skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>occasions where she was required by law to accompany someone from CPS

Transit police, campus police, environmental police, all these law enforcement agencies exist because the parents organizations so routinely need the threat of state violence to back them up in situations where they are doing the wrong thing or it is just not plain warranted that they cannot rely on whatever the existing police are to respond to their calls. (Likewise at the federal level, the ATF and ICE exist because the FBI didn't consider that stuff a serious problem but politicians did.) They need their-own bespoke police force to handle the calls that are so illegitimate that they would get blown off by any PD that has its own reputation and efficient resource allocation to worry about.

If you need to go somewhere (like getting your stuff from an ex) where you have good reason to fear physical harm the police will generally go with you. It might take awhile but they usually will, eventually (extreme outliers like Detroit notwithstanding).

The fact that CPS needs to pull legislative strings to get the cops to show up tells you a lot about how the cops regard their operations. If the cops felt they were helping remove children from bad situations with any semblance of regularity they would love to field those calls.
Isn't this orthogonal to anything about that persons gender status? It should be possible to have a discuss and ban any comments that would normally be banned around gender status or more specific around this persons gender status?

Are we not capable of having a reasonable discussion around a person and their actions just because of this?
It would be interesting to know what sort of background checking Reddit did when hiring this person. Just the public information has loads of red flags.
The assumption that FTL is impossible is predicated on our understanding of physical laws being complete. But current physical theories are not complete, and in particular have large holes in them related to gravity. We don't actually know what's possible and what's not, only what we believe is possible given our current understanding of the universe. There are known unknowns, in other words, and we don't know what's hiding behind those doors.

Anyway, whether FTL is or isn't possible isn't the point of my post. The point is that if you assume aliens are basically like us except with warp drives then it's easy to come up with reasonable explanations for their behaviour. It's actually the "FTL = flawless beings so far ahead of us we can't reason about them at all" viewpoint that leads to people being baffled, not that the behaviour is itself inherently impossible to explain.
Favorite movie lists are somewhat BS. At least for me, my favorite movies evolve constantly. It depends on what I've seen recently, what's been on the forefront of my mind, my mood, etc. Not to mention there's movies that I find fascinating that I may not love. Or movies that had a profound effect on me that I'm not jumping to rewatch. Someone like Kurosawa has likely seen thousands of movies. This is likely a small snapshot into a larger universe of his personal cinema.

Instead of lists, I love the Criterion setup of interviewing the person and having them talk about each film and how it impacted their lives. It's far more interesting to hear why Barry Jenkins loved La Cienaga than to see it on his list at #10.
In general if you the highest throughput you'll also get long pause times, since the techniques to reduce the max pause times depends on inserting barriers into the application code.

Ignoring pause times is fine for batch processing, but not ideal for interactive systems.
The impression I had is that many experts believe that no single algorithm A can achieve O(n^2), but there exists a sequence of algorithms A_i that achieve O(n^{2+d_i}), with d_i>0 getting arbitrarily small, but with the algorithms getting arbitrarily long and the constant overhead factors out front getting arbitrarily large.

Unfortunately this was just word of mouth, and I might be misremembering.
Deleted Facebook, deleting Whatsapp. LinkedIn also considering deleting it.

Have a non touch phone. Why are technology which is additive and invades your privacy called smart?

Why is a smart phone with gps tracking smart for privacy?
Smart tv? Smart speaker? Privacy?
It seems like we should have something like known_hosts for ssh, yeah. As long as it’s trusting one domain at a time (not a root CA), would it really be /that/ bad?

This and browser vendors being overbearing about extensions (I know they’re powerful) gets me down.
And you can't just found a new SSL provider. The woke browsers need to accept its certificates.

In other words, something like the substack.com escape from the mainstream media won't work.
It seems simply inconceivable to you that the WIV would lie? Theranos managed to build a $10B company with 800 employees based entirely on a scientific fraud, and they kept it up for ten years with only David Boies to threaten whistleblowers. If the WIV is lying, then it's probably a smaller group of people, for a shorter time, with far nastier tools to keep them in line.

I noted above that the WIV had a database of viral genomes. Public access to that database was removed in September 2019. They say this was due to repeated hacking attempts. They've taken no steps to restore access, or to make the database available in another format (e.g., a dump on a flash drive) that would clearly present zero information security risk. Do you believe their explanation?

And for emphasis, I don't think it's certain that they're lying (about RaTG13 being the closest known relative, at least; I can't see how anyone with the slightest domain knowledge would believe the "hacking" claim), just as I don't think it's certain that a company is lying about their financials when I want to see audited results. The point is that I don't know, and it's normal for people making an important claim to actively want transparency, to build confidence so people don't have to trust them. The WIV's behavior here is the opposite of that.
So the gist of it is that when she was running for election, she hired her father as an election agent while he was being investigated for his crimes, and also she lived in the house he performed his crimes in at the same time.

