skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it depends on the mask. I agree with you for the tight-fitting cloth masks, but I take strenuous walks and even bike rides in a surgical mask and it doesn't bother me at all. Probably provides less protection, though.
I don't agree. Capitalism is just an exchange of something(work/goods) for currency. In its essence is nor good or bad. Greed is in the humans that are running the company. I tend to side more with the other responses, that as it grows it tends to lose focus of its core values (considering it ever had any) and also having to post profits for the shareholders at any costs.
I wish it were as you say. Effectively, at least a facebook account was needed at two of the universities I was at. I've also seen instances of important (even life threatening) information being transmitted via social networks, exclusively. So yes, sometimes you pretty much have to be part of that game.
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What do you mean by an attack on "part of AES"?
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It seems to claim to implement the interface of Clang OpenMP library. So you compile with clang and use LOMP instead of libomp.so. Clang OpenMP runtime originated at Intel, and Intel's OpenMP library is also compatible with GNU's libgomp. I'm not sure if that's true for libomp, though.
any advice on how to find a good therapist?
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I attempted to be a Fi user. I was a Google Voice number, but apparently some small % of Google Voice numbers could not be ported into Fi at all. After a couple escalations the rep was very sorry but said their system was not able to handle my account unless I was willing to give up my Google Voice number. They suggested I create an alternate google account just for Fi, although Fi and Google Voice cannot front one another, so I end up with a separate phone number that nobody would know.
I would love global and not require a bank account sign up (want to be minimally intrusive). And yes thousands of outgoing transactions a day would be great.
> Same thing if Google was to ban my gmail today, I'd lose SO MUCH and worse is my photos, all my logins, etc. Their "loss" on me could be devastating to my life and not even a blip on their radar.

I have a monthly calendar reminder to do a GDPR export (Google Takeout, Facebook, etc), and I just save it to a big HDD. I keep the instructions to order exports for each service in the "event description" to make it as quick and as little effort for me as possible.

I know it's boring... but I read the article this thread is about and it just re-inforces that I am doing the right thing.
For sure a technology that

- has 100% uptime

- 0 network-level hacks

- allows global large value transfer in less than an hour

- allows global micropayments in less than a second

- is a new asset class with unimaginable global impact

is not impressive. Hint: the technology is not blockchain, it's Bitcoin.
May I ask where do you work? :)

Happy to move this to a priavte channel: yonatan@jiga3d.com
>Funny how the conclusion that someone is "talented" or "naturally" good at something is always observed in retrospect.

There's plenty of athletes that were plucked out of relative obscurity and went on to have enormous success. Hakeem Olajuwon, as an example, didn't play basketball until he was 15 but his height and athleticism were recognized. Antonio Gates didn't play football in college but was signed to the NFL. Ultimately he became one of the best TEs ever.

These are unusual cases precisely because it is easy to recognize talent and usually the best talent is put on the path from an early age.
Beat me to it.

Paranoia is not new.
That's what made it so daunting. I was completely powerless to argue against this massive, faceless corporation. I imagine for those who store their whole lives on Google, this feeling is amplified 100x.
Take care of your body. Stretch. Warm up. 30 is the threshold where you start to really lose the ability to heal. You can injure yourself now and your body just won't heal back to 100%. Ever.
From which legislation? The faltering nation-states?
Around this age people get comfortable in their ways and many stop learning new things. Fight this. Learn and try new things professionally and personally. Get out of your comfort zone and try new stuff.
Small erratum: Your first link describes re-writing a back-end service from go to rust; the first-party Discord client is Electron.
I think the title on HN is different than the title in the actual article, and has different implications. The HN title implies that getting "demoted" wasn't the goal but a bad effect of following dreams. The title from the actual article, "I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer," is much better: clearly the "demotion" was the goal of following their dreams.
It’s a little tongue-in-cheek, but at Facebook when an IC switches to EM, I often hear people offer their condolences. When an EM switches to IC, they are congratulated on their promotion.
I think the main benefits would be rethinking the core of persistence to be more about atomic operations on datastructures as opposed to POSIX filesystem IO.

I personally believe that files are still a useful metaphor, and this hypothetical OS that we're discussing would likely still provide them, at least for interop.

An example being a database. Provided we didn't have to batch writes, be aware of dirty pages, write things in certain order to maintain coherence in the event of a crash, etc... we could build something really simple. Ultimately it would depend a lot on the details like memory bandwidth+latency between DRAM and NVRAM
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It might be different elsewhere, but most people in Europe really do know their GMT offset.
Since when do defendants have an interest in prolonged sentencing processes? For major crimes like this, they are in jail with restrictions. They would get better treatment once sentenced, in the prison system, wouldn’t they?
All this shows me is that Google pinky promises that they don't do that.

