skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great insights.

> parents told you I could do anything I set my mind to! And I know that that is ok.

Well that truism only misses nuance, it's really true you can/could/will do anything you want, If you do believe in free will after all.

I would just add the stoicism on internal/external locus of control.

IMHO the part parents mostly miss, is you cannot control how others, as in other humans, society, et all, will react to you/your actions/your creations, or if you will even be noticed or not before you're out of the game...

Just look at all the bullshit some scientists, artists, businessmen, etc or anyone trying to challenge the status quo, had to go through just for the mere fact that their ideas didn't match those of their time...
Sure, but at the point where the efficiency is sufficiently poor, why not run a Bitcoin miner instead of the heat-pump-turned-space-heater?

As I understand most heat pumps in cold climates are usually installed with "backup heat" sources for this reason.
The Saga of the Parametric VM (Java Value Types Update) [pdf]
To what degree is the Bitcoin problem here and to what degree the electrical grid?
> "Amsterdam Lake District"

Making London bankers feel at home?
VDFs are designed to take a long time to compute. To use them here, it would require someone to be computing the solution continuously between the time the prediction is made and the time it is revealed - that's too inefficient for this purpose.
And this is for a paid product as well. Bit of a pisstake when they charge you for the product and spy on you through it. It's like when you pay for a streaming service and it still shows you ads (looking at you, Amazon).
There's a long Wikipedia article that covers this topic entirely:

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

Some strange observations for me from the article:

- There's 200M people in the world born into a life where they are/were considered physically untouchable by other "higher-ranked" people around them

- The usage of the label "backwards" in “other backwards classes,” or OBCs. I'll chalk it down to English not being the native language, but "disadvantaged" is more appropriate as "backwards" has a negative meaning.

I wonder if a better solution for the mental health of these people at the IITs is to simply have their own IIT where they make up the bulk of the student population. Then again, they might face discrimination by "upper-caste" professors refusing to work there or being "that" IIT that tech companies shouldn't hire from.

To the Americans on HN: is this type of discrimination comparable to being born as an African American in a city like Baltimore?
From my observations it appears to be incredibly corrosive socially.

The scale of the damage it is doing in western society at the moment will need books, not chapters, dedicated to it in the future.
I am suspicious of the motives, especially as HCQ[Hydroxychloroquine] is still listed at improving outcomes by "45%"
45/45 of studies agreeing is probably a sign of cherry-picking, and that it's really 45/?. There's very little in medicine that'll get literally every study ever performed agreeing on something.
My cousin reminded me the other day that back in the 80s I was introduced by innumerable mums as “attends MIT and has a green card”. Literally that was my entire “biography”.

Edit: seems like thing have diverged since I had to worry about these things: The waiting time for non-Indian green cards is the same btw.
First and foremost: I AM NOT A LAWYER.

With that out of the way...

They could argue that since it was a tool that was made to help with his job at at the company, then it's internally developed. If there are no clear grounds or easily presentable evidence (even if there was!), he's out in the wild with a liability.

The only place where I can see him in the clear is if they had a repo going back to before the work on the company and they could prove the tool was a personal project, and unrelated to the job. Even then, Company could still sue and burden them with legal fees/process until they tire him out and BINGO, now they own their IP.

The alternative could be starting a new project, completely open source from the start (probably with one of the more liberal licenses) and get crowdfunding to develop and maintain it. Assuming they are interested in doing that, of course.
so mexican people are bad because some guy wrote a book about a town where some mexican people sell drugs?

very scientific, thank you Hacker News
>Microsoft says "eh, who cares let's break it all", and reuses Ctrl+C for copy.

It wasn't Microsoft though. Common GUI hotkeys like Ctrl+Z/X/C/V/P were introduced in Xerox Alto first, and everybody else used this as a convention, including Microsoft.

I'm not sure what hotkeys Alto Executive used, and whether there was a mnemonic conflict at all.
No, I don't think you did.

Why didn't the EU prevent the UK from selling/sharing 1.6 million patient records in 2016? https://www.newscientist.com/article/2086454-revealed-google...
I think it depends on how invested you are to the game. When you don’t care about the teams, low scoring games lack the tension you’re talking about

Tennis is at the extreme end of high scoring and even watching matches you don’t care about between average players can be entertaining though not memorable. Longer term it’s only the truly exceptional games of any sport you’re going to remember anyway.
Albedo Photodrop-ships on Mars with Apple-Silicon.
Nice how uneducated people are over here, it's mostly a bunch of californians thinking that they understand what Europe is.
Greene covered much of the same ground in The Human Factor. I find Greene to be the more edgier cynic on intelligence agencies. Human Factor is ultimately more profound than Tinker, Tailor..
Amazing that it was even filmed in its time; today I don't it would be greenlighted.
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Reddit, Dropbox and Stipe are all quite good. I think they're doing pretty well.
Honestly, nobody lost their lives, the impact is pretty much limited to OVH (who need to find a new building), their customers (who need to find new servers and restore backups), and the city of strasbourg (who run the emergency services and presumably will have some involvement in the cleanup). While we're all interested in a "Oh, are we prepared if that happened to our provider?" sense, I don't see why OVH is obliged to provide communications to us, rather than to their customers.
There's the famous study about 2 groups of pottery class,
one group was asked to make one perfect vase, the other to make as many vases as possible...

