skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because some marginalized people perceive an implicit bias and veiled offensiveness in all manner of communication within those they regard as part of some sort of hegemony. If there’s a vehicle for applying restraint or discipline or humiliation, it will be exploited for reasons often vindictive or speculative.
posted three days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28667513

posted five days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28650122

posted seven days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28637111
I watched Joe Rogan's interview with defector Yeonmi Park and, if I understood correctly, she said that this is the case in North Korea only, because the government banned the word "I"!

You can't say "I like this", only "we like this".

In South Korea people do use the first person singular. I hope a Korean person could correct me if I'm wrong.
There are, literally, dozens of hosting providers that bake unlimited egress into their offerings - still. Bandwidth is cheap and has only gotten cheaper. Remember that Amazon doesn't always need to pay for Internet access. It's very likely they participate in Internet exchanges tied to other large providers. Given Amazon has a massive footprint they likely participate in these all over the globe to reduce congestion on their Internet connectivity.

They very much have massive margin on egress. Given some of the cost comparisons floated today comparing R2 to S3 egress AWS is likely hitting 1000s of times (likely more) their return on the actual bandwidth cost they pay for month over month.
Honest question: Is Awk worth learning to someone who already knows Perl?

Every time I read about Awk, I feel very intrigued, but AFAIK, everything Awk can do, Perl can just as well. Is there a compelling reason to learn Awk if you know Perl beyond pure curiosity?
My understanding is that "defund the police" is to advocate that police is no longer the default caller and the default receiver of money when it comes to broad social issues like, say, a mentally ill person acting erratically, or a homeless person is behaving in crisis, or a similar nonviolent occurrence. The money should instead bolster our public health, public education, and social security and child care services. This is in response to the fact that the police broadly get an obscene amount of money and apparently have very little social good to show for it with no accountability.
There was an attempt to do something like this for R&D planning back in the 60s called GERT [1] (Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique) that I suspect was just a little ahead of its time. I consider the R&D project planning with uncertainty space absolutely ripe for disruption. Schedules and plans stale quickly and are redone basically from scratch again and again in the face of big uncertainties. But strategies linking objectives and abstract actions through concrete activities and facilities could live on as uncertainties resolve and overall be extremely useful.

[1] https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memorand...

I did a big literature review on this a while back.
I worked for a big consulting firm and the only time you were in the office at a hot desk was when you were doing CBTs and billing time to professional development. It was not viewed positively by anyone.
> What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD

Unixy goodness. Secure. Consistent. Excellent documentation. Makes a great firewall, vpn, and/or router.

Makes a great desktop as long as you can live within the open bsd package/port ecosystem, which includes much/most, but not all, open source / linux software [0], and choose compatible hardware, thinkpads when in doubt.

A handful of years into openbsd on a couple thinkpads and a vps and I'm very happy. I'm a tech guy who prioritizes simplicity, security, and minimizing surprises. More of a minimalist than I used to be. Openbsd documentation is fantastic [1]. I've had less upgrade problems over the years than with freebsd and linux systems I've run in the past. I've got scripts that configure everything on my systems, via shell commands and /etc files. Unlike a windows pc or an android phone I very much feel like this is MY computer.

Openbsd might not be for those who have to have their netflix drm or steam or adobe icloud stuff on the same pc they use as their general purpose personal computer. Depends on your priorities.

[0] http://ports.su/

[1] https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html
This is a casual conversation, not a trial. Refusing to treat inappropriate questions seriously discourages more questions like that in the future, which is also a solid goal.
Academic history has its own fashions and political movements, even over decades; if we look at academic history from 50 years ago we see plenty of cases where the popular conception was closer to the truth than the academic consensus, much less any given review article from a single academic. Devereaux make some insightful points but he also has some very clear biases of his own; you only have to compare how he writes about a lack of written culture in Native American tribes to see that he's holding Sparta to a very different standard.
That bit of spin makes me question the rest of the story frankly. I'd like to see how this case shakes out, I feel like I'm missing something.
I don't know. Assuming good intentions is an advice for you, so you don't get offended. And assuming good intentions doesn't justify the impact. Even if you assume good intentions of a driver, if he drove badly and did some damage he is still responsible for the damage. Assuming hus good intentions doesn't change anything. Skill, following the rules and effect are what matters when it comes to judging.
The only thing that I dislike the fast, web version of HN is this desktop layout on mobile, but HN have an API and 100's of mobile clients which work exceptionally well, and a mobile client for HN can be written in hours.
You should write this up, it sounds cool
Related: https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/
People wondering about how much time consultants spent in the office seem to forget that companies like PwC also probably have massive numbers of support staff (accounting, HR, office management,... oops?) that doesn't directly provide any service to the clients.

