skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then they go on to rationalize those positions about African Americans because that progress hasn’t been experienced by everyone equally

I don't see any rationalizations - here are the basic facts:

1. Menthol is the last flavor that's available for sale

2. Black people are extremely over-represented among smokers of menthol cigarettes.

Stating that banning of other flavors (except Menthol!) didn't have a proportionate effect among black smokers is not rationalization - that's just a fact. I don't know why anyone would be uncomfortable with this. The reason Menthol is being banned is not because its popular among black people (which is what gp asserted and you appear to be opposing).
CEOs of walmart is diversifying his assets
so I was reading this K-8 and it doesn't seem right to me that a CEO is allowed to sell stock over a 24 month period since he discloses it earlier. this basically means that the longer time goes on the less incentivized he is to make his company succeed. can anyone comment on this.
The question is, how clean is "clean"? Obviously in these pandemic times the answer is different, but clearly plenty of people were having no problems before.

In fact I would go as far as saying that breathing is a more common route of entry for pathogens than eating. The stomach contains concentrated hydrochloric acid.
Again, I disagree. The adoption of technical shit is a whim of the ignorant mass; macOS users largely don’t care that smart engineers built Unix, BSD, NextStep, they don’t care for the technical opinions inherent to the development. In righteous ignorance, the tech consumer demands that it simply just works.

And that it doesn’t offend their ethics in its effect on society - for instance, New York recently rejected the use of Boston Dynamic’s robots by police for reasons of technically, but not ethically, ignorant moral outrage.
Considering there are individual ships that carry more than a billion dollars worth of cargo and way more containers in a single trip than are lost in total in a year, I think you are probably correct.
Headline missing (YC S17).
Yes you're right that was a bad example. My bad choice of specific example shouldn't dismiss the more general point though.
Richard Feynman's lecture is a great resource for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA

He proposes a file clerk that gets progressively dumber and faster until they get so dumb that they can be simulated by an electronic circuit.
Probably depends on what you want to be doing

Do you want to work in systems, embedded, etc? Rust is almost certainly (at least a large part of) the future

Web servers (at the application level)/native apps/games? It's gotten some traction, but the jury is still out
The Linux kernel knows more about how to collaboratively guarantee secure, stable code than you or the cs department at UMN does, by a long long shot.
And guess what: banning bad actors regardless of whatever moralizing horseshit they're hiding behind is a big part of that.
Then configure her router's DHCP to set DNS to the OpenNIC servers or to the router itself which forwards to OpenNIC. That has worked for all my devices, and would be a pain to configure otherwise.
>There's also an annual fee of $180.

It sounds like this model is targeted at business users. I expect most VR enthusiasts that care about privacy to the extent of $500 + $180 per year would never buy something from Facebook anyway.
I have this one at home: https://www.mini-itx.com/~NAS6 . It measures roughly 20x20x30 cm and can fit a standard mini-itx motherboard. Not as small as a dedicated ARM box, but the smallest I could find. Fitting the PSU is very fiddly though, there is hardly any space between the PSU and the HDD backplane.
Financially, isn't the even bigger factor the large amount of sin taxes smokers pay into the system over their lifetime? I read that it is usually more than the added healthcare cost.
Calling a downsizing a “right-sizing” is so infantalizing and condescending
I know in my area, there was zero enforcement of travel restrictions, zero enforcement of stay-at-home, zero government enforcement of mask wearing (shops generally had to kick people out), and very spotty enforcement of business closures. There was no lockdown. It was totally voluntary, and luckily enough people voluntarily did the right thing that hospitals didn't overflow.
> More than 3,000 boxes dropped into the sea last year, and more than 1,000 have fallen overboard so far in 2021.

Umm... we have end of April (the article is dated April 29th) or 1/3rd of the year. The last time I checked a third of 3000 is around 1000.