Even if they don't scan the contents of your email bodies, you don't think they know who you are getting emails from, who you are emailing, and a boatload of info about who you do business with and such as a result?

I'm betting they do.
The sentence right before the one you quoted is

> When you open Gmail, you'll see ads that were selected to show you the most useful and relevant ads. The process of selecting and showing personalized ads in Gmail is fully automated.

They created that page in order to highlight that there are no humans reading your mail, but OP's point that "it allows them insight into people's communication which they can then leverage with search and ad networking to make way more than they could simply selling email services" is still true to this day. It's just that it's all automated.
I love looking at these benchmarks. Thank you TechEmpower for the work.
For me what mattered most was to have a format that allows to access/edit the data without needing specific tools (other than a text editor, that is). But as you said, both formats have their pros and cons depending on what is important to you.
He said “ATM”, they received it in cash.
Probably not the same energy availability, though.
For a ship this size, I'm guessing that you need to factor in at least 1/2 day at each end coming and going from port, possibly a full day. It's likely that cruising speed only matters for total number of days minus 2 regardless of trip distance.
Exactly. What people don't seem to realize is that blockchain isn't even about cryptocurrency, its primary use case and probably why it is so maligned, is that it will eliminate the middlemen who act as the fiduciary for financial transactions and replace them with algorithms. One reason the SEC has not come after Bitcoin or Ethereum is because they are NOT investments and are not sold as such.
Crypto total market cap is over $1 trillion, and Bitcoin represents 60% of that. It’s much more valuable than Facebook.
I'm sorry, but that's not obvious. Given that we've got PCI circuits running at 16GHz, why don't chipmakers give us full-scale processors with those faster clock speeds?

Bit-serial adders are extremely simple circuits with a single carry register, which can run at essentially the full speed of the underlying switching devices. Ripple-carry adders have a circuit depth proportional to the number of bits in the adder -- they're only stable when the clock is substantially slower than the switching time (proportional to the circuit depth), because the carry signal needs to propagate through all of the 1-bit adders.
And Bitcoin was based on Hashcash and countless other distributed ledger systems before it.

> I don't know - it'll take decades I would guess for it to be widely used

Well we're already down one and a half decades. What if it never sees widespread use. Defining "very early days" as "there's no users yet" means you can always claim it's "very early days".

There's another issue here, which is that people point out hard problems and say "don't worry, smart people are working on solutions". This has been happening as far back as 2013, when I was poking my head into the Bitcoin-sphere. But it never accounts for: what if there is no solution that meets all requirements? That's politically appropriate, safe, secure, and efficient?

Maybe we can't claim magic future solutions will solve us when they still haven't been solved yet -- 1.5 decades in.
Posssie to upload multiple parts and treat as a single quote?
See, I strongly agree with you about the near equivalence of an AR-15 and an M4 carbine, and I'm glad to get further confirmation of the reading I've done suggesting that fully automatic rifle fire is highly overrated and rarely used professionally.

To me, that strongly suggests that the AR-15, even though it has become the "modern sporting rifle", is a weapon of war. It's clearly a military weapon (that's its origin and the intent behind its design). The thing that separates it from the weapon we all consider indisputably military, the selective fire M16, is a trivial amount of metal and additional machining --- and that tiny bit of extra stuff is rarely needed in the field anyways. My claim: the fact that Adolf Hitler chose to describe a rifle with a couple extra pieces of metal in the trigger assembly as a "bad-ass rifle" (my translation) has assumed an outsize role in our policy.

I think a rational target for our firearms policy should be all semi-automatic rifles with detachable (or high-capacity) magazines. Doesn't mean we should ban them or even seek to reduce the number of them in commerce today, just that those are the weapons I think we should be talking about.
If all of the latest Facebook news can get my family to start questioning their usage/dependency on Facebook—I think it's fairly possible.

There have been a number of really great projects coming through HN and other sites recently that are aimed at solving some problem that people on Facebook have: photo sharing, event planning, etc.

Discoverability is really the only problem left.
> Reading the article I am still struggling to understand why exactly you would transition away from something that has a ton of community support and a lot of people use (you are more likely to find a developer with Docker experience than Buildpack).

Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNBs) are supported by fulltime teams at both VMware and Salesforce/Heroku. Google now chips in, I expect more folks will join as time goes on. Buildpacks are already a CNCF project and Paketo buildpacks are a CFF project, openly governed and not owned by any company.

Dockerfiles, by contrast, are defined by one company.

> This just seems like a more opinionated DockerFile that doesn't give you the power to change things that you may need.

You can extend CNBs pretty easily, they are designed to compose. Joe Kutner from Heroku has been particularly active in demonstrating extensions:

https://github.com/jkutner/web-tty-buildpack

https://github.com/jkutner/no-secrets-buildpack

https://github.com/jkutner/ngrok-buildpack

These are features composable with any other set of buildpacks. Java, Ruby, NodeJS, etc. You won't need to implement N ecosystems * M features. You implement N + M instead and get to enjoy N * M value.

> If you really want to make it easier for your engineers, stick with a DockerFile and have a couple common internal images that they pull from instead and just put their code in.

I've seen this done at large scale. Enormous, elaborate build systems, strict rules (which incidentally negate "flexibility" as a feature), linters, pipelines for updating things. It's slow, brittle, expensive and basically ... you reinvent what buildpacks already gives you. Except that they require more rebuilds vs layer rebasing and will require more disk space to be used for almost-but-not-quite-identical layers.

Disclosure: I've worked on 2 generations of buildpack technology. I've worked on large Dockerfile setups. Buildpacks are legit.
Rust Foundation seems pretty much targeted at HN-bubble-like groups, that do indeed have some familiarity with GMT/UTC.
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Ask HN: How do you manage application configuration?
Exceeded the 2000 char limit. Full question here:
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> We need regulations to enforce adequate customer service and SLAs in these huge companies.

Poland is introducing a law [0] to provide a right of appeal to the courts if a person is banned by social media platforms. The law's intention is to limit the platform's ability to remove content that they claim violates their policies, but which doesn't violate Poland's laws. Depending exactly on how that law is worded and implemented, it might provide protection for people banned for non-content reasons as well, including the inscrutable "we claim you broke our rules but we refuse to tell you which rule you broke". Of course, this doesn't do anyone outside of Poland any good, but other countries might copy Poland's law.

The downside is that Poland's law is inspired by the banning of Donald Trump and other right-wingers, and being associated with that political context is going to discourage people on the left from supporting it, even though I think people on the left could benefit from it as well.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/14/poland-plans-t...
There is no competition if you want to sell phone apps. You have to sell via google store and apple store. Foregoing one of the stores drops 50% of your userbase that you can't reach with the other store, so you have to do both or leave money on the table.
> This is a different case, concerning functions that are expensive to compute to a high degree of precision (e.g. due to high sensitivity to rounding of intermediate results) but "reputable" libraries will still try really hard to give good results.

This is what I was referring to. See where it says "Why can't y^w be rounded within half an ulp like SQRT? Because nobody knows how much computation it would cost."... that's why I was confused how a arbitrary-precision library would handle something like this. User asks to raise some long decimal to another long decimal power and it seems to me you might sometimes either have to return a very wrong result or spend so much time computing that it won't be worth it.
For better or for worse, that is good customer support with clear remediation procedures.
> Google has not done that in many years.

I love that you post a copy of the Google PR written help documentation to support this claim. Also, "I have never lied. Ever!".
Citizens of the free world, you actually have a choice in the matter. Don't use facebook. Never did, no one cares.

Stop relying on "gubmint" to handle your diaper changes. Think for and act by yourselves.
Indeed it is. It wasn't at all obvious on my phone that I could put a flashlight toggle on my notification bar, so for a long time I still kept the old Motorola DroidLight app, which, despite being unmaintained for a very long time, worked beautifully.
> can save costs in some circumstances [...] and what we found was every team started using more and more resources until we ended up with a sprawl of over-provisioned and under-utilized services

This can happen but already for medium deployments the costs are so much lower that you can hire a bunch of devops managing a proper centralized RBAC-based k8s cluster which isn't over-provisioned nor under-utilized. And even if, it should be still significantly cheaper than anything from Google and AWS. But again, if a company runs a strong-margin business model cloud cost optimizations are the wrong thing to think about. Whatever, your solution is definitely a big step in the right direction.
You're younger than you think. You can still drastically alter the course of your life
Can confirm this, sadly. I turned 30 right around the time COVID hit and immediately stopped my usual exercise activities due to restrictions. A year later and I’m constantly nursing stupid injuries from nothing. My body simply isn’t bouncing back like it used to
The comments are great. I never understood why you’d attack a popular programming language. It’s how many of us eat .

