skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rutgers bars unvaccinated student from attending virtual classes
This is a brilliant thread. I recently got rejected (for a non-tech job) but at the time, I realised what potential employers were seeking. They were keen to have a round peg for their round holes without appreciating the holistic ideas I would have brought on the table.

I don't blame them. They are besotted by credentials - like everyone else. Though, from this point of failure, I have learned more about leadership than what an online course could teach me. Even though I exceed their credentials (I am qualified for the job), I didn't let a committee decide my sense of self-worth. I wished them good luck with the search process.
They should call it something that makes it clear how “democratic” they are and the fact they are in AI. Hmmm, like Open but about AI. I give up.
Not any more, and they can't now (regulations about lead, etc). You can only buy them on the second hand market or find them on the side of the road.
Its been a bit of a complicated problem but memory pressure metrics are now a thing:
https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/cgroup2/docs/pressure-m...
As an Australian living in America for 10 years you absolutely nailed it; compulsory voting effectively prevents what is the worst part of American democracy - the unceasing efforts to stop people voting .
Plenty of other bs, but at least the right to participate is guaranteed.
Seeing how this law was passed, maybe you should rethink your theory that you will get less extremist politics.
Australia was initially populated with Aboriginals, from who the land was stolen by convict settlers.
This is what the science actually says. Black disfunction is attributed to culture spread from adults to children. Black mothers, for example, criticize their children more often than they praise them, but the reverse is true for white mothers. That's just an example of the kind of cultural effect that can be included - I'm not sure if that one specifically has been shown to be causative of lifelong disadvantage.
Discussed previously at this review
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/the-radica...
What they say they're doing fits one of the definitions of democratize: "make (something) accessible to everyone".

More about the etymology here: https://www.etymonline.com/word/democratize
It’s cool though, this time they’ll finally get rid of COVID.

All snark aside, I ask what I’ve asked everybody: at what point is the cure not worth it anymore?
What Happened to N-Gate.com?
The last post was 3 weeks late, and now he hasn't posted for over a month.

He's almost never been late in the 3 years I've been viewing his site.
GTFOH

Prison convicts were not the first people of Australia.
Not so much unpopular as it was rare at the time: De Re Atari. It was the first really complete reference for the computer I was using in my teen years. There wasn't too much mystery left between the silicon and what I saw on the screen (glossing over how display list processor worked in h/w). That led to my growing as a developer that always wanted to know how things really work and tinker with everything.
You're making the mistake of conflating Australia's COVID-19 restrictions with this legislation, when they're entirely unrelated. These digital powers were something Australia has sought for many years- under the good ol' reasons of terrorism and child safety.

The recent hubbub surrounding Australia's restrictive COVID-19 measures were possibly the best thing that could happen for our government- when our vaccination numbers rise, the public health restrictions will rollback, whilst the digital legislation will continue on unabated.
I don't think we do, but I think there's value in another large-minority browser that is based on Blink (not Chromium). It should have all the compatibility that Chrome has, but none of the privacy issues. Mozilla could potentially pull that off, but it'd likely mean more or less starting from scratch (not sure how much of the UI they could reuse, if any), so I wouldn't expect that to happen except as a last resort.

I do feel like most of the arguments against Firefox boil down to either website compatibility or performance issues. Using Blink as their rendering engine would kill the first concern completely. I'm not sure if Firefox's current performance issues (real or imagined) are due to the rendering engine or UI, so not sure where that would land.
In other words, smartphones and peripherals are become boring now.
> Are you seriously suggesting that slavery happened ‘naturally’?

Are you seriously suggesting that humans aren't naturally occurring? Are you suggesting that there is something inherent about the "Portuguese, British" etc that gave them the power and influence needed to enslave other races? Of course not.

Randomly populate a geologically non uniform landmass with humans, and over time some will exploit natural advantages over others based on arbitrary factors. The fact that the British colonized everyone wasn't because they were somehow genetically superior or more predisposed to colonization, they just randomly got dealt the best hand.

> If you can find somewhere I argue for that, you’ll be able to quote it.

I'm referring to your core argument that,

> A non-racist solution is to support anyone who has been less advantaged in wealth building.

You're saying that even though we can clearly see how past societies drew their lines when determining how to stunt the "wealth building" of future generations, we should rotate that line so that it's orthogonal to race and only focus on the people who have had the most trouble building wealth.

Consider a hypothetical scenario where we had a "perfectly equal past", where there was no slavery or systemic racism and everyone had been treated fairly based on their own ability. Even in this world, you'd still have some people who fall short at "building wealth" compared to others. You'd still see a "line" drawn based on natural ability. This is the only scenario in which I'd agree with you.

