skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this sarcasm? eBay is a publicly traded multi-billion dollar corporation. If they do something I hate, why would I ever shop there again?
I love the term virtue signalling, but I'd much prefer the stronger word come back into the regular lexicon: "sanctimonious". It feels more impactful, as in "we didn't need a new word to describe your tendency to shout about your moral superiority"
No. Your point?
They voted a month ago to move forward. I haven’t seen anything about it tabled - do you have a link?
Not sure how it could work in your case. I think the main use case for SCRUM is applications development (web, desktop, mobile, whatever). In that context you have a mixed team of backend and frontend developers, or even better (in my opinion) a team of full stack developers. And so, tasks are not gatekeeped behind domain expertise and everyone in the team is able to pick whatever they want. Some developers usually have more experience with some parts of the codebase, but it's a good opportunity for the other developers to get comfortable with it too (which is, by the way, highly encouraged from the company's POV, in case if the only developer who knows that part of the codebase leaves the company).
Crypto-yank: replace crypto-currency addresses with your own
I think 30-40 years ago it was perfectly appropriate to null-terminate strings. Every byte actually counted.

I remember thinking about setting the high bit to denote the end of string to save space.

Nowadays the binary for "hello world" might be as big as a whole operating system of the past.

(though honestly I can't recall the size of the OS on a boot floppy, but the original floppies were 160k)
I don't torrent much anymore, but one of the things I really love about private torrent trackers are the forums.

They're stuck in the mid 2000s, in all the best ways.

Technologically they're ancient (usually HTML tables), the amount of users grow slowly (if at all) and are limited to maximum a few thousand (usually just a few hundred actively using the forums though). Users won't risk their treasured accounts by acting badly, and since very few join private trackers for the forums you get a wide specter of different people participating, in their different ways.

Some users are silly and post memes, others post long and thought through replies, often in the same thread. Everything is discussed, from politics to the latest movie. There's no "karma" to earn.

After a while you start recognizing the same people. I'm really glad I still have access to it, otherwise I would feel kinda lost in today's internet, where you need to find a new site/subreddit for every topic. No tracking either for that matter.
I learned the hard way that using a persons name instead of desired pronoun is a major offense.
Non Technical CEO Question
Sort of an ignorant question by me but can someone explain what Whitney Wolfe actually did as CEO of Bumble if she was not technical/engineering based? I am asking respectfully as I’m trying to wrap my head around it. It seems with Bumble’s business model and nature of how the business is implemented (thru an app and website) that scaling and technical/engineering issues would be a significant focus. Did she just delegate that aspect and focus on hiring, etc.?
> Had you ever heard of these six books before today? Have you ever read them?

Yes, I own McElligot's Pool and I particularly remember borrowing On Beyond Zebra from the library for its imaginary alphabet.

The offensive material in Pool appears to be the "Eskimo fish" (the word "Eskimo" apparently being derogatory), and in Zebra, somewhat obscurely, a "Nazzim of Bazzim" riding a camel called a "Spazzim".

> We've been sanitising kids books for decades now.

I don't really have a problem with that, but they aren't being sanitized are they? They're just not being sold at all.
What precipitated this?
Prize for nihhilism
Why cares? These are useless as third-party cookies -- you can't track users cross domains! It's a first-party cookie!

It's just a hack around analytics software needing an on-prem deployment or server-to-server integration. Whatever!
Car dealerships send direct mail post cards to you if you've bought from them before. Seems like individual retargeting to me.

If you've every made the buying decisions for an organization, you've been targeted individually before. Through digital economies of scale, it's less expensive to do with consumers now and allows for publishers to get paid to generate content at the same time.
So what’s the problem?
We mustn't forget the history that resulted in these racist books. At the same time, it's important to ensure that children aren't exposed to such material.

Removing them from public spaces is a good first step - eventually we'll need to give thought to rummage sales and private libraries (parents often try to pass their erroneous ideas on without the consent of society, of course, and accidents happen).

Given the volume of literature in modern society and the workforce needed to police physical (not just virtual) material, cooperation between all involved interests, public and private, might perhaps be warranted.
Are kids actually learning racism is ok from these books or are they enjoying the art and simplistic ideas of the story? Do adults read these books and enthusiastically think.. This author gets it. No, thats just ridiculous.

Why does every corporation feel the need to play out these stunts? More free press and discussions on social media. A part in the news cycle. They do it, Because it gets them more in return. If it didn't they would remain neutral.
Step 1: privatize everything

Step 2: censorship now doesn't exist anymore since "muh private entities, what are you, a commie?"

Brilliant. What a beautiful and free society we have created for ourselves.
From what I’ve seen in the video game industry, scrum is pointless and often destructive.

