skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Poland has two things going for it:

(1) Poland is a LOT smaller than the United States. It's not much bigger than the state of Wyoming, yet it has more than 60x the population. That makes building infrastructure a lot cheaper and more profitable.

(2) The US had the Internet FIRST. That's not an advantage when it comes to infrastructure. For example, England had roads hundreds of years before the US did, so roads in the United States are quite a bit better. Rome had running water (of a sort) a long time before most anywhere else but I'll bet its water situation today is quite a bit worse on average than most of the United States.
> I don't disagree. One thing that I think worth considering is that the seller is clearly making an attempt at a form of profiteering.

Is it profiteering? It's still legal to sell the book in other markets, for the time being.

You're also talking about an item that:

1. Is effective immediately, no longer in production

2. Being censored and banned

3. Probably being destroyed, just not in literal book burnings

4. Has clear literal and historical value

If I were a rare book collector I'd be all over these. Even if I were a speculative investor I would consider buying some and waiting a couple of decades for society to regain its wits or burn down.
Not sure what you mean? The “history” still mostly absolves Mao of any wrong doing... so the Mao worship can continue.
Habits can be good or bad. In this case, one would want the user to be rewarded for coming back every day to learn programming. Habit acclimation is a neutral process, just because the parent uses the same tactics as those who use them for building bad habits does not mean that those processes are bad in and of themselves.
Gluten intolerance is a medical condition. Maybe not the best example to use here, nobody decides to be gluten intolerant.
There's nothing wrong with publishing a computer model. But until it has been experimentally validated in humans then it's medically irrelevant. You're really reaching on this one.
Critical race theory is nothing but racism and extremism, disguised as an academic discipline.

If somebody sent me racist emails at work I would file a complaint.
No. It inherently cannot. Pi-Hole isn't a proxy where all traffic is flowing through it and has a chance to be modified. Pi-Hole is strictly answering the question, "What is the IP address for this hostname?" If a given hostname is known to host trackers or something undesirable Pi-Hole will claim it's an unknown host so the device is unable to reach it.
> a minimum wage needs to be able to at least rent their own flat

Why exclude the possibility of having roommates? I and I'm sure many others here had at one point or another a minimum wage and roommates and perfectly acceptable livable existence. The idea that you need to have your own place all to yourself on a livable wage is laughable and so out of touch of how much of most people in the world have lived at one point in their life. Not even a majority of Americans in any age cohort live alone. 60 years ago it wasn't even 1 in 5.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/percentage-of-americans-l...

> In 63 of the 113 nations (56 percent), fewer than 5 percent of the young adults, ages 25-29, live alone.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/202002...

Living alone is a luxury. Any attempts to paint living alone as a necessity for a livable condition when most of the world experiences a livable condition without it is so out of touch with reality that it's impossible to take someone making this argument seriously.
> Personally, I don't see what the issue is with master/slave for databases.

Because there are other words that convey the same programming intent that don’t also personify slavery. I can think of dozens of oppressive human relationships that could also be used to describe a subordinate database architecture, but why? What do we gain by personifying our DBs with terms like “slave”?

They’re short words of convenience rather than some malicious intent, I get it, but it’s not hard to name it something just as relevant like “primary/secondary” or “source/replica” and move on to bigger and better things.

The other words you mentioned don’t have the same painful historical connotations for a large minority of the population.
> What connection types are the most effective for a being like that?

That would be analogous to: What kind of tokens when put together make state of the art algorithms? - they are just tokens, even if it's the best implementation.

Intelligence is in the game, including the agent, the environment and goals. It's not in some kind of special neuron connections, it's in the way the brain is connected to opportunities and dangers outside.
The Cockney version is "trouble and strife". Just wait until they find out what a Berkshire hunt is though.
ABC Is Still a Conjecture
> it's just a matter of degree

Well, no, I'm claiming that it is a matter of approach, not just degree. There are two ways you can go about syncing the DOM to your rendering. Tabbing is a good example of that:

A) you can build a DOM tree, listen to a focusin event, and then when an input/link element gets focus, you can update your Canvas to match the state of the DOM. This means that you listen to one event and (with some exceptions) your rendering engine mostly just has to worry about rendering. Or

B) you can build a Canvas, reimplement tabbing, mouse selection, touch events, and everything else... and then when your new implementation decides that focus is changing, you can update the DOM to match your Canvas. In short, you can choose to have the Canvas drive the DOM, rather than having the DOM drive the Canvas.

