skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"After all, there's no reason for accounts in good standing to lie, right?" No reason is different from no good reason.

Also, 99.99% only seems like a high number when we think anecdotally, not statistically. For anything at Facebook's scale, the number of nines should be increased! Because .01% of the actions of three billion people on a single day gives you a city roughly the size of Tampa, Florida (~300,000 people).

Given Facebook's financial resources, it should be no problem to increase the size of the team working on the tool. Like any engineering problem, the problem can be broken down into smaller parts, the edge cases can be caught and/or anticipated, creative solutions can be applied, etc.

If history teaches us anything, it's that all public facing systems will be exploited. Those who design them should anticipate this.

(Thanks, by the way, for posting about your perspective. It looks very different to those of us on the outside.)
> Social media was supposed to help level the playing field of society, not exacerbate its inequalities.

This is literally the first time I’ve heard anyone voice this expectation, and it is a ludicrous expectation to have had at any point in time.
ralway is a natural monopoly
> high profile accounts get 10000x the number of abuse-reports

Has anyone considered the possibility that this is a signal from the non-elites that something is wrong? That ignoring this "mass downvote" is the essence of the structural elitism?
Dune 2000 is so underrated, I endorse this game for any Dune fan!
In the pre-pandemic times there were families who took their curricula from public schools. Often these were students who either had learning disabilities or were talented in a non-academic area (say the piano) and the parents just wanted extra flexibility in terms of education.
Belt and suspenders. It should be possible to kick a device, and be a timeout.
Unfortunately the US kind of has forgotten. The Bush administration took power and undermined all that anti-trust stuff and it lay forgotten for most of 20 years. The Biden administration is picking up some of it now.
Happily, the community didn't throw caution to the wind just because somebody wrote a proof.
Bolt: Accelerated Data Mining with Fast Vector Compression [pdf]
As reported a few days ago the Windows patches for FreeDOS were committed
I'd say so.

For those unfamiliar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
How much of his ouvre have you taken in? I could understand hearing something like Toccata and Fugue in D on an organ, and coming away with that impression.

My favorites are the small pieces in the Well Tempered Clavier I & II.* The Art of the Fugue is also worth checking out.

* see also Shostakovich's cycle of preludes & fugues that it inspired.
Why wouldn’t you? Nationalization does not imply profit is impossible.

Not to mention the purpose of the government is to serve its citizens, not just entrepreneurs.
I loved Jekyll, and still do. This is a sad state, and I hope both that it improves and Jekyll survives.

I switched to Zola for most of my stuff a while back, and while there are still gaps, it does everything I need and is production ready.

https://www.getzola.org/
I tried to quit clubhouse but couldn’t. We are suffering from loneliness in this world.
absurdly tone deaf, as in, does not warrant good faith engagement, “don’t feed the trolls”.
I really love this analysis of a Bach prelude. It really brings home the complexity that Bach must have deliberately put into the piece.

https://youtu.be/l5XJdHfPc5o
I don't think it's possible to build a production grade programming language today without large amounts of capital. Unfortunately, companies are the only way to gain access to that amount of money.

I elaborated a bit on that over here: https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1397930913854590976
> What’s The Worst Car Myth?

Cars are a safe and efficient means of everyday travel. That's the myth.
What is "ED" in this context?
The biggest problem with public schooling is less political indoctrination and more the lack of actual schooling. When educators themselves claim “there is no such thing as learning loss," we should take them at their word. School has very little intellectual content, and many parents are simply starting to recognize that.

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/cecily-myart-cruz-teache...
>Does this reflect genuine concern for the poor, or is it a bad faith tactic to try to shoot down a policy for other

Does it matter?

>Especially with something like vaccine passports, any special issue the poor disproportionally experience is probably better dealt with through some kind of mitigation (e.g. make vaccines free, arrange free transportation or mobile clinics, mandate paid recovery days) than by scrapping the idea entirely.

Most policies aimed at helping poor people usually are usually either counterproductive or poorly done.
Fundación PostgreSQL is a 100% independent non-profit organization not tied to any company or any other institution. Its governing board cannot have more than 40% members of the same company. Please go to https://postgresql.fund/ and read the Statutes.

Actually, a "Fundación" in Spain is an entity specially scrutinized by the Ministry of Justice, and could never to anything like this. It is meant to be for the public good.

Besides, this very same question could have been applied to the Core Team members that are employees of EDB and/or Crunchy, two entities that control the majority of Core. And Core is not even a non-profit, it's nothing (there's no legal entity behind). Or the PostgreSQL Association of Canada, which is an association which could definitely grant exclusive trademark use to a given entity, as it is not scrutinized by a country's Ministry, as a Fundación in Spain is.
I've spent the past decade working at a company that requires all changes to be reviewed no matter how trivial. Changes can be reviewed after the fact if the author marks it "to be reviewed". Doing that is rare, like <1% of changes.

