skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When some parents are banning books by black authors, other parents are getting angry about their kids being allowed to or even encouraged to read books by black authors, and no parents are getting angry at teachers for any reading suggestions not related to things culture warriors really hate like the suggestion that black people are normal and racism is a thing, it seems pretty absurd to suggest that the pushback is unlinked to the parents' views on race.

Perhaps a small minority of parents picketing the first black kids to arrive at their kids' school, did so out of sincere belief that race had no more place in determining catchment areas than admissions (and the whole all white status quo from carefully drawn districts was just something they incidentally sought to protect), but anybody arguing that the real intolerance wasn't the people pushing back against black kids arriving at their kids' school but the people who suggested the pushback was mainly driven by racism would obviously be arguing in bad faith...
My bank does that. Want to print your monthly transactions? There you go. Oh no, it's just the first 10 rows with infinite scroll. Scroll, again and again and again, just so you can print to pdf.

The worst i ve seen is in Bluehost's domain management pages. An unsorted list of domains with infinite scroll where you have to scroll, scroll and scroll hoping that your domain will be in the next block that pops up (because, of course they keep all your long abandoned domains in the list). And they do it again in their DNS Zone file editor. It will only show you the first 10 or so lines of each section, so naturally you think lines are missing and try to re-enter them. The comparison with the plain old CPanel interface is mind boggling. I have complained, they don't listen

Progress!

I wonder how i can start a campaign to legally ban infinite scrolling
As a person affected, have you taken Guanabenz/Wytensin?
> Published online 2007 Jan 11.
It's probably more fair to claim that R/Python/Julia have the same ecosystem now if you are willing to deal with speed bumps and some clunky interfaces. Because there are packages going in both direction for all three.
Miners have some power in PoW chains. If a chain wants to move to PoS, miners have zero power. Ethereum's "The Merge" plan is a great example. EIP-1559 was meant to reduce miners' profits, and miners was not happy about the prospect. They've attempted to organize to demonstrate that they also have something to say in the discussion. Buterin has come out with a blogpost detailing how the chain can move to PoS way sooner than initially planned. Plan involves ways of making sure that miners can't do nothing to prevent the transition.
Here's what's the fuss about: (quote from Typora, emphasis mine):

I cannot activate Typora
Error message “Please input a valid license code”

Please check if your license code is valid or not, license code are using formats like XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX with uppercase letters and numbers.

If you forgot your license code, please refer “How to retrieve my license code if I forgot it ?”.
Error message “Email address confirmation does not match”

Because once you used a license code, same email address MUST be used for the same license code in future activations. So you will need to input email address twice for confirmation. If those two input is not the same, this error will shown. So please check and correct your email address when met this error.

Error message “This license code has been used with a different email address.”

Because once you used a license code, same email address MUST be used for the same license code in future activations. This errors shows if the email address you use did not math the email address that that has been used when activating Typora with the license code at the first time.
Error message “Failed to access the license server. Please check your network or try gain later.”

Activation Typora requires network connection
I think its because the user is newly created (i.e., green username).
They take you out the back and shoot you.

https://youtu.be/RTnG3pCiP7s
Sure fine, to be clear I meant bank account number - using an email address (or phone number) isn't clearly better to me (I think it's worse?) in any way, that's all.
I'm not sure this is correct. The Ask HN posts that get voted up are usually high quality.
It is not free with all participating institutions in the Interac system. At the credit union I use they charge a transaction fee for e-transfers.
I am skeptical-but-open on the behavior-alteration hypothesis, but I do think it’s worth dropping in this paragraph from the Discussion. Getting around it will take some really clever experimental design.

> Alternate explanations for the effects of T. gondii on humans cannot be ruled out. It is possible, eg, that individuals with certain personality characteristics behave in a manner that makes it more likely that they will become infected.
Or there's that ASHA link the parent dropped. The road not taken in this dichotomy.
Start with the Godbolt Compiler Explorer (godbolt.org).

Start by looking at the assembly generated for something you understand and learn to read assembly from that. For example, this is an absolute function:

https://godbolt.org/z/356P1j56W

Try taking out that -O3 and see what happens. Just edit it out and hit return. Oh, you may have to Google sxtb but I think you might be able to guess what it means. You'll probably end up looking up instructions in the ISA manual. I do that all the time, even for instructions I 'know'. This is the A64 manpage for sxtb.

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0801/g/A64-Genera...

I read a thousand times more assembly than I write, and I write assembly. BTW, Godbolt should be taught in 61C type courses. I just checked and it isn't.
I grew up in the US in the 1970s and 1980s. We usually used the term "USSR", but I think most of us recognized "CCCP" as the Russian equivalent.
I fully expect that a press release would be fully understandable by non-scientsts.

