skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His arguments regarding the social consequences arent as good as they could be, but the ideas he is refuting are so stupid that I cant tell if they are strawmen or just commonly held ideas. Chomskys writing is often convincing, but his perspective always seems so limited. The (in)significance of the research, intentionally vague regarding specific or general as a trick, and justified by fear of missuse in politics, perhaps. But it shows an emphasis on argument over substance, and a lack of perspective on technology.
This seems to happen in a parallel universe. From my first semester at university with 120 students, 5 were women. Out of those 1 made it till the end, which is more or less exactly the average of those that actually got their degree in the standard period of study.

That said, I think university doesn't count as much as it did before. At least in softwareworld you can make it without a degree just fine. You have disadvantages for some higher positions in large companies. But who wants to do that job anyway? It seems rather unattractive today.
>This money system was built into what it is now by the Medici:

It's funny because the Warburgs could trace their lineage back to Venice.
It was DC environment.

I measure latency on a client, on service and on using some very expensive, cut-through switches. This shotgun method lets me lazily detect where the latency comes from with a single look. I understand not everybody has access to cut-through switching, but for most uses port mirroring is available on a lot of hardware

Strictly backend.
Coronaviruses: Genome, Symptoms and Diagnosis
Plenty of that misinformation is being indoctrinated in people at college.
Build Secure Tunnels to services in remote private networks, in 20 lines of Rust
What is your threat model? Because for almost all truly sensitive information, email is the wrong choice versus Matrix protocol.
Correct. I am fortunate to have a good relationship with my ex-wife to this day; it has been great for our children too. I am one of the lucky ones!
Don't know if it's been edited since you posted, but at the end of the article, second to last paragraph:

> If this was a fictional sports movie, this story would end with a blow-by-blow account of my match against Bilzerian. You'd see me struggle, battle and beat him, despite the odds, then the credits would roll.
Why would they voluntarily act as agents of the state to do that? They would need to be compelled legally to do so, and to do that in the US would require a legal order that has not yet succeeded (remember the Apple case around the terrorist in San Bernadino?).

Before you say, "Well, it could be done in secret", please look up the Wiretap + technical assist laws and note the disclosure requirements.
I’m not saying that most people aren’t formula pluggers (and that’s a big problem) but, my first impression of that kind of card would be that’s it’s meant to be branding, not a tool. Someone is carrying around a piece of what they love.
Yes it is a great choice if not the best
Hardly stays the same. That $100 billion cash is going to be spent somewhere, that increases money supply across the market, private sector now has more money but the actual resources produced has not changed that much.
To clarify, I’m not saying that women can’t beat men in poker.

I’m saying that to me, it looks like these particular men—no doubt associated with the casinos being played at—are trying to outright scam women whose identity is based on proving that men can be beaten.

They are crafting a gender war narrative that, if accepted, disseminated and amplified by social media influencers, can lead to the financial ruin for thousands, if not millions of women, who come to believe that they have a chance against web casinos, because hey, she won $10,000 from a FREEROLL!

In reality, you will be very hard pressed to get a web casino to wire transfer you your winnings, even if you are a no-name professional gambler and the casino owes you millions.
It's banana-ware. Ripens at the customer. Avoid!
These assumptions of sinister motives are unwarranted.

There are a small minority of people who find distortions of the truth aesthetically displeasing and finding things out pleasing, these people often become scientists. (I'm not one of them really, I get off on feelings of smug superiority I get by disagreeing with the "ignorant masses")
Its not that the support structures do not exist, after all they never did and men did fine without them, its that college is suffused with an ideology that is anti-men, anti-merit and, for the most part, useless for anything but its own self-propagation.
Ask HN: Why does companies like Google act random and inhuman?
I used to run normal ads for some amazon niche affiliate sites and some apps install on playstore. Havent run any ads since 6+ months.

All of sudden I receieve email saying "Your Google Ads account xxx-xx-xxx has been suspended for violating our Circumventing Systems policy."

No clarity nothing. Which ad or what.I contacted them saying I havent run any ads since 6 months then why this ban?

Reply: Our stand remains same. Thats it no clarity on what was the issue or any thing so.
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I'm sorry, the transition to their own silicon, and the tour de force that is the M1 doesn't count as innovation? What would count? We're literally discussing the failures of an iconic chip design firm, so it's particularly ironic that you would overlook this.
"The author could as easily chosen an lead imagine of the same person in a class room"

Might vary where you live, but my understanding is that the author of a piece is not usually the one picking images and writing the headline. There are some instances where the writer and photographer are the same, but that's not the case here.

