skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It reminds me of an article about MDMA and fascist groups and how one leads to the other. I don't have a link, the article was terrible anyways, but the base idea, supported by scientific studies was interesting.

I don't know if a friend of yours took MDMA, but my friend told me that it is pretty much impossible to be aggressive under its influence, you can't help but love everyone. So, how can it lead to hate?

The explanation was that MDMA strengthens the bounds between people, and the closest people are within that group, the more the outside of the group is seen as a threat, a threat you have to protect your group against. Think of an aggressive mother protecting her baby.

So yes, I see how "culture fit", can lead to harmful discrimination, even when centered around positive values and topics as harmless as Star Wars and craft beer.
I don't know how you concluded that from the given information. It should be clear that with 128 million households and 328 million people, the average household size cannot be 4.38.

The data you want is in census table HH-4. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/familie...
I don't believe they work the same because with this new Delta variant they are saying Moderna is better and not Pfizer. If they were really the same then the effectiveness should be the same with each variant.
They also lost the war
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Social media shaming.

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Letter on lawyer letterhed
Responding to "it's surprisingly easy to commit a federal offense" with "FWIW, criminals think everyone is a criminal" can be reasonably interpreted as an ad hominem. If that's not what you meant, what did you mean by that comment?
I would hope Capitol buildings had better security so that Putin cant randomly put in an arcade claw game with microphones and radar. (Cue SNL's Elf and Shelf.)
I cannot tell you how much I love Zulip, but I can tell you that I have no friends any more because everyone is tired of me evangelizing it.
drops are temporary expressions of fear.
Munzee – Geocaching with QR Codes
Would we really lose them? My understanding is that, after a fire, a forest experiences very rich growth, especially of plants that don't grow much under the shade of old trees, which are good food and cover for many animals.
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Change to an older, crappier phone
I've wrote elsewhere in this thread that this alleged "Chinese propaganda offensive" especially on western social media is massively overblown. In terms of data, we have decades of western analysis of polling and sentiments in PRC suggesting people are genuinely supportive of central government, reflected in opinions of millions of Chinese diasphora populations who post on western media and/or interact regularly with people in the west. Even substantial percentage of HK itself is supportive of PRC, hence yellow/blue camps. So at minimum the issue is divisive with proponents and opponents, including in HK itself. Except the opponents are trying to create this narrative that proponent opinions can't be genuine because propaganda when that narrative itself is propaganda. All I can say is in my experience, folks in modern PRC voice dissent all the time, this isn't the 70s under Mao where one can be literally dispeared for private conversation. The stazis/red guards days are over. These days negative messages get deleted, positive messages get amplified. It's filtered. In the west the filtering goes the other way. Positive messages of get suppressed, negative ones get attention.
Well, that's great then! :) Guess i should have actually read the post instead of jumping to the github page...
And the innovation here is turning trucks into trains?

Why not...you know...just use trains?
I'm not an expert on async views at all but my hunch is it wouldn't do much. I do think async has some pretty interesting applications though on Read the Docs itself in our small proxy that serves docs which are just static files in s3. Currently it's a stripped down Django setup running in separate process from the main RTD app and it mostly sets headers picked up by nginx/sendfile.
But enough information for what?

Let’s say they had previous conversations about how to handle hostile media.

Ideas included raising concerns with editors, pulling advertising, raising concerns with platforms/ISPs about “disinformation”, suing for libel, etc.

So yes the CEO is implicated. He’s clearly in the decision chain - no doubt about it. But there’s nothing here about how much was deferred to subordinates.

I guess that falls into the category of “offline discussion” - but that doesn’t mean anything nefarious.
ARG for promoting films / games kinda peaked as a guerilla marketing campaign then. Once it became less novel, less money was spent on developing them.

But yeah they become a lot less compelling when it's solved so quickly and there's wikis devoted to them.
Interesting read.. Have you tried using waitress[0]?

