skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny and strange but these kind of personal-as-political theories have a strange currency among those who are simultaneously so powerful and so ill-prepared.

Later still, this self-analysis by the man whose friends called him “wicked boy” leads Channon to the most extraordinary political theory. He is analysing the division in London between pro-democracy politicians and the pro-Nazis. And on 29 May 1936 he decides he finally understands what is going on: “It is curious the division of racial mentality, and it reduces itself to a question of sex; all people, whether male or female, who are attracted by men and force are pro-German. The ‘softies’ like Hubert Duggan, who make a cult of female-worship, are pro-French. Duff Cooper, who adores women to an almost insane pitch, and is always trying to rape them in taxis etc, is immeasurably pro-French. Sometimes I wonder whether he is not also a bit pro-war?”

Nobody who was worried about their future reputation would leave a pair of sentences like that lying around.

We don’t read diarists because we admire them, but because they were there, and they note down what they saw and heard. “Chips” Channon was wrong about almost everything. But do we read Boswell, Casanova, Pepys, Alan Clark or even Sasha Swire for their judgement? We do not. We read them to be taken aback, and to question ourselves. Exhausting, massive, genuinely shocking, and still revelatory, this new edition of the Channon diaries is a work of irrigation and genuine scholarship. Few people may read them from cover to cover, but the stories they contain will rattle noisily around our culture for decades ahead.
It certainly school's fault. Maryland has truancy laws: https://www.peoples-law.org/truancy

Specifically: "Under Maryland law, a truant student is one who is “unlawfully absent” from school for more than:
8 days in any quarter,
15 days in any semester, OR
20 days in a school year."

Also,
"What happens when a student is found to be truant?
The student will be referred to the county board’s system of active intervention. Note that each county must develop a system of active intervention for truant students.

A school system representative will investigate the cause of the truancy. This representative may provide counseling or even notify the Department of Juvenile Services. "

There is whole system designed to handle such cases and it failed miserably
Space-time tradeoff and your Snowflake compute cost
"To a first approximation, floating-point numbers behave like real numbers"

This is incorrect. To count as an approximation, there have to be some accuracy bounds. This is impossible to define, as the reals don't have the same cardinality as any floating point number system.

Now, for many interesting and useful real-valued functions, a float-valued function can be defined that is an approximation. But there is no general way to map a function defined on the reals to a function defined on the floats with a known accuracy.
On the Application of International Law in Cyberspace [pdf]
I feel like their app (or method) is flawed in some way. It can't be that many phones have 300~400ms+ latency!?
I propose that you read "The Phoenix Project (A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win)".

I don't feel like I am building a wall, I am building a structured approach to communication and software building that is predictable to deliver value to our business and our customers.
Second this. I don't think he owns any asset he promotes besides TSLA. The rest are clearly for the lulz.
I’ve always been wondering what nativescript really was about, and how it compared to react native and other platforms (and also, why do i barely read about it on HN or elsewhere, as it seems to offer a cross-platform dev environment).

The project’s webpage has way too many tech listed to be of any help, and the video mentions a framework, an IDE, a debugging environment...

Do you have a good link where i could get a better understanding of the tech, and how it’s used in real world project ?
I'll agree to that.
I mean I'll hold my hand up today, to clicking the "accept" on that meeting invites and attending - but not having an f'in clue how to solve the problem, so keep quiet.

The immediate 'bad justification' is that if I didn't attend, I might get labelled as the problem.

The 'more rational' justification is that by attending and listening I get a better understanding, and by meeting #2 and #3 hope I can contribute constructively.

I know I'm definitely not going to be able to help by dodging the discussion.

Now there are exceptions - if I think others are better able and willing to solve an important issue, or I think the issue is ultimately unimportant - but that's high risk. Like saying I don't need school, so I won't go.
Go Modules Considered Harmful
I've really enjoyed taking courses on Coursera, some paid, but I've mostly audited stuff I've found interesting. Really hoping that they're able to find a way towards profitability and exist as a public company in the long run. Looking at the numbers it doesn't seem like it'll be that hard.

