skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We don’t criticise Julius Caesar for taking Gaulish slaves; but historians absolutely criticise Napoleon for attempting to reimpose slavery in Haiti.

I suppose criticize here means to declare morally right or wrong? Of course both were wrong. That goes without saying.

The difference you are seeing is assigning blame to a country that exists today (not people, everyone alive then is already dead now), and implying it has a lasting responsibility to make things right today.

Being a critic of actions of a nation with no continuity today is completely pointless. You can be against a type of behavior, but criticizing a specific instance of it with no connection to the present is pointless, except when using it as an example.

In any case historians should probably avoid dabbling in morality. It doesn't mesh well with their subject, because morality is subjective and by letting it seep into their work they give their findings an expiration date.
Zdravo, brate.

We the former Eastern Europeans feel like Cassandras these days.
You do realize that not 50% of the population rushed the Capitol, right?
17 years in Afghanistan is the US responding to Islamic atrocities against New Yorkers.

How does that frame taste?
Hypothesis, which I have thought about for all of about 30 seconds: the more elitist the school (or workplace, or profession), the more it needs to profess (loudly, and without toleration of dissent) that it is anti-racist, anti-capitalist, etc. The fact that this article is describing a very elite school with wealthy parents is not a coincidence, or even ironic, it is the driving factor that makes it that way.

Why is this? Because, as the concentration of wealth in the top (and almost entirely white) ranks of the U.S. causes people in that group to know, perhaps subconsciously, that a violent backlash is coming, and they want to get out of the way of it. Without, you know, actually losing their privileged spot.
Wow, two computers were infected, both running “ancient” Red Hat. Two.
This is a different argument than the one I responded to. I gather then that you agree with me that the point I responded to is invalid.
What happens is you get people without records making straw purchases from legal sellers. These people turn around and sell them to criminals.
It really depends on your tactics. Hong Kong is an interesting battlefield as it has very few advantages for a traditional military. Dense population and few open areas provide many tactical advantages for an insurrection.

With these advantages and coordinating securely being generally available, I think an insurrection could create a lot of troubles for an occupying force. Lots of opportunities to document and share atrocities the occupying forces would commit as well which would at the very least ensure sympathetic governments and organizations would help continue the smuggling in of supplies and weapons.
That's not a complete rephrasing. It's possible the current designs and processes cannot accommodate more productivity but the relevant market segment is fine. I expect there are multiple contributors to the problem. I'd avoid explaining it all away with a single cause, even one as compelling as "let's figure out how to throw more brains at the problem".
I'm sure a large part of it is we're more spread out. My anecdotal refute to the compact car is: when I've been in europe and have to travel from country to country, I personally saw about the same ratio of "large cars" on the highways in europe as I do in the US. Obviously the pickup truck is basically non-existent, but otherwise the mix was about the same.

Europeans don't seem anymore excited about taking what I'd call "city cars" on the highway than Americans are. That being said: I think far more Europeans can spend almost all their time in their local city and don't NEED to get on a highway with large trucks and vehicles. In the US that's basically unheard of unless you're in a large city. I'm sure during holiday the roads look quite different than a regular workday.

I'm guessing if you compared New York to most of Europe you'd see similar numbers, public transit and city layout in the rest of the US basically makes that impossible.
How is it a half-way house? Genuinely interested and curious, not snarking.
People don't "want" to use credit cards or PayPal, either.

They do so because it gets the job done.

You'll get really tired from all of these gymnastics trying to convince everyone already using cryptocurrency that nobody's using cryptocurrency.
You should contribute these improvements upstream then.

The Arudino developers are not trying to write slow code on purpose. Mocking them on hackernews doesn't solve anything. I'm sure they would greatly appreciate you pointing out how slow this code is and offering your improved implementation.
> I picked up some 24 books from it

Any books in particular that you'd recommend?
Be careful with that one, this isn't as capable as the HIDS solutions available on Windows - it's not going to do things like detect exfiltration using other executables or modification of other files on your system.

For example, if you allowed curl or Firefox, another executable can simply call one of them and send/receive whatever data they need to. It also can't do things like filter ptrace calls which could easily be used to modify another process to perform exfiltration or just spawn another thread and inject a whole new dynamic library to them, a common practice to bypass detection on Windows.
Bro, please. Let's not make this any more embarrassing than it already is.
You shouldn't visit India or the Middle East, then.

Hitler demonization is mostly a Western fetish.
Your first half is somewhat valid (sans DIY culture). A portion of drug consumption is domestically produced. But you’re ignoring the international and inter-state drug trades.

I.E. Columbia accounts for 43%[1] of the global coca supply. Taking your argument at face value, Colombians would consume 43% of the worlds coca supply having no impact on your ability to purchase cocaine in, say, Miami.

