skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this fundamentally misunderstands how computer users work.

Lets say I'm a programmer who needs to spin up multiple VMs / Docker / etc. etc. to properly emulate some server setup. Multiple cores and tons of RAM (more than 256GB) needed on a regular basis, with a few NVMe drives in RAID0 so that those VMs can be snapshot in blazing fast speeds.

Paying $100 to $4000 for VMWare workstation, Visual Studio subscriptions, SQLServer non-express, Red Hat Virtual Machine License, Visio, and other such top-class tools would be 100% reasonable, along with the $10,000+ Threadripper pro computer with 512GB RAM or whatever.

But image editing wouldn't be part of that user's workflow. Suddenly, the professional developer is asked to make a web-banner on the top of his Github document with the logo of the company on it.

Guess what? Said developer probably is downloading GIMP. The hassle of going to corporate to be compensated for lol $25 on another image editor is just not worth the time.
> Absurd

You're joking, right? Ever played a video game before? Add by user name. Share a link... There are tons of options without sharing real-world data.
Python Dinoprint()
In a way, yes. Go doesn't have the concept of enums, so this is as close as it gets.
> " I'd say the majority of philosophers silently agree that 80% of all publications or more in philosophy are nonsense or bullshit and only the rest is even worth reading, but they all disagree about which 80% percent..."

Are you saying that philosophy in general encourages confused, self-indulgent thinking?
Wow you should really think twice before you start calling people stupid, it has the opposite effect that you intend... especially considering you’re not right in this case.

Do you read the TOS of every service you sign up for? regardless, CA was found in violation of the TOS so there wasn’t much many people caught up in that scandal could have possibly done.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/cgi.html
All your prints are essentially sent as response with CGI, but I think for Python WSGI is the standard you should use, and you can e.g. use jinja to render HTML with templates where you can use variables, certain functions, etc. Is that what you are looking for?
It should raise questions such as "am I living in a bad neighborhood" or "am I living in a city with more crime than the average" with added caveats such as "just this year", before you jump to asking "is the government and/or mainstream media lying", is what I want to get at.

"Crime has not significantly increased country-wide" and "two severe criminal incidents happened to me or my close friends recently" are in fact not mutually exclusive statements.
> The question that most puzzles me is who gives grants to these obviously nonsense humanities academics to do their work and why? I guess this is a pretty cheap area of research to fund, but why bother at all?

For the same reason that academics spent a lot of time researching tobacco and producing results saying that it wasn't harmful, until that shifted, there are some fields which exist primarily because they're predominantly politically motivated and funded on that basis. It's not always an easy ride, but if you follow the money, it's very rarely altruistic how anything gets funded in any aspect of life, perhaps least of all in academia, which is one reason why rigor is so much lower outside the hard sciences where it's harder to unambiguously disprove BS. As my initial example points out though, the hard sciences are also not immune to money influence.
This seems like a pretty cut and dry example though. It’s a direct financial relationship where Epic profits off of Supergiants games. That money is support. It allows Epic to propagate their views and business model.

Whether or not you choose to adapt your purchasing decisions based on this knowledge is a separate question of your ethics and other factors.
"CUDA Core" is a misleading marketing term. It merely counts the number of FP32 ALUs. If you measured CPUs this way, you'd have up to 16 "cores" per core. If you count it that way, that makes this CPU is roughly as powerful as the GTX 400 series with it's "512 cores". A brief look at benchmarks seems to confirm that.

Conversely if you counted a GPUs independent parallel threads of execution like on CPUs, you'd max out at a very comparable 64 "cores".
Still in beta, but hoping to get more feedback on what we're building. It's a social audio space built around questions. We believe that where Google+ missed with circles was requiring a lot of up-front work. We flip this by using questions as the structure and then allow users to opt-in to topics with people they follow.

