skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is fully do to coronavirus. Media across the entire American political spectrum is beating the same drum: China is the enemy, and they need to be dealt with. Any Asian-American can tell you that the average American's ability to distinguish between people of Chinese ancestry vs. not is essentially nonexistent, so really this is just establishing that people who look East Asian are the enemy.

You'll see the above-mentioned drum beat in this very thread, where a suggestion that China is not the enemy will be met with accusations of being a genocide apologist. I suggest it is worth considering what dogpile you want to join in on, and who is served by you jumping in that dogpile. Consent is being manufactured.
You basically can’t talk about this along with homophobic attacks. It’s an awkward fact no one wants to think about.
Does anyone know what factors are leading to this? Is it just viewing China as an enemy in the USA?
The least Trump-supportive areas are also the areas where the Trump followers who do exist are most likely to interact with Asian people.
How the Mars Helicopter will soar in an air-less atmosphere?
Asians are being attacked and you're worried about semantics. I don't give a shit about your irritations.
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Yea i think it's unfair to other candidates to try to fix diversity problem so late in the game, i.e. interview, merit for the job should be the only thing that should be looked at. If the problem is few xyz people going into the field then that's what should be fixed. Otherwise it's like treating fever and ignoring infection, the cause.
I live in Seattle, WA, which apparently has some of the cleanest water in the country.

I use one of those under-the-sink inline charcoal cartridge filters on the sink we use to make tea or cook with. If I grab some water from a different tap, you can tell immediately by the smell (chlorine) and the taste.

I'm surprised the filter takes out the chlorine honestly, but it's clearly taking out a bunch of stuff from what is otherwise considered very clean.

That said, having travelled extensively through places like India, South America, East Asia, etc., I'm certainly grateful for the water we have "on tap" in the house. It's easy to take for granted.
That said, the top C/C++ benchmarks are still using an unofficial fork of libpq client that supports batching.
Rust and Java was on the top of the benchmark for a while just because they their own pipeline supported drivers.
Reddit seems even better than Facebook at owning your mind.
> But, regardless of how expensive DNS is; you miss a _huge_ point about the tech that came before: it's foundational and fundamental to how things work, it's so "light" that we bake it into our products, and increasing the "cost" causes an exponential cost to end users because it's so widely adopted and essential.

Not at all! It's a linear cost and if you set a 5 minute TTL for everything the impact to any particular end user would be almost nothing.
You parent is saying: "just never put your stuff in the Internet". I suppose it really is "that hard" to tell clients this and we can expect more problem down the line.
While a valid point, perhaps this article isn't the most appropriate place to raise it...
I like it! Very rotund and hearty.

Here's mine: https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=95.9367&dec=-52.7034&lay...

It's not a galaxy so much as a hyper-dimensional string wormhole network nexus created by one of the most advanced races in the cosmos.
Building Docker images is now in nixpkgs, I think the function is named "buildDocker".

If you're deploying to a system under systemd, you can run anything that looks like a sysroot using nspawn. I find this much more enjoyable than going through the huge sidecar that is the Docker runtime.
Yes. Tiberian Sun was the first PC game I owned and Westwood Online was the first service I needed a username for (aside from my email). It's been my handle since 1999.
There are some good points here - I particularly like the contrasts with Arabic and Spanish - but the proscription against using Latinate words is far too strong!

The dean of my old law school shows how you can mix Saxon and Latin words to achieve beautiful, strong effects: https://reason.com/volokh/2020/06/22/what-did-lincoln-know-a...

Elsewhere he gives examples from Churchill. Churchill liked to start out with Latinate words describing the malicious onslaught of the adversary, and end with pure simple Saxon words describing our brave boys' stand.

Or, you might do nearly the opposite, ending with Latinate words beautifully exalting our glorious intrepidity.

Anyway, you should certainly not throw out all words but short Saxon-derived ones. Keep them all, and use them wisely!
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Well geez I wonder why this didn't happen in Obama's eight years. Could government sponsored sinophobia driving anti-asian attitudes have anything to do with it. They were shouting anti-china messages during the white house riots.
I doubt that the teenagers running up to Asian elders to push them over are motivated by hawkish sentiment toward China. I'd be surprised if they have any awareness of geopolitics whatsoever.
Russians are also Asian.
Reddit likes to think of itself as independent, free and unlike Facebook.
I am starting to think this is not true anymore.

I can observe this in myself, how quickly my opinion on something is formed the moment I see the first comment or the headline.
Its quite impossible or hard to convince myself that this is the right conclusion/opinion to be made.

I guess I should just accept I am just another monkey
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And why do you suddenly bring gender politics into an issue that never had them?

Many magazines feature body builders, whatever their sex be, that have a body fat percentage that is very unhealthy and were it not for the muscles to move their mass up, the fat percentage alone would give them a rather low b.m.i. if they had average muscles.

