skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is getting bad, really bad. It reminds me of this poem by Martin Niemöller:

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First they came for the Communists. And I did not speak out. Because I was not a Communist.

Then they came for the Socialists. And I did not speak out. Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists. And I did not speak out. Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews. And I did not speak out. Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me. And there was no one left. To speak out for me.

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We are destroying a culture whose solid footing used to be tolerance. People need to understand that once you go far enough in this direction there is no going back. One day a different ideology will have control. At that moment in time they will remember what you did to them. The result will be a vindictive response in the opposite direction.

One of the key concepts of the idea of freedom of speech is that, in order to protect it, you have to protect that with which you do not agree, you find abhorrent or distasteful.

Cancel culture is a culture that exacts punishment, destroys lives, careers and businesses for ideological motive. Once again, having gone down this pay, people should dread the day the opposite ideology gains control.

Most Latin American nations have gone through this kind of thing repeatedly. When government B is in power, they disgrace, jail, kill, exile and fire those directly and peripherally involved with government B. When B regains power, they return the favor. This descends into industry, contracts and some areas of society.

The US, going down this path, is becoming Latin America. Be very careful what you wish for. I have seen it with my own eyes and it isn't anything Americans will enjoy. If you don't want this to happen you have to go out of your way to protect the speech, freedom and rights of those with whom you might not agree. Do that and there's a future. Take advantage of the moment in time to remain quiet (because you align with the cancellation) or be cruel to the other side and the outcome is most-assuredly something you will not enjoy at some point in your life.

I am not religious, but this rings true: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Just a surreal reminder that 30 years ago was 1991. By that time it already didn't make sense to null terminate strings (except perhaps on embedded platforms).
This hits the nail on the head while also missing one of the biggest pieces of the puzzle. Marketing and sales people are trying to equally play the system to further addict people not only to the platform but to purchasing/ using their products off the central platforms.

It's shocking how much material on social networks is really just marketing disguised as grassroots. Or worse marketing specifically designed to tickle our other addictions, especially sensual addictions.

So now you get a double hit and these companies love it because the marketers pay the bills.
FWIW here’s a study showing 98% of people were symptom free after 12 weeks:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.19.20214494v...

Here’s another recent study showing 95% of former COVID (hospitalized) patients suffered no irreversible damage:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-study-95-of-former-cov...
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They seem to be the mecanum wheel of the sea, another high maintenance, low durability locomotion method.
I am not hearing any person call other persons "guy" as term of derogatory. Not this the case within case you otherwise mention.
Yeah this doesn't even make sense to me. No one asked eBay to do this. I cringe at racial stereotypes as much as the next guy, but eBay is the flee market of the internet. The whole point is that you can buy/sell anything there as long as it's legal.
Your bio says you're an attorney. I think you know how annotation works.
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There is no other way to put this. This is treason.
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No need to thank me.
When I was a kid, I couldn't pronounce R's and used to be teased endlessly. Should I demand words with r be banished because they made me uncomfortable? I didn't even know that was an option.

I'm not sure this is the hill I want to die on, but where is the line? How few or many people have to feel a certain way to effect change?
This need might also be met by paying for a VPN with termination in the UK. What you're asking is pretty much identical in terms of IPR breach, except you're asking somebody else to incur the risk.
Again, Linux DOES NOT overcommit memory.

Linux does not lie about what available memory is. Rather, it is most developers that do not understand how memory is managed on Linux.

What you probably mean is that you don't get physical memory when you run malloc().

That's because when you allocate memory on Linux you allocate virtual address space rather than physical memory.

Basically, you get a bunch of addresses that may or may not be backed up by physical pages.

If you want physical memory you just need to use mlock() along with malloc() and you are all fine.
I love this haha, maybe I'll propose it to my team tomrrow
One might even point out that this is an example of karma, as conservatives fighting for the right to deny service for bigoted reasons (gay wedding cakes, anyone?) have put the law squarely on the side of companies that no longer want to carry even vaguely racist material.
Blockchain, perfect for ballot count and integrity thereof.
In the future, ad networks will serve content instead of content networks serving ads.
It's device based. Anything with a web browser or an App Store.
If only C had followed the Pascal way to have the size with a string - so much human suffering could have been avoided!
What about using the RB/LB as a metaphor for teaching? I feel like it helps me build a ladder of abstraction for certain concepts as a music teacher. Of course I add the disclaimer that this is not ACTUALLY how your brain works, but all that neuro-jargon isn't really helpful for understanding syncopation...
Very cool. I'm curious--