Would love to get constructive criticism on what we've built & what people think we should improve/add/remove.
As I understand, it was a browser extension which scraped data off the Facebook pages visited by users. There is no way Facebook could reasonably detect or combat that.
at a previous company, HR (or a PR firm they hired) would stuff the ratings with tons of super positive reviews for the company.

A company I once worked for required employees to post positive reviews of its app, as a condition of employment.

This started shortly after I left, so I'm grateful I never had to deal with that.
Not true. Bitcoin ATMs allow this.
Absolutely, but if I remember correctly Cambridge Analytica is no more and the law doesn't seem to be going after whoever was behind the company.

> Do you think if they knew the full scope of Cambridge Analytica's work they would've allowed them to access the data?

Honestly? I'm not sure - a lot of people already dismiss privacy concerns and ad tracking as "I've got nothing to hide" or "it's just ads, no big deal". Unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised if people opted in even if CA was fully transparent with their intentions.

However, CA even broke Facebook's API terms of use, so at least if CA was transparent Facebook wouldn't have allowed them API access to begin with (though I'm sure they would've worked around that, with malicious apps/browser extensions or just asking for raw Facebook credentials, bypassing the API completely).
Highly recommend Krita over Gimp.
its a much better product and has much better tooling and color handling
IIRC the issue with CA was that a friend could share my data without me knowing. It could have been data that I uploaded and not my friend (and maybe the friend didn't even know the existence of this data).

I remember Facebook permissions for Apps in the past were quite laxes. I wonder even if theren't were data accessible to apps that were not visible from the browser interface.
I'm completely out of my depths here but hear me out: could pulsars be observed with such a thing? That would definitely be the icing on the cake.

A way to precisely point the dish would be needed and an equatorial mount to compensate for Earth's rotation. If the signal was too faint, maybe some lock-in amplifier magic by creating a synthetic trigger signal with the expected rotational frequency of the targeted pulsar and then shifting the phase until the signal is maximized?
I agree, it is a chain of poor responses to abuse, these people probably considered the original response that they got (along with having their pull request deleted) as an abuse which is why they responded in that way.
> The Cambridge Analytica scandal has nothing to do with Facebook's business model and Facebook did not gain anything from this.

Hilarious.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal is in regards to a nefarious 3rd party using Facebook's pipes in a way that violated Facebook's policy. There are emails to show that Facebook knew about this, and did not act to remove CA's access to said pipes (no, [1] there are literally emails about this that were found during discovery).

You even mentioned it

> To the best of my knowledge CA abused a free feature (API access) designed for legitimate usage to collect user data for nefarious purposes

Yes. They abused it. They abused it and were allowed to continue abusing it because Facebook's business model is data, not user privacy. You're blaming CA for what FB quite literally (and I mean quite literally) allowed them to do, told them to stop doing, then turned a blind eye when CA _continued_ to do it.

Again. Not my opinion. It's a matter of factual record.

Links
- https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-emails-show-workers...
- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/newly-released-mes...

Edit: Formatting
In what way is he a cuck?
BitBar reboot: the dark knight rises
How is this different than Opstrace?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25991485
Purely speculative: but I wouldn't be surprised if this level of intelligence were going on in life. The seeds of a plant do remember their previous growing environment.
> Stupid users agreed to that.

Can we not do this, please? People are being manipulated like never before. Almost anyone is susceptible.
Ha, awesome. It really is painful.

We don't have a newsletter yet but we do include "voice of the customer" in our advisor updates.
I have a 3600X, water cooled so it runs at top speed reliably, 64GB RAM, and a gen 4 PCIe SSD. Photoshop takes a solid 30+ seconds to launch, and another 30+ seconds to load even a few dozen KB JPEG. Feels like an app from 1988.
I think those are all pretty good fits.