Guess which one ended up with just not more vases but much better quality ones...

Focused/directed practice makes perfect, each iteration your brain is strengthening the pathways associated to that activity, making it easier for you to add more nuance/attention to detail at each iteration...

One can always keep practising without focusing in improving, which isn't as useful...
It seems to be a very common mistake. Understandable as they are somewhat related as bad cache locality can cause unneeded coherency protocol traffic.

Of course locality is important even on single core cpus with no need for coherency.
Yeah, I worked at BB during that time when the Blackberry Hub on BB10 came out. Shit was awesome to see internally.
Maastrich yes, Lisbon? It only set into laws stuff that were already existing and done, as well as provisioning for "unexpected stuff" (brexit art 50 was provisioned in the treaty of lisbon i think).

But the treaty of Lisbon changed almost nothing in reality. At least, not enough to warrant the birth of "Modern EU"
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>> Later a lot of evidence has been gathered that hydroxycloroquine is actually harmful

Where is this evidence ? Are you referring to this https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... ?
> Monthly payments forever for standalone apps is a big no no in my book. I get annoyed even just writing about it.

Same. I often see good software then see they run on a subscription model and nope right out of there.

If it was a one-off reasonable price I'd pay.

Sometimes I am happy to pay a small yearly fee if it's real nice software and I wanna support the dev.

But monthly subscriptions is stupid to me.
Anyone have a glossary or index for newbs? Like a shortcut to reading the symbolic notation? I have some expository knowledge to sets (ie. sets are denoted by capital letters). And some of the symbols (ie. the vertical pipe means given or 'where' and indicates a predicate assumption of sorts). Anyone have the cheat code for laypeople and undergrads?
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm leery of apps that say "proven security and compliance" and then don't offer any obvious details, or proof, about what that "compliance" is. ISO 27001, SOC2, what?
This is an illusion, only thing that happened is that you only get access to websites if you give away your GDPR consent. I love the ignorance of people over here thinking that GDPR is nothing more than just that accept button that people click in order to get access to the websites.
A mining rig that runs only a few days per year when the outside temperature is too low sounds very inefficient. This is the same problem that the plan to store excess renewable energy by producing hydrogen has. If you have the hardware, you would want to have it running as much as possible.
no. As far as i can tell, those are real.
I've followed the topic quite a while and there seem to be many trustworthy proponents for the use of Ivermectin at any stage of the disease. On the contrary people against it seem to be only pointing to the fact that there isn't enough quality research in favor for its use (which doesn't seem to be the case), or to this study https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777389 , which is raising many red flags to plenty of researchers as being a badly designed study.
I was visiting a professor in Germany as part of my research work. One day the professor brought me five resumes and asked me who out of them were upper caste Hindus. I said all, why? So while doing her PhD she had an experience where a Brahmin refused to do experimental lab work as it was considered manual work which was beneath him. So professor first asks fellow Indians about applicants caste and then tailors her hiring process.

There's also this tam-bram pat where people feel janeu (can be worn only by upper caste hindu men), you don't even have to ask last name...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/27/indian-...
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I haven't, I'm using Mudlet on Linux. It has a fairly long buffer, but it is just a lot of scrolling.

Someone in another comment mentioned you can set up two buffers, so I'm trying to figure that out.

I got through the training academy on CoffeeMUD last night, so far so good.
Capping H1Bs per nation is an effective cut since Indians dominate the program.

The solution is actually to clear the EB Green Card backlog with a one time allocation to all backlogged applicants followed by removing the per country cap.
Depends on your lens.

Both solve problems.
The gap from a Pentium with MMX and a Pentium 4 with SSE2 is many more times bigger than the first i3 to the current i7.
Wasn't this what got people into so much bother with Snapchat though?

There's no way to undelete sent data in practice (as you've no way of knowing if the counterparty backed it up / screenshotted it etc).

