skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am having difficulty understanding your point. Please feel free to clarify. To me "noumen" means mental or "thought" derived part.

Yeah the couch looks like a zebra. The idea it looks like a zebra is not wrong. However the conclusion that it therefore is a zebra is wrong. It is a visual misidentification. What distinguishes this from an illusion? We are not looking at true forms versus reality. We are looking at perceived form versus reality. When perceived form diverges from reality that seems like an illusion to me. Maybe you could call it something else, a mistake. What's the point here that you are trying to make?
> a strong safety culture made possible by strong unions and strict seniority-based promotion rules

??
I was not being dismissive to your comment specifically, but the position where people are terrified of nuclear but don't even blink at hydro is just strange to me. Your post was quite reasonable, so I apologize if I worded it too strongly.

> Bringing up a single dam incident due to an estimated once-in-2-millenia rainfall/typhoon [2] in a populated region to dismiss an entire renewable energy source.. sounds like that kind of irrational fear you mention

Yes, this is an excellent example. Similar ish kind of attenuating circumstances at Fukushima. But people don't now go "hydro is unsafe" as they go with nuclear.

I am not against hydro, by all means let's leverage it as much as possible. I am just against coal plants and want to live in a sustainable world and the only path I see right now is nuclear. If we can get there with renewables, great, let's! I just think we can not at the moment and am unwilling to risk our entire species on the tradeoff that we have 2,4,10? nuclear fallout accidents of the scale we had every 50 years.

Besides, I think that if we were to deploy nuclear at scale, most of the problems will go away with time. Scale makes things safer, cheaper to build, cheaper to maintain.
There is such a push in French, works fine with some words, much less with others.

A much more ridiculous one is to change the word endings to reflect gender neutrality. You're supposed to write both endings separated with dots.

"Chers lecteurs", a group plural, so like in all latin languages you default to neutral (ie masculine), becomes "Cher·e·s lecteur·rice·s".

It makes text nearly unreadable.

Spanish equivalent would be :
"Querid·o·a·s lector·e·a·s"
Didn't you get the memo? They cancelled it. They don't want you thinking that now.
I got the 8GB MacBook Air. I didn’t notice till last week, I thought I got the 16GB one.

It’s a perfect laptop for writers and front-end devs. I’m gonna get a Mac mini but for now, I haven’t felt the need to.

This is my favorite laptop. It’s like Amadeus good
> For example, if hiring for a particular role would elevate dramatically the economic situation of a typical person with that skillset, how do you weigh that motivation to hire as many of those people as you can, against, say, better profitability?

Even if you had that laudable motivation, I’d argue that if the going rate for drives a golf-cart security is $25K/yr, you do way more good to hire 3 of them at $66K/yr than 1 of them at $200K. Maybe to the point that hiring 1 @ $200K is arguably less ethical than hiring 3 @ $66K.
Hop on Pop is a disgusting book. It encourages violence against fathers.
Latin would be ungendered, but it's been said for years by all sorts of people so it doesn't serve the cultural signalling purposes to show that you're enlightened. Gotta use that x to demonstrate your tribal allegiance.
I had thought that their all software is proprietary, but it's OSS and looks good.
> Still, LLVM is a huge dependency to redistribute.

But .NET isn't?
Partner/spouse/significant other... doesn't make a difference which one to me. I just picked that one at random. The fact that people create space for me not to have a wife is what I appreciate.
My rule is anything you can do during the time it takes to eat lunch is free. If you need to bill something that small you need to rethink your business model.
> If you think liberal societies are a good thing, then we really need to figure out a way to allow women to have careers and also children.

Probably true, but eugenics motivations aside (and if you insist on going there we have egg donation technology), we probably don’t need to figure out a way to make motherhood and a small fraction of the most demanding jobs compatible.

There’s nothing fundamentally unworkable about a world where you can be a unicorn tech founder, big law partner, or Harvard professor or you can have children in your 20s but not both.
I live in Poland and I am BAFFLED at how bad ________ in US.