The single unix process that BEAM uses is more conducive to some kinds of systems than some of the hackier-feeling solutions for the Rails ecosystem to tie different pieces together.
Here's what the HN homepage looked like on the day it launched (Ocb 9, 2006)

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09

(Funny timing, I just discovered this feature yesterday.)
Many 401k plans have 0% fees and tiny fees on plan investments. I'm paying 0% fees on my 401k plan and absurdly low fees on the Vanguard Institutional Plus funds within it: .01-.04% per year depending on fund. (No that is not a typo.)

It all depends on the plan provider. The big ones like Vanguard, Fidelity, Schwab, etc., are all rock solid.
It is important to note that this article was written by a black man, a contributing editor to The Atlantic. John McWhorter is not a MAGA hack.

That being said...

This article is the very definition of a straw man. Absolutely no one subscribes to the position it critiques.

On the other hand, a fair number of people (including myself) subscribe to the position that, although things are not nearly as bad as they have been in the past, there is still a latent undercurrent of actual racism in the U.S. which sometimes bubbles to the surface and manifests itself in various harmful ways, up to and including (but far from limited to) black people being systematically disenfranchised, and publicly tortured and killed by authorities, often with impunity. To people like me, straw-man arguments like the one in TFA (and F does not stand for Fine in this case) are offensive because I of course agree that the position being critiqued is risible. Whether or not it was the author's intent, some people will surely read it as saying, tacitly, there is no problem, and anyone who says there is a problem is being hysterical or otherwise detached from reality.

Well, there is a problem, and there has been for hundreds of years. We have made a lot of progress towards solving this problem. But we have not yet solved fully solved it, and anyone who says that we have, particularly when they say it in such a condescending way, is part of the problem.

[UPDATE] A lot of people are disputing my claim here. What no one has yet done is provide an actual reference to anyone going on the record to endorse the ten-point position that McWhorter calls "third-wave anti-racism." Lots of anecdotes. Zero data.
Great discussion from John and Glen on this topic over at Bloggingheads last summer.

https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/59847?in=3:39
Well, we obviously have paid courses that cover all this, but if you want my personal opinion on package layout, Ben Johnson really has a great article on it here: https://www.gobeyond.dev/packages-as-layers/
Paper: http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/publications/2021/vohra_2021_ff...

Author's related work: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo...
>given recent examples elsewhere that resulted in millions upon millions dead, I'd say we are on the better side of that one.

Surely you must be joking.
The points about iota are interesting. I always define the first constant as "unknown" when defining a set of iota-driven constants. That way the zero value is "unknown" so if I create a new struct with no initialiser it doesn't accidentally inherit a value I didn't mean it to have, and instead gets the "unknown" value.

It also doesn't touch on the other useful "system" funcs to include on a type (Scan, Value, Marshal, etc)
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Fascinating, I assume I could use some thing like that to guess the secret Santa. Knowing I cannot have my wife and might know a few of who got who within the group, I could have a list of "likely" possibilities.
Yeah but it would be perfect for sysadmin who just want to host python, node type of server. Too bad they are shutting down.
I get stock but I also get 401k matching too. The two are not the same at all and most good tech employers offer both.

Also, what does he think his personal compensation has to do with anything? This is about his employees' retirement plans, not about him. It's only about him insomuch as he's the one ultimately making the decision to be stingy.
Hackers claim to have accessed source code for Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3
Just to be clear, 20 plugins was not my words.

I don't base on number of plugins, I base on complexity personally.

I mostly agree with you, but in my experience most (not all) people who are capable of using a static site generator will do so. Those who aren't comfortable with it use WordPress. I'm not slamming WordPress, just making an observation.
Sure; I did not say otherwise. Seattle (where OP lives) does not use chloramine.

> You might hear about different forms of chlorine. Seattle's water system uses "free chlorine" (not chloramines).

http://www.seattle.gov/utilities/your-services/water/water-s...
> is close-to-incomprehensible to me

Because it's written for an audience of people who are very familiar with structuralism, Althusser, and the general development of Marxist philosophy over a 200 year period of time.