1. How do you vet the lenders? Anything keeping them on a leash so they don't go too hard on past-due accounts?

2. Is the financing generally recourse to the owners?

3. Who's your biggest competitor?
> I am somewhat biased but I would recommend that every time you consider something lockless, consider using lock elision/HTM instead

Intel shipped two generations of processors with broken TSX before getting it right, and then timing attacks seriously called into question whether it was a safe feature to use in practice. Then Intel dropped it from their first post-Skylake microarchitecture products, though it looks like they're still planning to support it on their next generation of server CPUs. Is it really worth the trouble at this point?
Interesting, I definitely remember tables of records of fields, etc. Foreign keys I can't remember if they existed or not.
If using TLS, couldn't you send a zero-length application data fragment?

The TLS 1.3 spec states "Zero-length fragments of Application Data MAY be sent, as they are potentially useful as a traffic analysis countermeasure."

I guess that tls libraries wouldn't expose an api to do that which is problematic for this approach.
People just stormed the capitol. It seems appropriate to remind the difference between public and private censorship given those who incited it are amplifying this idea that we're being disenfranchised in both the public and private sectors.
For Google is a race to the top. But for publishers, all we get is crumbs compared to the old days.
I’ll be interested to see how this works out.

My 2-cents, I think you should always pay well, but differentiation needs to occur somehow. Perhaps it’s more vacation (because good workers get their work done faster), a bonus at the end of the year, something.

I say this because it’s difficult to keep good workers. I work very hard, I work with people who work half as hard, and produce a fourth as much. While some are okay making the same wages, I personally only work places where I make significantly more.

It’s important to me to teach this to my children (harder work = more benefits). It’s important to provide more to my family. It’s important others understand they can also earn more by working harder.

I understand you may have a different philosophy and I am curious how it works out... but I suspect this will lead to (as through all history) resentment, anger, and eventually significant harm.
Why do you assume everyone shares your ethics?
No one has lost. In fact the article itself discusses innovations that various companies are coming up with and the fact on a global scale Huawei is competitive.

This woe is us mentality drives me nuts. There is tons of room for innovation if a business wants to take some chances. All having Apple and Samsung stagnate means that if you do have a good idea and vision, you won't immediately have that much competition.
My sincere thanks to you and to the others in this thread for taking the time to respond to my question about the applicability of category theory elsewhere in mathematics. I learned a lot from all of your comments.

I will retire in two years, after I turn sixty-five. I’ve started to ask myself if that will be too late for me to try to study pure mathematics again.
I don't understand... How is referring to someone by their name offensive?
Its about time they start looking into it.. And it won't just be "long covid"... They can start digging into ME/CFS, and "long-SARS" while they're at it. My girlfriend is pretty much disabled at this point and has been sick since barely surviving SARS in 2003. Oddly enough, most things she suffers from are the same as long-covid issues.
I've been very dismayed at the non-existent data between "dead" and "not dead". This has been guiding pretty much everyone's decisions, everybody's counterpoints on all parts of the political spectrum, and it is pretty annoying when you know that they aren't operating on the same information as you are.

Its just not as simple as "hm only 10% of 90 years olds are the ones dying in my municipality, I'll play along because nobody is inviting me out anyway", encephalitis lethargica had very debilitating side effects for decades afterwards.

Covid is a blood clotting neurological disease. It strips blood of the ability to carry oxygen, debilitates the ability for your body to even get oxygen from air, and damages many organs (probably due to the worsened oxygen delivery). What do people think the loss of smell, taste, and ability to think clearly is? Many of the same people consider themselves asymptomatic because they didn't get a hard dry cough.

I just don't get the impression that others are putting two and two together here.

I am all for getting data! Good investment.
I can't tell if you mean "eventually they graduate and carry the new ideas into the world" or if you mean "eventually they graduate and buy into into the system and turn into drones like the greasers, hippies, and punks all did."
You can literally substitute "Antifa", "BLM" or "the left" with "the Jews" in modern right-wing online dialogue and it would absolutely fit right in under Nazi Germany. They secretly control politics and the media to further their own agenda. They are sociopaths incapable of morality because they reject God. They molest children and perform secret blood rituals. They hate white men, Christians and patriots.

