skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man, I have long been joking about the AWS UI. Like how it will gladly walk you through all the steps for launching a server and only at the very last step says “oh you don’t have permission to do that lol, get permission and start over”.

I compared[1] it to a bartender who walks you through an entire sale and only at the last second rejects your purchase for being underage (instead of denying you the at the initial request for something alcoholic).

Of course, that’s one of the minor things in the grand scheme.

[1] http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2016/02/some-of-my-geeky-t...
More recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
There’s a lot of middle ground between credit limit checks within every database transaction and the current state.
Love seeing a better thinker and writer state my opinion so much better.
Ten Facts About Mobile App Development
I let my son play Doom with The Simpsons mod so it wasn't that scary. He was Homer Simpson fighting clones of his neighbors. I also taught him how to build PCs and use Windows 98 at that time.
> Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

But in the case of NFTs, there's no baby in the bathwater.
I find Jekyll pretty easy to use for both my personal blog and various docs, project, training sites at work.

I don’t know ruby and this is the only ruby Ive ever used and I haven’t gotten stuck yet. And probably spent 15 hours over 3 years or so.

I spend time, as I want to, on the content and not worrying about web stuff.
>They do not accept non-racist environments, only anti-racist ones. They do not accept that businesses be politically neutral.

Perhaps they are the ones working toward a politically neutral, non-racist environment, and it is you who won't accept it.

In truth, I don't believe either they or you could properly identify what a politically neutral environment really looks like, and you're probably all unreliable and serving your own ends.
Aside:

Go to gem and mineral shows for jewelry.

They are very close to wholesale prices and as such can be up to 10x less expensive than a store, and cash purchases typically even less.

Jewelry diamonds at such event aren't the main item that people are there for though. It's the truly rare items that you find. Things like non-standard colored sapphires, gargantuan amethysts, gem rhodochrosite, fossils of dubious pedigree, meteorites, fordite, etc. Working diamonds, ones that are perfectly made and the size of your palm, can be bought and then cut down for relatively cheap. Many research labs and universities get samples at these events in 'legal' deals.

Especially near the end of the shows when vendors need to make a sale, things get pretty wild as the liquor comes out as well as the cash.

Check your local listings, ads, and billboards. It's a great Saturday activity even for the nephews and nieces.
Maybe it doesn't mean anything in the sense of what you're allowed to do _legally_, but what you're allowed to do _practically_ is ultimately what the end user actually cares about.
Now this brings back some memories. I remember finding this when I was still a teenager and found it funny. I cannot really remember if I thought that this was legit, even it looks like a joke now. It could have been written by an adult, when looking from teenagers point of view. After all, adults had some stupid rules.
We were inexperienced, got picked up by a tiny VC and funded for a few thousand. We applied and got accepted into the Digital Ocean Hatch program, they threw $100,000 in credits at us to help us succeed.

We tried to exhaust the supply—one day the credits vanished. I was getting married that month, and it took that long to accrue a life-changing amount of real dollar debt. I sent a quick email asking DO to extend the credits. The last email I got from them was that "we expect you pay the full amount".
The time it takes for your function to complete is now a continuous random variable X + r where r is the real time it take for your function to complete.

E(X + r) = E(X) + E(r) = E(X) + r

E(X + r) is the sample mean which is easy to calculate

E(X) = 1/2 * (max(sample) - min(sample))
Congratulations, you have an opportunity to experience what it feels like to work in tech as a person of color, or a woman, or any of the many other underrepresented groups in tech. Only those people experience every day at almost all companies, and can't escape it by leaving their existing company.

Maybe see it as a chance to learn and grow instead of something to resent and run from?
Basecamp's Woke Revolt
And how many were killed because they were on a funny name list?
Most CEOs are egotistic. Most of the ones I have worked for are actually beyond that, they are narcissistic to the point of sociopathy.
I would bring up the topic, but not necessarily the book, in the way you described; face to face and certainly not on twitter because it's mostly an awful platform for deriving substance. Finding out how to build a dialog is a skill like any other, and often times the book is just a vehicle for its ideas that you need to run with. I'm not interested in talking about books at all, moreso how the ideas might connect with someone else's experience. Very occasionally I'll chat with someone about the actual prose or design of a book, but that's just an extremely niche topic of interest I think. Also there are still book clubs, where they do exactly this, but I've never tried them.
Right, but if the 18-24 women are having sex with older men and the numbers in the older group are equal, there are more men who will be having sex with more than one woman than the inverse, or the numbers wouldn’t balance.
I have a DO server thats been running for more rhan 5 years. It was the basic $5 bucks instance they offered at the time I felt a bit robbed a couple of days ago when I was spinning another instance and I saw that the newer $5 instance has more memory and more cpu power. I feel like they should have decreases the cost of the older less performant instance.