I do not see how their sex is relevant for the politician's stated goal of promoting health.

If their desire would be to only promote female health, male health be damned, then they should have said so, which they obviously never did, as that would raise quite the eyebrows.

But their real desire was, as said, simply to ban models whom they find particularly ugly, and “health” is simply an excuse, as it often is. — the very same reason why arbitrarily alcohol is quite legal in many jurisdictions where other drugs are banned for “health concerns”.

So many unhealthy things are perfectly legal almost everywhere that I find any politician who claims to do it for the health dubious by default. — it is nothing more than a rationalization to justify his moral and fashion control.
Interesting that this sounds very similar to how multiplayer games do it.
Polkadot certainly gained traction recently - together with Cardano they occupy 3 and 4 places on market capitalization if you exclude Tether[1].

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/
Small tidbit, ascorbic acid kills chlorine and chloroamine.
New York Magazine is mainstream media, no? Although as someone else noted there is an ethnocultural factor in these incidents that is conveniently under-emphasized because it's real awkward for everyone.
Based on the slew of videos floating around this week, I strongly disagree that Trump supporters are behind this.
This isn't news. The whole idea of adversarial algorithms is to fight detector vs. creator (or some other difference in sides). Deepfake detectors can be defeated, so we'll make better deepfake detectors. Then better deepfake creators come along to beat those.
Our solar system has Earth and Mars. Venus is on the edge of the habitable zone. Had the asteroid belt formed a planet, it would be on the edge as well.
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yeah but no caste system in US so consider it a win.
This is similar to Stackoverflow's 'Technologies I don't like' resume section. Every time I encounter something truly horrible I add it there. I also add tech to filter out roles I'd rather not get tricked into doing. So far I get asked about this section a lot. Mostly from recruiters curious to see how flexible I am because internally the company does a little X or Y and needs to know if it's a deal breaker. It can really tell you a lot about places you would rather not work at though if you know for sure there are processes you want to avoid.
Fairly sure you’d get goatse’d more often on Efnet etc back in the day
Could be-- I checked about 50 apps from alternative lists that popped up after the ban with no luck except for that one I mentioned before.

Looks like they posted shortly after yours on the ticket that they found the culprit. Guess we'll find out tomorrow if we were on the right path.
>Many blame....

Who are these "many", apart from the post author (the Royal "We", maybe), and why are these opinions supposedly worth noting in a factual news article? One can hope that one day that journalistic norms will preclude such weasel-word editorializations.
Thank you for this thoughtful and detailed response. I did, in fact, read it and it gave me some food for thought.
This phenomenon isn't limited to dry discussion of foreign policy. You see it as an endless barrage of distorted, negative articles about every aspect of China posted all over social media. Try opening a reddit thread about China sometime. You won't have to scroll very far before you see someone wishing death upon some Chinese people.
> All of the examples cited occurred in some of the least Trump-supportive areas of the country.

So? Do you think Trump supporters are more likely to feel persecuted and lash out in rage against vulnerable targets outside of government-sanctioned mechanisms where they are a majority and control local government and institutions or where they are a small minority with little influence on local government and institutions?

And do you think that, even that general factor aside, when looking specifically at attacks on Asians by Trump supporters, the number of Trump supporters in the area is really more important than the frequency of interaction between Trump supporters and Asians?
As long as the problem you are trying to solve is shaped like rendering pixels on a screen, GPUs are great!
The future is multicore processors not bottle necked by the bus to a GPU. And coroutines.
neat. wasn't minecraft acquired for 2B?
We've know this is true for generations...
> The definition you just gave could be used to justify censorship of any truthful information.

Do you not agree that truthful information can sometimes cause harm? What if I, say, reveal the identities of all CIA agents operating in China?

> I can appreciate that factual information could be presented in a dishonest way, but if it is so misleading, how is it not just misinformation?

Misinformation and malinformation are two different terms that mean different things: misinformation is never true, and malinformation is always true.

If you read my posts, I've been pretty careful to say that I don't necessarily have all the answers to the way different types of information spread across the internet. I just wanted to give some more context to the way researchers discuss these subjects.

> The police later released evidence that Floyd had overdosed on fentanyl and most likely died of natural causes

I hadn't heard this before, and don't really want to wade into it, but I'll just leave this here: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/25/blog-posti...
> wasn't minecraft acquired for 2B?

Yes, but what's your point?
Oh, Goatse is that site.

I remember when I was about 15, before pop-up blockers were really a thing, someone sent me a link to that and it would keep opening popups with that image and you couldn't close all of them :-/

Sometimes people look back to the internet of the 90s with too rose-coloured glasses IMO.
There is semi-hidden animosity between the black and some Asian communities.

