skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost everybody has ancestors that were enslaved. E.g. most Germanic people where enslaved by other Germanic people, or the Romans at some point in time. The only question is how far back you have to look and how far back you can look.
I'm saying the tech will diverge and will cater to corporate interests.

If anything, this project needs to exist as as a separate private entity, not something within Wikimedia, unless they plan to give it to everyone for free and consider public feedback as the guiding design principal.
Although I agree, I think language does impact perception. I'm not sure if the master/slave, blacklist/whitelist terms play any role, but I'm happy that we generally stopped calling everything gay as an insult. That changed in my short lifetime.

I also noticed that gender neutral nouns and pronouns are more common in writing (for French and German). Again, that's a good thing.

The craziest example I have is the term "useless mouths" in Nazi Germany. Imagine if your group had that label. I'm certainly glad it's not in use anymore.
Well, you still get OEM parts for Zenith carbs from the 60s. So I guess there will always be a rest of ICE powered cars. I wouldn't mind using green fuel or gas. Which might be the way forward for classics, mainstream I honestly only see EVs and fuel cells in the developed world.
I understand your anger, but that piece of advice was meant for the kind of people that CAN afford a vacation after a startup failure. Is something wrong with that? If you can afford a vacation, you take it. If you can't, you don't.

I myself have a failed startup that I ran in 2018-2019. Could I afford a vacation afterwards? Nope. Can I afford another entrepreneurial run now? Nope. Am I bitter about it? Nope.

Also, you mention "incredible disconnectedness from the plight of even regular people by the world's tech bubbles", but then you talk about starting a STARTUP. Regular people don't start companies.
>Unfortunately there are too many grown-ups around that seem to not have internalized these things

This is true, but they wont read the CoC. And even if they do, they won't follow it. If someone can't practice basic decency, a txt file won't change them. Its an entirely futile effort at best and more likely a virtue signal than actually trying to improve things.

The only thing that works is strict moderation. You don't need a CoC for that.
https://www.slowernews.com/ - https://github.com/slowernews/slowernews

These are, somehow, curated news extracting relevant trends and some edge cases. I see it as a way of using my procrastination positively so I don't really care how popular will it be. I always wanted to read something like this but couldn't find it elsewhere. It may be useful to others also.
Ugh. Why do we even need an app store exactly?

Visit site. Click download app. Click install.

This pattern has worked for 20 years. What changed?

Nothing. Google and apple just decided it wanted a walled garden and ya'll said ooo shiny.
I think the point was to generate a lot of noise that distracts away from the whole awkward "selling software to concentration camp" thing.

And, policing language generates a spectacular amount of distracting, harmless (to Microsoft) controversy.
KW of solar panels produces roughly 1000kwh a year. So if it cost 4000 dollars for a KW of solar that's about 4 dollars a kWh for only first year or 20c over twenty years very crudely. But as I said it probably didn't cost 4000 dollars a KW as the article gives no details. It would make more sense to think of renewable costs as price per kWh but it's way too complicated and individualized for casual conversation.
100% and not effective are quite far apart. Their suspected efficiency is hospitalizations is probably due to the young population this was tested on.

I suspect that the SA version will spread since nothing that stop it and the boosters will be delayed to those countries. Yet, "I'm vaccinated" many will say.
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You might be interested in https://vaadin.com/.
This blasted PR stunt has already wasted hours of my time.
There is also xarray, I never used it myself, but was one of the options I looked at.

What put me off is seemingly close integration with pandas which I was trying to avoid.

http://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/why-xarray.html
> I've seen highly correlated failures on regular hard-drives too.

Yes, very mysterious too, until you discover that when someone made a big hole in the wall of the room containing the HDD storage bay and that the HDDs are covered by dust!

It was a looong time ago but I think I'll never forget opening the door and looking at the mess..
You didn't define small or medium size and number of messages.
From my experience server stream while great for memory and giving the client time to process messages as they come can be slower than unary. One way to solve that is to have a batched message with a repeated field of the underline message you want to send, it's an order faster.

