skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am not writing this thinking of right-wing America as my audience. I will make no appearances on any Fox News program to promote it. People of that world are welcome to listen in. But I write this to two segments of the American populace. Both are what I consider to be my people, which is what worries me so much about what is going on. One segment is the New York Times-reading, National Public Radio-listening people of any color who have innocently fallen under the impression that pious, unempirical virtue-signaling about race is a form of moral enlightenment and political activism, and ever teeter upon becoming card-carrying Third Wave Antiracists themselves. The other is those black people who have innocently fallen under the misimpression that for us only, cries of weakness constitute a kind of strength, and that for us only, what makes us interesting, what makes us matter, is a curated persona as eternally victimized souls, ever carrying and defined by the memories and injuries of our people across four centuries behind us, ever “unrecognized,” ever “misunderstood,” ever unpaid.

I think this is key to understanding this article, and perhaps he should have led with it.

I tend to think of myself as a "classical liberal" in the sense that I value freedom, and that I believe that tolerance and freedom of expression are foundational to a healthy democratic society.

I think the "thought police" aspect of what McWhorter calls "third wave antiracism" is concerning. It reminds me of McCarthyism, and I have imagined that this is unsustainable and will eventually dissipate. But of course, that is not guaranteed.

> However, they and everyone else should also realize: I know quite well that white readers will be more likely to hear out views like this when written by a black person, and consider it nothing less than my duty as a black person to write it.

I think this is correct as well. It seems right to be that we should primarily be looking to people from the black community as thought leaders on these issues. Their debate, based in first-hand experience, is more interesting and noteworthy to me.

McWhorter also contributes to a group called 1776 Unites (https://1776unites.com), which is a group of black leaders and scholars generally writing counter narratives to the mainstream, or what McWhorter has called "third wave antiracism." Again, as a "classical liberal," I find their ideas worth considering.

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A side note, I have a copy of McWhorter's book "Words on the Move," and I highly recommend it :)
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Yes. The intent has to be honest rather than throwing out a device without nuance. It often seems like black&white reasoning to predicate an article on "why you should start doing this" or "why you should stop doing that."

As an additional device, [sic] is also helpful to indicate an original typo or improper usage not by the quoter.
This page was discussed on HN previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21871479

Simply put, it's hyperbolic. Having several implementations would be good for multiple reasons, but one of them would be to put a final nail in that coffin.
From a european perspective there is currently no nation more divided that the USA in terms of culture and politics.

In france, equality means making nation-wide republican programs where everyone should be treated the same at all part of society. This is a bottom up approach.

In this US, equality means there are grants for women, black, disabled, asians, mulims, jews, blinds, deafs, natives... and pretty much none for white people. Or it's Positive Discrimination. Pretty much everyone is doing stuff for its own group, AGAINST the other groups...

The people (democrats) pretending to fight for equality are just fighting for SPECIFIC MINORITIES all the time. No wonder people voted trump.. at least he was a honest asshole.
I think just slapping “elixir” at the beginning of the search query will help with the discoverability. Maybe if it gets consistently marketed as “Elixir Nx”, this won’t be a problem.

Elixir’s documentation is so good, however, I would expect most questions will be answered by the documentation directly.
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This has been discussed previously on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1149078

Not sure if the policies have changed since then, but I am inclined to believe him.
Yes. Here is an example of the evil after I posted a negative review:

> Thanks for your review on Trustpilot.
>
>Based on your review, Curve would like a little more information about your experience. This will help them write a more useful >reply to you. It'll also help them verify that you’ve had a genuine experience with their business.

>Of course, it’s totally up to you what you share.

"verify" vs. "totally up to me" are different things.
Thanks.
No, we don't require a CLA from contributors. Though honestly speaking, we have not given lots of thought around CLAs - as we are still pretty young as a project.
Big problem with Algae is two fold:
1) it uses water as process fluid
2) biological systems are slow in comparison to pure chemistry solutions.

There was a time when I was convinced Algae was the way forward but the rate limiting step for them just don't make sense.

Unless things have changed since I last researched this
You start looking at colos in your area that are within your parameters (as well as theirs).

The reason the box you linked doesn't get put in a colo is primarily power consumption and space. Colos charge mainly per amp. And that thing looks like it will draw a ton of power. Also some colos don't allow anything but standard racked computers. So you need to put it into a standard rack unit. This is primarily so they can standardize on cooling/airflow (generally racks have hot and cold aisles).

That said if you rent a whole rack you can probably get away with it. But then again it is expensive and you pay for transit as well.

Other options include at an office or even at home.
Can't upvote you again, but this is great to know. Thanks
> If we agree with your reasoning it would mean that simply getting a new phone would involve me calling/texting everyone in my contacts list to ask for their consent for me to enter their numbers on my new phone since I'm potentially sharing their details with a third-party.

