skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that isn't how it works right? You send your pull requests to the relevant maintainer, CC people that you think should be aware _and_ send it to the mailing list (probably also "only" via CC).

This here for example is sent to Linus directly and that part does _not_ depend on the mailing list. The mailing list is just a convenience feature for people that _want_ to be aware but may be looked over/forgotten by the submitter (which still happens, and people regularly say stuff like "also CC'ing additional relevant people").

Yes you could, at least in principle, also do that via GitHub/GitLab/whatever. But a) you wouldn't gain anything (the kernel already has all the tooling it needs and it's large enough to just create missing tools, heck git was literally written for it), b) you would introduce a massive single point of failure that either i) is _not_ under control of the kernel.org team or ii) needs a massive amount of resources to host (see the fun people poke at displaying 2k commits in GitLab).
Neither seems like a good use of the kernel development resources. And if you want to contribute to the kernel... using a mailing list is an absolutely trivial problem.
I'm surprised by the number of people who don't get jobs due to reverse racism and then find out for a fact this was the case. Generally with 'classic' racism you're left guessing.

It seems implausible to me. Perhaps "its political correctness mate" is the go to excuse when your acquaintence fails an interview.

HN seems to generally agree hiring is broken, so it shouldnt surprise people that good candidates dont get picked, but maybe we need a specific reason to feel better about it.
Searching for any PC technical issue solutions is impossible, all you get is grifters selling you PC cleaner junk or some poor overworked Microsoft support tech telling you to run "sfc /scannow" to fix a hardware issue.
Zotero has supported adding items via arXiv ID since 2018, and saving from arXiv.org since forever. There's not currently a dedicated field for arXiv IDs, but they're added to the Extra field and included in exports (and accessible however you want via Better BibTeX export).

(Disclosure: Zotero dev)
I print the webpage to a PDF and store it that way, then fix up the metadata as I see fit. And that is a good feature - make a request on the Github repo and see if the lead developer responds.
Long Black. Cold Brew in summer.

— Melbourne Australia
Wait what the hell?

Someone should tell the author that normal distribution is a property of the central limit theorem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem

Take 10, 6-sided dice. Roll them all and sum the total. Do it many times and you’ll see a normal distribution magically emerge out of nothingness.
Those rules[1] specify whether or not a cross-origin request is considered "simple". If the request is not cross-origin, you can basically do whatever you want.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS#simpl...
I really liked the Powers of Ten article / film / book originated within SA which certainly doesn't justify any current editorial choices, but is I hope a fun video for anyone who hasn't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
Not only on vacation, but on unchallenging job too, kinda miss it
The problem with the lab-leak hypotheses is that is has no basis other than the correlation-causation fallacy. An advanced virology lab just happened to be in the place the pandemic originated because scientists identified it as a hotspot where a pandemic could start.

Gain of function research is a vital tool in preventing pandemics. Moratoriums are pretty much universally opposed by virologists and are already regulated under DURC/DUCG (which both require unaffiliated oversight from the public). Influenza for example is able to be researched without having to infect human subjects because we used GoF to make lab strains infect rabbits.
And yet, every time I try to use DuckDuckGo I get frustrated very quickly with a quality of results and go back to Google
Lack of macros makes nothing impossible, but also makes many things harder. I think of them as code generators, tiny compilers on a micro scale; they are invoked by the proper compiler during compilation phase, as opposed to runtime, allowing you to inject code that you'd otherwise need to inline by hand.

It's possible to write pretty complex things like control flow abstractions using just structures and functions/methods, e.g. a CL-esque condition system in Java which only uses classes, static methods, and Java lambdas[0] for its syntax. Possible, but also IMO ugly when compared to the CL counterpart, because the low-level but irrelevant details (such as instantiation via `new` or generics) are still presented to the programmer.

[0] https://github.com/phoe/cafe-latte
Anarcho egoism ♡
I'm not sure why you're exploding on the parent poster - none of what you have described is in any way related to what you or they were discussing
I'm on the list, does this mean I got into YC?
I've recently switched from Mailchimp to Revue.

The UI of Mailchimp felt like a real catastrophe; incredibly complex and unintuitive. Worse, the text editor was a real nightmare to use and embeds were not great at all. Mailchimp basically felt like a Matryoshka doll with screens in screens in screens in screens, to an almost comical point (except it wasn't fun).

Revue is MUCH simpler, has an excellent and easy to use editor, good-looking embeds (links, tweets), also the possibility to create a paid newsletter. In addition, Revue has native integration within Twitter, which is very nice and helps with growth. Revue isn't as powerful as Mailchimp and others around analytics and other features, but I don't mind at this stage.
Reading Rose and Leowentin's "Not in our Genes" was formative for me. I read it when I was 17 or 18 and very political. Even then, though the book was clearly anti-sociobiology (as it defined it) it had nuance and drew a distinction between genetics and biology that left little doubt that the slate was not entirely blank - but that looking for individual genes to explain complex human behaviour was unlikely to be fruitful.

