skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for clarifying - and now I am depressed about the clear degradation of my reading comprehension skills.
Brexit one year on: so how’s it going?
The people trying to be trendy are not the people seeking medical diagnoses in my anecdotal experience, but the fetishization of mental disorders on the internet as social media profile badges among young people is not helping anything.
Did the original author agree to give their project over to Microsoft?
CPM Magnacut ftw.

(as an aside the storry of how Magnacut came to be is pretty cool - https://knifesteelnerds.com/2021/03/25/cpm-magnacut/)
I wouldn't say adding dataclasses was "reactionary". One of the reasons for adding it was to use it in the stdlib itself, which is obviously something we couldn't do with attrs. And because dataclasses skipped ahead to just using type hints to define fields, it has less backward-comparability baggage than attrs has.

As I think I made clear in PEP 557, and every time I discuss this with anyone, dataclasses owes a lot to attrs. I think attrs made some great design decisions, in particular to metaclasses or base classes.
I should have put the link in my original comment, thank you for asking. It's at [1].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54260732
I have no idea how you come to that conclusion. If you kill 4% of the population, you will have lots of people losing a relative. What's that moving of the goal post about?
Opening this website crashes Chrome on my Android device
I have trouble understanding what status seeking ends would be served by getting a diagnosis.
My brother has shown me some information from WWF about letting domestic cats roam outside freely. Apparently we should not let them do that cause they are becoming a threat to the bird populations (we have a cat and we let him go out whenever he wants).

I though what a crazy joke and we laughed it off cause cats are, after all, animals and they act accordingly, sometimes killing birds.

Then I thought - what if the population of cats became so large that it indeed became a big problem? What if it causes ripples in the ecosystem that affect other species? And finally: how can I know anything about it to discard it on the spot? Similar to how some people are against vaccines or even masks because "they don't work and can only cause harm" ("I'm no doctor, but I ain't stupid!" (tm)).

It was a small but humbling thought when I realized I fell for the same thinking trap that I accuse others for. Even if this particular information on cats were to turn out totally false and a part of evil leftist agenda I should really keep an open mind and dig deeper, especially when the news sound insane (to my worldview) but come from a large institution or a well established source.
Having worked more than 15 years in the industry and having completed several OB courses during my MBA, I cannot point to a better resource than this book that helps understand what actually drives organizations and how they function.
I dont know if you are being naive or a troll. In any case, for the benefit of other people reading this thread:

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

https://theintercept.com/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-m...

https://theintercept.com/2019/10/22/terrorism-fbi-political-...

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/11/5/13533838/history-...
You're also assuming that their town doesn't have a lot of African immigrants living on its south side, and that the speaker wasn't (very questionably) saying that their experience with Africans affected the way they interacted with local black people.
Doesn't come in waves, it's alway there. You only hear about it in waves...
An excuse to not have to live up to standard societal "norms". An explanation for why life seems hard.
> I just wish the US folks would realize how right-wing even the Democratic party is.

This is not something that leads to fruitful discussion. I have quite a few friends statesside as a result of living in Canada for years, on all sides of the range available there and they never really got it when I said that for a Dutch person the two political parties look roughly identical except for some windowdressing and trigger subjects that apparently matter a great deal to them.

It's clear that the Democrats are further left on the spectrum than the Republicans (especially now that the Republicans are essentially the party of Donald Trump), but compared to say the Dutch VVD they are both to the right of that rightwing party. To say nothing of actual left wing parties (say the SP or Groenlinks).
That’s fine. Different people from different countries with different laws can have different opinions about surveillance.

But that just further begs the question of why the Canadian public health agency wasn’t open and honest about it.
> Canadian here. I agree completely with the CBC. This is one of the least interesting non-stories I have seen in years.

By letting the National Post pick up the story, they let the National Post set the tone of the story. The National Post decided to focus most of their attention on the privacy implications of the government purchasing the data. They decided to ignore the privacy implications of private entities collecting and reselling the data. While they did mention why the government purchased the data, they virtually ignore how it was being used.

I'm not going to claim that the CBC would have handled the story any better. Quite frankly, CBC's research is often shoddy and agenda driven. Yet it would likely have been enough to fill in some of the gaping holes in the National Post story.

