosting. I know they're CSE because I'm the subject of the photos and I was <18 at the time". The platforms sometimes ignore them. Children are then stuck, not knowing how to get this "child porn"[1] taken down.

We need to help young people understand what routes are then available to them.

1) Write to the legal department. Twitter does not make this easy. Their "contact us" form doesn't have a section for "I want to report CSE material". https://help.twitter.com/en/contact-us But the post addresses are:

Twitter, Inc.
c/o Trust & Safety - Legal Policy
1355 Market Street, Suite 900
San Francisco, CA 94103

Twitter International Company
c/o Trust & Safety - Legal Policy
One Cumberland Place
Fenian Street
Dublin 2
D02 AX07
Ireland

2) Contact their local law enforcement office, and point them to this page (for Twitter, but all services should have something similar) https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-law-e...

3) Contact IWF or CEOP. IWF will generate hashes of the images and Twitter will, eventually, use those hashes to remove the images. This will take some time. https://www.iwf.org.uk/

[1] I'm only using that term for the Google search term.
It's a joint venture now apparently.
Database Migrations Using Screwdriver, Athenz, & Kubernetes
For me, the difference is simple. Systemd is great when it works. But, part of the value of the Unix philosophy is resiliency in the face of errors.

When my void Linux / alpine Linux systems have internal failures, I can troubleshoot and solve them because the system is composed of minimal abstractions tied together - I can feasibly deduce the root of the problem, and fix it, even if half the OS is missing.

With systemd, it's one big mess. Problems are far more opaque, and the pieces are far more interdependent: it's easier to wipe and start over, thereby treating the os as a black box, than to dig in and find the problem.

I avoid systemd systems wherever I need to do anything with the os itself that isn't extremely ordinary.
ooi how is the NUMA on that setup? Does it still use QPI or is there a newer technology now (I've been out of this space for a few years now)
Personalized Skin Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in New Trial Results
It will solve, or at least mitigate, the problem of there being dehumanizing tweets on Twitter.

I dunno, this seems like a pretty straightforward "how rules work" kind of situation.
They don’t think
> There would be some surprises for historians and archaeologists, but we certainly wouldn't treat them as cultural or technological equals.

Generally speaking, about once a year, archeologists find something that completely challenges their theories on human evolution.

https://www.livescience.com/biggest-archaeology-discoveries-...

Just the amount of engineering the Egyptians did is enough to warrant our continued fascination with their culture, some 5,000 years later.
Haven't heard that one in a long time. Love it :)

Edit: but then like five more times down this thread... <insert the fourteenth off-by-five joke>
vps(https://contabo.com/) about $5 a month or so. I think Funkwhale can be hosted on a server with the library on amazon s3 if you want a lot of cheap storage. but ive been fine on my vps for now.
> we have four or five companies - Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google - that suck up the enormity and the overwhelming majority of all talented, technical human capital.

(Genuine question) Is Apple sucking up a lot of talent? I'm well aware of the others, and competing with them for candidates, but I never see job candidates talking to or coming from Apple.
That is a weakness of decoy based systems. This chart [1] shows how various blockchain designs offer different tradeoffs in privacy leaks versus scalability.

[1] https://forum.grin.mw/t/scalability-vs-privacy-chart
Do you think the ants notice it much?
Ubiquiti starts removing advertised features unannounced to force new sales
Quite. It’s an insult to our ancestors to dismiss their ability to use their technology.

The ruins we find around the world from previous civilisations tell us they were very smart.
Imagine if these unions start a competitor, it would be glorious and we can call it a co-operative.
I hate my job for reasons other than the pay. I just have to except that I'm worthless.
This was a really fun experience.
If you're organizing a 16+ person happy hour it's a great way to organically let the group split into smaller conversations.
A pointer->reference transformation is not always correct, because in C, arrays are also passed as pointers. Example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/n...
This explains absolutely nothing. “Will simply do what was already done in his past” is the non-sequitur: if they shoot themselves in the past then that was what was done in the past. Sounds paradoxical? Because it is, and determinism can’t stop a human from shooting a gun any more than free will can because this has got nothing to do with volition.
I wonder if someone still has a copy of the Tucows CD-ROMs from those days? (Since most folks were still on dial-up and everything.)
SecureDrop: Share and accept documents securely
I would assume content moderation makes Twitter absolutely nothing and actually just bleeds tens of millions of dollars annually.

