skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>our systems are still inherently racist and we are a long ways away from equity

I find it really bad that the mien of (inherently) racist people has evolved to a point where it can pass undetectable. Yet, the effects are still there as they have learned to operate in a different, more subtle level.

Example, super friendly white boss would never dare to say anything politically incorrect, yet, bonuses, opportunities and valuable information always reaches their white subordinates sooner than it reaches others. The way they get away with it is by just simply waiting for an appropriate opportunity to arise so no one gets suspicious or nobody can point out what they did. Like, you cannot send an email only to white people to talk about a promotion, as that would be too obvious, but one day you may be having coffee with the exact set of people that you like and that's when you drop the news about whatever info that is meant for them, and only for them.

I haven't been a target of that but I have observed it as I've been part of the inner circle several times. I found it quite vulgar, tbh, as I believe strongly in merit above other things. Part of that is what led me to become an entrepreneur so I don't have to deal with people like that in order to make a living.
It's no wonder that the field is populated by crackpots.

They are trying to solve a problem nobody is worried about and nobody has ever been worried about in the history of the human specie.

People who dedicate more than 5 minutes a day to the thought of living to 120 are the usual suspects: Bezos, Ellison, Thiel and so forth.

A reputable industry cannot emerge if you can count the potential clients on one hand.
They just create walled gardens instead.

Pinterest is a great example of how organizations put business interests ahead of building an accessible web.
Oh, I remember this thing, built some shit-hack auth for it like eight years ago. It's an awesome project and super easy to extend.
So short summary: This paper from the 1980's, by a researcher then associated with NASA Ames Research Center basically states that the Sanskrit linguistical and grammatical traditions had mechanisms for describing words and their relations (between the 5th century BC, through the 15th century AD), that didn't make it to Western grammatical traditions until the mid 20th century.

These same relations are those that were used in Artificial Intelligence linguistic models, and given that the Paninian grammar could fairly unambiguously represent Sanskrit, it would be possible to map Sanskrit into a programmatic model for natural language processing in computers.

Note that through decades of misintepretation in the popular press, this has become, "Sanskrit is the ideal language for programming in computers, or even "NASA has endorsed Sanskrit as the ideal language for programming computers".
See the book “Trust me, I’m lying” to see how the US journeyed from ad & attention driven media (yellow journalism) to subscription/brand driven journalism (The New York Times was one of the first with “all the news that’s fit to print”), back to ad/attention driven journalism on steroids (the internet + Google news and Facebook - though less for FB since the algorithm updates).

It’s a great/terrifying book and I’ve personally witnessed the results

Edit: To clarify, I point this out because there was a good 80ish years where journalism was less about grabbing and holding your attention and more about maintaining subscribers. Since it was very hard to maintain subscribers if you just kept throwing click bait and half-accurate news at them, it helped improve their accuracy.
Is English becoming German-ified? Capitalization of nouns and the high (they) vs low (him/her) dialects?
meshcentral is another nice free software for remote desktop and more:

https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral

https://twitter.com/MeshCentral

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJWz607A8EVlkilzcrb-GKg

Disclaimer: we installed meshcentral for enabling student access to regular physical desktops machine during COVID19
>I didn't say appraisals didn't matter.

Not to nitpick, but you did imply that appraisals didn't matter when you dismissed appraisals and then said "the only thing that matters..." while naming something other than appraisals.
The purchaser of a service shouldn’t be interested in every aspect of the person providing that service. There may be some human rights that need to be respected, but those are codified into law.

Also, I don’t think it follows that because someone does not care about all aspects of a person they are therefore dehumanizing them.

Who of us ever really cares about every single aspect of another person? Even your spouse or close family member will have parts of them that you don’t care to engage with. In fact they may choose to keep those aspects private from you, meaning you cannot care about them.

In an employer employee relationship I expect it is similar. The employer shouldn’t be allowed to delve into the parts of the employees life that are unrelated to the “trade” of service for wage. This type of snooping would be expected and maybe required if the employer was supposed to care about the person themselves.

