skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I look at all this self segmentation and categorization as a net harm to all queer people as a community, I've actually come around to the idea of GSM (Gender and Sexual Minorities) as a preferred term, because it makes it harder for us to self segregate internally, and no longer view the fight for one groups equality as the fight for all of us.

I'm gay, and for me equality was people no longer caring which gender I was attracted to. I wanted that level of normality - where my orientation just no longer mattered - where I no longer needed a separate support community just to exist, where I no longer needed to fear someone finding out I was different than others, that was supposed to be the goal, wasn't it?

I look at trans folks the same way, if someone is trans, as soon as they tell me they're now a woman, or a man, they're a woman, or a man, they're not a transwoman or a transman, they don't get an othering here - that's counter to the goals of as taught to equality me - so we wouldn't need to fear anymore.

My goal, is still that in the workplace none of this should matter any more than what color hair you have (or if you have hair at all, in the same way that bald is a hair color) - that was what the end goal of all of this was supposed to be - and yes, its natural to want to seek out affinity groups - people who have had shared experiences - but that should be something that helps the minority add something to the whole, not take something away from the whole.

While there is still discrimination, particularly for trans folks, we've come so very very far from where the world was when I was a scared 15 year old who came out in 1998, and yes, there is still road yet to travel, the circle-the-wagons mentality I see among other queer folks, and what I perceive as the desire to try to turn the LGBT rights movement into a generic left wing movement is harmful to our end goal of equality for queer people everywhere - The end goal should be to make LGBT rights and acceptance an uncontroversial issue across the entire political spectrum.
It's an advert no? "blockchain analytics solutions such as those provided by Elliptic"
This is so true. Even if you're not rich, many people treat you differently just based on whether they think you might become rich.
The minute they think you're no longer in the running, they stop answering texts and emails as if you never existed.
It's scary what percentage of people are like this. You never know who is who until you actually lose your money or position. These people are ridiculously good actors.

In the higher ranks of society, it seems like 99.999% of people are like this; it seems to be basically impossible to meet someone who is not a psychopathic opportunist.
TBH I wonder why billionaires bother to get married at all. They're probably as likely to meet a good (genuine) person as I am to meet a billionaire...

Out of probably hundreds of thousands of people I met in my life, I only met 1 billionaire and that was before they were a billionaire. Aside from that, I only ever saw 1 billionaire (which I recognized) in real life but I didn't meet them (only saw them).

Humans seem to be incapable to comprehend how many other people there are in the world and how good humans are are deceiving themselves and others to get access to resources.
> Most children aren't data-driven.

Most people aren’t data-driven.

Parents, teachers, guidance counselors etc are also part of the problem.
Just because : Don't copy that floppy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Copy_That_Floppy

Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI
It’s amazing how quick people can jump to conclusions with no evidence. Highly recommend the Danish film “The Hunt”
The policies on freenode are very clear about ##-namespace channels expiring after several weeks of being unused, or after the founder drops their account. The user hl still has his eight-year-old account, is still logged in, and barely a week has gone by before the channel was taken over.

freenode has always allowed communities to direct their channels to other platforms.
> Also, no one “needs” to live paycheck to paycheck

Your disconnect from reality is showing.
It's hard to see how we benefit from all the crypto craze. Pure speculation vehicles that have intense energy requirements is just something a bit sad to see in 2021.

Of course, like anyone else, I would like to have 50 BTC and not have to work one more day in my life.

But there is still that feeling in the back of your head thst none of this is good for humanity.
That's an example of seen versus unseen bias. The drain was directly in front of you, and you talked to the person who owned it, so it's easy to understand that someone benefits from it. If you do a job that indirectly makes things 1% better for ten million people, it's hard to have an example you can look at. You may be improving the world more, yet feel like you're improving it less, because humans don't really understand indirect effects except intellectually, and that isn't very satisfying.
+1. And if there are several ways to design or implement something, it is 1000x better to do the one proposed by the people who will do the work. They’ll understand it better, have more context, and be much more motivated.

Unfortunately this has the side effect of making the principal look like an overpaid rubber stamp and cheerleader to the best less-senior ICs who usually have their shit together. :)
I quit my job as a PE in AWS, and now work on writing performance-critical code in a scientific context. I couldn’t be happier with the decision.