We got some better performance for an internal service than Gunicorn after trying different gunicorn configurations to improve the performance of our workloads. We now mostly run (read depend) one instance of that service instead of 3 like we used to before.

[0]: https://pypi.org/project/waitress/
You must not have read the article, it is on Capitol Hill in Seattle, which is in the state of Washington, not Washington D.C.
Crypto Kings: Volatility Is a Feature Not a Bug
Siegfried: A signature-based file format identification tool for archivists
"Never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Mfs44MhYM
Honestly - some people just don't like the feeling (me) and some other people (south east asians in particular) are allergic and overly sensitive to booze. There are really, really easy ways to talk yourself out of drinking situations.
> Germany and Netherlands report that theirs is even worse at providing any remotely advanced treatment.

It kind of depends on what you'd consider advanced treatment. I know a few people with chronic illnesses that are dependent on getting their (expensive) medications and they never had a problem with that. Besides the prescription fee of 5€ (not 100% sure on that one) they pay nothing out of their pocket.

But I've heard from people that that they often have problems for example with getting approval for new wheelchairs, accessibility adjustments for their cars, etc.

In general it is true that only necessities are covered by public health insurance. This makes sense in most cases for obvious reasons, but in some cases the limits seem totally arbitrary and are not beneficial to the consumer nor the insurer. Luckily I am young and healthy so my confrontations with our healthcare are limited to my bi-yearly dentist appointments, but I can absolutely imagine how there are gigantic bureaucratic hurdles when needing something remotely special.
Seattle may have or influence tech secrets Russia wants.
>Are you SURE that they haven't done that with TSMC?

Yes. Because those machines are different. TSMC and Foxconn ( or any other contractor ) operate on a very different spectrum.
No. Matrix could just build Xmpp clients for all platforms consistently, and it would work out much better than building their own atrocious server. It is a very typical NIH-approach.

Also, what you call a totally inconsistent ecosystem is what real ecosystem looks like. Matrix looks better in this regard precisely because it is not a protocol. It didn't yet deserve to have such problems.

I also don't think it'll ever be able to successfully transition to a real ecosystem because Arathorn here always brushes off concerns about governance of the protocol, which shows that he doesn't have the mature understanding of the nature of the problem.
Very common for high level officials. Or low level officials for that matter.

There was scandal in a city I lived in. It turned out city council members were turning off their cell phones and actually talking face to face during council meeting bathroom breaks.

The press was ticked, because they were used to accessing the SMS messages.

The council members pushed back hard - nasty blog posts were written - and the press ended up looking a little silly and spoiled.
Slack threads are, without a doubt, the worst UI I can imagine for this feature. This Discord implementation looks only slightly less bad. Threads are not necessary for this product category - we have channels for that.
Just push notifications.
I think a lot has happened between 1960 and 2020:
smartphones, internet, machine learning, hubble telescope, internet of things, ecommerce ...

Going from personal computer of the 1960s to what we have today in our pocket is an enormous achievement in itself so it's a bit disingenuous to list it off as a single word "personal computer".

If we measure progress by whatever metrics: number of patents, number of scientific publication, ... in fact things are speeding up even more.
Reminds me both of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZITP93pqtdQ and the all too common headscratcher: is it a comment from a real libertarian idiot or a case of poe's law?
Blue check twitter people are sus, don't trust them.

That's the mood in the algorithm hole twitter put me in to.