They definitely seemed to have benefitted from covid in terms of registered users which isn't a huge surprise. Registered users from 2019 to 2020 grew by 67%, averaging around 23-24% for the few prior years.

Revenue jumps at a similar rate from 2019 to 2020, from about $184m to 293m, 59% growth.

11,900 degree students at the end of 2020, with degree segment revenue doubling from $15m in 2019 to $30m in 2020.

Some stats from the filing:

year users revenue
2020 - 77m users / $293m
2019 - 46m users / $184m
2018 - 37m users / $141m
2017 - 30m users / $95m

25+ degrees offered in the price range: $9k to $45k
IPO Fridays are back! Except it’s everyday
Most of a supermarket's layout is determined by hard requirements like refrigeration, stocking heavy items and handling payments.

That hasn't been generally true for a long time. The big chains spend a fortune deciding how their stores should be presented and optimising the layout of different products, and there is a lot of sophisticated analysis going on behind the scenes. There are certainly recurring themes in the results, but for example there are several major stores near me that have totally different layouts in many respects including all of the ones you mentioned, and it would be surprising if any of those differences was an accident. The stores don't run all those loyalty card schemes, nor rearrange their products from time to time, just for fun!
LaserJet Display Hacks for Fun and More (2014)
While I somewhat agree with his position, there are a few reasons why people "self-censor". Only one of them is fear. Another is that civil society depends on pulling together with a lot of conversations on non-controversial topics, and only occasionally talking about emotional and controversial topics that pull people apart. Since others bring up controversial topics too often (often in search of clicks/attention), not bringing up controversial topics is an attempt not to make a bad situation (polarization) worse.

It's kind of how shouting "everybody shut up" at the top of your lungs, does not usually help to quiet things.
You are not arguing honestly here. You are just defending this decision by any means you have, honest or dishonest.

The books will be preserved, much like banned books in the Soviet unions typically were preserved, in some government archive.

The millions of readers of our generation, who had access to these books because they were offered for sale, will no longer have access to them.

My parents read these books to me. I will not be able to read them to my children.

"Nobody will miss them" is an incredibly false and irrelevant argument. Nobody "missed" all the books in the Soviet union that were blocked by the commissars and never published. How is that a valid justification for this happening in the US now?

You are justifying book banning, pure and simple, and you are using any available argument, and many dishonest ones, to do it. Ultimately, you yourself don't understand why you do this. You just follow the cancel mob.

I am a member of a minority that is supposed to be offended by these books. I am not. I would bet anything that you were not personally offended if you ever read them, too.

But the Cancel Mob has mobilized and you are mindlessly following, because it is the convenient choice, the easy choice, the SAFE choice.
You could apply your perspective to any industry and company.

I think you should reframe what's being done here.

Coursera sees an opportunity to make money by creating a market for affordable educational content. Universities do not feel compelled to offer their educations for free or at reduced costs, because that's how they sell their expensive services to students and wealthy families.

You have many forces acting in a complex, multi-dimensional market. Don't assume evil. Different brains, different angles of attack. Lots of offenses, defenses, and interesting state space landscapes.
That’s high praise, thank you. I’m humbled.

You (and anyone else) have my full and unrestricted permission to copy/paste it.
Amidst the usual attempts at turning editorial decisions into political fuel for right wing outrage dumpster fire, I’m simply glad the Seuss family’s decision will help parents avoid unintentionally exposing their children to images and contents that alienate them. Imagine your Asian-American 4yo read who’s just learning to use chopsticks read “A Chinese man who eats with sticks,” with a ethnic caricature to go with it. It’s outdated because it wasn’t the author’s intent for the book to make certain children feel like an exotic sidekick prop, but the world has changed and created that risk; IMO, this is a reasonable way to address that. If you have a better alternative, speak up and advocate. If you don’t care about the alienation that minority children might feel reading this, well, that’s your problem.
> Not necessarily taking one side ot the other, but they also have very restrictive fireworks laws.