Even worse he attacks .net developers and not .net itself . If you prefer those who can write a sort tree in C, cool. But just say that , not .net makes you lazy and stupid
apple support is shit, even if you can talk with an rep. their first level basically tries to stop you going down the levels, the second level basically just forwards you. most of the time it's not even the people, it's basically their stupid system where you have your dedicated rep, but the only way to contact him is by using a stupid form/voice which sometimes prints stupid error message and you have no idea if it gone trough.
also if there is a mistake in the system and they have no clue about it you are lost or you need to pay tons of money.
Anyone know of a good way to back-up google account content ?
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What did you expect the response to be. Should they have said, "No we don't have that, you should probably just use AWS"?

They didn't have exactly what you wanted so provided a workaround that would solve the problem.
Why is Google forced to provide customer support* for something they provide for free?

* they do provide customer support, it could obviously be a lot better
> But nothing about this changes my opinion that this is an opinionated builder that when you get to the point that you need to do something a bit funky or weird in your application or build process you will end up needing to ditch it and build a Dockerfile anyways.

"Sometimes there's a power outage, so I am forced to use candles anyhow. Therefore I should only use candles for lighting."
> When you make a decision as a manager or a director, the impact of that decision has a multiplicative force.

Every time I hear this explanation, I can't help but think "so we're still smoking Luck Strikes, huh?"

When you make a decision as a software engineer, the impact of that decision can often have a multiplicative or even exponential force.

The goal of 21st century organizations -- especially software organizations -- should be to make things scale in way that's at most sublinear with the number of people you throw at it.

Automation prints money and businesses that can harness automation have huge profit margins.

People are expensive and body shops are shitty companies waiting to be replaced when technology catches up with whatever work they're throwing bodies at.

It's not 1960 anymore. Invest in your automators and treat your people managers as a low-value-add cost center.
> But why does a position with greater risk necessitate greater compensation?

There are various methods to address risk:

1. Avoid the risk

2. Reduce the risk

3. Transfer the risk

4. Accept the risk

When you buy insurance, you're doing #3. If you self-insure, you're doing #4. Either strategy requires putting some money towards premiums, the expected possible cost of the risk.

It's much cheaper to pursue #1 or #2. You're then saving an amount exactly equal to the premiums don't have to pay under #3 or #4.

Thus, you can pay a person to do #1/#2 a fraction of the equivalent cost of #3/#4 and still come out ahead.

> A lazy manager can get along by just regularly pruning reports who produce more liability than reward.

Yup, and the books will balance.
If you really care about doing things. Stop attending to meetings. Delegates, empower people to decide by themselves. If you need to be in so many meetings, it means a lot of people think you need be consulted for a decision. It shows a bad culture
Comfort level is huge. If you don't feel like you can talk to them, they aren't worth having. You need to be able to be completely open for it to work.
>I am not a lawyer but as I understand the U.S. criminal justice system (which is adversarial between defense and prosecution with the judge officiating and the jury picking the winner)

That process happens very rarely. Federal criminal cases are resolved via plea bargain in ~97% of cases and state criminal cases are resolved via plea bargain in ~94% of cases[0].

This is a travesty of justice, especially since most defendants are severely over-charged and often face long prison sentences if they actually insist on (and can afford) a trial.

Those practices, along with cash bail, force even innocent people to plead guilty to avoid having their lives destroyed by bankruptcy, loss of employment, homes and even custody of their children.

And once they have a criminal conviction, they are stigmatized for life and are shut out of many jobs.

In most of these cases, the forensic evidence (if any) is never presented. For a discussion of this, as well as American forensic practices, see Blood, Powder and Residue[1], by Beth Bechky (Author discussion can be found here[2]).

While there are no required standards for forensics labs in the US (with some exceptions[4]), there are accreditation programs (example[3]), and not all forensic laboratories are for-profit companies.

I'm not defending the quality or independence of any particular forensic lab, but it's definitely more diverse than just a bunch of corrupt, rapacious scum sucking at the teat of prosecutors' budgets.

That said, most criminal defendants are at a significant disadvantage when it comes to performing/challening forensic research, as many state and federal labs provide such services for prosecutors, while defendants need to pay, often through the nose for them.

It's just another way the US "justice" system is stacked against criminal defendants.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/prisons-are-packed-bec...

[1] https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691183589/bl...

[2] https://www.c-span.org/video/?508130-1/blood-powder-residue

[3] https://anab.ansi.org/en/forensic-accreditation

[4] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...

Edit: Added notation for reference [1]