I mean, how often do we see the phrase, almost verbatim, that BLM "literally burns entire cities to the ground?" That cancel culture, or feminism, or progressivism, will inevitably lead to mass violence and that when it comes, the SJWs/feminists/progressives will deserve it? That x paper, y site or z social media platform is pushing a "radical Marxist agenda?" That "Cultural Marxism" (a literal Nazi conspiracy theory) is infesting academia?

It's literally the same playbook, the same ratcheting up of the fear and hatred of an enemy within, and they're not even being that discreet about it, or the implications they want people to read. Implications that lead to events like the Capitol insurrection.

...which propagandists are still claiming was nothing but a few miscreants taking selfies and strolling around harmlessly, despite the actual words from the actual insurrectionists making it clear that they were out for violence and war[0]. What it really was, was America's Kristallnacht.

But we can't talk about that because it would be partisan, so let's just ignore it.

[0]https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-report-warned-war-capito...
I don’t support hank azaria voicing the character, and i believe an indian writer should be deciding what apu says. I’m not saying things should be cancelled, we just want representation. You can make fun of cultures and people, but just recognize when jokes are having a negative impact on their targets in the real world. it’s incredibly disheartening that so many other problematic representations and things like yellowface are being addressed, but apparently nobody cares about this.
An interesting parallel is how much water/sewer, electricity, and natural gas connections cost. Cities have been providing these for centuries now and it's generally about $30-$50 base cost per month to connect to the utilities. This is for physical infrastructure requiring continual maintenance and treatment plants and movement of physical goods.

Internet service is almost static once installed; fiber lasts for decades (barring visits from backhoes) and the networking equipment can be fairly centralized and doesn't cost a lot to keep the lights on. It's insane that ISPs charge the rates that they do. Multi-mode SFPs are $50, switches are low thousands for enterprise grade, a couple long range 100G SFPs are another thousand. $50/month * 48 ports in a neighborhood pays that off pretty fast.

Fiber can't be any harder to install than fluid-filled pipes or electrical cables.
I had to remove it from some client websites simply because of the client having more strict privacy and information security needs.
My wife's family is first generation Iraqi and Egyptian. They LOVE Aladdin.
I'm going to need some of evidence of this claim, because it seems quite a bit counter to the timeline I'm familiar with.

Opposition to nuclear's safety did not start until well after construction had started on the US's reactors. And for nearly all US reactors, the utilities had already realized that they had over-ordered nuclear reactors in the 1970s, and that there were far too many construction delays and cost-overruns for nuclear to be cost effective.

This is detailed in a 1985 Forbes cover article, Nuclear Foibles, which is not anti-nuclear, but is withering about the mismanagement of nuclear in the US. Here's the only reprint I have found, which has a weird rant about Gore at the top that can be ignored:

http://blowhardwindbag.blogspot.com/2011/04/forbes-article-r...

The idea that designs from the early 1970s refused to plan for failure because of some theoretical opposition, when there was basically no opposition to our greatest period of building nuclear reactors, doesn't make much sense to me.
I think a passing test suite, no diff after clang-format, clean valgrind and clang-analyze checks are not too much to ask for. As long as the requirements are documented and the system is transparent and allows resubmission.

But I agree there is a risk of academic instructors going way overboard in practice, e.g. by flagging actually useful minor standard conformance violations (like zero length arrays or properly #ifdef'd code assuming bitfield order).
Ebay restricts many categories of goods that are otherwise legal to sell, and this is in line with their longstanding policies.

Jewelry and monetary equivalents are sold on Ebay, and they get lower transaction fees than most categories.
More analogous to saying if you don't like one religion you're free to try another.

I don't expect eBay to cater to my banned Dr Seuss book needs.
Not sure I understand this. When someone chooses to factor with "me" (Lendflow under the hood) is it me making the factoring revenue or you?
It makes me wonder: I've seen several people here comment that they didn't think the content was "that offensive" or that it's a "stretch" to call it so. Perhaps the takeaway is not that these things are, therefore, not offensive, but that children exposed to these things internalize them as normal and struggle to acknowledge their offensiveness later in life.
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‘Folx’ supposedly signals that you care about certain marginalized people.

Folks can be used in a way that is seen as demeaning to certain groups.
The purpose of a US utility is to maximize shareholder value.
Since it is not obvious why calling someone by their name would be offensive, did they explain why using their name was offensive?
>The first Matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime; a triumph equaled only by its monumental failure.