I'm not asking for a scientific paper, just to reduce the huge ambiguities. They could have answered all three of my questions more clearly with no scientific jargon whatsoever. E.g. (assuming these examples are true for the sake of discussion):

Instead of "acts like an ultra-hard, shatterproof glass when compressed", "with a bit more pressure than a soup can sitting on it becomes like an ultra hard shatterproof glass and retains it's shape"

Instead of "withstand the equivalent of an elephant standing on it", how about "can support the weight of a full elephant across a 3" square" or "can support the weight of an elephant stepping on it". Both are very different, use no jargon, and at least if we can assume that the author was intentionally accurate will let us know the properties within a half an order of magnitude, instead of being so uncertain that we really have no clue as to it's actual utility.
It's an extremely cursed idea... but it kind of makes sense. I can't stand R but things like dplyr and ggplot are incredible. I wouldn't mind having access to them in a sane shell.
Google Play, YouTube, Google Books, Google Maps, Google Hangouts, Google Messenger, Google Drive, Google Mail, etc are all extremely intrusive apps.

At least with Apple, you have the flexibility to do whatever you want with it and not have to worry about feeding the Google Advertising machine.
Why Did the Industrial Revolution Start in Britain?
submissions can't be downvoted.
Thanks for the quality content.

You are absolutely right, there is very little documentation on UDP (probably because it was a pariah protocol reserved for "weird" things like DNS and SIP).

Now that UDP is becoming the mainstream, any documentation is highly appreciated.

Any chance of an article explaining difference in UDP handling between Linux and Windows? I've seen some weird client UDP issues on Windows side some time ago, and (unsurprisingly) found zero documentation explaining these issues.
Graphite: Code review platform based on stacked changes
New MacBooks seem to be good again, especially the model with MagSafe. However, non-replaceable SSDs is a big deal for me. I know that a MacBook can have a long life span, but I'm not sure how long its SSD will work with any issues.
And what the ZDF wrote is from August and thus completely out of date. GP is completely correct.

Not to mention that at this time the RKI was still counting reported hospitalizations into the "unvaccinated" category if there was no vaccination status known.

Currently that figure is at around 60% of all reported hospitalizations and can be checked by everyone, since the raw data is public.
Learning Prolog for "mind expansion" feels weird in 2021.

As a language (at least SWI-Prolog), it's missing some niceties that I took for granted: e.g., a function's output is always to a C-style output variable, all "context" variables must be passed around in recursive calls, etc.

There are several well-regarded books on Prolog that also feel quite antiquated in their concerns: authors taking pains to build elaborate conventions around function naming and argument ordering, etc.

Aside from its unusual features, Prolog really feels like a language from the early 90s, with a small, static standard library you might memorize, and authors offering "helpful tips" around functions with slightly different names in "commercial systems."
Better would've been to suggest a memory leak

But the level being near 256 suggests an integer overflow
Ah well, still going to keep my cats
€965 if you solder it yourself, not including the Teensy MCU or cable.
Opendoor doesn't compete with real estate investors, they compete with realtors and mortgage brokers.

Opendoor's primary benefit is to enable people to move when they otherwise could not easily do so, creating more liquidity and matching supply and demand (often number of bedrooms in house to number of bedrooms now needed).

The challenge with moving is that most people need to sell their current house before they can afford (or even know what they can afford) to buy their next home. Opendoor lets a family buy that next home with its cash, then list their current home on the market or sell it to the company so they avoid the double mortgage or double move (home->rental->home)
Me: Clicks on video, see's it's 25 minutes long. Thinks, "I'll watch a few minutes and see if it gets interesting".

Me, 25 minutes later: Dang, that was cool and a fun nostalgia trip!
Delayed Auto Shift. In NES tetris the rate is 10 moves per second, so to beat it in speed you have to press on the dpad at more than 10Hz.
> Saying they simultaneously buy/sell is wrong/confusing

That wasn’t claimed. What was said is the archetype is simultaneity. That is 100% accurate for how the term “market maker” has been used, globally, since at least 1999. (Pre-GLB/LTCM and post-ECN, the term was used more broadly.)

Drift from simultaneity incurs cost and risk. Those costs and risks must be managed. If you aren’t thinking in those terms, you aren’t market making.

Zillow’s downfall mirrors that of the money-centre banks in securities dealing post-GLB leading up to the crisis. What does and does not constitute market making, which is risky but less so than leveraged day trading, was a huge area of policy concern. When non MMs think of themselves as market makers, there is a predictable set of risks they get downed by. Zillow, like so many others, fell prey to that misconception. (There is loose analogy in the ABS markets, where banks holding inventory of esoteric products, either badly hedged or hedged with a busted counterparty, got hosed.)
Ask HN: How much was Python used from 1991 to 2006? What for?
Question inspired by the recent discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29354474) that mentioned how Python wasn't a big deal before it had a data science / ML ecosystem. Right now in addition to data science there's also web backend stuff with Django, Flask, FatAPI. What else are people doing with it now? What about 20 years ago?

