skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think the political left increasingly branding "everyone" as evil / Nazis / white supremacists is bad - wait till you hear about people claiming the "political left" all brand people as evil / Nazis / white supremacists.
BPF Performance Analysis at Netflix
Is TruffleRuby promising at all?
I hope people detach themselves from their offices a bit more. There is too much of worship of these companies like basecamp faang etc. Thing to remember is this is just a job and not to take moral guidance from companies.
Whatever the NFT contains/links to, anyone can make another NFT with the same content, and prove they own that NFT.
upper middle class people unite !
considering you can swap colors back and forth, I'd say it's mostly possible (to draw thinner than the minimum just draw one color, overwrite with another)
> Unfortunately, one participant was stuck on free speech side of the debate. All day the conference has been doing logical programs and term equivalence, but somehow this person didn't deduce the result "free speech fundamentalism == fash", at least within the current evaluation context.

Really? Someone who writes that is where you're looking for guidance? Words fail me to describe how appalling this is.

Free clue: You can believe in strong free speech protection without being fascist. You'd be amazed at how many people do so - who believe in free speech on principle, not because they want to be able to say their secret horrible beliefs out loud. Putting them in the fascist category merely shows that your brain has turned off, and you're willing to harm completely innocent people in order to try to protect against your current bogeymen.
[Milkshake duck](https://www.vox.com/culture/22350188/what-is-a-milkshake-duc...) has been my favorite and most depressing way to portray and demonstrate this phenomenon as of late.

Not to belittle people speaking out against abuse, but at some points in life you just see people digging through years, decades of internet comments and more just to find a "gotcha". It's honestly exhausting.
I also had the same thing at my previous stressful always putting out fires job. Now I’m at a more laid back (and more productive) place and the brain/memory fatigue has gone away
Thats what I ended up doing most of the time. Still ended up with a lot of if then code in the html template. Making it more verbose than it would have been, had I just generated the html page inside a function.
Here's a twitch partner, just earlier today, illustrating how DEI is racist. Expect to see a lot of this;

"Kinda sad, found out I was accepted into a twitch team because of my skin colour so that “diversity” can be preached & not for my values or the blood, sweat n tears I’ve put into my work. Plus then being left out of everything & watching from the sidelines continuously..." https://twitter.com/Sharesee/status/1389522366515056641
"Nobody should be running Exim in 2021."

Maybe, yet it still shuffles a lot of email around the place. It deals with a lot of corner cases. When I say corner cases I mean orthogonality that might put off a top class mathematician fresh from fiddling with spherical cows in n dimensions. Email is not simply a bit odd but downright pathologically weird.

We all know what email is and it's just so simple. You can use telnet and point it at a smtpd and send a message. HELO me ... mail from: .... rcpt to: .... data .... . (blah blah message_id:x)

Yet, for some reason an MTA is a massive edifice of oddities. You could make an MTA that simply shuffles a text stream from a to b but what sort of text stream? MIME encoded doesn't mean what you think it does in quite a lot of cases. MIME is nearly formally defined but as always the beauty is in the eye of the programmer.

As well as moving text around a bit, MTAs are asked to do a firewall's role and also integrate with AV and anti spam. Ideally they should also be capable of reading minds.

I could go on.

Exim is probably not the most beautiful example of modern security practice but it is actively developed by people who do give a shit and are trying to keep something that no one will ever allow to go away working, as best they can. RFC822 (etc, int al, ad nauseam) can never be considered a modern communication technique that will ever lend itself to secure programming practices. Email is never going to be "secure" by worrying about what language an MTA is written in and I think you might have forgotten the worst part of the security circus here: The end user.

You can call out the MTA as much as you like but your Go or Rust jobbie will still deliver an email that my Financial Controller clicks on and dumps my bank account.

Nobody should be using email in 2021 (discuss ... 8)
No wonder we have a hard-time writing multi-threaded code ;)
While true, I also remember watching a presentation about Shopify where they explained how they spent a whole year migrating to a newer Rails version.

Now, Shopify clearly has the capacity to pull this off. But a smaller company that initially bet on Rails and is now facing a mountain of tech debt might not. To be fair: it is possible to write Rails applications in a way that you don't couple every aspect of your application to Rails internals. But in certain crucial ways, Rails encourages doing exactly that - dragging the DB along your whole application, for example.