So, make what you will of that.
No, a stack of pennies would manifest a greater force, but the pressure would be the same. Pressure is force per area, which means that the increased weight from a wider column is exactly cancelled by the increased area that the force is distributed over.
penny is symbolic. diameter is irrelavent if scale is undefined.
I lived in a co-op decades ago that had something like this. It was an old, single brand soft drink machine. The co-op however stocked it with cheap bottled beer. You had no idea what would appear in the slot when you fed in your coins. And it was a sad day indeed when Special Export came sliding down the shute...
I'm curious: current trends predict that the temperature increase from the pre-industrial age to 2100 might be as much as it was from the last ice age (look it up, it was a very different time). And this will happen roughly within 200 years, not 20 000. What makes you think this will be small and easy to adapt to ?
white collar walkouts came out of the Google Walkout that had no effect.
This is the key one for us that makes Postgres a non-starter for FTS (We use postgres for everything else)

We begrudgingly use Solr instead (we started before ES was really a thing and haven't found a need to switch yet)

When you get more than about two different types of filters (e.g. types of filters could be 'tags', 'categories', 'geotags', 'media type', 'author' etc), the combinatorial explosion of Postgres queries required to provide facet counts gets unmanageable.

For example, when I do a query filtered by `?tag=abc&category=category1`, I need to do these queries:

- `... where tag = 'abc' and category_id = 1` (the current results)

- `count(*) ... where tag = 'def' and category_id = 1` (for each other tag present in the results)

- `count(*) ... where tag = 'abc' and category_id = 2` (for each other category present in the results)

- `count(*) ... where category_id = 1`

- `count(*) ... where tag = 'abc'`

- `count(*)`

There are certainly smarter ways to do this than lots of tiny queries, but all this complexity still ends up somewhere and isn't likely to be great for performance.

Whereas solr/elasticsearch have faceting built in and handle this with ease.
Yes. Meaning depreciation is added back in. But a different amount is added back in when you shift from a 3 year to a 4 year depreciation.
I always thought the belters were doing jar jar impressions.
Are you asking how going to a URL is different from installing an app?
Right, but it takes ages for forests to grow, and that period is plenty time for CO2 emissions to run-away from us.
The article has a definite slant. But it also has some valid points that are often missing from "original sin" discussions.
Aren’t all blood elf warriors equally attractive? Assuming any given female blood elf warrior is actually a female IRL needs a major reality distortion field.
Ok, thanks for the explanation. I got confused because of your definition of ROI. Normally, ROI of 80% would mean you invest $1 and get back $1.8 in return. see https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/returnoninvestment.asp. What you described will mean -20% return and not 80% return. But I get the point you are making and I agree with it.
Show HN: See how much money people have committed to the Robinhood IPO
With the Robinhood IPO this week, I wanted to see how many people are reserving shares through Robinhood IPO access. Thoughts on the product, or the IPO itself?

Duolingo is also going IPO this week: https://www.rhyzin.com/stock/DUOL

You can also see our early community of users here: https://www.rhyzin.com/group/rhyzin
Durex has a new typeface called One Night Sans
It's not all that different, it's just extra ammunition. If they hear you are a male with a lisp or your voice sounds hispanic or black, they will attack that too. The gender part is just low hanging fruit but all of it is equally fucked up.
It does. Zulip calls what Discord and Slack refer to as "channels", "streams", and what Discord calls "threads", "topics".

Zulip's superior topic UX was why I went with it over Slack & Discord. Now Discord has feature-parity there and even more with 'private' topics/threads. I have to create a separate channel/stream if I want some topics to be private.

So now, since my users love Discord so much, I'm going to be fending off requests to move over to Discord, where the conversation data is locked in and cannot be self-hosted or exported.

Good for Discord, but I admit I'm not looking forward to said conversations.
The video they are referring to has a very specific part about pcr testing (relevant to the discussion here). I think it is reasonable to trust his opinion on the matter regardless of what he thinks about AIDS.
Maybe I didn't run waitress through as full a test as I should have. In my (admittedly shallow) tests, it didn't offer any significant performance benefits over Gunicorn and I stuck with Gunicorn for the simple reason that the rest of our infra used it. Would you be willing to share a bit more about your configuration that made waitress significantly better for you?
As if newest iOS was designed specifically for Android Switchers. The widget is what a lot of people are switching over.

