skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The San Francisco school board affair in which a gay white man was deemed unfit to serve as a volunteer because [...] he was "redundant" in that there were already several white female volunteers.

That's kinda homophobic. Gay man so he HAS to be effeminate.

> The implication seems to be that students would be better served by a volunteer their own race

I bet the (closeted) students (of all races) would have probably preferred to see an openly gay man in a position of authority where he's not mocked for who is is.
It's all real programming and it has all the real consequences, but there is a distinction between something that needs to live for a day, a few months, maybe years and then maybe have multiple people work on it, have it communicate with other systems or not and the level of investment and structure you need to put into a system to make sure that's possible.

Programming has a very low barrier to entry and that is incredibly powerful but there is a big gap between someone writing one off scripts to solve immediate problems and people writing highly connected systems that withstand scrutiny.

I've always personally been for accreditation for software engineers much like pretty much every other engineering discipline.
Cool! Music is a bit too much, but it's great that it can be turned off.

Link to repo: https://github.com/vivirenremoto/doomcaptcha
That's a different thing. I'd say thank you if they are around me and they are doing something for me.

Would I say hi to the landscaper who is working on the garden while I was walking on the path? No. Unless we know each other, a nod is all fine.
This strongly depends on at what wave lengths you look.
It's the ancient Microsoft Word vs. Google Docs debate. Without long tail features Uber would be less valuable to each customer.
> Even platformers can feel weird or unplayable when you add latency.

Even? Super Mario Brothers lets me know very quickly if the lag on my set-up is anything other than quite low, because I'll fall down every damn bottomless pit on the map.
I really like the cover where you can find illustrations of anti-patterns such as stovepipes, gas factories, reinventing the wheel, etc.

Can you names the others?
I'm curious what you would suggest as an alternative. Completely flat orgs have worked occasionally in the past(?) but in general I hear horror stories about those as well.
I don't think it's that simple, and relegating the main issue to a bracketed footnote doesn't make it so.

I agree with you that permissions and a sandbox that actually works would have to be part of any solution.

But you can rest assured that Facebook wouldn't have made such a fuss if all that was at stake is losing access to IDFA and getting slapped with some unenforceable privacy warning.

What's creating a real problem for Facebook is the enforceable legal obligation that Apple has put in place as a precondition for being allowed on iOS devices at all.

It works exactly because it is not a technology based solution. It has created a choice that we didn't previously have.

So I wonder how we can keep this choice without making Apple this all powerful, rent seeking, patronising overlord that also happens to be an ideal attack vector for censorship happy authoritarian governments all over the world.
The only complaints I've seen involve two hours of obstruction, which seem like they'd be hard to resolve without major effort the author admitted he didn't want to go through for a trial product he would not be keeping. Cutting down trees or running cable long distances or building tall towers all seem like pretty drastic choices.

In the end, politicians with enough will to stand up to the terrible telco conglomerates currently holding back rural broadband would be a better answer here in the US, no need to pollute the sky. Launch a federal program like those that ensured electricity and telephone to every rural customer, with a generous minimum speed, and customers for Starlink in the US drop to near-zero.
The fact that Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon and Twitter are in total agreement with the current governments of the USA and Canada, and amplify/sink opinions based on their level of compliance with the accepted dogma of both the company and current government -- while simultaneously destroying (Parler) or deplatforming (Gab) any viable alternative platform?
They are no longer visible to the naked eye. The satellites are initially inserted at ~half their final orbit. They then boot up, deploy their solar panels horizontally to reduce drag, and then fire up their engines for the boost to their final orbit. This takes about a month or so. Once there, they rotate their panels to point away from the earth, which greatly reduces their apparent brightness.
The single menu bar design breaks down very quickly once you start using a large display. Evolve to multiple large displays and it is an absolute mess. The only option you have is to enable the toolbar on every screen, which starts to be laughable.

I have used Windows setups with as many as 50 screens (command and control center). Having each application exist within its own window with all relevant menus in that window is, by far, a superior approach in these settings.

Even with three large monitors, using a mouse to fly across that screen space to reach a menu is just a pain. Imagine a system consisting of 25 x 4 screens. It would be a nightmare.

Shortcuts? Someone else said MacOS lacks discoverability. It’s true. Tooltips are almost nowhere to be found and lots of applications have no shortcuts. I have watched non-expert users in fear of clicking a button because they have no clue what it does.

The single menu and single mouse button idea worked well on an old Mac with a single 9 in screen. It works fine on laptops. The minute the display grows in size and multiple displays are used the approach breaks down very quickly.

If you own a multi-monitor Mac setup (we have several) and have enabled the menu bar on all screens, you already understand how broken that concept has become. If it was not you would only have one menu bar with your three large screens.
I highly doubt the Gab fiasco would receive even a fraction of the attention it did if it was framed as a failure of YC to choose good startups rather than personal failings of the founder.