Fundamentally this is about the right of the individual to alienate their labor. I can sell my labor to others, but nothing else. To sell your whole person is slavery. It seems wage earning is an innovation not an exploitation.
Hmm the author had to use salt water to get it working. Maybe resistance is the limiting factor rather than dispersion. In which case a higher power modem or some sort of amplifier would get this working over >2m distances.
By that logic, the internet was originally invented to help the military communicate, and thus most of us shouldn't use it at all.
Tangential thought here: Today it’s fashionable to say that the reason for Seattle area housing costs is “Amazon,” so why wasn’t it the same thing in the 90s with Microsoft? My guess is that it’s a difference of scale: that back then there was still room to build on the eastside, and now it’s not just Microsoft yielding high incomes and wealth, but also Amazon, Google, Facebook, and others. Still, interesting to ponder the real role of these companies in housing costs (since that’s the knee-jerk assumption)
The author seems to have no knowledge of Eth 2 sharding, zero-knowledge proofs, or ZK rollups. Or even basic encryption.
“Who’s servers will have custody of your private family photos and who get’s to determine those access controls?” - I can send them to you using your public key. Or store then encrypted and selectively give out the decoding key. Or selectively choose one server to trust (or self host) with my unencrypted photos and let them handle it for me.
The author is still picturing web2
Sad to see nothing on UX, anything you can recommend?
You’re missing a major point, it’s similar to credit cards if a cash discount is banned. People would be forced to subsidize the credit card users and their cash back points as credit cards cannot be charged more.

Continuing the doordash if it were like Amazon, the 1.98 extra for ordering on door dash is forced to be also charged to people who go pick it up themselves. That doesn’t make sense but that’s what Amazon is doing. Amazon is not forbidding them from padding the price, its forcing them to pad the price elsewhere in order to make that elsewhere uncompetitive. it’s forbidding them to pass on cost saving from using marketplaces that don’t charge the exorbitant tolls that Amazon does.

For your view of it to be correct, the cost of an item would have to be separated into two categories, marketplace fees and base item cost. Market place fees would include every cost of selling on Amazon, any percent they take. Then if Amazon said that the base item cost must not be lower anywhere else, but the marketplace fee portion can vary, then yes your view would be correct. However, Amazon is actually saying yeah our marketplace fee portion may be exorbitantly higher, but you have to charge people our high prices even on other cheaper marketplaces
It refers to a specific group of people with some shared culture in the same way Polish, American, Asian, and Californian would.

As for the second paragraph, I noticed there was a difference between the way teachers treated me and other students that looked like me before I even knew there was a word for it. It’s hard to remove it from the equation when it keeps being forced back in.
> As a bonus, for added humor, here he is going crazy on stage about 'DEVELOPERS',

I guess some people found it funny, but everyone I work around as a software developer (not for native Windows/MS, mind) all found it incredibly embarrassing.
"First a punch is just a punch,
Then a punch is not only a punch,
And finally a punch is just a punch" (heard from Bruce Lee)

Basically it means that in the beginning we punch like we can.. then a martial arts student learns the proper and different ways to punch.. so a punch is no longer just a punch... Is a lot of instructions..
Then to sheer practice and repetition the right way to punch becomes second nature.. so the right way to punch is the only way so it's only a punch again.

So coding it's just ifs and loops... Then is OOP and Functional and Logic... But then once you transcend all those paradigms you understand that is all ifs and loops.
Just because people are perceiving the "present day right wing [characterizing] Sanskrit", doesn't mean that everyone interprets & connects that with Sanskrit.

I engage with the language through Yoga, mantras and chanting,… and zero politicians interrupt that process, nor do I think about them.

Sanskrit has lived even before humans invented the idea of "the right wing".
Wow! Incredible.
As a Pixel user who has sent their device in for repair, how does the repair tech get past the device authentication and into the device? (I'm assuming the user had a device password/passcode set). If possible, this seems like a glaring security issue for Pixel users.
Not trying to downplay those results and achievements.

But do each store front get their own instance of both Database and the App? If that is the case isn't that equivalent to running millions of Wordpress instances?

I think I asked this before but I forgot what the answer was.
"Death by natural causes" induced by age include alzheimers, cancer, heart disease, strokes, etc. natural causes are just diseases that medicine isn't great at truly treating, often those diseases are exacerbated by age. I don't want to imply you are pro-cancer (for older individuals), but what "natural cause" deaths are unworthy of attention in your opinion?
> Properly designed cryptosystems produce ciphertext that is indistinguishable from a random number.

It's also impossible to tell from a 100 dollar bill if it has been taxed or not, yet taxes are enforceable.

Almost no law enforcement relies on physically preventing something from existing, especially in any kind of automated manner.

So yes, they can't stop people from possessing private keys that correspond to wallets, or whatever, but they can stop banks from working with crypto related business, force google to block results, force ISPs to take down crypto sites, block any kind of crypto app from both app stores, etc etc. Even block foreign sites. Not to mention, jail people who touch crypto.

Not saying they will or that they should, but "crypto is math" is not a relevant argument.
Oh, no, I've missed my HN moment! :) Anyway, hope it's not too late to say hi and answer some questions.

Hi, I'm Feodor - the author of Pglet. The project is still in "alpha" and there is still a lot of experimenting around default modes and API will probably have some breaking changes going forward.

Thank you for the constructive feedback you guys gave here!