If you’re considering getting out, I would encourage it. Getting back to working on primarily technical problems, rather than social/communication scaling ones, has been great for my overall happiness.
I'm thinking of using Postgres for a project, but a DBA friend told me operationally it's more challenging than MySQL. Unfortunately, he can't elaborate. Does anyone have real work experience? Or is it based on outdated "PG must manually vacuum frequently"?
Okay. Stupid question. What in the world do the ratio numbers mean? I get that "bpb" means "byte-per-byte". Is it input bytes per output bytes? Or the other way around? And why do some of the ratios go below 1.0? e.g.
NNCP v2 (Transformer) 0.914
How fast is the sledge hammer moving?
Nice. Here is my attempt following a few years partnering as an eng manager:

https://dev.to/solidi/what-is-a-principal-engineer-anyway-55...
Everyone can be rich, because it's a positive sum game. You having a computer doesn't take it from someone else. Every person on the planet can have one.

It's not a fixed pie. We are growing the pie. Most people in "developed" countries are rich from a historical perspective. We have shelter, running water, cheap and plentiful food (so much that we waste over 30%), electricity, microwaves, refrigerators, pocket computers and so on. There's no reason this can't come to the entire world and continue to improve for all.
>No one would ever want to be a judge then.

I doubt that. People can be punished if they fail badly, or even die if they make a mistake in all kinds of jobs, and they still do them.

>And your second paragraph is very much in conflict with the tenet that everyone is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Well, if there really wasn't a "reasonable doubt" (as deemed on a second look) and the first judge decided it was, then it's on them...
How about xbar?

https://github.com/matryer/xbar
I think science is in a crisis today for the same reason society is: the underlying ethics is a scientific realism have yet to be established. That's to say science, or the advancement of organized knowledge and the corresponding cultural realities are still oriented around anthropomorphic biases that were formed during the advent of global culture and embodied by the mystery religions. This made sense when the planet was a conquest, but not so much as a management strategy. Instead the ethics of science and culture need to be organized around ecological ethics: the reality of planetary stewardship is the challenge of the Anthropocene. This is a problem for scientific culture, because it's easy to build complexity on existing paradigms, it's harder to reorganize ones fundamental belief system. Example is being able to describe the surface of a black hole while people starve in the street. The problem of modern scientific progress is a problem of ethical reorganization, and once that is done (if it succeeds) then again we will be able to build systems of thought that appear new and foundational like the classical ones.
This is not really a problem for open source games with an active Debian/Fedora maintainer. If there are interested packagers and you give them source code to work with, I've noticed they will be happy to build and test your package and try to keep it updated. The point of using deb/rpm is to integrate with the distro. If you want to go directly to customers and you have no intention of tying your package to the distro release cycle and working with their package maintainers, then yes, it seems it would always be a bad fit.
(I misread the post initially and thought baq was talking about using Docker to run the game, not build it. I've now edited this comment to talk about using Docker to build the game.)

Yes, we do that at $dayjob too. We support multiple versions of CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu, and the best way to build for all of them is inside their respective Docker containers. We depend on libssl and that lets us use the platform's default libssl instead of forcing 1.0 on everything.
Not if you use secret conversation mode or just use whatsapp
> Don’t work for less than you are worth.

The OP's question was about how to do that and my entire response was to that question.

> Assume options are worthless.

That's bad advise for senior engineers with relevant experience. No startup I know can afford to offer cash compensation that matches the cash+stock comp from previous employment. Startup stocks have value – you just have to get better at figuring out its risk adjusted value and consider it for that worth.
Did you start programming with OOP or Functional programming? Did learning how to programming in the other form seem difficult to understand why you would do things that way, or seem obtuse vs just using the ways you already know?

I think using state machines is just a very different way of looking at code, and it does take some mind bending to think that way; but once you do, it's much easier to blend the code together the same way you'll see imperative and functional code blended together these days and not think twice about it.
Are you going to operate it our just rent out some cloud service?

Postgres by itself doesn't have a great horitzontal scaling strategy as of now I think. You need Citus or somt like that on top, maybe your friend was referencing that?
GiveCampus (YC S15) is hiring remote senior engineers
Alternatively to the GPG route, maybe just post the domains which approved recruiters would ever be messaging candidates from. This would go a long way in countering scammers that don't have access to a compromised recruiter account, for example.
I thought it was a reference to “Time to Interactive”.
https://web.dev/interactive/
0-100, as a concept, maps closer to your idea. I knew about TTL, but didn't make the connection until you pointed it out.
No, I think this is different from that example. I don’t even know what you’re trying to compare.
I think IRC is nearing the end of its usefulness, but I am under no illusion over why it's still in use, and I do not believe a "modern replacement" to be automatically better than other options.
> they don't need to agree. you decide who you trust.

