skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there are very few cases where anonymity is useful. The rest is mostly useful for the abusive ones.

As long as you don't talk about anything not following the official lines and/or the mainstream ideology, sure... there are many topics which are effectively banned and will get you punished one way or another for just mentioning them
And I agree with you on the solution: version the language (or whatever other more conceptual thing) by year and the program by semver. It’s the only thing that makes sense given the constraints.
The Cal 3 proposal actually made some sense as it would have given the people living there more representation in congress in the form of 4 new senators, as well as more local control. You would think that there would be broad support for the proposal considering a lot of people in these large left-leaning states often complain that their vote is not "worth as much" as a vote in a less populated state.
Attacking others like this will get you banned on HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Yes, most liberal arts programs will have a variety of general education requirements.

For my math degree, I also had requirements in: psychology, philosophy, religion, science, writing, and foreign language.
For those of us who believe banning anonymity is an answer to anything, please ask yourself how you would feel if this site did that -- or even, in fact, if HN didn't actually make anon accounts (without even requiring an email confirmation) so easy that it's an incredibly common occurrence.

For a moment, leave aside the deft and light-touch moderation that HN moderators such as dang performs, and how hard that may or may not be to enable at "scale"; just consider: do you really want anonymity to be gone forever, or do you engage in some very deep discussions with other anonymous people on a daily basis, right here on HN?

Because that seems to prove the point; maybe it's the exception that proves the point, and perhaps older people who remember what Eternal September was might remember that sometimes anonymity without any moderation at all means a breakout of trolldom, but it's simply balancing the power of anonymity and rights to privacy against the inevitable things (like spam) that go along with anytime you grant someone freedom.

And that's really what this is about. In the United States, freedom is granted by the Constitution, even though those very freedoms is often abused (or taken for granted.) Innocent until proven guilty? How many times do the guilty get away scot-free because of that precept? And, yet, this "grand experiment", again and again, proves its value, even in the face of repeated attempts to reign in (usually other people's!) freedoms.

The Interwebs can be the same, or they can be different, but yanking anonymity will certainly tilt the playing field in a particular direction... so what direction should it really be tilted in?
You need n separate programmable timers, though. If you only have a constant number of timers, then you’re back to implementing something approaching a priority queue to schedule the events (possibly in hardware if you want)
The "blue team" cooling is long overdue for sure.
Moreover, ideas are worthless if you aren't smart and diligent enough to see them through. Emphasizing ideas, to me, feels like the wrong thing because this encourages, for most people, a lazy attitude where recognition is expected for having an idea (whereas recognition is only due for making something out of your idea). In the end, ideas are cheap. Every giant had both the idea (which may have been through luck and timing plus deep knowledge earned through hard work and persistence) plus those other abilities to make something out of it, without which they would not be giants.
Indeed, steel is so recyclable that people will pay you for it regardless of condition. Contrast that to any kind of wood/pulp product.
Have you from your side followed all Clickhouse best practices?

Clickhouse design in particular suggests doing ingest request approximately once per second and if you do much more than that when you use it outside of intended usage and if you need that you usually have some sort of queue between whatever produces the data and Clickhouse.

Note the ingest in small batches also can significantly affect query performance
Under 'Christian Democratic' / Communitarian principles, I think that 'money' probably just be a responsibly managed currency, just a tool, like any other thing. So - above board, transparent, regulated, and where central bank policy would not be oriented just to capital holders but rather everyone in the community. Like everything else in life we want to work well - a bit boring, mundane, consistent, dependable.
Am I the only person who is irritated by the misuse of the phrase "23-fold", which really means multiplied by 2^23, not multiplied by 23?
One side benefit of being willing to say "I don't know" and to ask embarrassing questions, when one is in a position of being a supposed expert, is that this kind of humility lends you credibility when you do claim to know something.

(I'm talking about experts with/for whom I've worked, to be clear, not myself.)
Oh, I know why I'm being downvoted, this isn't my first rodeo, but I appreciate the support :)

The biggest thing, as far as I understand, is people want to go back to normal, and by definition, normal was a world before covid-19, so normal must mean that covid-19 as an active virus in the world should not exist.

The problem is the covid-19 vaccine does not remove covid-19 from being transmissible in the world, as admitted by the CDC and every vaccine manufacturer [1] [2] [3]. We don't even know if these vaccines, in spite of being developed by very intelligent teams, will have any long-term serious side-effects, there are no long term tests. Guess what, the human race is the current test, and if the test goes bad, if we do have a >50% vaccination rate, in the worst case scenario, that will be very very bad for everyone.

So what problem are we solving with the vaccines? If we are solving hospitalizations, I have read many conflicting articles about the actual state of hospitals, so it is hard to know if we are actually solving that problem. If we are solving the problem of going back to normal, then the vaccines are not a good long term route.