What I'm arguing is that approach B, which Flutter seems to be using, is fundamentally much, much harder, buggier, and less performant than approach A -- and my evidence for that is that GUI frameworks surrounding Rust, Silverlight, and C# that are following similar approaches to A are almost all much more mature than Flutter is, despite having fewer corporate resources devoted to them. I'm arguing that path B is an high-level architectural decision that is not going to yield performant, high-quality results.

> The web platform builds an entirely new render engine from scratch.

Right, but again, the web platform at this point has spent over 20 years doing that, and for the majority of that time it would not have been realistic to build a project like Electron. A lot of this seems to come down to, "is the Flutter team big enough to handle this". I don't think they are, but maybe I'm wrong.

I mean, we can debate this endlessly, or next year Flutter v3 can start releasing demos that can handle smooth scrolling and don't lag in Firefox. My prediction is that Flutter is not going to turn into a performant, good quality target for the web any time within the next couple of years. But again, maybe I'm wrong, and luckily it will be very easy to verify if I am. I'll check back in January 2022 and see if anything has changed.
Where was it a joke? A source for this please?
A Right to Read Anonymously (1996) [pdf]
The book is predicated in characterizing people based on their race, which is racism. The author is also a racist who says things like how she “tries to be a little less white every day.”
Projection games aren't science, but thanks for elevating the conversation with your conspiracy theories.
I'm a manager who (I think) does agile right, and will now defend it because I think it's brilliant (when done right).

On standups: first, I rarely speak in standup; if some other manager uses it to micromanage, well, that's on them, not on the general concept of daily checkins. Second, it's very difficult to "signal progress vs. actually making it" with your teammates. That's part of the point: intra-team accountability. If you're making no progress, you might fool me with generic excuses and you can certainly fool a business analyst or a project manager, but you can't fool another programmer who works on the same code and sits next to you.

On agile having a lot of bureaucracy layers: compared to what? The agile "bureaucracy" my teams endure is: standup, refinement, and retro. That's less than two hours per week. What methodology involves less bureaucracy than that, other than anarchy?

On points: OK I will kind of give you this one, but only because they don't bring value to you. Story points aren't for you, the dev, they're for PM and execs. What do execs want, in terms of estimates? They want to know exactly when a feature is going to ship, to the day, even if it's years away. What do devs want, in terms of estimates? To not give one, ever, for anything. Story points are the compromise. And pointing a story takes maybe 30 seconds, so it's hard to understand how anyone can see it as onerous.

So in summary, I think agile is very good when done right, and in places where it seems bad it is usually because one of the basic ingredients (a team empowered to change their own process) is missing. That, to me, is the core of agile: a team that iterates on their own process. If your team is not willing to or allowed to do that, IMHO they're not actually agile. And if they are, well, take your objections, bring them up in retro, and propose something better.
Seuss had a lot of weird ideas. Any literary executor worth his salt would find a way to preserve the value of the literary estate by limiting distribution of the weird shit. Imagine that: a great guy had some bad books, which ought to probably be forgotten. Who’d have bethunk’d it.
I have a general question about self driving tech/software.
I assume the data from the cameras/lidars is processed via something like a "stream". How can a company or their devs make sure that stream never enters a buffering state?
Similar to a video platform when the viewer gets a loading spinner in the middle of a movie or a stuttering frame rate. Self driving tech processes much more data and it sounds to me like this is bound to happen.
كلمات اغنية بتتجاوز رامي جمال
What’s scary is programmers assuming any function as being safe. C programmers don’t trust anything, and they’re better programmers for it.
I wanted to view a page about honda and got visually assaulted by no less than 5 massive and un-dismissable Ford ads before I could read the first words of the article. This site can eat shit and die.
I'm not being pedantic.

I think it's reasonable to involve all humans effected by an exchange.

If a corporation purchases water rights in an area from the government and suddenly deprives the poor farmers in the area from using the water to grow their food does this make the farmers a negligible part of the equation? In my opinion: No.

You can create your box so that it only fits the participants of the transaction but that would be a fantasy. There are great real world zero sum costs to almost everything in an economy.
Farsiight – The Agency for Growth
The entire idea that you must be anti-racist is borrowed from Marxism- a totalizing ethos that sees everything through the lense of race (instead of class). Its not enough to say I am a neutral person who treats individuals the same regardless of the color of their skin- if you are white that is seen as a subtle way of preserving your race (class) interest. Only by actively joining in the struggle can you convince the successor class that you are sufficiently anti racist (formerly anti bourgeois).
But if we have a population of people who will experience this, wouldn’t that feed into the GP contention that no one is measuring the experience between alive and dead?

