skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with everything you say. Part of the problem is PMs and the scrum masters with certificates and no technical experience run the show and play presenter/jira manager. Most of the time they have no idea what's going on and are glorified backwatchers.

I'd rather have multiple Sr. Devs be half time management, and half time dev. Or increase Sr. Dev pay by 20-30% and have them pick up management on top of their duties.
If we really can get it without war or disease, why not? People will be able to afford houses again. Wages will go up. Inequality will probably decrease, at the cost of making the rich people much less rich. Maybe we'll even get some semblance of community again. Aren't these all the things that people on both sides of the political spectrum are asking for?

Oftentimes, what's good for the empire isn't good for the citizens of the empire. So yeah, I'm happy to leave behind the wreckages of a dead empire if it means more for the people in that empire.

Unfortunately, I'm guessing that we'll get the war, or the pandemic, or both. That's how things have historically ended.
You might have considered leaving instead of pushing back? Vote with your feet?
At least they didn't ban memcpy()...

Much like with all other forms of effective censorship, I see this as a quick short-term "fix" with hidden long-term costs[1]. IMHO this sort of anti-thinking just leads to even worse, more dogmatic and cargo-cult, programmers who know less and less about the basics and then go on to make even more subtle errors.

Somehow the collective software industry has managed to propagate the notion that people are incapable of doing even basic arithmetic. Yet they think people are capable of creating complex systems with even more subtle behaviour? The justification would normally be because it's not directly affecting security. WTF. It's beyond stupid.

The only C function I think should be truly banned is gets(), because it is actually impossible to calculate what size of buffer it needs. That is not true of any of the others on this list.

[1] By short and long, I mean decades vs centuries.
Hanhikivi is 1000 MW and will supply 10% of Finland’s energy needs according to Wikipedia.

Olkiluoto is 1600 MW and should therefore supply 16% of Finland’s energy needs. Wikipedia says it will Be online in February 2022.

So for 16 billion euro Finland gets 26% of their energy from a firm source with no carbon Emissions.

British Columbia is spending 16 billion CAD on a 1000 MW hydro dam callers site C, in a system with a peak load of 16,000 MW that is 90% hydro.

16 billion euros for two nuclear plants that will make
Up a quarter of the Finnish system doesn’t seem that bad to me? You need something for the cloudy week with no wind.

I’m not saying don’t also pursue renewables, but nuclear is part of the solution. It isn’t an either/or, it’s both.
If its deep in the network, though, couldn't you interpret it as a single neuron responsible for the substring "spider" in the caption? That seems less surprising. But, I see your point.
> A substantial majority of people consider this foolish

[citation needed]. While ebay banning them may be a bit much, I don't know anyone IRL who is upset that Dr. Seuss's B-list books with offensive stereotypes are no longer being sold.
No the publisher can't do anything but likely the books in circulation will quickly be stolen. Most libraries don't even charge fines for non-returned materials anymore.
What other power source generates carbon-free energy without intermittency or geographic dependency?
Scrum is pretty lightweight. A lot of people add to the core of Scrum and refer to the whole thing as Scrum when that is not accurate. A few uber coders in a garage cranking out their dream idea may not need Scrum. In my experience, it’s most needed in the corporate world where there are tons of development teams being hounded by managers and product owners to constantly cram more and more work into a fixed amount of time left before some arbitrary deadline, and getting management buy-in on Scrum or something similar can actually be a much-needed protection for dev team sanity.
More on point:

Back in the 1950s, Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, decided that he wasn't going to buy any more screenplays from communists, or anybody who had communist friends, or even anybody who'd been accused of having communist friends.

MGM was a private company, so that was perfectly okay.

Right?

Right?
> It's an extraordinary claim.

The claim that the being who ends up exerting significant effort and time to reproduction (effort that immediately and directly eats into the non-reproductive economic output) is looking for a mate with enough spare (earning/capital) capacity to support themselves and a family is extraordinary?
Guys isn't the most gender neutral term when you're not a guy.
I guess it helps not to spend any time on twitter and avoid most social media in general?
Latinx came from LGBT Hispanic people originally.

Latine seems to be more popular than Latinx outside North America.
It was mostly on if the OS would actually allocate physical memory, or if it'd do a linux style overcommit. Without an OS, the latter is very unlikely.
I don't doubt that some people think the way you're describing, but it just seems to me that complaining about gender-inclusive "guys" is the exact mirror of complaining about AAVE. It's extraordinarily exclusive to say that you can't be comfortable unless everyone talks the same way you do.
This feels pretty extreme. I was raised in the Midwest where everyone calls everyone 'guys.' Even if I could successfully stop saying it...why? It's very obviously meant with no ill intention.
ya'll, folks, people, team, everyone, friends, pals, peeps, chums, gang, squad, crew, mates, peers - i mean c'mon, there are just so many non-gendered ones out there to pick from (and inb4 "but guys is not gendered!!" - how do you explain the phrase "guys and gals" then?)
> The mix of the promise of upward mobility that is always just out of reach, and the risk of "losing it all," creates a condition of constant low-level stress similar to other species that do not breed in captivity.