Every solution that does not contribute to solving the problem is just busy-work at best, and creating other problems at the worst.

All that said, I'm not saying people should or shouldn't isolate, social distance, vaccinate, but I am saying that the current solutions our world leaders are pushing do not bring us back to "normal," as-in pre-covid.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

[2] https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210203-why-vaccinated-p...
sigh

Kansas City native here.

I vote democratic and agree with the comment you are replying to.

there is one data point that this isnt a partisan issue, but a rather non-partisan one involving an elected official.

Go Tom Brady, give the Buccs another win and put some dirt in Maholmes' eye.
That's not completely true. For example, the rationale behind the war on drugs (Nixon era and revived by Reagan, long before McConnell) was not about truth or moral virtue.
I'm not so sure about meaning well. If you read https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/I-Can-Tolerate-Anythi... , it feels like there's a lot of decisions nowadays that's taken because it will hurt/offend the "other team", with post-facto justification why the decision benefits "me/our side".

It seems like people have been losing their pride in their selves that now they're invested in their "football teqm" winning in the arena of politics.
My assumption is that some rural Marylanders want to live in a red state without having to move.
Soft Discipline
That is fair, you are probably right. But the author is not making the claims, she is responding to claims made by Uber in the past.

Specifically:

>In 2015, Uber founder Travis Kalanick gave a TED talk in which he vowed the new rideshare business model would get “more people into fewer cars,” dramatically reduce air pollution and, as he put it, “reclaim our cities today.”
Honestly, it makes some amount of sense.

Being generous, the thinking might be that you praise the slow kids who struggle to learn when they are successful in order to motivate and encourage them to keep going. The kid who's a natural talent and highly self motivated doesn't necessarily need accolades from authority figures.

Still feels cheap, and only a fool wouldn't see how ridiculous the praise is.
I'd like to see numbers at this point. This is two unsourced claims that "most people" suffer from simulation sickness, which is two too many.
I am gonna go ahead and make a claim that Twitter will outlive 95% of the personal websites that Hacker News readers will set up and host.

Most of us developers don't have a good habit of blogging and we aren't good writers either. Twitter gives you a long-lasting platform to briefly express opinions without much boilerplate and structure, and still get the message across.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar hell. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Isn't that exactly how festivals work? There are 1-2 headliners that are well known, and 20 other obscure bands to fill out the weekend. You can buy a ticket for a day, but you can't only buy a ticket for a particular performance.
I’ve had a model 3 for 2 years, I keep hearing from people who don’t own teslas about “poor build quality” but I have never witnessed it myself. It’s certainly been a lot better than the Ford and Lexus I previously owned.
For example:

“Cost as a design constraint and important variable is embraced by their culture, instead of being viewed as an evil metric that leads to a sub-optimal outcome," one [Blue Origin] executive wrote [about SpaceX].

"I believe we study a little too much and do too little," one [Blue Origin] executive wrote. "More test [rather than] more analysis will allow us to progress more quickly, iterate, and eventually succeed."
> Shit no, because the whole rest of the time I'm not coming up with those handful of new ideas, I'm less-smart.

For better or worse, I am such a person: good at generating ideas and product vision, merely competent at technical execution. Put another way, my verbal iq and empathy (if that can be measured) are much stronger than my analytical iq, as confirmed by essentially every standardized test I’ve ever taken. As a result, I function and process information differently than a lot of my engineer peers. Some things are obviously harder for me, which can be painful and embarrassing, but as a rule I’m involved in lots of interesting discussions and design sessions and tend to be a de facto product manager. It’s just different, a trade off in mental styles.
I'd add systematic exploration of new ideas, one good example is Thomas Edison with his "idea factory".

