skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure you can. Because as I said, infants do it. It's why the researchers chose infants and toddlers. Nobody TAUGHT an infant to prefer their own kind over others.

But I'm not talking about infants. I'm talking about people in general. By the time you're an adult, it's 90% culture.

If culture and instincts were opposites, culture would win. Which you agree with!

So when you say "If people naturally favored the out-group ( people who look different ), racial/ethnic groups and diversity wouldn't exist." that's not true. If you flipped the instinctual switch, people would still be clique-y.

> Breeding at random, the blue eyed population will simply diminish generation after generation.

No it won't. Oh my god. The more the blue-eyed population shrinks this way, the more brown-eyed carriers you have. The more carriers you have, the more often two brown-eyed people have a blue-eyed baby. This hits a steady state very quickly. We don't run out of people with a recessive trait.

And if people suddenly preferred to hook up with opposite-eyed people, the number of blue-eyed kids would actually drop down for a generation before rising over time to the steady state!

> Also, who is talking about "random".

I laid out the random scenario and the extreme out-group scenario. Neither one causes recessive traits to stop showing up en masse.

> He was saying that people have an "instinct" and preference for out-group. I proved this was false with many sources.

Yeah he was wrong about that. But you overcorrected.

Edit:

Let me put this by itself. Really simple logic.

> Right and 3/4th will have non-blue eyes. Just think about it.

These sentences were discussing parents that have one of each gene, right?

So all the parents under discussion here have brown eyes.

But only 75% of their children have brown eyes.

That sure doesn't sound like blue eyes disappearing to me!
Here is the exact moment it happened:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17549790

Almost exactly three years ago, on July 17, 2018.

He/she/it was informed about the banning, but didn't understand it (or missed the comment) and has kept posting for three years. (Mostly a string of the same, characteristic one-liner quips.)
That phrase, much like the software and licenses it describes, is not an improvement.
Ah yeah that makes more sense. I suppose managing FDE key via TPM is theoretically / ideally more secure, but has a lot more attack surface. Probably not many TPM implementations have been attacked enough publicly for anyone to be confident they're actually more secure than a regular password with good modern KDF.
The best reason not to do this as a sole proprietor is that the legal liability falls on you (your house, your family, etc).

An LLC not only gives you your AppStore listing, but gives you a legal shield as well if something goes wrong with the business (ie. you don't lose your house).
No, the retry logic was in-tandem between the client and a separate server endpoint.
You can find anything if your research isn't significant?
Probably they are lot more advanced then they used to be, but yeah, checking for device ID / Process ID in combination with binary (.exe) and location.
Typically these Programs are portable (no installation required, just run the .exe.) and on a corporate machine there are not many places to store it (typically within your user profile).
Programs like "Process Explorer" and "Process Monitor" will give a great amount of detail on processes which can be used for detection.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/proc...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/proc...
Shade Balls Are Meant to Conserve Water – But They Also Pose a Few Problems
The author is perfectly within his rights to write in peace; I suspect the recipients just want to know who sent them junk mail. ;)
Ask HN: HN for Economic News?
I love HN. Lately it has become the only source by which I learn about current events. The posts are interesting and the discussions enriching.

Lately, I’ve been concerned about economical news (inflation, job market, etc) and I wish I knew of a place like HN where economics news are discussed. Does anybody know of s place like this?
I have often asked leading skeptics/atheists why we dont use the word probable very often in our arguments/lexicon.

I don't think I've ever had a satisfactory response to the question.

(asked James (the Amazing) Randi, Matt Dillahunty etc)
Without harassing frat boy culture, how else could they convince developers to work long hours for such little pay compared to the rest of the industry?
https://cryptocurrencyjobs.co/

also being active in the discord of projects or protocols you like.
Isn't that wrought iron production? Too low of carbon content because the iron doesn't melt?

We started getting cast iron once we could get the temperature up to melting, then the optimized steels once we figured out how to add oxygen to the cast iron and burn out the excess carbon.