Anyway, nowhere in the article I see any numbers to support that there is a "sudden rise in accidents". Even the graphs themselves seem to show entirely different picture -- that this might just be a fluke.
To me it boils down to misunderstanding what the technology can do. If you are trying to have model that labels people as "unsuccessful" based on a picture (example from the article), of course you are setting yourself up for failure. If you're looking for a model that tells whether a manufactured part has a defect, you have a good chance at succeeding. The real question I have is why people ever think ML should be used for judgement calls.
Couldn't you say the same of all luxury products?
> makes you dependent on them

I strongly encourage every one I know to prevent this through continuous learning, skill acquisition and savings. Take it from one who is somewhat dependent. Work toward financial independence not for the goal of 'retiring' (aka doing nothing all day) but the goal of not having to do a job you don't want to do. In my mind, that is what it means to be financially independent.
I’ll chime in as a long time vegetarian and former meat eater. The more realistic an imitation meat product is, the more it creeps me out. I lost the taste for meat, and I’m no longer used to the texture, and I find it disgusting.

Imagine my disappointment when all the restaurants in my area replaced their excellent vegetable burgers with things like Beyond and Impossible. To each their own, but it’s not just a rational issue of “is this an animal”, but also a subjective question of taste.
I'll just leave this old 2012 article link here.

https://www.macrumors.com/2012/12/03/apple-hiring-former-tex...
The entire set is combination of experimental techno, tech-house and techno

Enjoy the music instead of going around and barking like a mad dog
But but but but its Apple

Owners will casually dismiss anything negative. Post purchase Rationalization on heavily marketed products is bad for consumers.
Some of the newer vegan cheeses are pretty damn good, gooey pizza goodness is in the realm of possible
I don't think you quite appreciate the volume of utterly incompetent candidates (with plausible resumes) companies get for every software dev opening. It's a deluge, and no company on earth can deal with interviewing them all.

The only realistic alternative to hackerrank is to do strict university filtering, only interviewing candidates who come from ranked universities. This is obviously terrible.

Hackerrank, even though it annoys you, is an ENORMOUS leveling of the playing field, giving opportunities to people who didn't have the money or connections or whatever to make it into a top CS program.

If you aren't those people, you don't understand what doors it opens.
“Paraphraser” An Android app that became a nightmare for teachers
I don’t think free will and autonomous action as described by a verb are equivalent.
Have either of you tried Pleese? I believe they're mostly selling to pizzerias now [1] and not supermarkets. They aren't able to scale up mass-production quickly because they use a different approach/ingredients - "proprietary blend of bean and potato proteins" [2].

I eat regular cheese and have tried several vegan brands, this seems pretty close to me. But I'm no cheese connoisseur.

[1] https://www.pleesefoods.com/availabilty

[2] https://www.pleesefoods.com/products
Since 22 million people got at least one dose of the vaccine in UK you'd expect 88 of them to get this issue without taking a vaccine. 41 after vaccine doesn't sound alarming at all.
> The government has an incentive to report deaths as covid deaths.

What is this incentive? How did governments benefit from more covid deaths?
For Wi-Fi/BT, it's an Apple team separate from modem efforts.
just tasted the stuff... and I have to say I'm impressed. Eat it right out of the package.
Franker founded Cockos.
Yes, because the histrionic employee decided to do it. HR, external lawyers, dismissed it.

Having read the letter they reported it's clear the employee is fucking nuts.
Presumably the person you replied to means they'd prefer healthy plant-based flavours that shine as flavours in their own right, rather than synthetic imitation foodstuffs that just happen to be vegan-compatible.
Not the Parent but the orignal numbers come form the CDC but I'm not sure where the graph is from. Here are links to the last two years of data, embedded in a comment I made on HN recently:

From the CDC: In 2019, a total of 2,854,838 resident deaths were registered in the United States—15,633 more deaths than in 2018.
In 2020, approximately 3,358,814 deaths occurred in the United States (Table). The age-adjusted rate was 828.7 deaths per 100,000 population, an increase of 15.9% from 715.2 in 2019.

ref: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db395.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e1.htm
>unless menthols can't be duplicated