But the natural ability line isn't the only one that history has drawn. We can see the lines that history drew. Lines based on race, based on geography, based on gender, etc. and I think it would be ignorant of us to ignore the existence of any of those lines. It's not an either/or situation.

One day, I hope to get to a point where we're approaching a "perfectly equal past", but until then we have more than 1 line to account for.
I don't disagree with your point re: Boeing v SpaceX, but precision scientific instrumentation is a very, very different domain where "move fast and break things" cannot be naively applied. The sensitivity to failure is so ridiculously high that you need 6 to 7 sigmas of reliability for each of ten thousand critical components in order to even have just a 90% chance of mission success. Something as simple as an instrument bring slightly out of tolerance, faulty rad-hardening on a CPU, the sun shield having a minor tear, are all enough to completely jeopardize the entire mission. As a fully integrated system, JWST is at least an order of magnitude more complex than Starship, whose main design goals (launch, orbit, land, don't explode) tend to favor a more iterative approach.
“In that scenario, the have-nots have more freedom? Consumption is slavery? The disconnected have more connection?”

I think we’re more likely to see commercial dystopia expressed in ways like California’s Prop 22. The have-nots and disconnected are just more likely to be exploited due to their lack of ability to organize against massive lobbying powers.
Will be released to GA next month.
After 34 years of being an Australian, the feeling is mutual.
I'd suggest hooking it up to the archive.org 'unscoped' radio station files.
USD and Bitcoin each have risks and disadvantages.

USD-denominated stablecoins have the union of the risks and disadvantages of both.
yes
>AN ACCOUNT TAKEOVER WARRANT enables the law enforcement agencies to take control of an account, and even lock the account holder out of it. This can be done covertly and without consent, so the individual wouldn’t necessarily know what is going on until or if they are ever charged. It includes removing two-factor authentication and using one account to gain access to others (directly contradicting cyber security best practices for staying safe and secure online).
We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth
That didn't sound like the point you were making, and others agree with me. Everyone is responding to you thinking that you were criticizing mandatory or compulsory voting, not universal suffrage. Your choice of words "forced to vote" rather than "right to vote" conveyed that meaning.
Here, it means 'make available to everyone'.

It has at least one other meaning ('introduce democracy as a system of rule').
What a shitshow of a country. Hope people resist and break this dumb law. E2EE all the things.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted.

In my anecdotal experience, people don't care about politics here and will most likely vote on either "I'd rather have a beer with X than Y so I'll vote for X" or "they're both as bad as each other so I'll just vote like my family always have."
Responsible to silently remove a lie?
I think you may have missed it a bit too. jacquesm wrote:

...I have no way of verifying it then I don't believe them. Worked pretty good so far.

This can't possibly be true since one can't verify everything. If one truly lived this then they'd be in an endless quest of verifying things. For instance, verifying verifiers.

We are about to enter into an age of hard to detect AI generated articles and research so this isn't philosophical silliness.
> So if someone cares about addressing those issues, then the current progressives are the only game in town.

If you believe in the approach of Kendi and DiAngelo, they are the only game in town.

If you believe Kendi and DiAngelo’s approach is counterproductive then supporting modern progressives is acting against the very issues you care about.

You don’t have to make a choice of which foot to shoot yourself in. You can simply not fire.

There are plenty of more moderate political voices, even within the parties. You can support them and you can denounce the groups whose policies you dislike.

Modern progressives are only in the ‘game’ because people support them. If you don’t like what they represent, you can stop.
The US will not pull out of Five Eyes because it enables the US to circumvent the constitutional rights of its own citizens via proxy. This has been used in multiple high-profile cases to catch cybercriminals.

The government does not give back power it manages to hoard for itself. This is the fundamental problem with modern progressive liberalism and anti-choice conservatism. When you give the government power, it WILL use said power against you.

Not a single government in human history has not turned on its citizens.
Hours may correlate somewhat with output, but it's diminishing returns.

We should optimise for productivity + life outside of work instead

I'm glad the "I work XX hours per week" bench is slowly dying out - fools gold.
I’m also here, and quite concerned.

I’ve seen how quickly a country can erode (Syria, Ukraine, Hong Kong) and am questioning the future of this country.
Ask HN: Any way for everyday programmers to help solve important problems?
I'm an average joe-schmoe programmer. Lately I've been wondering if there are any resources out there for people in tech to help solve meaningful, important problems that the world faces (eg. help find a cure for Cancer, fight climate change, etc.)

I discovered https://80000hours.org/ which seems to have a lot of resources, but seems more geared around picking a career to make an impact. I am happy with my career for the most part, but I would like to use my downtime to try and make a difference.
> we are a family

That is one is the most annoying.
I'm also fascinated by the people who are so unyieldingly focused. I think it interests me because focus that intense points towards "existential meaning". Which itself is a subject worthy of considerable thought.
Enabling this setting can result in your iPhone hard-crashing during high-draw workloads (extreme CPU usage, very poor cellular connection, etc), as the power delivered by the battery becomes unreliable, causing the hardware to abort/panic when it drops low enough at the wrong time.