I note the conspicuous lack of actual counterexamples in your post (notably Gab itself was never YC funded)...but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this is some kind of emergent phenomena and not deliberate manipulation. I agree that it doesn't make too much sense for it to be deliberate manipulation, and YC still appears to be more transparent than most VC groups.
Thank goodness. That should minimize porting friction, and help both APIs catch on. I want to see lots of languages offering cross-platform abstractions over these to their standard libraries.

I'm not familiar with the gory details on the Windows side, so can anyone say whether the file handles this API interacts are general enough that this can do or be extended to do network IO, the way io_uring can?

Also, has there been any official confirmation about how this relates to DirectStorage? I've been expecting DirectStorage to include a clone of io_uring, and this seems to fit the bill.
Thank you, that is very helpful :)
> "So you end up using Kafka when it's limitations aren't a problem and you need the throughput."
I think that's what I've run into so far, is that my usecases haven't needed the throughput of Kafka and so all I'm left with is the feature gaps that I'd miss from something like AMQP1.0

Apache Pulsar looks pretty interesting :)
> They should have basically ignored what she’d said and offered something they thought was reasonable

That just doesn't happen most of the time. Happens even with SWE who don't negotiate well.
I've had a low opinion of Matloff since at least https://matloff.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/neural-networks-are...
That's interesting. I don't have that issue. The height locks but the depth and width adjustments do not. I find that the force required to adjust the depth or width is sufficient enough that adjustments aren't made erroneously like you experience. In fact, I like that the width and depth don't lock. I adjust my armrests throughout the day depending on my seating position. I believe this was the purpose of not making them lock.

Maybe my model year is different or I use my chair differently.
I've got bad news for you regarding every other submission on HN.
Options drive up support costs for Apple and for carriers, with no corresponding benefit for people who were uninterested in these options.
Influencer Marketing, Part 2: Why Use It?
Here's a link to the original video from the actual standup comedian in the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igh9iO5BxBo
Apple engineers dish on no macOS for iPad and why 11“ iPad didn't get mini led
Amazing! This opens so many possibilities for captchas.
As in I can leave the second tablet behind, flip the Magic Keyboard up and slip the tablet into my bag. It takes less space than my laptop + charger and works with the smaller charger I would have for my phone anyway. And I can pull it out and use it in contexts where a laptop would be awkward. I prefer using my iPad over my Macbook while having a meal or sitting on a couch- to say nothing about using it outside at a park, being a passenger in a car, standing in a queue, or taking a break on a local hike.
Folks with a deep interest to investigate complex systems in their spare time are unusual -- curious, inventive, and driven. They seek epiphanies about how the world works and are and willing to dig deep to learn about it.

People of this type are displaying the rarest part of the 20,000 hours of practice that's most essential to achieving greatness -- they're pushing themselves to exceed their limits to explore the unknown -- to get better and see farther. And they're willing to try and fail. They're the inventors, the disruptors, the source of all creative change in the world.

I suspect most employers won't welcome that attitude. Like most people, they're happy to wear blinders to disruption in their routine (AKA new ideas / better ways). So let them hire programmers who were accountants in a former life.

If that kind of person is not you, then you're in luck. True to form, in choosing to discuss your passions, you interviewed differently. In doing that you discovered something very useful -- this is a place where you do NOT want to work. Epiphany revealed; the search continues.
I've written some R both for small interactive scripts and running in production, it wasn't the first language I learned - R gets some things done very well; it also has some idiosyncracies, there is stuff that is clearly patched up together and exists for backwards compatibility, and there are many ways to do the same thing in R. If you don't expect it to be perfect, it gets the job done - nothing to write home about and certainly not a language that you should avoid at all costs.
Samsung is outright evil regarding software updates and 100% using them for obsolescence. One example is when they announced Linux for DeX. They were beta testing it on their Galaxy Note 8s / 9s, but they made it abundantly clear that once the public beta testing was over, they would discontinue and kill the program in Galaxy Note 8/9 and then release it only alongside the new Galaxy Note 10.

Eventually they killed the program altogether, likely due to poor demand. But to use the owners of the previous devices as betatesters, only to tell them they will have to uselessly buy the new device if they actually want to run the final version is just evil.
https://altstore.io/faq/ is a pretty comprehensive way to make this actually work.
Gresearch puts out some interesting articles, and they work in F#. I wish I were in the UK, I'd love to try and get a job there.
My understanding is that hot reloading via React Native is explicitly forbidden by the App Store rules (i.e., you're never supposed to download JavaScript and run it in JavaScriptCore).

I think what you're describing is simply that the App Store rules are selectively enforced.
Good on him, it's still not clear what caused anything in the first place .. very weird.