Although when I read it I came away thinking "the sociobiologists are baddies", the discussion of reductionist thinking and distinctions between genetics and biology that ran through the book, ended up priming me to be much more open minded about the subject that perhaps the authors intended. It also gave me a skepticism of psychology that turned out to be well founded as the replication crisis hit. It really set me up to be excited by systems and complexity. It certainly led to me taking classes in the philosophy of science at University and probably caused exhaustion on the part of my sociology teacher as I spent my time poking holes in methodology discussions.

I might re-read the book and Wilson's Sociobiology side by side. I remember it being very readable and less doctrinaire than a book whose introduction calls out the authors' Marxism could be expected to be. And there's clearly a lot more to Wilson than the book made out.
Eliminating the middle step could be an option, then: isn't biowaste incinerated after collection? Just tell people to set fire to their discarded masks, many people are carrying hydroalcoholic gel which is quite a convenient accelerant.

Half kidding.
Reminds me of the old pаypal.com scam, where а != a.
I think you'd find reasonably strong support for the argument that the United States has a long history of poor adherence to its ideals of liberal democracy, including at least 86 years during which the ownership by persons of another human being was law of the land, a 500 year genocide against the original inhabitants of the land, armed suppression of populist, worker, and labour movements, imperial aggression and invasion of its multiple neighbours (Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Nicaragua, ...), numerous high-level political assassinations, a national political surveillance organisation run as a personal feifdom from 1924--1972, and with numerous internal fascist, militia, nationalist, and genocidal movements, amongst others, including an instance of a rogue President who ordered surveillance and burglary of political opposition in the 1970s.

There was a period of respite from that following Nixon's resignation in 1974, the Church and other hearings over FBI and CIA overreach, and the attainment of some of the goals of the Civil Rights and Peace movements of the 1950s--1970s.

None of that obviates the argument that there's not been a considerable backsliding and numerous unprecedented developments in the subsequent decades, including over the past administration and to the present.
> Police in oakland find contraband at the same rate regardless of race, but search black drivers 4x more often.

This is remarkable and indicates white drivers are 4x more likely to be carrying contraband than black ones.

> The more white a suspect appears to be the less likely police are to use force. The more black a suspect appears the more likely it is that police will use force.

I can say that as a Brazilian. Even when I was clearly wrong, police was never anything other than extremely polite with me and often dismissed my misbehaviour with a friendly warning, which is the complete opposite of the experience a close friend of mine, who’s somewhat black, had during our teens. In fact, when he and another friend were found to be carrying a small, but illegal, amount of marijuana in their car, the black friend was indicted while the white one faced no charges.
An exploration of Rust and .NET (2020)
Everything is beautiful except the top-heavy upside-down 8s are haunting me.
Okay.. That's great
For those interested in the evidence, this has been researched and documented by Charles Rixey, retired Marine and WMD expert.:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352536433_Prometheu...

His research is ongoing: https://prometheusshrugged.substack.com/
I feel like "cancel culture" is a thing but when people make statements like "it's reverse racism, BLM are the REAL racists" I lose all sympathy for their arguments. It is also a bit difficult to feel sorry for people who are the focus of news articles and opeds who are the victims of "cancel culture" who are honestly often wealthy people who as you said get their book tour cancelled. I mean sure, it's difficult and we can talk about it (similar to this article which is about a well-known geneticist's legacy, I think this blogpost is worthy of discussion!), but this need to equate it with what I feel are obviously worse harms make me loathe to continue the conversation.

It reminds me a little bit like Godwin's Law, equating some harm which is worthy of its own discussion to an obviously worse harm which just does the job of cheapening the worse at the expense of elevating the minor injury.
It will also cost a lot to get hit by 'enormous sanctions' plus it wouldn't really be a cost as opposed to a long term investment. China is currently investing heavily in the African infrastructure and I doubt Chinas intentions are philanthropically motivated
FTA:

> - As to maintenance overhead: it was surprisingly low overhead to keep
dependencies at a minimum across upstream kernel releases - there were
tyically just around ~5 dependency additions that need to be addressed.
This makes me hopeful that an optimal 'fast' state of header
dependencies can be maintained going forward - once the initial set of
fixes are in of course.
You might want to add cppreference.com to your list of programming sites.
Notice that you only need to open the p tag, no need to close it. In HTML5, many tags are implicitly closed. This is very useful for lists and tables (no need to close i, tr, td). I actually prefer to write modern html directly by hand than to go trough the markdown filter du jour.