Utah is a really dry state. Fireworks have a bad tendency to start fires out here, fires that can get rather large. It's not that they're spoilsports (with respect to fireworks), it's that they have experienced some significant downsides.
Nah, they're just sailing to Valinor.
I'd rather just hate on Microsoft specifically :-p
Adam Carolla will be happy to hear this.
Legitimate Interest has a legal definition as a Legal Basis. It's a list of Purposes and Special Features that a Vendor declares to the IAB that they claim to need [0]. A User absoultely has the right to Object to Consent and Legitimate Interest.

Any CMP that does not allow you to opt-out is on shaky GDPR legal ground.

[0] https://vendor-list.consensu.org/v2/vendor-list.json (see 'vendors' object)
Abut 10 years ago, City of Los Angeles tried to ban engine-powered leaf blowers (driven by people tired of the noise pollution) but was reversed when local gardeners made a big stink about it.
The attacks were on port 443, i.e. the webmail interface. That could be behind a VPN.
You could still use the bitwise -0 value to represent another real number. Do you gain anything?
> I have a hard time referring to them as Christians when they think that the non-Latter-Day Christians are someone that needs converted.

Most Christian groups think that “Christians” outside of their group need to be converted. There are theological reasons why large groups of Christians exclude LDS, SDA, JW, and certain other groups that self-identify as “Christian” from the scope of that term (while still including very large sets of ‘Christians’ with whom they otherwise disagree), but “they think other ‘Christians’ need to be converted” isn’t one of them, and there would be no Christians at all if that standard was applied consistently.)
Competition is for losers - Peter Thiel
https://archive.is/UOoz3
> I have a hard time referring to them as Christians when they think that the non-Latter-Day Christians are someone that needs converted.

Yet I'm assuming you have no problem calling both Sunni and Shiite Muslims "Muslims" even though they each think the other is wrong and that the other needs converting to their way of thinking? Disputes about which church/sect is the one true church authorized by God are going to happen in every major religion. I think the term "Christian" though is generic - if you believe in and follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, you are a Christian.
Just because some people believe blindly that “nuclear = bad”, that doesn’t mean they won’t change their opinion of fusion once they receive an adequate explanation on how fusion is different from fission. I’ve personally never met anybody in the wild that disagrees with fusion power because of our current track record with fission power. I.e. the believe that “nuclear = bad” does not equate to the believe that “fusion = bad”.

So honestly I don’t believe that there exists people in the wild who’s opinion is: “No to fusion! Because nuclear = bad”, and if they do exists, I don’t think they are of anywhere near size and numbers required to influence public funding.
Recently moved away from Keycloak (which I think overall is a great piece of software but was just a PITA for our use case) and my observations:

* Zero-downtime deployments don't really work. They kinda-sorta do but it was too clunky for us to do it effectively during periods when we had significant traffic. Not generally an issue if you are just using out-of-the-box components but if you are deploying custom components (Storage providers, authenticators, etc) then it doesn't work that well.

* It uses an in-memory distributed cache for authentication sessions so if your instance goes down (or you need to shut it down for a major version upgrade) then everyone is logged out. It also seems to have a lot of trouble scaling out to more than ~8 nodes. At the minimum you have to do a lot of tuning of infinispan parameters to get it to work at scale.

* Configuration is kind of a pain because it has to be done through the UI. There is a REST API but it is really hard to work with if you want to do something like deploy a change to an authentication flow configuration. So forget about managing your configs in source control (and prepare for the inevitable issues that happen when configs aren't properly updated with deployment because someone fat-fingers something in the configuration UI).