Comparing other countries success on one form of prohibition doesn’t give much insight. Compare it to America’s success on current and historical prohibition. American’s don’t honor prohibition.

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/06/13/colombia-calls-a-draw-i...
I'd try one more time and also escalate to his or her manager. Your manager's job is to provide you with this information in an actionable and predictable fashion, especially at lower levels. Make it clear that you want to get promoted on some timeline and ask for a specific plan ("improve delivery" isn't specific).

If that doesn't resolve it, I think trying to change teams (or even companies) is reasonable. I don't know how easy that is at your company but where I am at "my manager is unable to support my career goals effectively" is an absolutely reasonable and respected reason to switch teams.

Your manager is not doing a great job here. That's a fine thing to recognize. But I don't see why working with somebody to have them commit to something and hold them accountable is childish? That sounds like perfectly rational and healthy work interactions. Most of my human-to-human interaction at work is spent setting expectations, getting commitments (or committing to something) and following up on those commitments.
Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality
>You mentioned GDP in an effort to downplay the the enormity of the size

No, actually I mentioned it because I thought you skipped out on the fact that money isn't a static amount which we drain out with UBI in this quote:

>To put that in context, the top 1% have an aggregate wealth in the US of about 34 trillion. So we could take all of the net worth from doctors, lawyers, business owners, CEOs, FAANG employees, etc and pay for this for about 10 years.

So I wanted to have a different measurement which took how much we produce into account.

But thanks for assuming I'm arguing in bad faith, lol.
Your point is valid and I agree. It was obvious this lady never handled a gun.

I wonder how many people get killed/injured due to lack of training?

I would argue that not having training is just as bad as not having a gun at all. If life is in danger, why would I reach for this thing (a gun) that I don't know how to use properly?
>* VMs can trap CPUID

On Intel trapping CPUID is also possible without VMs since Ivy Bridge. (Linux exposes it by arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_CPUID))
Unfortunately higher inflation comes with higher interest rates. So if you have "negative wealth" you are no better off.
That is true but there could be a large subset of those who voted for Trump who also support the actions of those who rushed the Capitol. I do find it terrifying to picture 74 million people rushing the Capitol
This is some amazing victim conflation. Bravo, influence operatives!
inflation is typically priced into interest rates. unexpected changes in inflation can benefit either creditors or debtors, but a constant rate of inflation is a non-factor.
> Unless you can refute modern economic theory, we still have PV=MQ, and the only thing saving us from inflation at the moment is the low velocity of money: in lockdown or with most high velocity businesses closed or operating at a fraction of what they did before (ex: bar, restaurants), the velocity will remain low.

This theory was put to the test between 2007 and 2019, where the Fed greatly increased the monetary base during and after the financial crisis. As it turns out, the velocity of base money was much more flexible than assumed, and the monetary base remained greatly increased (about 4x its pre-recession level) without excess inflation.

In comparison, the covid-related increase to the monetary base has been less than a doubling (see https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE).

> I personally envision 5 to 7% inflation when things return to normal in the US (so schoolyear 2021-2022)

If you really think that, then go to a broker, buy TIPS (inflation-protected securities), and go short nominal bonds of equivalent duration. The five-year breakeven inflation rate (US) predicted from these bonds is about 2.5% (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T5YIE), so if your views are correct you would make a mint.
Do you know that these a lot of these libraries already exist as apart of the OTP platform? and that Erlang has been around for 35 years and because those libraries exists as apart of the platform by extension all the languages that run on the runtime have them too?

The JVM runtime is a runtime. BEAM/OTP/ERTS is a full fledged collection of middleware, libraries, and tools written into/as apart of the Erlang programming language. You can not separate one form the other.
could be

Yeah, I think you are just making this all up in your head.
I don’t know much about gun smuggling. Do you have sources or experience in this area to know that gun smuggling is as easy as drug smuggling? My impression, not based on experience, is that gun smuggling can’t occur at near the level that drug smuggling does. For one it’s far easier to track the manufacturing of guns as the location of factories is well known and public knowledge.

Is it your contention that any old fool like myself can produce useful guns (ones that don’t explode when I shoot it) and ammunition? Does this ability scale the same way that growing marijuana does?
My point was that it takes decades until the point you responded to becomes invalid. Even if Biden banned all guns tomorrow, it's likely that criminals will keep having guns during the life span of everybody alive today.
Probably how the scaling is off while you drag windows from/to hidpi displays. The scaling is only adjusted once the pointer moves to the other display.

At least that's how it was for me when I used a high dpi display (160 dpi) 2 yrs ago. (I switched back to 90dpi at some point, so they might have improved it by now)
If you want to see an economist repeatedly criticise Richard Murphy on a regular ongoing basis, I recommend https://www.timworstall.com/category/ragging-on-ritchie/
How did that cost $3M to build?
I mean the thermal (and hence, electrical) inefficiency of keeping hot water warm all the time.