In the Q&A session they also mention the highest number of people coming from Android in any June Quarter.
Being a poor communicator and bad team contributor is a thing you can pretty easily articulate without falling back on "doesn't fit the culture".
Python's Collections: A Buffet of Specialized Data Types – Real Python
Yes, that's one of the things that impressed me most about the show before it went off the rails. You had your season-long mystery, some multi-episode questions, and then your single episode mysteries.

It also has one of the best father-daughter relationships I've seen on screen.

I have noticed that quite a lot of how Veronica Mars "worked" got shifted over into iZombie.
It is worth considering that maybe Sinovac (and whatever the Russian one(s) is/are called) may have been released far earlier than they would have been if the U.S. and others had not developed their own faster. Think of space wars - even if you lose the race to first, you still want to be in 2nd vs 500th. If they were developed at a more traditional pace, would they be more effective? Would any of them be? And what would be the consequences of waiting? Would it be millions more deaths, or would natural herd immunity emerge? Both? Would the more virulent variants have appeared without a marginally effective strain evolving as a result of marginally effective vaccines?
Starcraft 2 is still the leader after like 10 years at this point
> Doing so would require ElasticSearch to reach consensus on every read/write

ZomboDB only requires that ES have a view of its index that's consistent with the active Postgres transaction snapshot. ZDB handles this by ensuring that the ES index is fully refreshed after writes.

This doesn't necessarily make ZDB great for high-update loads, but that's not ZDB's target usage.

> They also claim that transactions will abort if ElasticSearch runs into network trouble...

I had to search my own repo to see where I make this claim. I don't. I do note that network failures between PG & ES will cause the active Postgres xact to abort. On top of that, any error that ES is capable of reporting back to the client will cause the PG xact to abort -- ensuring consistency between the two.

Because the ES index is properly refreshed as it relates to the active Postgres transaction, all of ES' aggregate search functions are capable of providing proper MVCC-correct results, using the parallelism provided by the ES cluster.

I don't have the time to detail everything that ZDB does to project Postgres xact snapshots on top of ES, but the above two points are the easy ones to solve.
The Unknown Features of Python’s Operator Module – By Martin Heinz – Jul, 2021
I believe (but I'm not 100% certain) that I personally first heard this term when I heard about these studies. I remember it because it's something that hadn't occurred to me.

But that's the thing: your mind is capable of making these subconscious connections. So if you happen to be discriminatory against African Americans, names are going to be a signal whether you realize it or not.

I'm oddly reminded of some TikToks I've seen recently where people talk about how they're unintentionally conditioned their dogs with things like "Thank you, good meeting" as something they always say at the end of a Zoom call and their dogs perk up because they know they're going to get attention, go for a walk or whatever.

Forming a connection doesn't require intent from either party.
All is not lost, behold the Shrek Box;

http://phillynews.fyi/22327/shrek-box-appears-in-south-phila...
I can also recommend this wikipedia article and its surroundings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
You bring up the really interesting question - is discrimination justified? If it makes the team better, if it makes the product better, if it makes the company better, then maybe the right thing to do is hire the fun white guy instead of the boring brown girl.

If people believe that, then I'll only ask that they acknowledge it. Next time someone talks about gender disparity or race disparity, stand up and say "Yep, hiring isn't fair, the disparity isn't related to innate skills"

It would be a relief, frankly, if every one would just say that and agree on it. The problem is usually that when issues of race and gender disparity come up, a lot of posters then insist that hiring is perfectly fair and balanced and it must be the 'culture' of some races or the 'brain chemistry' of some genders that is the real problem.
> Perhaps I should add a new step, post after the edge cases have been considered

Or use the "delay" feature on your HN profile page: e.g. mine is set to 2, meaning after I post a comment, I have 2 minutes to edit, reconsider, proofread or delete before anyone sees it.
There's photos confirming it's not the locksmith himself doing it, but they're presumably the owner who oversees management of the machine.

https://twitter.com/saeofdoom/status/460157462197198849?s=20
Adventures in Candy Land
as i recall, spectators receive game data, not a video stream. you can spectate in VR.

so during real tournaments they could just broadcast from a spectator in the “standard” view.
There is better unbiased sources for science, and the best is simply the medical definition in DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition) or ICD-11 (eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases).