I think there's a mix of underlying causes for it, but I think college is one of the big ones. If you want a stable life, college may help. Many people go to college. However it is not conducive to having children while you do it. Then you graduate, and move into the job market.

Except it doesn't have the stability it used to. Pensions are gone, and rewards for loyalty remain too low to be compelling most place. So people job hop to get raises. You have to make sure you earn enough to live stably and comfortably, and also fund your retirement after all. Declining real wages also mean that you hit the "comfortable and stable" stage of life later in life (if at all).

The push to equalize the gender income gap also puts downward pressure on the birth rate, imo. Pushing women to want to be mothers is wrong, but it does seem that it would increase the birth rate. It may also be harder to get to higher paying jobs while handling pregnancy and children, which could discourage having children. To be clear, I'm not blaming women, those were horrible societal acts and I don't think we should revert them, just noting that the birth rate in a more equal society might be lower.

And lastly, I think social media has taken "keeping up with the Jones" to a whole new level where you're trying to compete on a global scale. Even if you can avoid that, there are ads lurking around every corner trying to convince you to spend money on things you don't really need. I'm not against the premise of ads in general, but they're so pervasive now. You can't do anything without someone trying to convince you to buy something. I truly believe it creates more pressure to spend, which creates downward pressure on peoples' ability to save. If ads were really that easy to resist, they wouldn't be worth much, and Google would be a tiny company.
Agreed, Scrum has been crap everywhere that I've worked that used it. Nothing like a 1 hour standup every morning to hinder productivity.
> We could probably have a mostly self sustaining colony in caves on Mars within ten years

Even if that's true (which I highly doubt), a "mostly" self-sustaining colony won't last long if a catastrophe cripples human life on Earth.
If we go down that path, how many deaths is the Bible or the Koran responsible for?
House Democrats Vote to Legalize oter-vay raud-fay
and if you are wondering why the title is like that the ultra liberals that control this site are censoring any discussion of it
I’ve been thinking a lot about this, but im on my phone so quick answer is I think we should file it on the “x is considered harmful” pile.

Most people aren’t doing agile, they’re doing a custom, lightweight version of it. This is a good practice though I still think it hurts projects; but not as much as quote unquote real agile.”

Can you make it a poll? That would be really interesting
Where is the Gopher version?
I'd say it's pretty common with cloud providers actually. Bring in data? (Spotify playlists, Photos, Contacts etc. etc.) come on in, we have great APIs. Want to take your data out? File a GDPR request and get it in some opaque format.

No incentive for Google to explicitly refuse photos from Apple for example.
Meanwhile…

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mein-Kampf-Annotated-Book-criticall...
Is there a lite version of Google search? How does Lynx work for Google searches?
Does Seuss state own ebay?Do they have a constitutional mandate to stop selling of private copies to be sold between 2 private individuals? Are you going to order Fanta, Volkswagen,Bayern,BASF, Ford and Hugo Boss products to be delisted because they were literally associated with the Nazis?
"You guys" isn't a pronoun in the first place.

I guess at least not grammatically. But informally people might use 'pronoun' in a way that includes this meaning?
Depends where you live

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(parliamentary_procedure...
Can't imagine why anyone would think it's a good idea.

A browser leaking browsing history was considered an outright bug (https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2010/03/31/plugging-the-cs...).

One could standardize a list of things people would want to fill out about themselves (i.e. please put in your age and sex or else we can't guarantee you won't be hassled with ads of things completely irrelevant to you), but your software inferring things about you and snitching to the world is outright malware.
This makes me think of Whoopi Goldberg's introduction to the second volume of the "Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection" published in 2005 [0]. Warner Bros faced the same kind question that we see these companies grappling with now and decided it was best to keep a majority of the offensive content in the collection. Most importantly, the collection was prefaced by Whoopi Goldberg and she explained why the offensive clips were included. I highly recommend anyone who reads this comment to watch the video below.

I personally feel as though it would be better to do something like this with Dr. Seuss' books rather than ceasing their publication.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_oEOdIBOpU

Edit - Whoopi Goldberg also did something similar for the third volume of the collection as well --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCT1clqci3I
> are more valuable when its the developers talking between themselves and sharing knowledge of their work

This is the biggest lie of standups. No one gives a shit about standups. Everyone is waiting for their turn and then not listening to others. Let's stop pretending. If they need help, they'll reach out to the expert on 1:1 basis. Way more productive, way more concise, better bonds, privacy and learning experience.