I read sometime ago about about server pushback, maybe you need to override/implement your own StreamObserver to notify the client to slow down as the server isn't ready yet or configure the amount of data the gRPC server can queue there are quite a few configurations (a lot of them obscured) you can make to the server/grpc service.
> FYI github's repo creation tool

What is this tool? I always used github by pushing my locally-created repos to it, and this procedure still creates a "master" branch. I was not aware that there are other ways to use github, thus my surprise at the exaltation. I guess people who still use "plain git" are unaffected by the renaming of the default branch in github (whatever that means).
I still get very annoyed with the name change every time I encounter it. I have a bunch of poorly written scripts that occasionally break with repos that have a main branch, so I have to fix these scripts I’ve written like 8 years ago
You are correct (see the Wikipedia article). Meditation was - and is - not a practice that beginners on the spiritual path would engage with in traditional Yoga or Buddhist practices. The problem is that these practices were taken out of their context (stationary secluded environments like ashrams or secretive groups of wandering mendicants) and commercialized by the West in general and by snake-oil vending gurus in the East.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtanga_(eight_limbs_of_yoga)
https://doxa.substack.com/p/googles-colosseum is a pretty good treatment of this topic.
When my interviewer asked why I didn't pursue a Master's degree, I replied "You mean a SLAVE Master's degree?" and I reported him to HR. Needless to say I got the job.
Show HN: Distributed – A web based live social chat app for remote teams
All your references are pointing to Lucky225 who is trying to market his anti-fraud product.

NetNumber has no competitors. It's a routing database.

The Vice article is a paid piece. This attack doesn't work with any of US Mobile carriers.
I can only speak for myself but when I say "private company can do whatever it wants", it's because they have been doing whatever they want for years - to the complete apathy of the general public. Every time platforms banned and/or censored sexual content and sex workers, even going as far as marking innocuous words like "lesbian" as porn to be filtered (I will never forget Tumblr doing this) - how many people "showed up"?

I understand that the media coverage of Parler's ban in particular was huge and that's why so many people suddenly give a damn, but it's honestly more than a little frustrating to see people talk and act as though it's the first thing that's ever been cracked down on for moral reasons.
I have the same attention span thing with them, but generally, I spend more time fixing it up then I do using it. Replacing capacitors, cleaning it up, adding a USB stick floppy emulator, etc. Then, put it up on eBay and buy another with the proceeds, rinse, repeat.
If you save the downtrodden you can't be the saviors of the downtrodden because the downtrodden don't need saving.
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> Black representation in tech is truly abysmal.

I guess the author is talking about a Western country? There are plenty of countries where another color is dominant across all sectors (not just tech). For example, brown in Asian countries, black in African countries. I don't hear any complaints about that.

If the OP is saying that people of minority race are discriminated, that is a different and valid point. But blindly saying that there should be more people of minority race (which would make them the majority, not the minority) in every sector, doesn't make any sense.
> people who care about social issues

Translation: people who see an opportunity to debase others for free and put themselves on a pedestal

Update: We call this class of people Mullahs here in Iran. It's been slowly but surely becoming apparent to us that they are somewhat of a societal parasite.
Like https://www.forgerock.com/ formerly known as OpenAM / OpenSSO.

It's not fun to administer.
they would have saved negative money. Because the iphone 12 sales were positive, profitable.
I wish I could reply with a nuanced take, but I can't. Ban these cryptocurrency pyramid schemes already. https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html
Is “person of color” an okay thing to say in US? It really rubs me the wrong way (as a non-native English speaker).

To me it’s kinda like calling people with long noses “people of nose size”.
> How the fuck does one TAKE A VACATION after your startup fails?!

That's hilarious.

But hey, you could technically do that in France without swimming in money: you legally can keep your position in a company on-hold while creating a startup, for 1-2 years (3 if you do tricks with your right to a sabbatical year). If it fails after that, you just go back to work. [0]

The holidays you might have saved before leaving are deferred until you join again, so you can literally have paid holidays after your project fails.

[0] https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2382
I don't see their credentials, where did you see they were one of the Moderna scientists?
Github’s head of HR resigned in January.

Can anyone here comment on the culture at working at github?
Why would they be called by Congress when their guidelines are largely because of Congress?
Yes, I stopped giving them money after I learned this.
Is there comprehensive list of all words that all races or genders or some other kind of group find offensive or get "hurt"? Thanks.