But how do you make that decision? People will choose sources whose news hews to their worldview, no?
Depends on your definition of luck.
Some people define luck has having the skill to take advantage of opportunities you come across. Of course, the skill thresholds to take care of opportunities varies significantly case by case.
At my past three workplaces spanning more than a decade, such an utterance would get you fired immediately. In fact, I knew of it happening, even though I didn't know the involved parties, because it was such shameful behavior that it was widely talked about.

Almost everything is a real thing that happens every day, but the extent of it and where it occurs is not always easy to know. Do I see people every day have to suffer the indignity of other people's tasteless or outright hostile jokes? No, it is quite rare.

Do I see people treated differently because they are young/old, not meeting an arbitrary standard of beauty, because they are not an extrovert who feels confident in expressing their opinion or uncertainty, because they lost a loved one or are pregnant or have a medical condition that competes with their ability to work 60 hours a week? Nearly every week I see this. But there's no Slack emojis for these things.

I would rather see a broad standard of tolerance and dignity applied in the workplace but in the U.S. at least what we get are empty gestures towards certain groups and those groups go in and out of fashion with the media cycle.
I don’t think those started from jokes but maybe there’s some hitherto unknown part of history that only you are privy to.
I would add:

4. A meaningful indication of API stability and planned longevity

5. A viable method to run automatic integration testing during development

I want an honest answer to how often you're expecting to break my integration and cause me extra work, and if you do that, I want to be confident that I've done enough to update my integration so it still works without having to manually retest the entire thing.
The State of Data Engineering (2021)
>works on any linux distro (that has flatpak installed

Given that they were wrangling about not requiring an external libSDL dependency, it's unlikely they'll want to require an external flatpak dependency.
Agreed, also R with vim is really a joy to work with (Nvim-R plugin) I can't replicate the experience with any other IDE. For example, I can define my own key bindings to show a certain summary statistic or a custom plot for the variable I'm at.
Jira is more like 2000 /s
Postgres is one of those pieces of software that’s so much better than anything else, it’s really incredible. I wonder if it’s even possible for competitors to catch up at this point - there’s not a lot of room for improvement in architecture of relational databases any more. I’m starting to think that Postgres is going to be with us for decades maybe even centuries.

Do any other entrenched software projects come to mind? The only thing comparable I can think of are Git and Linux.
There's some interesting philosophical concepts here, but nothing really hacker newsworthy. This is just someone carrying on that we should be like him without telling us how.
Does anyone else note the irony here that he says he is only interested in acquiring wealth, not in status, yet this whole article is really just advertising for his status?
Why Is __int128_t Faster Than Long Long on x86-64 GCC?
There are various competing concepts that most of us conflate erroneously most of the time:

* having much money in the bank
* having much property/wealth on the balance sheet
* earning much
* having an important role()
being able to afford all/most wants
* living lavishly
* being happy

(*) Angela Merkel might be one of the most powerful world leaders but earns 'only' around 20k a year. Greta Thunberg moves mountains and earns little/nothing for it.
The original question should have said posts, not links. HN generally doesn’t describe the actual submitted URLs as dead, just the submitted post that contains the link.
There is a beautiful give-and-take between the experience of variety (either consuming or producing) and the grasping of essence. They do not exist independently of each other, nor is one better inherently better than the other. They must be kept in balance, and yet the world seems to favor variety over understanding at every turn.

Consider yourself lucky to be in the minority of those who appreciate what is truly rare and precious about humans, who are in turn a rare and precious part of life, which is in turn a rare and precious part of the universe.
Status quo and a governance which would rather work on "sexier" political issues. I'm sure if you polled the citizens of those respective states you'd fine overwhelming support for compensation, but that doesn't bring in the votes the same way [hot political issue] does
If wealth is status, which the two are often linked, then everyone cannot be rich.
I was commenting about this earlier, here's a link to a study that says otherwise: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaau1156.full

Or rather, it says people who are advantaged (ie lucky) considerably underestimate the contribution of this advantage to their success, and overestimate their own contribution.