* There is a LOT of stuff that is hard-coded in the core Keycloak engine that makes customization impossible short of modifying the actual Keycloak source itself and running your own build (not recommended!).

* One small thing that nonetheless drove me crazy is the Keycloak injects a JS snippet into rendered templates to munge the browser history and has no way for you to insert a nonce in the script tag, so setting up CSP headers was way harder than it should have been.

All that said, it was more that Keycloak was not the right tool for our use case (an always-on user-facing identity provider) but if you just need a basic login/registration screen and are fine using Keycloak's built-in components (with maybe just some thumbing) then it works great.
FY Ended December 31, in millions except percentage

| 2019 | 2020 | YoY
---------------|--------|--------|-------
revenue | $184 | $294 | 60%
gross profit | $95 | $155 | 63%
op ex | $143 | $221 | 55%
net (loss) | $(47) | $(67) | (43)%
(loss) ex SBC | $(31) | $(50) | (61)%
free cash flow | $(31) | $(27) | 15%

total users | 46 | 77 | 67%
net retention | 106% | 114% | --
1. Checking if some torrent exists in principle (by searching for words in a name)
2. Searching for the same files in other torrents (when you click on the file size on some torrent page, it will show all other torrents, which contain files of the same size, it is pretty good method of searching for larger files)
3. Just as an open dataset, which contains a lot of torrent metadata and which you can use in your torrent related projects.
Every new law should come with an expiration date, at which time a vote should occur to either extend or can it.

Alternatively, there should be a "fixed budget" for laws, as in: if you want to pass that new law, you're going to pick one of the existing laws on the books an can it to make space for the new one.
That's fair but every time the issue is raised on HN, for example, there are anecdotal reports all over the place. Given the ridiculous number of variables I will believe virtually anything to be true for that specific person, configuration, use case, etc.

I understand the support for AMD's in kernel drivers (and Mesa), rooting for the underdog, etc but anyone who is being honest will acknowledge there are plenty of issues with their drivers and various configurations as well.

Assuming it's six of one, half dozen of the other the fact that Nvidia drivers also bring the entire CUDA ecosystem to any GPU made in the last five years (or more) really tips the scales (overall) for the justification of an Nvidia hardware purchase (all other things being equal).
The perhaps uncomfortable fact is that there is simply no difficult enough problems in vast majority of our businesses (Twitter? Airbnb?), that require the deep fundamentals.

Most of the wheels have been invented already. Today's high level of developer compensation is a result of business potentials rather than the need for hard science like rocket science.

Once we reach the point of saturation, either due to reduced business demand or increased supply, or both, most of us can't maintain the same level of income. There is a small subset that still can but it will be hyper competitive and can't take in that many people.
> dynamically sized arrays

Yes. What you can't do is associate bounds information with some specific pointer to an array, but this will work, for instance:

int *x = malloc(2 * sizeof(int));
x[1]; //ok
x[2]; //runtime error
I think your teenage pregnancy example is probably reasonable, I could see that being a big turning point in a mother's life, where things began getting tougher/worse.

I guess my point is that even if it's clearly an individual-failure, how long should that condemn her to a life of struggle and hardship, let alone her children? If one step off the straight-and-narrow in society means that you need to beat incredible odds to make it back onto the happy-path, we need to work to make that easier to do. Regardless of whether you fell off that path by your own actions today, last week, or decades ago when you were a child.

I'd want to live a society where those struggling get repeated lifelines and assistance to help find some stability. I guess I don't see what the other option is; I don't think we can just give up and let them (and their children, and their children's children...) struggle and fail forever. Even if that means that they need more support/attention than the average citizen for however long it takes.
> I'd very much encourage people to do empirical measurements against, for example, PipeWire (which also looks good).

A rule of thumb from reading linux audio mailing lists but which probably works generally-- completely disregard any claim of measurement of latency that isn't prefixed.