No one waits until standup and be like "Gee.. I should ask this help in front of 8 others and waste everyone's time".
The irony of downvotes on this above comment above mine comment.

There is a third option. Most people are stuck with this. It is staying quiet and saying nothing. Because there is unity in extreme right. And there is unity in extreme left. And there is no unity in the center so these extremes can pick off each individual center person who says something.
Just use 'you' and revert to 'thou' and 'thee' (depending on context) for addressing individuals.
That seems like confirmation bias. The book was published before WW2, and the white people in that picture look just as ridiculous and caricatured as the Asian, with dots for eyes and absurd costumes and postures.
Why is Mein Kampf available then?
Probably just delete.
I think there's a really basic human itch that TT.FM scratches: namely that, for the vast majority of human history, experiencing music has a social/collective experience. It's really remarkably recent that it's even been possible for each individual person to be listening to a different song.

I recently thought of TT.FM again looking at all these music rooms in Clubhouse, which are really a much less-good experience, but I expect they exist for the same reasons.
The OP says:

> The draft specification states that a user’s cohort ID will be available via Javascript, but it’s unclear whether there will be any restrictions on who can access it, or whether the ID will be shared in any other ways.

Is this incorrect?
Imagine many years in the future, long after humanity has destroyed itself and become extinct, aliens land and all they encounter is this message transmitting on a loop.

It would become a hallowed relic of a mysterious civilization, uninterpretable but surely containing some powerful wisdom that was left behind in order to warn others.
Tabled means shelved in American English.
It's also not offensive that America is the only "developed" country that doesn't have universal healthcare.
As it's done in reality? No.

If done properly (very rarely done properly) it works as described on the box.

Most people simple use Agile as a way to generate interactive Gantt Charts that management can change willy-nilly. It's very rarely done to empower teams or improve effectiveness.
There are plenty of other alternatives (folk, team, mates, friends, pals) - please realize there are a lot of women who are bothered by it and don't feel they can speak up about it.
Paying daily rate ($20, $30 per spot) in a parking garage for this might be cheaper?

Reasonable airflow, Less chance for Covid spread compare to indoor hotel.

Most of them likely has roof over head also.
What do you mean by "market leader"? "another"? Are you calling the EFF a "market leader"?
I do fun project work early in the morning. It is easier to start and helps me build momentum.
Ask HN: What are some good reasons to NOT put Google Analytics on a website?
For those who run websites with decent traffic, what are some good reasons to not put Google Analytics on it? Anyone used it previously and then removed it?
The game isn't between the host wanting to push ads and the client wanting to block ads. It's a 3-way conflict between the client wanting to see the fewest ads, the advertiser wanting their ads to be seen by the most clients, and the site host wanting the most ads to be seen by each client. And neither side trusts either of the others. If the entire transaction was only carried out between the site and the client then the advertisers would have to believe that the reports being delivered to them by the site owner are accurate. And they know from experience not to believe it. So they insist on having clients tracked themselves or by a third-party (fourth-party?) which is where all the complicated connections, alternate domains, and bloated Javascript come from.
It's tittytainment.
> The "private company" argument, while fully and technically correct, is such a ridiculous canard to trot out at a time when we slide rapidly into public-private authoritarianism

So make a company yourself that specializes in trading items banned from other shops. It wouldn't be the first and it's completely legal. I bet someone is already capitalizing on the outrage over this news. I don't know how exactly and I don't mean the media.

About the companies you list, we study them to look at the rise of Hitler, and we have put anti-discrimination laws in place to hopefully stop someone from abusing their positions like that again.

This isn't the state entering your home and burning books. Wrong hill.
There certainly is --- it's very easy to make accidentally quadratic (or worse) algorithms in languages where data structures automatically resize themselves to their contents.
As an embedded programmer mostly working with C who considers themselves skilled, knowledgeable, and experienced...

I agree.
This conversation seems to be geared towards upper middle class, dual income professionals that usually have $150,000+ household income. It's difficult for me to sympathize and see these issues as more than entitlement.

First, since household income is a combination of the mother and father's incomes, women still have the same household income and spending power as men. The remaining complaint is worse work fulfillment for women. I don't think people are entitled to work fulfillment. It's a minor issue in my eyes. There are advantages and drawbacks to this issue. While mothers have a more difficult time with work fulfillment and climbing the corporate ladder, mothers also have an easier time avoiding the corporate environment and work pressure. Women who don't find fulfillment at work can more easily not work than the equivalent men.