I’ve often seen coders staring at the void during so-called standups, and very weak devs closing tickets while doing almost nothing useful for the project, because their managers cared only for this metric...
Here's a list of all the times the people banning books have been on the right side of history:
Lot a job over it. Did everything I could to be polite, but was not going to use weird terms. Never mind they were biggest bunch of bigots I’ve ever seen.
And yet it was used as inspiration to murder 20M+ people by explicitly dehumanizing whole classes of people.
They don't care. Ideally their community can reap the jobs, retail services, and tax base that businesses represent while pushing off housing demand and public services demand to somewhere else. California has an extreme version of this through Proposition 13 which eliminates increasing property tax revenue base as an incentive to approve housing construction. Thus housing is made a "cost center." The end result is essential workers have to commute an hour or more one way to work in the communities they can't afford to reside in.
Well dan.
I’m sure they are as well, especially if they’re in a heavily male dominated field. I can only speak of tech and what I’ve personally learned about.
How many 9s of uptime is that?
Well, that's not really what's going on here. CLIP has two components - a text encoder that encoders candidate captions, and an image encoder. There's no part that does "writing" - it just makes an encoding for the image, and then sees which candidate text encoding is the most similar. Further, what's being looked at here, as I understand it, is JUST the image encoder part. The neuron in question isn't seeing or generating caption text, it's just a step along the way in trying to come up with a representation of the image. So it's surprising that that same neuron is strongly activated both by the word "spiderman" appearing in an image, and an actual picture of spiderman.
> no one has been executed

I think they mean execution of a sentence/task, not of a person.
The Zen Anti-Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
An announcement from Jason a couple weeks ago with a little more backstory: https://world.hey.com/jason/hey-world-b02a6f2e
I've read a decent chunk of that research, but it's often relegated to backwater low-reputation journals focused on alternative medicine and is largely ignored by mainstream science. For an example, see the research on various traditional sleep-inducing drugs.

It also doesn't make its way into mainstream practice among GPs and psychiatrists. As an example, which mainstream practitioner would ever prescribe or recommend curcurmin with piperine for any condition, aside from alternative medicine practitioners? Which psychiatrist would recommend EPA fish oil for depression? I could go on. The research that does exist is largely ignored.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/sf-school-board-tables...
Lol yes "you people" couldn't go wrong. Ask Ross Perot.
To answer my own question about the Dr. Seuss books, it appears to be controversial images of Asian & African people.
> strings in C are actually hard,

Strings in C are more like a lie. You get a pointer to a character and the hope there is a null somewhere before you hit a memory protection wall. Or a buffer for something completely unrelated to your string.

And that's with ASCII, where a character fits inside a byte. Don't even think about UTF-8 or any other variable-length character representation.

In fairness, the moment you realize ASCII strings are a tiny subset of what a string can be, you also understand why strings are actually very complicated.
What it’s saying is that a huge part of the -isms is the imbalance of power and how that is abused.
>Physical reality by definition is everything that exists.

How do we define what exists?
It does feel a bit analogous to criticizing religion, as though somehow a group of people or set of ideas can be exempt from disagreement.
OK, we can still run some user script or have a browser setting, which removes the ?757569643D2E2E267265733D31393230266F733D4D61634F53266F part for things like images. What would be the level after that?
definitely not illegal, employers can make rules about what you say while you work... tons already do
Am southern.

Please use y'all. Y'all who don't use it don't know what y'all are missing.
They're not racist - they're books with caricatures of any number of cultures, including Western cultures. It's possible people could be offended, but they're not any more offensive than any creative depiction of anything (Edit: poor choice of words there - they are more offensive than 'anything' but not more so than many things). All of Disney's films, even the most modern one's are caricatured articulations of cultures. If Alladin is not racist, neither is Dr. Seuss.

Edit: Go anywhere in the Middle East, stay there for two weeks. Then have a look at the 'Alladin' Disney cartoon and you will see, undoubtedly that it's buffoonishly caricatured, Orientalist pastiche of ME culture. I don't think most people in the ME are going to be straight up offended, but it's undoubtedly a clownish and reductive depiction. Not racist ... but definitely stereotypically caricatured.

I agree they're probably not perfectly suitable for kids, that's fine, and publishers have to make decisions based on fear as much as anything, but the EBay ban is ridiculous, and a sign of American cultural decline consistent with the rise of Trumpism. It's not progress.

We are adults, we know roughly what's nice and not, and within the margins we can make up our own minds. A sticker on the book indicating that some might be offended would be appropriate, just as they do for a lot of pop music (incidentally targeted at young teens) which contains brutally misogynist and violent content.
Honestly, none -- it really just came out of our own experience (e.g., I have always been a believer in not paying people differently by geography), and it evolved exactly the way I described in the blog entry.