It's a story about males who aren't in college, so why would they have photos of males in school? Stats about "people considering not going to college" is not as compelling as this story with stronger stats about what people are actually doing, IMO.
Thanks, this is a good list in general of things to think about =)...

I've not really ever applied 9 myself, I've run comparative benchmarks a couple of times, but not thought about using that as a basis for whether to roll my own on critical performance parts.
What about cloud based developer VMs?
What puzzles me is how Altman and others thinks that there is any intelligence in ML as they are pursuing it with pattern matching. And how pattern matching as being pursued with ML could ever give any intelligence or general intelligence is baffling. Pattern Matching != conceptual causal reasoning using a model of the world.
> But the same is true of all the other orchestration tools isn't it?

Of course. The difference being how complicated it is to deal with problems.

For example I find it is way easier to deal with problems with Ansible compared to Chef.

So, assuming that both get me what I need, I prefer Ansible because it is less drag for when I have least time available to babysit it (which usually happens at least opportune moment).

What I am trying to say is that, just because it works for you now doesn't mean it will not end in a disaster at some time in the future. It is not my position to tell you if the risk is acceptable for you. But I personally try to avoid situations from which I cannot back easily.

If I have a script that starts an application on a regular VM I KNOW I can fix it whatever may happen to it. Not that I advocate running your services with a script, I just mean there is a spectrum of possible solutions with tradeoffs and it is good to understand those tradeoffs.

Some of those tradeoffs are not easily visible because they may only show themselves in special situations or, opposite, be so spread over time and over your domain that you just don't perceive the little drag you get on everything you do.

I find that if there is any overarching principle to build better solutions it is simplicity.

Presented with two solutions to the problem, the simpler solution is almost always better (the issue being the exact definition what it means to be simpler).

For example, I have joined many teams in the past that had huge problems with their applications. I met teams that were very advanced (they liked overcomplicating their code) and I met teams that could barely develop (they had trouble even writing code, did not know or use more advanced patterns).

I found that it is easier to help teams that had huge problems but wrote stupid code because it is easier to refactor stupid simple code that beginner developers write than it is to try to unpack extremely convoluted structures that "advanced" developers make.

I think similar applies to infrastructure.

For example, when faced with an outage I would usually prefer simpler infrastructure that I know I understand every element of.
The campus is closed.
https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/practical-file-system-d...

The Be operating system (BeOS) uses BFS as its native file
system. BFS is a modern 64-bit journaled file system. BFS
also supports extended file attributes (name/value pairs)
and can index the extended attributes, which allows it to
offer a query interface for locating files in addition to
the normal name-based hierarchical interface. The
attribute, indexing, and query features of BFS set it apart
from other file systems and make it an interesting example
to discuss.

So yes it has been done. Personally I like the AS400 idea most - an object store where you don't even have to really "think" about the difference between memory and storage - you just have objects that you can cause to "persist" when you "commit" them and anything they are linked to by pointers will also be persisted.
I think this reveals a lot of ignorance on the huge amounts of different teaching methodologies and techniques that have risen and fallen over the last 100 years.
Pejoration is not prevented by a specific definition, and there is many examples of perfectly fine words being turned into a pejorative. As an example there is a very nice defined alternative word for happiness that was commonly used in songs which has no perfect modern substitute, and yet because of a different interpretation this word can't be used because those hearing it will interpret a disrespectful connotation and hostility.

> bullying or other forms of social violence for the purpose of establishing personal dominance or personal entertainment is part and parcel with masculinity

For those who think neither of those has anything to do with masculinity, using the word masculinity to describe it would be wrong. One could be a bit colorful to call it a poisonous use of words, ie injecting an harmful substance into the language.

A few decades ago researchers looked at how language get used in conflicts, and they had a major discover. The most effective way to enable people to attack other people is to describe other human being as being less than human. Toxic waste. Insects. Poison. Garbage. Language that dehumanizing groups of people and dehumanizing their behavior is almost a requirement in order for human on human violence.
this is danbmil99's project i think

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=danbmil99
This country is working on a $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill. New Orleans was just saved by a massive infrastructure program to build levees. We'll build most of the required infrastructure. Probably not enough of it, and we'll spend too much for it, but most Americans will be "fine". (Insert "this is fine" meme picture here)

Uranium is easy. That comes from Northern Canada.
Serious question about this. The starting hand chart appears to indicate that K4os is a surprisingly superior hand to other similar high low combinations. It's there a reason or is the chart wrong?
Unity Patents the Usage of the Entity Component System (ECS)
As a family we switched to Telegram about 18 months ago, and so far we've not found a reason to switch back.