Chinese immigrants are often the ones first moving into and then buying out people in black neighborhoods.

Asian kids do disproportionately well in urban schools. Lowell High School is moving from a scoring based system to a lottery. Asian parents see this as unfair while black parents see the previous system as unfair.

Chinese are traditionally not seen as fighting back. Some criminals see elderly as easy marks due to the tendency to carry cash and due to their frailty.

The trade war with China has spread to demonization of Asians.

BLM riots and the lack of persecution and then the defund the police emboldened criminal activity including physical attacks.

This cycle of animosity and violence last occurred roughly 30 years ago.

I’m getting a gun.
I'm working on a little crud project. It uses rust all the way down, with actix-web as the http framework and sled as an embedded key value store. The idea is to replace the complexity and expense of using many nodes with one node that's extremely fast.

It's been a slow side project for the last month learning the ecosystem and figuring out how to properly deal with types etc.

But now I have a page that uses an opaque cookie stored in the database to identify the logged in user and return proof of success in a rendered template. My goal was to keep server latency for that request below a millisecond, and it ended up being about 100 microseconds on my laptop, so 10 times faster than I was hoping for. I'm just not sure how I could have achieved that with, for example, Django.

So I guess what I'm saying is that it's slow and challenging for me, at least in the beginning. But it's getting faster and easier over time. And in the end, I'm creating something with performance and reliability that would be hard to achieve in another way.
In what sense does this go beyond? Generating antibodies or an immune response is a form of "remembering". It's how your body "remembers" past invading viruses and "learns" how to fight them.

The reproductive system doesn't "want" anything any more than your immune system "wants" to fight viruses and invading pathogens.

Why couldn't a similar mechanism be at play here?
The constitution has functioned as intended. Its blindingly obvious to anyone that the biggest concern of the founders were to limit and reduce tyrannical governments and corrupt church hierarchies. It's arguable if we've succeeded yet, but given recent examples elsewhere that resulted in millions upon millions dead, I'd say we are on the better side of that one.

Businesses on the scale of a Facebook or a Google or Walmart simply did not exist anywhere, at any point in time in human history up to that point. But they rightly left these matters to the civil authorities, and the governed.

So no, the Constitution is not an utter joke. Our politicians and our indolent populace are.
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This is terribly concerning to hear about. It certainly has my attention. But I do ask if this is considered appropriate content for Hacker News. I do ask that we please avoid sharing articles that have no relevance to tech.
That's the most hilariously disingenuous take on what happened at the Capitol that I've read so far, so points for that.

Nearly 95% of all protests this summer were non-violent, and 80% of all protests were linked to BLM: https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-vi...

Point out to me a single BLM protest where both:

• 6 people died

• BLM stormed a capitol building while the legislative body was in session
I don't see any benefit to having this terminology, other than as a pretext for censorship. Calling it "mal" information implies that truthful information can be bad. Calling it something more neutral like "unfiltered" or "unabashed" would be more accurate.
Any reason why the link is pointing to what seems to be Guadeloupe?
The very fact that they serve many clients gives the service a good view on what generates increased response rates.

I once scraped a bunch of job postings and did a simple word frequency count. Just eyeballing the list, I picked out a few of the most commonly mentioned techs and skills. By just rewording a few of my resume entries, it seemed to increase my response rate by quite a bit.

For example, in the description of one project I added "using JSON". It wasn't particularly important to that project that the exchange format used was JSON, but apparently many of those doing hiring are seeing fit to include that in their searches.
I have no good opinion on whether or not China, the nation and its government, should be considered an "enemy". But reasonable people can believe a government is an antagonist, while not blaming individuals from that nation.

If people are getting confused, or are just plain racist, and are blaming individuals for the sins of a government, then that's the problem to solve.

But the way to solve it isn't by avoiding uncomfortable truths about governments (or about anything).
Elon Musk buys $1.5B worth of BTC – the summary
Yeah hopefully they have a bit of a write up too about how they worked it out - interesting problem to solve!
> I’m getting a gun.

good luck. ammo sold out across country.
Seems low to me. Good deal for the investors.
Agreed about the tone. The comment could have been less argumentative — instead of "that's not the point," they could have said "that's not the only reason."