This is no different than a paper like "Attention is All You Need" expecting you to have a background in neural networks, recurrent neural networks specifically, neural-language models, and the transformer architecture.

It's strange to me that philosophy is presumed exempt from having technical language and expecting a prepared reader where nearly all other fields are not.
Interesting idea, but how do you guys get around the fact that if a user is willing to join this pool of testers, then they are most likely not an average user but someone who works or plays with technology more than the average person. This could lead to skewed results as your users believe that they are testing with the “average joe” when in reality it’s other hacker news readers.
Doesn't english already have a perfectly good way to support "molding the quote into the grammatical context"?

For example, if you don't like:

He said, "I will go to the city."

You can use:

He said that he would go to the city.

Quotes are useful because the text they surround can be ungrammatical or even contain non-words, for example phonetically describing dialect.

To be consistent you would have to insist that words in quotes should always conform to the grammatical context. This would make many current (useful) uses of quotes incorrect.
Money influence, but also the allure of power.
To be clear, I don’t think the bottom is any less terrifying. It’s just the anxiety of being poor and powerless is now replaced by reality.
so were many other products before they become a PaaS.
> All I can say is that there are disciplines and sub-disciplines/fields of study in the humanities that bear all the hallmarks of pseudo-science: extremely small communities, lots of jargon, few journals controlled by everyone in the communities, bouncing articles back and forth between those journals, constantly mixing empirical theses with some philosophical claims ("ideal models"), and so on.

Aren't all of these kind of common to all science fields ? I mean, even in physics, you can see things like string theory... (Though calling it pseudoscience would be too harsh, it's more like 'metaphysics' until we manage to find a way to empirically test it.)
"I'd just continually sue them for literally anything and everything, even if they didn't break the law. Fuck that zuckerburg cuck. Their apps are literal burning addiction dumpster fire garbage. I hope their offices get struck by a meteorite."

To the people down voting my previous comment, it's time you learned, your significant other is soliciting their genitals on WhatsApp and it's all being used as advertisement information for addictive products on FaceBook the next day. Sorry you don't like the TRUTH. Start thinking with your gut and body in addition to your brain once in a while. You could use some damn serotonin.

Fine, maybe WhatsApp is encrypted... then they're doing it Instagram. Don't be so pedantic.
The last stand for forbearance housing market crash bros?
PSP (python server pages) is pretty close to that. I don't think it is terribly popular. There's also Spyce.
I really like this example, because it highlights both the strengths and weaknesses of Go in the same example.

On the one hand: Good language support for a specialized type and a method on that type, without making the type a heavyweight class (i.e. all that magic can happen at compile-time; Genre can still be an int "under the hood").

On the other hand: wow, that's a lot of boilerplate to write just to get the string representation of a token the compiler already knows about. As other commenters have noted, `go generate` will decrease the amount of code that needs to be hand-written, but it still smells like something the language should handle without explicit code.
Node.js 14 is over 20x faster than Python3.8 for fib(n)
That doesn't really matter because both pagerank and upvotes are easily gamed.
Currency XYZ is stable.

This sentence reflects a socially constructed truth (or falsehood) insofar as we have to agree on what the symbol XYZ stands for, what a currency is (is bitcoin a currency, are apples -- depends on the context) and what criteria of stability we have.

We can measure the exchange rate of a currency compared to others and we can define criteria for what we call stability in this context -- and we can make propositions based on that model, but only if we agree on the model. But all of that comes down to our socially constructed definitions. We cannot objectively measure the value of a currency like we measure the wavelength of a photon.

Other examples: "A Tough stance on crime works" (or has a lower crime rate other possible explanations). "Tomorrow there will be a traffic jam on intersection XYZ" (or won't there be a traffic jam because people assume that there will be and avoid that intersection).
You should discourage the use of Unreal Engine and avoid it wherever possible if you believe that Epic is an unethical company, of course.
That would tell me so much about a candidate.

The desire to learn and adapt is probably one of the most important thing in Software.