Second, ignoring gender and seeing this from a gender-neutral parent perspective, many of these upper middle class parents are lamenting the tradeoff between living an upper middle class lifestyle and being parents. I don't think there is a problem when upper middle class parents have to downgrade their living standards when becoming parents. I don't think people are entitled to an upper middle class lifestyle.
All Truisms!
When a link reaches 50% it's time to upgrade. Heavier utilization and faster traffic growth means shorter intervals between capital expenditures. $10 per 50GB is a monopoly windfall but it does theoretically hold down demand. People don't BitTorrent 24/7 or leave video chat running while they sleep if there's punitive overage fees.
There’s a neighborhood in Brooklyn called Bed-Stuy. In Billy Joel’s song about being manic there’s a verse:

“I walked through Bedford Stuy alone / even rode my motorcycle in the rain”

because it was something only a crazy person would do. I can never quite get over the fact that a young coworker of mine was living there with his girlfriend. It is mind blowing.
"About One-in-Four U.S. Hispanics Have Heard of Latinx, but Just 3% Use It" (as of Aug 2020):

https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in...

The term doesn't even have a broadly accepted spanish pronunciation yet!

I think the term exemplifies the issues that occur when (especially white) "diversity professionals" are given institutional power to speak on behalf of racial groups they are not a part of.

I'm happy to refer to individuals who identify as latinx as such, but I think it is wildly presumptive and slightly offensive to assume this form should be preferred in general when the Latino community has not yet accepted it. Something about the academic/professional class in America defining the term for a diverse group of people spread over multiple continents rubs me as off-putting and ironically colonialist. (But I'm a white dude, so my opinion doesn't even matter and we should all happily use whatever term becomes accepted by the Latino community)

Latine seems to be gaining some steam as well, and makes a lot more sense: -e is the gender neutral suffix in spanish. However, it is still not broadly accepted (as can be seen in this comment section)

https://remezcla.com/culture/latinx-latine-comic/
> Also doesn’t the OS lie? I thought the memory wasn’t really physically assigned until first use.

That depends on the OS. Linux lies (overcommits), Windows doesn't. In embedded it's more typical to have a special OS like VxWorks or FreeRTOS that don't lie to you, or to have no OS at all (like basically every arduino project)
If enough people do it they will back peddle.

Big tech really needs to get the memo that they need to be a neutral party.
It is only once I hear y'all from woke people that I start to understand why people dislike so-called "cultural appropriation". It is cringey and weird-sounding to me. And also if you were to speak to these same people saying "y'all" in any southern accent you would be seen as uneducated.
A more sustainable VW.ca experience – Volkswagen Canada
Why did you copy-paste a related term(Shengmu-Biao ) in both traditional and simplified hanzi?
Then why do we care what runs behind the GUI? that's Apple's business.

Can you imagine being the responsible engineer developing this capability and having the burden of a 2 trillion dollar company's reputation if something happens and photos of millions of people are leaked!?

This is what I mean by how people are out of touch with reality.

Any fuckups would destroy Apple forever. They're not going to listen to some armchair rsync bandit.
Why was 'folx' necessary? What's wrong with 'folks'?
https://apnews.com/article/2fef5c6a978b4fd5a79596020f0bac8a
The ad company isn't going to trust any data which is routed through the backend of your web server. Otherwise spoofing page views/clicks is trivial.

The next step is to get a CDN to proxy both www.example.com and tracker.example.com and promise to be independent, or for the ad company to operate the proxy themselves.
Probably women feeling excluded by the use of the inherently gendered term "guys" and the refusal of men to stop using it/brushing off their concerns/not feeling comfortable bringing it up.
>essentially no cost unless the lock is contested.

Atomics are not free. And fetching a cache line can be very expensive, even without contention.

However lock less algorithms are often worse because they have even more atomics and even more cache line transfers. And they're really hard to get right.
(iirc there was a statistic somewhere about the average number of corrections in lock less papers -- it wasn't pretty)

Back to the non contended locks. Usually the way to get non contended locks is to push down the locks to smaller and smaller pieces of data. But imagine what happens when you have some contention (e.g. due to a freak hash collisions). Instead of paying the cache transfer cost once you'll pay it many times, and that can really ruin your day (speed of light is very limiting at nano second scales)

I wrote more about this here [1]

I am somewhat biased but I would recommend that every time you consider something lockless, consider using lock elision/HTM instead (see [2] and [3]). It often has most of the advantages with few of the down sides (but admittedly also some of its own quirks)

[1] http://halobates.de/applicative-mental-models.pdf
[2] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2579227
[3] http://www.intel.com/software/tsx
The only time I’ve seen it done properly was a team I worked in before the Agile manifesto was written.