For example, the Google blog labels the Y-axis with "round-trip time in milliseconds." They're clearly and explicitly measuring round-trip latency. They then piggy-back on that well-understood concept to introduce the concept of "tap-to-tone latency" and show measurements for that.

Almost to the case, the times I've read a back-and-forth conversation where the word "latency" is used unprefixed, the commenters might as well be describing the warmth of vinyl recordings. Often they are simply describing an integer they typed into a widget or config file.

On several occasions I've witnessed users insert Jack between a single application and ALSA because "that's what the professionals use." These are knowledgeable users who want as little latency between the system and their ear as possible.
I agree audio at minimum should have been done differently on Android.

The latency(different type I believe) of Spotify applications and even YouTube applications is pretty bad compared to an Apple device. Sometimes the audio just fails to respond for half a second or so. This is not an interface bug from my experience.
> they kick up particulates (allergens, car exhaust/tire dust, etc), and put them back in the atmosphere.

You know what really needs to be banned? Wind. Fucking wind blows literally a million times more shit everywhere. Something must be done.
This really does not appear to be a gender thing with Twitch, but rather individual favoritism towards certain streamers, regardless of gender [1]. It's twitch staff giving bonus treatment.

[1]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/missbehavin-on-twitch-afte...
Thanks for mentioning us.

It is a funny contrast that GitHub is closed source and hosts most of the open source code in the world. And GitLab is open core and hosts mostly closed source (and maybe the most closed source).
I've always hated lawns too - house after house with the same kind of pointless, perfectly manicured square of green. The waste of all the water and energy, all the chemicals used to keep out anything but grass. I mean, it may as well be astroturf given it's always kept looking like it!

I fully agree that some vegetation looks nice, and is good for insects and birds. But I'd much prefer some variety at least - different grasses, wildflowers, moss, clover, local plants, and not kept permanently trimmed 3mm off the earth. I mentioned this to my wife a few years back, and she looked at me like I'd gone crazy, and I've had the same aghast looks from others too.

Actually, I'd like to see some proposals for regulation around this. Homogeneous lawns are just such a colossal waste.
That's why fusion is so cool. We're making something that runs a higher temperature than the sun's core. It's not even strong enough for us! We can't rely on that super slow quantum tunneling fusion; we're gonna make stronger yet thinner stars at home and literally suspend it in extremely limited space.
SoftBank stupid money is gone.
Statistically a child is more likely to suffer eventual chronic illness such as diabetes due to their own bad diet choices than a permanent injury from crossing the street. A person is more likely to kill themselves than die from a traffic accident. So yes, really.
Price to earnings ratio is at an all time high, once the credit bubble bursts, so will the investors appetite for such companies.
Interesting! This seems futile at times, especially with the SolarWinds espionage that went undetected for so long.

The question that comes to mind is: to what extent did Threat Actors have unfettered access to security bulletins?

There is no easy solution to the issue. Thank you for bringing this up.
Do you think the distinction between government interdiction and private is immaterial? I think I regard the distinction between business and government a lot less than most but still understand that there are significant differences between the two and some people think those differences are extremely important.

But what is meant by tribalism?
Hmm, the article is a little light on what I think is a bigger question. Are wealthier people leaving the state and being replaced by less wealthy people?

They mention that the report found that the "movement patterns for wealthy areas were similar to those in less wealthy areas". This is kind of vague and I don't know what they mean by "wealthy areas". It would be interesting to see if they looked at homeowners versus renters who left wealthy areas. I didn't look at the study itself, so maybe they did that kind of analysis.

The reason this is important, because even a small percentage of really wealthy people leaving the state, would cause a large dip in taxes collected. So even if it turns out 1% of the wealthiest Californians left the state, that could cause big deficits in the state budget. Even if there is a bailout by the feds for this year, it could cause a lot of problems going forward.
We’ve been spending 0.5 to 1B a year on inertial confinement alone for decades.

https://www.laserfocusworld.com/lasers-sources/article/14175...