People should go away and come back when the storm is over.

Thanks for their work too, as many kiwirc helped me many times.
If you are in first class, I assure you that's going to and being at the airport will be much relaxing.
Generating employment and accessible education through internet is more immediate need of humanity than "beautiful sky free for anyone".
Can't this be removed in software? I'm not a photography expert, but it seems like the satellites are predictable in intensity and position. I assume you could analyze a long exposure or individual frames of it and pick out and remove the satellites pretty easily.

The tweeter also complains about the high price of space based telescopes, but neglects that starlink funds (or will fund) Space X which may substantially reduce the cost of putting up big space telescopes in the future.
You don't need 5, especially when the load balancing is part of the network or infrastructure team that are a different group. Some companies have hardware load balancers, some use products like VMWare NSX or both, depending on the needs. When you are a Windows shop, HAProxy is not on the short list, hearing about it and actually knowing it are 2 different sides of the coin.
One of the reasons to favor going to the most technical oriented panels and talks at these events: Way less corporate oversight and, since the subject is way too technical, less or no outraged humanities in tech in attendance.
Just because something took 5 years last time does not mean it should take the same this time.

- Our SOP should be better to analyze the information.

- Given the magnitude of the problem, more eyes should be on it

- tools and technologies should be better

It may still take longer, but all things being equal, we should not justify anything based on the past track record.

Your other point is valid though: if 3 people showed up in 1, 2 or 3 hospitals with severe flu, I would not think much of it, no one would.
Gaza-based journalists in Hamas chat blocked from WhatsApp
This looks really interesting. I'm always happy to see new collaboration tools. Also, anything that moves us away from TeX is a win.

I think Word export will be a big deal in many scientific fields.

I've certainly found it hard to spread git to people who don't really need it's quite "heavy" workflow. Yet, Dropbox results in lots of files named "foo-Daves-version" or "paper-Jane-edit-21011201".
I wouldn't be super surprised to see Xcode for iPad, but I would guess it'd be super cut down, possibly only allowing iOS development in the strictest most Apple-approved only kind of way.
There are a lot of existing python scripts that run on top of the existing python `ufoLib2` library, and the initial motivation for this work was seeing what would be involved in creating a wrapper API that would allow all of these existing scripts to work transparently on top of an existing rust crate.
> flow is obvious
I'm hoping that a minute of using it make it clear that left-to-right is the flow. I find all the ui decorations like arrow heads etc distract from the editing experience. Did you find it counter-intuitive?

> export to other tools
What tools do you have in mind?
Dr. Fauci says he's 'not convinced' Covid-19 developed naturally
A lot of people want to stick around to complete a project as it looks good on your CV. Particularly at a junior level.

From my experience (in games) it’s also quite intoxicating at the time and you get quite emotionally invested in supporting the team and fixing issues. In particular crunch is partly enabled because you get close through the adversity. You usually don’t get much opportunity to take stock until afterwards being so caught up in the moment. It’s pretty common to get a rash of departures right after it all calms down.
It's good. Now if only I can get a version of this where the user has to punch the monkey to solve the CAPTCHA... ;)
Yup, definitely a frustration I have reading through rust tutorials as well. So many of them will get out of memory problems by "Oh, just add Arc around it".
NeuroEvolution in the Browser with Rust and WASM
I recommended finding people that don't think in terms of "this is toxic, and that is toxic"

They throw the word around like it's a catch all to excuse their bad behavior when they should realize the only "toxic" person here is them

Also it's not cancel culture; picking better friends is not cancelling someone. I'm not recommending trying to get them fired or saying awful things about them. Just find better friends who don't see the world in such a narrow view that they can only claim things they don't like as "toxic".
> That's kinda homophobic. Gay man so he HAS to be effeminate.

FWIW, I didn't interpret it that way. I think the school board's message was merely that race dominates all other qualifications and since they already had two other white people (who happened to be female) they already had enough people with "white qualifications". Of course, this is by no means a less toxic interpretation than your "homophobia" interpretation.
It does it well, if there is a package out there for what you are trying to accomplish and hope that the package works for your use case..
Generally fair I guess, but extending the argument from electronics all the way to something as universally reviled as cigarettes? That's quite a leap! I mean, why stop there? Why not flame throwers and ballistic missiles? :-)

This is exactly the kind of thing that makes me want to participate less and less in online discussion. HN's rules require people to interpret comments charitably but it's still full of stuff like this. It's exhausting.

I just don't have the energy for it anymore and honestly that makes me quite sad.
I used to be big into the private tracker/warez scene. Nowadays I find it generally easier to pay for streaming subscriptions (especially since I have less free time anyway and need less media to fill it). The things I miss most are foreign films and music- it is very hard to find 90%+ of foreign media for sale in USD!
COVID lab theory clams were rated false which means social media platforms throttle their visibility and organizations posting those claims were threatened with suspension.

