skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish you'd stop with this smug condescension. You are utterly ignorant of the US music scene during this period, and in general, based on your comments.

You seem to be basing your views on top 40 charts and what was protrayed in media. It's true, techno and electronica only rarely appeared there in the 90s. That's because electronica in the US was entirely centered around clubs and raves. Radio was controlled by a handful of big labels that all had a specific intent to shape the market towards specific genres. So techno in the US never became a "factory" product.

But that doesn't mean we weren't listening to it. I grew up in Kansas in a smaller city. In high school we were going to jungle or trance parties just as often as grunge. All the big box book and music stores had substantial electronica sections. We discovered music at parties, via word of mouth, and by the latter half of the 90s, via the internet.

People have been listening to techno in the US continuously since its inception in Detroit. But we've been listening to a whole lot of other electronica subgrenes as well.

The kind of music in your link has never been popular with electronica fans here. We find it manufactured banal empty trash to be blunt. The closest to that style that's been popular here would be Oakenfold and the like.

You also misunderstand hip hop in one of your comments. It is not just popular with black Americans. It's been popular with Americans of all sorts since its inception. In fact hip hop essentially subsumed pop in the late 90s.

There's been a lot of exchange between hip hop and electronica in the US too, particularly due to both using the 808 a lot. The latest electronica fad, the revival of phonk, is another example. It's a fusion of trap with breakbeat techno. And it's yet another example of how electronica is fundamentally international, as the revival has been driven by russian producers like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smbiKaOAN3Q

I don't really know what you're trying to accomplish with your smugness, but to be blunt all it's doing is making you look both ignorant and prejudiced.
Why did you jump to that conclusion? The only explanation i can find would be to brand you as a racist, but i'd rather not, that is why i am asking.
I don't know what exactly is going on, but last time I looked into it, it seemed the main difference between the codes was how quickly you can do 1/sqrt(x). Ultimately, I would like to see more numerical benchmarks and also compare more versions in a given language.

We started a repository for it:

https://github.com/fortran-lang/benchmarks/

But didn't have time to work on it yet. See the issues, e.g., at:

https://github.com/fortran-lang/benchmarks/issues/2

For some discussion how to best do that.
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Game consoles aren't personal computers. They're toys.

You have over a dozen platforms to choose from when you want to play Assassin's Creed. You only have two choices for the computing device you use most frequently.

The pocket computer you have is where you do banking, calls, photos, dating, research, social networking. A lot of people spend most of their lives on these computers.
> "lockdowns had no impact on people's behavior and therefore had no benefit" and "lockdowns had massive negative costs"

I think you're overlooking the idea that "lockdowns", as we know them, do little other than impose massive costs and anxieties on society, while failing to achieve their main objective i.e. complete immobilization and eradication.

So you end up with all the costs of the policy with little upside because the dynamics of spread seem very heterogeneous, mass-spread seems to happen in relatively few people in very particular scenarios (crowded indoor areas - notice that lockdown ends up pushing the entire society, especially the least healthy and most vulnerable, indoors).
Is that the case? I hadn't seen anything conclusive that that actually had happened? (some people said the contacted the IRB, but presumably that was part of what triggered the IRB to look at it)

But looking into this and clearly documenting it is part of what UMN needs to do.
> The corollary — also something we already knew — is that code going into the kernel is often not as well reviewed as we like to think.

This may be true but not really a corollary of what happened. In fact, it seems there aren't the resources to determine how many of the patches are actually bad and should really be reverted.
I actually think it’s better to go from 1 to 2 than the other way around. You just have to make number 2 your endgame. (If you are smart enough to learn the tool, then you can learn sales math)
> social tactic

This, but not derisively. Note that the university's IRB granted an exception for this behavior, and neither UMN nor the department responded with consideration for the concerns raised by the kernel team until after they banned the whole domain.
I think the environment has changed since this was project was executed. I am not familiar with the industry but it now seems like travel companies and airlines have more ad-hoc control of their online prices. Someone please correct me here.

Back then (2012) I used a startup called flightfox to find the best travel deals for me (they have since pivoted to corporate travel management). I assumed they performed analysis similar to this article plus some other magic and it worked really well.

Today, I find more deals through "deal spotting" - a community or algorithm scours for deals and then those deals are shared within a community or on a website.
Ask HN: How to convince your manager to let you continue to WFH.
What is your advice to a developer that enjoys their current job and wants to continue to WFH post-pandemic.
This seems highly focused on systems; I wouldn't call it representative of "Computer Science" as a whole. Only maybe 2-3 of the classes in my computer science degree were focused on this kind of stuff.

Still seems like a good resource, just perhaps mislabeled.
Or is it about raising the funds to provide public goods in a way that minimizes waste and deadweight loss?
Now a script would be great helping check if the backdoor is present on a system or not.
Nano, is great, very light weight, and easy to compile from source. Usually available on pretty much any unix system.

