skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the most obvious one. According to Public Health Canada, men who have sex with men are 71x more likely to become HIV+ during their lives than men who have sex with women. Based on the infection rate modelling of the early 2010s for which we have data, a young gay man in Toronto has about 30% odds of becoming HIV+ in his lifetime.

Wide eyes. Disbelief. That can't possibly be right. With all the people I have watched become HIV+ over the years, it is of course very believable to me. But the data from PHAC is reliable enough, and it speaks for itself. I shouldn't need to make it believable. But of course people are not emotionless abstract rational machines, and that's why I'm doing these sort of talks rather than emailing out memos with charts.

(The good news at least is those numbers are almost certainly coming down with new medical interventions like PrEP, earlier treatment and routine testing, which are my main points these days. I might actually get to be happy with the numbers in the national HIV tracking data when it's compiled for 2021.)
> It's like it's purposefully obtuse for no good reason.

At least it's consistent with the rest of git then...

Git is one of those tools I just can't muster the willpower to truly learn. I use SourceTree and hope for the best, and search the web frantically when something weird happens.

I used Mercurial from only the command line for many years, never felt I needed a GUI. But git, there's just something about it.
Thank you, this is exactly the post I was thinking of and I'm happy to have found it again. I'm sorry that your comment was unfairly downvoted beyond all others as I write this.
I would argue Consider Phlebus suffered from “early installment weirdness”, and feels not very Culture-y.

As someone else said below, I truly enjoyed Excession, but it’s perhaps too Culture-y. Lots of Minds, and then humans that are kind of awful.
I don’t know what it is but something about the vibe here feels fake. Like the opening anecdote with the investor definitely sounds fabricated — too “Aesop’s Fables” for me.
If you can't think of another way than altering quotes for shock value, that may be because your view of the thread and the community is not actually accurate. I've looked again, and I don't think your description is fair. The OP seems to me legitimate; painful, but not gratuitous. As for the thread, many of the comments are thoughtful. I don't agree with or like all of them—or most of them, actually—but I think you're misassessing the amount of bad faith in the community. That's a big deal because, as I tried to explain above, it takes people to a why-bother/fuck-it place, from which they end up creating the very thing they were deploring.

It's unfortunately all too easy and common for people to mistake a divided community for a "putrid horror show", dominated by demons [1] or, as the internet likes to call them, "terrible persons", when in reality most people here just have different backgrounds and experiences from one another [2]. I'm not saying that's the only factor—anyone can scan my moderation comments in this thread to find examples to the contrary (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26613942). But I still think the HN guidelines are right to say "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." ...and I think that if you took that guideline more to heart, you might see the bulk of the thread differently. (I don't mean the long tail of trolls and flames—those are always with us.)

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098
Bitcoin is a fiat currency
If you like it technically I suggest reading the official documentation about the consensus mechanism.

Yes, all of them where run by Ripple to provide geographical decentralization. This is purely to achieve a high uptime and ofc demonstrate that the software works. The actual consensus mechanism ofc is(was) not decentral at all at that time.
Similarly when satoshi started mining the first blocks it was also not decentral. Its kinda impossible to start decentral unless you agree with other parties to start at a specific time but technically everyone involved "colluded" for this so it kinda still defeats the point.
Maybe there is a better way to start such a network but looking back, it doesn't really matter since in the beginning no one used/trusted it anyway and nothing of value could be moved since the tokens had no value so who cares if one party had full control.
Currently neither Ripple nor any other entity has enough nodes to enforce or prevent a change. Last year the first amendment (a feature update) was accepted without the votes from ripples nodes.
Decentralization is ofc open in one direction so its neither perfect nor finished but at lest it goes in the right direction unlike for example BTC where the mining power coming from china seems to increase year after year.
AFAIK the XRPL dev team currently works on a feature that should increase reliability if a larger part of the nodes fail or get disconnected from the others. This would allow more decentralization without risking the network to halt if for example a geographical region is cut off from the rest of the network. Currently if too many nodes are disconnected at once the network would halt to prevent unintentional forking. Like if the network would be spited in halve it stops rather than both sides making different forward progress.

>though a similar number of txns to Ethereum

Actually it way higher because the XRPL has a build in DEX the vast majority of transactions are offers which usually aren't counter because they dont move value they just offer it, which may or may not result in an actual exchange and transactions that move value.
But the comparison is kinda pointless anyway since XRPL Tx are almost free no one can really know which of the transaction are "meaningful" compared to eth/btc where ofc no one would make any Tx that isn't "meaningful" to them simply because it costs quite a lot.