-The Architect to Neo

>Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your "perfect world". But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. So the perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from.

-Agent Smith to Morpheus
Seems like more of a comment than a question?
Great way to get to know your customers. Given how many folks are making side businesses via GH sponsors, this is basically sales in some cases.
Totally agree, the goal is to timebox features and tickets.

If the feature or task takes longer than the allotted time, you get to be agile and reevaluate if you should continue on the feature (does it need just a bit more work) or if its something to come back to in the next cycle.

Just like you say. If something takes longer than expected in the sprint, the retro is the time to call it out, review what happened that made the ticket take longer than expected and share your learnings with the team so everyone is aware of that particular aspect and knows to look out for it next time (maybe it was waiting on another team that blocked you, an unseen complexity, a changing requirement etc).
Banning of the books is consistent with eBay's TOS. This is basically "eBay is enforcing it's TOS WRT Dr Seuss books" kind of story.
Criticism of the mainline “U-3” unemployment rate has been long-standing and widespread, though not by the incumbent party or central bankers generally. As the Financial Times piece notes, this change has “big policy implications”, an extreme understatement. The criticism comes from both the present administration and the quasi-independent Federal Reserve.

Note that unemployment in the US is measured by the Department of Labour, not the Federal Reserve, and likewise for the Fed’s other policy target, inflation — don’t measure what you regulate being the guiding principle. There are actually six measures of unemployment tracked by DoL’s Bureau of Labour Statistics, creatively named U-1, U-2, U-3, U-4, U-5, and U-6, described in Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization. Most critical and significant to this story is the determination of just who is, or is not, included in the definition of the denominator “US Labour Force”, which is now considered far too exclusionary a measure. As the article notes:

The fear is that a significant number of people will never return — and will be part of along-term economic scarring left by the pandemic.

Indeed.
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> In social relations between people certain voluntary social norms will have to be accepted, namely, the obligation to fulfill a freely accepted agreement. Anarchism is not no government. Anarchism is self-government (or its equivalent, self-administration). Self-government means self-discipline. The alternative to self-discipline is enforced obedience imposed by rulers over their subjects. To avoid this, the members of every association freely make the rules of their association and agree to abide by the rules they themselves make. Those who refuse to live up to their responsibility to honor a voluntary agreement shall be deprived of its benefits.

> Punishment for violation of agreements is balanced by the inalienable right to secede. The right of groups and individuals to choose their own forms of association is, according to Bakunin, the most important of all political rights. The abrogation of this right leads to the reintroduction of tyranny. You cannot secede from a jail. Secession will not paralyze the association. People with strong, overriding common interests will cooperate. Those who stand more to lose by seceding will compromise their differences. Those who have little or nothing in common with the collectivity will not hurt the association by seceding, but will, on the contrary, eliminate a source of friction, thereby promoting general harmony.

This the most reasonable-sounding explanation of the concept of "free association" in anarchism and communism. It definitely glosses over the lessons of much of human history. https://web.archive.org/web/19980206141952/http://flag.black...
These are used on tugs for the most part, which has the requirement to apply thrust immediately to any direction so you can control the motion of a larger vessel easily. I'm not sure about efficiency, but they're fun to drive.
Period of time when communities and organizations had to turn in their colleagues for not supporting the party. Kids reporting on their parents, coworkers reporting to each other, that sort of thing. It was a period marked by a lot of 'virtue signalling' support for the party.

Highly recommend the film "The Blue Kite" concerning the period (can't speak to the accuracy but at least the creator says its true).
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Great news for most people

But the total number of global cases is over 100,000,000 and rising. If something impacts 1-2% of people, that's still millions of people.

This research could also benefit millions more people suffering from generic post-viral fatigue disorders, which were a problem even before COVID.
Habit forming patterns can be used for good purposes too, though. I personally wish that Anki was more addictive so that I'd be more likely to keep doing my reviews.
Or actually educate people on both logic and reality. I realize it seems to be asking for a lot, but we can do better.
You mean like being outraged that people are outraged?
NBN has had an order of magnitude more outages in the last few years than ADSL2 ever had for me. Maybe it's limited to HFC, but I doubt it. One time I got an outage report for work being done, but the internet only went down when they left for the day and messed something up on their way out.