I've been a Rails developer for a couple of years and I left that ecosystem in no small part because a huge chunk of that community seems to treat "architecture" as a dirty word and monkeypatching as a solution for everything (and also indulges into making fun of PHP or Java a bit too much for my taste). Of course, everyone's experiences are different and you can do great stuff with Rails, but for me it's something I don't really want to go back to.
I agree, but I think the point regarding Shakespeare's spelling was probably referring to the way he may have spelled his own name differently at different times:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_Shakespeare%27s_na...
If anything, static typing forces you to write these validations in the process of deserializing data, otherwise you couldn't construct instances of the necessary types in the first place.
Most deep learning algorithms were discovered decades ago, so it's debatable that it was a driving factor behind the 2010s revolution. Backpropagation dates from 1986, convolutional neural nets from 1989 (neocognitrons), LSTMs from the late 90s...
Knowing that my friends, one after another, have hormones telling them to defend the newly-expanded family, I will sure try to dump a movie like ‘Funny Games’ on them in the most sneaky manner.
Excellent! One of my favorite HN moments :)
So you just missed that whole section which starts with - unprompted - the Head of Strategy deciding to go on a long rant about their own political views in a company meeting?

Like it really doesn't matter what led to that meeting, because I've not seen a version of events where somehow that becomes not a disaster on your "so anyway we announced a policy about you in a blog post where we insulted a whole lot of you recently..." meeting.
Crumple zones themselves aren't really that big of a win either. They basically just buy time to set an airbag off unless you just so happen to crash into something approximately like what the crash tests use at whatever speed the relevant crash test is at. A little blow that speed it will be too stiff to do much. A little above that speed the car will blow right through it like it's not even there.

The real benefit is in rigid passenger cabins that keep tires and engines out of the occupants legs.

IMO side curtain airbags are a far better safety improvement than frontal airbags because the safety technology in the sideways direction and space for dissipating force is lacking so something needs to pick up the slack.
Yes it is the "next state" of P after applying the function
I don't get to apply this enough, but I'm a big fan of distributed read, centralized write solutions. So many problems we have are read-mostly, but we mask them by doing a bunch of feature factory work that turns what should be a cheap, rather simple solution into something that takes a huge amount of resources to implement.

Having read replicas in several locations makes it easier to stand up a new master if your main data center catches fire (OVH)
There does seem to be some more bandwidth combining “art” and “science”. Trying to listen to any talking while programming is almost impossible but if I’m drawing or sculpting or anything like that then it’s more complementary
Shameless plug for my list of paxos variants out there:

https://vadosware.io/post/paxosmon-gotta-concensus-them-all

Unfortunately there are a few I'm missing and I haven't had time to update that post or make a new one -- I haven't had time to read these and try to fit them in the narrative:

- Compartmentalized Paxos (https://mwhittaker.github.io/publications/compartmentalized_...)

- Matchmaker Paxos (https://mwhittaker.github.io/publications/matchmaker_paxos.p...)

- PigPaxos (https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07760)

- Lineraizable Quorum reads in Paxos (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/hotstorage19-paper-chara...)
The problem lies in the assumption that we live in a society which is systemically racist.

The people not dismantling the system are not white supremacists, they just don't believe we have systemic racism.

I'm definitely not a white supremacist (I'm not even white) and I can't find a single instance of systemic racism.

Sure, I met a bunch of racist individuals, but that doesn't prove systemic racism.
For me, there is a difference between the experience of sitting in a dark room and watching a movie and not doing anything else as opposed to watching a movie at home whilst reading things on the phone or looking up stuff in IMDB or pausing and making hot chocolate, etc. So even for entertainment, the experience and effects of more focused activities and less focused activities probably still merit investigation.
The business is incentivized to lobby regulators and eliminate price competitors.
And if someone sees you making an OK hand sign, that's a secret white supremacist gesture and you should be fired.
Wowie, not a single pixel? So I'm not crazy firefox seems faster than chrome?
Only one of many falsehoods promoted by ESR, and far from the worst.
Compared to the hundreds of millions the Epic Game Store spent to get exclusives, tens of millions is still very small.
You didn't even need a boot disk and ResEdit. Just hold down the Shift key while the Mac was booting from the hard drive, and system extensions including Foolproof would be disabled.
Nothing is actually free

And the customers for this are businesses. Businesses spend money. (as opposed to what a lot of developers think)
yes it could, but it's not webscale!

gotta use aws
Words can have multiple meanings.
What exactly is multitasking? I am a software developer. I listen to music while I work. Is that multitasking? If I pick up a different issue to work on while I wait for code review on another, is that multitasking?
It depends upon the child. I've seen children who accept the world is nuanced and can be exposed to a bit more of it, and I have seen children who need to be shielded since they will either glorify or fear things that they do no understand. Know you child, then make a decision accordingly.
Potferdoume! So much interest in Belgium! 216 comments and counting..

Having said that.. In an attempt to get me to learn Flemish, my parents placed me in a Flemish-speaking school. Most Flemish kids spoke decent French. The other way isn’t so true. Too many French-speaking Belgians don’t bother to learn Flemish.
Safety as a step function, basically.
You're not wrong but in practice they're all but required because the corner that fuel economy and cabin strength requirements box you into is a corner with really high belt-lines and really poor visibility. You couldn't build something that's the shape of a 1990s sedan today.
This is why we don't let 12-year-olds drive
And that is what the decade old satellite imagery is supposed to help with, they recently released a feature to view time-lapses of any area over a couple of decades
> I can't find a single instance of systemic racism.

https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2020/05/05/veil-dar...