No?
My sense is that the spirit of your question is lost on 90% of those replying. I think you’re asking a smart question. I don’t have any answers, but I wanted to push back on the answers that insist on outrage.
There are two answers to your question. One is, humans have simply not found very good solutions in these spaces. We have designed algorithms which barely work on denumerable sets, but are unsuitable in more general spaces. There are many decision problems which are known to be undecidable, i.e., there exists no algorithm that decides first order logic propositions. There are fragments which are decidable, and essentially all useful algorithms in CS fall into this category.

The second answer is that we are exploiting statistical regularities in the data which make these problems effectively regular or context-free in practice. When someone asks you to solve a new programming problem, you are applying some heuristics that have worked on similar problems in the past. Given a truly novel problem, you can either make some assumptions to reduce it into a more tractable form (e.g. 3-SAT), or design some clever search heuristic, but without any prior examples of programs or a distribution over probable inputs, you can do no better than naïve search.
Interesting. I usually just do a two liner with envsubst

envsubst < template > parsed

executable $@
See this guy gets it when others don't. The Radical Left has a victim mentality, always whining about systemic injustice to get what they want. When will conservatives wake up and realize that every aspect of this code of conduct is designed specifically to oppress them?
> You can't possibly compare the USA's culture to Japan's.

I can and shall.

> Much of Japan's culture is rooted in making sure you aren't disrupting the general flow of society.

It may surprise you to learn that the US was like this before. And that Japan probably won't be in forty years' time.

You know that movie trope from the 70s and before, where somebody needs a car, gets in one, which is, of course, unlocked, pulls down the visor, and the keys drop into their lap?

That's what it's like where I live.

My town had a home invasion last week. I don't think I've ever heard of that happening here.

> But that rests squarely with President Trump

No.

The establishment burned every ounce of credibility available to burn, succeeded in ousting Trump from office, and is now crying that everything has gone all firey like.

If Trump got a Big Mac on Monday, that was proof he was a Nazi. If he didn't on Tuesday, that was more proof that he was a Nazi.

Biden could nuke Dallas tomorrow and MSNBC would defend him without question. As would probably half the GOP.

The problem with "winning at any cost" is the cost.

Like it or not, that's the state of things in the US.
I mean at some point a pencil and paper, right? Tear your toilet paper into strips to spell for the guards to read your message? something other than just sitting in jail for 4 months
Lack of opportunity? Poverty? Disease? Broken homes? War? Sexual/physical/emotional/spiritual abuse? To make new connections? To find a partner? To explore the wider world?

Surely not!
https://youtu.be/sliYTyRpRB8

Obviously this is cherry picked, but you don’t think a car equipped with LIDAR, imaging radar, more cameras, more compute, and temporally dense HD maps that has focused on the same area for its entire existence would perform better than a Tesla?
It's not tying conservatives in knots, only those trying to deny that their are two sexes, male and female. That there are two types of adult humans, men and women. That women and not men menstruate, get pregnant, and give birth.
Yeah I mean obviously they are compared to foogbookazonpple, but I think they're past the point where you can individually go in and make substantive change, really.
I have no clue what you talk about TBH.

Not laughing about something that one does not find funny but at the same time also dont cry or have a mental breakdown isnt really a political concept. Its what just about everyone does and we should not pay attention to thous few who dont.
1,438 cases, 5 deaths

7 day average cases for the entire country: 1,702

7 day average deaths for the entire country: 10

2 months of lockdown.

Pure insanity.
The main problem is that cops that act recklessly usually have no consequences except in some rare cases when the story becomes viral...
Isn't it clunky on a mobile terminal? I've opted for using orgzly for some basic list stuff but haven't gone any deeper because it's always been annoying.
The Fair Housing Act: Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act), as amended, prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing-related transactions, based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status (including children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women, and people securing custody of children under the age of 18), and handicap (disability) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Fair_Housing_and_Equ...]
It's a miraculous gift to humanity that this thing survived the allied bombing in WWII. Much of the rest of the city was levelled.
> That worked in Japan because the culture there is far less selfish.

No, and I'm tired of hearing this trope. People are plenty selfish everywhere.

Japan works because Japanese government understands trust. So does China, and for the same reasons.
There is usually at least 1000 people shot by police each year (edit: in the US)... and that don't include chockings and other murder methods: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
Somewhat ironically free iPad with internet is probably cheapest part of all of this.

I like it but the more you think about the more disturbingly it sounds like communism :|
Yeah 100%. PwD is also a big accounting firm. Most of the accounting side was in-office.
> not as seemless

Extremely clunky on windows, frankly. Installed it the other day and it feels so slow I stopped using it.
I left for two weeks, with a key and notes left to a friend on what to do with my plants in my absence. Two weeks later I return (my friend had completely spaced out and forgot to come over even once) and my herbs (thyme, basil) are completely dead, but everything else was perfectly fine.

