skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These tunnels were actually used by leprechauns circa 1300 to secretly move gold from town to town
> but we should not discourage homemaking and stigmatize people who want to raise children.

Nor should we stigmatize those that do not have a career and do not have children. Because that's a thing too. So it rather seems that the stigma depends on having a career than having kids. Having kids is just a common reason for why many women might not have the time to have a career but not the only one.
That's more for trees, which to be fair are a specific kind of graph I guess. Ltree doesn't provide anywhere near the types of tools someone would expect if you told them it supports "graph structures".
Can you expand on why y’all makes them feel degraded? Y’all is often used to convey a feeling of warmth towards the addressee or express familiarity, which seems the opposite of degrading.
Cool. Blogger had this functionality back in the day: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/email-posts-blogger-48933.ht...
In case anyone is interested in that recall effort: https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/
It's referring to the success of the projects themselves, not a blockchain related technical term.
I read most if not all of the Seuss books as a kid, and got them from the public library, which had copies of them all.
> 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.

Oh absolutely, but it's a pretty reasonable expectation that any contemporary language should handle that complexity for you. The entire job of a language is to make the fundamental concepts easier to work with.
Yes it was. On early Unix systems, each entry in a directory was bascially:

struct dir
{
char name[14];
int inode;
};

Adding a NUL byte might waste a full byte that could otherwise be used---remember, back when C was first developed, 10M disks were large and very expensive.
Early systems of postal delivery were people trying to figure out where the bloody place was and saying it's the one on the Avon river.
Agile/Scrum in limited doses to aspects of Software Development is basically common sense. Applying it mechanically to the entire Product/Project Development life cycle is dumb.

The "Agile Manifesto" is just well known platitudes.

Agile!: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly by Bertrand Meyer is a must read.

Summary: https://medium.com/@knL/i-just-read-agile-the-good-the-hype-...

Webcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffkIQrq-m34
What’s so funny to me is what you’re describing is the nightmare that’s become scrum as opposed to actual agility. Agile is about ditching managers, bureaucracy, and estimates in favor of empowering the team itself.

Agility is just what it says: a philosophy of flexibility and adaptiveness.

Heirarchies, heavy processes, etc are by definition inflexible. They are not agile. You do not do agile. You are agile. You are agile because your company has a culture that is agile and you cannot achieve that unless the company is structured to be flexible.

I think actual agility is really, really a great way to build software efficiently... but unfortunately most programmers will only experience the cargo cult forced upon them by certified scrum masters... and this is just as bad, perhaps worse, than old fashioned waterfall.

More than anything, working in an agile environment is a very pleasant thing to do from a human standpoint. But most companies are incapable of the kind of equality and empowerment necessary to achieve agility, so they will force the terrible cargo cult version upon us.
Why would you want to implement your own allocator?

The goal of these rules is to improve reliability and timeliness of your application. If you intend on working around those rules to do what the rules explicitly forbid then either you or the rules are wrong.
| a bunch of individuals the system serves well-enough

Again, are you talking about SFBA? Because I thought we addressed that.
Ah!!! Perfect. I’ve got icecast in my life. Thx for the tip.
You can always learn! You're just a few books away from the knowledge.
In case anyone doesn’t get the Guy Fieri reference: https://medium.com/s/silicon-satire/i-peeked-into-my-node-mo...

It has been removed though: https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/3646
Are you sure it was your friend? This is a Jordan Petersen meme, and I believe a quote from one of his podcasts or interviews.
Whether Amazon is a monopoly is a question for the DOJ, I feel.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26349857
Insert that picture of a person being stepped on with the text "At least its not the government"

At what point to we step up and say, these megacorps have as much power over our lives as the government. And in some cases more. The US government would struggle to ban a book world wide but ebay and amazon can do it pretty easily.
No one is saying, "Stop all Seuss books from entering libraries". The publisher stopped printing a small subset of books. Oh the places you go will still have plenty of shelf space and be given to every graduating senior for quite a while I'm sure.
For the love of god, don't take mental health advice from strangers on the internet. Talk to a professional. Don't be afraid of medication. There is science (double blind studies) backing up anti-depressants as an effective way to reduce depression. It probably seems hopeless but a doctor will help you.
I find it hilarious (and sad) that I'm being downvoted because women have told me that they don't like being referred to as a guy when they're not one, and its one of the many ways that the 'default male' attributes of tech take a toll on them.
> If an employee's impact is more valuable, why shouldn't that employee demand to be paid more?

Because the valuation of an employee's contribution to an organization, as assessed by management, is usually bullshit.

If the product succeeds, all the employees benefit, and if the product fails, all employees suffer together.