It's still possible to get higher carbon content out of a bloomery to get steel, but highly unlikely... And you'd get what, a nail's worth from 3 people's labour over a couple of days? {Mine the ore/grab it from a swamp, bake it, make charcoal, make the bloomery, run the bloomery, consolidate the bloom}
Is there a brute force list out there that tires all the words (from diceware lists) that people are more likely to choose, and in the orders that they would choose them, etc, first? Its does seem very hard to quantify how much you lose by cycling through passphrases until you get one that feels like you could remember it.
Personally I just make very long passphrases, and memorize them to tunes of songs. Its good typing practice everytime I boot up. Three times wrong and you have to restart.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Perhaps the single best heuristic for judging any type of objective claim.
Source for above:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201217154046.h...

Relevant part "The spike proteins alone can cause brain fog". And vaccines do produce viral proteins as intended.
OpenAI Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks
In its heyday, the Amiga easily beat Windows PCs for graphics and sound capabilities. But 1999 wasn’t a great time for the Amiga.
WHOIS shows it's registered four weeks ago by someone in Riga, Latvia.
Maybe 18th century Potoooooooo would think "aprao" and "ycombinator" are unusual names.
I'm really happy you responded because I fully agree with you.

I think my larger point was that smart juniors should seek to get clarification privately after exhausting their own skill, but you're absolutely right that they should raise issues as they come up in a thoughtful way to accelerate the team and their own growth.
Also name clash with Triton, a binary analysis framework - https://github.com/JonathanSalwan/Triton
Disclaimer: I'm a Co-Founder of https://www.vantage.sh/

We just launched EC2 generational upgrades on Vantage that autodetects when there are chances for you to upgrade from older generation EC2 instances to get both cheaper costs and better performance.

You essentially get a summary of all your older generation EC2 instances that are candidates for upgrades and what the associated savings will be.

Very relevant with this news :)
Kids shows containing "bonus" jokes/references for adult viewers is extremely common. Sesame Street is known for it

https://theweek.com/articles/457851/8-sesame-street-parodies...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/10-most-inappropriate-sesame-s...
In this case though it's not nuance but blatant gaps and bad logic. In this case it is because it's easy to shut down your rational thinking when confronted with something that seems to affirm your beliefs.

An equivalent article that used the flowering date of a different plant to as "indisputable evidence" for the non-existence of global warming would have been rightly torn to shreds on here.
Is anyone doubting that Heinlein writes highly competent female characters? Like he's pretty famous for that part. That's not the part people tend to object to.
> Secondly, to avoid the problem in this article, you should have an external password necessary to unlock the drive; not a TPM. This is, of course, not what most people do, since typing in passwords is tedious.

TPM is fine, but you need to set a PIN to unlock the TPM. If you have a TPM without a PIN, somebody can just swipe the whole machine. PIN guesses are rate-limited by the hardware itself, so the PIN can generally be faster and easier to enter than a complex passphrase without compromising security.

IMO: TPM+reasonably random PIN offers comparable security to a strong password without a TPM, and better security than a weak password without a TPM. I prefer TPM+PIN since it's easier to enter 5-6 digits at boot versus a big complicated passphrase, but it's personal preference. TPM without a PIN is pretty useless though.
Last time I gave an honest assessment of how far behind I was and why I got put on an "improvement plan". I've never been as exact since. I've been as behind as before but I don't call it out.
This is an odd, blanket statement considering 1. The quality/longevity of their games 2. The variance in genres they produce games in.

Comparing Starcraft to Candy Crush may help elucidate how off you are with the vape/fb comparison.
Lobbying from interested parties. In this case, the Classic Car enthusiasts. The government most likely judged that allowing a dispensation for commercial sale would not in fact result in widespread continued use of leaded fuel due to the commercial realities of selling such a niche product, but it was worth the effort to say they supported this niche - and that's exactly how it turned out.