Interestingly, on my trip away I bumped into a person who does professional plant tending for public buildings, or businesses that want plants but can’t trust themselves to take care of them, and we had a brief chat. She said the number one mistake people make with plants is overwatering them.
Yes, but also No: the point here is that S-K telecom say they have fantastic IPv6 penetration and market share, but we can't show it as IPv6 capable from probes in clients. There is a story about V6 in Korea which is about the early broadband adoption: they went with whitebox FTTP to the huge housing estates and the whitebox CPE can't do V6, nor can the in-ground switching fabric behind it. So, Korea overall will have to wait for the initial broadband investment to age out. (probably on the next 5-10 year window)

This problem, the mis-measure is probably about KR transit wierdness, and how we "see" viable IPv6 they may well have but how it exposes as end-to-end isn't good. Its a very odd market. Dacom/Boranet has done some de-peering at times, forcing domestic flows offshore, all kinds of wierdness in their market.

(yes, the point I was making is that 4 independent V6 deployment measures outside of the economy say the same figure for the economy, but domestic strategic planners are told by the ISPs they have far more IPv6 than we all see. Because we are independent but see the same approx 14%, I don't think we are making a mistake. Whats going on isn't clear to me)
> The entire left/right ideas are pretty lame.

Agreed. It's a poor model, and doesn't reflect the current reality.
Presumably the majority of clients are now also work from home.
Even if you're not planning on getting divorced soon or at all, there's no harm in talking to a divorce lawyer now to figure out how to minimize the damage when things change and you get tired of working a job you hate to live in an expensive area that you don't want to live in.

Things can get better.
Building a DB. Several different flavors, actually. But one needs to be a distributed, multi-tenant, ACID compliant SQL database. We also need to have hooks to allow you to connect to any third party database that makes sense for your application. So… stay tuned.
I'm fascinated and amazed that 11th century engineering was so advanced.

But why couldn't they draw or paint worth shit? Art from the middle-ages looks like it was done by their six year old kids.
If you click “hide” on this story, it’ll be hidden from your home page and sane scrolling on mobile will return!
Thanks, switched from Adblock to uBlock.
Nice that they all have decent dental care.
It's not clear that the relationship between urbanization and emissions in the third world is that strong when you exclude China.

Also, suburban lifestyles are by far the most carbon intensive. Transportation by car and heating/cooling large houses uses a ton of energy.
Oh yeah, wasn't she the instigator of "Opalgate"? Seems like she has a chip on her shoulder and this is her life's work (to go around bullying projects that don't have stringent enough CoCs into submission)
Or a troll.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28712977
> PwC employees who choose to work virtually would have to come into the office a maximum of three days a month for in-person appointments such as critical team meetings, client visits and learning sessions, Seals-Coffield said.

> Location does factor, however, into PwC employees' pay, Seals-Coffield said. Employees who opt to work virtually full-time from a lower-cost location would see their pay decrease, she added.
One Year of Lifting (With Data)
This has a lot to do with the discussion.

The consensus seems to have gelled (few years ago, give or take a few years?) around every single open source project needing to have a specific "community guidelines" document - it was the new vogue established over the past few years by the body politic, and this lead to various promoters of new social paradigms to rename things that were taken at face value, i.e. "master-slave" in the context of database client-server architectures, or "master" branch as primary branch, etc.

These changes are trivial in retrospect, but contextually, the reversion of "participants will be tolerant of opposing views" seems to validate the notion that maybe excessive discourse around social mores aren't appropriate within the substructure of "writing new code that works, backporting features that are useful for others, etc"

The conflating of social justice goal-setting and software development is a swing and a miss, and if that's not completely clear by the context then I just want to apologize for stating what seems obvious to an external observer.
France is dominated by a small number of ISPs and went with a form of IPv6 to the home market which maybe put them in a bit of a dead-end (6rd) -which was invented in France. A very common French technolgy story, strong preference for the local solution (think Minitel) -But, they did get wide deployment.

Germany is dominated by DT (Deutsche Telekom) and what they do, moves the market. the UK is all about Sky (was News ltd, now Comcast, who are also behind a lot of the US domestic IPv6). Sky do remote management of the CPE and were able to upgrade their entire customer base (mostly) with remote upgrade version-by-version. Really high penetration. This caused Virgin and BT to have to think about how to compete for mindshare.
> I think what OP was implying is that the solution is always posited as in some future technology just on the horizon.