Masayoshi Son used to set aside some time during his week where he would "summon" invention, quite literally, until having a "hit" that actually worked and became his first business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa2_VBu0d7k&t=470s
Yes, I always read it as a new speak word for "slavery", so it was weird to see it applied to selling a kidney for 10k dollars, which was explicitly called out in the report as happening frequently in Egypt. Things get slippery here. Is selling blood plasma human trafficking? Is paid surrogacy human trafficking? Is work human trafficking?
Right. Absent TCE and inline functions (the latter is now pretty much bog standard in every language in popular use, at least every compiled language), goto for state machines and similar uses can be much more efficient and also handle the concern of blowing up your stack. If you have TCE and inline functions, then mutual recursion is a perfectly efficient way to handle that kind of situation that is often (but not always) clearer than goto. And if you pair that with nested functions so that you can close over some common lexical scope, you eliminate the need to use global variables or to thread data through each function call (keeping your parameters to a minimum).
The profit-maximizing algorithms are ad-supported, which means they maximize profit by maximizing engagement time and attention. This means things that don't maximize around those things will inherently be disadvantaged against the manipulative ones (barring regulation against the manipulation or some sort of very unlikely social movement to consciously eschew the manipulative ones). As long as this particular set of incentives are in place, the algorithm problem is going to be a feature of the universe of social networks.
I think he may be combining state and local tax in the 50%. Which is fair.
That seems to have been a mixed bag. But they also enabled PGO (or was it LTO?) and that was mentioned to be a bigger improvement.
Have you ever been in a Greyhound terminal, never mind having traveled via Greyhound bus? The worst customer service on the continent of Europe would be a vast improvement on the squalid unhygienic condition of literally everything owned or leased by Greyhound, not to mention the eagerness to cancel trips so that passengers unexpectedly have to layover 13 hours in e.g. downtown Indianapolis in such condition.
By definition, a trade school is designed to teach people a trade, not what lies outside it. A liberal arts education (which OP was clearly referring to) exists to teach people about a variety of different things.

This might sound like I'm biased against the trades. I'm not! I think they're crucial, and I, along with about half the software engineers I know, often daydream about becoming a fine carpenter.

I'm also not biased against trade schools in particular. They provide an important service and are a pipeline to good union jobs. The criticisms I make at the top of this comment apply equally to students who go to a top music program like Juilliard or the Oberlin conservatory, as those graduates will tell you themselves. They go to learn music, not to broaden their horizons.
Recent and related:

Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866805 - Oct 2021 (678 comments)
Thank you for your service.

The other giant thread here made it more directly partisan, this just sounds crazy though. On what rational grounds do you attempt to prosecute or make such things illegal? Is it simply trying to save immediate expenditure of money in a myopic fashion? Or is it more akin to they don't believe it's the state's responsibility to put that data online in the first place so f-it-all-to-hell and everything around it? My constituents don't understand this so I'm just going to oppose my opponents actions, regardless?

In your opinion, is there a way to fix this sort of thing? It feels like we're watching it writ large with the January 6 committee.
You may try Database Papers slack, run by Alex Petrov of Database Internals fame [0]. You can also try Dist Sys Slack group by Henry Robinson (Paper Trail blog) [1]. The invite link is broken, so you may have to contact the author.

I am noob at database things, I am also interested in building one for learning purposes. If you find any groups to talk about Database Internals, please let me know as well (my details in my bio).

[0] - https://databasspapers.herokuapp.com/

[1] - https://www.the-paper-trail.org/page/dist-sys-slack/
Introduction to Auto_explain: How to Log Slow Postgres Query Plans Automatically
Residency... honestly sounds like legalized hazing.

I can't grasp how it's the most efficient/better way to teach someone something. Many doctors tried to explain it to me but so far nobody could.
If it looks, walks, and quacks like a behavioural advertising/tracking/analytics platform... why should it not be treated like one? Especially when you consider Sentry seems to be moving towards enabling these use-cases even further.

A way to opt out of personal data collection that is provided by Sentry to end-users would put Sentry back on track. Until then, I'll be running my own solution.
We're competing with each other via billions of years of selection - there are major advantages if you're smart (and if you're pretty). You can also add the quality PG is talking about here which requires some amount of smartness as a prereq (curiosity?). I'm not sure how much it can really be cultivated above baseline, but it'd be interesting to know more. I'd guess there are some strategies, but a lot may still be tied to your inborn stats.

I'd argue we should strive for a society where the suffering you're exposed to if you're unlucky enough to be in the bottom quartile is bounded, while still allowing for the top to be unbounded in pushing humanity forward. Accepting there's natural variance here is part of that.

We're not all the same, things aren't fair. We shouldn't ignore that or pretend otherwise, but we also shouldn't think that means those dealt a bad genetic hand need to be totally screwed in our society (imo) and it doesn't mean you need to handicap the outliers on the other side in some Bergeron like pursuit of 'fairness' [0].

[0]: http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

Also related on the prettiness bit, this short story is good: https://waldyrious.neocities.org/ted_chiang/liking-what-you-...
I always thought of IQ tests as the artistic equivalent of "how well can you draw a line?" You need a good foundation for artistic expression but many, many people have that and still don't create art worth remembering.

Intelligence (the capacity to process) combined with knowledge can give you that strong intellectual foundation -- but that's all it is.

Alan Kay was wrong; a change of perspective is not worth 80 IQ points. The opposite is true. A decent IQ gives you the chance to have a change of perspective.
Awesome! Glad to hear it.
How is this in need of philosophical debate at this point?

Change which set of glyphs and discourse matters in politics, or put pressure on the labor market until it bears it no more (the source of contempt).

