skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear what you’re saying about history. I studied abroad in Germany and those lessons are painfully obvious there. But for me the line is drawn at facts and opinion and words in their original historical context. No one is rewriting the definition of “slave”, they’re actually trying to preserve it.

“Master/slave” is a recent manufactured idiom. No one is hunting through dusty books trying to find things to be offended about. As more African Americans enter the field of programming the more apparent it has become how unnecessary it is to use this idiom. It certainly wasn’t coined in a programming context by an African American. It would be inherently obvious to them that it’s not even a good idiom from a semantic view. It’s only because African Americans were absent from those naming decisions that it ever gained traction.

No one is censoring facts or opinions here. They’re simply saying: “hey, now that African Americans are participating more in our programming community it’s become apparent how uncomfortable it is for African Americans to have to use this master/slave idiom that is barely even semantically appropriate. No one is blaming anybody but can we agree to use a term that’s both more semantically accurate and one that all of us including our African American colleagues feel more comfortable with?”.

It’s like if we’re in a public park and I ask you to take turns on the swing. There’s no rule about it and you could say I’m on a power trip trying to get you to give up the swing, or that I’m blaming you for not having noticed that I was getting annoyed waiting. Or we could just take turns and be friends. I want you to stop using the swing so I can use it. You being on the swing isn’t a problem, but acting like I’m oppressing you by asking you to change positions is a bit of a stretch in my opinion. No ones character is being questioned and no one is wrong. But if you say no to sharing the swing because you’re afraid of a slippery slope of me expecting you to share your house, your car, etc. then you’re operating out of fear rather than responding to my actual request. Or, you could trust that when my requests actually inconvenience you, you’ll say no.

> it also feels bad to have your character questioned based on using common/widely accepted terms

I’m know it does. But insisting you’re not offending anyone or have never offended anyone isn’t the goal. No one is perfect. No one can go through life without being a jerk or offending people. The real test is how we respond after we have done so.

If you used an idiom that made some people uncomfortable, just apologize and move on. Don’t be afraid to give up the swing worrying about everything else that might happen later. It’s just a swing and this is just an idiom. Offering understanding and compassion and even an apology costs you nothing but your ego.
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But it's still subject the same issues for the same reason. I can build a gas powered generator which feeds electricity to my electric blower and poof it's legal now. But in terms of noise/emissions/etc the problem is the same.

So the lesson is that Government really shouldn't get in the game of trying to regulate specific technologies rather than whatever harmful side effects are created by the technology. Regulate noise and emissions, and let the engineers find the best ways of meeting those targets.
Take a look at https://www.levels.fyi/, which has pretty accurate salaries for Bay Area companies.
I ALWAYS go through them. Either reject, tediously try to find the hidden settings like legitimate interest.
Lately I open some sites in incognito window, accept all, then close the window when I'm done.
Some science mag I recently visited set 143!! cookies and that's before even showing the consent screen.
I've also started to write scrapers for news sites I visit on a daily basis who go over the top with all the tracking and ads. So I "just" scrape their content and have written a frontend to read the content.
Most of the time that content is just blown up but if there's something really interesting I have a link to the original article there and again open it in an incognito window.

It has become such a chore, when ever I visit a new site on my phone and see a cookie screen, I navigate back and/or open an incognito window.

What the EU should do is disallow those cookie full page modal consent windows.

Many use overflow: hidden when showing it so you can't just adblock it without having to modify the markup.
It has all gone out of hand.
>At some point blame needs to transcend individuals

We're not anywhere near that point. Half the people here place no responsibility on the parent. At all.

So maybe we should actually try this 'individual responsibility' thing before blaming the system, or aliens, or the Illuminati.
HN: "RAM is cheap and plentiful."

Also HN: "The MacBook Pro is worthless if I can't get it with at least 64GB of RAM."
without any dog in this fight at all, it'd be interesting to see either this data overlaid with total estimated population, or this data scaled to percentage of the population. The shape of the trend won't change; the relative amplitudes of the peaks might.
I live in Cedar City. Down here everybody hates Mitt. Few for the right reasons (like his 47% comments about the middle class/low class), most because this is Trump country and he's not one of "them".

Church has been out of session a long time so a lot of the Mormons (I'm exmo btw) I guess flocked to QAnon as a replacement for religion during the pandemic?

Somebody's grandpa was checking me out at the register at a small grocer and said "did you see it" all excitedly about the Trump parades going around town. Not like I could miss them circling the entire city for two weeks straight - that being just the first day of it.

There's some romney conservatives I'm sure in Utah, but there's so many Trump ones now too that I don't even think Mitt will win the primary in 2026.