That shouldn't be surprising. New problems present themselves all the time and it then takes X amount of time to develop a technology solution to them.
It's a special report issue, with lots of articles on the topic of AI
I gotta say, "That way lies madness" == "That way lies Emacs" gave me a good chuckle. But your point is good, there are ways to do it, but VSCode has already started down the road of security first, and the emacs model would certainly not function in a sandbox.
Agreed, they'll keep that crown jewel. But they also have thousand of sqft in many cities all over America.

https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about/office-locations/usa-by-city...

I'm sure they'd be happy to get rid of some of that real estate.
> "Protected class" means stuff like race, sex or veteran status

Only american vetrens. Screwing with canadian vetrens is still fair game according to this CoC i guess.
Does that mean I don’t need to pay taxes and they should never use violence to coerce me?

Does that mean I don’t need to pay rent, because so long as I’m not violent they can’t remove me?

Edit: Y’all are evidently missing the point that passive resistance can require violent force to overcome. Ultimately the difference between a law and a polite suggestion is that the former is backed by the threat of whatever force is necessary to enforce it. Suppose I prefer not to be arrested and I don’t attack the police, I just don’t let them cuff me and take me away. Are they justified to overpower me, regardless how much force it takes to overcome my noncompliance?
> In a statement, the Idaho Springs Police Department said the two officers didn't know Mistic was deaf during the initial encounter and maintained that Mistic resisted arrest, causing one of the officers to break his leg.

Weird the article mentions this once and doesn't elaborate. I mean, how exactly did the officer break his leg?

> Mistic then spent more than four months in jail and says he was repeatedly denied an interpreter.

That's horrifying.

> Hanning was later charged with third-degree assault and fired from the police force in a separate case in which he allegedly used his Taser on a 75-year-old man, according to The Associated Press. Summers, who used a Taser on Mistic, according to the lawsuit, is still an officer with the Idaho Springs police.

Sounds like this sort of thing is a recurring problem.
Which is why his twitter thing felt so odd and uncharacteristic especially coming from a professor of cryptography nonetheless. AOP has been around for years. If he's made the concession to use an iPhone because that's where people are, why freak out about some new feature like you were born yesterday? This is Apple, you know they don't document shit. Go look at core crypto... it's doc-gen function signatures and structs. They don't even tell you how big their chacha20-poly1305 nonce is. The only reason they have a security handbook is so that the government would approve iPhone use. Why not look at the prior art out there surrounding the protocol published by people who are concerned like you are and weigh in as a security expert instead of having a twitter fit and then throwing HN under the bus when they point this shit out to you and say "hmm he's kinda overreacting this isn't news and actually the protocol is pretty good".
> Tucson resident here. I see acre after acre of alfalfa being grown, with most of that water then being exported to Saudi Arabia for cattle consumption.

(also Tucsonian) Whats really sad is we still have to search far and wide for decent quality hay to feed to our horses...

The fab investments also create a nexus of interesting jobs related to construction and fab operations. I really enjoy working in the latter sector.
Yes, exactly. Many of the things I’ve seen mentioned in the comments, such as wake on motion or responding to “hey Siri” are waking from sleep. AFAIK, you can’t power on via motion or hey Siri.
Thomas Piketty Debates Michael Hudson on Anniversary of David Graeber's Death
We don't know the nationality of this hmdne guy, possibly Arabic.
moderators dont typically monitor the comments for their name (although sometimes they do).

if youd like to help, im sure theyd love to hear from you at hn@ycombinator.com
Somewhat off topic, and I ask out of genuine curiosity - when did the “this computation will take sifting through more combinations than there are visible atoms in the universe” meme emerge?

I’ve never quite understood why that’s an important metric for considering processing. Does it have an actual impact on the computability of something, or is it just a visualisation to help human minds scale the grasp of something?
Yeah. I've also heard it likened to "Who needs freedom of speech? I have nothing to say"
Ozy Built a TV Show on a False Claim, Says Its Former Producer
Personally I find it rare to actually call someone, so a flip phone would be mostly useless to me. I suppose texting is still a thing though.
Subways are good (not that automated in New York due to union pressure) but a lot of american cities are not designed around mass transit but unfortunately highways. I could see some system where cars drive onto a highway then get put into a caravan or special lane that automates the driving until their exit
Agreed. No drive is failproof when even accidental deleting can happen. The raw truth has always been the same... backups. Off site backups in addition to local backups... Cloud storage as well, back that thing up. Unless of course the files are not important.
Also, breaking down plant matter is very energy intensive. Salmon is very close to what animals need, sort of by definition.
Classic computers weren’t so different 30-40 years ago.
I tried really hard to follow the threading in that but I came away being completely unable to parse it, at least on mobile. What was the attempted "joke"?
Oh my god that's hilarious. I had no idea why it was rendering as if it was a desktop screen. lol.
Superposition Principle and Reversal Convergence