skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think 76.3% white is misleading because, while the U.S. Census Bureau counts hispanic people as "white", basically no North American's intuitive model of race or ethnicity would count hispanics as white. Which is why the Census is always careful to break out non-Hispanic white.

The real comparison is non-Hispanic white to non-Hispanic white, where it becomes ~55% to ~75% or so. Hispanic people in the U.S. are easily visually differentiable, most often have one or more languages aside from, or instead of, English and come from cultures that are markedly different than mainstream U.S. culture.
Sure on a 6-12 month timescale. Beyond that it seems much easier. This is true of any infrastructure decision, they generally require work in the short term but are taken on to relieve pain and facilitate the ongoing future.
That applies if youre shipping a giant 15 meg blob of js (not saying some sites dont do this), a lot of the size also comes from css and other assets which still apply with shipping a wasm blob. I'm gonna guess that v8 can parse a 1-2 meg js file just as fast if not faster than the time it takes to download a 15 meg wasm blob or a 4 meg blob + decompress + parse outputted from golang. Like your last line says, shipping 15 megs of any kind of code makes no sense to me
MS really needs to release a Linux Excel.
It's really good, both as a drama with great characters, and as a show about tech.
I believe in Deepmind. I really think it will be the one to solve AGI for good.
Well I now work at a big company everybody has heard of so I guess you’re right.
The energy usage to attribute to employees should be proportional to the number of employees more than anything else. There's no a priori reason to expect that a "Bitcoin employee" uses more or less energy than a "VISA employee."

So as far whether or not that matters... do you expect that there is a substantially different number of employees need to maintain the VISA system than the Bitcoin system, on a per-transaction basis? Even if you're generous and say that VISA needs 10× the employees that Bitcoin would (were it the same size as VISA), it would still require that an employee use 100,000× the energy cost of a transaction to overcome the fact that Bitcoin transactions require 1,000,000× the energy of VISA.
Beta Testing: Types, Advantages and Disadvantages
Primarily Ethereum, which will hopefully be migrating away from proof of work (mining) in late 2021 / early 2022, so hopefully there will be an abundance of cheap second hand options (which will admittedly have lead hard lives), but also dramatically reduce the demand for new cards.
Another commenter bbrought this up. I agree, it's not an apples to apples comparison, but think it would still help give a sense of scale.
IANAL, but international trade law can be a bitch in that regard. The article is written pretty one sided so. We are talking about an international chemicals trading firm(s), operating in Eastern Europe, using off shore companies and selling fertilizer to Africa. Eastern Europe is a great place for that kind of production (environmental regulation is less severe, old factories are plenty and cheap), Africa is a good market for that stuff. And which global business isn't using off shore companies?

Also, cargo is getting seized, with ships, over debt and safety issues all the time. Just who carries the risk for storage of said cargo I don't know. We are going to find out so, it might seem.
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> One man's truth is another man's falsehood.

That's just silly. Some facts are incontrovertible. Do you really think there's any room for disagreement that the earth is round, or that water freezes at 0 degrees C?

> One man's racism is another man's plain speaking.

There's no room in this world for racism, and you shouldn't be trying to defend it here - or anywhere.
What I don't understand is why they complain about the high costs of setting up a business in the US (tens of thousands of dollars). Shouldn't this be pretty cheap with Stripe Atlas?
Dysdelia, proposing a novel class of hallucinogens
those three pages sound pretty interesting, I don't see this as a problem
>opposed to Israel and the West

Except that Israel despite being a logical target has mysteriously avoided terror attacks from Al-Qaeda or ISIS.
It's going to be true almost everywhere (not Japan? Switzerland?)

The real question is to what extent is it true? I think stumbling into such a place at night in the U.S. would be quite hard, Canada even harder. In Mexico, my feeling is you really ought to plan. You can't just drive from Point A to Point B across the country at night, whereas in the rest of North America you sure can.
Where does that stop though? I agree with you, but I don’t see how the basic observe-eval-withdraw loop ever terminates.

Or put from a flip side… Building apps in highly democratic Norway just for Norwegians to use because they’re the best democracy (for example) doesn’t make enough money to feed my family. So why do anything at all?
Yes, it will take decades to build the new designs.

That is not an argument against doing so.

No one is saying solar and wind shouldn't be developed, but leaving all nuclear off the table would be short-sighted.
I definitely hope that this is how Google and Apple respond to Russia's actions here. But I can't claim to know the difficulties they would face on a 12+mo timescale.
I don't see it's as complaining.

OP's project is literally the reverse of taking a traditional desktop software, e.g. a graphic editor, and making it into a web app. Here, it's something that naturally belongs to a web site, but instead packed up into an installable desktop app.