I have been spoiled by my Internet provider who year after year they will automatically increase my speed as they made it cheaper, as I paid the same amount for the service.
Wonder who's going to protect Africa when China has put so much investments in it..?
This was my thought too. The guys at the top just might be arrogant and difficult. My opinion is that Singer wouldn’t say “white supremacy exists” not because he’s a white supremacist, as people keeps interpreting this, but because he didn’t want to be told what to do by an underling. Trump did the same thing in interviews, press conferences, and I think even in a debate.
Yeah, I agree the MVC model in Rails is too simplistic. I never liked how everything is stuffed in models; back in Rails 3 (or 2?) it was even worse. I actually wrote a library to solve part of this, which inserted a "form" layer between the controllers and models. It worked quite well.[1]

Actually, Ruby on Rails in general is often "Rails + these 20 gems that everyone uses". I remember someone likening getting started with practical real-world Rails development as starting in Game of Thrones in the middle of season 5, which sounds about right to me.

[1]: https://github.com/bluerail/form_this
Yes!! I highly encourage this decision. Everyone will be happier--it's the free market at work.
I agree it seems far-fetched, but: possibly by integrating many data samples you can remove the ionosphere noise from an underlying signal.
Employer paid me in crypto which rose 700%. Now he wants to swap it for dollars
I'm curious, what is your approach to some of the most common distractions in society? Namely TV (youtube?), movies, video games, and social media. Personally I have completely removed TV, social media, and video games. I only watch 1, maybe 2 movies per month. I know that I am much much happier having removed those things from my life, but I still have a hard time focusing. Wondering what other steps I could take.
It's a replacement for the term "African American", which is the best way to think of it and why it's capitalized.

A good number of major publications have posted explanations for the editorial change:

https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-cultures-race-and-e...

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black...
I’m a bit confused about the second sentence in this snippet: “ We search for the shortest program K(X, T=<42) that produces X within a predefined time / computational resource limit. Start with the shortest program and complexify it iteratively spanning a tree of all possible programs.” If we use the time cutoff to make the search for the Kolmogorov complexity practical, then we’re done once we have found the shortest program that produces X. If instead the author means that we can start with the shortest valid program that doesn’t necessarily produce X and then complexify it, then I believe that the logic is incorrect (a shorter valid program that produces X may arise from an otherwise invalid sequence that is not part of the tree that originated from the shortest valid program). If the statement is about finding K(X, T), ie taking the execution time into account, similarity, the optimal program might not result from an iteration of a previously valid shorter program (with the caveat that I’m not fully clear what the author means by complexify and iterate on a tree). Perhaps the suggestion is to search the space of all possible programs sorted by length; if we include invalid programs, we can think of trees of character strings starting from an empty string and spanning all possible strings that are allowed in our programming language. In any case, if we plan the search according to what I think the author means, then once we find a first hit that produces X in less than 42 seconds we are done. Or am I misunderstanding this part completely?
Ask HN: Why doesn't Coinbase support the world's third largest crypto?
Just noticed that Doge isn't available on Coinbase and have to really wonder why.... While it started as a meme it does have a real team building it out into a real crypto. You can buy real world things with it too e.g. tickets to Mavericks games.

It's now third largest market cap behind Eth and Btc. Is Coinbase turning their nose up or do they plan to support it?
There are a lot of dimensions to naivety. DHH has certainly struck me as naive in his arrogant confidence in the past (regarding TDD), and it sounds like he was naive in his approach to a major cultural change at his company. Naive not because he handled it badly, but because he seemed unaware that it needed to be handled delicately.
> I have a slightly different take as to what all this is and I havent seen it expressed almost anywhere.

Yes, technology can exacerbate the dynamic in Peter Turchin's "elite over-production." This article describes the class dynamic well.

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/the-real-class-wa...
My grandfather was a farmer in Ohio. He was always very worried that I, as a small child, would get in the field and be hit and killed by his tractor. This may have been because he did accidentally kill a dog once this way.
That was mostly true before client side rendering.
I'm a little confused on the reason this talk was cancelled. It seems that nearly the entire talk is critical of Facebook/Google, but the organizer only complains about a handful of slides. It looks like they were fine with claims of FB/G stealing content, purposefully optimizing for addiction, etc. and it was just the "political misinformation" portion that caused offense. Is the organizer defensive of big tech, or do they have some other political agenda that was somehow threatened by his point (or the specific examples given in support)?
Not sure why, but they courted our company right from the beginning: got in touch with us within a month of us forming up, gave us a generous free startup credit, even invited us over to their Bangalore office and helped us with how we can optimize our infra.