"The largest-ever study of alleged racial profiling during traffic stops has found that blacks, who are pulled over more frequently than whites by day, are much less likely to be stopped after sunset, when “a veil of darkness” masks their race."

> Creating that database enabled the team to find the statistical evidence that a “veil of darkness” partially immunized blacks against traffic stops. That term and idea has been around since 2006 when it was used in a study that compared the race of 8,000 drivers in Oakland, California, who were stopped at any time of day or night over a six month period. But the findings from that study were inconclusive because the sample was too small to prove a link between the darkness of the sky and the race of the stopped drivers.

> The Stanford team decided to repeat the analysis using the much larger dataset that they had gathered. First, they narrowed the range of variables they had to analyze by choosing a specific time of day – around 7 p.m. – when the probable causes for a stop were more or less constant. Next, they took advantage of the fact that, in the months before and after daylight saving time each year, the sky gets a little darker or lighter, day by day. Because they had such a massive database, the researchers were able to find 113,000 traffic stops, from all of the locations in their database, that occurred on those days, before or after clocks sprang forward or fell back, when the sky was growing darker or lighter at around 7 p.m. local time.

> This dataset provided a statistically valid sample with two important variables – the race of the driver being stopped, and the darkness of the sky at around 7 p.m. The analysis left no doubt that the darker it got, the less likely it became that a black driver would be stopped. The reverse was true when the sky was lighter.
Do you know any tool to easily isolate the cost of each of my Cloud Functions?
Well to be fair he is an Elixir consultant so he rewrote it in Elixir.
white su·prem·a·cy; the belief that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society

de·fund; prevent from continuing to receive funds

Courtesy of the dictionary. This is not hard. Stop entertaining people who redefine words.
Could be generational, and it reminds me of when CNN added the scrolling news ticker to the bottom of all programs.

It drove my grandpa nuts, and he literally taped paper over the bottom of his television screen so he could watch Larry King in peace.

Now you watch some Minecraft PvP influencer’s YouTube channel and they can’t make a statement without running around playing the game while they do it.
Agree. But I think getting into a focused zone sometimes has a ramp-up period for me. So sometimes I need a long day to sort of get into a focus zone or wave that I can ride till next context switch.
Doing all those things at once is one thing. My question is: how well they understand (and enjoy) the audiobook, how much they remember from the podcast/youtube video, or think before sending a message to their friends? or how is their performance on the game while doing that vs if they are focusing?

My wife multitasks like this all the time (tv + phone), but then she has to ask me something about what's on the TV because she missed it or didn't understand well
Right but if your games only work great in urban centers, don't launch your games outside of that. Part of the problem with Stadia was the hubris they had at launch as shown through their marketing and pricing of the product. They came out like this was an A+ product when it was in fact a C product.

If Stadia had come out slowly with a few key indie games, closed beta, natural growth, and humility, they wouldn't have an ounce of the vitriol they've received.
Indeed, I meant that a simplistic approach which wants to have every dimension of utility turned up to 11 simultaneously does not work. You not just need to factor in more dimensions than efficiency, you have to trade gains in one dimension for losses in another. The scalar utility function you can reasonably optimize here is some weighted combination.
I said they’re impossible to test in the brain, not in the plasma. It’s a huge difference.

Even the serum tests for catecholamines vary so much that you have to take them specific times of the day. And it can in no way diagnosis depression or any other mood disorders through those test. There Are no biomarkers for depression right now that are widely tested or even tested minimally. I know, I asked for them all the time because I have bipolar disorder.
So much stuff just from the readme would introduce breaking changes to the Python ecosystem.

Part of the reason Instagram can get away with this is they likely have almost complete control of their dependencies and the like. But the changes they decide to make would not just work for everything.

That being said I think we could get a lot of neat PEPs from this.

EDIT: this is just my opinion , but in a world where we have type annotations, JITs feel like a massive step back. Stuff like mypyc could get us way further into high performance stuff (and no black box hand waving for perf things).
talking about dutch-belgian-french, I recently got into Dick Annegarn

His first album "Sacre Geranium" is a strange kind of masterpiece. Naive, comical, poetic, and strangely complex musically at the same time (all that mostly as a solo acoustic guitar voice act)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx4Au2Tchqw&list=OLAK5uy_kBI...
Berk2^32/K.
Have you SEEN the bitcoin price? I'm making so much money!
> or just cut it (which would probably fry the transmitter).