So much of this can be reasoned around simply as euphemism. Change the story, change the outcome.
> And I don't know what you're talking about with Play Movies and TV. It's still there.

Google Play Movies and TV was shutdown earlier this year to be replaced (sort of) with YouTube TV -- the same "YouTube TV" in the article above.

https://twitter.com/liliputingnews/status/138170402082645197...

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-movies-shutdown...

The shutdown of Google Play Movies and TV and the stuffing of parts of that system into "YouTube TV", is sort of the original catalyst for how Roku and YouTube TV got into this fight in the first place.
It's not just smartphone knock-on, although that does help. The chips in question aren't smartphone class. When I've spoken to people about it, it's more a matter of toolchain, price, and compute power: the tools are familiar (it's just GCC, not something manufacturer-specific), at interesting volumes they're within spitting distance of the others for price, and if it turns out you need more CPU than you originally thought there's usually miles of headroom. The idea of "just go straight to ARM from the start, it's not worth bothering with microcontrollers" is the mantra they go by.

There are still a load of jobs you wouldn't do that for, but the list is short and getting shorter.
By these arguments nearly every sizable city in the country should be its own state.

>DC doesn't want to be part of Maryland (they like being independent and feel that Maryland's concerns are not theirs) and Maryland doesn't want DC (they feel it would move the centre of gravity of the state even further towards the DC suburbs, making it worse for the further-flung parts of the state).
Just starting the mass-production but Lucid is using radar, cameras, and LIDAR.
Hamming (of Hamming codes) has a famous Bell Labs talk "You and Your Research", describing how to have a large impact. It covers a lot of the same ground, but in more detail:

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

A few points from it:

You've got to work on important problems.

How about having lots of `brains?' It sounds good. But great work is something else than mere brains.

The people who do great work with less ability but who are committed to it, get more done that those who have great skill and dabble in it.

The prepared mind sooner or later finds something important and does it. So yes, it is luck. The particular thing you do is luck, but that you do something is not.

One of the characteristics you see, and many people have it including great scientists, is that usually when they were young they had independent thoughts and had the courage to pursue them.
Nobody on either side liked the Cal3 proposal because it just turns one California into three Illinois.

You'd still have major urban areas mostly controlling each state but fighting the rest of the state every step of the way. It works from a "keep the number of red and blue senators" fairly constant perspective but it doesn't actually solve anybody's complaints about lack of self-government.
Yep, haha. It does the job and doesn't smell!
It appears they are relying on the hydrogen bonding in the cellulose after lignin removal, so it should be >50% wood, i.e. not an epoxy with wood filler.
Again, you're rationalizing. You're making assumptions about her intent without any evidence to the contrary. This sort of thinking is the exact problem. You're finding your own conclusion, accepting it as fact, and then (in the case of the media) promoting that as what took place. That's a lie, no matter how you twist it.
I can’t reply with emojis, so imagine this comment is just the eye roll emoji.
Quite a bit actually. Bamboo cant be cut into planks, so it's typically ripped into really thin strips and then laminated.
> You can't grow more iron ore (though there is a lot of it lying around).

We live on a thin crusty shell around a ball of iron.
Title has been changed now unfortunately
Very convenient proposal for eliminating 2 red state senators, I see.
The problem is that the true moral values held don't appear often enough in political speech.

I and almost all of my friends and family hold that "humans are created in the image of God, and thus their inalienable rights begin at conception. Therefore abortion at any stage is committing murder against the baby."

Not exactly context-dependent, unless I'm missing something. Perhaps you could elaborate?
I would echo this general idea of recalibrating, and add a refinement.

Instead of believing the process and waiting for months to see if it works, you can weigh yourself every day and look at the moving average. That will let you ignore the natural daily fluctuations, but still give you regular feedback.

In my experience, that regular feedback really helps with the motivation to keep doing the calorie counting.
Stabilized wood is essentially as hard as whatever it's stabilized with. But yeah, the interesting concept is the densification. I dunno about replacing steel, but if soft fast growing woods can be converted into something closer to a hardwood, and the volume lost and extra time still puts it out ahead, that is pretty exciting.
Thank you. My only nit is the way the ratio (CH/TS) is shown. What is the purpose of that ? It will show a bigger percentage for cases in which TS is better, but lower percentage for cases where CH is giving better results. From the data representation perspective, I do not thinnk that is fair.
Imagine paying $100 just to be able to pay your government and thinking that's "not that big of a deal"
Consumer watchdog orders tech giants to turn over information on payment data
Mawkia
Finally a nice way to init hash maps and all other kinds of collections! The former was really unattractive to Rust newbies!
So how do you get a value out of an LSTM?