(On second thought, the National Post story is more of an opinion piece. Perhaps a quarter of the article can be described as news.)
Microsoft, a collective group of people trying to do the right thing, has made many choices over their time. Many of those choices have been in direct violation of things like, but not limited to, the spirit of the Internet, anti-competiton, spying on their customers, and many other negative things. Should we have let those things slide because Microsoft employs others that weren't involved? No. You can say this may have been a mistake but that is a slippery slope. Microsoft deserves negative press on "mistakes" because this acts as a balance to keep the power they wield in check. Beyond that you have a significant bias against biting the hand that feeds.
Which parks? There are very few National Parks in the NE—- Maine is the only place that comes to mind.
or, perhaps, even farther:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/2%C2%B016'55.9%22S+29%C2%B...

shows a location near Gisovu, Rwanda, with a photograph taken in 2019 by Keiko Schmidt, of a sign which reads, "This is the furthest source of the Nile. Distance from Egypt: 6,719 km (4,175 miles). 2006: Neil McGregor, Cam McLeay, Garth McIntyre."
I've been to many meetups (pre 2020), had a great time, got to know many people. Nice pub chats afterwards, usually longer than the meetups themselves. Overall I really enjoyed them. I did these in Oxford and London.

But I noticed, none of those interactions ever turned into further interactions outside, let alone friendships or things like christmas dinners.

I've also co-run a community centre (a hackerspace) for years, and been one of the more prominent members that everyone meets at some point, which I'd say is a pretty social thing to do. Those too also didn't turn into friendships outside, but perhaps the element of formality in the relationships didn't help with that.

I think your approach to housewarming is a great idea. Even if knocking on neighbours doors feels like an oddity these days, and nobody else seems to be doing it, as a brand new neighbour that's a great time to do so, inviting people to a party that's low effort for them.
If you are using truly unique passwords everywhere, then your brain is just fine. Good old paper and pen is a seriously secure password manager, and is the modern recommendation.

The only security feature that password managers bring to the table is eliminating password reuse. Some will monitor for breaches, but you can also do that yourself.

There are also conveniences, which is why I use one.
This is their process. Very hard to argue these are all mistakes:

ippsample (Apache -> MIT)
https://github.com/microsoft/ippsample/commit/938bff17c72868...

huggingface-transformers (Apache -> MIT):
https://github.com/microsoft/huggingface-transformers/commit...

health-cards-tests (MIT changed)
https://github.com/microsoft/health-cards-tests/commit/5649b...

CUPS (Apache -> MIT)
https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/ad69bcc78bdea3fea3f...

Credit to this reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/roa9xz/comment/...
Funnily, that is probably the only religious text that is not religious.
Most National Parks, definitely Yellowstone/Yosemite. Some of the more rural ones have self registration and the fee is less. And some National Parks don’t have an entrance fee.
when can I actually sign a challenge with my private key instead of trying to deal with this mess?
> Are you saying China isn't constantly monitoring their population? Are they not the dystopian dictatorship they pretend not to be?

I did not say anything like that. Why are you setting up a strawman when you can easily go and refute/debate any language in my previous comment? Do you have any disagreement with any specific things I have said? Please be specific.
Shouldn't a modern BBS support normal videos, images, and audio too?
Not really my style, though admittedly I’m not a big C++ fan. It does generalize exactly this certain set of cases, but what happens if for example you add a mode that could operate on multiple pixels per loop?
China does do all of those things, it just denies their involvement. How many Uyghur's are in captivity right now?
“ Life is mostly bullshit, so take enjoyment wherever you can” actually true, sometimes my engineer thinking is over critical with things. In the end we are bunch of organisms flying through the galaxy on a giant wet rock.
Yes! Another loner, here on my own today (well, me and the puppy I found)... but woke up at 6am CST to watch JWST launch. So thankful it made it up in one piece! After two decades of waiting it was a great Christmas present and gave me a happy start to the day.
I already never watch news.
Not with that attitude you can’t.
What happens to the online shopping items you return? It's not a pretty picture
> Active crash prevention/mitigation systems can prevent 60mph accidents from happening or improve their outcomes.

Yes, but that doesn't count as surviving the crash

> 60mph is a speed not a force imparted on a vehicle.

The force imparted on you in a 60mph crash by the seatbelt will be lethal no matter how much deceleration space you have. You got at 27 meters per second, and you only have at a maximum 1 meter to decelerate. And if you crash into a heavier, faster vehicle, it's even worse.
I use both. Both make me sad. You know what doesn't? Notepad++. But I haven't used it for "real" programming with debugging cycles etc.
While ffmpeg does support a lot of really old / obscure media formats, support isn’t nearly as good for professional broadcast / film video formats. DNxHD can be hit or miss and it doesn’t support formats like OMF or AAF. I have heard some broadcasters’ QC departments reject ProRes created by ffmpeg as invalid.
Meh, I have been alone for like 18 straight Christmas. Life goes on. BTW dont believe the people saying "I care about you" "Feel free to reach me by email", that's an exercise in showing off. If you think you cant cope, contact a professional who can help you, not a rando on the Internet.
Yep. Really, the meta-problem here is that someone would want to go run a subprocess because the standard library isn't powerful enough.
Ban on Coal Burning in London (1306)
Some changes companies make are not accepted by the maintainers for various reasons. NDAs are a bitch in this area too
I worked at a convenience store when I was in high school and worked several Christmas Day shifts. Although I haven’t done it since, it gave me an immense respect for those who do show up and keep the gears on this machine going. Tip of the hat to all of you, and Merry Christmas!
Many of my HFT friends are busy working today preparing for the markets to open on Monday. Lots of people from a diversity of circumstances are working today, I appreciate all their work!
Thanks, this is what the major part of the report.