Similarly, even with good insulation, a combi boiler is more efficient than having a hot water tank.
Setting aside the topical question of whether it's young adults or younger/older demos that drive the spread, we do have data and modeling to suggest that superspreading events have driven most of the infections [1]. If that's the case, then I think there's a question to be asked about which cohort is more likely than others (if any) to drive super-spreading events.

That part I'm not so sure about.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-superspreadin...
I am not a lawyer...

My snarky answer says “who wrote and who is interpreting the licensing agreement”
Are American drivers more polite due to the higher amount of cars in the US?

The correlation is not direct
Why can't a compiler essentially do the same for null as you're describing for None?
You stopped reading too early, the article goes into this in depth. As with a lot of commenters here, in fact pretty much all of them I’ve read so far, you’ve got completely the wrong end of the stick about what this article is saying. For example:

“ Now, not everyone was fortunate enough to see the benefit of that. In fact, many households are deeper in debt now than a year ago. Many more just got by. But the best off just got richer. That’s what QE does.”
For the main release I forgot to integrate a payment option in it so people couldn't donate anything. But on the Reddit release it got over 170 awards, which is pretty good and some people commented they wanted to donate but couldn't. You can find the launch here -> https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/lrcrxx/to...

My tech stack is Next.js/Golang/Postgres/Google Cloud.
Agree and same :)
The 'star-fiend' who unlocked the Universe
Thank you for posting it. The story has brought to me a number of ideas for me to reflect on.
Eric Weinstein (The Portal podcast on Youtube) has run into a similar problem with physics. He's a mathematician by trade and over the last 37 years has developed a new theory of everything he calls Geometric Unity. He wasn't able to make any headway into the physics community for a long time - and so now instead he's educating people about what he calls DISC and GIN - about the problems with these systems, and building his own audience of people while waiting for peers to get interested in learning/understanding his theory.

It's happened in health too, arguably it has in all subjects, whether due to regulatory capture of government policy and/or academic capture influencing what research gets done via funding - the system is broken, well - it works for industrial complexes who generally have ulterior motive than wanting the very best for society.

Edit to add: why the hell would anyone downvote this comment?
As an outsider to the world of elite private schools, is the idea that they will help your kid get a nice job even if they're actually just mediocre? Like, in my head the logic goes "if you're in the top 10% of your high school class and get 1500+/1600 on the SAT, you can probably go to a cheap honors program at a public state school, and then you can pick from several tracks to make six-figure salaries". But maybe you need to be well-networked since preschool to work in finance or whatever if you're just of average intelligence?
> I still haven't seen a single person say "my great grandfather was a slave and this offends me", only people saying "this might offend someone".

In today's world, it's enough for many companies. Si vis pacem, para bellum. You don't want to passively wait until you're attacked, you need to prepare the defenses first so your enemies don't even have a ground to stand.
My phone runs Linux. My GF's phone runs Linux. My TV runs Linux, too. So does the TV box-set (cable provider), and the zipitz2 runs Linux within OpenWRT.

Probably, ,my teleco's router runs Linux, too.

And I say this as a desktop OpenBSD user.
> If they're the highest level why didn't the other 6 layers handle it?

I would have the same question.
>Morality is predicated on free will in the sense that without free will humans cannot do good or bad things, because if our behavior is entirely deterministic, no action is truly an action and therefore cannot be good or bad.

How would non-deterministic actions be any more subject to morality than deterministic ones?

Surely randomness isn't subject to morals?
> 50% of the population that thinks rushing the capital

This is bad thinking IMO.

If we expand upon this logic:

- 50% wants to rush the capital

- 50% want to riot in the streets and burn down businesses

Then we essentially live in a war zone and that AR-15 is nowhere near enough firepower to protect you.
One nice thing about having such a large military budget is our civilian population contains many millions of people with formal military and combat training.

So yeah, there’s certainly Internet tough guys who just need an outlet to express their frustration. But there’s a large community of people that do in fact know which direction to point their rifle.
You mean, except the parts funded and built by the ESA, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope#Quest_f...
Is it me or is it Spring?
https://youtu.be/Efo55TAXpc0 link to a spring recipe
Depending on your organization, you could switch to another team with more of a need for leadership or otherwise seems more likely to advocate for the promotion you're looking for. For some organizations, that's a big change, but other companies give a lot of autonomy to high performing individual contributors when it comes to picking what work (and therefore what team) they participate in.
Best practices to get to production readiness with HashiCorp Vault in Kubernetes
Living in a house with a gun increases your odds of death

https://www.vox.com/2015/10/1/18000520/gun-risk-death

"Alarming" spike in deadly unintentional shootings by kids as gun sales soar during lockdowns

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unintentional-shootings-guns-ki...
I see this article is flagged. Really? Can't we even discuss this issue like adults?
Why doing the examples in Fortran 90 in 2021 blog post, when 2018 is the most recent standard revison?
Gauge Theory Does Not Fix This
People don't buy the art, they buy the story that comes with it. Take two chairs, one was used by Abraham Lincoln, the other is an exact copy down to the atom, the first one would sell for hundreds of million, the second wouldn't sell at all
What's your backend deployment look like? Just one deployment or split into services? Docker?