Now, for a large organization, the ability for individual employees to influence revenue or profit at the organization level is negligible, so you need different strategies for compensating your employees. And the article concedes their approach won't scale past a certain company size.
"Agile is a Adjective not a Noun". It was supposed to empower devs but has been hijacked by management to enforce standards.

from Pragmatic Dave Thomas: Agile is Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M
Childless != lonely, or not having plenty of social contacts. Having kids tend to force one to deal with a certain number of issues which requires socializing of some form, so it may help for those that aren't naturally outgoing and sociable people but beyond that not so much IMO.
I'm not saying y'all does, I'm saying 'hey guys' does when they're, in fact, not a guy. Or a least for some. I also know women who aren't offended by it and we've had explicit discussions surrounding it. But being more thoughtful doesn't seem to hurt anyone when there are more inclusive terms you can use.

I can tell you as a gay man I appreciate when people ask about my partner (gender neutral) versus default to wife. Am I offended by it? Not really, it's right 90% of the time. But it's nice that people are considerate of other options when they don't know themselves. And you don't know that I'm gay by looking at me. Many women you do know they're not a man, so you would already know that you're using the male pronoun as default for all people when you could be more contextual to the situation (and avoid pulling the entire history of male-dominated societies and language with it).
> At the same time, it makes no business sense for providers to foot the bill to wire up those poor areas, and the municipality doesn’t want to spend the money to do it.

On the other hand, college neighborhoods are largely not wealthy and was one of the first places in my city to get fiber. I think it's because they tend to have a much higher density (e.g. a 2 story house likely houses 2 households) and I would guess are more likely to pay for faster and/or more stable internet.
Note that a very significant fraction do believe human level machine intelligence is likely within about 50 years, and a good few on closer timescales, though the precise numbers are endlessly debatable. Two major AI corporations, DeepMind and OpenAI, are explicitly aiming to create AGI.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08807, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOJ1NVtlnyQ
> According to the philosophy "if I can't do something well I shouldn't do it at all", I should keep my hands clean

This is not what I meant.

What I mean is if I am going to put effort into something I'm not going to accept being mediocre.

There are plenty of things I suck at, and I'm fine with that because I put minimal effort into them.

But I won't put 10% effort into 10 things because I know I'll never get good at any of them like that. I'd rather put all my energy into 2-3 things.

If I'm to be a parent I want to be able to dedicate a lot of my energy towards it, not just the bare minimum (Which I understand is still a lot).
I want to try these DNS-based blockers (AGH or Pi-hole) but am always wondering: is it easy to temporarily disable, or "debug" them?

I have encountered multiple times (not common, but not trivial) that a filter blocks something wrong. With traditional ad-blocker as extension, I can quickly find it out by using build-in logger, and then simply either temporarily disable them or add the site to whitelist with a single click (if I feel like it, I can write my own rule too.)

If I have to change my DNS setting everytime this happens with these DNS-based blockers, I feel like to stick with extensions since I don't really use my phone to browse Internet too much.
Right, so I don't think the surprise is that the neuron responds to a picture of spiderman and a picture of a spider. What's surprising is that it responds to a picture of spiderman, and a picture of the text "spider". The thing that's interesting is not that it understands that the concept of a spider and the concept of spiderman are close together, it's that the same neuron is responsible for both the visual depiction of spiderman, and for an image of the text. In previous networks, you'd maybe have a neuron that detected a picture of text in general, but not one that would look for a particular word as well as the image it corresponds to.
Do you mean shelved? Tabled means it's been put forth for discussion and action.
"Oh Pascal" reminded me of a book titled, "Oh! Pascal!" by Doug Cooper. I used it to learn Pascal.
Not sure about "People" but I get spammed via it on really contentious subreddits.
> These are useless as third-party cookies -- you can't track users cross domains

http://uniquemachine.org/

As long as you can run scripts, you can be matched between sites. But even before you get into completely unique identifiers, you can get lots of data from repeating ip/location - people are fairly predictable that way.
> for what their local users want to read

were their local readers asked if these books were offensive? Or was this pushed over them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

Think along these lines: website.com/blog/f5/babBys-first-bl0g-post-2f.html

Can you (or a computer program) answer definitively whether there's a tracking ID in that URL?
Pascal compilers of the time when Pascal was popular typically had a switch that disabled range checks for speed reasons.

Such a system would effectively remove that feature. Yes, you could disable range checks when indexing into a string, but you still would have to figure out how many length bytes there are. That would only be a little bit faster than a full range check.

Because of that, I don’t see how that would have been useful at the time.
Being paid less because you took time off does not mean "no career". I know all about the gap because my wife lives it.
Git Rebase with Squash
> 40% of Americans would struggle to come up with $400 for an emergency expense [0], let alone save $400 for a laptop.