But again, you're missing the forest for the tree. You discuss the symptoms while I discuss the root cause. A phone shouldn't let third party randomly siphon arbitrary data about you and your friends without making public the full scope of their project. A consent isn't consent if you're being tricked into giving it for nefarious use
I'm really not seeing anything in the above comment that indicates they don't see gender as fluid.
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In college, cheating on the homeworks was quite literally the only way to get all the work for 4 engineering classes done on time.

We still learned it all for exams, and received our exam grades accordingly, which are generally >60% of the full grade for the class.

But we were putting in 80+ hours a week on engineering classes and it simply wasn't enough for the obscene amount of work professors assigned. Students crying, having breakdowns, and pulling their hair out in the library and in the classroom was pretty common.
check the following GToolkit videos from Tudor Girba ...

https://vimeo.com/496004749

https://vimeo.com/498735070
Has MS-DOS been open-sourced yet?
There are two references in the TFA. Both of them are books. I haven't read them, so I will concede that these two books endorse the point of view being described.

However, McWhorter makes the claim that third-wave racism is mainstream. The existence of two books endorsing a point of view is not evidence that this point of view is mainstream, or even widespread. If it were, then flat-eartherism would be mainstream.
This is just wrong, none of those have anything to do with this website from the looks of it. Also, how can you judge a startups health with a cursory look at the site?
great comments and replies in this thread! one thing that it really brings to light for me is that unfortunately, a lot of us in the West just aren't conditioned to receive continental thought. for us academic disciplines are supposed to have specific empirical domains to whose technical development they have a historical mission to contribute. for continentals in the 60s and 70s, that very notion of "missionness" was in question, especially for a discipline like philosophy which had historically partnered as much with labor as with capital.
> Giving your workers $2k a year in 401k matches without any future risk looks a lot better on the balance sheet than putting $5k in a pension for them and assuming the risk that it will be enough to keep them from depending on government handouts.

I feel like this sentence undermined the rest of them. Even giving them $5k would be better for everyone involved, as now the company wouldn't have to assume the risk and the employee would be able to direct their own investment.
Hey, I am one of the maintainers of SigNoz.
ELK is tightly coupled to Elastic which may not be the ideal database to handle opentelemetry data. We wanted to be more of a platform where we can provide different DBs as plugins. Users can also build their own usecases by building more stream processing applications.

On the other hand, Druid powers analytical queries on data and is efficient in handling high-dimensional data. Many companies use Druid at scale (https://druid.apache.org/druid-powered).

Also Jaeger, a distributed tracing tool, provides plugin for cassandra, elastic, badger, etc. Some users found limitation in running fast aggregation of filtered traces. With Druid we can now search by annotations(without need of service name) and get aggregates on filtered traces, like p99 of version=xyz filters.
I like this book as an intro: https://haskellbook.com/

(since others were recommending)
Trees are a buffer, not a permanent sequester. Planting trees buys time, but it's not a gigaton scalable solution.

Eventually those trees die and rot and rejoin the natural carbon cycle. That's what's so fucked up about the CO2 emissions problem: the carbon we've emitted to the atmosphere (and has been absorbed into the oceans) was previously locked out of the natural carbon cycle as coal, limestone, etc... But burning/creating concrete/ etc has put it back into the active loop.

Any solution has to take the carbon out of that loop permanently if we want to address the greenhouse gas problem, reduce the total amount of carbon in the cycle.
> Doing a Users.byId(123)

jOOQ can do that as well through various ways if that's a burden: https://www.jooq.org/doc/latest/manual/sql-execution/daos/
I haven't called anybody idiots. There are genuine reasons for using AWS specifically. I've been consulting to several companies helping them to manage their infrastructure, and more often than not it turned out that they chose AWS "because everybody is doing it", not because they understood the tradeoffs well.

To be more specific: (1) they were not able to calculate the overall costs upfront. Yes there are many calculators, but you know the actual cost only when you receive the bill. Moreover, there is no hard cap on costs - people have been asking for it since 2006, and AWS was first saying they understand it's important and will take care of it, but in the end decided to ignore it.[0] Yes, you can set up alarms but that's not what people want. (2) AWS is marketed as saving on IT staff costs but it's ridiculous: you need competent staff to support it. The AWS infrastructure is huge, it's a whole ecosystem in itself, and it has its particular quirks. You definitely need smart people to run it and stay out of trouble. (3) Very often when you run a cost analysis of a particular aspect (like storage, processing etc.), it turns out the difference between AWS and, say, bare metal is enormous and, consequently, increases radically with the amount of resources used. There are several large companies who decided to move from AWS to bare metal just for this reason, saving enormous amounts of money.

