skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, but the "security" excuse is BS. You don't have to tell users what automated tool flagged them or how their violation was discovered.

You do have an ethical obligation to inform them of what policy was violated with sufficient detail that a good actor has a reasonable chance of complying with your policy.

I think that this should be required of any company that to provides publicly available goods/services, not just Google. This doesn't just help with monopolies, but also makes it harder to hide racism and censorship behind opaque policies.
Your definition of what a "nice person" looks like may be predicated on the breadth of your experience with different people. For many (most?) people, the closer someone is to what their friends/family look and act like the "nicer" they are. That's not a condemnation of you or anyone else - it's normal.

I think some humility is in order. It's possible that one is a perfect, unbiased judge of character. On the other hand it's possible that one is just human, with a predilection for equating "like me and my friends" to "nice" or "professional".
"A time comes when silence is betrayal."

This is classical us vs them rhetoric, and I don't like to be dragged into this trap, especially at a company level.
Very late to this discussion, but O&G absolutely cares about sustainability and climate change ... because there are a ton of activist investors who care about it.

So they have to "put on their Sunday best" or they get shellacked in socially responsible index fund investor calls and press.
... in the US. It's a different story worldwide where Apple is around 8% (source: https://9to5mac.com/2021/01/11/mac-huge-q4-growth-49-percent...).
First of all, Apple could save a huge amount of money replacing Intel based servers with their own chips. Both on the CPU price, expecially the Xeons are really expensive as well as on electricity consumption, probably the largest running cost of data centers.

Then the gains of scale, making a CPU just of the Mac Pro would mean too low production numbers, but with data center usage would drive those up - especially if Apple also sold it to other customers, e.g. bringing the Xserve back. For the OS they could run Linux virtualized or they give the native Linux on Mac developers a hand.
From what I've read, there are some areas where the Forest Service/Park Service are allowed to use power tools for maintenance activities. This seems like the exception rather than rule, however.

I have a friend who does trail maintenance in the Dolly Sodds and surrounding areas, and he has gotten quite adept at using a crosscut saw with his partner. I've seen it in action, and the efficiency of that tool, in the hands of skilled users, is quite impressive.
> Plenty of people who can’t afford a fast computer

I’m pretty sure this set of people can’t afford 50$ for Mighty either.
Here in Gemrany I there are signs with "voluntarily 30" or similar combined with some surrounding images etc. and yes one can fake it, but most fakes can be identified realtively easily by humans (positioning, color, material (non-reflecting cardboard), ...) some high quality fake sign might however exist for a while.

Also there is the reverse: people stealing signs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25223633) or putting stickers on them (or snow, mud, ...) where most humans know what to expect (stop sign, yield, ... have specific shape for a purpose; empty frame where city starts; ...)

Going out of a somewhat controlled small area in SV/SFO or AZ is a huge task. Going to a different country requires complete re-learning of the models ... and then there are humans ...
500,000 dead / 400 million people.

You can do the math.

Hell only 33 million in the states tested positive for contracting Corona.

33 million / 400 million

Which is infection rate of .0825

Even if you double it to account for non tested cases that .16% JUST CASES.

Even if you double that you're not even at 1% yet.

The experts err to the EXTREME side of safety.

These are the same experts that say only eat steak if it's well done and not to drink more than 2/3 cup of wine in an evening.
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I guess maybe if Apple makes more changes after all of that happens. 10 years ago Instagram was iOS-only for years. Uber launched on iPhone and later added Android. Clubhouse is iOS-only right now. These companies are choosing to focus on iOS for their startups.

The other day there was an article here about Swift on the server and it was full of replies from people who would love to use it more but lack of investment from Apple makes it often a poor choice. It's doubtful even Apple is using it much server-side in house.
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They’re getting better over time, especially for floats/doubles, but I still find them limited even for simple use cases.

Here’s an example of auto-vectorizer in clang 12, which I believe represents state of the art at the moment: https://godbolt.org/z/6Pe33187W It automatically vectorized the loop and even manually unrolled it, however I think the code bottlenecks on shuffles not on memory loads. Just too many instructions in the loop, and that vpmovzxbq instruction can only run on port 5 on Skylake.

