skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly disagree. It’s well known that this is one of the only technology sites that will allow racist and sexist comments. I’m not alone in seeing this. Remember ShitHackerNewsSays and #hnwatch? You need to clean up your house before lecturing anyone who’s rightfully upset that you and the site owners allow this site to be a haven for hate speech.

If anyone doubts this, take a scroll through here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Sure the raw images are large, but websites rarely display images in their original format. Generally for display on websites images are at least compressed if not scaled down significantly.

Here is an example I just pulled off the front page of the NYT website. I'm sure it was originally a 10+MB image taken on a iphone or DSLR but it was compressed/scaled down to a 510kb webp image for display on the web.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/09/17/sports/baseball/1...
Or they could check if bits are malicious.
my favourite benefit of bitcoin is how it uses the entire energy output of yemen to send someone five bucks
The cryptocurrency ecosystem can whilst Bitcoin, alone, definitely cannot (at least in it's current iteration).
I discovered linux through a couple of books (mostly about security) in 2008/2009. Then I downloaded linux mint (The gnome version). The only thing I recalled is how beautiful it was, all grey instead of the light beige and green of Windows XP. It felt like soft rubber button and XP felt like the clicky ones. And so many options. I spent days customizing KDE
When you look at areas with the strictest lockdowns and compare them to areas with the least restrictive or non lockdowns the benefit is nearly zero. You can’t claim those people are saved by them. I don’t think people understand exactly how contagious this disease is. There will never be a point when it is wiped out until herd immunity is reached and at the rate of mutations that will never happen.
I never got used to Excel, most of the spreadsheet things Excel is used for can be achieved by awk
People like this are so toxic that companies must eject them. They have no real added value, they merely harass those that should be helped to grow and learn as they evolve in their positions. Software engineering teams need collaborating peers and mentors not bullies.
Reverse Engineering for Beginners (Understanding Assembly Language)
sounds interesting, too bad this article is paywalled.
We're in a pandemic of cowardness.
Sounds like it would require a huge surveillance apparatus. Oh, wait...
> I know we talk a lot about ageism in this industry, but does this not happen in other industries? I genuinely don't know. I just don't think this angle has been explored.

It can happen, but it's much less common. Right or wrong, people have different expectations of different fields. I you ask someone to imagine an outstanding lawyer or doctor, they probably envision someone in late middle age, maybe with some grey around the temples. If your doctor walks in the room and looks about 25, you're probably not going to be thrilled. Now, if you ask those same people to image an outstanding programmer, they probably envision a young person in the twenties.
Covid vaccine: India gives 20M jabs in a day
When you are accepted at YC you are already a team which is autonomous and capable. With or without Bookface information things will not change much. Maybe you can save an afternoon because the information is easier to access and already curated. But nothing life changing for sure.

What really is important is connection to other people, when you are starting a B2B saas companies for example the people you are talking with on BookFace, are all potential customers, and can make your first customers easier to find.
I've worked at a number of startups. I've had equity work out for me exactly once.
"If I don't become complicit, somebody else will be. Might as well do it myself."
Take a job with a lesser title / pay but in exchange get exposure to the new tech you want. Do that for a year or two and the next position you'll be back on par.
> By the way, an interesting question is how complex boolean numbers could be defined (naturally).

Ever work with GF(2^x) extension fields?

For a good practical application of "binary complex numbers" (aka: GF(2^x) extension fields), see Reed Solomon error correction codes. EDIT: NASA's Reed Solomon code tutorial is an excellent, "casual", introduction to the subject. (Very little math theory involved: mostly sticks to the "final math" so to speak, focusing on the Reed Solomon error correction aspects). Once you understand how Reed Solomon codes are used, you can then more easily go into the theory of how it relates to GF extension fields, and how those GF-extension fields are similar to complex numbers made up of 0s and 1s.
The Internet of Humans
oth·er
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pronoun

1. a shareholder or investor

2. a government entity whose favor you are economically dependent on.
I also got an editor role for annotating an album I liked. Mahbod added me as a friend on Facebook and I got access to their social media. I didn't keep it up for long but I think someone tweeted something bad for PR not much later.
One Year of Load Balancing at Algolia
Yeah, the only reason we have so much oil is that it took a few 100 million years for fungus to figure out how to eat trees. So that carbon just collected and got buried until now.
Personally I like my news from different countries / cultures / languages to keep things in perspective.

No TV news, no moving pictures, just plain text.

I spend no more than about 15 / 30 minutes scanning / reading these sources in the morning and refrain from news for the next 23,5 hours.

It gives me enough input to be able to have water cooler exchanges without being agitated about issues I have absolutely no control over.
The irony is so thick. Remember iPhone 1.0 was meant to use web apps exclusively.
The Red/Green "environmentalist" government legislated the nuclear phase-out. in 2002 before Merkel's time.