The original 1999 UK legislation envisions retailers will be given a maximum quota on how much leaded they can sell, a permit holder could sell 0.5% of volume per month for example. But as anticipated ordinary motorists just put unleaded in the tank and carried on as before so the quota system was pointless. If your "quota" is 10 000 litres of leaded fuel per month and you sold a total of 45 litres to one bloke in that time, you not only don't need a bigger quota, you won't order any more of that fuel from your supplier. If perhaps, the next summer, a motorist in a Victorian outfit driving a 1926 Chevrolet enquires about the leaded fuel you tell them "Sorry mate, we're out of stock" and most likely they put unleaded in the tank, but either way they're not wasting your time and money with this weird "leaded" fuel nobody buys.

Which is why there was an archive.org link above -- the actual site for the FBHVC now tells you that you probably can't get leaded fuel, and even if you could you shouldn't bother, even though that's the organisation identified in the legislation itself as asking for this exception.

I assume it's still technically legal for whoever actually bothered to have a permit - but the actual emissions involved must be pretty tiny.
No level of car exposure is safe, but we still allow people with the right licenses to drive on the roads.

The UK has a long tradition of massive taxes rather than outright bans. E.g. absinthe was never illegal there, unlike many countries, it just had a punitive level of duty put on it.
oh snap.

I totally understand this measure and, for the record, agree with it, but I'm picturing the pushback that this will lead to.
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/57417459
'Private' and it wants your access and upload your whole address book. No different to Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp and Clubhouse.

No thanks and absolutely no deal.
Reminds me of moments I had early in my career where I was the hero for fixing problems I caused. :) That company didn't have code reviews and my bosses weren't very technical, so it was pretty easy to pretend like I wasn't at fault for anything. Sometimes they'd figure out that I caused the problems and even then it didn't seem to really matter. If I had the skills I have now 7 years later, my bosses would probably think they're overpaying me because it wouldn't seem to them like I'm doing anything more of the time.
You could use your current phone for maps in the car, and a new dumb phone for calls. Of course, then you're paying for 2 phones.
Water transformed into shiny, golden metal
Well, they could also titled it "The Longest-Running Kids Animated Series In US". Naming it the longest animated series in history implied that there is no other animated series produced all around the world, which run longer than it.
not pytorch anymore. there's support now
It's been a bit since I took french but that looks pretty good to me.
IANAAccountant, but I have run systems that fed into G/L systems. If the G/L were set up halfway correctly, everyone in the executive suite would have known that Horizon was producing bad data. Most transactions at a post office would either have had effects on inventory (buying stamps or stationery) or on liabilities (if a customer paid to send a package, someone would have to actually deliver that package). "Duplicate" transactions would only escape notice for services provided immediately without reducing inventory, like a haircut. I doubt many people are getting their hair cut at the post office.

This whole episode calls to mind the authoritarian reaction to "impossible" hacks of the various chip'n'pin schemes rolled out in UK over the years. The credit cards were assumed to be perfect, so account holders were held responsible when they got hacked. [0] In general, individuals in conflict with giant organizations should have access to appeals outside those organizations.

[0] https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2012/09/10/chip-and-skim...
Did the walkouts at Google change anything? Not only did Sundar enable the disgusting, predatory behavior of Vic Gundotra and Andy Rubin, but as far as I can tell, he’s still a darling of the press. Even on HN Sundar and Google get the kid gloves despite the abhorrence of the culture they created.

Walkouts are pointless. True Employee organization and collective bargaining is the only answer to holding execs accountable , whether it’s at Google, Activision, or anywhere else.
Common practise is to write own generators:
(username: ArbUsernameValid) => ...

ArbUsernameValid covers all relevant Strings that can be used here like take dictionary of names from 100 countries and feed you arb generator
Agreed. In my experience, typespecs and dialyzer has caught a bunch of bugs living on rare code paths. If I had neglected to test those code-paths, they might have found their way in production.