Compare the assembly with manually vectorized version from an answer on stackoverflow: https://godbolt.org/z/do5e3-
So basically at some point they were funded in part by the CIAs fund as well as other tech companies. Now they aren't at all.

Seems very misleading to claim they are CIA funded at this point.
I think this fundamentally misunderstands paper wealth for real wealth, and financial capital for real capital, and you are getting away with it by pretending that wealth is like water -- e.g. there is a finite amount of it that people need to drink.

What is wrong with India -- and I understand this is not a fundamental explanation but a symptom of more fundamental causes -- is that it is difficult to invest and create more capital in the country. This has absolutely nothing to do with "hoarding" financial assets. What it means is that the credit/financial system is broken, so that if you have the skills and ideas and talent to do something you cannot have your plans priced by the credit markets. If there was a functioning credit market that would help enable productive ecosystems. It is, unfortunately not sufficient, you also need skilled labor that doesn't flee the nation, you need rule of law so that contracts are enforced, you need a stable regulatory environment so that investments can be planned ahead without paying bribes to various officials and interest groups, etc.

Absolutely none of this requires anyone who holds lots of financial assets to get off their as* and do anything at all. If they do nothing and don't invest, they will merely become relatively poorer as new entrepreneurs arise. They are not blocking the production of anything unless they use their wealth to actively create roadblocks (e.g. bribe officials to turn down permits for upstarts, etc). In an economy with functioning credit markets and productive eco-systems, it is not old wealth that innovates, it is new wealth. You still have Rockeffellers laying around but people like Elon Musk arise from the ranks of the middle classes to become wealthy on the backs of new ideas. The lack of Indian Elon Musks is not due to the Rockefellers "hoarding" their oil fortunes, anymore than middle class people like Henry Ford or Thomas Edison didn't get funded by old Timber barons. They got funded by credit markets.

So the problem with India is that while it has human capital, it lacks the other ingredients to create productive eco-systems that can create the capital needed to make India richer and more productive. So look to things like lack of rule of law, a bureaucracy that prevents new entrants, and a credit system that does not properly price new investment ideas. Rich people are merely passive holders of bonds or stocks and play no positive or negative roles in any of this.
Ask HN: Career paths going to college: cybersec, CS+cybersec, or something else
I am a high school senior choosing between 2 universities in Purdue and UNC Charlotte. My interests are in cybersecurity, networking and operating systems. My ultimate goal is a high salary, I was thinking a FAANG company.

One of them, Purdue, is out of state and is offering admittance into their polytechnic school. This would mean I would do cybersecurity applications hands on from the very start. It would offer a technology degree over an engineering one, in cybersecurity. Here is the cybersecurity course of study - https://catalog.purdue.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=13&poid=16668

One of them, UNC Charlotte, is in state and is offering admittance into their general computer science program. This would start with theory and give a computer science degree. It does have a cybersecurity program for master's so I can do that after i get the computer science degree. I could also more easily transfer to a better program from here if I so desire - most notably, UNC Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University are closer to home and offer better programs. Here is the UNC Charlotte CCI course curriculum - https://cci.uncc.edu/academics/computer-science/undergraduate-programs/courses

How woould CS into cybersecurity affect my career decisions? How would doing cybersecurity from the get-go affect them? What career choices are best for earning a high salary?
Tech interviews have been horribly broken for at least a decade now. They've been mostly broken for a couple decades. Fortunately I haven't had to talk to a recruiter for a job since 1998 and hopefully I never will again. Maybe call up some people you worked with before and see if their company is hiring. They most likely are.

Anyway, C# is still very relevant, but it depends on location. In my city, it's huge, in others, not so much. I tend to stick to back end work rather than front end work. Front end's flavor of the day changes way too often, and I find it to be tedious work. Back end is much less reliant on external libraries and therefore doesn't change as rapidly, and to me is much closer to actual programming.