I completely buy the idea that all of these effects happen with other conditions, but if there’s a surge due to covid, shouldn’t we investigate it?
that sounds like what KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov describes here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA
So can you sell the book used on eBay? If not, and the "blame" is on the Seuss estate, how is that not against the First Sale principle?
I think the value of calming down is normally to not send impolite or passive aggressive communications.

I don't have so much experience interacting with recruiters/hiring managers. However, every time I've let some frustration show at work, in the moment I felt vindicated and righteous, only to feel like an ass about 24 hours later. Normally when I feel the need to vocalize a frustration, I try to write down or remember why I'm frustrated, but wait to actually action the communication until I'm calm. Goes a long way to focus on solving problems, without identifying people as the problem.
> the fact raising a child is something that all human beings are biologically engineered to find overwhelmingly fulfilling

This is very much not a fact, and I really wish society as a whole would stop pretending that absolutely everybody wants to be an actual parent. Then maybe the people who do find parenting fulfilling can do that while those of us that don't can make up for them instead of being pressured into a role that we can't and/or don't want.
The internet isn't the corporate dystopia net either: you can also still have fun with running a server for an obscure game or setting up a blog without having your attention tracked and exploited for profit.
Related From 2019: You can now be fined up to $250,000 if you call someone an ‘illegal alien’ in New York City[1]

[1]https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/01/us/nyc-illegal-alien-discrimi...

Perhaps the stories at the time conflated discrimination with mere use of the phrase if that is what you meant by good/not true.
My argument is that pareto sums don't practically exist because there are unwilling side participants that are usually affected negatively.
In my opinion, its definitely worth getting rid of "master/slave" since after all it does directly refer to a violent and wrongful historical relationship. It may be only a metaphor, but it does clearly refer to that and I can understand how that makes some people feel unwelcome. But ownership is a little different. One object owning another doesn't make any reference to the "ownership" of people in slavery, it just as well references the ownership of literally anything else which is perfectly legal.

I also don't buy the "see is ableist" thing. Entire languages would be unacceptable if that were true. For example Japanese appends -て見る (see) to verbs for the meaning "try to <verb> and see (how it goes). That notion of "seeing" is a fundamental part of the linguistic concept of "see" in most languages and it is in no way a reference to blind people. When you say someone is "blinded by the sunlight" or describe a "deafening roar" you are obviously not saying anything about blind or deaf/Deaf people, those words clearly have included a wide variety of definitions including temporary ones which were then the basis for metaphorical ones. That's different than "master/slave" which is a metaphor for a word/concept that was inherently racist and violent from the beginning.

On the other hand, I don't think pronouns in email signature is a bad rule. Even if the pronouns you use are the same ones you have used your entire life, you do have a preference nonetheless, so I don't think there's anything inherently unfair about making people specify them. It's not like you don't want people to use any pronouns or you don't feel that they should exist at all, so it's not really harming your rights. It does help trans people feel more accepted in sharing their pronouns, and it doesn't really cost other people anything to do it.

The stuff about CRUD is just absurd. As is creating ultra-expensive outreach (that make money for the people writing these reports) for companies to small to support it. If HR was concerned about inclusion, they could add a tasteful note on their website about how their workplace was affirming/welcoming space and that they welcomed those applicants. Of course, employees should certainly be free to create such a group if there is actually interest in it.
Sorry, I mean “master” can be used to describe a racist slaveowner or a non-racist skilled worker among many other definitions. But using the words master and slave together is to my knowledge primarily used in the context of describing a racist relationship, especially in America. The word pair has been co-opted by the programming community but I’m not sure why originally.
I’m not sure if it was the original purpose of C, or of it’s what made C popular, but compared to BASIC, processing strings in C was much faster.
In what percent of real-world scrum situations do you think the team has control over their own processes?
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Several US states have actually imposed caps on medical malpractice damages.
Expecting maintainers to establish regular hours is basically asking them to work a job with no pay
Minor detail: lecturers don't get tenure.

The job role of 'professor' may be able to get tenure (I think these roles usually do) but 'lecturer' really means 'full time temporary teacher, with a contract for a specified amount of time.
In the US on highways the speed limit near construction generally drops from the usual 65mph/105kmh down to
50 or 55mph/85kmh. I think the federal reference is 45mph to 55mph, but in my experience it's usually at the highest level, 55mph, unless there's really active work with crew on the ground. If you're accustomed to 40kmh, I can only imagine how insane these speeds probably seem to you. (And I'm not saying you'd be wrong in that)

Overall, the problem of course comes down to reaction speed. An attentive human with hands on the wheel might respond in 250ms. A computer obviously can respond faster. But some problems won't give you any more than that 250ms to respond. Situations where faster sensors or cpu are meaningless in giving the driver more warning because there is literally only 250ms from onset of stimulus to the time needed for a reaction if catastrophe is to be avoided. Meaning that if the computer can't respond without human intervention, an inattentive driver is screwed because their 250ms reaction speed was based on them already paying attention. To break it down in rough estimates:

1) The car detects & make its own assessment and raises an alarm. 1ms? 10ms?, It almost doesn't matter.