But why don't you activate a spell checker for your text editor?
After me it seems :p
I think you forgot the nine months spent in the pre-natal environment.
> [1] After Greylock booted founder Philip Greenspun out of ArsDigita, he wrote a hilarious but also very informative essay about it.

Anyone have a link to this essay? I performed a few web searches but couldn't find it
I agree with most everything you have said but wonder if it is just the internet or everywhere these days.

I recently went through a McDonalds drive thru for the first time in a very long time and felt a longing for the old menu boards that had items and prices clearly listed instead of these TV screens with all the items and prices scattered about like a teenage girls dream collage.

I walked into a new BestBuy store picked up an item and could not find where to pay, apparently checkouts and queues for customers no longer make sense to their business model. I had three people walk past me before one finally asked if I needed help, I said "yes I would like to buy this" they told me they were going on break but directed me over to what looked like a 1980s nightclub coat check counter, where I waited another 10 minutes before leaving the item on the counter and walking out.

The busses no longer accept cash in my city, you need to buy a prepaid card from a transit hub or from one of their partner retailers. So I need to get a ride to the store to get a bus pass?!?

Everyone knows about self checkouts at grocery stores but now with online shopping services, it is like running through a gauntlet with gig workers blasting their way up and down the isles with no patients for us analog shoppers that don't know exactly where our items are located on the shelves.

At the risk of sounding even more like a crotchety old man, people in public these days spend most of their time with their heads down looking at their phones. I took a couple friends out for lunch and was unable to have a meaningful conversation as they felt whatever was on their phones was more interesting than conversing with the sucker buying them lunch.

There was a movie where a guy got out of prison after a lengthy sentence and his words seem to ring more true to me each and every day: "The world got itself in a damn hurry and it seems there is no place now for a feeble old man like me"

*Regarding Your comment about 2FA I recently purchased a hard to find item from a website that only accepted ShopPay, they required 2FA through my phone which was fine but now every time I load a checkout page that does accept other methods, ShopPay hammers out another text message and has managed to become my default method of payment, it now takes me extra effort to change my payment method back to what I want.
unchecked_sub() exists in Nightly and so may some day come to stable

However, changing - to perform checked_sub() leaves you with an Option, and this makes ordinary arithmetic look pretty clumsy:

let x = (a-b).unwrap()-c;

The intent is to land more types with intrinsic behaviour. Today only the Wrapping type is provided, so Wrapping<i32> is an i32 that definitely has Wrapping arithmetic and won't panic on overflow, but eventually Saturating<i16> will be possible (e.g. for CD audio PCM samples, saturating arithmetic is correct, if you try to make the loudest possible noise louder it just stays the same) and so will Unchecked<i8> if you really sure that you're doing 8-bit arithmetic that can't overflow and doesn't need Debug checks.
this is purely a question of being able to afford it. To just quit, you should be able to afford living costs not just for 3 Months, but rather a year or so just in case you need more rest, and/or your search for a new job takes longer.

edit: didn't see it in OP's post, he's got the money. so maybe its a way for him
I'd like to thank the academy!
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If only. I heard this is a big thing in America, but here in Germany it is worse than that. It's not about them being tax free, but us being taxed for them, and on two levels.
One the one hand normal taxes are somewhat used for church purposes, sometimes because of historic buildings, sometimes to support church owned schools, hospitals, etc, because the church is "too poor to pay for that", but there is even an outright religious tax that is completely forwarded to either the catholic or lutheranian church. You can deny being in a church, but the default assumption is, that you are of the regional majority religion. I had to deny being catholic twice and lutheranian once, to avoid paying an additional 9% income tax.
The decline of Scientific American into pop science started much earlier than that. I'd peg it around 2000, when they changed the cover design and stopped running classic columns like "Mathematical Games" and "Amateur Scientist". The pop-science articles started ramping up around the same time.
It could be so. IIRC, pg created HN partly to assess how these applicants laid out thoughtful arguments. You gathering much karma may provide leverage when applying to YC.
This is not just for technical writing and coding. It goes for communication and thinking in a technical context as well. You're going to make so many design mistakes if you use several words for one concept, or the same word for multiple concepts.

I know the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is discounted by linguists, but I believe I have loads of first-hand experience showing how word choice affects design decisions in fairly strong ways.

And that shouldn't really be surprising. We're not discussing things we can plop down on the table in front of us. We're discussing abstractions. We're discussing machines of the imagination. The only way we can construct them in each other's minds is by putting words together in the right sequence. Obviously, the choice of words are going to affect how people picture these machines in their heads.

We cannot be careful enough with the language we use when we try to build complex things.
1. Quote required. Gould was the opposite of "hysterical" so if one wants to accuse him of such they need to quote what he said exactly.