It actually doesn't say that, it says they don't have $400 in cash equivalents but may be able to produce it by selling "assets". So a person who keeps all their savings in CDs or investments also counts, although only for expenses you can't put on credit cards.
For me this broke Google docs, but happy with it otherwise. It makes troubleshooting harder though since querying the blacklists will not show you the actual domain being blocked
I don't know what is in these books, so not going to comment about whether they should be delisted or not.

But, eBay is doing a really shit job at this in a way that ensures almost everyone will be mad at them.

- They have delisted many copies of this book

- They still have dozens of copies available still listed

Literally the first search I did - the name of one of these books - found many still-listed ones.

If you're going to enact a policy, at least do it consistently.
...

Your dismissive comment shows you know nothing about these matters and while my comment was a quick one as I presumed everyone is aware of these facts, let me show you a few more qualified bodies/persons who believe Amazon might have violated antitrust laws.

1. The EU Competition Commissioner is already investigating. https://www.wsj.com/articles/european-union-probing-amazon-s...

2. Predatory pricing has long been a concern with Amazon. This is prohibited under the Robinson‑Patman and Sherman Acts. Since Matsushita v. Zenith such cases have been few and far between but https://doi.org/10.1093/jaenfo/jnz006 provides a roadmap on how this could be proven for Amazon.

3. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee antitrust subcommittee issued a report last year. https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/competition_in_dig... has this "The companies
investigated by the Subcommittee—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google—have captured control
over key channels of distribution and have come to function as gatekeepers. Just a decade into the
future, 30% of the world’s gross economic output may lie with these firms, and just a handful of
others.

In interviews with Subcommittee staff, numerous businesses described how dominant
platforms exploit their gatekeeper power to dictate terms and extract concessions that no one would
reasonably consent to in a competitive market."
I guess 99% if that goes to lot rent and rest to buy kmart tents?
What's interesting about this to me is that ultimately we _want_ our AIs to learn bias. The whole point of a predictive AI is to model the behavior of the thing its predicting. So for AIs trained against humans, which CLIP is, it by necessity must learn our prejudices. If it didn't, it wouldn't be good at predicting how we describe images.

The model learning bias isn't the issue. You could ask me what I think the racist members of my family might write about a given image. I'd then be able to emulate them inside my head and accurately predict their responses. We all do that. It's how we have moments like "I knew you were going to say that."; "That's typical of you to say."; "Why am I not surprised?"; etc. The fact that I, and everyone else, can do that does not imply that we are biased. It's how we behave that determines if we are biased.

We want our AIs to do the same.

The real ethics question here is not how to we prevent AIs from learning bias. It's how do we get AIs to not _express_ those biases. We need a way to put them into "impartial" mode, much like we take biased and fallible humans and make them judges in courtrooms.

Personally I don't think that's going to be as hard as some imagine. Again, remember that these AIs are learning to emulate humans, _including_ judges. Give GPT-* a bunch of court documents and transcripts and it will learn the capacity to emulate a judge. Then you just need to carefully craft its prompt text so that for any given query, you can be reasonably sure it's acting impartially.
> Are you suggesting that the vast majority of mining operations are running on direct/dedicated links to local power generation facilities?

Not necessarily in the sense of having their own physical wire, but if the path from the power generation facility to where the mining is taking place doesn't take up any long-distance transmission capacity (which is why power in those towns is cheap) then it's de facto the same thing.

> there's still a huge amount of mining that would by necessity have to happen on the grid. If consumers or small-time business owners get involved in crypto they have no choice but to use the grid.

If they want to participate as full nodes, sure. Maybe they shouldn't. And even if they are, they're going to be an insignificant fraction of mining volume.
It's a form of demographic debt. By increasing the workforce #, you decrease the amount of kids people have (because they can't afford the time to have many kids) but increase total GDP until you pay the piper later with decrease reproduction rates and more seniors that the economically productive.

I also want to say that it's not necessarily good to have one person be the house spouse only and then come out the other end with no skills. That can be a trap and be especially bad if a divorce or other split up happens, not to mention when your a bored empty nester.

It's good to be have some skilled profession to come back to. Kids are time consuming from the start, but they start spending less and less time with you as they get older.
These insect makers were made by human makers in times lost from history.
Does the publisher have additional rights on books that have already gone out the door?

they can surely stop publishing additional copies, but existing copies should not be burned.
> Because it's too easy to say "I want to raise a healthy family", therefore it's a poor signal. Proving yourself with work, well remunerated or not, is a better signal.

I think that's a fair thing to say but one of many's life unfair situations. I've seen some people put so much effort/work into homemaking that goes beyond of most people I know put into their jobs.
"Near-path NAT"[1] has been suggested as a mechanism that browsers can use to proxy requests through an intermediate server, similar to what you suggest.