> The report, authored by Adrian Zenz, an independent Tibet and Xinjiang researcher, says that 500,000 people, mostly subsistence farmers and herders, were trained in the first seven months of 2020 and authorities have set quotas for the mass transfer of those workers within Tibet and to other parts of China.

One thing I hate about mainstream media reporting is that they never link to the source material.

Just from the above description, I cannot see that these people are forced in anyway. And deriving such numbers from public Chinese government documents is not accurate either, as certain words can be easily misunderstood given the sinophobia sentiment nowadays.
> Oh. And we’re still lacking any kind of sockets support. There’s this thing I’m hearing about called the Internet that’s going to be big any day now and might need this.

Between libcurl, POCO, or even Qt, does it matter at all that the C++ standard offers "any kind of sockets support"?

Just because Java forced everything under the sun into their standard library, that does not mean that move makes any sense at all. Between Boost and Apache and POCO and others like that, it's high time we stop insisting in this nonsense.
You get to put it in your social media bio. That's all a lot of them want. They don't want treatment, they don't want to get better, they just wanna be able to tell people they have it. It's a whole thing on Til Tok right now.
A job being done during holidays is not necessarily vital or truly important.

Working at the hospital is a vital job, keeping an important server running is a vital job and driving a mass transit bus is a vital job as well.

On the other hand keeping McDonald's open is not vital, it is just economically sensible.
It's hard to find English source. You could try machine translation of this wikipedia page [1] - but that says it was mandatory only in 1951 to 1959 and then it was changed to a recommendation.

I know my uncle was supposed to go to one company but then that didn't work our for some reason and he had to look for a job himself, which was supposed to be rare. That would be early 1980s.

[1]: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Um%C3%ADst%C4%9Bnka
> do not come with medically testable symptoms

Not really true where I am. You have to go through all kinds of tests and be tested for other things (to make sure you're not those.) I suspect it's the same everywhere.
Why do you need to waste your time and money when typing “#actuallyautistic” into the box is free?
I had some absolutely miserable times, which your comment reminds me of, when I was in my 20's. I'm 65 now, and my two grown kids have come to stay with my wife and my for Christmas. We played a board game for hours last night, like when they were young, and had lots of laughter together...

My point is that what you're going through will pass. It does take work; so keep up doing the things you know must be done to move your life ahead. You have received lots of good advice in this thread; I don't need to say more (except one thing I will add at the end). Do what you need to do, and this period will be over, and life will be good.

My one piece of advice is that I've found meditation is very helpful. It enables me to let go of negative thinking that arises from painful times decades ago, when those thoughts do arise. It's a very important part of my life now.
i guess i'm technically working but i'm just shooting video and playing with guns so it's more like recreation
Is that even allowed for public funds?
Can it run door games like LORD? Are the ANSI graphics "real"? These are important things to look for in a modern BBS system for me.
I’ve had plenty of on-call shifts at Christmas and New Year’s Eve and it’s always a special time somehow.

High five to all of you at work today!
"but by today's standards a WWII crew was a bunch of under-trained kids manning extremely dangerous equipment. "

In nazi germany in the end, it was literal kids.
Most of these kinds of funds aren't enough to be a salary at all, intended as social validation tokens for people who don't even need money.
"For the ages". Or at least until they release Python 4
Why would that not be allowed? There’s no limitation on nationality, the requirement is for residency.
The problem with this comparison is that most people don’t know enough to understand how much more difficult a project like ITER or the James Webb telescope is than what startups try to do.
Really? As somebody constantly accused of being a Chinese bot for not agreeing that the Chinese government is a manifestation of absolute evil that the world needs to destroy in order to save, these threads all seem to be filled with anti-Chinese hypernationalists.
FWIW, I'm using a Dell charger at home with a new 16" Macbook Pro and that works just fine. I think it's only 65 watts, but it's never been insufficient.

Their website shows they're available in just a couple days.
it took 3x+ longer than the apollo program took to put somebody on the moon
I don’t think I have an adequate understanding of how you perceive yourself to be treated.

But, to attempt, I’d first say that I don’t ‘treat’ groups. I interact with individuals. Also, I don’t know exactly what ‘marginalized’ means, but that sounds like something having to do with the way that others have treated those individuals.

So I’d probably say, on an individual basis, I think I treat most people the same. I tend to have a penchant for reaching out to people who I observe to have been ignored or mistreated by others because I find that they are often very happy to be treated normally, and make great friends. I’m not really a big fan of interacting with anybody that demands to be treated differently, if that’s what you mean.