It's like intentionally buying a UPS that powers itself off any time you encode video and build a kernel at the same time, only on the device that's maybe holding your transit card and lets you call 911 emergency if you need to.

Maybe don't check that box. Or do, but do so knowing the risk. (Including the cost of replacing the device if the undervolting eventually burns it out, since you chose not to repair it when warned).
Just wondering will this new acts have negative consequences for global and independent internet agencies as Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) is well within Australian borders [1]? If it's function going to be severely affected by these new Australian acts APNIC should it be moved somewhere else without these dubious acts.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNIC
The author demonstrates that a one-summer hustle had a good outcome. Nobody's trying to take that away from you. Sometimes, I cannot contain my passion for a problem and I need to make a choice: lie in bed with a buzzing brain, or get up and work on it. All that's fine. But, word of warning from somebody who was all hustle for over a decade: burnout is real.

Hustle culture says we should all be doing the 996 thing for our entire lives and if you don't you're a weakling who doesn't deserve bread. That's toxic. And (almost) nobody actually has that opinion. But it's what people hear when they're already burnt out and a cubemate brags about how little sleep they got before an arbitrary deadline.

Positive outcomes from self-driven hustle: good. Hustle culture: still toxic.
Armed American Civilians? Really? Had they been from some other country they would be instantly called terorrists.
Democracy is an illusion in Australia, just like the rest of the globalised West.

Politicians are chosen to stand for election by a small number of corrupt branch stackers, not by the people.

The people are given a choice between party a or b, which are two cheeks of the same arse.
That’s a very small, and biased, sample size.
> Look at America, what an absolute shambles of a democratic system. One party spending decades attempting to stop black people voting. Voter suppression and gerrymandering (also not possible in Australia) baked into the political system. No thanks.

It’s always interesting to see this essentially fake narrative. No one is trying to stop anyone from voting. It’s made up, to try and role the base, the same way you describe —- it increases turnout for the left. So they push the fake narrative.

Anyway, I see your point. But the US is an entirely different beast. As much as people want to knock it, the system is extremely robust. The federal government really isn’t supposed to have a mandate. That’s essentially the entire left and right debate in the US. States rights vs federal rights.

The issue you’re seeing in the US are that the left are socialist/Marxists who want a strong federal gov (authoritarian). The right believes that’s anti-American, and believes we should have strong states and personal freedom (Republican). If the left stopped trying to enact federal control (through monetary, economic, political, etc), the right would be totally happy. California would do its thing and Tennessee would do theirs, the best would win.

Unfortunately, that’s not what we’re doing.

This literally goes all the way back to the founding with the federalists (John Adam’s) and anti-federalists (Thomas Jefferson). The system is dysfunctional by design, the goal was never to have a strong government and while its tense, you have more freedom and security than just about anywhere.
Not infinite, there's only 29816 items in the list ;)

But seriously, really awesome! Thanks for this :)
I lived in Australia for 5 years and my sense is that, as harsh as it sounds, Australia needs to go through an extreme hardship to wake up as a nation. Australia has lived true to its moniker as the Lucky Country - at least two full generations of Australians have never witnessed economic hardship or downturn of any kind. Natural disasters pass the nation by (other than wildfires). Even Covid looked like it was going to give Australia a miss until very recently.

The populous of Australia are fat and happy, and therefore unbothered by the extremely worrying creeping authoritarianism, an economy teetering on total collapse and incompetent local governance. I had real Brave New World vibes living over there.
If you are saying the Republican Party has spent decades trying to stop black people from voting, that is simply incorrect. It is what the other party’s propaganda would like you to believe. Same with voter suppression.
Here is a good thread about the ACLU losing their way https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27414920
> Doesn't track back to me because I paid cash

It tracks back to you if you turn it ON always in the vicinity of your real phone/home/work/etc.
It sounds like it sucks that this individual has conflated their personal subjective feeling of happiness with a phenomenon from Twitter called “hustle culture.”

I’m personally not entirely clear on what the exact definition of hustle culture is, but if it’s a buzzword from social media that defines people’s entire lives that doesn’t sound… ideal. I personally can’t imagine reading such a generic sounding phrase — written by a stranger that certainly wasn’t talking about me — and feeling a call to action to defend my lifestyle in public.
Pretty sure this argument could have been levied against rocketry. For scientific telescopes most likely a frame shift would be needed to break out of this mindset that would be analogous but distinct from the one applied to rocketry.
And they still haven't fixed the X509 support or the macros behind it. Run away.
I can't read the article, resource limit has been reached. Anyone have a mirror?
Hi,
Q: On recent linux, if free mem is 1GB and available mem is 10GB and swap free is 2GB and at that moment a program calls calloc(4GB), would you expect the calloc() return ok or fail ?
thx, -m
They are currently not reviewing or merging PRs, closing them to only later reopen or whatever is probably even more overhead.