By the way I find all articles offensive. Please don't use them. Thanks for understanding.
Blind? You should better use a less offensive term. /s
Even better, banks in may country are banding together to create identity provider for the web. So basically you will be able to use their super-secure login to online banking based on the state of the art SMS second factor and localhost port probing via the web browser (/s), to identify yourself on the web (up to AML level), sign contracts, or access government services.

https://bankovni-identita.cz/o-projektu/

Security of this project is anyone's guess. They certainly have a lot of flashy websites to lure people in, but actual documentation is behind a signup wall. Each bank will create its own independent IdP infrastructure, so this is gonna be a lot of fun for security researchers to be sure.

After this is done, it seems like I'll already be registered with 6 online IdPs (not all of these are banks) that will be able to identify me enough to allow online communication with the government services.

This proliferation of IdPs is getting quite scary...
> Here in Australia, it seems like the demographics are the other way around. I know a few people who are part of the leftist woke / "activist" tribe. But most people I interact with socially think that while racism is a problem, the twitter mobs are a bit silly, and the woke stuff is overblown.

It's going to be funny a few years down the road when the trend comes to Australia before they actually notice.
> Hey guys- This data leak looks like the work of a misinformation campaign.

Setting aside the misinformation / disinformation rhetoric for a moment, a product that gets injected in virtually every human being alive needs to go through a generous amount of scrutiny to ensure it works as intended and does not cause more harm than good.

Biotech is a vastly complex field and taking the stance of "it works, trust me" is not exactly wise.

The leaked information requires analysis to identify the valid and relevant parts which should be treated as feedback for health policies and vaccine development.
> I always felt their donation drives were very deceitful since the money is not actually going to supporting the wiki (that's already funded)

The servers don't buy themselves. You could argue that WMF doesn't spend money effectively if you want, servers are a small part of the budget after all and like any org there are parts of the budget that are of questionable value, however its a bit much to claim its not going to supporting the wiki.

[Disclaimer: i used to work for WMF a while ago. I dont anymore. My opinions are my own]
Except a lot of those individuals will happily brand you to pigeon hole all your views with a dislikable group, so at this point I think branding them back is fair game.
We need to become the the decision-makers. And stop listening to the current ones.
Django for Everybody (DJ4E)
You are incredibly lucky. You have an in-demand skill that can get you a job at virtually any technology company, around the world. That puts you ahead of pretty much everyone else, who would like to have a meaningful, impactful job but has to accept whatever they can get.

All you need to do is find companies working on things you think are important
How to Create GitHub Draft Pull Requests
> but that piece of advice was meant for the kind of people that CAN afford a vacation after a startup failure. Is something wrong with that? If you can afford a vacation, you take it. If you can't, you don't.

If they really intended that advice for the audience of 5, they could've sent them an email (or a Clubhouse invite /s) and not put it in an interview on YT. The rest of the audience is just facepalming while listening to this.
By that same logic Jeff Bezos is just a tool I use to get some obscure math textbook written in English shipped to my apartment in Eastern Europe overnight.
If you look extremely closely at what you just wrote you might see it as slightly ironic.

Edited: removed snark
>>If that's the case, you could have led with them. Why not lead with them?

Because I'd need to provide multiple citations, and I felt that was overkill for a starter comment in an informal discussion. I thought if someone disputed the claims in the succinct video I provided, I could then provide a more academic-style comment with the sources you mention.

Calling it mindless - not to mention 'spam' despite it being completely ontopic, just because you disagree with the veracity of the arguments - instead of just asking for more objective sources, is belligerent to the point of being unconstructive.
This isn’t a real thing. It’s an artificial nonsense of social media. It’s nonsense for two reasons:

1a. The number of valid participants is low. It is easy to feel powerful sitting comfortably hidden in your parent’s basement behind a keyboard craving attention and direction. Misery loves company and when such people band together their numbers can appear large compared to something like a real world gathering of persons in a physical space. But it’s not real people in a real space, because that takes considerably greater effort.

1b. The numbers also appear artificially inflated because there is a low effort of repetition, which can appear as false participation, spam, trolling, denial of service.

2. There isn’t any real investment in most of this. Most of the motivation are bored people looking for inspiration to be emotionally concerned. They will point where the carrot leads. That isn’t a movement. A real movement features numerous participants willing to make a personal investment like those criminals that stormed the capital.
That argument may be valid for Steam. But Google Play is a de-facto monopoly and the Apple App Store is a full (and enforced) monopoly. They can charge 30% because there is no viable alternative for the developers.
Cold virus escapes immune system by evolving to escape immune response! I am shocked.