And indeed, we had no intention of writing about this at all, but when asking for how we could improve our hiring process, one of the consistent pieces of feedback was that we didn't specify the pay -- and that we were unclear about our policies with respect to remote work. This was kind of a "well, should we tell 'em?" moment inside of Oxide -- and there was a broadly shared belief within the company that this was something we needed to be talking about. And here we are! ;)
They don't call it "the long march through the institutions" for nothin'.
If you need to get elected by, socialize with, and in general get along with the people you are regulating, well, they don't even need to bribe you with money. Local regulation is the easiest to subvert.
Assuming 2 employees join at the same time, would they get equal equity too?
Every single person who has children takes 2-4 years off from work? (as300's original comment, five posts parent to this one.) No, I'm pretty sure that 90% of the population does not do that.
It wasn't a limitation due to hardware of the time. It was a deliberate choice due to C's ancestry as a derivative of B.

In B, thee was only one data type: machine word. The actual meaning was determined by the operators used on it. Thus, given x, (x + 1) would be integer addition, but *x would dereference it as a pointer (to another word). There was no need to distinguish between integer and pointer arithmetic, because their semantics was the same - pointers were not memory addresses of bytes, but of words, and thus (x + 1) would also mean "the next element after x", if x is actually a pointer.

When it came to arrays, B didn't have them as a type at all. It did have array declarations - but what they did was allocate the memory, and give you a variable of the usual word type pointing at that memory (which could be reassigned!). Thus, arrays "decayed" to pointers, but in a broader sense they did in C.

This all works fine on machine where everything is a word, and only words are addressable. But C needed to run on byte-addressable architectures, hence why it needed different types, and specifically pointer types to allow for pointer arithmetic - as something like (p + 1) needs to shift the address by more than 1 byte, depending on the type of p. But they still tried to preserve the original B behavior of being able to treat arrays as pointers seamlessly, hence the decay semantics.

BTW, this ancestry explains some other idiosyncracies of C. For example, the fact that array/pointer indexing operator can have its operands ordered either way - both a[42] and 42[a] are equally valid - is also straight from B. A more obvious example, the reason why C originally allowed you to omit variable types altogether, and assumed int in that case, is because int is basically the "word type" of B, and thus C code written in this manner very much resembles B. And then there's "auto" which was needed in B to declare locals because there was no type, but became redundant (and yet preserved) in C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)#Examp...
You'd think people would be tired of being unnecessarily outraged by everything by now?
> inode meta data such as timestamps are insufficient I think. They can be tampered with.

In macOS, there is a security-policy layer of some kind on top of xattrs, separate from the security-policy of the file itself. `com.apple.rootless` is an example of an xattr protected by this mechanism: users (even root) can't apply or remove `com.apple.rootless` from files on a filesystem mounted as the rootfs.

With this mechanism, it'd likely be possible to give executable binaries an xattr containing the checksum, generated by Gatekeeper+Rosetta, that the user couldn't modify, while still being able to otherwise modify/delete the file. (And, presumably, modifying the file would automatically invalidate/remove the checksum xattr.)
The "good" internet was run by rich people's money, we had a good run because someone paid for it without expectation to make the money back right away but to acquire " internet real estate". Now these people want their money back, they want to scoop the returns of their investments.

Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit were all magical. Digg was also magical but it died out when tried to scoop returns in inelegant way.

Rich people did not become rich and don't stay rich by giving money away. When Youtube was advertiser unfriendly it was magical but it was also burning a billion $ a quarter, the same goes for all those "evil" companies. It all was a scheme to create and grow a market up until they run out of people. When they run out of people, it's time to make the money back out of it. Hmm, maybe I should remove the " " of "evil" but I am not sure. What was the alternative? The French "internet" maybe, but it died if in the face of capital fuelled frenzy of the American internet.

BTW, that's why I am an Apple fanboy, I like the idea of directly paid services. The relationship is simpler.
Alternately, "you lot".
Some people call any discrimination discrimination and systemic discrimination racism. Some people call any discrimination racism and don't talk much about systemic discrimination.

People in group 2 think people in group 1 mean it's impossible to discriminate against someone in the majority. But they don't.

People in group 1 think people in group 2 mean systemic discrimination doesn't exist. But not all of them do.

Some people in group 2 say people in group 1 should come up with a new word for systemic discrimination. But people in group 1 don't bother because it wouldn't change what people believe.
“Oh we would never burn book... oh wait.”

It really was not that long ago... like 20 years we knew that all the things we’re seeing now are wrong and even had an idea why they were wrong.