She initially reversed it when she came to power, but she had to reverse the reversal when German public opinion overwhelmingly rejected nuclear power due to the huge risk of tsunamis in Germany after 2011.
Yes, I find 90s distros (I started with a strange linux distro called minilinux using an umsdos file system which I would start by typing 'linux' on the dos prompt, then moved on to Slackware 3 and redhat 2 around 1995 if I remember well) to be significantly simpler.

Basically, they contain very little, so you can pretty much understand everything .

Then, it's the usual 'build on it, get bigger, add complexity' , but knowing the early model makes understanding the modern product much easier.
> I don't know of a moral framework that would both attribute great importance to lives of most of the thing on the life spectrum, and not lead to horrible conclusions like sacrificing a human child to save a field of grass.

Such thought experiments are fun to throw around (there must be a line somewhere, right? is all the grass in the world worth one human life? how about all the trees? all the rice?), but they sidestep the point which is that (without wishing to be harsh) it's arrogant of us to assume that being higher on one particular spectrum gives us some greater right to decide. Certainly we have the power to decide the fate of every living thing on the planet but that's a different matter.

> The point I'm trying to make: if we believe that between bacteria and us, there's a point (or a continuity) on the spectrum, separating mere chemical automatons from entities capable of thinking about meaning, then if the latter are gone, there's no point, no meaning, to anything in the universe.

This presupposes that progress towards sentience (or whatever is the right word for that spectrum) is the only meaning of life. As a counterpoint, do not the activities of those organisms that produce oxygen have much more meaning to life on this planet than whatever we come up with? Most of those organisms don't do much higher reasoning but we wouldn't be here without them. There are lots of other examples like that, as we exist in a web with all life on the planet, not as visitors separate from it.

> As an analogy: if you imagine a server running a persistent Minecraft world, then if all the players leave, and the server gets forever cut off from the Internet, it doesn't matter whether the server keeps running the simulation or not. Nobody will ever see that game world again.

This is a point of difference between us, as I believe that all life has intrinsic beauty and value regardless of who is doing the observing. That's not to say that I don't want us to be here doing the observing, but I do find it almost impossible to reconcile the beautiful things humans are capable of with the terrible price we're collectively extracting on everything else.

Ultimately we're just one more animal on this fascinating rock, albeit that we make better sandwiches than the other animals.
Package managers are a terrible paradigm for distributing software.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28407598 - Recent overview of the argument against

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17441773 - I come away appropriately looking like an idiot in this one because I made many wrong assumptions about Haiku's package system, however I still maintain it was a bad decision

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17268775 - Some more argumentation about how to do things better

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24776127 - Related

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19937228 - Vaguely related

I know I have several more, but there doesn't seem to be a good way to search one's own post history on HN. (This statement has since been made obsolete by CRConrad)
No idea what KO’s employee comp plans look like, but since it’s public wouldn’t you rather get your comp in cash, and then decide whether to buy stock on the open market? Rather than the company make that decision for you?
Playphrase.me: Cracks me up and can get a point across even better than a gif.

Youtube Music: One of the worst products I use but better than the alternatives. I used to use Google Play Music but it got shutdown in favor of Youtube Music which still has not yet reached feature parity with the product that was destroyed (neither has Spotify in my opinion). One nice thing about Youtube music is that it also gets rid of ads on Youtube.
Java's been making the garbage collector better for decades at this point and is still in the second performance tier compared to those other languages.

Of course, if one does GC tuning like a pro, uses a sufficiently smart GC and maybe a custom VM (and unicorns) one may reach the mythical native speeds (typically at the cost of using a lot more memory).
> While it's a bit much to suggest 'guns are because racism', I think it's a reasonable point to consider.

Why? What’s the evidence other than juxtaposition? Arabs are also nuts about guns. People from pastoral honor cultures (like the Scots Irish ancestors of many southerners and Appalachians: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/10/the-sco...) often are. Is that caused by racism too?

> Also, though there is some legitimacy with the 'Guns Stop Tyranny' issue ... it's unlikely to happen.

This is “end of history” bullshit. You need guns because having to kill people is a central part of the human experience. Tens of thousands of my people died at the hands of the Pakistani army because they had to fight with sticks and rocks until they knocked over some military depots to acquire firearms: https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/bangladesh-liberation-.... The Afghans have now expelled two superpowers from their country with handheld weapons. Guns work.

All of that stuff could happen in America too. Because history isn’t over, civilization is a thin veneer over nature, and there’s nothing fundamentally different about us versus them.
As mumphster pointed out in a sibling, 15MB of wasm vs 15MB of javascript is an unfair comparison. For instance, my aforementioned app is a few hundred KB of uncompressed js when rewritten, not 15MB.