There is also a research paper for scaling the XRPL even more but I'm p sure its implementation is on hold because it simply doesn't make much sense at the time with 5-10M Tx per day there is still 10k% grows possible and there is an existing off-chain solution for high throughput channels as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGO7jgOUQ00
I agree completely. But, I also think that in most cases, if a simplistic piece of software like an IM app needs a security patch every three months, regularly, it's a sign the attack surface is too large.
"By 1875, the French conquest was complete. The war had killed approximately 825,000 indigenous Algerians since 1830. A long shadow of genocidal hatred persisted, provoking a French author to protest in 1882 that in Algeria, 'we hear it repeated every day that we must expel the native and, if necessary, destroy him.' As a French statistical journal urged five years late, 'the system of extermination must give way to a policy of penetration.'"

- Ben Kiernan, "Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur" (2007)

This is just one short pithy quote; having done archival research concentrating on this period, I can personally testify that the amount of dry, bureaucratic references to "extermination" by French colonial administrators and professionals is nauseatingly large. If the colonizers saw what they were doing as the whole-scale extermination of a people (and those murderous ideologies coincided with the actual extermination of living human beings by the thousands), you're going to have a really tough time convincing me or anyone else that what occurred was not genocidal violence.
As many on this discussion have noted, JetBrains tools not only don't collect dust, they are widely used, and the company is profitable. The company is privately held. I hear that they are constantly turning down investments. This proves 1) there is money in tools; 2) The VCs who routinely say "there is no money in tools" are insufficiently imaginitive, which is not surprising if you've spent any time with VCs.

Why is JetBrains so successful where others have failed? A few thoughts:

- Intellij was released in 2001. Eclipse was a close competitor for a while, which made no sense to me. Intellij just worked, and it was intuitive. I found Eclipse to be uglier, slower, flakier, crashier, and far less intuitive. Haven't heard of it in years.

- It was always the case that at least some version of Jetbrains tools are zero cost. I got hooked on it early on. I have been using emacs far longer, and yes, while a sufficiently dedicated developer can make emacs behave like an IDE, it really isn't one. Intellij just worked out of the box. In the preceding two decades, there were high-end development tools available (Lisp machines and their all-encompassing environments, Lucid for C++, Purify for C/C++ memory problems, Atria, Rational. Trivia: Did you know that Purify was founded by Reed Hastings, the guy who went on to found Netflix?) The tools were expensive, and I don't think there were free versions. These companies all went out of business, or were acquired.

- Jetbrains is incredibly focused. Having been through several VC-funded technology companies, I can easily see how VC brain farts can destroy a company's focus. (This dynamic isn't entirely the VCs fault. Founders stretch the truth to get funded, and then VCs insist on the fairy tales they've been told.)

- Jetbrains has expanded to other languages, and other kinds of tools (besides just refactoring Java code). The number of languages, technologies, and frameworks that they support is just mind-boggling.

- Consistent focus on improving developer's lives, through steady improvements in functionality, performance, and quality, over 20 years at this point. They started far ahead and have widened the gap.

OPs tools look useful. I suspect they would attract a much wider audience if made available through Jetbrains products.
I want fewer opinions in any publication I'm paying for news reports. I also pay for entertainment, and even to read someone's opinion, but these are separate products for separate purposes. The revenue model is really beside the point.

Opinion-infested reports where the writer is casting aspersions, making judgements, serving vanguard for some cause or presenting the writer's own opinion as part of the narrative are worthless to me. It's fine to have opinions as long as 1. that is what you are intending to sell and 2. you acknowledge this and are upfront about it.
What would tell you that?

But also, what percentage of typical code is multiplying massive matricies and what is doing simple arithmetic or data transformation or rpcs?
LiZarD PeoPle DEmANdinG i wEAR facE MaSKs!
That just pushes back the question though. If you're importing the first typewriter from say Germany to the UK, wouldn't you make minimal changes?
Here's a HP 4951C I had on loan until recently: https://smcleod.net/tech/2017/12/27/hp-4951/
> Zero Knowledge proofs

there's lots of that stuff on the internet to be sure
Ministry of Approved Truth comes with a good acronym.
Getting my diet under control is contingent on getting my appetite under control. It's mediated by my sleep levels, stress levels, how much exercise I'm getting, what types of calories I'm eating, what time I'm eating them, and my microbiome. It's so disingenuous to say "Just eat less". If it was that simple, there wouldn't be an obesity epidemic.
Precisely. I'm a big lifter, who used to be pretty chunky. I did a full recomp years ago and it definitely wasn't the added muscle/increased BMR that let me cut. It was my diet.

Muscle makes you look good with clothes on. Diet makes you look good with clothes off.
Firstly, I think you need to reread what I said, because some of your responses are non sensical in context of what I'm saying. I'm not saying that MLK shouldn't be a role model. He's a great role model I'm just calling out your use of him as a purely hopeful idol. Many of MLKs most famous speeches and letters are full of outrage. It's only the white washed history of him that paints him as this one dimensional person to point to when people get "uppity".