There is going to be a kick back from all of this. I think we all know it, just not what form it will take.
I've read a few older books with my kids that contained mildly questionable things, like a boy saying that girls can't do certain things, but I much prefer having that awkward conversation about how things used to be, over tossing it all out and pretending things were never any different.
Their definition was generally using the word "harmful" for which smoking clearly qualifies. Losing one's job was just one example how something can be harmful.

The definition of psychiatric disorders includes this kind of requirement. E.g. if you can't sleep more than a couple hours with no apparent negative effects, it's not a sleep disorder. On the other hand if this situation is unbearable for you and you feel you need to sleep more but can't, then you have a sleep disorder.

But yes I'd think this is a pretty loose definition that would include things like social media. Personally I think more is needed. Is that social media addict a depressed person who would just escape from life via an alternative means like by watching TV or something else? If so we should call their problem depression, and call social media simply an "escape" not an addictive behavior.
Perhaps we need a publicly funded, rather than corporate advertising funded social platform?
s/will/has already/, as anybody who's worked at a FAANG in the past 5 years can attest.
Oracle Cloud Breakdown – Database Hosting Costs on OCI
The same argument was used to stop embargoes against apartheid South Africa...that was somewhat explicable given the poverty of South Africa, using it for a multi-billion tech company. Interesting take.
Can you participate in one (1) conversation without asking for data or studies? Obviously he doesn't have a list of articles his friend used to make an offhand comment.
You just have unique names for images - isn't that already used for email pixels?

ie, se09d.png

Also used sometimes for standard cache invalidation efforts so common for both nontracking purposes too.

Worst case sites will just install a middleware layer to proxy all their requests and traffic back to ad tech machine I'd imagine or install some middleware on their stack.
Will we be required to submit our private book collection to the government agency of your choosing? Also, how dare parents pass their ideas onto their own children without the school’s consent.
In addition to the overhead from dyn alloc and the GC as someone else mentioned, there is also the size overhead that comes with every object in an OO language. The obj overhead for Java is JVM-dependent, but I believe it to be somewhere around 16 bytes.

A mostly unrelated stackoverflow post I found[0] states that an empty standard string in Java occupies 40 bytes due to the normal object overhead and overhead related to the internal byte array for the char storage. Obviously what you gain in return is convenience in programming as well as runtime-enforced safety from buffer overflows. Whether this is worth it depends on what you're doing.

In general, you're definitely absorbing overhead with any managed lang, although it need not be hidden. The specifics should be documented somewhere for whatever platform you're using, and most GCs are pretty tuneable nowadays.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56827569/what-is-an-over...
A lot of apps train people's lizard brains to repeatedly hop on and do simple things for tiny bits of stimulation

"ding" -> pull out phone -> paw at it in a repetitive motion -> satisfying bit of stimulation

I think it's habit forming, and it legitimately crosses into the realm of addiction, just like gambling
In the U.S. "Banned Books Week" has existed since 1982 to commemorate books that someone tried to prevent the public, or students, from accessing in a particular place.

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

This has almost always been metaphorical, because only a tiny minority of these cases involved someone trying to make a book illegal for everyone to possess or sell. You could accuse the ALA and the ABFFE of exaggeration, maybe rightly, in choosing the word "ban" (it seems like they early-on chose to clarify it as "banned and challenged"), but it has a fairly long history.

Edit: There's an interesting subtlety here where Banned Books Week has generally tended to assume that teachers and librarians, in particular, were well-equipped to make good judgments for their communities, while anyone who tried to pressure them to change their decisions (in the direction of less access) was engaged in something questionable. So if teachers chose not to teach a book, that wasn't usually called "banning", whereas if someone tried to get a school board or school principal to make teachers stop teaching a book, that was "banning". Likewise for librarians' decisions to make books available (or not). The most common formulation seemed to be that these professionals are entitled to a kind of academic freedom that gives them autonomy to make these decisions without second-guessing by others, and in particular that a teacher's or librarian's (or bookseller's) decision to make something available to an audience should be respected, while someone else's decision to prevent or discourage these professionals from doing so should be questioned or criticized.

Maybe because Banned Books Week and similar observances are mainly organized and promoted by associations of teachers, librarians, and booksellers, they seem to cast blame and scrutiny mainly outside of their own professions. :-)

In the 1980s and 1990s most of the challenges highlighted by these organizations came from the right, against books that featured sexual minorities, people questioning or mocking their religious upbringing, or children in intense or extreme situations. At the time, many booksellers, librarians, and teachers thought that these books were, at least sometimes, appropriate for children because it was a good thing for them to think about these topics, and not likely to harm them. I don't know what to anticipate from these professions now as they're confronted with a very different set of challenges to intellectual and cultural freedom.
The endgame is that the browser is only a thin client (think VNC) and the actual website is rendered server-side.