Sure you can enable deleting messages, but you can't guarantee they've been deleted - which is what I'm assuming puts developers off implementing the feature.
Folks aren't incentivised to mine a blockchain with little activity.
The US is teeming with UK or UK-inspired place names for obvious reasons. Here's the Georgia section on the list of US places with an English name:

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

It's a pretty lengthy page and is unlikely to be exhaustive. It can be a bit of a minefield though. For example, that page lists Boston Georgia, but according to the top of this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._places_named_afte...

Boston, Georgia is named after a person, not the location in England.
>If a player was on a breakaway, I’d also try to do stuff like this (as the goalie), which of course makes opponents stay far away from you.

I played soccer as a goalie at a high level in my youth, and this was my strategy on breakaways as well, completely legal move as long as I tackled the ball and not the player. I was a very intimating and athletic goalie at 6'5" ~220. Players did not like to be near me.
For the curious : https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sherlocked
This podcast talks about this. Casteism is a disgusting remanent of Hinduism — the least someone can do is be AWARE of their privilege and ensure that they are inclusive and fair to their fellow citizens regardless of caste or race.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rough-translation/id12...
The gender gap in economics is huge – it’s even worse than tech
Thanks, I'm using Mudlet on Linux and trying CoffeeMUD. I got rhough the training last night. I need to figure out how to set up the multi-pane view you mentioned.

I still haven't found any monsters to kill yet, I'm going to try to do that over the weekend!
Me too! Exactly the same confusion. I thankfully discovered it a day-or-two before my flight and was able to correct the mistake.
Then "cross-platform" now means "Windows and MacOS" and Linux stops making the "platform" list?
It does. Here’s the support document showing where the vault data is stored: https://bitwarden.com/help/article/data-storage/
It is not unsportsmanlike to play to the best of your ability, especially not during a world cup.

However, it may not have been the best strategy. It was a semifinal, the final was next. If you are dominating, it makes sense to calm down a bit to avoid wearing out your players and limit the risk of injury. Germany still won the cup, so we can't really criticize.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hydroxychloroquine-not-effectiv...

> A panel of WHO experts found that the drug has no meaningful effect on deaths or hospitalizations due to coronavirus. They added that it may even increase the risk of adverse effects.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-c...

> A summary of the FDA review of safety issues with the use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat hospitalized patients with COVID-19 is now available. This includes reports of serious heart rhythm problems and other safety issues, including blood and lymph system disorders, kidney injuries, and liver problems and failure.

> Based on ongoing analysis and emerging scientific data, FDA has revoked the emergency use authorization (EUA) to use hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat COVID-19 in certain hospitalized patients when a clinical trial is unavailable or participation is not feasible. We made this determination based on recent results from a large, randomized clinical trial in hospitalized patients that found these medicines showed no benefit for decreasing the likelihood of death or speeding recovery.

https://scitechdaily.com/the-end-of-hydroxychloroquine-as-a-...

> A year after the treatment trial launched in five cities, Johnston can say hydroxychloroquine had no effect in treating people with COVID-19. The results of the remote randomized, placebo-controlled trial were published on February 26, 2021, in E Clinical Medicine.

"He's dead, Jim."
The same site sugests hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a viable terapeutic option (hcqmeta.com). For all I know the scientific consensus is that HCQ is not useful for treating COVID-19. This seems like pseudoscience stemming from cherry picked data/papers with its weakness hidden behind complexity and the large amount of references.

n.b. I have not delved deeply into the claims or the sources
Given it's a British article, it seems quite fair to do so.

Just for fun, I'm going to waffle on about your comment a bit!

I think your outlook stems from the "individualist" movement and mindset that encourages everyone to see themselves as individuals separate from society and it's constructs. As we have all become a little bit more disconnected from society because of it, and our place within it has become less important, we don't see such achievements as being as important as they once were. How many people don't even know who their town Mayor is?

As well, access to information from the internet means you know exactly what this guy did, you know all his achievements already, he is elevated above his knighthood to you because you care more about his achievements than his place in society. Fair enough, and I'd agree!

Imagine instead it's 1890 and you're a foundational part of a strong british community, then as graciously as he disembarked from the train, Sir Tim Berners Lee has greeted you. A sir! My goodness, what must he have done? You don't know, all you know is they hold a very important position in the society you're also strongly part of, so you can respect that achievement. Gosh, how exciting!
It's always the bloody UPS after "maintenance" :)

Back when I worked in hosting we'd get an email from this particular DC's NOC about either "UPS Maintenance" or generator testing. Our hearts would sink because, during one particular eighteen month period, there was a 50/50 chance our suite would go dark afterwards.
I'm late here, but I just wanted to post that this is either outdated or incorrect info. Here is a post from 2013 where he says he uses diamond crystal kosher for cooking https://www.seriouseats.com/2013/03/ask-the-food-lab-do-i-ne... and you can see in all his recent youtube videos he uses the larger kosher salt.
> doing tests like crazy and like it's 2010 defocusses your devs and makes refactoring much more tedious

I'm fully sold on this as well, but:

> it's about the quantity and what you are going to test

I'd say it's more about how you're going to test. What is covered by the type system should be handled by the type system, that's an absolute no brainer, using tests, or even worse, comments or conventions as opposed to types is just objectively wrong.