I love the fact that it doesn't try to do anything more than edit text.
In addition to the technological factors here (optics), think about the biological timing of the riders. Wout van Aert picked the right time to accelerate and win -- from the front! He won even with a significant aerodynamic disadvantage.

Wout!!!

> According to UCI regulations, the photo finish verdict is final, because the finish line is what the photo finish says it is.

https://cyclingtips.com/2021/04/making-sense-of-the-controve...
Sorry for the late reply, HN "rate limits" got me.

The short answer is that I pick my workplace based on culture. I have to. I am a very obvious queer looking person, so about half to a third of my interviews go at least slightly sour as soon as they start. It's a good filter in a way.

The job I had while coming out turned out not to be so great, lots of rumors and hot takes and bad jokes about me going around. I don't need that sort of constant negativity in my life.

(Also, I'm not exactly sure how I'd define "the other side", since I'm not in the US. It's more subtle here.)
Open Saves: open-source cloud-native storage for games
Release: Limitless environments so developers never have to wait to ship code
I can definitely relate to this. I've spent countless hours optimizing my groceries and trying to get them as low as possible. I could easily spend several times as much without much financial impact, but I enjoy it as a way to derive satisfaction and mindfulness from what's otherwise just a mundane and repetitive chore
Reclaim Your City is fantastic! I've been listening to it for years. Endless totally techno sets from a wide range of DJs and a wider range of tracks, and they're all really expertly put together. Seamless is the rule, not the exception. It generally feels like it's one mad synthesizer boffin performing on a giant machine, rather than picking individual tracks to play in sequence. Rarely can you tell when they switch from one track to another.
To me that argument about "paying your fair share" never made any sense.

Wouldn't "fair share" be defined as how many/much of the government offerings you use?

So how is it that someone making $1m/yr in exchanges is somehow using MORE government offerings and therefore has to pay more in order to keep up with their "fair share"? Do they somehow use more roads because they have equities? Perhaps they use the sewage system more? Use more welfare dollars? Use more school?

Just makes no sense. It's straight up inequality and classism.
Just speculating here, but maybe because of false positives where flu cases get labeled as Covid? I've heard that PCR tests were not meant to be used for large scale virus detection.

EDIT: The PCR test quote was fact checked and deemed to be misleading, but it still sounds like they are not very accurate [0].

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-pcr-idUSKBN2442...
> It's not really surprising a bunch of academic-types were too far removed from open source etiquette

Umm, there's etiquette in academia too you know... even FOSS etiquette in academia.
Not that agree or disagree, but... Using that logic, why should we care at all. Less than 7 million out of about 170 million in the workforce. Shouldn't we be looking a other, more common jobs? (On a side note I'm surprised software devs are only 1.9 million)
Pickpocketers minimize any physical contact. Biometrics protect against them. PINs do not. Anecdotally I know about an iPhone that got unlocked after a theft at a party. It was protected by a PIN. The owner thinks that the pickpocketer learned the PIN by looking over his shoulder.

On the other side burglars can get into a house and force people to unlock their phones or reveal their passwords, if they care to. There is no protection against that unless those people value their secrets more than the harm the burglars will do to them.

All considered, I unlock with my fingerprints.
Nah, let me sum it up for you:

1. Likes to talk and learn from talking

2. Likes to mute and preach
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Can you explain to me how you think certificate pinning would work in JavaScript? That doesn't make any sense.

Client-side crypto (even in JavaScript) has its place, but certificate pinning is specifically a TLS thing, and IMO not relevant to this discussion.
> So, it doesn't makes use of any 0day or exploit to enter the system.

Why do you believe that to be the case?
Do you mean pstree?
Hi there, Hopper engineer here. The blog post is pretty accurate from my experience (lowest prices ~3 months out) but if you apply any of this logic to the past year then you're going to have a bad time. The pandemic caused the entire industry to lower their average flight prices and now that things are starting to return to normal, so are prices. Because of that, predicting price trends based on historic data is a bit tougher.

If you use iOS (not sure if we have it on Android just yet) then I'd recommend looking for something called "auto-buy" when you search for a flight. It's basically a limit order for flights and it'll allow you to set a price that you would be comfortable buying at. If the fare dips to that price then it'll book for you. We've seen some insane deals get booked through this product. Just looking at some of them from yesterday there was a round-trip flight from NFO (Norfolk, Virgina) to MCO (Orlando, Florida) that we originally price quoted at $284 for the user and it was booked at $166.
Mobile gaming is surely huge and growing. But I don't see how it has much bearing on the health of PC gaming. It's not a zero-sum game. I can buy that PC and Console gaming are in competition but the gaming experience between mobile and PC/Console is vastly different.
silabs efm8bb1 has kits for $6 and are a good start for those ready to learn non arduino, in the weeds 8 bitters at a great cost
'Look after my babies': In Ethiopia, a Tigray family's quest
Haiku has a novel take on the email client: all mail is retrieved by the `mail_daemon` and stored as files in a folder.
Haiku's filesystem allows arbitrary attributes on files, so you can sort mail by subject, sender, date etc. right there in the file manager.