I'd be really curious to see the rationale behind this.
"___ is so essential, ubiquitous, and universally understood, that to change it for the sake of changing it seems both foolish and foolhardy."

This quote is Elon Musk in a nutshell.
I think the main reason for memes is because Apple always markets everything they do as some kind of massive innovation despite either bringing something from the past or just copying what competitors already had long ago. They at least used to pretend they make something different with design changes, but now even this facade fell down.
Paywall bypass https://archive.is/hBdsC

Can try thru https://12ft.io also
Not sure if that's ever gonna happen. I could imagine, now that Steam tool care of a huge junk of gaming, Office is the main thing keeping a sizable number of people on Windows. Imagine if MS was reduced to MS Excel...
> I'd agreed that's true for a small percentage of the population and that the rest are consumers.

That's as good as it's ever going to get. The rest will always be consumers.
Ah, yeah. This page is fairly similar to the linked site: https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/
I assume double-double would be the emulated __float128 type in GCC (or hand written equivalent)? Can GCC vectorize it or it needs to be done by hand?
Django 4.0 will include a built-in Redis cache back end
Honestly progress doesn't seems slower at all. I hear news of scientific discovery every week. Science is large, and it's not just physics.
The use of `diff` and `patch` to express merge is something interesting that I only learned from reading this article.
As evidenced by the amount of grafitti in public places, people just really like leaving their mark wherever they can. There's grafitti in ancient ruins that (aside from the language) could be mistaken for grafitti in a bathroom stall. People are just gonna people.
How do you maintain a single main function for large projects? I personally don't think @Singleton and @Inject are that magical.
What I learned from a year on Substack
The fact that you have to draw the line somewhere is not an argument for not drawing a line somewhere.
I'd argue based on the comment, that @tsjq understands social justice quite well, including the unshakable truth that you cannot use institutionalized racism and bias as a remedy to racism and bias.

Doing so not only perpetuates the evils of the discrimination, but amps it up to eleven, because now it is done with the full force and power of the government.

There is no policy basis more evil and counter-productive than the left's modern concept of "social justice", which is hateful and unjustifiably retributive at its heart. (Viz the left's current efforts to eliminate the truly blind auditions used in orchestras - according to the SJWs, merit must not be allowed to allocate job slots to the most capable and talented. That's the path to Harrison Bergeron...)
What I especially like about Java that it moves slowly, but when it does, it is a very thought out feature. For example, here’s one on the future of a seemingly trivial feature, string interpolation: https://github.com/openjdk/amber-docs/blob/master/site/desig...
This is neat, but I would take it with so many grains of salt.

We don't know what dark matter is. We have some ideas. XENON1T was/is testing some of those theories about dark matter.

We know next to nothing at all about dark energy. We're pretty sure it's a thing, or else our model of the universe is just completely wrong and it's not anything at all.

So if XENON1T finds something that doesn't fit their model of dark matter, going on a limb and saying "I dunno, maybe it's dark energy?" is a fun thought experiment and model, but at best it might lead to further experiments to see how likely that model is to be true. And from what I'm reading, that's the attitude the scientists behind XENON1T are taking here.

But alas, we all know that tomorrow we can expect pop-sci articles saying "DARK ENERGY HAS BEEN SOLVED".
Yeah, I wouln't post this under my real name either.
Pair Programming as a first-class citizen is stupid.
> sometimes require less actual code to achieve the same thing

What are some things thing you can do in Java with less code than in Javascript?
Thank you for this. I had a number of HN users insinuate that I was wrong to warn that Apple could expand beyond CSAM scanning and begin scanning for other material. People seemed to take a very firm stance that no, that could never ever ever happen and I'm wrong to even suggest the possibility.

This incident is more than enough for me to remain concerned that that will happen.
> Yes, I've been surprised too by the sentiment in the article of "it's too hard to keep up with new developments in programming languages" because that is what we all face, be it young or old.

What you're ignoring here is that in your 20's and early 30's you have nothing but time. You can spend your evenings and weekends reading O'Reilly books and churning out cool side projects. As you get older, non-work responsibilities increase massively for most people, as you spend time taking care of children, elderly parents, doing small home repairs, etc. Suddenly you can't just drop everything and spend the entire weekend reading documentation and tutorials when $BIG_CORP suddenly decides that all work must henceforth be done in $SEXY_NEW_FRAMEWORK_X.
That sounds a bit like saying "buying and dumping fresh food into landfills means it will encourage growing more fresh food".
also, something you will do a couple times at most a year.
This isn't "store my phone camera roll", it's "deliver images on the Internet".