So, yes, I think I’d say that I probably do.
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As a Chinese who grew up in a very small city in the west, I think you are completely right. The more developed areas is, the more open they are. And so on to the teenagers compare elders. At least in the surface.
However, as the government turns to be more close(I don’t know how to describe it more correct but i believe you know) when Xi gets the power, even the teenagers become more racist and xenophobic while I am an undergraduate seen.
IMO, probably that’s because most of them could only receive the Internet in China(which we always consider it as a LAN): everything in the world has a “Chinese special edition”.
After all, IMO, it’s able to come to China in some big cities with a VPN or something across the firewall since nobody can stay away to internet these days. Thus you will get a experience not too bad, and China is like most any other countries. But just stay in the urban area. What’s more, you know it’s not a good time to visit during pandemic, and i think racist and xenophobic been much more during these time. I don’t know what the china being tomorrow, but i’m pessimistic.
Sorry for my bad english.
I'm sure they are. But don't fool yourself into thinking the provincial leaders are making decisions based on data. Most of what was done by provincial governments during lockdown was based on political calculations, not data.

Amazingly a large % of the electorate seems to blame Trudeau for these actions. The feds don't have jurisdiction on this issue. Lockdowns etc and their poor methods of implementation (curfews, letting big businesses stay open but shuttering small businesses, etc) are the result of provincial governments.
It's a really good December for Free Software this year. Krita, Darktable, now Kicad. All top notch at what they do. Oh, was Blender this month too?!?
>When people discuss colours, they don’t talk about how “far along” the spectrum a colour is. They don’t say “my walls are on the high end of the spectrum” or “I look best in colours that are on the low end of the spectrum.”

Of course they don't, people all know that color is a complex mix depending on what light is projected on the wall, what material constitutes the wall (glass?), and so what it will throw back, as well as the physiological condition of who look at it (color blind), as well as psychosocial framing (are you the hidden child of Sapir&Whorf and some Inuit engendered during a fifty shades of white party who just ate some psychedelic mushroom?).

Or maybe most of them don't, obviously don't read HN, and will look at you strangely if you start to reference any of these things, or at best will ask for some explanations. Just like when you talk about autism spectrum.

Merry Christmas to everybody.
The problem with C++ is not the features that help you write better, safer code as explained here. The problem is that C++ has so much bad and people do use it. C++ is good as long as it's a solo project, it's okay for small projects, it inevitably fails on large projects.
2012 is a very long time ago by Chinese standards. Xi only became the general secretary in November of that year and the president in 2013. Most of his authoritarian and nationalist policies have only really kicked into a higher gear from 2018. The xenophobia got even worse after the coronavirus hit, and I can't imagine it has improved much since I left in 2020.

Also, I don't know what makes you think that Chengdu is off the beaten path - it's a massive tourist destination, in particular because of its panda reserve, presumed proximity to Tibet and the global renown of Sichuan cuisine (home of mapo tofu, hotpot etc).

Thirdly, this coddling of foreigners is exactly the kind of racist behavior that I find to be degrading. It might feel superficially nice to be treated like you are special or unique, but really it means you are not being treated with respect. They are treating you like a child, or a curiosity. If you visit some of the indigenous communities of China then you will often see the Han majority treat the ethnic minorities in the same way, as if they are just props for photos or some kind of weird creatures to be gawked at. It's gross, imo.
China has changed an awful lot even since 2012.
Nicotine is a very effective ADHD med, and it's available over the counter. (No, I don't mean in tobacco.)

I have inattentive ADHD and Aspergers, and wearing part of a nicotine patch for half the day really helps with focus issues. (Any longer and I don't sleep well, though.) I also take l-tyrosine and Avmacol, and drink tea.

Since I started this regimen, my work performance went up significantly and I got a promotion to a position I'd been wanting for nearly a decade. My wife is also a bit less upset with me and I feel subjectively more able to think ahead and plan.
No, autograd acts similarly to PyTorch in that it builds a tape that it reverses while PyTorch just comes with more optimized kernels (and kernels that act on GPUs). The AD that I was referencing was tangent (https://github.com/google/tangent). It was an interesting project but it's hard to see who the audience is. Generating Python source code makes things harder to analyze, and you cannot JIT compile the generated code unless you could JIT compile Python. So you might as well first trace to a JIT-compliable sublanguage and do the actions there, which is precisely what Jax does. In theory tangent is a bit more general, and maybe you could mix it with Numba, but then it's hard to justify. If it's more general then it's not for the standard ML community for the same reason as the Julia tools, but then it better do better than the Julia tools in the specific niche that they are targeting. That generality means that it cannot use XLA, and thus from day 1 it wouldn't get the extra compiler optimizations that some which uses XLA does (Jax). Jax just makes much more sense for the people who were building it, it chose its niche very well.