You could replace that with a lot of things unfortunately. If you put "and expensive" at the end, it would probably be just as correct.
How out of date was the outfit in the 1930s when the picture was drawn? I don't really know what terms to look up to research that myself so any suggestions would be appreciated.

Anyways, IMO the white character's coloration is just as exaggerated as the Chinese character's. "White" people aren't actually 0xFFFFFF. The white character's physically improbable nose length and hair situation are also reminiscent of racist caricatures of white people.
Are you totally anti process? If not, which process do you find more palatable than scrum? Your comment is eye opening for me because I don’t know that I’d find a job if I decided scrum was a dealbreaker. What kind of projects or companies do you target that don’t have some flavor of scrum?

I’ve always felt scrum adds value for new teams who haven’t worked together or on greenfield projects in a space the team hasn’t worked before. That’s when the standups identity impediments. That’s when retrospectives uncover process or people issues. Once the team hits a stride it’s time for the training wheels to come off and then it’s just a Kanban board.
That's not a fault of the airliner design.

> you can be sure

Not likely. Who you gonna get to fly it? Who you gonna get to pay to fly in it?
Imagine if Kanye or the estate of Biggie Smalls or Pat Benatar, Springsteen or whoever said, eh, you know I denounce my music. I take it back. Stop playing it. Take it off the radio, internet, boot sales, flea markets, used music stores...

Is that reasonable?
I’ve come to dread lockless algorithms. They are hard to get right. Most uses I see lockless algorithms used can be replaced with asynchronous OS IO handling and run single threaded.
Cripes. I just checked my reading backlog file (well, the programming-oriented file) and it shows 12 righto posts
How to Keep Young Kids Engaged While Parents WFH
> ceremonies

That has always sounded super pretentious to me. It's a damn meeting, not a wedding or a funeral.
FreeBSD started doing this semi-regularly last year: https://wiki.freebsd.org/OfficeHours
You are describing cargo-cult scrum, or consulting-driven scrum. At this point, I think scrum is a lost cause, because, at best, people go through the motions, but more likely, managers use it for the opposite of its intended purpose.

I did my first scrum training with Ken Schwaber. Ten years later I did it again with a "Scrum Consultant". Same "processes", but utterly different reasons, utterly different outcomes.

And there's no hope for it. Managers can't be convinced by me that Ken Schwaber didn't mean whatever bullshit their high-priced consultant is saying. Even without the consultant, there are far too many ambiguous things, that Ken gets into specifically, that don't come across when discussing Scrum. Scrum will result in the manager doing none of their responsibilities (e.g. proper planning), while micromanaging the engineers.

If I ever start another company, we will do Scrum. But otherwise, I won't go near it.
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I think scrum functions as an engineering accounting system. It’s worked really well in my experiences and has allowed me to forecast capacity which helps
Materialize timelines.

https://on-systems.tech/109-toward-predictable-engineering-v...
I don't know these books, but I was wondering that given they are for children, couldn't they instead serve to initiate critical thinking about race bias?
1. I can’t read to my kids what I cannot buy (libraries are closed and my younger kid rips books)

2. Publications should automatically enter the public domain when the publisher looses interest in re-printing them.

I’ve thought of this for a long time when i had to fork out $200 for a thermo text long out of print that my professor preferred. Most research groups had a copy they’d pass onto the next batch of grad students, but I joined a new group.

This just reinforces my belief. (Also I despise Disney’s abusive copyright prolonging tactics)
I agree. The neurological aspect of things concerns me the most. How many diseases do we know that cause long term cognitive damage? Even if the cognitive loss was small at the individual level, given the number of people who were exposed, that would be pretty terrible at the level of long-term societal impact.
I wonder if my greasemonkey plugin is still working...

https://github.com/cballou/Turntable.FM-Squared
"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan" -- Agile Manifesto

Whatever we do in agile/scrum of Today is anything but that.