Shocked to hear that a Coronavirus, one of the viruses we refer to as the common cold has the ability to evolve it's way around a vaccine!
/S

We are going to need a new vaccine every year.
It does rather smack of presentism, SV companies might be better doing a proper transparent pay / promotion survay to identify discrimination amongst their employees - Based on my direct experience in the UK there will be Discrimination.

Additionally properly identifying the impact of race on ai/ml derived algorithms would be a better use of time.

But of course these would have cost and other implications that companies would not want to do.
It's not difficult, it's offensive and insulting to waste people's time on useless crap. It's a power play.
I self-learned to code at 30
Please see my comments at this thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26468892

A lot of people confirmed this as FUD.
> imagine if your group had that label
They got rid of the butterfly keyboard on the latest Macs, no?
Digital Marketplace with Bitcoin
I have spent the past month building a marketplace for digital products (similar to Gumroad) that uses exclusively Bitcoin for transactions.
>as an honest expression of preferences, including in-person and online discussions and voting choices.

As I mentioned, I've seen plenty of this, but with filter bubbles being what they are, it's hard to fault someone for not coming across them enough.

What I'm saying is that it's not that they (we?) don't exist, more like you don't come across us because of xyz reasons that are getting harder and harder to pinpoint as discourse is manipulated each passing day.

I also broadly agree that nuance is missing in the "modern debate", which causes bad faith interpretations like everyone on the left being either "woke police out to cancel everything you love" or "stalinists looking to establish USSRv2" and everyone in the right being "uneducated white people who don't know what's best for them" or outright Nazis. I wanted to push back against this kind of monolithic interpretation, hence my previous comment.
Okay so now you’re saying you want to get in there and call the other side names just in case. “But but but they started it” is not an argument for anything. I prefer personally to being open to both right wing and left wing ideas and people.
Ask HN: Book on Software Engineering?
Hello all, I'm currently a (hobby) programmer who would eventually like to break into Software Development professionally. I'd like to start write my own OpenGL rendering engine in the next few months and I feel like I don't understand anything about actual software engineering.

Is there a comprehensive book that I can tackle to get started on software design/engineering?

I'm asking this especially because on my first "non-trivial" project, someone commented and said that it looks like I just struggled through the code instead of actually engineering it. Which is fair, it is quite messy. Hence I would like further my knowledge before I start another big project.

Any help welcome :)
I predict counterculture AI will be a thing, and it will compete with corporate lobbyists at their own game.

WebMD may go offline, but countercultureMD will come online in its place, and it will be more data driven. I don't know whether that's good for medical care; maybe it is.
Right makes such bad performative takes louder in order to raise outrage and discredit political enemies.

There's also the part where conservatives are Masters of Canceling since forever, including things like Hays code.

It's easy to make people who are angry at outgroup not notice they are fleeced.
I work for a major tech corp that employs thousands of people, went to an internal tech conference a few years back. They're based near a major US city with a big black population. I met a ton of Asian and Indian Asian people there.
The only black people I met were hotel staff. Wtf America?
Definitely not traditional though, to say the least:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/2/20680145/android-andy-rubi...

"...allegation that Andy supported a string of mistresses, who would often be loaned to other men in what he described as “an ownership relationship.” The complaint alleges Andy had at least five such mistresses, including one (dubbed “M”) who was “complicit with Rubin in running what appeared to be a sex ring.”
Of course: “Buy CTASK”; take your pyramid scheme elsewhere.
Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely: https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html.
> I would bet that most people didn't have any idea that words like "grandfather" or "blacklist" had (or didn't have) any racist history.

Faulty pattern recognition machine at blame.
Ask HN: What’s the Point of “Else”?
Is there any point to the else after an if?

Why do we need else?

Can’t we chuck it away?

Does else serve a purpose?

NOTE: I’m not talking ternaries. Ternaries are super useful.
Are you using Racket BC or CS?
Not quite. It's only safer if your single priority in the world is protecting that one account. But you need to account for the larger blast radius too: it also turns your SMS, phone line, and other things that revolve around them into actual attack targets, when they weren't previously. The increased potential for collateral damage can very well not be worth it.
Don't know why you were downvoted on this. I agree - if there's a certain small risk of a blood clot complication, keep giving the vaccine to older people, that have a higher risk of serious COVID complications, and suspend it for younger people, whose benefit doesn't outweigh the risk.