So in summary, talk to your prior colleagues, stick to back end work (if that's your bag). Keep on truckin'
And if the OP has a strong personal interest in tracking flights over his community, he should pay particular attention to the page about antenna and setting up his own tracker
As a developer, I hate when the services I use have chatbots that I'm forced to interact with, even as front-line help before taking me to a human agent.

I don't know where I'd land if a client offered me good money to make them a support chatbot.
I understand what Apple's intentions here are, but abstracting away a security risk is only inviting disaster, and it's kinda endemic of an issue throughout Apple's ecosystem: their whole game is about reducing the power of the end user. It makes sense from some angles, security being one, but it also impedes the freedom of choice. Instead of engineering their software to appeal to the lowest common denominator, they should be empowering people who want to push beyond that envelope and offering extensibility to those who want to take advantage of it.
I'm really hoping one of the other chipmakers jumps on the RISC-V bandwagon. There's substantial potential to do to ARM what ARM did to x86 here. If Intel/AMD/Qualcomm/Broadcom/whoever started talking about a significant RISC-V offering I'd be buying as much of their stock as I could.
That depends on what size of black hole you want to make. It works for large black holes (you need sufficient mass for the gravitational forces to be sufficient) but those black holes aren’t that useful.

Smaller black holes are harder to construct but way more useful.
So far, we try to just use Jupyter notebooks for experimentation, scratch, and poking around.

Real, working code gets checked in to a repository. The only reason to go back to an old notebook after that point is maybe to see how you may have experimented with or poked at some data.
> Evolution is OK at adapting current things to new uses, or doing a massively-parallel search on what you can do with just a tweak to a gene, but if the task can't be done with one of those things, it just loses and the organism dies. Or, to put it another way, it's good at climbing slopes one step at a time, but if you present it with a cliff it just fails.

Not the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_ex... gives us a concrete example of this; the ability to metabolize citrate required two mutations, the first of which isn't useful on its own.

As long as a mutation isn't drastically harmful, it may persist in the population to be built upon later.

> It's essentially the same reason why nothing has evolved a resistance to a human gardener yanking them physically out of the ground and leaving them to die on the concrete...

They have evolved quite a few of these. Try and clear a lawn of dandelions and you'll discover they regenerate from their taproot if you leave any of it in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vavilovian_mimicry indicates another, where false flax has evolved based on a human invention, winnowing machines, to evade them.

Rye grain evolved so effectively based on human activity that it went from weed to useful crop, even.
CPI constituents:

food and beverages: 15.157%

housing: 42.385%

apparel: 2.663%

transportation: 15.738%

medical care: 8.87%

recreation: 5.797%

education & communication: 6.81%

other goods and services: 3.159%

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adjusted
12-mos.
Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. ended
2020 2020 2020 2020 2021 2021 2021 Mar.
2021

All items.................. .2 .1 .2 .2 .3 .4 .6 2.6
Food...................... .1 .2 .0 .3 .1 .2 .1 3.5
Food at home............. -.3 .1 -.2 .3 -.1 .3 .1 3.3
Food away from home (1).. .6 .3 .1 .4 .3 .1 .1 3.7
Energy.................... 1.4 .6 .7 2.6 3.5 3.9 5.0 13.2
Energy commodities....... 1.4 .7 .5 5.1 7.3 6.6 8.9 22.0
Gasoline (all types).... 1.7 .7 .5 5.2 7.4 6.4 9.1 22.5
Fuel oil (1)............ -3.0 .7 3.3 10.2 5.4 9.9 3.2 20.2
Energy services.......... 1.3 .5 .9 .2 -.3 .9 .6 4.1
Electricity............. .8 .6 .3 .4 -.2 .7 .0 2.5
Utility (piped) gas
service.............. 3.1 .4 3.0 -.4 -.4 1.6 2.5 9.8
All items less food and
energy................. .2 .1 .2 .0 .0 .1 .3 1.6
Commodities less food and
energy commodities.... .5 .0 .0 .1 .1 -.2 .1 1.7
New vehicles............ .3 .3 .0 .4 -.5 .0 .0 1.5
Used cars and trucks.... 5.3 .9 -1.4 -.9 -.9 -.9 .5 9.4
Apparel................. -.4 -.9 .7 .9 2.2 -.7 -.3 -2.5
Medical care
commodities (1)...... -.6 -.7 -.4 -.2 -.1 -.7 .1 -2.4
Services less energy
services.............. .1 .1 .2 .0 .0 .2 .4 1.6
Shelter................. .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .2 .3 1.7
Transportation services -.3 .2 1.3 -.6 -.3 -.1 1.8 -1.6
Medical care services... .0 -.3 -.1 -.1 .5 .5 .1 2.7