If he really was bi-partisan though why not support ending the filibuster? I mean if he wants to deal with democrats and be a cross-the-aisle kind of politician he kind of needs to offer an olive leaf. Him and Murkowski could do a lot together as conservatives with a new plan to keep the party conservative but still reach across for some social progress.

Like the stimulus plan and ending the filibuster would give him big rapport with a lot of senate democrats who'd be more willing to co-sponsor bills with him. That's how we could fix Washington, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.
zero trust my pal. vpns are over.
There already are other SoCs for ARM based PCs. Qualcomm has the 8cx "Gen 2" chip, but it performs really badly compared to M1 (https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-qualcomm_snapdrago...).

Considering how little fab capacity there is for new designs right now (and Apple has probably booked it all out for months/years to come), I can't see this situation changing much. AMD is the closest but they also have insane supply shortages right now.
Watch Season 4 of The Wire (and the previous three seasons as well, it's arguably the best show ever put on TV).

This is a multi-dimensional failure at all levels. It's a failure at the Federal level, where NCLB etc pervert education. It's a failure at the state level to provide and enforce educational standards, and to address systemic poverty. It's a failure at the municipal level where crime, corruption and bureaucracy failed. And it's a failure at the personal level where a mother and son aren't communicating, aren't taking care of themselves.

This failure didn't just happen in the last three years to this young man. His path to failure started in kindergarten, in a dysfunctional society that didn't care about him on any level.
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Dividing the U+27w by working age population shows that the variation is between 0.4% at the bottom of the dips and 2.0% currently.
We're simply fortunate this monopoly was more easily cracked that ones like Microsoft.
But you can't do anything about it, legally.

You can complain to your country's data protection expert, and they will tell you this or that company blah blah but not act.
Nothing ever happened. I filed 3 complaints in 2 countries.
2/3 took over a year to receive a response.
1 took about 6 months and nothing changed.
... I don’t buy this.

Software launches and lands rockets. You think JPL just had a couple of rocket scientists writing some python scripts on the side for the perseverance mission?

But I agree Facebook has a ridiculous amount of engineering potential wasted on a pretty useless problem (serving ads even better!)
This gives me a chance to make my favorite prediction, because it’s always right.

There will be a recession. Soon. I mean, I can’t say for sure. I’m not a fortune teller. But I can give you a lot of reasons why. Let’s just say, it’s coming. It might be a little later than “soon”, but I’m betting it’s sooner than later. (Not with actual retirement money.)
Maybe. These were vulnerabilities in every version of Exchange Server for 8 years since Exchange Server 2013 that were only detected because they were already being actively exploited. Unless Microsoft has two distinct Exchange solutions, one for customers to self-host and one for themselves to host on behalf of their customers, there is no reason to believe, despite their claims to the contrary, that they were not similarly vulnerable until the exploit was discovered and patched internally. That would mean their system fared at most slightly better than an average self-hosted system which should not really inspire any confidence in their ability.

Even if we assume that they did create two independent systems, there is no reason to assume that two products developed by the same company in tandem serving the same fundamental, lucrative use case should have material differences in quality/process. That there were multiple trivially exploitable, catastrophically effective vulnerabilities that were unknown for 8 years and that Microsoft never discovered themselves (they discovered it by realizing somebody else discovered it and was using it) should indicate that their cloud product is equally atrocious even if we assume that these were distinct products and thus would not be affected by the exact same bugs.

In conclusion, as you say virtually every computing system out there is a house of cards, so there is no reason to assume that consolidating on the cloud and letting one of those groups of people focus will result in anything other than more houses of cards, except in this case being used on an even juicier target.
The problem is there are no good tools to filter internet content. They are a) imperfect and b) filter out lots of perfectly good content or breaking parts of the web. Using twitter with the Google safe search dns for example is a pain, certain image hosting domains are blocked all together.

It seems there is really no strong disincentive for sites to censor themselves or be amenable to censoring.

Surprisingly though, reddit seems to actually be leading the way with stricter nsfw tagging and requiring login to enable. Maybe a trend others will follow.
like the Sony hack blamed on NK because of a Seth Rogan/James Franco movie? From what I remember there was absolutely no proof there either.
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Well USB-C/Thunderbolt rollout and HDMI 2 to laptops has been as glacial as ever.

How is it that mobile phones get technology support two years before laptops and desktops?
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> Proton is neat for sure, but unfortunately modern anti-cheat solutions expect Windows and will not allow Linux clients to connect.

Keep in mind that many people are interested in single player or local multiplayer that do not require anti-cheat solutions. They will hardly ever run into problems on that front.