Thankfully, the company reached profitability so we pay them rather hefty bills now. But I guess I agree with you in that that's not a typical startup's trajectory, and their ROI from the aforementioned outreach is likely relatively low on average so am wondering now why they went out of the way to help us.
I think you really misread that and defaulted to an overly defensive and negative stance.
End-to-end encryption doesn't help when it's the app (i.e. one of the ends) that is sending the data away.
I do not understand why Twitter is the medium for which to share dense information. The UI is not meant for it. Post a URL to a PDF of the slides, instead?
there's many, like hubspot.com, but they're not free.
I have been diagnosed with OCD. One of the things you learn through medical treatment by qualified physicians is the general belief that a disorder like OCD has genetic factors. These can be latent and untriggered but in the case of OCD in particular, it can get triggered by stress during life events like graduating from college - or this is just literally want happened to me.

I'm not citing dozens of resources here but I feel really safe in saying that most medical literature on various mental disorders have a large faction of researchers (academic, medical, non-quack, quack) that will say that these mental disorders have a huge genetic as well as environmental compoenent. Please tell me and show me otherwise.

Sorry but this is exactly the sort of speculative leap that you proceed to deride in the rest of the paragraph.

Yes, you're right, but it is also informed by the academic literature on conspiracy theories which is readily available and everyone has access to. Here's a literature review:

Understanding Conspiracy Theories - Douglas - 2019

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/pops.12568
I interpret it as in the dating market I am effectively involuntarily celibate, perhaps there’s a more accurate subculture but I love incel tears. I also like the edginess. It’s a banned word on twitch.
We have multiple CPython core developers at Facebook, and the Cinder team (among others) are heavily involved in discussions around CPython's direction. There are many pieces of Cinder that would never get accepted upstream, or would take a decade of PEPs and incremental improvements to get there. Cinder is both a proof of concept that these ideas can work in CPython, and something that we can use today, rather than waiting a decade to realize these benefits from a pure open source perspective.
Another solution to this problem is the availability of disposable credit cards. It would be ideal that credit card numbers could just be created from scratch, as needed, and turned off whenever the use was done.

We had promises of this as ecommerce took off, to help avoid fraud. But it seems these don't get widespread adoption, probably because purchases are easy to get chargebacks for (in general).

A hard limit for cloud purchases is surely needed. But because the cloud providers aren't giving us this, I'm wondering if a solution like disposable cards could?
Curious about the context here - is the guidance page suggesting how to refer to your own relationships, or when referring to an abstract group of relationships?
You shouldn't need to learn much. rr uses gdb's existing reverse-debugging UI commands, it just swaps out the backend implementation with a far more powerful version.
I haven’t studied the anthropology, but is it true that people in tribal societies tend to be monogamous?
I just think of that f***ing Disney smirk.
+1. Couldn't have put this any better
Is it unethical to disclose who was hosting the talk?
Seems like a good company to call out by name so that others can avoid it, if it was that bad.
> The founders effectively took everyone's voice away

Setting aside the merits of all the underlying arguments, the founders were clearly only talking about their "voice" within the context of their employment at basecamp, not their ability to have a voice in all other possible contexts. And thus the following is a non sequitur:

> having a voice is more important than working at basecamp

Being an employee at basecamp is a necessary prerequisite for having a voice as an employee at basecamp.
A common side effect of porn addiction is that the addict requires more and more extreme situations and stimulus in order to get aroused. So I would say that is sort of turning one into a sexual deviant.
This misconduct happens regardless of the demographics. It just depends on how much abuse and vitriol management allows and encourages.
Hetzner small cloud instances mentioned are insanely performant. They don’t seem to limit small instances like other cloud providers do. So you can do around 160MiB / s of disk writes and 1gbit network, for $2.5/month.
Facebook is pushing back on these claims: https://twitter.com/Kantrowitz/status/1389735736644091906

"These ads were never rejected because they were never set by Signal to run. The ad account has been available since early March"
> Sadly not much progress has been made on the RubyVM

Lots of progress has been made on CRuby. The official optcarrot benchmark (realistic-ish interpreter bound) is ~6x faster on Ruby 2.6 than Ruby 1.8.

CRuby performance running Rails improved almost as much. Zendesk got a 2-3x improvement from 1.8 to 1.9 and 1.9 to 2.6 doubles it again.
This also struck me as plausible. Many European names have default patterns for being presented by speakers of other European languages. This just looked like the Greek version of his name to me.
Free speech by necessity requires tolerance. If there are extreme consequences to what you say you’re obviously not free to speak what you believe.

Losing your livelihood, being bullied, death threats, mob harassment etc are not acceptable responses to ideas or opinions you don’t like.
I can't speak on their behalf, but it sounds like a pretty accurate description of both Australia and New Zealand to me.
On what planet does “I may need to put on a dress” not read as “if I pretend to be trans, I’ll have an easier time getting a job?”