A drop of mint flavoring from the baking aisle at the nearest store on the filter, and a few drops on the unflavored pipe tobacco. It ain't the same, but nobody's gonna complain when the alternative is raw.
This tries to sound even-handed in the beginning. But by the time you get to the last paragraph, it becomes clear that this is propaganda.
Your reaction is akin to saying "all lives matter" in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. You can look up why it's wrong.
To give another opinion, I also thought GNOME 3 was not good, until around a few years ago. It's a lot better since then, they really ironed out a lot of the issues so you see the contributions start to raise up again recently. The extension API is also getting a lot more stable, but it's not totally there yet.

One area where I think KDE does a lot better is with QML. At the moment GTK doesn't have anything as nice as that to build apps, and that hurts contributions. There's some neat new declarative UI things like vgtk [0] that are looking promising though.

[0] https://github.com/bodil/vgtk
Agreed, but I doubt that the difference in # of AZ and Moderna/Pfizer doses administered is off by too many orders of magnitude [edit : on second thought, could be off by a factor of 10]. The central issue in my mind is the difference in populations since Americans have predominantly received Pfizer/Moderna while Brits have predominantly received AZ. Its possible that Brits have an intrinsically higher clot risk with the AZ preparation than Americans do with the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines (although, the J&J clots in the US certainly questions this idea too).
Apple Watch uses Intel IBIS or Qualcomm cellular modems depending on model (for those with cellular).

Wi-Fi/BT is handled separately by Apple-designed chips for the newer ones.
I wonder if someone can make a living recovering these containers and selling their contents on eBay (considering it seems everyone treats the fallen off container as litter..).
Apple devices are good for newbies that like it simple... not sure what else they are good for.. Apple is even lying when talking about privacy...
I like the selection of quotes that you made, I would've probably done something similar.

Regarding the Great Beast metaphor and its consequences, I believe much of the issues that run deep down in society these days have to do greatly with it.

We should connect, I barely know other people with whom I can share what I read.
Nacho cheese is dairy. It's processed cheese so it's made with bits and pieces of real cheese mixed together, and with emulsifiers, colourings and flavourings to cover the fact that you're eating melted cheese scraps.

Another reason for all the additivies is to make nacho cheese melt and run like a thin sauce, in a way that cheese doesn't. But with normal cheese you get other desirable organoleptic qualities that can't be reproduce with additives.

For an example of the organoleptic qualities I'm talking about, watch this video:

https://youtu.be/4CVzqJWkodA?t=834

Look at how elastic the texture of that alpine style cheese is. Slices a few millimitres thick can be rolled into a cigar without breaking. That kind of texture cannot be reproduced artificially. And it can't be reproduced by "vegan" cheesemaking either. You need milk proteins for that and you need milk to be coagulated by rennet enzymes and the enzymes released by starter culture and ripening culture lactic acid bacteria while the cheese ages.
Here's one: because you love cheese but you also love animals and so don't want to contribute to their suffering.

In my experience people tend to become vegan:

1. for the animals; and/or
2. for the planet; and/or
3. for health.

I have never heard another vegan say they became vegan because they didn't like the taste of cheese.
>Doesn't it ring alarm bells that society attempts to herd 100% of students through 4 year programs? That sounds far from optimal, no?

Society doesn't attempt to herd anywhere near 100% of students through 4-year programs; you just made that up.
Yes it's priced and amortized all over the system.
I'm not disputing that it's a requirement. I'm guessing that its compliance rate is low.
There seem to be three tiers.
* Unacceptable risk, things affecting people’s freedom (ie social scoring) is outright banned
* High-risk, things that affect transport, education, employment, public services, law enforcement, migration will require documentation, human oversight, and “high quality datasets”
* Minimal risk, crap like game npcs and spam filters, basically do whatever you want cases

I was hoping for more details and either more oversight or model/data/score disclosure requirements for the high risk cases. The “strict obligations” seem a bit hand wavy but I guess we’ll get more information from the eu ai board once/if formed.
Of course, but I would say that most people who get the flu don’t experience bad enough symptoms to go to the doctor.