I suspect the largest problem with Proton is that support will be biased towards recent popular titles based upon common game engines. Replicating all of Windows is not practical, Valve themselves will be most keen on supporting games they can generate revenue from, and community contributions will come from people who have an interest in getting particular titles working as well as the technical skills to contribute.
I agree, had similar experience. Idk why this is downvoted.
What are the giant cities that appeared in the clouds in India and China on several occasions. I thought it was a fake the first time until I saw that there were thousands of different people who uploaded video of this. There were ,amy uploads every time it was not some crap prank. Sometimes they look like it is just an illusion of the clouds, but there ar a few times it is so obvious and thousands or maybe more people ooohhhing awwwwing and others screaming at how obvious it is. I had many different thoughts once I saw video after video and angle after angle. I have heard of project blue beam which is a pretty ominous program involving NATO countries; could these be their own versions of the technologies"? If so it truly shows the power of government to manipulate the masses to think anything in an extreme way to make over reaching changes. I mean the television has most people believing mainly lies anyway so their is obviously something nefarious planned for the future. Which CIA director was it that said once nearly everything the American public thinks and believes is false then our plan is nearly complete? Blue Beam could scare people out of the rest of their freedoms if they believe their is an alien invasion or Jesus is up their telling them to do so. hahahaha

The two party fake choice and the ral deep state which are the long term embedded scum in government all need to be cleard out. I am glad I am from Texas and we are pushing in mass for changes. Florida is doing the right thing without much push from the people.

I wish you lal the best of luck and happiness. Think for yourselves and question everything. Second best advice I ever got was that prior statement and the very best is the realization that no matter what I think I know; I know nothing for certain.

Cheers
We used to play highest ranking vs lowest ranking ships a fair bit. If the Arilou didn't teleport into the planet more often than not, it would've been a lot more dangerous.
> I think education as an industry is going to go into decline, but I don't see companies like Coursera as being able to thrive by feeding off the corpses.

People have been saying that for years and yet there is little data to back it up. If anything in economic downturns people are more likely to go back to school so as not to waste the time being unemployed. The fact that Coursera is doing so well during this downturn indicates to me that the industry is just going to transform, not necessarily decline. At least in # of people touched, although revenue might decrease in aggregate. People need the motivation that comes from organized education, whether it be Coursera or college.
But when I picture a point, I can see it and since it has a visible area, then what's in it? That's my problem. I could picture it as nothing maybe? But then what's in the blank space? It has a volume...
There is a debate that so called Anasazi people of the American southwest either ritually burned and abandoned their Kivas (ceremonial building) or that the burning is evidence of warfare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva

https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/hh/36/hh36c-2.h...

https://spot.colorado.edu/~laursen/southwest/chaco/chacoMain...
This is true but every IT outsourcing company is decades ahead of them. Doing that will hurt the cloud provider’s business while most other F500 CIOs will get a bonus for saving money as long as they leave before an incident too blatant to blame on anything else.
> The PO BOX number will be reclaimed automatically if you fail to pay.

Does that mean that if you get a 'new' PO box, you get spam right out of the gate due to the previous owners?
>PCR tests were being misused

This is right-wing conspiracy theory.

>the tests were not being used in compliance with instructions

This is science.
TLDR: The past accepting something is not indication that the future must or should accept.

I don't really think this is a good-faith argument based on the language of the first sentence, but i'll reply anyways...

Yes the evidence is his clearly documented body of work. He used many racial stereotypes and derogatory imagery. He has images of Japanese Americans, Africans, East Asians, and they all use stereotypes and caricatures that are negative.

I can't speak for "the left" but he was embraced by most people because he was popular and many of his stories and books were benign. Lots of bad behavior was embraced by both left and right Americans throughout history. Past acceptance is not indication that the future must accept.

Yes. I am making the claim that people, including Obama (who is not the only image of the left, and not particularly important figure in a literary sense) were embracing Dr. Seuss. A lot of his more objectionable work is rather unpopular, so its not crazy to think that his supporters did not audit his behavior.

There is no doubt that people were embracing him. There is no doubt that much of his behavior is racist. There is no contraction here. People have embraced bad people before and that is (somewhat) ok as look as society learns and grows and corrects their behavior. This is the learning and growing. A book that sold 7k copies over the last few years is no longer in print because it portrayed people in bad ways.
Or just buy AMD.
Right but who is responsible for what? Imho government should be responsible of providing a good quality school and learning experience. The guardian should be responsible of ensuring the kid is going to the school.

If my production system breaks and I dont know as bour it because the 3rd party alarm service didn't work. My system is still my responsibility.
People don't go to uni to learn. They go to network, party, and get the signal that employers require. Coursera doesn't replace any of those.
In my experience, there is quite a bit of untapped potential for applying engineering/cs/ml lessons in less traditional domains - not despite, but precisely because the other scientific disciplines are embracing and leveraging computation more.