Indeed, as often as I can, I encourage others to make the switch too - to Telegram or Signal or any other secure messaging app, just don't stay on WhatsApp!
> So, if you think socialism works, then yeah, you'll find this very persuasive. From my POV, though, it's a deluded fantasy which 100 years of disastrous policy catastrophes have disproved.

(not to bring up a no true scotsman-type argument) but maybe chomsky has a different understanding of what "socialist principles" mean compared to most contemporary people (and those who implemented those disastrous policies)?
premium plan on a virtual badge, NFT or whatever crap you want. content would still be freely available for everybody but the infra costs would be a bit less.
PLOS’13, November 3 2013, Farmington, PA, USA
Copyright c©2013 ACM

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I think your assumption is wrong. Your comment simply added no or not enough value.
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' from website after activist arrested
Is there a group of people who use WhatsApp who care about e2e encryption and hold it as the standard? Surely its common knowledge that you cannot trust the parent company of WhatsApp, or its encryption since being broken.
Computer science is the 3rd most popular subject for men but 18th for women. [1]

https://www.statista.com/statistics/967826/number-bachelors-...

Women really really like to study subjects related to people - even "homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting" is more popular among women than computer science.
Nice write up. I ditched swap partitions a few years ago, my system (home computer) basically never swapped. At the time I was digging myself out of a too-small /boot (a once-recommended size) and figured that one-big-partition with a swap-file gave most flexibility.

So, is the an efficient way to leverage the speed improvement for other than swap -- like binary caching of executables of some form?
Unfortunately as a k8s user in the real world every container is slightly different and has numerous hacks in it to make it compatible with k8s in some way or another. So no.
> Harden was surprised that she’d elicited such rancor from someone with whom she was otherwise in near-total political agreement.

This matches my observations for the last half decade, but more so from progressives and left leaning people. Any deviance from "the narrative" results in instant ostracizing! Other political groups just make excuses to walk away for the time being, in my experience, which isn't inherently good either, but better than this.

There was a study on twitter that quantified this: left leaning people do not follow right leaning people, right leaning people follow left leaning people. One group has only a caricature of the other, while the other has a clearer picture of the opposition party's belief set.

I really hate the idea that people must be blocked if they didn't reach the same conclusions. It assumes that people are static, irredeemable deplorables even if they weren't exposed to the viewpoint by that point in their life. Harkening back to an old campaign point from the left also half a decade ago.

Then of course there is the assumption that I must therefore be "on the right", especially given the adjectives I used as well as being frustrated more with the left. Which is why the ostracizing occurs for questioning anything, nobody considers the possibility of an "ally" having introspection, or the possibility of evaluating the world outside of a false dichotomy? Super productive, everyone.
As I said, it's not so much that we ask that data to be fetched -- it is there in the first place, and pulled from Elasticsearch, not a SQL database

Because of this model, we also make sure that Elasticsearch merely works a search cache, not as an authoritative content database (hence everything we add in there is considered public, on purpose, and what isn't meant to be public is just not indexed in ES)

However the gzip efficiency improvements would be really neat for sure

Fwiw I also don't work on the backend and there might be good reasons to not expressly filter out data (yet anyway, perhaps it will end up as a separate entity and be a include parameter)
This is really more of a science-religion issue than a science-science one. It is more akin to Galileo being tried for heresy for claiming that the sun is the center of the solar system. Though in this case the religion is progressivism. And the keystone of progressive dogma is that "All groups are born completely equal and any achievement difference is the result of racism by white people or sexism by men." And if it could be proven scientifically that this is not the case (which it has been [1]) then the whole ideology collapses.

If you've ever tried to convince someone to disregard a deeply held religious belief, you know how much of an uphill battle it can be. And it can be downright impossible for the more zealous, especially if they believe they're constantly battling some sort of "other" (mostly theoretical Nazis).

It doesn't look like things will be getting better any time soon. In fact, with the increase of deplatforming and ideology-driven power mods on social media sites like Reddit, it seems like we're moving into a sort of digital dark age.

[1] https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jense...
In my experience this started with the BPI-R1. They should refund all buyers, and give an excuse and explanation in public how this mess came to be.

Higly unlikely, though.

Until then: AVOID!
How the creator economy is reshaping business
StackOverflow solved this by charging karma for each downvote you make.
The Licensing page says:

"This text was adapted by Saylor Academy under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensor. "

They seem to be saying that Redden didn't want his name on the Saylor version.
Singapore deploys street robots to check bad behavior of people
I found the advertisement that contained the software to be interesting.