2) The human receives & registers the alert. This is the initial 250ms reaction time.

3) Only then can the real work begin: The human, from a cold start, needs to take in the entire situation and understand what's going on. This is more than just reaction speed. This is task switching, which is cognitively more costly, especially for un-practiced tasks, and the task here is rapid analysis & synthesis of a panic inducing situation that most people never experience. 750ms is probably about right, based on research that shows the cognitive burden of task switching can be even higher [0]

So, a full 1000ms, a full second.

This is way, way too slow. As I said at the beginning, there are moments driving where that 250ms is required to avoid catastrophe. When those situations arise then there is simply not enough time for the car to get help of an inattentive driver to respond. It's simply not possible. Either the car makes the decision, or the human has just enough time to go wide-eyed before it's over.

Basically the only situations where the car's notifications can facilitate meaningful human response are those that can be foreseen at least a full 1000ms in advance. Certainly this encompasses a lot of difficult scenarios, but not many of the most dangerous ones. Any time a split-second decision saved the life of a driver? That same driver, if inattentive when the car's alert comes in, is now dead.

There is simply no self-driving car that that can safely allow human inattention until the car can make a whole lot more of its own decisions.

In the meantime, if overzealous marketing & breathless hyperbole don't continue to oversell these capabilities, then computer-assisted driving by attentive drivers should greatly improve safety.

[0] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Task-switch-costs-subs...
Some sources:

- https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the...

- https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2021/jan/10/growing-old-ungrace...

> “I concluded with a lighthearted pun in recognition of the record number of women who will be representing the American people in Congress during this term as well as in recognition of the first female Chaplain of the House of Representatives whose service commenced this week,” said Cleaver, who led the search committee that selected Grun Kibben, the former chief chaplain of the Navy, for the role.

> “I personally find these historic occasions to be blessings from God for which I am grateful.”
"democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time"
Ceasing sales isn't cancelling in the same way deeming it offensive isn't accusation it offended.
Are you all misinterpreting my comment? Yes I think it's silly people are getting outraged over them deciding to stop printing the books. Seems like people can't stop being outraged about pointless issues. This is on par with Starbucks Christmas cups drama
"Primary Account Holder" -- have they never heard of the word "slaveholder"?

And of all things, I would think a financial context, which is completely based on the ownership of property, would be OK with the word owner.
The written representation is fairly easy to modify to reduce the number of strokes by making some of the breaks in the symbols be rounded.

Also the advantage of this system, for the people who designed it, is that it fits with their language's numeric system. According to the article it improves academic achievement for native speakers (don't know if that's true).

There's no suggestion that it's better for everyone or even that it's easier to write or read.

I'm bilingual and (more or less) speak/read a handful of
other languages. I also teach kids maths. The way your native language counts has a significant impact on the way you think about and learn mathematics.
Yeah that's a good thing. Hopefully what I said will no longer be true in the future.
This does it: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/5fz8sM

I'm not sure if they take bug reports if you're not a customer, but this one goes back at least 8 years.
> wouldn’t that feed into the GP contention that no one is measuring the experience between alive and dead?

Well, no...there have been a lot of publications in this area. We hear about them all the time. Most of these publications are bad at the moment, but that's normal. It takes time for good research to be completed. It will happen.

> if there’s a surge due to covid, shouldn’t we investigate it?

Sure. I don't think anything I've written here implies otherwise.
In computing history claims like "first" and "commercial success" need to be qualified and defined, and therein things become difficult since timing and thresholds matter to meet a generally acceptable standard of either claim.

In the 1960s, several companies were selling commercial database management systems (as a distinct product), for example: IBM IMS, Univac DMS and General Electric IDS. These ideas were established to a level that there was a database standard committee known as CODASYL active from 1959 onward.

There is a good overview of the 1960s here:
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-0-387-3474...
I guess because I use a swapfile I am not normal according to Linus? Haha, I just find it easier to use a swap file when dual-booting Windows and my Linux install is encrypted. Otherwise, it'd me more work to ensure my swap partition is encrypted.
Well, as the review would say, they simply are, and they don't care where you place them, as that would imply they have something to prove.
I have a friend that during some pissed off phrase of life that involved a divorce and his mom dying changed his name to something that seems so blatantly offensive that it could hardly be. And that was completely intentional.

But... it's his legal name.