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2021/04/1...
For the "why would someone pay" question, I think it's quite simple.

1. We are more and more moving to a world of highly valuable workers. Improving their efficiency in a high salary country is easily worth it. Company should be willing to pay 0.4 - 1% of your salary to make you more efficient.

2. Longer liftetime of company computers. No need to upgrade to M1 yet.

3. Seems like they are building a full on WorkOS as well. That migth also just be worth it.
I read it as they are having trouble making the computer usable now.
> They are unable due to their policies

Unable due to their policies, which they wrote and they can change (and which they often choose not to follow anyway).

I agree with OP - it’s not that Google isn’t able to do this, it’s that Google doesn’t want to.
In the US, you need a couple hours of simulated instrument time as well. One difference in the US is that you can legally fly VFR at night - even if it may be unwise in a lot of areas. A lot of countries (I believe the UK is one of them?) require an instrument ticket for flying at night.

If you're up over, say, Iowa at night? Tons of farms, flat, lights everywhere? It's fine. Pretty, you can still see stuff, and short of an invisible power line for an off airport landing, it's almost like flying during the day.

Out in Idaho, in the mountains? You're pretty dumb to fly VFR at night. There's no light anywhere, lots of hard rock, and plenty of clouds that like to appear with no warning.

But, yes, fuel gauges suck. The problem is that even if you put something like a fuel totalizer in, you still only know how much has gone into the engine, not how much is left in the wings. I understand a loose or missing fuel cap will drain a Cessna's wing tank in about 10-15 minutes.
Well, I am unable to give someone your money because you won't agree. It's not against the laws of physics, but I still can't do it. Google can do it, they just don't want to.

Hell, they can even change their policies if they want, so they aren't really "unable".
Cable-chewing beavers take out town’s Internet in “uniquely Canadian” outage
During the pandemic, wealthy people have seen massive gains through huge increases in asset values without doing any work, too. Generally speaking, wealthy people have seen much larger increases in net worth during this pandemic than the working poor. Why is the problem with the economy poor people staying home on unemployment rather than monetary policies creating an asset bubble that the already well off primarily reap?

The actual problem is that despite all this money washing around, real wages for many people have not went up at all.
I have 200TB in my garage.
+1 for restrict, that certainly helps. Out of curiosity, what's your use case where autovectorization works well?

Personally, I have often been disappointed. Not much progress in 2 years: http://www.0x80.pl/notesen/2021-01-18-autovectorization-gcc-...
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I think this is very indicative of Winkelmann's philosophies about software in general. On his site he writes a little bit about why he thinks Forth is so important, and I think it makes for a good explanation of why he probably implemented Strand like this:

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/articles/forth...
Are you leveraging arrow-flight to stream between server-side to client side? Or some custom protocol embedding the arrow data as a binary blob?
Kind of a dry sketch this time. I don't think the joke is "haha no one uses Linux", it's more of a COVID period piece. Wonder where the deserted strip mall is.
With all the respect in the world, I think the complete lack of that happening at all this century should make you pause and reflect on why you think it's even remotely possible.