Because you can now be confident that trivial mistakes will be caught by the compiler, you can have actually meaningful tests, like "this property is satisfied", as opposed to "this object has this field set to this string".

So I wouldn't say "write less tests", I'd say "since types free you from the burden of testing stupid things, write better tests".
According to the FAQ, "all sources are public". I followed a few of the links and they lead to papers in recognizable journals. On the other hand, in a cursory search of the studies, I couldn't find any that reported on research done in the United States.

For what it's worth, I would recommend that you get your COVID-19 vaccination as soon as you are able, and continue to practice COVID safety precautions now and even after you get your vaccinations.
> That answers itself - if someone doesn't believe in a threat, it doesn't make sense to invest in stopping it.

But you're the one claiming they're not anti-environmentalism! This is literally what anti-environmentalism is [1]. You might claim that they're not anti-environment though: I doubt anyone would actually choose to destroy the environment if it had no other effect. (Other than the small minority that's in it just to own-the-libs.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-environmentalism
I tried CoffeeMUD again last night, and took your advice to just slow down. That helped. I also looked into muting channels, it took me a long time to realize that NPC's were talking to me, not real people, and could be politely ignored haha.
But then your objects are scattered all over the address space, which means that objects you’re accessing in sequence are unlikely to be in the same cache line, so you pay a cache miss on every single access.

Having (maybe?) more efficient malloc/free in exchange for dramatically increasing the cost of accessing your data is not a good trade-off for most access patterns.

See Chandler Carruth’s talk from CppCon 2014: https://youtu.be/fHNmRkzxHWs?t=2085
In the US that is illegal, your friend should have immediately reported it to HR.
The Greens in Australia are by and large the most rational party in the country, from the future of energy to drug policy to social policy.
This looks amazing! Love the dashboard interface.
> Knighthoods are actually usually from the government, often for being a world leading researcher or sportsman etc.

This gets lost in translation. I (in the US) tend to see it more like GP does as well.
Where are the ancient Nazi conspiracies and how this machine is related to JFK and the Illuminati pawn stars?
> Transient gold miners descended on the place where I grew up, treated it disposably, and failed to make any effort to integrate because they're just visiting to make their coin.

You've just described a large amount of tech expats, no matter where they're from or what they're mining.
Well you can check the link is bitwarden.com but I guess in the message I could have said something iffy.
This was actually the correct answer to "build a linked list" interview question I did.

They didn't explicitly ask for it to be unrolled, just sounded frustrated that I didn't make a fancy unrolled one. :)
I've toned down the wording a bit, it seems the evidence for actual harm isn't that strong. I won't try to defend a retracted study.

Doesn't change the fact that a study comparing 2 mixtures of drugs against each other is no evidence of any positive effect of ivermectin.
That looks like enough fire that spreading to my wooden floors or desks, carpets or skirting boards seems more likely than not?
I lived in Toronto for well over a decade. Perhaps this is a irreconcilable difference of opinion, but what you call a "globalist punching bag" is also affectionately called a melting pot. What you call a manufactured husk is also called diverse vibrant city. Beauty is in eye of the beholder, I guess.

Toronto has one of the best culinary scenes I've ever seen, and a lot of character if you know where to look ("little X" towns are microcosmos of their own)

I'm not sure if you're implying the city should belong to Caucasians, but as far a the "little ties" remark goes, I disagree. Lots and lots of international folks settle down permanently in the GTA and surrounding towns.
That was excellent and I stuck with my Z30 for a long time because of it.
Yeah no, that's not quite the full story. Abkhasian regime persists largely due to continued presence of Russian troops. Much of the residual economy in the break-off region revolves around the Russian bases as well. The rest of it is the lowest tier Russian "visa free" tourism, also guaranteed by Russian military presence.

Same goes for South Ossetia and Transnistria: these conflicts would long be history without Russian military footholds.
FYI Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo are good alternatives that also run on Apple Silicon.

They have no subscription requirements and are 50% off right now ($25 each): https://affinity.serif.com/
Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin.tv which became Twitch

And has some pretty successful alumni!
960 watts will not power a hair dryer, an Instant Pot, a space heater, a full-sized coffee maker, or a toaster.
I understand it isn't legal to ask about caste in many circumstances. However it isn't hard to guess correctly in most cases, so that doesn't matter.

I'm not from India though, so I'm just repeating what I've heard about a system that makes no sense to me.