I have never found this policy to significantly hamper my overall productivity both as an author or as a reviewer.
Oh how I wish that were true! Journalists aren't sensationalizing anything here.

Direct quotes from the paper:

> Motivated by these findings, we exposed elderly patients with significant memory loss at baseline to HBOT and observed an increase in CBF and improvement in cognitive performances. This study demonstrates HBOT efficacy in hypoxia-related neurological conditions, particularly in AD and aging.

> In summary, we showed here that HBOT offers multi-faceted neuroprotective effects on the complex pathology of Alzheimer’s disease and also improves CBF and cognition in humans.

> Given that HBOT is considered a safe and tolerable treatment currently being used in the clinic, the increasing number of clinical trials showing that HBOT improves cognitive function in patients suffering from chronic brain damage, the pre-clinical studies elucidating mechanisms of HBOT action, and the fact that there is presently no effective intervention for AD, HBOT should be considered as a therapeutic approach to slow the progression or even improve the pathophysiology responsible for this disease.

I can't imagine bolder claims than "we showed here that HBOT ... improves CBF and cognition in humans" and "HBOT should be considered as a therapeutic approach".

I mean this literally. I can't imagine it. What else could they have said that would be more direct aside from HBOT will cure you 100% guaranteed?
Nothing new. C++ has been stealing ideas left, right and center. And always without attribution.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects Puzzle Pieces of Mars’ History
We're in kind of an interesting time. It isn't weird for homeschooled kids to have a teacher brought in for specialized subjects. Many homeschool groups actually pool and will have parents teach different subjects.

Remote learning seems like a good tool in the mix. It does lend to being more hybrid than pure "home school".
It absolutely is, and your comment is textbook gaslighting. I’ve seen this repeatedly from people who try to define CRT as an arcane framework taught only formally in law schools. Sorry but that’s not true either because it is directly taught, because its derivative concepts are taught, or because the accepted definition of CRT has changed - and it doesn’t matter which. But to claim CRT isn’t in schools in some form is plainly gaslighting. Ibram Kendi tried this sleight of hand as well, claiming anti-racism isn’t CRT, but he is already on the record admitting that CRT is foundational to his work on anti-racism, which is clearly being injected into schools (https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/24/ibram-x-kendi-falsely-c...).
I mean... we all already knew this
natural monopolies, except some kind of health services
Almost certainly it will fall back at least partway. Like the increase in work-from-home, though, it is possible that it will not fall all the way back to pre-pandemic levels. But I think there is no question some of this change will not "stick".
I meant NTM*, that is to say, assuming many-world interpretation where the way your conscious experience of your life makes quantum measurements by (somehow) following the shorest accpeting computation of the NTM. Your life is thus meaningful as everything you experience from birth to death is literally the solution.

Consciousness (at least in this world) can perchance then be understood as the artifact of a feedback loop constructed by a (meta-circular) interpreter that converts the topologies of molecules into qualia, which then makes adjustment to the reflective tower (with physiological-changes-in-brain&body as correspondence).

Time perception then is the same consequence that follows relativity ie a direct result of this speed limit that reflects the minumium size of a recursive expression (but concerning only the viscosity and turbulence of neurotransmitters in relative to eletric signals?)
This assumes the ambitious are driven purely by explosive profit potential. Counterexamples are abound.
Capitalism and free enterprise succeed due to competition. Your local electric company and the local cable company probably are state sanctioned monopolies.
A principal here in North Texas was recently fired from the school for teaching it - it is being taught here and there, but it's not everywhere, at least not yet.
This is a crucial point. A lot of these discussions of the concepts of CRT would be a lot better if it was recognized that ‘race’ itself is a category that was made up to justify racism.

I think CRT has done quite a lot of good by helping expose how much influence racism has had on society as well as in individuals.

I think it’s now doing harm, because it seems to be about forcing us to remain in the same racial categories forever.

We can’t ‘dismantle’ racism unless we dismantle race.
Hiring Away
My startup has an unofficial hiring policy based on race. Is this normal/legal?
This is going to sound like troll bait, so I'll start off with a disclaimer: I fully support organizational diversity and I think any tech company would be better off with more women and nonwhite people in its ranks. I want to have a frank discussion about an important subject, not start a political mud-slinging match, so take that elsewhere.

Here goes:

My startup of ~10 people is outright rejecting all candidates and referrals who are white males. (Yes, really). We just got our series A and have been expanding our personnel, but off the record, management and investors are concerned about the optics of having a company with only white dudes (the company is currently 100% white males). We are still a young enough company where leadership has candor with the rank-and-file engineers such that they feel comfortable being honest with us about this.