I am not sure what your point is with the assuming everyone is healthy. No one is saying that the flu can’t be deadly. The entire thread is about how you calculate how many people got the flu in a year. Some people suffer severe symptoms from the flu, go to the doctor, and are recorded in the statistics as having had the flu. Many people, however, don’t have bad enough symptoms and therefore don’t go to the doctor and are not tracked in the statistics as having had the flu.

The question is how do they figure out the actual rates when a large portion of cases are never recorded.

What does my own health or the fact that the flu kills many people have to do with that question?
If they're expensive because policy set the prices then yes, that would be a ban.
Not a reaper user but I imagine you'd need to run it through a text to speech plugin then mark times with either those words or a duration without dictionary words.
The ask was "secure engineering", yeah? The auditors and pentesters we hire have never presented me with their certificates ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> That’s because you are a developer and not a security manager

These days, I'm neither.. but I am a founder in a security-critical space.
Perma-owning domain names sounds like a domain name squatter’s dream come true - and therefore not a great time for everybody else.
A lot of people seem to use refurbished enterprise sff machines (optiplex micro, thinkcentre m, etc) for vms and similar, if your storage needs are more modest. I've also seen some run WD externals from them via the stock usb enclosures, although I'm not sure if running raid or the like on usb devices is a good idea.
Plenty of people, hourly, gig, and self-employed people don’t get paid if they don’t work. You might be able to force some of those to be paid while sick-not-working, but the last category will be very difficult to address without either missing a lot of folks or creating tons of fraud and grift risk (and represent a lot of interactions with the public).
I've started to do this for a few varieties (McIntosh, HoneyCrisp, etc., even Red D) but it is hardly comprehensive https://adamapples.blogspot.com/search/label/You%20May%20Als......
No press conferences, massive rallies during a pandemic, and demonizing foreign powers for not solving problems they are responsive for solving? Sounds familiar ...
Reaper won me over back in the day with its 3.5mb binary download size and awesome licensing model. Even when it was version 2 it could run more VST instruments, with smaller buffers (lower latency & fewer dropouts), than Nuendo, Cubase, Samplitude, Cakewalk, or Logic. And it was way better at tracking, at less than 1/100th of the download size, with actual multiplatform support.

Made me a Justin Frankel fanboy for life. It's only gotten better and better since.
Why not a 1U Supermicro server? They have options that are short depth or with Atom processors. If you just want a 4 disk 1U server, those would be a good option.

Or is it a question of budget? If that’s the case, what about a used server (like those from UNIXSurplus)?

Or is it a question of power? If that’s the case, then... I don’t quite know in that case.
The irony was how ages ago everyone was waiting for a browser to come along and unseat IE, which was not a good browser.

Now Chrome works well enough as a browser and has so much market share that it exerts too much control over its users and the Web, and it's unlikely that anything will be capable of obsoleting it in the near future.
Chase Sapphire Reserve
especially when you consider that at this point they raised 100 million in funding. For such a relatively small team thats a ton of money they are burning through.
Thank you! Will check it out. One knob only sounds about right for my parents!
Soy curls are great with buffalo sauce
> It is hard to go back to writing, say, C or C++ once you have a few years of Rust experience ... You really start leaning on the affine types, the compile-time mutability xor aliasing checks, the pervasive checking of thread-safety...

C++ has semi-official Core Guidelines issued by prominent members of the ISO-WG21 standard committee, that describe how to express these things idiomatically. Of course Rust can actually check these things automatically and achieve something close to actual memory safety, but there are ways to at least make a meaningful effort in C++.
My initial interest was personal projects, then I realised some people may not have time to pursue these. So both!
I edited my comment before noticing you already replied. I agree.
Disney's writer wage-theft is far worse than reported
Nobody has ever called hiring more people "right-sizing" when they thought a larger size was right for the company.
Falling giants eh... what person is responsible for the purchase. No wonder Verizon phones bills are sky high. Idiotic plays from CEOs who care not for anything except their 8 figure bonuses.
The summary of her dissertation is really interesting, thanks for sharing! But I think OP's point was "countries who trade with each other are less likely to go to war", not "countries who trade with each other never go to war". And I think OP is right.