I think if it is made clear "don't hold your breath" and someone decides to contribute anyway, well, it's only fair to wait.
Please fuck off with anti-covid-vax rhetoric (even if tongue-in-cheek). There's enough bullshit being spun as it is.
But time has already passed since greater sexism and males and females have already gravitated in two consistent directions - men working with things and women working with people, even when it defies traditional gender roles, such as computers and business. You expect that trend to change direction after some tipping point of sufficiently little sexism?
Wow! Thanks for sharing ...
Australian High Court: media are "publishers" of users' defamatory FB comments
You misread his question. He asked if the AFP could create a new account and masquerade as him (seeing as he doesn't have profiles now).
Ask HN: Why did Google leave the GIS space?
I work as a devops guy new to the GIS space. I keep hearing how the current giant ESRI was worried about google entering the market with a GIS tool (like a professional google earth), but they never did.

I know they have the locations API, but they don't have a tool like qGIS or ArcGIS.

Does anyone have any insight as to why they didn't pursue entering the market?
The government doesn't have stockholders demanding double digit year-over-year revenue growth to guide their pricing and product decisions.

That's the magic wand.
I like how you think, you're hired!
Perhaps one of these?

https://alternativeto.net/software/quickbooks/?feature=bookk...
Probably so if you bitcast a floating point value into a signed int it maintains the proper sign for comparisons.
When it comes to authoritarianism Australians are either extremely apathetic or they are generally in favour of more government intervention in private life. Try having a calm and balanced discussion with an Australian about bicycle helmet laws for a wonderful example.
Exactly. I'm surprised this hasn't gotten picked up by more news sources yet.

What was their purpose? To fight the Taliban? To recover US citizens? Recover high value items? To aid the Taliban?

The article makes it sound like a bunch of civilians chartered a flight on their own but it had to have been backed by some very high level interests.
Just wanted to thank you for draftsim.com! As someone who got into MTG Arena a few months ago it has been very useful to learn some basics.
Perhaps there's a version of Moore's Law concerning the amount of innovation left at the OS level, and we're only starting to run out of it just now.

What legitimately useful features can we expect out of the release of iOS five major versions down the line? Will there be any new features that change the status quo, and that we'd be practically unable to live without? The significant features like the app store and multitasking have already been done long ago. As for macOS, it seems that the new security controls and notifications are significantly impacting some people's user experience, but they're still "improvements" from Apple's standpoint.

And yet Apple and Microsoft are still somehow compelled to keep releasing new versions of their operating systems on a fairly regular basis. It's hard to imagine there will be a "final" or even long-term-support version of iOS. But those companies aren't going to market their new OS versions as changing nothing, so something has to change.

I'm honestly very curious to see what will happen ten years from now when the vendors will struggle to meet their own arbitrary standards for innovation with each new OS version when, by nature, there are not many more significant breakthroughs left to be had.
Democratizing AI is passe. If they have no plans to decolonize AI then they're part of the problem.
A family that will kick you out if it makes them more money.
I think it's a matter of how a company is run. Some like to exploit their employees, while others value them, and want them to be happy for the long term. In the long run, my hope is that the people we work with will believe they're getting the better end of the deal, and that (if they're employees), they are given stability and support for the long term. It's a matter of respect, responsibility, and commitment.
No. It isn't. Having recently moved (a year ago) from FogBugz to Jira it's like a fresh breeze has blown into our case management process.
Lol, makes sense. The only ones kept in the dark by program secrecy is the American tax payer.
> Defunding the police was never a sincerely held belief save the ideas that institutional racism be addressed and militarization of police disrupted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...

New York Times: “Yes, we mean Literally abolish the police”
The figure in your linked page looks like it is based on data from a survey in which participant were asked which number they thought of when they heard the word 'several'. Even if everyone taking the survey was aware that the word 'several' is inclusive of two, I'm not sure we would expect a different result. So, the results can't be used as evidence that anybody taking the survey did not think several is inclusive of two.
https://alternativeto.net/software/quickbooks/?feature=bookk...
fast.ai are doing the best work democratizing AI (machine learning and neural networks), including natural language

Can't recommend the course enough and it's incredible that such a quality resource is available for essentially zero cost

https://github.com/fastai/course-nlp

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtmWHNX-gukKocXQOkQju...
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