Also, what's your opinion on Google Cloud? I've used Azure and AWS but not Google Cloud.
Because the size of the cake is fixed (analogy to the economy), and cutting that piece of cake into 10 slices or a million slices (analogy to increasing money supply) is not going to make a difference in the amount of cake there is for people.
US details troops to CIA, declares them “classified” & refuses to admit presence
Some years ago I saw an article on HN I think, where an archeologist comment on this.

He said, paraphrasing:

"You see, we keep finding those statues of penis, and people create crazy explanations of how it is a religions icon and whatnot. But know what? It is probably just a funny statue because people think making penis statues is hilarious."
More replies than you can shake a stick at here.

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/47318/how-can-i-st...

(I've been cluelessly hacking at emacs for decades, and there's ALWAYS something new to learn.)
I guess your comment has been downvoted since it comes off a bit like "neural network all the things".

But it did make me wonder, so I went searching and found this paper: "Applying Deep Learning to the Cache Replacement Problem"[1], which sounded quite interesting.

In the paper they train a LSTM network to predict if an item should be cached or not, but then analyze the resulting model and identify key features of its performance. From the paper:

We use these insights to design a new hand-crafted feature that represents a program’s control-flow history compactly and that can be used with a much simpler linear learning model known as a support vector machine (SVM). Our SVM is trained online in hardware, and it matches the LSTM’s offline accuracy with significantly less overhead; in fact, we show that with our hand-crafted feature, an online SVM is equivalent to a perceptron, which has been used in commercial branch predictors.

We use these insights to produce the Glider4 cache replacement policy, which uses an SVM-based predictor to outperform the best cache replacement policies from the 2nd Cache Replacement Championship. Glider significantly improves upon Hawkeye, the previous state-of-the-art and winner of the 2nd Cache Replacement Championship.

Training a neural network and then using it to restate the problem in more optimal way is an approach I haven't seen before (though I'm just a casual observer of the field), and which sounds very interesting.

[1]: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~lin/papers/micro19c.pdf
Found the Chinese puppet account. You do realize your boss is one fat fucking loser right?
Ok so everyone is happy with your performance except your manager. Unfortunately they're the gateway between you and promotion at most companies. So whatever you're doing that you consider to be successful doesn't match their expectations. That's what you need to fix. Have they been sending signals that they want you to do x, but you think that y is more impactful? The fact that they seem evasive could just be down to the fact that it's hard for most people to give direct feedback.

The fact that you're killing it on "crud APIs" and they aren't impressed could be their way of giving feedback. If they aren't happy with that, ask them what else you should be spending your time on instead. If they aren't seeing you as taking a lead role because there are already seniors on a project, find a project without a senior and take ownership. People are always sending signals, they just might not be clear. The fact that you're so quick to dismiss them as bullshit here tells me that you're not picking up on them.

In any case it's worth initiating a conversation with them and asking directly what you can do to meet their expectations. And then follow up on that. I've seen so many cases where an IC thinks they're crushing it in ways that just don't matter to their manager and then wonder why they aren't being recognised.
I'm an outsider, so I never understand how our American friends feel about this(the opinions divide, I guess) Because to me, guns breeds paranoia and distrust. It create the never ending vicious cycle of "That guy have one so I should have one to protect my family too, just in case."

But what if, say, having guns increase the risk of being attack from bad guy instead, because now they feel that you're a threat to them?
Is Baserow on Sandstorm.io already? That would be awesome.
How is Fortran coming along with GPUs? (last I looked it was being done with proprietary compiler language extensions, but that was a while ago)

Are modern supercomputers faster than a cluster of consumer-grade GPU cards?
Their incentive is from getting a cut of transactions. And in theory, putting their items on blockchain would be more appealing to people spending money because blockchain makes them more permanent. The percentage of people that actually cares is really small so it’s unknown whether it’s worth it or not to implement it.

There’s also an interesting use case where game history is attached to the item. For example if you know some counter strike skin was used by pro player to win big tournament and that history is all locked into the blockchain. If I were going to be spending a ton of money on said skin, I would feel more comfortable doing so vs. if all that data is in the developers private database. Would other people feel the same way? Who knows