People who were using Python back then, what was your experience?
Because they were having a lot of trouble growing that business. See their earnings reports before they entered iBuying
Of course I tried it, and I was not satisfied with its screen-to-thickness ratio, especially compared to my Note 10+
https://archive.md/aQALQ
if I understood correctly, activation is a one-time process. So you buy the license and then activate the product and then you have it, period.

Since you purchased the licence from this very server, there's no point in worrying it'll be down, except you purchased it like 3yrs ago and would like to activate it now.
That's generally true.

Canada has a high HDI, high GDP per capita and a low degree of inequality (much lower than the US).

In terms of HDI, Alberta is on par with Iceland and Germany, BC and Ontario on par with Finland and Singapore. [1] Canada scores overall 0.929, above the US (0.924).

In terms of GDP per capita (PPP), Canada ranks #23 in the world, around Finland, France, the UK, Austria and Iceland (albeit below the US) [2]

In terms of inequality, Canada has the 4th lowest GINI coefficient among the OECD (after Australia, Austria and Belgium) - well ahead of the US which is the highest inequality in the OECD. [3]

Banks are well managed and well run. Canada for instance didn't have a "2008." The government actually works pretty well. Housing is nuts right now, but that is a pretty easy if unpalatable fix (just build more houses, asap).

Could things be better? Yeah. Totally. Are they bad? No. Certainly not as bad as the peer comments here are making it out to be. COVID has gotten to everyone but I think it's important we keep our perspectives grounded in fact.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_and...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
The current official W.H.O. rationale, reported by the NYTimes [0]:

"Some other variants with Greek letters do not reach those classification levels, and the W.H.O. also skipped two letters just before Omicron — “Nu” and “Xi” — leading to speculation about whether “Xi” was avoided in deference to the Chinese president, Xi Jinping.

"“‘Nu’ is too easily confounded with ‘new,’” Tarik Jasarevic, a W.H.O. spokesman, said on Saturday. “And ‘Xi’ was not used because it is a common last name.”

"He added that the agency’s best practices for naming diseases suggest avoiding “causing offense to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups.”"

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/27/world/africa/omicron-covi...
Let’s Talk about Ghastly Dishwashers [2019]
One of my favorite resources on 1:1s, I was just sharing this in a management class I had to take.

I highly recommend his book “Managing Humans” to anyone who’s looking to be in Engineering Management.
Much more concerned with corrupt governments, and politicians profiting from covid than omicron
You don't need buildkit for that; you can use multi-stage builds without buildkit to exclude your deb file from the final image.
Agreed. References to occurrences of M^r are welcome.
Yes, that is a very common case.
The highest reported problem with aurora is the unexpected spikes in CPU utilization. While Same load on regular (the real) PostgreSQL is not causing any spike.
She called herself a typographer and a layout artist -- she had a qualification in typography and set the title font used for an obscure newspaper, the Antiques Trade Gazette, where she worked for many years. Although she's dead, I'd use the term that she did for describing her own job!
what is their source? Because i think it's a matter of page length rather than page number. If you place 1000 items in 30 items per row, people likely to have no problem finding it. We are creatures of 2d, not 1d.
Write a comment?
Congratulations.

Did you learned C for the new role or had experience working in embedded ?

Did you had to grind leet code for interviews ?
Also, if you don’t print a lot, buy paper in 500 sheet packs, even if buying a 2500 sheet box is cheaper.
> Never mind the latency, that pipe isn't big enough for all of that traffic, so it'll effectively be a netsplit.

We've seen this one before... BGP doesn't (usually) look at link utilization, just link status and maybe that the BGP connection doesn't time out, but even a massively overloaded connection tends to have room for BGP pings, so it's less netsplit and more blackhole.

I don't think BGP hijacks is really the way to acheive this one.
Contracting dials engineering work all the way up on some things but all the way down on others. You’re basically a hired gun. If you consider building software a creative pursuit you want to be connected to personally, and working on teams to be at least partially about teamwork and camaraderie, you lose most of these kinds of dynamics being a full time contractor. It was a surprising moment for me when I did this for the first time when on launch day my boss gave me zero credit for the work and showered public praise on my employee peers. Of course, I was paid well, but part of the cost of being paid so well is being seen, by nearly everyone, more as an expensive machine that writes code than a team mate.
You have to buy through them if you want to buy Quebec maple syrup, but you can also buy any non-Quebec syrup you want. Even in Quebec.

This is very unlike the other food cartels Canadians have a gun to their head to deal with.
Video: Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History
It's Time to Get Rid of the IT Department
How to evaluate a 3rd party RESTful API?
UK bringing in new Covid restrictions
I would start with a simple one. Don't pick older ISAs because they go wild with addressing modes.