Also, in my experience, a 15MB wasm blob has shit caching characteristics; it gets evicted all the time. An immutable few hundred KB js blob, on the other hand, can remain cached for much longer. Sure, you can use a service worker and its Cache API to make caching large blobs more predictable, but then shipping new code / cache invalidation becomes more annoying.
There are companies in Russia that specialize in providing shell companies to businesses. You can get a "reused" local company, an unique one, a company represented by a real person (no idea if that person is literally a fall guy, or just a legal fiction), probably off-shores too. Sounds like this might become a great startup idea in the US too ;)
How do they determine who to sell to?
Is this really good advice? Most businesses fail.
The advice on Bookface certainly isn't scientifically based in the strict sense of having been compiled through double-blinded, controlled studies. But the writer and publisher of this content (the YC team) has both 1) intimate access to the largest single dataset of startups that has ever existed; and 2) an extraordinarily strong financial incentive to give consistently excellent advice to its portfolio companies.

That doesn't mean their advice is always right, but it does mean they have both the capability to quickly discover when they're wrong, and a powerful motivation to quickly correct their mistakes. So at any given time, we should expect the advice YC gives its portfolio companies to be pretty good.

Given that, it's worth considering whether what's perceived as "business monoculture" might actually be better described as "set of business practices that have been shown to actually work pretty well in the real world".
IIRC regular cloudflare will still cache assets for free. This tool is specifically for people who don't want to write a pipeline to do image resizing/optimization themselves. If you're able to write your own pipeline to do sprite sheets, you probably don't need this service to begin with. Just preprocess everything yourself and serve those at $0 per gb.
I do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) to stay fit. It's a really fun and intellectually stimulating (yes, really) grappling martial art. I do it three times a week and am always completely exhausted, sore, and drenched in sweat after every session!

Any other BJJ nerds here?
Wow I used "personality test" and actually got useful articles about personality theory. I'll actually use this!
I saw this a longer while ago on reddit and wasn't convinced, because I asked questions but felt ridiculed in the answer.
The question was about component reusability and inheritance.
Also what about real time changes to contents when the values in the data store change (see ngrx, redux, vuex) aka reactivity.
However good that I found it here because I wanted to take a closer look at it and play with it and doubt that I'd be able to find the post on reddit again.
Also as much as I dislike Rust, it's closer to typescript in philosophy than Go and might actually be a good fit for the frontend wasm.
I'm ignorant however and idk if the binary size is also a problem for Rust like it is for Go.
Aaron Swartz: I hate the news.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

The even bigger take away from this is that he wrote this before he died in 2013. In the last ~8 years news had dramatically become worse.

I challenge all readers, on every subject verify they are telling the truth. You'll find the overwhelming supermajority of the time the news are wrong. The new thing that Aaron never saw, news outright publishing self-contradictory stories on purpose.

After you do this exercise, you find out the news is fraudulent. Why would you read something that is so fraudulant? Then again why would anyone get their news from the court jesters? The Daily show was just the court jester even in Aaron's time.
"We're not giving you equity; we're never going to sell."

If the explanation the company gives you for not giving equity is that they're never going to sell, but they end up selling, how is that not being tricked?

Seems like a pretty cut and dry case of bait and switch. Why even tell people you're never going to sell? How about, "equity is not a part of the compensation package we offer," with no false justification?

Acquisitions suck. Depending on the $ amounts/growth trajectories/timelines/etc I'd potentially take less TC up front to avoid one.
In all fairness, building something like Newgrange or Stonehenge (never mind the Egyptian pyramids) requires orders of magnitude more effort than carving some camels out of soft sandstone...
No, Tech Monopolies Don’t Serve National Security
> That is a terrible analogy.

It was bad on purpose. You can't compare the immune system to guns (like the parent does) or the Covid vaccine to seatbelts.
The value of one's labour is the value it generates - not what anyone is willing to pay for it. The value of the cumulative labour of Mailchimp's engineers is $12 billion which vastly exceeds the amount it was sold for.
I know ARC is different from tracing GC, I just don't like how some people try to sell Swift as not garbage collected when it is. Python mainly uses RC, and no one would image calling Python not garbage collected. Calling Swift not garbage collected is a marketing trick, saying they make different tradeoffs compared to tracing GCs is true.
There's Microsoft's Fluent UI: https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui
This sounds like Tor but for DNS.
Ha, you're right, I might have overshot my time period a little. I was thinking Windows 7 era, plus some late Vista/XP. Wikipedia tells me Windows 7 was released in 2009, so my statement would probably hold better if I'd said "around 10 years ago". But on the whole I think it's close enough :)
It depends what you mean by a firearm ‘offense’.

For example, there are a large number of guns owned by people of color who didn’t buy them legally, not because they couldn’t, but because they either didn’t know they needed to, or they didn’t trust the legal route.