“Pretending to be trans for (reason)” is a really really common way to mock trans people and I think you know that.
GCP definitely has a spending limit. Of course it also (at least in the past) used to take 24 hours to update, so if you had a massive spike in real usage, your site would die for a day while you frantically tried to increase the limit.
Thankfully it doesn't happen at all or we have a genocide for every comedian.
The point of a cross platform dev is to write the same app for all platforms using the same codebase. I'm happy to "totally ignore JAVA, Kotlin and Swift" doing that
By attempting to censor the content... 1) they just made it more popular, 2) it makes them look as it they are admitting it's true.
Big Scam in Covid-19 Bed Bookings by BBMP in Bangalore
Twitter is a little hard to follow a thread in, so here's a link to the 5 slides they asked him to pull: https://imgur.com/a/k0naEwT
Objectively speaking there's nothing necessarily wrong with that? If anything could be something we aspire to
That's probably priced in already.
There exists sex work which in places like Japan where the experience is flirting with girls or cuddling. I haven't tried the cuddling thing but I did go to a few girl bars where you pay an expensive cover fee to get in but the bartenders are all pretty girls who will flirt with you.

My assumption was that the experience would somehow be cheapened because I was paying for it, but that wasn't the case. I came to the conclusion that my limbic system doesn't really know the difference.

Maybe I got lucky. A similar experience could have felt pretty bad if the girl was clearly only trying to get tips, but in this case it worked out.
I’m working on this for iOS - I’ve recorded a daily voice memo journal for the last 1155 days, and when I finish the app, I’ll import all of them and let the speech to text take place.

My goal is to have a searchable record of my life, and a good excuse to reflect on my days. I’ll keep you posted!
I wrote a CUDA kernel to look for some. My 3080 managed 3 billion/second including population counting the 8s. After 48 seconds it had spat out three 10-eights and one 11-eights amulet:

Here are some excellent hex digits: 251d5b059cefc6f3

which hashes to

b282a850c34ebfbfe4d41797aebc567988888888888312220e834356a26b65fd

Of course, it gets a lot harder if the goal is poetry, and not just jamming hex chars into a string.
Can anyone recommend a cloud provider that's suitable for learning (the opposite of AWS in this regard)?
My point was that i find it laughable that any white man will have a hard time getting a job in the tech industry because he is white considering there isn't a tech company i have ever known that wasn't mostly white guys working there. Maybe wait until white guys make up less than 75% of the workforce in your industry before you start complaining about descrimination.
And killing dozens in the process? That ain't suicide. I don't think there is a simple explanation.
In some states this is how you can legally claim land by occupying it, although usually you need to pay taxes on it. Where my parents live if there is an abandoned lot between two homes, the owners can split it for one dollar paid to the city a piece and add it to their parcels, or one person could claim the whole thing if the other neighbor stands down. Property laws are very weird and there are some old school ordinances on the books that date back hundreds of years.
> You point out that this is part of a pattern of societal behavior you’ve known your whole life, and that pattern has affected your life negatively and materially. This is not received well — combating a single incident is easy, but unraveling a pattern of behavior is an arduous, years-long, and sometimes unprofitable path.

One can empathically agree that such injustice, and any injustice, sucks, and still advocate compartmentalizing between institutions of the society writ large. That unprofitable path is not Basecamp's to bear. Not all injustices of the society receive a corresponding level of PR and therefore can be equally leveraged in the context of employee activism in a private enterprise.

If rank ordering of the issues of the society is left to the ripples made by affluential corporate citizens, that will introduce a host of biases that will alienate the full set of citizens of the democracy, and will likely create its own class of injustices.

The issue is not about surgically removing politics from work, it is to prevent its (mis)use as a backchannel.

To be clear, I feel equally strongly against corporate activism at the C-level or at the corporate identity level. But most employee activism is not only not a counter to that, it amplifies and parasitizes those very dynamics.
Each slide is narrated with an option to like it or start a unique conversation or share that single slide to people who are interested in what you think is interesting. Each slide also gets its own analytics so he can see how well they individually perform (after all, he's in advertising). The medium is more than fine for what he's posting, it's an important message and Twitter is for better or worse how many important messages get around these days.
This gives the other vendors a wedge in.
> From a cash flow perspective, there's no difference between paying a large mortgage and small property tax, or a smaller mortgage and larger property tax that total to around the same amount.

Not initially. When you pay off the mortgage around the time you retire and have no more steady income, it's night and day difference.
That's their current job, no?
If there’s anything the diversity-oriented mindset should have taught us, it’s that you can’t assume what others think just based on who they are or how they act.