They'd do their best to outsource the work somewhere that's super cheap (India, etc.) or they'd bring in international talent on H1B visas en-masse since I believe a not insignificant amount of their wages are subsidized by government.
I don't know about that - we don't have any real scale equivalence in actual life forms so I'll use celestial objects as an example. The movement of other planets has almost no impact on our daily lives - the moon may impact the tides and the sun leads to our day night cycle but we can't effectively impact that and so, for the average person, life goes on without more than a momentary thought given to how things are going on up there. Though, we are all vaguely aware that we could suddenly and arbitrarily be killed by an asteroid impact (much like a colony being arbitrarily chosen to become some kid's ant-farm - or being run over by a truck) it isn't in the front of our minds because we need to get back to filling out that TPS report.

Still, as a society, we have a number of dedicated individuals that do study celestial movements and would try and prevent a sudden asteroid impact, and we all do remain vaguely aware of what's going on up there. So I'm not certain how much I agree with the fact that ants cannot understand us. Sure we can't sit down and have tea with an ant and talk about the weather, but if the moon was a gigantic dragon that just moved really slowly in a mostly predictable manner then how we interact with it might not be particularly distinguishable from how we interact with it when it's just a chunk of rock.

A good parallel to think of here is probably Discworld, I might suggest reading The Light Fantastic if you never had to get a bit of a sense of how we might interact with celestially sized lifeforms and just how one-sided that relationship could potentially be.
No headset needed. It works best on a laptop or desktop with keyboard right now versus mobile
Same!! So many fond memories of the early web. I miss what was that "new frontier" feeling.
I'd presume in this modern time most are probably born with the connections, but aside from that... probably attempting to cold-contact everybody related to the profession you can find?
I was curious how this worked: The previous iteration of this only worked for WinRT API, and this new crate seemed to also work by generating code from WinMD files. But WinMD files only contained definitions for WinRT/COM APIs, so how could this possibly work?

Well turns out, microsoft started a project to also generate Win32 API information in WinMD file, to generate APIs from them automatically for all native languages! See win32metadata[0]. This could make interfacing with win32 APIs a lot more convenient!

https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata
BOP is the federal bureau of prisons.
https://www.bop.gov/
Thanks. This actually makes sense. I'm going to try this from tomorrow.
Ask HN: How can one company manage make C#, Java, Go, Pascal compilers?
After being disappointed with the cross-platform UI abilities of .Net5 I started looking around and ended up with Delphi.

During my search I came across a language called Oxygen that fascinates me. An Object Pascal on steroids.

I looked at the company RemObjects and I was floored.

They claim to maintain totally independent compilers for C#, Java, Swift, Go among others and keeps them tracking new changes.

This seems like magic.
How can they keep up?

Anyone know more of the story

The compilers are pricy bit wow.

Is there some trick to it?
https://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/default.aspx
I've used Ghost Inspector before:
https://ghostinspector.com/docs/comparing-screenshots/
Just looking for something space related :)
First-ever atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time
If you are lying "to yourself", as in, really believing your lies, it may be because you are showing you are delusional. Of course that delusion has to be really dangerous for you or others.
Where will I be able to download my winsock.dll apps now though?
It seems pretty clear you did not read the article, so here

The federal suit, filed Wednesday by the victim and his mother in the Northern District of California, alleges Twitter made money off the clips, which showed a 13-year-old engaged in sex acts and are a form of child sexual abuse material, or child porn, the suit states.

The teen — who is now 17 and lives in Florida — is identified only as John Doe and was between 13 and 14 years old when sex traffickers, posing as a 16-year-old female classmate, started chatting with him on Snapchat, the suit alleges.

Doe and the traffickers allegedly exchanged nude photos before the conversation turned to blackmail: If the teen didn’t share more sexually graphic photos and videos, the explicit material he’d already sent would be shared with his “parents, coach, pastor” and others, the suit states.

Doe, acting under duress, initially complied and sent videos of himself performing sex acts and was also told to include another child in his videos, which he did, the suit claims.

Eventually, Doe blocked the traffickers and they stopped harassing him, but at some point in 2019, the videos surfaced on Twitter under two accounts that were known to share child sexual abuse material, court papers allege.
Nothing weird about those, they’ve always been on HN. They’re also the one of the least obtrusive ads around. In return we get a moderated, fast website for free.
Let's not get carried away.
I didn’t even realise Tucows were still around. Man I loved that site in the 90s.

So long and thanks for all the fish :’(
> Old sites are a maintenance challenge and therefore a risk. Maintaining the Tucows Downloads site pulls people away from the work that moves our businesses forward.