"So war does not necessarily stop trade. And thus trade is no prophylactic to war." Seatbelts do not stop people dying in car accidents. But seatbelts do reduce the chances of dying in a car accident. I know I'm being pedantic, but it doesn't have to be all-or-nothing. Even a prophylactic that works 1% of the time is better than nothing.
It might not be what gets the majority of people, but clearly it gets some, and the parent said "nobody."

I will also note that my friends started when they were teens and no longer smoke menthols.
My wife had a compromised immune system so me being around a lot of sick people is an additional risk for her. So my boss said I can wfh if I want to.
Did your classmates also get good jobs, on average?

> I joined right before they made a ton of terrible changes to the program

What were these?
The idea that there is a well-off white-male way of looking at the world ("To me it looks like a couple of well-off white guys...") is the idea that humans are concrete beings whose consciousnesses are determined by certain identity categories (socio-economic status, skin color, sex).

You apparently don't think that your consciousness is determined by those categories. Just those of other well-off white-males.

I have no patience for this stuff. I learned in kindergarten that this way of looking at the world is morally bankrupt. You have to treat people as individuals. For one thing, because that's how you view yourself, as someone singular. For another, because there is no way to quantify human behavior in terms of this or that category, no such theories exist. And finally, because the idea that a person can be summarized by socioeconomic status, sex, or skin color is associated with crimes against humanity.

It's frankly embarrassing for me to see adults behaving as you do. And to drive home the point, your comeback is "you're white" and link Robin DiAngelo.
General education courses do not take up half the course work. Moreover, you are suppose to spend 2-3 hours working out of class for every hour in class. You realize you have to study and do homework outside of class... No one considers a bootcamp to be comparable to an degree at a good university.
Can you make yourself sound more attractive?
I've been "a rust dev" for 4 years, and I honestly can't see Rust not becoming a majorly used language. It's just so _nice_ to use. And I don't mean just "write" also mean "refactor" and "read" which honestly have been some of the hardest things to do in C (the last major language I, I dunno, specialized in(?)). Between the compiler pointing out when you're too sleep deprived to be writing what you're writing or the general "write what you mean, even if it takes a few more keystrokes and the compiler yelling at you a time or two" attitude that seems to pervade the rust community, it's just a nice language to continue to develop in.

Which, again, this is maybe self-serving, but it really feels like a incredibly good long-term investment to learn. Even if you don't end up using it professionally (somehow) the compiler teaches you how to write better low level code.
On the Epistemology of the Inexact Sciences – Rand
I'm of the opinion that the devs should have responsibility for the architecture of their systems.

I also think there should be a layer of authority that is making decisions that span across teams like which cloud provider (AWS, Azure, etc), programming languages, tools (git, svn, trello), integration methods between systems (service buses, event hubs), other third party services, security standards, etc.
Recently got back to using KDE and it is really polished with Opensuse Tumbleweed.

I never understood why Gnome got all the attention from distros when KDE feels like a superior option.
I think this is more of an issue with people misusing CI systems, your gitlab-CI/Jenkins/concourse/etc shouldn’t have any real logic in it, it’s just glue code.

Bazel/Gradle/Maven/etc tend push you in the right direction, bash, etc dont.

Or to put it succinctly, you need both a build system and a CI system, they are not the same thing.
With the QNAP cloud service, even if the server was behind a firewall/NAT, you could still directly access the NAS from the internet. So, you could still get caught with this.

Source: I have a QNAP NAS and after the first week, I couldn’t figure out who was trying to login to it as an admin account. Thankfully, I had changed all the passwords, but by default it had connected to their cloud service and was remotely accessible. I’m still not 100% sure I have it completely secured.