The ability to take a look at oneself and identify blind spots/weaknesses in ones knowledge and skills is also a great indicator this person won't become an "expert beginner".
What’s forcing people to use these frameworks is compatibility with the rest of the world. It’s like an arms race where if you don’t use typescript, you can’t use the library you want because they do. And so on and so forth. It’s like wanting to stay on Ubuntu 12, with only security fixes. You can’t because whatever else you need to install requires Ubuntu 16, etc etc.
Dude thinks we're gonna live in some Star Trek utopia where one needs money anymore because everything is provided and we all work just for the personal pleasure of discovering new things. Except.... they never explain how they got to that "utopia" in Star Trek and there's a good reason ha ha.
(Metal) monoliths are still happening
Netlify also gives a healthy free tier of serverless functions if you need them.

They can also manage your domain/ssl which is nice so I can manage everything related to my site on Netlify.
> Learning from solutions is one of the best ways to learn.

Sometimes I feel like that's the only way to learn. There's no worse feeling than staring at a problem and having no idea where to start with no one to guide you.

The corollary is that I feel sometimes it becomes _memorizing_ instead of _problem solving_.

In a certain aspect, problem solving is recalling previous solutions you've done and applying various parts of them. But in another sense, just memorizing solutions doesn't necessarily help you apply them.
Agreed. There are a couple of clever ways to handle iota, but as my next article suggests, in general, I steer away from them if you really just need constants.

I didn't go into any of the Scan/Value/Marshal etc as it was a little beyond the scope of this article. I can certainly do a follow up article on it though

Thanks for the feedback!
> * Publish the exploit before vendor know it

> * Publish the exploit before vendor delivered the patch

It's called full disclosure and it is the only ethical way to handle it.
Study Finds Wearable Devices Can Detect Covid-19 Symptoms and Predict Diagnosis
Wow! As far as I can see, that "passage" is a single sentence. I haven't managed to parse it, so I could be wrong.

It's possible to discuss difficult subjects using plain, sinple language. Not everyone that writes sentences like that is a charlatan, but my instinct on encountering something like that is to ask: what is being concealed?
Cash-to-cash in under an hour would definitely be possible but only if I had immediate access to a Bitcoin ATM (I would "withdraw" directly to the recipient, by giving my ATM the recipient's ATM's deposit address)
There are lots of different gaming communities of varying qualities (and toxicity levels). You paint with a broad brush, but this is understandable when the most visible aspects of online gamer culture are on the big, barely-moderated social media free-for-all platforms. The forum age was better, forums being run by people who cared about quality of discourse on their platforms. And they still exist, here and there.

ETA: Twitter and Reddit and Youtube are the social media platforms I mean. People also let their blog comments turn into free-for-alls. But doesn't a subreddit Reddit count a forum? Kinda. It's not really _run_ by its admins, like a proper independent forum.
>> C is not memory safe. It suffers from undefined behavior. These are valid complaints. However, C code can be secure!

C and C++ code CAN be secure, but most of it is not. It is too easy to write or update C / C++ code so that it is not secure or has unexpected results.

The lack of memory safety and undefined behavior that is difficult to reason about is why C and C++ are being displaced by Rust.

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/213 gives great insights into how undefined behavior in C and C++ can be difficult to reason about and cause problems.

I agree with Drew that Rust is not perfect and it still needs to target more architecture and platforms, needs a formal specification, and needs more implementations, but it is the most promising alternative to C and C++ so far and it has a bright future with the recent Rust Foundation: https://foundation.rust-lang.org/

With support from AWS, Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Mozilla, Rust will continue to get better and will undoubtedly begin to replace C and C++ more and more.
Most efficient ergonomic home office to get things done quickly
So... Gdpr doesn't apply to individuals or a person who happens to use a random social media app to find out such freely available info
Deployment?

PHP made "deployment" very simple. On the other hand, Python is complicated to deploy even today.