I am curious to know if Teslas/SpaceXes/Googles/Stripes of the world practice Agile/Scrum?
I think you're right and you're not succumbing to any effects. The nuts are the loudest and wiser people stay quiet, which gets worse when it causes the young and impressionable to think that the nuts have buy-in.
Would be great to chat! You can reach me at francesco@katara.io :)
The ironic thing is that the earliest programmers are women. I think I saw or read that the reason why there is such a gender disparity in programming is because programming was marketed as a male-oriented activity in the 80's. Sadly, I can't find the source for that anymore.
PiHole has a web admin UI that's pretty slick. It has options to disable the entire thing indefinitely/for a set period of time if you need to, and it can log all DNS queries, so you can override/manually block anything you need. There's also nifty charts and metrics to show you how much traffic has been blocked.

I found that, after tinkering with blocklists for a bit, I turned off logging altogether and just let it run. The one thing that gives us grief occasionally is (unsurprisingly) tracking links from promo emails and social media. These are usually easy enough to bypass, but it can be a pain for non-tech-savvy people.
Not trying to be snarky but there are I believe more than enough stores happy to sell you whatever you want, even though eBay won't allow these books to be listed.

I'm confused as to how eBay banning the listing of these books materially impacts people from getting them.
We have several clients who have removed it and not seen any penalty. Full disclosure: we run an alternative solution www.appice.io

Google analytics has several limitations including privacy, and security issues. Also, the reports are not actionable.
History by its nature is always a rewriting of history.

History to-date has been dominated by a white supremacist rewrite, so now there is an attempt to write corrections to that.
Apparently developers spring fully trained from Zeuses head in your company :).
There are lots of more conventional footguns in JS, though - everything about the Date object/class, for example.
It is pretty close to that and very good compared to other sources of power:

>...Nuclear has the highest capacity factor of any other energy source—producing reliable, carbon-free power more than 92% of the time in 2016. That’s nearly twice as reliable as a coal (48%) or natural gas (57%) plant and almost 3 times more often than wind (35%) and solar (25%) plants.

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-generation-capacity
You sometimes see sentinel values used with varargs (only if they're all the same type), which is basically just an array with more boilerplate.

That being said. Length as a first parameter and the rest of the arguments being the variadic bit is also quite normal.
I’ve found that people take great offense to the notion that fertility is majorly affected by your 30s. I think people just don’t like to acknowledge their age, and it’s probably worse for those that are in their 30s and still not married.

Honestly, it should be a thing for guys to freeze sperm when we’re young due to the ease of it. Unfortunately for women it’s not so easy.
Ask HN: What is the most interesting dataset you've seen and why?
Could be from any topic
Anyone have a link for those MIME refresh animations?
If the ideology that produced these books survives to take power, we will have failed as a society. But I'm not worried - we're better positioned than ever to hunt error to the farthest corners of the world, if need be.
I don’t understand GP’s comments. It’s like they are so obstinate or cargo cult fixated on a good idea and messed it up so badly to think that asking for evidence is appropriate everywhere.

“Do you have data to support your stated preference for chocolate ice cream?”
Wow, that's super interesting. Thank you :)
>I don't know any culture that banned books independent of their content that people didn't regret in the future.

A lot of the most enthusiastic book burners get caught up in the intermediary events and don't make it to the regret phase.
Genuinely curious, is this a sarcastic post? If so, it needs a /s.
I think that's only for 2 or 3 of the books. One of them was pulled for using what I guess we should call the E-word now
"Y'all" is the Latin tu/tui/tibi/te/te, and "All y'all" is vos/vestri/vobis/vos/vobis, right?
Many otherwise intelligent people have been convinced that the mere sight of things that could be interpreted as offensive are somehow etched into your subconscious permanently and will inevitably accumulate, resulting in some kind of indirect expression or even permanent state of hatred or bigotry.
I suspect its as much due to the speed as anything else. The internet has moved from early adopter/enthusiast to ubiquity in less than a lifetime. In fact, in less than a working career time span. I imagine that rate of change is not going to keep the early adopters as thrilled as they used to be.
Just implement IPv6 and make connections more stable.