I think that this is worthy of criticism, but the problem here is that the few journalistic pieces that investigate this also push a strong anti-trans theme while also criticizing her at the same time, and at least one of them (the Graham Linehan one) is most definitely against Reddit's hate speech policy. I would not be surprised if this is the source of most of the bans, which is causing more of an uproar amongst the people who align with Graham Linehan's thinking.

There are quite a few critical pieces that I see on Reddit that are remaining up, even her name being mentioned in comments and not being banned, so I don't think this is worth the uproar that is being generated.
Wait, so is it that Scala has too many feature or too few?
Related comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26196318
wow what a fucking joke. i didnt have a high opinion of BetterUp before, but this is definitely a new low.
> The cherry on top was to stop paying each year for a new smartphone, that does nothing more than the previous one

Why were you buying new phones every year? This is such a non-argument. I've been using the same Android phone for almost 7 years. It does everything I want it to do. Sure, I spent a couple of days trimming down the system, and carefully selecting applications (for example, the Google Clock from 2015 weighs about 3 MB and is very fast, while the same application from 2020 is about 30 MB and is extremely slow to start, despite having the same feature set).
the way /r/wsb is buying rewards for other users, maybe never.
Persisting either/or values, or The uselessness of CHECK constraint
This is an article about Aimee Challenor, a woman.

It then says

"Aimee released a statement in which he denied any knowledge of all this and declared:"

More spectator dross, I gave up before reaching the "Reddit" part, but a quick ctrl-f shows no matches
The icon is arguably more accessible to the casual user.
It's one year of change to the test, and I don't know enough about it other than the people doing the rating ask you not to compare them across years. So I'll wait to compare apples-to-apples. I'm sure there is some difference and the test becomes harder.
Can't. You can't trust that unless the types are specifically declared atomic.
The answer is no but sort of.

You cannot reduce the number of operations by waving a magic architecture want. Hence the no. But you can do operations in parallel rather than in series. Same number of operations, but it takes less time.

So if a systolic array is built for the same scale as your problem, your bottleneck does indeed become how quickly you can send data to/from that dedicated system.
Yet the majority of Google's problems are solved with Python, Java, Kotlin, and C++, not Go.

Go doesn't address any Python issue, besides AOT compilation, easily solved if PyPy had more community love.
Would be interested in learning more about the FOIA request process. It seems quite nebulous to me, not sure how to request the "right" piece of information.
I don't know if he edited his comment, but as it is currently written the log is not in the exponent under standard order of operations.

Also, putting a constant factor like log(2) inside big-O notation is meaningless.
Yeah it's nothing to do with their gender status, but someone reading those threads now might draw the conclusion that the stories were flagged or penalised due to the transphobia, which is not the case - the penalty came before the hate.
I was about to debate your point. I decided to flag you instead.

> I feel like I’m taking crazy pills - or perhaps that philosophical zombies walk among us.

Basically the above is an insult. Essentially you're calling me and anyone with a differing opinion then you "crazy" or a walking philosophical zombie. Literally you're just trying to get around a technicality by indirectly labeling me. Might as well just say "Reading your post I feel like I'm taking crazy pills."

Feel free to debate my points but nobody feels good when they're labeled as crazy.
Some of these are in fact possible, though with some restrictions. I wrote a blog post on how to support some negative lookbehinds: http://allanrbo.blogspot.com/2020/01/alternative-to-negative...
Your FF link is about a different functionality. FF has used https by default, with fallback into http for addresses you write for a really long time.
I am not arguing with your original point about the language. But Singularity is as closed code as it can get and has a bunch of crazy assumptions associated to it (must have .NET installed which rules out most architectures)
Can you explain what you like about it?
Compared to C, Rust avoids a whole category of memory related bugs
I think if you swipe the spacebar it moves the caret
Opinionated Guide to Setting Up Sourcegraph for Advanced Code Search
>Most teenagers aren't advocating that Hitler had good ideas and that all black people should be lynched.

You're right, they aren't.

>the proud boys

ah yes, the infamous multi-cultural white supremacist group who marry black women
Why is “data driven” policing bad when we’re pretty much striving for “data driven” everything else in government?

The EFF argues that the methods here are pseudo scientific, but they seem more rigorous than many of the other “data driven” methods governments are implementing in other contexts.
That is pretty good, to be honest. Any experiences with videoconferences over Starlink?

I wonder if I can just build a house in the middle of nowhere, with some solar panels + battery (but with trash service and water access) and move there.
There has never been anything like this in Safari for plain HTTP. Your company was probably just dealing with bad certificates.
"AI upscaling" not DLSS persay, but if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck
HN's moderation system is rather susceptible to brigading. Downvotes will flow like water to certain topics, regardless of the quality of the original post or the discussion therein.