There is no addiction or compulsion unless the person is experiencing direct negative consequences to one's physical, mental, social, or financial well-being. I.E, no professional following a medical definition would touch a diagnosis of pornography compulsion unless there is clear documentation that the viewing has been causing negative consequences for the individual. Most likely they would not diagnose anything related to porn usage at all since neither the international standards nor World Health Organization recognize the diagnosis.

What a lot of people also try to imply is that all porn usage causes negative consequences. It is a bit like the prohibition tactic implying that any alcohol consumption causes alcoholism and significant bodily harm. Naturally we won't find a study saying there is no correlation between alcoholism and alcohol consumption, and some of the studies is likely to imply that consumption of alcohol may cause alcoholism. What the more insightful studies show is the risk factors that makes a person more likely to become addicted or get compulsions and what factors gives protection against it. The usual finding in such studies are environmental factors rather than simply consumption.
smartos is a great operating system. Kind of a shame the kind of thinking did not catch on yet.
I don’t think it’s just skill. They’re also primarily team based.

If you win, you can feel really good because you had a 17/2 K/D. If you lose, you can blame your teammates. You can also play with your friends. With starcaft even though team matches are supported, they are unpopular, and there’s no easy way to look at the stats for the game and feel like a badass if you win.
No, “deferred compensation” is very much money that has been paid to you, but you don’t immediately have access to it because it is stored in an account with some kind of restriction, like a 401k or IRA. This is done to avoid having to pay a huge amount of taxes in one year, so the payments can be spread out over multiple years. There is almost always an option to invest the money so you don’t miss out on gains while you’re waiting for each payout.
I think writing a JSON parser should be perfectly fine, it's quite a simple format (while imperfect and probably way overused). I would say 50 lines of header + 500 lines of .cpp file should be plenty to write a solid reusable implementation that parses to a generic tree (dicts, lists, float/string/bool literals). Should be doable in an afternoon.

But if you disagree, you should try a particular, very popular JSON library for C++ (removed the mention of the name here, you can figure it out on your own if you want).

Last I checked, a git clone of this library downloaded 260 Megabytes of data. The project consists of many many files, but most notably it is a C++ header-only library consisting of 24000 lines of header files to be included into every (transitively) dependent .cpp file.

When you run "g++ -E" on it (to do the preprocessing step only) those 24000 lines will unfold to about 84000 lines.

Just write a short test.cpp with #include <THIS JSON LIBRARY.h> in it and add a int main() { printf("Hello, world\n"); }. Compiling this with "g++ -c" takes about 1 sec on my laptop.

Add a tiny amount of code that "parses" the string literal "3" (which I think is not valid JSON actually. But anyway) and compile + link. Takes 2 secs on my laptop. With -O2, I'm at 3.5 seconds.

Imagine writing a larger project with many many .cpp file that include a header file that publishes such a dependency.
Or just imagine compiling a project where multiple .cpp files directly include this thing.

It's a truly sad time to be a programmer.
Not a lawyer but you need likeness rights to reproduce an actor's face. I.e. Peter Cushing's estate gave permission for him to "appear" in Rogue One.

But maybe it doesn't apply to parody(?)

https://youtu.be/9WfZuNceFDM
If they're guaranteed to be temporary, you ought to buy in and make easy money, right?
They have to keep up the appearance that they are pretty much the only cola drink you ever want to buy. If they stop all their advertising, people would start seeing other brands (and I don't mean just Pepsi, all the other lesser known local brands as well) as viable options.

At least I think that's their logic.