I'm happy to elaborate on a more private channel, email/twitter is in the profile.

Source: Cofounded a startup in comp.bio space ~3.5 years ago, been busy supercharging our scientists and increasing pace of innovation and haven't really ran out of ideas yet.
> So maybe you have a perfectly capable 24x7 tech team,

OK

> but the guy who manages license acquisition is on leave today.

Then I wouldn't have "the" guy for anything.
Ask HN: What's the coolest YouTube channel you've found in the past month?
I'm essentially stuck at home tonight. Plenty of other more productive things I could be doing, but what are some nice YouTube channels you've found recently that could use a little HN hug?

For my part:

https://www.youtube.com/c/BreakingTaps

Breaking Taps - 21k subs - Originally found via share from Ben Krasnow, definitely worth it. Tinkerer/fabricobbler that celebrates the learning.

And these are ones I've been watching for a while but still have relatively low sub count.

https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcoReps

Marco Reps - 146k subs (ok, lowish) - Another tinkerer, although mostly in high-precision lab equipment and various builds of interesting projects. Also a very funny dude.

https://www.youtube.com/c/OonaR%C3%A4is%C3%A4nen

Oona Räisänen aka windytan - 2100 subs - She's had a few articles posted here, super creative RF/audio hacker/tinkerer.

https://www.youtube.com/c/EdgePrecision

Edge Precision - 56k subs - One of my favorite machining channels, zero nonsense, tons of practical advice that I'll never use.

https://www.youtube.com/user/NACImageTechnology

NAC Image Technology - 650 subs - Commercial account of high speed cameras, just eye candy.

https://www.youtube.com/user/corningmuseumofglass

Corning Museum of Glass - 150k subs - Fairly prolific publisher of guest artists creating pretty amazing glassware.

https://www.youtube.com/c/eastcoastish

Eastcoastish - 3.8k subs - Impeccably documented mods and builds of a variety of small displacement motorcycles (Honda Monkey, CT70, etc)
I think the idea (from a couple of videos of talks I've watched) is that in ARC they want to use magnet coils that are soldered so that about once a year or so they can heat the containment vessel and then the top opens like a lid and then replace the inner parts that are closest to the plasma and take the brunt of the neutrons.

The containment vessel itself (and the coils I think) is protected somewhat from neutrons by a fluid (FLiBe) that absorbs the neutrons and convert it to heat (which is used to boil water and run a steam generator). They're also trying to figure out if there are some stainless steel alloys they can use for the containment vessel that are less reactive so that they have less of an issue with it turning radioactive.

I don't think they're looking at solderable magnet coils for SPARC, since it's more of a prototyping platform and not something that's meant to run continuously for a long time.
The punchline is to say that's how business cycles work. It's how they've always worked and no cycle is immune to an inevitable downturn.
Yeah, that's what gets to me.

A loud ten second car? Whatever.

Constant leaf blowers every morning for hours? They drive me crazy.
We've been in a recession since February 2020, as defined by the NBER. FYI, the NBER is the definitive authority that has the official duty of tracking recessions.

https://www.nber.org/research/data/us-business-cycle-expansi...
SpaceX's Starship is the "age of sail" in space.

For the "age of steam" we need nuclear power.
Makerwork 006 has an interview with Alexey of Moiva universal tool for GitHub
Not sure if it's your style of game, but Red Dead Redemption can be a great use of idle time, just roaming around at golden hour admiring the natural environment. It's a separate idea to knocking off achievements or rushing on to the next game. More like sitting on the porch with a drink, for people without a porch or much of a view.
Why would you wait for that when you can have a faster CPU in the form of the 5800X today? The M1 is a phenomenal laptop CPU, but it's still not faster than AMD's desktop offerings, either. At least not according to the specint results in the article.
Is it though? The vast majority of PCs even on the enthusiast level aren't going to have coolers that can handle 300w for any sustained period.
Oh, of course ...

Great flick, by the way.-
(At least I liked it ...)
this is spot on.
If those robots were self-replicating, maybe.
An alternative would be to self-host with something like sandstorm.io, and granting temporary permission to cloud providers to access some of the data, on a per-grain basis.

I have no idea how the economics would work with this.
I’ve done that. You just download everything locally and reupload you your new service. Of course if you have a lot stored there you have bandwidth/storage to think about.
the metacomment here is that recessions will always occur, and the next one is around the (indeterminate) corner.
In all states there is a process for exiting school by or before the age of 16. And you're right: Societal pressures and funding tied to student failure rates caused many schools to abandon the traditional method of holding back students who were not ready to proceed to the next year's studies.