As a result, in a meeting yesterday afternoon, engineers were specifically told to stop referring candidates from our networks who are white males. They will immediately be rejected.

Has anyone else experienced this in a young company? How did it go? How common is this approach generally? Is a policy like this ethical and/or legal?

Once more, please keep it civil - I know it's a controversial subject, but I'm interested in a thoughtful discussion, not in arguing with trolls. Thanks.
One of my favorite aspects of the way the Rust community has acted over the last decade is to recognize that there are many ways to contribute to open source. I know not everyone feels that way. Luckily, since I don't want Rust to be about me, we're in agreement that I should not be in charge of Rust.
I was homeschooled in the 90s/00s. We didn’t do any neighborhood socializing. And there were lots of families in the neighborhood.
A person spending a minute looking at something that has garnered a high number of reports is reasonable instead of just ignoring reports because it's a celebrity. It doesn't have to be automated. Edge cases can be expensive
It blows my mind that US tv shows and newscasters are making fun of Australia/New Zealand for the all of their harsh lockdowns whilst stuff like this is going on at the exact same time right their own country…
A few teachers I know are selling their course material and lesson plans online. A majority of their sales come from home school parents in their local district whos kids attended their classes.

It's only about $50-100/week extra, but it helps.
Of course the corner cases exist in all languages; what is different is that most have only one, or few implementations so the definitions of those cases are de facto “what the compiler/interpreter does”.

A lot of the C++ spec is nailing these down (or giving you a tool to choose). In that it’s a lot like IEEE 754: very simple, but then with page after page of “oh, so here’s a non-obvious consequence and how it must be handled.”
The recommendation is that devices only accept requests to share (forward) keys from a) other devices belonging to that user, b) the device which originally send the message.

It's acceptable to gossip keys between your own devices (assuming you authenticate them correctly!) given... they're all your own devices.

It's also acceptable to request the sender to re-send the keys to you, given the sender knows for sure whether you were allowed to receive the key (given it made that choice in the first place).

It's not acceptable to request keys from other devices in the room, as they won't necessarily know whether you were actually allowed to receive the message key you're requesting - only the sender knows for sure whether it should have been sent to you; it was their key after all. Plus it would risk make vulnerabilities like the one in question here even worse, given anyone could try to exfiltrate messages from anyone else, rather than "just" the sender (as was the case here).
I understand, but disagree with the sentiment... Companies are a collection of different people, with differing actual personalities, including agreements, disagreements and meaningful conflict and negotiations.

To some extent it comes from leadership down, to another it starts at the ground floor. In the end, I think most MS movement has been self-serving, that doesn't make it inherently bad or good. I'm not liking the OS-shift, which seems to be following Apple/Google in a lot of ways.

That doesn't mean everything MS does is poison.
JFrog Acquires Upswift Bringing Software Updates and Container Deployment to IoT
NYPD are useless. I saw a tourist collapse in the middle of the street once in flatiron and when I tried to notify the closest cop he couldn't be bothered. A friend of mine got kicked in the face by a crazy person, tried to report it to a nearby cop and the reaction was the same.

They would rather go after protest leaders and protect statues.
Far-right extremism: An overlooked cost of the war on terror
I remember a couple of years ago someone created an MVC web framework for COBOL, but I don't think it was intended for serious use. More like the web framework equivalent of esoteric programming languages.

This looks, let's say, less obviously whimsical. Is there a serious use case for this, or is this another case of "becase we can"? Honest question.
Do you have a source for the 12-unit cap being a game shaping design decision?
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Just wanted to let you know: you may be suffering from stockholm syndrome.
My Civ 3 pikeman has something important it wants to say to that tank of yours.
Scalable?

Groups of 20 families hiring an instructor as a grass roots method + online resources seems automatically scalable to me.
Hopefully it won't be flagged/dead before we can.
Nowadays it should be called the cryptocurrency and blockchain problem.
It primarily comes down to resources and cost.

Right now in Ontario 80% of covid cases are coming from non fully vaccinated individuals(1).

It costs $23k to treat a covid patient and $50k if they reach the ICU(2). Chances of not landing in the ICU are 99.9% if you're fully vaccinated(3).

Many health resources are going to treat covid instead of things like elective surgeries. Allowing non-essential businesses to fully open without a vaccine passport will only lead to more cases and more resources being wasted.

The thought of getting injured right now is scary because I could wait years for something like a herniated disc surgery (which is very debilitating). I'd much prefer we take steps to take as much strain off the health system as we can.

1 - https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-logs-600-new-covid-19-cas...

2 - https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cihi-covid19-canada-hospital-...