[1] https://github.com/bslassey/ip-blindness/blob/master/near_pa...
Plenty of women have told me they don't think "guys" is gendered at all. Most (all?) of the women in my office use it irrespective of gender.

Maybe it's because you're asserting your anecdotal experience as truth, when it's not at all representative of most other people's experience.
I had a flick through one of the banned books I have and I was unable to fault anything in it. I had to look up what the problem was and then check back and I felt it was a really big stretch to call it offensive.
I've seen you make a lot of good comments but this comment feeds the problem you're describing.

Either I have to agree with obviously stupid stuff from "my side" or I'm with the nazis? That only empowers the stupid at the end of the day.
The Kilobyte’s Gambit chess game with 1K AI
> The same could be said of the Internet when it was first invented.

I see this repeated often, but it doesn’t seem remotely true.

Look back to Englebart and the work done at Parc. The applications were very clear.
Well I got a public lecture when I referred to some that had “no” gender by their name.
Went downhill after that.
Ask HN: Whats your favorite project management tool?
Hi HN,

I am currently looking for suggestions for project management tools such as notion.

Are their any cheaper solutions or open source alternatives to project collaboration software which comes with note taking and kanban boards
The elites, in this case, being the people who own the rights and publish the books? Are you suggesting that libraries should increase the space they devote work going out of print? Books stop being published all the time.

And beyond that, I don't think you mean what you generally say here, that libraries should have books that are considered controversial by elites. I can think of plenty of books that are controversial to leftist elites and plenty of books that are controversial to right wing elites.
Supposedly the wife also pays the husband's mistress because it's easier to get her to go away. This may be an urban legend.
Well, the text encoder sees the ascii characters s-p-i-d-e-r (after byte-pair encoding). That's different from seeing a photograph of a piece of paper that says "spider" on it. It's not surprising that the network can associate a picture of spiderman with a caption that contains the text "spider", but rather that the same neuron lights up when you show it a piece of paper that says "spider" as when you show it a picture of spiderman.
No. It's never worked anywhere I've seen or heard of. There is always resistance, missed deadlines, managers that start treating their teams like children because burndown charts aren't being adhered to, etc.

You can't streamline software development. I don't know why people keep trying.
I don't think that way, but that's the wider dynamic I've seen in play for years. On one hand you have 4chan /pol, and on the other hand you have "woke" Twitter mobs. The whole thing seems gamified and the participants all seem to be playing a video game where getting attention or scoring a kill (trolling, offending someone, getting someone cancelled, etc.) is the objective. Gamified social media seems to be increasingly pulling the whole culture along for a ride.

Of course maybe I am succumbing to the "the nuts are always the loudest" effect.

Edit: I don't think the Internet per se is at fault. I lay the blame squarely at the feet of the "algorithmic timeline." Social media isn't neutral. It's programmed to "engage" us, which usually means either offending us or luring us into some kind of cult.

Chan culture isn't algorithmic in this way, but it's organized primarily around influencing algorithmic social media from outside and as such operates within the same algorithmic attention-maximization game paradigm.

TL;DR: this is not discourse. It's a video game.
Efficiently Automated Stock Trading Library
It hasn't even gone as far as the actual Puritanism. Most mainstream web properties do not allow any pornography to be distributed via their service and will remove anything perceived as vaguely pornographic (ironically eBay is a rare exception, but it's walled off). Sometimes even innocuous nudity falls into that category.

Nobody on Hacker News compares that policy with Nazi book burning though.
Actually it is irrelevant whether you use an operating system or not.

One project I worked with these rules was on Verix OS.

The rules are more intended on reducing application complexity and unpredictability which is typically helping reliability regardless of the setting.
As someone with an Asian background, you should go read some of Seuss' newspaper comics where he argues for Japanese internment, and then look at that picture again in that context
One point that's frequently misunderstood about locks is that there's essentially no cost unless the lock is contested. This leads a lot of people to they must go lockless, when a simpler lock-based system would meet their requirements.

A lot of systems fit neatly into a paradigm of a single threaded hot path, plus a lot of infrequent peripheral threads that only have a low statistical contention cost.

For example let's say you want to process packets off the network very fast. But you also need some constant bounded garbage cleanup thread running periodically in the background. Maybe the thread runs every 30 seconds and takes 30 milliseconds per cycle. A lock won't have any effect on a 99th percentile SLA, because only 0.1% of inbound packets will experience contention.
In a toy language I once wrote I got around that by encoding binary values as quaternary values and using a ternary system on top of that with a termination character: 11 = 1; 01 = 0; 00 = end; 10 was unused.

Having truly unbounded integers was rather fun. Of course performance was abysmal.