And what's liberating is that there can be multiple types (including patterns) for each argument and the return value, and the spec can capture all those details. This combination of specificity and flexibility is unthinkable in most languages.
CDC Sentences Kids to Another School Year of Irrational Masking – Reason.com
Interesting because it shows that bounce-back is a more significant ranking factor than before.

It seems like they've manipulated rankings by locking people in to reduce their bounce-back stats (in addition to keyword-stuffed content)
How is that dependent on your customers – doesn't Heroku, like, fully abstract the EC2 backend so that the Heroku customer doesn't even have to know it's on EC2?
Out of curiosity, was there a process to raise that design "oddity" to someone? Is there a way in the Google mono-repo to even know who is responsible for which section?
Old but gold:

http://www.upv.es/amiga/

EDIT: just in Spanish and French, but Deepl may be able to translate this right.
What happens in March next year?
One thing that annoys me is that if you carefully craft a complex subsystem that behaves well in prod that does not get noticed much. On the other hand a quickly thrown together something that requires heroic efforts to keep running and make stable might get much more noticed.
Many Worlds
If we are bringing up animated series aimed at a general audience with also a kid appeal, why wouldn’t the Simpsons not be considered?
There is certainly a large standard deviation on that 24 hour average. Some proteins might last a few days. But we are talking on the order of days vs. the disease which takes on the order of years to manifest. Anyway I assume that the disease manifests as a result of bad PrP accumulation (much like how tau and Abeta protein accumulation eventually results in Alzheimer's disease; in fact Abeta has been described as having "prion like" properties regarding how Abeta clusters beget more clusters). So as soon as you shut down PrP synthesis, I doubt CJD could manifest, even if the current PrP in your body was immortal.
I think the point was, if you were injected with the prion in a finger, how long would you have to sever that finger to prevent the prion from entering the rest of your body.
It sure as hell would accelerate the outsourcing of game development, which has rapidly growing capacity outside of the US & Western Europe. We're already very near the tipping point where non-Western studios will produce >50% of global industry revenue.
Commonly machines will be configured (via Group Policy) to store their Bitlocker recovery keys in Active Directory (where they are readable by only privileged users).

(It would be nice if MSFT would do with Bitlocker recovery keys what they do with EFS recovery keys, and encrypt them with a public key. At that point popping Active Directory wouldn't be enough to get Bitlocker recovery keys-- you'd need a private key that, hopefully, was stored offline or in an HSM.)
Downvotes seem to work fine in small niche communities without much politics and whose focus is truth-seeking about their topic. But not so much in larger politically charged communities.

In the former, the community members tend to use downvotes as they should, to hide spam and trash comments, while remaining open to new or unpopular ideas that are well-reasoned and presented.

But in the latter, downvotes are too often abused to suppress ideas the majority disagree with, even if well-reasoned or presented. In that context, I find a better combination is having a "flag" button instead of downvote. Flag makes it clearer that the purpose is to flag spam, misinformation, or troll speech, rather than merely things you disagree with.
There are 'OWNERS' files which list email addresses for directories, but anyone can contribute any piece of code. Generally, it is like a giant open source project to the eyes of a developer.
Note that soon after I posted this, Someone noticed[1,2] that it is possible avoid a whole lot of work, but I am still glad I realized how much performance one can gain by dropping GMP in favor of `__int128`.