That’s the kind of thing your 3% number applies to. The only way to ‘prosecute’ those offenses would be to lock up a lot of otherwise law abiding black men who are only criminals on paper because of racist gun control laws.

It’s important to understand this context before using words like ‘lackadaisical’.

If you mean things like actual violence or conspiracies to traffic firearms, these are prosecuted vigorously and the 3% figure is bullshit in that context.

I’m guessing you weren’t aware of the detail behind this figure.
Actually, lots of people say "be the change" and I know quite a few who follow that suggestion.

I have friends who eat vegan, eat more local foods, have cut down meat consumption, avoid travel (yes, before COVID), are reducing their plastic use to near zero, and so on. Few are taking all of that on but some are and there are many other ideas I've heard people taking on.

We keep a garden alongside getting the rest of our vegetables from a local farmer who produces far into the winter via a CSA. We have started replacing some meat consumption with egg consumption from the chickens we keep. We do other things but we definitely have more opportunities. There have been some really nice shifts in perception as our reduced consumption has reduced our stresses and lifted our wealth trajectory.

Consider: could you be hosting some social norms and exhibit some behaviors that keep you from interaction with such people?

[edit: s/eat a vegan/eat vegan/]
1a) The former I can understand an argument for even if I disagree with it. The latter seems balls-out ridiculous though; are you against vaccines in general or just ones for diseases that kill a lot of people?

1b) I'm going to guess you're from a country with a socialized health care system?
Geography usually dictates desirability the most throughout human history. So yes, in a way it is a fundamental property of the natural environment. The only thing the Bay Area could lack in the future is fresh water.

Iconic landscapes, nature, and almost perfect weather make it expensive.
This. I'd feel furious if I was not offered equity (even with a good comp package) at a company that eventually sold for this much after being told equity is not an effective form of compensation because they're never going to sell. Well, they broke that promise and the hundreds of millions of dollars that would be going to employees is not. This is a great example of why we have no middle class and why upward mobility in the US is so difficult. These employees were lied to that equity would never be worth anything so that their slimey bosses can keep it all for themselves.
Wish I had known about that back then. I spent hours in a 24 hour access university computer lab, one night in '93, downloading Slack to floppies.

Never looked back. '93 was the year of the GNU/Linux desktop for me.
I didn't think Safari supported PWAs, or is that a new feature in 15?

Personally I'm still not a fan of PWA. I don't see what they give me as a user, other than a worse experience than a native application would have.
Does any country in the middle east have a good reason to care that much about Israel? Does Israel truly have a reason to care that much about any other country in the Middle East? As long as Netanyahu's expansionist desires are satisfied by shaving away pieces of his immediate neighbors, US invasion - which has happened to a few countries already - is a more real and present threat.

Of course, why SA would think that terrorism will keep the US out of the Middle East, that's the missing piece of this picture and may invalidate it.
Java is anything but simple, all the major framework are heavy duty things behind layers of magic abstraction and un-necessary complexity. Did you worked with Spring, Hibernate
/ random ORM and all the "enterprise" frameworks?
Nobody who's serious thinks there's a single silver bullet; we need multiple paths to sequestration, and the other technological solutions aren't scaling up yet. We also need to scale up renewable energy as fast as possible, and get people to stop driving ICE cars. People have to pick where to put their own effort and investments, but no one is saying that these efforts are mutually exclusive. Planting trees is one (very good) bullet among many, which we can do at large scale today.

Forests also have excellent effects on local climate and the water cycle, and provides habitat for wildlife and biodiversity. More forests gives us a healthier world.
Define "authoritarian regime"
FortranCon 2021 Agenda
>> Are you perhaps a Putinist?

> I'm and I don't see anything wrong with it. He saved Russia from the eventual collapse where it was led by Gorbachev, Yeltsin and their western puppeteers. I'm very grateful to him for that.

This is so wrong. Putinism is a absurd, pernicious ideology. Your ideological upbringing been bad.

To call a mafia-state, a freedom is delusional. It's like slaves fighting for the right to be enslaved.
> There is not a single human being on earth who can turn down that kind of money

Unfortunately for all of us there are a handful of people who, due to their own wealth, certainly can.
How does this have 2.5K upvotes when every single HN related project needs JS and a quad core CPU (for the browser to open a blank page) to view a paragraph of text?
Standing desk, remote job, live in a building where you have a door directly to the outdoors (not a giant apartment building where getting in/out is a hassle), take walks
That's all well and good, save for the fact that "violence" has become a much squishier term lately. Particularly, though not exclusively, on the the left there's an increasing tendency to classify unpopular or ugly speech (as opposed to actions) as a form of violence. It's not hard to see where this goes.
They lied to their employees and stole from them income that would have otherwise belonged to them.