For instance, why is Simons' Basic "Rated PG"? I thought, maybe, this was a silly marketing bit, but some of the other software in the list has ages listed, so maybe not? It seems a little funny to put a content rating on an expansion for a programming language.
Here's my favorite C64 ad in Swedish:

https://www.eiman.tv/temp/C64AlternativetSwedish.jpg

Translated:

"- Where have you been?

- Outside!

- What have you been doing?

- Nothing!

[C64] - the better alternative"
Are you really sure the starting stack sizes are variable? From what I remember, they aren't.
What do I do? So far mostly just typical enterprise stuff, in legacy, but not quite dead versions of tech that has modern counterparts.

As for what I want to do, it’s a bit hard to describe. It’s much easier to describe what I don’t want to do. I don’t want a job that a year or two in I’ll dread waking up in the morning and having to work. That’s been a constant in my career so far. I’d also like to work less in the same old and would like to work where I’ll be exposed to me more and ideally working on something that interests me. Ofc the latter goes back to the “hard to describe” thing and mostly something I know when I see, but can’t put it concretely.

For the most part I just look at job listings, and have to filter through the swaths of stuff I don’t want to find the occasional job that looks good only to realize there’s no way I’d ever to get it. Sadly it seems like the best way to get where I want is to have been in the a different place with a different mindset five years ago.
Just because that's the trend doesn't mean that we should, as individuals, encourage it. The same way I don't watch reality TV even though the market is clearly into them, nor would I support systems that would discourage the creation of other kinds of shows.
Corporate board aren't some bastion of liberalism, they're generally older white man with money. Conservative much more often than not as that demographic tends to be. They didn't have some sort of magical change of heart in the last 10 years but simply do what is needed to make money.
You probably don't have graphics drivers installed...

IIRC the fancier toolkits (Qt, GTK) do widget accell with either mandatory blitting and/or 3d (OpenGL/DirectX) (Other frameworks like WPF and Cocoa are notorious for this too).

There are, or used to be, frameworks that were not gpu dependent.

I've never hear nor seen these massive drops you claim to, so either you are running 20 year old hardware or your graphics aren't on, or you have some other hardware issue...
You left off 10 servers: 2 Redis servers, 3 tag engine servers, 3 Elasticsearch servers, and 2 HAProxy servers. So, that's 23 servers in total, which is not a trivial amount, but also not a huge number, either.
It seems like the site is a vue app and what is being served is not a production build. Also the entirety of vuetify (js+css) is served in the vendor bundle.

The dev build includes source maps which let you recreate most of the original codebase (on top of the obvious network impact).
> A narrative that (white) men are uniformly privileged and life is just easy for them.

I doubt this has anything to do with it. What is the argument here? They hear this and believe it so they don't think they need school?

I grew up in a white, working class community, and in my experience nobody paid attention to liberals on Twitter calling them privelaged. Certainly not enough to decide not to go to college over it.
This reminds me of "When Dickens met Dosto­evsky"[1].

[1] https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/eric-naiman-when-dickens-...
The most surprising thing about the result is that there isn't an order-of-magnitude jump between SATA SSD and any sort of HDD, as you would expect with random read/write workloads typical of swap thrashing. Instead, the chart looks as if it is mostly measuring sequential read/write performance. HDDs have long been known to be faster on one end than the other in sequential benchmarks.

This could be an artifact of the particular kind of workload that the author used. Maybe it causes large numbers of adjacent blocks to be swapped in and out at the same time?
Between uBlock Origin and PiHole, my web experience at home is so different from what I see visiting relatives and friends, it is startling. Yet, I cannot get (most) of them to try either one.
Thank you for your thoughts. Fascinating.

For your delectation and learning:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=self%20esteem%20traini...
Video Toaster - a great piece of hardware/software! I had a Vic-20, C64, Amiga 1000, Amiga 500, and an Amiga 2000 with the Toaster. They were fun times indeed! I had friends doing commercial video work with them, and others doing "multi-media" art with that setup.
The great reshuffling that is happening in front on our eyes might very well push those not in the cognitive elite away from all those great places as well. I am seeing it happen around my area, where housing costs have shot up by 20% in one year, mostly driven by out of state arrivals. I see it in our own family's economic status which has improved several fold, thanks to the remote opportunities brought about by the pandemic. Maybe this is good, maybe it is bad, but there is a profound change coming.
Humanity is doomed, good riddance