ARM32 or MIPS are good first picks imo.
Lira is priced in iPhone.
It will take 100 days to tailor a vaccine to a new variant
That's why I put it in quotes. Ankara is the political capital while Istanbul is the financial, industrial, and anything really capital.
If Turkey is anything like eastern Europe, I’d be pretty confident that the people buying Apple stuff don’t have their salaries or bank accounts denominated in Lira.

For example in Ukraine anything that matters is priced in USD
https://archive.md/PLmOk
> Power imbalance is a function of capitalism

True - I think we're better-served in some areas by consciously avoiding pure market competition in service to ideals like fair compensation or environmentalism.

> Efficiency in long distance transportation is inherently a function of scale. Very quickly you find it’s often more environmentally friendly to do longer distances with full loads than short distances with nearly empty or much smaller trucks/trains/boats/ etc. A farmer > collection point > train to regional distribution points > truck to local distributor works. A farmer isn’t going to say fill up a train on his own, and a train stop per farm isn’t going to work.

True. What I'm talking about is shortening logistic chains though, not increasing distribution of logistics. Maybe a farmer's market is a bad example because typically the farmers drive their own crops to market - I was thinking an alternative to supermarkets where rather than the accumulate-transport-distribute pipeline that you described, sale happens directly after accumulation of goods into a locally-central store or market. That accumulation can happen the same way it does now, but you remove or reduce the international shipping and distribution from ISO containers that's inherent to a global market with subsidised transport.
> What you see as innovation is just slow diffusion into mainstream

It can be both. Type inference isn't a brand-new idea, but it still takes work to diffuse it into mainstream, practical languages, especially retrofitting it onto existing languages that weren't designed for it. That still counts as innovation in my book.
This article links directly to the one you linked to and explained why it is no longer relevant.

I cannot fathom why the sibling has been killed to death, they are objectively correct.
The Black Friday is definitely a thing in Turkey. It might surprise you that Black Friday is big even in Iran (Turkey’s neighbor).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperament_and_Character_Inve...

It's based on yet another psychological framework, with the same underlying flaws in methodology that plague the MB model, which the "big 5" model tries to correct for with better statistics.

Any framework can have value, and it's unnecessary (and incurious) to dismiss this study as a horoscope. The findings are consistent with most other literature on toxoplasmosis.
ok. that looks interesting. will try, do you think there are any downsides in trying to use this as a general purpose programming environment?

edit: whoa - you mean I can't use normal emacs cursor movement? no thanks, emacs for me is all about no menus and no modality.
Atrazine and glyphosate were also believed to be safe to use. We now know that Atrazine causes Parkinson's and glyphosate causes cancer. Fruits and vegetables now have half the nutrition they did 20 years ago. This is due to herbicides decimating the soil fertility. The pessimists were right.
I don’t think down voters are interpreting this post correctly. I read it as “serverless or function as a service” abstract away the particulars of the host operating system is a similar way that os360 did on the mainframe.

It’s a valid point but not entirely accurate due to the limitations IBM mainframe cics requirement. They say they support other languages, but in reality it’s cobol.
EMs are engineers even if you don’t respect them because they don’t write code anymore. This is different than old school tech companies where managers were businessmen and engineers were thought of similarly to assembly line workers.

The Dilbert dream of no hierarchy (vice a hierarchy made up of engineers) has never worked beyond small companies.

A truly flat org is communism of corporate cultures—-great on paper, a disaster in practice. The dysfunction at these places isn’t because they haven’t flat org’ed hard enough or because of evil, devious middle management subverting the purity of the system—-it’s because the idea is bad in the first place.
Joe Biden called it "hysterical xenophobia and fear mongering [against] science." Pelosi was on the ground in San Fransisco's Chinatown with similar words. Maxine Waters too, though she had been talking that way since 2015, predicting every possible racist act.

The official record is better, though. This bill calls out travel discrimination based on national origin: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2214...
Would it work the other way round too? I feel like watching John Wick again, tell me how I feel…
One of the big applications for it back then was as a Perl replacement, because people were getting tired of writing/maintaining Perl scripts that end-users couldn't easily parse/read/interpret/modify.
Not every country even has polarized plugs, though. The concept was new to me too at a time. The German Schuko plug for example is unpolarized, as is the euro plug, so there's no polarized plug options here.
Could be that men and women have different responses to disease burden. Makes sense that men increase risky behaviour to make the most out of the last days of his life, women try to fit in even more than before to not get kicked out of the group and thus maximize chance of survival. Toxoplasmosis might make the body think it is dying and thus induce this forever even though it isn't dying.
Predictions on How Software Development Will (Or Wont) Change by 2025
What does all the software for sale on GOG do?