Bots have effective veto power over every story.
How dare you use neurodivergent people as a shield for a sexual harasser.

How dare you.
I agree. I could never have editing automated. It takes a while, but like you said, it adds a personal touch
I think you can simultaneously support schools being better funded through legitimate avenues while rejecting the notion that underfunded schools should be able to sell students' private information to make money. This is not the only way the school can obtain adequate funding.
You go through every Chrome setting/flag? That's very ... sporty. I mean, I'd like to do this as well, but Chrome has hundreds of settings and flags, so going through them takes serious time (some settings are fairly arcane "Temporarily unexpire M87 flags."). And they can be amended on every update, which might hit you weekly.

Hat off to your determination!
This post has been live for more than 30 mins.

Can somebody please flag it? It's spreading wrong think and hate speech.
hey all :) author here - had fun putting this one together and happy to take feedback / answer any questions
If you want it readable, why analog in the first place?
Open sourcing Protocol fuzzer community edition
My experience in European universities is a bit different, yes scholarships are relevant, but salaries also happen regardless of them.
in the time spent improving matrix multiplication by a tiny incremental amount, many gigawatt hours have been spent making existing CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs do matrix multiplication using far less efficient algorithms. It's unclear this work would really be important in production computing (I understand the theoretical desire) compared to time spent making other things work better.
Couldn't we assume P=NP and try this anyways?
What do the three countries that you mentioned have in common? Total authoritarian lockdowns.

Authoritarian lockdowns are effective at suppressing Covid. I won’t deny that. They’re also a complete non-starter in most countries in the world.
History teaches us that moral authoritarianism, properly executed, is the stuff of nightmares.

Society should progress, but not "at any cost" or "by any means."
For very large values of 0
I suspect their not a "real" person, ie astroturfing.

Given nothing fishy is going on, I suspect most people would take my previous comment as an opportunity to stroke their ego.
Yeah. Reddit are gearing up for an IPO about to launch soon. They need to convince investors of their ability to push ads. Reddit ads most of the time just look like posts. Sometimes (top) posts themselves are cleverly disguised ads. In short, they are just about to go full corporate.
I have had a rather non-conventional experience working from home this past year.

Pre-covid, I had my desk lowered to the perfect height (coworkers would joke about how low it was), adjustable seat, monitors aligned with eyes, split keyboard, ergo mouse, etc. Even with all this I would frequently have pain in my shoulder joints and under my shoulder blades (especially when drinking coffee). I stretched regularly, but the only activity I found to really help was boxing.

During the first month of covid I refused to believe it was nothing more than temporary, so I would work from my couch, with laptop on my coffee table, no mouse, laptop keyboard. Sometimes reclining, and supporting myself with blankets/pillows. Surprisingly none of the usual pains came up. This is still how I work day to day.

What’s interesting is I will occasionally play video games with friends on my office PC. When I do this the shoulder pains never fail to come back.

I’ve been considering buying one of those lie-down battlestation type setups, but I probably won’t.
> Alternatively, and not so good, the other answer is to maintain shims or back-ported APIs for some duration

If I understand correctly, this is what they're actually doing. From https://developer.thunderbird.net/add-ons/updating/tb78:

> Knowing that following the proper migration strategy is not easy, we created two wrapper APIs which do not require all of these changes. Using these APIs, you can quickly get your add-on running in Thunderbird 78 again, but you will not get the benefits of a MailExtension. The idea behind this is to make add-ons compatible with the current ESR as quickly and easily as possible, so users can continue to work with their beloved add-ons.

Per se, this would be a sensible move. However, in the bigger picture, the plan starts to show its pointy-hairedness:

> While the Thunderbird team plans to add more APIs with upcoming releases, the current set of APIs will not be sufficient to port most add-ons. To work around this limitation, add-ons can introduce their own, additional APIs as so-called Experiments [...] [which] are expected to require updates for each new version of Thunderbird.

In other words, the TB team, for unspecified reasons (it's not clear if they were really forced to move to MailExtensions), has broken compatibility with the previous versions of the addons, and provided half-baked APIs which are expected to break again in the future.

Other mind-numbing pointy-hairedness:

> [...] If you follow this strategy, you will end up with a future-proof MailExtension that will require substantially less maintenance work for future versions of Thunderbird.

They're saying in a single sentence that updated addons won't require changes in the future (being "future-proof") _and_ that they will require them.