And use consistent scales. MiB =/= MB, and 100Mbps means 12.5 MB/s.
You'uns is a viable alternative as well.
I think most of the people HN haven’t spent much time with people out of the “bubble”.

“Trigger warning”

This is my experience from my wife, our friends, and my community & family. But it might provide some insight.

90% of women I speak to would love not to work and would like to raise kids (most men too). It’s more about the wage gap. Most of the people I speak with believe (and I agree) believe the lack of wage growth (since 1970-ish) was created by offshoring jobs and illegal immigration that drive down wages to the point both members of the household have to work. Further exasperating the issue is the prison times and the push for “independence”, which leaves many single women.

Everyone my wife and I grew up with had both (or one) parent working - none seemed happy. The happiest and smartest people I know have / are stay at home moms.
Why do people always get tripped up on this. Racism is institutional and prejudice is personal. No one is saying an arbitrary person can't be prejudiced - ask the right people and you'll get an earful about how prejudiced x ethnicity is against y ethnicity. But a powerless group can't be racist because they don't control any institutions; for example there's no coordinated group of black landlords that don't rent to Asians. Would there exist such a thing if there were enough black landlords? Maybe. No one is denying that anyone can be cruel and hateful. What people do deny is that certain ethnicities have the same means to enact that cruelty. Again I don't see how this isn't manifestly obviously true.
> How does it cost more to rent a hotel room for a homeless person than it does for a home-ful person? Shouldn't the city be getting some kind of discount and just pass out keys and rooms in bulk?

No. Given the rates of mental illness and drug addiction in the homeless community, I would expect a higher than normal number of issues. It's also bad for brand; no one wants to be "the homeless hotel", so there's going to be an upcharge for that loss. And lastly, the homeless aren't likely to be responsible for their incidentals (I can't imagine the hotel would allow that), so damage is more likely. I don't think that's anything related to being homeless, just that people are less careful with things they won't have to pay to replace. I doubt police would do car chases if they had to do it in their own car (not a comment on police, just government workers generally).

So no, I really don't think anyone will rent the city all of their rooms to house the homeless, and especially not at a discount.

A big part of the problem is that people don't want to be near the homeless, so they tend to devalue anywhere there are a lot of them. This is why the Navigation Centers are so unpopular; no one wants their home/business to lose value because it's near a shelter. Everyone agrees we should build them, and everyone agrees we should build them somewhere not near them. So they just don't get built.

And unfortunately, having good services for the homeless can end up attracting more homeless people. If you start offering a nice hotel room to all the homeless people, what homeless person in their right mind wouldn't head to SF?
Spotify doesn't "master", you upload an uncompressed version of the track, and they will encode to OGG with a target LUFS. Classical music isn't impacted by this; it's loud rock, pop and EDM with aggressive limiting where the volume gets turned down. When people complain about the sound quality, it's largely junk masters handed over to Spotify, not the encoding process. Granted, if you _really_ try to listen to artifacts, they are usually in transients.
Eh, I feel eBay has more of a right to ban books than a library. Both are bad, and it’s terrible that society is in a place where book banning is virtuous.
I think Blind overtook HN as the front page of the tech industry during the pandemic.
Xiphos: full of ancient history
Imagine the outrage (from the same groups advocating this) if this were China, deleting books about, say, traditional Western Chinese Muslim culture.
The theory of it being 'bad' is that it's a work around having to use a pronouns that you may object to.
“Last year, legislators approved a bill to require that all pornography in Utah come with a warning label.”

I presume, based on interstate commerce rules, this could only apply to pornography produced in Utah... is there eveb pornography produced in Utah?
I'm curious where this is? Unless you are interviewing for a very specific position that listed lockeless programming as a requirement or you claimed to have 'very advanced multithreading' experience I can't see this being reasonable.
A warning about 5.12-rc1
If you're working on the wrong things just because you don't do scrum ceremonies then there's a more fundamental issue with your team.
> These are common in many languages.