This is the larger tragedy.
I spent 6 years in the Navy, 4 of those on a fast attack. I would say that it was an exercise in the extremes. There were times of extreme boredom and extreme stress. I leaned a ton of interesting things. The crash course in real world systems and how they work together is something that I'm not sure I could have gotten in any other environment. But on the other hand, I easily cleaned more than I have in the rest of my life.

Another interesting thing, is to see how people react in these situations. Some people can't take the high stress, some the long hours, some the long stretches of boredom. And they deal with it in different ways. And it can bring out the best and worst in people. And everyone comes out of the experience changed.
Usenet and IRC. There are also a few other web forums I sometimes use, such as NESdev.
How do I get past the captcha on these links? The POST after I pass the captcha just 500s and I end up back at the same page but with a new captcha. Turned off adblock and made sure cookies weren't blocked.
Speaking as a person who faced this, licensing concerns are probably driving the mostiness.
Without a backlog of high fee paying transactions, Bitcoin mining becomes unstable in the long term when block subsidy dwindles to insignificance, as discussed at [1].

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5306354.0
> Patrons can sit and enjoy a very small section of the museum instead of rushing through, since they can simply come back for more later

I think this is interesting, but doesn't work when you are visiting from out of town. We did this very thing when we visited Rijksmuseum -we had half a day and wanted to see everything we could. But the point is taken that smaller museums would get nicer collections. We could enjoy our local Museum more if it had more Dutch masters!

This is definitely true about visiting a local zoo or museum when you have a membership. Our son just want so see the lions? That's fine! We'll come back some other time and see the rest.
From Your Kindle’s Email Address to Making Purchases (Requires User Interaction)
All information is useless until it's useful
It is a different variant, but both the 501Y.V2 ("South African lineage" tested in OP) and B.1.1.7 ("UK lineage" tested in the Pfizer study you linked) have the N501Y spike mutation, which (I gather) is the residue of particular concern.
Thank you. I see how it comes off as combative, and I can't think of a non-combative way to say "I think you've got a very wrong world-view". Perhaps the word "misogynist" right up front is more hostile than it needs to be, but I don't believe it's inaccurate.

And you're absolutely correct to note that mothers, as well as fathers, are involved, as are wives, girlfriends, female friends, and sisters. The problem is deeply pervasive, and women are just as imbued in this culture as men are.

It's why I wanted to call out the red flags in the post. The OP later said that he's gay, and is approaching this as an abstraction. The abstraction is part of the problem: the model he's swimming in is flawed. The problems with it are so glaring that there's no way to point them out without seeming hostile.
Your interpretation is wrong, unfortunately.

The paper is really about developing a multi-marker sensor approach for screening.

The analysis, however was done on a small set "Obtained data from 76 urine specimens were partitioned randomly into a training data set (70% of total) and a test data set (30% of total). " Later on it states the 76 samples are from 51 individuals.

So the GP complaint is correct in this case. They are comparing a RF approach and a NN approach - there isn't much detail in the paper but it's most likely the analysis is problematic. I suspect this was done because the group is a collection of hardware and clinical folks, not statisticians, and the paper would have benefited by review by a biostats person.

You are quite right generally that for some models and some effects, a relatively small verification set can be effective.
Could unions be ad-supported? Maybe you put a TV monitor playing a continuous stream of ads in the employee break room. It's win-win.
Yeah I agree that "deplatforming" wasn't the good terminology.

You'll have to had external backups, I know lot of people are just using their hosting provider backup services.

There can be several more options for hosting (just as there's other options for a Twitter-like platform), but eventually, instead of harassing the host to suspend them, the upstream provider could be harassed to suspend the host itself. And you don't have as much choice when it comes to Tier-1 ISPs.
I have read that once unfrozen, it lasts for 30 days while refrigerated at a reasonable temperature.

So why is the -70c an issue at all? It seems totally reasonable that we could just ship it at refrigerated temp and it would all be used up well before the 30 day expiration.

The only explanation I can think of is that the information I read was wrong and it won't keep that long after thawing.
Physical ad spaces are not comparable to digital. A billboard can only show one ad at a time with no real targeting. A digital ad can use your browsing history to guess your preferences and show different ads to different users.

Digital ads are also right there in front of you, and you can go from ad impression --> sale right there on the screen. If your billboard is on the side of your building, located in some remote office park, well, the reach isn't as good.
It's hackernews not rustnews, though.
Is this what you are asking for http://hnrankings.info/ ? Or do you want another features?
For those who don't remember:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J/Direct
> I hope this is just soft wording.

Yeah, I hope that too. Maybe everything except 0.01% really problematic content has been transferred to the IA.