Re: licensing - Only Pglet Server is under AGPL at the moment, multi-language client libraries which are embedded in your app are MIT. Selection of AGPL is not final and was mostly influenced by recent fear/trend of big co incorporating your service into their cloud offerings.

Re: remote mode by default - your app code is not being uploaded to console.pglet.io, but it's UI is "streamed" there only. However, I agree this looks scary for the initial experience - will roll it back to "local" mode by default with explicit "publish" option.

Better docs, more examples and other languages support (Go, Rust, Deno) are coming later this year. Stay tuned!
Were you thinking of autosuggestions? (completions are command-specific assistance you get when you hit Tab)
It's one of the things that's going to change. The current lack of transparency is extremely damaging to faith in government.

Each part of a the law should require an actual author(s) the same way a patent requires an actual inventor, irrespective of who it was ultimately assigned to.

Also, aggregate omnibus laws like this one have to be expressly forbidden, for just the reasons you cited.

That's the absolute minimum level of reform necessary.
Given that, I don’t know if it’s the first but I strongly suspect this is not the last time she’ll suffer such an “injustice”.
People are buying it... so much so that Framework has been struggling to keep up with the demand. All of their early batches sold out well in advance. I placed my order two months ago and it was backordered for a month. Batch 6 (the current batch) is the first batch they've had all year where they haven't been massively backordered.
As a non US citizen we are more prone to judge people on their financial status, culture and religion.
I find it odd how the black community, despite living in the US for 200 years and by every measure "American", can still be so marginalized.
According to the Google support site, all Pixels are encrypted by default. So, this shouldn't even be possible...unless perhaps there was no lock code on the device?
I'll surely read ARMv4T specs when I will have a bit more free time, thanks :). But, ARM requires switching machine mode to select instruction set (you cannot mix Thumb with regular 32 bit), which kind of hints a selection of decoder takes place. In RISC-V, albeit it's up to micro-arch designer to choose, only one decoder is needed and you can have a mixture of 16 bit and 32 bit instructions in the program flow. What's more, with macro-op fusion feature, two consequent "C" instructions can be viewed as one "unnamed" instruction that does a lot more work. Bit more details from RISC-V authors on the subject along with benchmarks:
https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Tue1130celio-fu...
All that does is move the exploitation into the treatment of dissenters against those “shared” goals.
Ahem, and math in between. Quite a lot of it.

Calculating the square root of a number is ifs and loops but wouldn’t be much fun without the math.
There is no hard and fast rule. The phrase could just as soon read "the couple, that is..." or "the couple, who are..." both of which sound better to my ear personally than "the couple, who is." Also note it has been common and correct English for centuries to mix singular and plural in sentences like this: "Everybody takes off their hats."
> You haven't been confused for the last 11 years

You underestimate me! Or over.
I started off writing a lot of 68000 machine code. I was always amazed what you could accomplish with a lot of loops and branches. I never lost that sense that at whatever higher level I was at later on, it was all loops and branches.
I hate how complex it to write a decent zsh completion. It is not something you can realistic do in a weekend.

You can implement a simple one without much effort. But doing anything a bit more interesting need to dig into zle, and there is only a few resources available online.
Bull's eye.
True. Battery use for long-running web apps on phones is hard to solve. I have yet to gain experience in this.
All big movies have random Chinese culture or star included. Han culture may become part of hollywood's core which will spread the culture
How you could stop the greed of someone wanting to sell those treatments to the mass market? I imagine Mark Cubin (or any other "shark" billionaire) would fucking love to be the first trillionaire or quadrillionaire by being the person who made accessible the treatments for aging. Cancer alone: the ego-boost and vast wealth for the person whose company/research helped "cure cancer" (hell, even just 1 type of cancer). these "sharks" would "chomp" at the opportunity I imagine.
"best guess": API decisions are opinionated, reflecting the designers' views of how users should write code.

For example, FileReader API is async in the main thread. There's an equivalent FileReaderSync for sync operations but that is only available in Web Workers. Why isn't FileReaderSync available on the main thread? Because the designers didn't want people to do things that would block the main thread.

The Web Worker argument probably went along the lines of "If we allow users to pass arbitrary function objects, they may try to do something that accesses local variables from the site where the worker is created. That is obviously an error, so we should design the API so that it can't happen. Creating a separate script creates a clear mental separation and avoids that class of error"
"construction is basically just concrete and steel" :)
They don't have a password.
I meant low level in terms of the semantic meaning that HTML can convey.

The examples you gave of places where browsers are high-level in terms of what pixels get put where? I see those as features, not bugs. I'm actually happy that web browsers historically haven't given pages a lot of control over low-level rendering, and I am distressed by the ongoing push by large corporations to increase how much of that control they have access to.