Yup. There are plenty of them in Italy, we don't use dashes but there are various towns with generic prefixes and suffixes. Reggio Emilia and Reggio Calabria were just "regium", Latin for region or town, and at some point they gained the extra name (which refers to the wider area) to differentiate them. Near my hometown we have Casalecchio di Reno, which means "bunch of houses over the river Reno"; there are loads of river-denominated towns all over Italy. And there are loads of "Castello Something", since castello means castle or castrum - as you might imagine, there are quite a few of those across the country.
I just checked out "If I ran the Zoo", and there's a page with an illustration of African people depicted like monkeys. How do people feel about this-- an overreaction or completely justified?
Note that's 2% of people who become infected, not 2% of the entire population (unless you're assuming everyone will get infected?). We're trending toward 10-12% of the US population getting infected before vaccines roll out more widely, so that would be somewhere in the realm of 0.25% of the total population potentially suffering long-term effects.
Andrew Sullivan coined the idea most popularly, I think, as, "we're all on campus now".
It's not about the impact. It's about what's socially acceptable behavior.

It's the same reason we get angry at people for saying racist crap even though we believe in freedom of speech.
If you’re in the latter situation, find work that can done entirely compatibly with raising your family. Open a family daycare for other nearby 2-income households to use. It helps them and helps you. If that violates the premise of “without being paid”, so be it; I’m trying to be pragmatic not pedantic.
Why the old general did this?

> The army, which thought its handcrafted constitution would never see it in the minority, faced the prospect of taking up permanent residence there. And General Min Aung Hlaing’s personal ambitions were dashed. He still “needed something to guarantee his legacy, his liberty and his family wealth,” says a Western diplomat based in Yangon. But, denied the presidency, “He didn’t have a plan B.”

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/02/06/myanmars-coup-...

One billion dollars would be a nice seed fund for a family office.
can you share a link, please?
I agree. Any culture that promotes less children, deliberate or otherwise, would eventually be replaced by a culture that does promote more children.
Every hospitalization for pretty much everything serious with lots of medical procedures, especially for 2 weeks or more, have side effects for some months, physically and mentally.
The stuff I found in the books were stereotypes, but they weren't negative stereotypes and they weren't untrue either. One book had a picture of a man in traditional Chinese clothing but the text and context was not mocking or insulting. At what point does simply representing an image of someone from another culture become offensive?

And after all this, if one of the books did contain something truly bad, why not do something like Disney and add a disclaimer or edit the content? The material in question in these books is less than 1% and isn't core to the story or images.
> Now, Google comes and creates a whole new UI toolkit from scratch, couples it with a very beautiful SDK and component framework and offers a far better programming language than js could ever be but we're still nagging

All of these things, more or less, already exist in great variety in the JS ecosystem (angular, react, vue, redux, webpack, etc.). Many people have also already adopted other languages such as TypeScript, which is easier to learn for someone coming from JS, and superior to Dart imo.
It's hilarious to me that a publishing company decided to cancel themselves, simultaneously painting the picture that they're the villain and the victim depending on which side of the political spectrum you are.

And the best part is that it worked perfectly. In this very thread you can see people saying this is the fault of "woke Twitter mobs" when literally nobody asked for this. Great PR move by them, and as always outrage is the best way to sell.
There’s a difference between schools named after the Confederacy and schools named after Abraham Lincoln.

The fact that this bears mentioning points to the general historical ignorance affecting many of these misguided activists, such as those who tore down the statue of Hans Christian Heg in Madison, WI. Heg was a Union soldier and abolitionist who led an anti-slavecatcher militia. He was also a white man, which is presumably why his statue got dragged through the street and beheaded during the height of last summer’s protest violence:

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/06/24/madison-prote...