Now, there are several scenarios where it doesn't matter, or it matters but it makes sense to use AWS anyway, but in my personal experience this is minority of cases I had to deal with. I have nothing against AWS per se - also, there are some aspects of AWS infrastructure that are a pleasure to work with. Nevertheless, usually it makes more sense to use a whole ecosystem, and the more you get locked in, the more difficult is to get out, and the sunk cost fallacy is omnipresent among companies of all sizes.

[0] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?start=50&threadID=...
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While Mac is indeed problematic, for Windows you can just download a copy of their evaluation VM and go through installation there. For my own course installing and doing "Hello World" is actually the 0th exercise, because it doesn't make sense to start doing stuff if this doesn't work.
>and may take your servers and data with it.

Only if you let them.

Do people seriously NOT perform backups via independent methods utterly independent of their primary cloud service provider?

No one remembers Photobucket or the hundreds of other cloud services that went "poof" into the night?

There is no cloud, just someone else's computer - always have backups of some other means. A different provider with a different account, alternate mechanisms (i.e. email addresses with different email providers, etc.) to get to that data and accounts...

It's even easier now with VM's, snapshots, free open source backup software that understands all of that - fairly inexpensive commercial solutions like veem - there is zero excuse.

My favorite was a small SAAS provider that had all their backup infrastructure on AWS under the same account as the test/dev and operations - and someone got in and deleted it all. Partitioning - yes, it's an essential thing. And not just for technical. Separation of duties. Requiring concurrence by more than one person for critical operations. Lessons that should have been learned from past experience.

Peoples (especially developers) eyes glaze over with documents like NIST 800-53 - but all those controls exist from experience. The bigger/more critical your system is to your survival, the more of those controls you should have answers for!
So the takeaway is: if you want to leave a negative review, you need to do so anonymously as otherwise you may be brought to court.
Well, I am a physicist, so this wasn't purely techno-babble but since I never had anything to do with astronomy or radio-observations a caveat seemed warranted.

Thanks for the link btw!
> Honestly? Who cares about cost savings?

Honestly? Sane people.

I worked at 80 person company which broke and closed because of this. We almost escaped this demise by going from PHP to HHVM which unfortunately was very alpha at the time, but we simply ran short of money and time. If it had worked, we would have scaled down 15x our AWS costs and would have saved at least 40 jobs.
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I suppose so, I've seen that myself. I always take the time to design anything I do thoroughly though so it's all clear and concise.

Also the only time I used FP it was a seemingly awful implementation.

Perhaps I'll mess around with F# or something some time to see how I feel about it more.
I don't know about quizzing each other, but when my youngest sibling, an unemployed community college dropout, got super involved in the Portland antiracist scene, to the point that they stopped talking to our family (because we represent white oppression, basically what the author described) it has been really rough to see our love for them weaponized to push this particular cult. Having a family member join a cult doesn't make day-to-day problems (they don't even speak to us anymore), but that doesn't mean it's not a major social trend
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The New York Times published an article just a week ago claiming Signal was "problematic" for affording anonymity. I would assume WaPo feels the same way. No benefit in forwarding to either institution.
Exact opposite experience in the US. I don’t think I’ve even applied at a place where I could submit one. The only point of uploading my resume is to get past the automated screens.
From a european perspective there is currently no nation more divided that the USA in terms of culture and politics.

In france, equality means making nation-wide republican programs where everyone should be treated the same at all part of society. This is a bottom up approach.

In this US, equality means there are grants for women, black, disabled, asians, mulims, jews, blinds, deafs, natives... and pretty much none for white people. Or it's Positive Discrimination. Pretty much everyone is doing stuff for its own group, AGAINST the other groups... It's even men vs women in some parts of the dating scene..

The people (democrats) pretending to fight for equality are just fighting for SPECIFIC MINORITIES all the time. No wonder people voted trump.. at least he was a honest asshole.
Cool. Hit me up on our slack community if you face any issues.

Good point regarding README. We certainly need to do a better job at it. Will update it soon.
Mapping the ice on Mars that could support future missions
Not every man needs to fish, we live in a society with specialization. Some people can do the fishing and some can do other things.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but those have been known for at least a couple hundred years ;)

https://science.nasa.gov/galaxy-wars-m81-and-m82
Just from my point of view the actor model seems ideal for simulating three dimensional systems at various levels of fidelity. An actor could exist that does maths for one region (say air in a climate change simulation) and that cube could send messages about its state to various surrounding regions/actors (cubes at the top, bottom, left, right, front and back) and affect them. The more cubes in the system the higher quality the simulation.

Obviously this being on the beam you’d get the ability to run these actors across different computers fairly easily, hopefully scaling quite well.