As politi-facts put it:

"There is no evidence that the coronavirus was made in a lab. The overwhelming consensus among public health experts is that the virus evolved naturally."
It would be great if they finalize the loading="lazy"attribute. Safari is the last holdout amongst the big browsers for this (for images) and I look forward to removing lazy loading javascript from my website.
>the gain of function research with coronaviruses has been documented in the peer-reviewed literature

The main peer reviewed gain of function research cited is https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985 done in 2015 in the US with one of the researchers being Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan lab.

I'm not sure there are any papers on gain of function research done in Wuhan?
Julia is JIT compiled and most people use it through a REPL. For a beginner there's hardly a difference in the experience.
Firstly, that Kurzgesagt video had numerous errors in it including ridiculously false lines like "3-4 satellites are getting destroyed this way every year." The source for that specific line was a politician, not a scientist. The video is not a legitimate source.

Secondly, the Kessler syndrome is believed to already be happening by some, but it's a slow process that occurs over 10s to 100s of years and doesn't result in any of the popular depictions like in Gravity or in Wall-e. The Kessler syndrome also does not happen at altitudes where debris are rapidly removed by the atmosphere, which is where Starlink operates in. So even if you were to spontaneously blow up all the Starlink satellites (not at all realistic), the debris would be largely removed after less than a decade.

Thirdly, as mentioned Starlink operates specifically in a region of space that is reasonably rapidly (within the order of a few years) cleared up of any non-functioning satellites or debris.

Fourthly, you can't call operational satellites with the ability to actively avoid debris and other satellites "dangerous garbage". You could use that term for cubesats with no on-board propulsion possibly, but not Starlink.

> IMHO the risk of putting these things up outweigh any potential benefit for underserved regions.

The risk is overstated and it's easy to ignore the benefits if it doesn't improve your own life.

> Musk could've also invested in ground-based communications infrastructure.

If it was so cheap to improve ground-based communications infrastructure it would have been done already. (And it has been in most areas of many European countries because of the density of their populations, but that's not true everywhere)
In other news iOS 14.6 just dropped because there are 8 0-day remote code execution bugs floating around at the moment. We need an alternative to Safari on iOS. I personally can't wait for Fuchsia to launch, at least they have a sensible security model to build on top of.
As long as I don't have to click a damn bus or find the traffic lights again I'm all for it.
There are three bat species with an identified SARS-CoV2 relative (RaTG13, RmYN02, RshSTT182 and RshSTT200) and none of them are found in Wuhan.
While it's not an agency, Uber has to allocate resources for a finite amount of time for a particular task. If there are other projects predicated on this app rewrite, it's absolutely essential that the rewrite is completed by a certain date.
An alternate app store would be a risk for tricking people to download and install all kinds of malware.

"Your iPhone is out of date. Tap here to install the latest security tools to stop hackers from stealing your bank account"
>If you get it as a combo tablet/gaming/tiny laptop, it's not a bad price.

It's an integrated graphics Ryzen 4500U machine - it's not a gaming device and shouldn't be called that. It doesn't have a keyboard, so it's not a laptop.

It's at best a ryzen 5 4500U powered tablet with integrated gaming controls. You can buy a $500-600 dell laptop and a $50 xbox controller and get the keyboard too.

I'm happy they found 2500 people to back their project but it looks like a major rip off to me.

It's not without some controversy either

https://www.reddit.com/r/ayaneo/comments/n6k0n0/breaking_lat...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ayaneo/comments/n7hgmd/guide_on_ref...

The company behind the device has been sold and it's a new team, new manufacturing, etc.

I would not back a $1000 crowdfund for any reason.
Sorry Pfizer, maybe we don't need to order billions of vaccines more but thank you for your service.

Edit: this comment exploded, I was being sarcastic because Pfizer Ceo said confidently that we will all need frequent boosters like a good salesman would. And it's true that maybe it's prudent to buy boosters just in case.
M1 is about capturing growth in the laptop/desktop/workstation market, it isn't about cost savings a dying market. Consolidation isn't the right word. It's about taking their mobile "opinions" and saying if we bring these to the desktop we can grow the market. The ROI does not make sense otherwise. Might as well pay Intel and keep milking it then.
Please do not take HN threads into flamewar hell, regardless of how provocative someone else's statement is or you feel it is. That is the way a forum like this destroys itself, and that is in none of our interests.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Florida will fine social media companies that bar candidates
How much of that is to correct for atmospheric effects?
Yes, that's the explicit point of it.

But it would seem to be the best for general-purpose web use, e.g. signing up for a newsletter with an e-mail address that's pretty much guaranteed not to break anything.

Instead of being conservative in output, it's intentionally being conservative in input.