I agree with your point about not being able to compose higher-order elements, though.
Ask HN: eBay alternatives for computers, embedded components, and tools
Amazon, NewEgg, Best Buy and Microcenter offer many options for PC-building components. But what stores currently provide FPGAs and soldering stations for the hobbyist for cheap outside of academic supply companies?
Exactly. That all sounds infinitely easier than buried air pipes. Mind boggling physics are what gives us CPUs, but the final product is reliable bar none.
Being a realtor is definitely a way to leapfrog ahead in income far quicker than attempting to climb the corporate ladder.

Of course, the ones that do have to be willing to put out the effort to learn salesmanship. Most people are too lazy to, and drop out. Yes, it is survivorship bias, but survival is up to the person, it isn't automatic or random.
Before agile: it's not done yet

After agile: it's not done yet
Over time I've learned to tune out the reasons that employers use to justify changes to total comp. I just don't see why their reasoning would matter to me.

I find it more useful to make my own assessments about what I could make elsewhere, and whether or not (all things considered) I want to continue with my current employer.
For those looking for more on "parse don't validate" mentioned in the talk here are links to the original, and two previous discussions.

0. https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21476261 (original 2019)

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27639890 (revisited 2021)
In hind sight wouldn’t 5g have been a better investment than fiber to home, I mean companies will have to have 5g to stay competitive in mobile anyway
Meh. Fiber has been cheaper than copper per mile for a long time and 10km optics are like $20.
It's infuriating how information about his track record is less saught for and discussed publicly.

With what you've just added about Parag, I now see him as someone mistakenly judged, someone who's not given a chance or the benefit of doubt. Can't wait to marvel at the good decisions this stellar and technically-fit person will take as Twitter CEO.

Jack Dorsey may have selected the most logical executive in the board room with a decade's worth of familiarity with the company and its products.
OK, let;s put it differently. In terms of paid holidays per year, the USA is on a par with Argentina and two African countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...

This is of course great for people like Bezos and Musk, but terrible for the society at large.
Workers are awesome but you are right, working with them can be painful without the right tooling.

Personally I've written my own libraries for abstracting all this away and I'm having a blast working with workers now, maybe check them out:

- WorkTank [1]: This abstracts away the difference between browser workers and Node worker threads, it makes it easy to make worker pools, and it can transfer simple functions to a worker at runtime too.

- WorkTank loader: This abstracts away loading asynchronous function from a worker basically, you just add ".worker" to your file name and that file and all its dependencies are transparently moved to a worker (or worker pool), all the rest of the app (TS types for example) won't even notice anything happened, it just works, transparently.

You might want to check out the more popular "comlink" library too, although it didn't work for me for whatever reason when I tried it, and it doesn't support worker pools I believe.

[1]: https://github.com/fabiospampinato/worktank

[2]: https://github.com/fabiospampinato/worktank-loader
Biden and Harris arguing against covid vaccines and mandates
I think we've been talking past eachother (I should have been more direct perhaps). This programming model is not what I had in mind - I completely accept your point about the Cray model but I meant something slightly dumber than loop parallelization.

In very tight situations it's common to write SIMD intrinsics directly rather than rely on the compilers ability to make the transformations itself. Intel's SIMD maybe be ugly but it is also very topologically easy to navigate, if that makes sense.

I'm going to write some arm SVE code and compare, at some point.
Asians have a shared culture? Excuse me? Americans use "Black" the same way most of the world uses "Asian". As a sloppy catch all. If you want a sloppy catch all, then you should use "White" as well.
Being pedantic is simple, you just say things that don't contain detectable errors.

(I'm agreeing with you about "simple, not easy")
You're right. When Trump and Pence left office, my entertainment news took a massive hit.
The will of the majority of users was not at all clear to me.
I'm definitely going to check it out — someone else also mentioned it.
I think this might be part of why it sticks out in my mind so much. The name with no information just feels like an ad and nothing about it makes me curious it's just "there's that headline again..."

I think it's clear to me at this point that it's not just Jerry, other people seem to notice other ones more. Maybe it just depends on what times you're more likely to visit the site or which headlines you pattern match on more.
The link seems to disprove your point, the police raided his house.
I mean web apps, but not the broader web. Things that would have an analog as native mobile or desktop apps. This doesn’t really apply to content sites.

Not everything makes sense offline. If you need to perform real-time lookups, or if the backing database is too large, or the data is rapidly changing, or the user just infrequently visits the site - those are all good reasons to require connectivity.

But if the data is small enough, can be cached, and can be sent asynchronously, and is something the user is using consistently it’s a good candidate. Apps that work well would be things like email, productivity apps (word processing/spreadsheets/photo editing), and maybe small data feeds like weather and news headlines. Even chat is fine, since connectivity gaps are often only a couple minutes long.

My litmus test is “is this something somebody would expect to work while they’re on a train as part of their daily commute.”