3 - https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/31/health/fully-vaccinated-peopl...
20+ years as a software engineer. No certs, but I also have no problem getting a job. I am now thinking of getting AWS certs, as I think those are worth it. The SEC+ is worth it if you want admin privs as a DoD consultant. I've been told the CISCO certs are also definitely worth it, but I was also told they are hard.
Yeah, which always felt like that would be a great reason to formally verify...If a race condition ends up draining my account of all my money, you can bet that I am going to sue for the lost funds and probably a bunch of other things, which I cannot imagine would be very cheap for the bank. In fact, I would think it would be expensive for them even if it wasn't their fault (e.g. maybe there was no money in my account because I just have bad spending habits and a bad memory).

It seems to me that having every bit of evidence on their end to prove that they are guaranteeing our transactions would be a really good thing....I suppose this solution might just work itself out if banks actually start relying on some kind blockchain to secure their transactions.
At this point I am skeptical of either prediction, just like remote work, homeschooling could gain many adepts.
If there's a decent chance that the web is the future, would you really let yourself be cut out as a platform, considering you _are_ a platform?

Gotta hedge your bets.
We were in the same situation a few months ago.

Someone with a sense for design, UX and API design should

- Create well designed small components (Button, Link, Input, ...)

- Create well designed bigger components to compose small ones (List, Box, TabMenu, Expander, Modal, ...)

The rest of the team can now just build bigger components by composing existing ones. Things will look nice and consistent without too much effort. Fine-tuning can be done with an UI/UX affine teammate.

It sounds super simple and success highly depends on the quality of the components you use as the base. We have great success with this approach. It also empowers developers who don't have a feel for design to build good looking UIs by default.
The offers are relatively new FWIW. I'm in the midst of a project at the moment, which is the company's premiere project (greenfielding a core system). I'd kind of feel bad ditching mid-project.
That sounds like a manual process that would not be part of the automated "key sharing" functionality as described.
The Euler of music?
Slightly outdated guide: https://timdettmers.com/2020/09/07/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...

See Also: https://lambdalabs.com/gpu-benchmarks
In addition, maybe a better system would also increase the effort needed to file a report. Calling in and leaving a voicemail message in response to specific questions, for example.
I believe a lot of times in the US, those companies become public utilities [0], which are publicly owned through stock (or privately owned)[1] but are highly regulated by the government and also I think exempt from laws prohibiting monopolies[2]. I'm not sure what's the process of a company going from a regular public company to a public utility though.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_utility
[1]: https://marketrealist.com/p/are-utility-companies-public-or-...
[2]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/public_utility
Can you elaborate on what the money is currently used for and what the risk here is? Is Amazon attempting to move more Rust infrastructure to AWS?
Whatever you say, at least it was to the point rather than making vague hand wavy allegations of malfeasance.
And this is why I believe law should be truly blind. Any details such as race, gender, sex, education, political leaning in cases should be hidden and only public prosecution and defenders be allowed. We could easily handle whole process via text.
> I don't know how could they ever prevent this gig from becoming a full-time job for most drivers

Pricing (and marketing, and UX, and features) that transparently informs that offering rides it is not long-term profitable, it only makes sense as cost savings for inevitable drives, similar to BlaBlaCar or Waze Carpool.

But this would have hampered their growth, so they didn’t. Ride-sharing (fake proposition) isn’t really that big of a market as urban mobility in general (target proposition)
I see a lot of comments making the assumption that reduced capacity is solely from extra patients seeking treatments.

There's another possibility, decreased hospital capacity due to vaccine requirements for the staff.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-than-150-houston-hosp...
yeah and the sad thing without NativeAot there won't be the WebAssembly things which we would like. the way it works now is way too lazy for anything real world. (compiling the runtime to wasm and loading dll files...)
Honestly I don't think it is. However a lot of opponents to removing country caps are always concerned with this. Hence I was saying if anything country caps may be justified for family based GCs. There is no viable argument for them to remain for employment based GCs.
Diversity?
One confusing thing highlighted in the thread: the article says Niko Matsakis is "co-lead of the Rust programming language project".

Niko is a long-term participant in Rust, and former core-team member (https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/core), who's made huge contributions. However, it's not clear to me what that co-lead reference means. The closest that comes up is that he's a co-lead of the rust language team, which is distinct from the core team. Quite possible I'm missing something, would love to see someone make it more clear.

Source: https://twitter.com/sheevink/status/1437446217806528523. I personally am not saying the article is misleading, just that I am confused.
Speaking as a parent whose daughter is homeschooled, I can say that many (most?) "homeschooled" students are getting at least some of the curriculum from a coop, company, or part-time school. The parents having to develop the whole curriculum was more common when homeschooling was a rarer thing; there are now lots of organizations (for-profit and otherwise) catering to them.

Plus, homeschool coops give the kids more social interaction, which many families prefer.

I think the big difference about "remote schooling" is that once you're doing that, it raises the question of "is my public school the one that is best at this, or should I use someone else?" In some cases they may be, but often they are not.