You can construct advanced queries using attributes or body contents, and the query system could even give you a 'unified inbox' folder with any other protocols which stored their messages as files (if they existed).
How can you convince your boss to let you continue to WFH after being asked to go back to the office?
Key point:

>>"kernel maintainers (and maintainers of many other free-software projects) are overworked and do not have the time to properly review every patch that passes through their hands. They are, as a result, forced to rely on the trustworthiness of the developers who submit patches to them. The kernel development process is, arguably, barely sustainable when that trust is well placed; it will not hold together if incoming patches cannot, in general, be trusted. "

Yet these UMN "researchers" deliberately chose to violate that trust.

Are they so ethically clueless and arrogant that they didn't think to review the plan? Did they hold any kind of ethical review and pass it, or fail it and decide to proceed anyway?

In any case, they've now alerted the entire world that the Linux dev process and OS dev processes in general are incredibly vulnerable to malicious actors.

This vulnerability is also shown by another #1 HN story[1]

[1] https://blog.netlab.360.com/stealth_rotajakiro_backdoor_en/
This issue of separating a build system and a package manager vs lumping it together is a key design decision. We chose to follow Rust's Cargo, which lumps it together. It seems like a wrong decision at first (for the reason you stated), but we feel it is actually the right decision: from the user experience it feels much more natural and robust. I was not sure at first, but after playing with Cargo and Rust, you realize that this is the way to go.
I use OPA with terraform and kubernetes, but I’m looking for something for application ACLs, where I as a resource owner can assign permissions to arbitrary subjects for a resource.

Does OPA support that? If so that would be very very cool.
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>> HR nagging people because they left books on their desk

You just reminded me one more reason for me not to return office - we have policy that when leaving for the day employees must remove all extra items [] from the desk and put that into personal cabinet.

extra items - everything apart from phone, display and keyboard + mouse.
Stories Make You, You
I think the computer term for the thing that most resembles how a meatspace virus behaves and propagates is "worm". Most worms can probably be classified as viruses, but most viruses nowadays (thankfully) aren't worms. (It can also generally refer to anything that's malicious and recursively self-propagating, like Samy's infamous Myspace XSS worm [1].)

Meatspace viruses are like computer worms, though computer viruses and computer worms aren't like meatspace worms; for that and a laundry list of other reasons, "malware" has superseded a lot of those terms among the infosec community.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm)
In my city all new apartment buildings (here that's 5-7 floors) have underground parking with at least 1 parking space for every unit. I'm not sure if that's by law, but it makes good sense. The parking spaces cost an extra €20,000 on top of the apartment price, so it makes good business sense for the developer to do this too :-)

Opposite me (literally 10m from my window, across the street) there is a new development being built that used to be a dirt patch of private parking for an office. It's going to be a mixture of office, retail and residential units. For the past year it's been fun to watch them digging out the plot - around the size of a medium supermarket - to 20m or so below ground level, which will be used for parking.
The annoying part about booking plane tickets these days is that most flight booking websites have very similar and limited functionality for querying and filtering. Sure, there's Matrix ITA and Google Flights is an upgrade too.

But imagine what people could do if you gave them full fledged access to all flight data. The efficiencies!
If UMN’s ethics review(s) has approved this experiment in cooperation with Linus/Greg, there would not be anything to be outraged about.

The outrage, and the core ethical violation, centers around intentionally wasting the time of others for selfish benefit without appropriate review and consent.
It's quite a story but it's unclear to me what the author wants Google to do, exactly.

- Should Google just let everything through?

- Should Google never cancel people's accounts?
No, because you're too lazy to research your own question. If you had, you'd know that web dev is part of Salesforce dev. Have fun.
> Assuming 261 workdays in a year, I will save 783 hours a year. I get over a month of my life back.

You can also save days by brushing teeth while pooping.

But on more serious note.

I never liked this kind of an argument/math, its not like you will magically get a 13th month in a year by not commuting.

That said 3hrs commute is crazy, I did it (3.5hrs of total daily commute) as a teen during a summer job.
I leant then that its not worth it. Its draining + expensive. Also it cuts into so much of your time that your quality of life will suffer as you have to choose between recovering your energy levels or social life.