Thinking that dog whistles don't exist speaks to your privilege. That in and of itself shows why you can't understand what other people go through. Because you don't believe that the things they go through exist.
How is RMS an “ableist” or “transphobic?”

I at least understand the claims of being a misogynist, but am not sure how there’s a case to even present him as anti-trans or whatever ablist means in this context.

It’s so strange to see real orgs like CreativeCommons and Mozilla signing what seems like such a vapid letter.
That’s the bit that doesn’t make sense.

They can’t really avoid running fibre with mmWave cos they have to backhaul it. Sure there is point to point radio, but in the main they’ll need to get fibre almost as close to you as with a fixed line direct to you. But instead it’ll be fibre to base stations on top of every building? It’s almost the same cost in terms of fibre infra.
Debugger might be a nice interface for prints in kernel.
It is also not usable with distributed systems where prints are also not all that useful and you need some kind of central logging.
But developing a desktop application without debugger is like writing code with a line editor. It can be done but it is not very productive (I can still remember editing BASIC programs one line at the time).
Medlar trees are not that hard to come by in the US -- I have a couple in my orchard -- one is really prolific and we make a fair amount of medlar jelly each year. I hadn't realized that medlars were not that well known!
Exactly what I am thinking. My use case is to have a shared api repository containing an IDL (here protobuf/grpc) and you hook it up as submodules for iOS, android, Golang.
The round trip time is reduced compared to creating and publishing modules for each generated code.
This makes it far easier to experiment with a new api feature so one gets a better feeling how this behaves in each language.
And if the api is mature enough you might as well change your development flow into publishing modules instead of using git submodules.

Therefore I like submodules and would argue that people might underestimate the increased round trip time for publishing modules and then referencing them in code compared to using submodules
Automatically recycling EKS worker nodes
Then Bitcoin stores no energy whatsoever. If I purchase the same amount of electricity with $, or with gold, or with seashells instead of Bitcoin, there will be no difference on the side of the electricity supplier. Aside from, of course, Bitcoin potentially affecting electricity prices.
Isn't that setting yourself up for a selection bias?

Where as an investor probably has a wider range of experience to draw advice from, potentially having seen companies both succeed and fail.
If you get to a point where you think you absoultely need git submodules...just switch to svn, so much pain in misery can be avoided if you just use the right tool for the right job and SVN handles the git submodule use-case effortlessly (for C++ at least).

For languages with proper package management (ruby, python, go, node, etc...) put in the extra effort to utilize your package manager to update your dependencies instead of bothering with submodules. If you're still set on doing submodules, I'm willing to be you're just "doing it wrong" (TM).
There are more important things than money. Having your name dragged through the mud, having people presume you are a disgusting sexist before they have even met you, these are things that can destroy a person regardless of their wealth.
Not the parent but I can see where you're both coming from. I think there's a lot more in depth look at US history, specifically the warts, than when I was a kid but I also think there's a lot less pre-US American history where the focus would be on _why_ the founding fathers were (partially) great men.

That seems like an over correction to me and I think that it shows in the push to tear down monuments of great people in American history who were largely products of their time.

For example, it's hard to overstate how important it was that George Washington gave up the presidency. He set the stage for the peaceful transition of power in the US and even the world. But he also was a rich guy who owned slaves.

It's not nuance that's missing, it's the concept of duality.
It’s very profitable to pitch “neo-natal” progeny of recent immigration (>1965) with those with European ancestries which carry natural inter-generational momentum. Trying to find an “equalizing” rainbow trail is a violent red herring, yet has perpetual support because it’s sympathizing.

Ending the drug war is better politics.
No problem, and thank you again :)
> Most people read ineptitude to mean lack of capacity/skill

That's good because that's what it means.
Coffee "cups" are measured in units of 6 oz:

https://www.triplebarcoffee.com/blog/how-many-ounces-are-in-...
I kind of empathize with Bezos, there's a certain tone of entitlement to this entire saga. Amazon doesn't own anybody a job, if working conditions are shit (but assuming it's legal), you should quit.

If Amazon is your best option, then you should be grateful for it.

If I went to work everyday, complained loudly about how much the job sucks, I wouldn't have a job anymore and I'd understand. To think I'd be able to criticize my organization and still be entitled to a job is lunacy.
most modern governments did similar stuff in the past few decades. I 'm having trouble thinking of one that didn't.

You can call them all authoritarian, but then the word loses all meaning, you would just say "any strong modern government is authoritarian"
I think you missed my point completely if that's the part you're latching on to out of context.