If you look at https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-images?lens=top1m&s... for 2021 you'll see images are way smaller than 10MB on the web.
How can you get anything but misinformation? We can barely understand bits of the world around us, and our efforts to communicate that understanding to each other are imperfect to the point we're really just making noises at each other and hoping to stimulate similar thinking, at best.

Anybody who takes the effort to publish something; from the most respected journalist, rank government propaganda, and me writing this comment: all have reasons for expending that effort in addition to the "i want to share what i think is true", which we hope was the main reason.

We have to read everything with the filter of "why does this person want me to think this?"

"mis / dis / information" is a spectrum, and we have to see the shading in everything we consume.
Whilst I totally agree with the statement, Bitcoin doesn't even come close to factoring into my reasons for agreement.
for the modern era?
I would rather call it for the 90's, it would be more accurate description.

the graphics and level of realism c&c zero hour had is years ahead of this.
I'm a young guy, but this presents an interesting question: what's the best path to modernize your skill set?

Imagine being a Cobol or dBase III developer. You recognize that some new technology (say AWS Aurora) is in demand.

So you study a whole bunch during your off time. You do tons of courses, hobby projects, and even take the applicable certifications.

Here's my question: then what? You have textbook knowledge of this new skill, but no actual production experience. What's the best way for these re-skilling workers to make the jump from learning to earning?
> But, what if I don't want future changes? For almost all software I've ever paid for, as a user, I just want the goddamn software exactly how it is today, forever. I'd maybe be willing to pay for security updates, but that's it.

Problem is, most software doesn't exist in a vacuum; it is part of an ecosystem. Security updates that you might pay for are not enough, because the ecosystem is constantly changing around the program you bought.

I'm author of HashBackup. It uses remote object storage services so if there are incompatible changes made on the storage side, the software has to adapt. What if IP4 is no longer supported? Adapt. A library like Boto2 gets rewritten and the old version loses support. Adapt. Google Sites decides to force you to migrate to a new version that looks like shit. This just happened to me, and it's so bad I'm having to do a whole new documentation site.

Just keeping software working has become a big challenge because of ecosystem changes.
I recall a note left on a piece of Greek pottery that said something like "<name1> made this and I bet <name2> can't do any better."

Wonderful slice of some potter rivalry from long long ago ;)
it has always been a problem
Fennec F-Droid on Android 11 has some rendering issues.
Depending on the company, that's not great advice. At my company you cannot take PTO until you accrue it, so if you end the year with 0, then you can't take anything for a while until you accumulate enough time.
In all fairness, things were a lot easier back then. Installers all had the same UI and you knew where to find them afterwards. Now the UI is different for all of them and you have no idea where the program went when it finished installing.
I will choose one “magic” annotation over repeating the same buggy code thousands of times. Not having abstraction is just as bad as too much.
You wonder how stuff gets this way in some companies...

... and then you realize it's because everyone who knew better saw it as a dumpster fire and found another job.
True, but even low margins on $60 Million could be millions.
This is not how I understood the argument of scientific stagnation though, wasn't it more to do with 'breakthrough' discoveries that somehow radically disrupted / changed our way of life?

In that regard I'm inclined to believe there is some sort of stagnation. Though not necessarily at the fault of the community or researchers. It could very well be a mix of what you said about problems being harder that we have, between 1900 - 2000 picked all the 'low hanging fruit' in physics, and that we now need lots of patient, 'baby step' type improvements to get to a new era where the technology is powerful enough to make big leaps again.

Kind of like how Deep Learning research stagnated due to lack of data volume and processing power.

This is my perspective, but I think it's totally up for debate and I'm keen to hear different opinions.
> When deciding to join my recent company, equity was the largest factor in my move.

Great, it worked out for you. A friend of mine, recently got an offer from a pre-IPO company. He asked for equity, but they are refusing to share any numbers - saying - their lawyers asked them to not do that. Is it normal?
Is nodejs or golang used for your backend. How does the one that isn't used for your backend fit into your tech stack?
Under my Dark Stagnation theory, scientific stagnation varies a lot between different scientific fields.
Don't forget, they look so eroded because the sculptures have been eroding for 8,000+ years.

Also, the original article (original with regard the this HN thread, not the older article you linked to) talked about examining the tool marks. It's not just examining the large shape, it's about seeing the method of construction on a smaller scale.
Agree that OpenBSD is worth experimenting with.