I'm happy to be wrong, but I think you're buying too much into the SV/media fearmongering on a handful of companies whose main business is actually just attention economics.
I can imagine a small niche for something like this. Big corps can end up with weird IT department restrictions and capex/opex inelasticity. There are a tragic number of professionals stuck with a cheap Dell thin-and-light laptop with a 1368x768 TN display and 6 GB RAM. They can absolutely afford a better computer, but they can't get IT/purchasing to give it to them. They're unincentivized to spend their own money on a nicer computer, and even if they did want to, they could never get it on the domain and approved with IT's spyware and antispam software. But they may have a small amount of opex, their direct manager could accommodate a monthly "I need this subscription to do my job". This results in stupidly expensive Todo-list collaboration subscriptions, and cloud computers that are more expensive than local computers, and IT-bypassed remote storage systems...it's not a rationally optimal state of affairs, more like a weird corner of the chaos of modern society.
Nothing GP said has to contradict either of these. I think you’re accusing them of accusing him of lying. Was Marlinspike paid for his services to mobilecoin, possibly even as CTO? Be more careful with your accusations. https://www.coindesk.com/signal-founder-may-have-been-more-t...
Using a less accurate phrase instead of a more accurate one because it benefits/shields you is a dark pattern.

Were the implied statement made explicit, then yes it'd be accurate.
Sounds like you solved the problem though. Leave the printing in there:P
I am aware. Community management is different from what is legally possible. Were a project owner start to act in a self-interested or malicious manner, then I think proudly and aggressively forking a project is a great idea. That's not Redis. Like I said, it may be a good idea to have a multi-threaded Redis, but Redis users tend to love Redis. I would probably lean into that goodwill instead of against it.
For the search use case, I use Firefox search keywords [1]. It avoids a useless redirection through duckduckgo ; I use duckduckgo bangs when I don't have a keyword configured.

You can even add search keywords by right clicking on a search field -> "Add a keyword for this search". It works on intranets and internal knowledge bases too.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...
Furthermore I have heard it is actually possible for casts to be dropped under load. I am having a hard time confirming this, and had a hard time confirming it back then too. And even worse, I realize most of the time we code as if the casts will be reliably delivered.

Can someone chime in on this?
I'm curious how it relates to your startup. None of your data lived in a semantic db?
Why did Basecamp management say "no politics at work"? Well, coincidentally, a full one-third of Basecamp employees wanted to join the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion council. DEI appears to be precisely the politics DHH and Jason don't want Basecamp to think about.

Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Rahsfan/status/1387042197321633792
“I've seen studies on ”social bots“ that made more sense than this paper.”
Let's be honest. Until the government (federal, state, and local) gets deadly serious about cyber crime this will keep happening.

There's so much waste in Washington D.C. for them to have no ability to do anything about this stuff makes me think there's way too much corruption in our government. Until that's rooted out and qualified people put into the important decision-making roles, may we simply hope things don't get too bad before they start getting better.
Show HN: Toggle Methods and Endpoints at Runtime
"C++20 is one year old!"

The ISO standard was published in December of last year. So, technically, C++20 is only four months old.
I understand why Basecamp have made the decisions they have on this.

As an entrepreneur and small business owner, I would be frankly terrified of hiring a woke SJW who wanted our business and all of our employees to become wholly dedicated to solving their pet causes.

Solving large scale societal injustice would be great, but it’s a long way down my list of priorities when logging on in the morning.

It’s even worse with the ever present threat they would then breach NDAs and bring the raging Twitter mob to the door when they don’t get their own way.

There are a million injustices in the world, but engaging and supporting them should be a personal decision. Keep that stuff away from the office.
I live in a brick house in Europe, and my plumbing and wire do run in the walls.

I just cut the wall, run my wires inside and cover with plaster.
Well, that's pretty much what Bill Gates and his GAVI are doing, just with their "vaccines" instead of nukes. (Gates' comment that vaccines will result in reducing global population by 15% (about a billion) cannot be really be interpreted other than as advocacy for vaccine-initiated genocide.)

Genocide is so much easier with vaccines than with nukes - and you don't have the radiation problem to deal with.
+1 to intrinsics or wrappers giving us more control over performance.

> Plus, when you get the hang of it, writing your own SIMD library is fairly simple

hm.. it's indeed easy to start, but maintaining https://github.com/google/highway (supports clang/gcc/MSVC, x86/ARM/RiscV) is quite time-consuming,
especially working around compiler bugs.