On the article itself, the stated idea of status is truly naive if not delusional, and allows them to put anyone who disagrees with their idea into the box of "status game players, to be ignored".

I'm not going to read the entire article, it reads like advice to people who don't need it (upper middle class people). I'm sure it must be comforting to the author, and upper middle class and rich people, but in reality there is no clear path from "poor" to "rich", or else everyone would be taking it.

What I will say is they seem to understand that our economic system is irrational, and to take advantage of it seems rational. But an irrational system is also unfair, and I would rather people not praise this unfairness as "good". The author seems to be paying lip service to the idea of "ethics" while teaching people to abuse the system. And they dare to talk about "virtue signaling".
I'm conscious that this is a flame-bait topic. That said, no, dismissing the whole field as "questionable" is callous. Yes, there are many open questions, loaded landmines, and ethical concerns in evolutionary psychology research. But there's also copious evidence in its favour. (Reference: David Buss et al.)

Many people might spare themselves at least some misery by educating themselves about evolutionary psychology, including the landmines and open questions.
It rests on assumption that a diploma is everything one needs to launch a career. Guatemala villager will attach a NFT to resume, and bam, becomes US manager... really?

In reality it's much about personal connections. It's much harder to make them online.
Are you suggesting that's how things work? Because they pretty plainly don't work that way.
I didn’t know that, thanks!
perhaps your DBA friend was operating PG themselves?

nowadays postgres in the cloud does all of this for you.
Why would you do that? What’s wrong with this?

useEffect(() => {
const interval = setInterval(myFunc, 1000)
return () => clearInterval(myInterval)
},[])

I think one of the keys to React is not to fear the boilerplate.

If you find yourself typing the same code too often, there’s probably a higher level abstraction that you should find, way above the level of setInterval.

I find coders often try to DRY up low level code to the detriment of actually dealing with their _application_ architecture.

In general, you should use the tools as provided, boilerplate and all, and then focus your real brain energies on the specific domain problems that only your application needs.

Creating thin wrappers on external tools to squeeze the last tiny bits of DRYness is not only usually a waste of time, but it makes your code unreadable. People know how setInterval and useEffect work. If I see useInterval I have to go read your code to know what’s happening. Especially if you made it configurable. And people _will_ tend to add configuration to these wrappers over time as needs change.
> Even at $500k/yr, it's 20 years—a whole working life—to make it to $10m

Just one nitpick here, FAANG companies have 2-5x’d in the last five years so with $250k of equity in this example would have had an actual comp of $750k-1.5m/year which would leave you set-for-life rich in just 5-10 years no matter which one you chose.

If you have access to a FAANG job and are optimizing for expected return you have to ask yourself - is it more likely this billion dollar company doubles in value or a seed stage startup that you have 0.5% of becomes a billion dollar company?
MySQL 8 is not that far behind in feature parity. And is ahead when it comes to scalability. So I don't see postgres as necessarily standing alone.
I suppose in the same way as no one "needs to" live.
See my comment above, but there could have been equalization events.

The governments had three financial crises, in 99, 2008, and 2020 where it could have chosen not to intervene and save the rich. Yes it would have been hard on everyone, but it would have equalized wealth. A lot of companies would have gone bankrupt, but they could have been bought by new manaments, or employees, or could have been replaced by new startups.

But the government, and society really, chose to keep the status quo and not create a true crises. The result of this is the world we live in now, where basically it’s normal to rescue any large business and not let it go bankrupt.
Windows Tips and Tricks – 2021
They're not bundling libX11, etc in any case, only SDL. So I don't see why it matters that SDL in turn depends on other system components. Presumably it's looking for said components in a way that works on all the distros they tested. So for the specific libraries that they're dealing with in the blog post (libc and SDL), static linking would probably be easier than what they're doing.
Why the pedantry? Those examples are exceedingly rare.
yes, the only reason anyone cares what he has to say is because of his status
I don't think it's non-mainstream. It was taught to me in school that the downfall of the Greeks was outsourcing their army to mercenaries and I've heard it again and again in reference to Spartan lore.
Your DBA friend is stuck in 2000's. Let dinosaurs die and you go with PGSQL because is superior to MySQL on everything.

And don't take my word for it, see for yourself here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_datab...

And MySQL is an Oracle product these days, go with MariaDB instead as this one is a MySQL fork made by the original papa of MySQL.
paq also has a similar NN encoder, but a much better and much faster one. In asm though, but open source. LibNC is closed