I'd recommend physically removing the entire transmitter (the electronics can be removed with a chisel), but if you're trying to fry the transmitter, don't cut the antenna; that leaves a undamaged but low gain transmitter a la [0] (though probably not powerful enough to detect outside the vehicle). Instead, short the antenna to a power rail (or ground, but V!=0 is more likely to damage it) to fry the transmitter and also keep it from moving the antenna voltage enough to transmit anything.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sQF_K9MqpA (at 17:06)
> Attraction is not a choice.

Yes it is.
An orgasm is a powerful reward.
You’ll become more and more attracted to the person with whom you associate orgasms.

Sex has a reproductive purpose. It also has a ‘unicative’ purpose. If you avoid masturbation and have sex exclusively with your mate, your mate will become more and more attractive to you.

Obviously...

Keep your mind focused on your mate when you orgasm. Porn, masturbation, and promiscuity utterly destroy this natural unicative feature of sex.
Read up on de-gloving. Then remember to keep your hands away from the top of the wheel.
> Serverside software written in Java, Go, and Rust handle workloads far more difficult than even an ambitious Postfix deployment deals with.

Can you suggest good options? If I want to run a MTA on my Debian box, what should I use in 2021?
> especially interesting that nobody has done it before

I'd be astonished if this hasn't been done before, at least several times in variations.

However, someone having done it, and you and I finding out about it, are very different things. And the latter is much, much easier today than it was for most of the life of this lens.
People sort of miss the point on that imho, as a Flutter dev I don't want compatibility with the DOM, I want my app to look and work the same on the web as it does on iOS as it does on Android
It strikes me as a sensory immersion overload. The rise in ADD and other attention related issues seems to be related.
Never in history have human animals been exposed to such levels of stimuli at such a young age.
Heresy! This is a Python thread, please summon the required positivity!
What's the recourse from the student here? submit your data to third parties or fail? Inevitable lawsuit fuel?
Maybe. But this is (was) a 60-person company. That's about the size of the company I'm currently working at. In other words, you should know everyone and interact with a sizeable chunk of these people somewhat regularly. It strikes me as very odd that you would suddenly so fundamentally distrust your co-workers with whom you share so much. But I'm also not in the US and maybe this is just the current climate over there.

(Or maybe it also shows that being a fully-remote company can have downsides, such as coworkers not socialising enough and therefore not trusting each other? Who knows. DHH certainly has championed the "remote work for everyone" approach countless times.)
Pentagon watchdog opens new probe into military's handling of UFOs
> How could I recreate this effect with an app/website ?

Poorly, if experience with similar things has anything to teach us.
I remember it was a discussion topic during my graduate degree in finance. According to theory, the story about unsophisticated investors is stupid since you could basically start an ETF with only BRK stuff in it and sell it at a lower price.
Ok, I was expecting something caustic and awful but that all seemed pretty reasonable. It does suck being a young man who can’t get anyone to date you. Water water everywhere as they say.

Here’s one thing that might help: women are in my experience often afraid of unattached young men, for good reason. They are afraid of being assaulted, they are afraid of being called “sluts”, they are afraid of men who become clingy and needy. And for good reason. If men’s behavior would change- which takes generations- women’s would too. Men need to be taught how to identify snd deal with their emotions at a young age, like women are, and how to think about the needs of others. That’s to do with upbringing and socialization.

A person who doesn’t know how to be gentle and considerate is scary, especially when he is 6 inches taller and has 30 pounds more muscle mass than you, and it doesn’t take many of them to poison the well so that women just can’t take chances. Every woman has a stalker story- ask her about it.
the oldest snapshot of this story i can find in archive.org is from november 2003 (https://web.archive.org/web/20031114161830/http://www.adequa...) , but it seems that yes, it is from 2001
:) is not taking things at face value a profession?
Leo Laporte owns and operates a podcast network, TWiT.tv with his wife.

https://twit.tv/about/what-is-twit-tv
Deep learning is pretty consistently putting out groundbreaking work in new domains. In the current boom, we have seen massive breakthroughs in:

- image classification

- image understanding (object detection and segmentation)

- text to speech

- speech to text

- natural language modeling

- style transfer

- intelligent agents (go/Dota/etc)

- protein folding

And many other less openly documented breakthroughs that are actively delivering business value.

New successful research (impactful stuff, not small improvements in SOTA) is happening at a pace that suggests even if we enter a bit of a winter due to overpromised technologies, the core technology of differentiable programming will continue to break into new domains and revolutionize them.
The employee putting up that pyramid didn't appear to have the outcome they wanted. It turned into much more. This should be a lesson learned.

I've read a fair number of books on helping things through change. The pyramid being put where it was seemed like a bad idea the moment I read it. The way it was responded to is something I would have expected.

There is a lesson here. If you want to bring about change in others it's about leading them rather than saying what you want to say.
Comparing apples and oranges. I doubt HN posts lately are full of purchase buttons / pricing of apps having a negative effect on the surveillance we're constantly under.