You could also build FDTD systems like this and even acoustics simulations. I wonder if this is something the authors here are thinking about?
Evolution of Machine Learning Infrastructure at Salesforce
First of all: I love the idea, effort and everything in general. So take my comment lightly.

Datadog is big because they shipped a gazillion integrations across I don't know how many products.

Anytime I see a "alternative to Datadog" I think: so you are going to have an agent and integrations page that integrates with everything from HAproxy to Kafka to the full AWS and Azure API's and etc. etc. etc?
I have been as skeptical as the parent post. You make a good point though. Getting to Windows 7 at any point this decade will give them a real shot at increasing user base. I assume most people would be happy on Windows 7 as on Windows 10 outside of becoming comfortable on Windows 10 over the past 5 yrs
> When I ask how they organize their school files, they either use Google Docs for everything (all in one folder) or, if they use Word, they have one folder with all their documents named, "New Document", "New Document (1)", "New Document (2)", &c.

1000x this - even on Mac, the rise in the "recents" view seems to be intended to avoid the user needing to know where their files are stored. This means users can't find them to back them up, as they don't understand the file has a path and location, belonging to a structural hierarchy. It's a document, so my junior thesis should be backed up if I back up "documents", right? (Not if it's stored in Downloads.....)

> We now have the "talk" with our juniors about backups, as more than one has lost their entire junior thesis because it was stored on their laptop and nowhere else.

Still see this problem with honours year degree students - must happen at least a couple of times per year, even with access to more on-prem and cloud storage than they can shake a stick at! Tolerance for this kind of situation is now so limited that it's likely a student in that situation may end up failing.

> As the tower of abstraction has gotten taller, there's a temptation to teach near the shiny end

The sheer height of the tower is now such that chunks of it seem to be forgotten about, and crumbling away. And the foundations are near collapse - it's incredibly exhausting trying to explain concepts to someone that has no basic understanding of the operation of a computer, yet is trying to be learn new things.

I've seen boot camps trying to teach people git, where the instructors themselves don't properly understand how the command line works, and wouldn't be able to explain that the files a student "sees" in Finder are the same files as in the Terminal...
Non-Exemplary Lives
Senna was a VERY interesting figure. For whatever reason, the press eats up his virtuosity. The big incident where I feel he was on the right side of history was his should-have-been-a-win at the Suzuka GP in 1989: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Japanese_Grand_Prix and his mistreatment at the hands of Jean-Marie Balestre. According to wikipedia, Balestre admitted it:

"Years later, after leaving the presidency of FIA, Balestre admitted to having acted to benefit Prost in 1989."[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Balestre

Having said that, Prost was the better racer, and Senna benefits from the halo effect of having died in his prime. He's got some great quotes, and he was definitely mistreated at times which increased his standing as a folk hero, but he was outclassed at almost every step by Prost.
Prior to this use, brackets were clear. Subtract them and what remains is quoted verbatim.

Using them this way breaks that and renders both past and future text less clear, and does not add real value otherwise.

Real ambiguity becomes codified into otherwise precise expression.
Care to share the course that helped with the install / setup on a Mac?
Reddit user claiming to be Tesla insider appeared to reveal BTC buy a month ago
Hmm. The current approach of "combating racism" (quotas, preferences, "white fragility", etc.) almost has to produce tribalism, which, since it's tribalism on the axis of race, will almost certainly produce more racism down the road. Once you put it that way, it seems almost inevitable.
Kafka and Druid are expensive and complicated components to run for an open core biz trying to help people save money against Datadog. This guarantees a lot of people won't take advantage of the "open" part of your open core but maybe that doesn't matter for your business anyway.

I can't speak to Druid but I'm always puzzled when I hear about Kafka being used for metrics. Most metrics are timestamped and also support being calculated in ways that support out of order handling.

It's true that people are being gouged on storage markup by monitoring companies but I don't think this particular approach is the solution. Obsessing over storage and querying costs isn't a good starting point for a startup so maybe driving good habits (stop collecting so much junk, keep it around less frequently, etc.) is a better route to help people save quiche. Either way good luck!
> the general development of Marxist philosophy over a 200 year period of time.

Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg, they are all quite clear.

Many modern marxists, like G.A. Cohen, write similarly clearly.

> Attention is All You Need

That paper actually defines quite a bit of what it is talking about. Nor are the sentences run-on or as dense in jargon as this.

I've actually read quite a bit of the "psychoanalysis"-inspired philosophy sub-genre inaugurated by Lacan. I think it is insulting to compare the jargon used in that context, where authors will often admit to be intentionally obscurant, with a technical paper like Attention is All You Need.
I agree it's speculation, I said "may". Balance of speculation.