My whole point is that you can't dismiss outrage as a whole, and lump all issues together.
Personally I would take it further and make my own surreptitious recording of the conversation as a CYA tactic.
How it actually went historically is that different brands had completely different layouts until some sort of standardization emerged within particular locations.

It is not as though one country had a standardized layout before other countries started manufacturing typewriters.
If you happen to still be lurking...

I live on the US West Coast, but looking for new environs. What I like most is the San Jose/Santa Barbara/San Diego weather and Tenerife (Canary Islands, yes?) is very close. What do you like/dislike about life there?
The title implies a much more interesting story in British English!
Why are you being downvoted? You're right!
Give me a non-fungible token of the contents of your wallet
When I'm getting regular exercise everything else just kind of falls in to place. My appetite works properly, and I move towards my healthy body weight eating whatever I feel like eating.
Data breach: (20M users) of leading Turkish food delivery platform Yemeksepeti
For a minute I confused this with another external tool: git-filter-repo [0]. It's recommended by the official manual as replacement for git-filter-branch [1].

[0] https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-filter-branch
LibreOffice Online: the HTML5-based/cloud-based version of our office suite
> "candid advice" will always be construed as possibly sexist.

But this isn't the idea at all, right? Rather, everyone seems to agree it's relatively rare, but that it's such a massively negative experience when it does happen that it tanks the expected value anyway.
Very real, also within corporations in proprietary code.

One thing helps a lot: you don't owe "them" anything, also when working on proprietary code inside corporations. Don't feel like looking at it? Just ignore the bug report. Literally - don't even read the report.

(If you haven't shuffled through hundreds of poorly formulated issues you may not realize just how much effort that is).
The history of abstracting the hardware as something easier for people to understand is exactly the history of programming languages.

Wake me up when someone writes a compiler that reliably turns "Hello computer, please make me money" into an executable.
That’s interesting to hear, given I’ve just watched Ms Kapelos grill Ng on vaccine shipments and Garneau on Chinese-Canadian relations the per week.
We lost something when we centralized collaborative development and made it look like a social network (with even gamified activities).

People used to glance over codes of conduct (as in RTFM first, post on such channel, and other practical stuff like that, not like the ones projects are creating today) before contributing, and did so with the intention of interacting for a while.

Projects always tried to remove barriers for casual collaboration, but nobody managed to remove the long-term nature of it before. Now, well, too much of a good thing stops being good. Github finally fully succeeded, and this may be the main reason to abandon the platform.
> Colloquially they are pretty much interchangeable as rarely anybody uses "race" in the proper modern anthropological context.

Seems like a straw man to be honest, but I don't know, maybe it's true. Not sure what the "modern" context is either, since some people were trying to convince me that "according to the science" biology basically doesn't exist or that you're born as a blank slate, but oh well.

> Some cultural groups in Europe and Africa can have more in common than comparing European with European/African with African groups due to the wide diversity among cultural groups even inside the same geographical region.

Any example?

> But in actuality neither Europe nor Africa are culturally homogeneous.

That's right, but there is much more overlap within Europe and Africa respectively in terms of basically everything you can think of than between them.

> A reality that's too often lost in the discourse when cultures are compared like they are monolithic blocks, particularly when these blocks are defined by color of skin.

Again, the same thing can be said about ethnic groups. Ethnic groups are not a monolith either.

Plus, a skin color is one of the features of an ethnic group. There are no asian Nigerians, there are no black Ukrainians, etc. Sure, you might become a citizen or marry a person of some ethnic group, but that doesn't necessarily make you a part of it.
Looks like I'm being downvoted into oblivion by insecure male investors.

Perhaps they are bitter about lacking the gumption to handle such situations professionally and ethically? Perhaps they avoid any and all critical conversations with the people they work with? Enjoy watching all of your ventures fail!

Or maybe it's: conducting themselves like professionals while concealing their sexism just breaks their poor rich brains.
What do you think about this idea: a social media platform that is based on the principle of epistemically sound discussions, where the culture of the site is truth seeking and comprehensive accuracy?

Of course, this is not going to have big subscriber numbers, a plausible business model, and many other traditional human concerns - but consciously leaving these aside, do you think such an approach could yield some value to humanity?
One of the other major ones is that it can aggravate stomach problems like gastritis since both coffee (even decaf) and caffeine are said to stimulate stomach acid production.
See The Organization Man

Fortunately there are many opportunities now to take petty savings and ramp up some moral autonomy.
America's millennials, Gen Z are leading America away from American culture.

I don't think its surprising to see it in other parts of the world.
I used to use Arch because of AUR and pacman, rolling distro, and the cool factor but then I switched to Mac OS because of stability, features, and the Apple ecosystem (there is absolutely nothing like it)