On the other hand, if I'm not responding, it's not because I find HN too abrasive — it's because I am afraid of leaking non-public information. That's why whenever I talk about Google, I try to cite a Google blog post or other authoritative source, or talk about my own personal experience; hence, "I rarely search for the same query twice."
Sexual orientation has a known association with handedness (same-sex-attracted people of either gender have higher odds of being left-handed/ambidextrous than do straight people) so it’s reasonable a priori for a correlation to exist in one sub-population and not the other. Splitting by handedness reduces variance for many sexuality questions — it’s not a sign of p-hacking.
The inverse of effeminate by definition is butch, I purposefully avoided using it as it invokes yet more popular and inaccurate gay stereotypes that in no way capture the folk I was describing
Arranged marriages by parents back home is widespread.
The fact that Chinese and other East Asian people look far more similar and are the stereotypical "Asian" than Indians and other South Asians is responsible for that. Likewise, there's another comment here about the Russians (North Asians). To the average American, Indian and Russian are probably separate categories from Asian.
9mm Sig with some hollow points. Although you will likely be limited to an overpriced f&n. Welcome to the club!
First of all, you underestimate the intelligence of teens and their ability to perceive/think about the world. Second, if there's a pattern of attacks on Asian elders in America as discussed in the article, that isn't any accident. They are being identified and targeted because of their race, motivated by fearmongering about traditional nativist myths and the 'coronavirus made by Asians' myth.
I'm a big fan of mkdocs. If I were going to build a blog again I'd power it off of mkdocs.
This seems like one of those probabilistic phenomena that's completely counter intuitive so my brain doesn't know how to comprehend it.

Could you elaborate?
That's a bold claim. You shouldn't make it without proof.
Is there any way to short this?
LabView seems constrained to the electronics/signals world. For that sort focus-area interface, Blender has a similar 'flow' graph based programming mechanism for its filters. I think this is common in digital audio authoring apps too. I was not aware of OutSystems, it seems like it's basically VB for webapps.
This comment gives me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 vibes.
If you are willing to pay there are overpriced sales and limited purchase options at your local gun store. There are four million new gun owners and it will take a while for the industry to catch up.
There’s a ton of research. Though my information is a bit old.

Twenty years ago I did undergrad research at a Notification Systems research group[1] with Dr Scott McCrickard. Much of the research had to do with giving people information in efficient ways that limited attention disruption but also took into account the task (like an emergency to act on vs just information).

As part of this research I surveyed the cognitive psych literature. I remember early research in attention in UX had to do with pilots and cockpit system design. A pilot must take in lots of streams of information while still flying/looking out the window. I also remember that there’s a research topic of “vigilance” - boring tasks that require constant attention. Like being on watch on the bridge of a shop at night or guarding something. I remember people can only stay in this state for 20-25 minutes, and must rotate their job or have a game to play or busy work to do to do this at all well. I also studied “cognitive architectures” which at the time made modeling attention a central focus[2]

1 -https://research.cs.vt.edu/ns/
2 -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_architecture
> However, BSD's do not guarantee that their userlands will work with a mismatched kernel. Sure, it often does work, hence why jails only give a warning on mismatch rather than refuse to run at all.

FWIW, FreeBSD tends to go to pretty great lengths to ensure newer kernel with older userland works. A stock GENERIC kernel comes with COMPAT_FREEBSD* options back to COMPAT_FREEBSD4, and parts of the project's infrastructure tend to explicitly rely on at least supported releases to be functional in a jail on a -CURRENT kernel.
For most of 2020 the US gov (and much of the media) emphasized covid being not only from China but "a China virus". They never rejected or downplayed the baseless conspiracy theories that it was man made or a deliberate attack by the Chinese. The US actively promoted the equally baseless fear of espionage through tiktok or wechat (lmao) to the point of trying to ban these apps. Rather than quell peoples' fears and doubts in the midst of a national crisis, fuel was added to the fire. And now the xenophobia is in full force.
I am juxtaposing 2 distinct acquisitions to provide a reference point for the market value a platform like reddit provides by comparison to a multimedia product and derivative merchandising.

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It is useful but limiting. The point of the logical tree is to index files, but a tree is a subset of more powerful indexing methods. Relational and graph structures come to mind.

Incidentally, databases exist to marshal indexed data so that it's not visible or managed by the file system. This seems like something a non-hierarchical file system would supplant, which would allow for interoperability with file-oriented tools.
More likely they're seen as vulnerable demographic or unwelcome in certain neighborhoods. The people perpetrating these crimes are not the sort of people tracking the US-China relations.
6 billion dollars seems cheap is my original thought but really it seems like a good amount. Reddit can't really expand a significant amount more(as evidenced by their moves into video) and the monetization is terrible(who wants to buy Reddit premium, or advertise on Reddit?)
Considering the enormity of what you're saying, more details would be nice.
I’m getting a gun.

If violent people are anything like wild animals, pepper spray is safer and more effective. You actually have a good chance of hitting your attacker with a stream pepper spray, unlike with a tiny bullet. Your attacker (in the case of, say, a moose) is more likely to run away when hit with pepper than with a bullet. And you are less likely to have collateral damage.
The spread of decimal numerals in the 14th century had less to do with the printing press and more to do with growing commerce and increasingly powerful states -- both of which necessitated performing arithmetic on larger quantities.