===

All in all, I have the strong suspicion that Thunderbird is very incompetently developed/maintained, but I'd be very happy to be proven wrong (with technical arguments).
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I do think Firefox ships their own root certificates with their browser, while Chrome uses the system ones. It's possible fluidcruft's employer has installed new root certificates so they can analyze/inspect the traffic through their network and Chrome is happily rolling along, while Firefox does not like it because now the connection effectively has been broken.
They aren’t the only law enforcement agency that attempts to predict future criminals. For example anyone can be put in California crime database called CalGang for activities such as eating lunch with a gang member. Cops will then give extra attention to people in this database. I think as people interested in technology we should be concerned about the algorithms and policies behind data-driven policing.

Source: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/lapd-falsely-labelin...
You can have a fast implementation and fast compilation time with DLang
At least for strassen, the result is slightly less stable (increases the condition number by a constant factor). I think higham shows that any sub-cubic algorithm must have done conditioning issues, but that in practice they're not that bad for most matrices.
I've got to assume that the bannings are being done by Aimee as the new admin, because I can't imagine that anyone else at reddit would be so unfamiliar with Reddit that they would think this is a good idea. Look how much shit Ellen Pao got, and she was basically doing a decent job. I can't imagine this is going to go much better.
If you are a kid, or if you have kids, you will shortly know a lot of people in your suburb, or such has been my experience.
I develop broadcast TV equipments which are often rented all over the place for short amounts of time, often don't have any direct internet access etc...

I simply cannot make any assumption about the network these devices will run, and can certainly not rely on any sort of DNS validation. Virtually 100% of the time the devices are addressed directly by IPv4. I really can't think of a solution for this situation.

For network you control your solution makes a lot of sense though.
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(Deleted because I only meant to bring up the broader phenomenon of what makes a person feel "excited" or "unexcited" about a language; I was specifically trying (unsuccessfully) to avoid the hotbed topic that has arisen below)
Here is one good example of many:

https://mobile.twitter.com/caitlinmoriah/status/137415749883...

Having a platform covering trans issues, and being insufficiently hostile to transphobia, is transphobic.
I was only partly joking about extensions. Definitely disable them all for this testing.
I think Quanta magazine is directly funded by Jim Simons, the billionaire mathematician who founded Renaissance Technology.
> I doubt there will be a national law saying that local police should look for illegal chickens

Replace chickens with guns or immigrants.

State/Local enforcement of those sets of laws is already a highly contentious issue.
The results of this could, however this is simply theoretical at the current time.
So would I. Got it late myself.
StarWind Launches Free NAS and San Software
There's a good automated reddit that tracks this actually. https://old.reddit.com/r/undelete/
Another recommendation from me - over the course of maybe a year I went from sleeping with two pillows, to one tucked into my neck, to none at all, and found my longstanding cricked neck problems pretty much went away.

For ages I had suspected that something was wrong in my bed, but couldn't work out what it was, the only way I could describe it was I felt like I was "wallowing". Getting a soft mattress topper turned out to be a costly mistake, so instead I went the other way.

I was aiming to get such a comfortable bed that I wouldn't have to move. I think this was a misconception and that moving during the night is actually a necessary part of healthy sleep.

Although as a father of a toddler I have only a tantalisingly theoretical grasp on what healthy sleep is any more.
If you're using Firefox HTTPS-Only mode has been available since version 83 - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-only-prefs
1 ms pause times are pretty good. That's finally getting close to the point where it may no longer be the biggest factor preventing adoption in applications like core game engine code. Although at 144 Hz it's still 14% of your frame time, so it's hardly negligible.

Even if the GC is running on an otherwise idle core there are still other costs like power consumption and memory bandwidth. So you still want to minimize allocation to keep the GC workload down.

For too long GC people were touting 10 ms pause times as "low" and not bothering to go further, but truly low pause times are possible. I'd love to see a new systems language that starts by designing for extremely low-pause GC, not manual allocation or a borrow checker. I think it would be possible to make something that you could use for real time work without having to compromise on memory safety and without having to pay the complexity tax Rust takes on for the borrow checker.
The post is well written but I don't see the point in this when you can achieve the same in 145 bytes of JS (vs 80kb of stimulus) and avoid a trip to the server:

document.querySelector("input").addEventListener("input", e => { document.querySelector("p").innerHTML = `<strong>${e.target.value}</strong>` });

Reusing the logic could be done if the server was node or through compiling the formatter to wasm. I struggle to see how Hotwire makes things simpler and has comparable speed to a SPA?
Middle class privilege is real.
Or maybe this would inspire people to expand LLVM support? There's nothing fundamental that prevents Rust from running on those architectures (as far as I know)
Trans is for Reddit what nuclear energy is for HN.

Anything negative about these two issues will quickly get you downvoted, flagged and banned on the respective forum.
Probably in reference to Zumwalt where the relationship is not always positive i.e. automation saves cost on smaller crew, but smaller crew gets overworked (USN already grossly overtasked), has less expertise redundancy if shit hits fan, or even crew to ship size ratio for damage control needs.