2. You yourself are misquoting and misinterpreting. Even the OP, for all its excess, doesn't accuse Gould of "comparing scientists to Nazis"; all it's saying is that Gould may have questioned some theories and pointed that they were on a "slippery slope". Being on a slippery slope means being somewhere on the slope, not (yet) at the bottom of it.

Incidentally, in the 40-50 years since the controversy, it has been demonstrated [0] that Nazi racist theories took much of their inspiration from American segregation laws, which were themselves backed up by pseudo-science every step of the way. So saying that there are ways of thinking about man and biology that can lead to gas chambers is not "hysterical", it's an observation of reality and history.

[0] See for instance https://aeon.co/ideas/why-the-nazis-studied-american-race-la...
Life's not fair, but I would also tend to discriminate against a candidate that doesn't "get" 3D graphics.

Is there any programmer that started coding in his teenage years that didn't at some point try to do 2D drawing in code?
You wouldn't download a painting
Write like an automaton, for an audience entirely composed of automatons.

Even technical writing needs to have some sort of soul. Even most technical readers aren't actually game to sit down and read the Intel x86 assembly language reference cover-to-cover.
The issue with RMS is not that he wanted Minsky to be given the benefit of doubt but numerous other issues and instances where his own behaviour was reprehensible. As a figurehead of an important movement he should think of what effect his personal reputation has on the overall movement.
>But don't worry!

I don't, I can just teach my backend to process /api. The backend is running code under my control anyway. This seems like one of the least difficult "problems" to solve in any non-trivial codebase.
> recruitment campaign for more nurses etc

In the US you realistically need a 4y education to be a nurse, so we're looking at a really slow change even if it existed.
Never underestimate the "everybody else is doing them too" factor.
There's no use case for decentralised currencies!
This dang person should really get a job or something.
I always loved this quote from an old game (Phoenix Wright):

"Blacker than a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than Hell itself...that is coffee."

I prefer Turkish style and French Press. Not a big fan of the super-filtered coffees like pour overs...they seem too clinical.
I've avoided smartphone ownership successfully since the beginning, as I feared my own addictive tendencies would have me paying attention to it instead of the world.

Even without a smartphone, however... there are things that I got sucked into while being a system administrator with far too much time to surf. It's now apparent to me that I need to schedule time for myself with no computer in the same room.
I want a search engine where I can upvote and downvote sites, making them go up and down in the results. Unlike HN, this should not primarily impact that website's global ranking, but specifically the results I get. There should be a way to give -10 points to w3schools and the like, sending them to page 2, or -∞ to Pinterest to get rid of it forever.
Same. Found Aeropress to be the best balance of TTC (time to coffee!), consistency, flavour extraction and ease of cleaning. Also prefer freshly ground light roasts!

On the hunt for a good burr grinder that doesn’t break the bank.
Why workstuff broken? Politics. Sad. :(

One definition of politics is the point at which meta takes over. Why doesn't ManagerX just cancel projectY even though everyone knows it will fail? Politics. Reasons unrelated to the task at hand.

60% of an assembly agrees with Law X, but it can't pass. Why? Coalition dynamics, party politics, presumed impacts on the next election, promises, deals, precedents, etc. Politics.

When my work often put me in a boardroom, I developed a concept of "boardroom logic." The type of argument, suggestion and such that gets easy groans of approval from various managers on unrelated departments and generalist executive advisors. There are also committee facts, corporate truths and more.

It can get recursive. Attempting to bypass, or highroad the politicalnsess is itself political. Standing outside of a courtroom and presenting court-inadmissible evidence to the press. Politics

Here we have the word "science," which also comes with rights over "unscientific," "expert" and a bunch of legitimacy stuff. That's politics. We've got literal, current US politics. Both are big money fields, with careers, donations, grants, magazine subscriptions. Social Sciences in general are mixed in with all of this. It'll take decades to settle.
I think the big problem with Mendel is that the odds of him obtaining the results he reported are vanishingly low and, therefore, it’s reasonable to assume he forged the results.

Luckily, his model was correct.
I have made into the top 10k... This definitely means that I'm spending way too much time here and need to cut back!
Another way:

I mount a shared directory (from my NAS) with Files, and save a copy there (connected with Wifi).

The other device can then access it similarly.

You could also connect both apple ids as a family and have iCloud sync them maybe?
whitelist = good allowed things

blacklist = bad, forbidden things

=>

white = good

black = bad

Associating something being black with it being bad/lesser/evil is problematic if you're trying to get rid of racism toward black people.
> Why is anyone using two-digit years

Because with four-digit years this kind of date would never have fit into a signed 32-bit integer. Incidentally, this shows that the timestamp was taken into use after Y2K, since none of the pre-millennium years would have fit.
> When did SA change?

Around 2000, when the cover design changed, and they stopped running classic columns like "Mathematical Games" and "Amateur Scientist".