It seems like for numbers on this side of 1024 bits, writing purpose-built routines using `__int128` or SSE/AVX instructions rather than general functionality is likely to pay off.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10915461

[2]: https://www.nu42.com/2016/01/excellent-numbers-explicit-solu...
I made the following comment once before on a thread about a business card with a processor running Linux:

In the late 1970s DigiKey was represented by a one-column ad in the back of Popular Electronics. A featured 7400-series chip with four NAND gates cost $0.25 . Inflation-adjusted, that twenty-five cents now buys enough processor and memory to run Linux.
I know what you mean, but I don’t think it counts as a sunset period if they haven’t announced anything.
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=calculusmadeeasy.org
Well not having to dualstack is still just nice. No more DHCP4, and so on – e.g. you can have SLAAC as the one and only very simple way of auto-assigning addresses (in a client setting, obviously not what you'll use with servers that have their addresses listed in DNS :D)
To be perfectly clear, they are mandating employees be vaccinated if they want to physically go in to an office, not to do (or keep) their jobs.
At least in woodworking, curing oils that don't have metallic driers added to them, take about a month to cure.

100% Tung oil, and (not boiled) linseed oil are the ones I'm aware of.

I have no information using them on cast iron.
Thanks for posting this. Just forwarded to my Nephew who is a junior in high school
AWS Lambda is (currently) part of the "Always free" tier, with up to 1 million(!) requests per month. (See: https://aws.amazon.com/free/?all-free-tier.sort-by=item.addi...)
Regardless, “every one I have ever read” is no longer true. “Almost every one I have read”, perhaps?

I looked for market share info on Google Fiber but was unable to find it. Mind sharing your source?
eSports teams and streamers didn’t post on social media for the duration of the walk out.

Am I missing something? Was this supposed to do literally anything to support it?

I’m genuinely puzzled. That’s like saying I stopped writing in my journal for the duration of women’s suffrage “in solidarity”.

Aren’t you supposed to do something people will notice?
I'm not working off anecdotes. It's 78% of people that have a desktop or laptop at home. Households that only have a phone or tablet as a computer are only 14%.
People will really go to lengths to spend hundreds of dollars on a frame for a website but still complain about paywalls that cost a few dollars to get through.
But Google is also planning on requiring people to go back to the office starting September. You can apply for a transfer to a remote position, but that requires that there be a remote position available for you to take and then finding it and matching into it. So yeah, sounds like unless you are already remote, they are requiring you take the vaccine in order to keep your job.
wow thanks!

the next question is whether I should have just one lambda call that gets my external data and serves it to the clientside requester

or if I should have one lambda that does gets my external data on a timed job, caches the response in a database, and a separate lambda that reads the response

on AWS it seems the databases are the most expensive thing

guess I could also just cross that bridge when I get there, just feel like I could get spammed to a big bill even if I put in some session variables client side

this is just a static website trying to power a data visualization on semi-live data
Yes, also Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone Walker out of Dallas. Roy Orbison out of West Texas. Buddy Holly and Waylon Jennings out of Lubbock. Freddy King and Albert Collins. The amazing Willie Nelson, who may still be on the road, again. Eric Johnson, one of my favs.
Exactly -- people are still free to not get vaccinated, but they're not free to go to aggregate settings where they might infect everyone there, which seems like a reasonable compromise.

It's the same approach as with antivax parents -- don't want your kids vaccinated? Then you'll need to homeschool them.
Thanks, I've edited the title to include the full headline. It didn't fully fit in the input box, so I had trimmed it.
What about the ground water near popular general aviation airports? Granted, there aren't nearly as many airplanes as cars, but over years, contamination can accumulate.

I remember a small lake in San Francisco that had to be decontaminated due to lead pollution from cars:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Workers-pour-poison-i...

"Lead from car emissions seeped into the water for decades until leaded gasoline was phased out beginning in the 1970s. The lead combined with pesticides flowing in from the golf course to form a toxic stew."
Yes, these are quite common. I believe persistent, full-on visual hallucinations tend to be rare among the general population, assuming you're sober and not sleep deprived or in a half-asleep state or in the process of waking up.
I can relate. I wrote a constraint solver as a pre-processor for my curve and surface generator. Never quite made a “beautiful” hull…. Probably an issue with my objective function and graduation constraints ;)
I agree both as a junior and as a senior human.
"You really think someone would do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?" - absolutely iconic quote, decades ahead of its time.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/just-go-on-the-internet-and-t...