Ever since I have a rule to not consider a job if its too far away.
Assuming you are talking about parent/child processes, use the --forest option in ps for an ascii art process tree.
What other sport can old people play? If they want to stay semi-active they can't really play badminton or basketball or anything else. Some of it can about about privilege or whatever, but there are other ways to show that like have boats and what not. I play golf and all the people I know genuinely enjoy it
Selling cocaine is also quite profitable, and yet we opted to not allow that.

That's not to say that I think legal restrictions are necessarily the right answer, but neither is "well, it's more profitable" a reason to not explore that space.
How does the netlab link have anything to do with Linux development processes?
The academic ivory tower is real. I have seen tenured professors with tenuous grips on the reality outside of academia. Something like this kernel affair seems pretty plausible to me
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I meant in terms of emergency services response in general and transport/care from incident to hospital. I can't speak much about care in hospitals. But initial response to COVID was substantially worse in US then in Europe, in my subjective perspective.
Agreed, and I'm stunned this is even in question.
If you’re at FAANG, you can - that is the point. I’ve only spoken of FAANG so far. Check levels. A $1mil home is cheap for a FAANG employee.
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That’s a very good explanation.

When I first read about it years ago, I mistakenly assumed it was ‘deeper’ or more profound.

But, at the end of the day, it is just a variant in the old “This Sentence Is False” riddle you’d encounter as a kid.

Papers on the topic are frequently spruced up with complicated gibberish... but, unless we are both missing something fundamental, it’s really as simple as set forth in your post.
That's nonsense, most governments around the world are approving vaccines on an urgent basis. This is true for every vaccine. This doesn't mean that the government forcing any vaccine to be accepted.
The likely explanation is that, because the flu is significantly less transmissible than COVID, even states with "no restrictions" were able to knock it out because enough people took enough measures to protect themselves from airborne/surface communicable disease in general.

In other words, you can probably beat back the flu significantly by having enough of the population mask up, wash/sanitize their hands, etc.
> Slow down to go faster
yes! I had a similar problem with bigger projects. I used to start coding too early before understanding the problem completely.

I have decided to write an essay since, about everything I am about to do. This slows me down and makes me look at every detail that might be crucial in the project execution.

These docs then become some sort of a data lake about the process of building this project, from which later I can derive documentation or slides for presentations from or send people there when they ask me why I did something the way I did.
I'm increasingly disappointed in what has become of Tyler Cowen. I guess this is always what he was and I was just blind in the past. Oh well.

Discussion of US tax policy is so frustrating. I just wasted 20 minutes trying and failing to even find what Biden's proposal actually is. What are the exact rate brackets? Does this restore the distinction between long term and short term gains or apply to everything? Does this remove the loophole for carried interest? Not a peep. Every single article is just exactly the same choose your talking points that can be predicted to a tee from the pre-existing political lean of the parent publisher. Not a single attempt to actually inform voters.

Media is trash.
Kind of like GTA has lead to a car-hijacking crisis and a amok-murder wave that still terrorizes all western nations?

Those monkey sees, monkey does theories have been thoroughly debunked by now?

Why not admit, that we forbid this stuff, because its horrifying and deeply distressing to see another person, especially a child suffer?

Its the same crap as gore or torture-videos. What it is to somebody afflicted with these "preferences", doesen't factor into it at all?
I'm amazed this is still live - I've literally been seeing this listing on and off for two decades.

It could probably use some updating.

There's also a physics version: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicphys.htm
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Is there a video of a gramma using it?
When shown on a 7-segment display, the only numbers whose images don't contain a little square are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7. I call them "square-free numbers".

Oh, you're saying "square-free" has an established meaning in mathematics? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-free_integer

Well, you see, "square" already had an established meaning in English before number theory existed. Curious, why’d you pick that specialization of this word, out of all that are available? :)
I sympathize a lot with them. It really shows how relying on Google Play, App Store, etc is not a reliable way of making a living.

Though expect now that the story blew up some fake sympathy and the restoration of the app.

Otherwise I'd propose pivoting the coding app to a website (like Replit, maybe)
> How does only allowing yes or no answers increase nuance?

I don't know. It says they're 30-second videos- I imagine it'll consist of people prefacing their answer with "yes" or "no" followed by 30 seconds to elaborate. However, I think this will have the same problem that makes Twitter so unpopular with HN's crowd; Twitter is far too limiting in the length of a single tweet, so all that gets shouted out into the aether is an emotionally-triggering soundbite. That's a key part of what fosters such an echo chamber. It kills discussion and all you end up with are some very loud, angry tweets with no context or nuance.

I have no idea how Polemix plans on bringing more nuance to the political scene this way, but that's probably why I'm still a lowly non-founder/non-FAANG dev. I don't like to be negative or disparaging, but in my limited vision, this sounds like the love child of Twitter and Vine.