I'd like to learn more about cl-yag, the tool used to create this website.
C# is a nice language but the JVM is the better VM. And you have other languages on the JVM like Kotlin and Scala. Plus Java is getting nicer as time goes on.
Yep, lot of investor money can contribute to bankruptcy: WeWork, Katerra, etc.: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-08/katerr...
You mean the part where they took a piece of plastic and classified it as a machine gun, and told anyone who bought one to destroy it or go to prison? Meanwhile anyone with enough practice can bump fire a normal gun. All while not compensating a single person without threat of turning law abiding citizens into felons over night.
Also what people consider science is a bit of a continuum. There is what is universally objective scientific breakthrough (like discovery of quarks) on the one end, and universally objective non-breakthrough (like the construction of a simple bridge) on the other but where does the progress of iPhone 1 to iPhone 13 fit?

So much advancement is going on in or around computing right now I think that in the future we'll sorta look back and consider that closer to science than mere engineering.
> Discrete mathematics theory is possibly more difficult than the set of complex numbers.

Probably it is so because in continuous case there is the luxury of having enough points between any other points. In discrete case you are much more constrained, for example, you cannot choose a point between 0 and 1, and what is the length of the diagonal of a binary cube or angle between its two hyper-planes? Sometimes these notions can be naturally defined but in other cases the formal theory is not so natural.

By the way, an interesting question is how complex boolean numbers could be defined (naturally).
Injury prevention: I feel like I reached a point in my 40s where I'd recover from one injury, go back to working out and soon get hit with an equivalent injury someplace else. Usually some kind of tendonitis. I'm not sure if my form is bad or I'm trying too hard or what.
I'm currently unable to do upper body for the most part because of golfers elbow (I use a wacom tablet for work so maybe it's RSI too) and I'm wondering if I'll ever be able to get back to working out regularly.
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Sure it was the justification, but it makes zero sense as a justification. I’m not saying they should have offered equity, but I think logic is completely flawed and am surprised people bought into that logic.
Back in 2009 while on tour in Pakistan, the bus holding the touring Sri Lankan cricket team was ambushed by a gunman and sprayed with bullets in a targeted attack.

Fortunately, while some of the players where injured in the attack, no one was killed.

Given the instability in the region at this time, I'd say it would take a brave cricketing team to tour Pakistan at this moment in time.
I think in this case its pretty clear that equity would have been a great offer.
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This is just another example of why working (and getting educated) to be an employee is usually a poor decision compared to putting your energy into becoming the employer.

Nobody explained this to me, and I spent over two decades running the employee rat race.

Most races take your time and energy, leaving you with far less reward than they promised (no matter how much you excel).

Young ones, let this be a lesson. Struggle and be poor for a decade if necessary, but build your own business. After 15-20 years you will probably be way ahead of your same age employee people.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/departme...
>It was all over the news that the 2009 flu shot would have a swine flu component

It wasn't in Germany. In fact the vaccine was highly controversial back then and not a single person within my social circles admitted to getting it.
I don't remember the name, but it may have been somewhere across the road from Kings college.
Yeah - totally fair about skipping gyms during covid.

Same principal applies. The whole idea of "feel the burn" is stupid and doesn't get you what you want.

Just do fitness. It almost doesn't matter what you do if you do it consistently.

I'm super happy you found youtube stuff working for you.

Keep it up!
I’m so clueless about law in general if one of these geo fence thingies occur how do you even find a lawyer who understands and knows how to stop it ?

I mean you do google for a cyber lawyer or something ?
This is the kind of moral framework that creates cancel culture. Pulling out from Russia will decrease many Russian's standard of living, but will have zero impact in stopping them from rigging elections. If everyone cuts trade for moral reasons, then there's no incentive for us not to point nukes at each other again.
I actually have been yelled at and told off in the streets for various mistakes such as this one. And this is not just my personal experience but my German friends also verify such stereotypes.
This is excellent advice that can be applied to much more than fitness.
Most high school students shouldn't go to college. It's not very contrarian here, but outside of tech circles in the US it's very unpopular. Hated even.
I'm not diabetic and have a healthy lifestyle.
I got a tiny injury on my foot during gardening with a iron rod scraping my skin. It didn't look threatening for a couple of days until my legs started swelling. I visited a doctor and gave medications and it went away. I got injured 2nd time after a few months on my leg and injury refused to heal. I visited another doctor again and the first thing he did was to give me a tetanus shot. I observed that it helps in healing and my overall immunity had improved. Lack of immunity shows up in the skin and the symptoms fade away once it improved.

So, periodic Tetanus shot is needed ( once every 3 years). If you are used to spending long hours in cubicles and not much life outside, its the cheapest way to be healthy.
The original text which the link at the top simply duplicates minus the hyperlinks is at :

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/have-we-detected-dark-en...

which links to the open access paper at Phys.Rev.D :

https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.0...
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