skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a guy, you can handily subvert this dynamic by learning to act assertive in a way that implicitly appeals to others' sensation seeking, without being so aggressive that you end up being off-putting to others or even scaring them away.
I remember when it was racist to say it came from China and to wear a mask.
I've been really impressed by Samsung (especially the new folding phones and curved screens) the way I used to be impressed by Apple. Was Steve Jobs really the driving force behind all innovation at Apple?
Social networks and chat clients can deal with eventually consistent reads instead of consistent reads, so you can run your database with a master, which handles only writes, a standby master for failover, and 58 asynchronously updated readslaves. There are 307 different ways to scale out read performance horizontally as long as eventual consistency is good enough for your application: memcached, Redis, Varnish, Fastly (built on Varnish), etc. Some of these don't even have cache invalidation, relying on timeouts.

This approach can get you pretty far before you need sharding, auto- or otherwise, but the master's write bandwidth is the bottleneck. Taken to the extreme this realization leads you to ridiculous places like Kafka/Samza.

I'm trying to come up with an example of an OLTP application where the ratio of reads to writes within the same transaction needs to be large. I'm sure they must exist but I can't think of one.
This is a good point, though the lack of auto-updates from non-Play stores on non-rooted phones does add enough friction to updating that e.g. Signal won't even distribute via f-droid because of update latency. At least that's my reading of Moxie's reasoning. It seems likely this would dissuade some companies from making their own app stores, though obviously not all.
This may be true, but people are probably commuting for vastly more time per day to their suburban wasteland house that can only be driven to, than fewer minutes worked would compensate for, and the money doesn't go as far—possibly because they felt spending $60k on a dumb car, and 9 hours a week in it, was more sensible than spending 2 hours a week in a physical hobby.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2019001/article...
Salesforce tells employees it’s working on NFT cloud service
I find mind mapping really useful. People have different kinds of brains. I can look at a mind map and see status across multiple projects almost instantly. This is across dozens of projects. Not superficial details either: What needs to be done / whats the hold up. Who is doing what.

I can't get that detail from lists or other tools. A whiteboard with sticky notes needs to be huge to get this level of detail. Room size.
Except it’s not the introspective people that have nuanced opinions driving this. Right now (on the right and the left) it is being driven by people with absolutist opinions based on contempt for authority and facts.
User rcpt shared the, much more legible, twitter thread this kinda trash telegraph article is citing, reposting as a top level comment since the parent comment there is being modded: https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1491297779855278082?t=...

And my response based on that:

>Thanks, that twitter thread actually makes sense, unlike the telegraph article. The conclusion seems to be that we need a timestamp on when these samples were sequenced. If in Jan 2020 it is fine, if its in 2019 it catches the Chinese Gov in a lie. The sequences themselves are not unusual for early COVID and have been seen before, but the context of human cell lines suggests they were being cultured.
>So, no conclusive evidence of lab leak without a known timestamp we don‘t have. The telegraph is editorialising for clicks.
I'm giving examples of the range of questions that exist. I've been given Fizz Buzz in a real coding interview. I'm sure someone has been asked to implement a red-black tree before.

Replace red-black tree implementation with some other silly overly complex question that isnt related to the actual job.
> watch every conversation happening in real time
Eh.... are you sure? A lot of my childhood friends are now working in various ares of what you might consider 'authoritative post' or the infamous 有关部门 but I think it's still a bit too divorced from reality. Censorship and blatant blockage for sure but millions spying on billions in real time? I don't think that's how they work.
Publish or perish encourages empty nonsense papers that dont add much value but do add noise.
Well, what's the biggest one you've seen run Shor's algorithm?
See https://simutrans-germany.com/wiki/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=...
ASML accusing Chinese company of IP violations
I have never believed in all-or-nothing / aggressive competition. I believe that a win-win situation for everyone is always possible.

That's why I never spend any time in things like sports competition (despite having the talent for it), etc.

I've created communities and foundations, but found that my true strength lies at being "the engine", not the leader / celebrity.

An "engine" is hidden away, not visible - but it's the one that's actually make everything works.

I enjoy staying behind the scenes, connecting with people, encouraging & motivating them, work together, developing strategic partnerships - and leave the stage for others more talented for it.

I helped advocate and assist leaders, but I don't want the spotlight because of its various burdens.

In an IT team, I help people work together, smooth any wrinkles, help my colleagues, discuss strategic targets with my boss and help the team to focus on it, etc. I talked with users, note their concerns, and help raise it internally in my team.

I started as a lowly junior programmer - but rose so quickly I suddenly ended up as Head of IT. I quit soon, because it's putting me in the spotlight; this makes a lot of things suddenly political and involves a lot more drama than necessary.

I just want to have fun, not encountering drama queens everyday.

So yes, it is possible to be not competitive and be successful anyway.
What's something you think isn't political?

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In my opinion, politics is in everything because it's simply the word used for how societies (on all scales) decide how to operate. Everything we interact with has been influenced by politics.

Luckily, in much of the first world, we no longer debate the politics of most things.
Beyond software, I'd take a guess that the biggest strength of somebody who is really good who wants to stay undetectable is discipline and extreme paranoia.

* They probably buy a used machine they bought with cash and has no way to tie to them.

* They never connect to their home network or login to anything personal on that computer.

* They do their funny business discretely at coffee shops, libraries, etc, and don't return there, even if the coffee is really nice.

* Once a project is done, they trash the computer and records.

* If they need to communicate with co-conspirators, they probably have a system arranged to do just that and avoid having written communications that can be traceable.
I’ll name Linux my go-to argument in this whole debate.
From my understanding the 'rights' to TV shows are actually auctioned quite openly due to royalty systems and pretty strong union contracts demanding their slice of that revenue. It's actually within the deal structure.

So I'm not sure Netflix is at too much risk of every studio colluding them out of these auctions. Especially when they are legitimately one of the richest 'producers' in LA.
It is terrible, but it is what we are looking at.

It would be naive to believe that every single person out there is equipped with the knowledge and the critical thinking skills to discern between good and bad information, thus it would be vastly preferable that people trust science.
Cue up those who think that it's fundamentally impossible to see a downside to anything Tesla does without having a vested financial stake in their failure.

Is that really a good-faith interpretation of my post? Please consider reading it again, the whole thing this time.
As the underlying Twitter thread points out[1], there's a significant confounding factor here: the sample is from 2019 but might have been processed in 2020, at which point the Chinese government's (public) timeline for COVID's spread admits of the possibility of contamination.

I don't think that completely deflates the evidence here. But as a layperson, I would like to understand the probability of happening to find COVID in an Antarctic soil sample in 2019 versus the probability that someone accidentally contaminated the sample with early samples in early 2020. Put another way: my (lay) intuition doesn't understand why there would be COVID in Antarctic soil, whereas it does understand how contamination might happen in a lab that was actively processing samples of COVID.

[1]: https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1491297806115807233
I think calling them cowards is wrong. These people probably are just as spread out on the anti-authority front as any other group. They just appeal to different authorities, and in this case the Gentile Society's authorities were saying that a lab leak is unacceptable belief.

Also at the time, there was huge reactionary responses to Trumpism, BLM was in full fling, and there wasn't much mental space (and time) left for most people to make clear informed decisions. The trustworthy-looking authorities were saying it's not a leak... and wink-wink if you think it is, you're a Trump supporter.

Now that US internal politics is a lot less saturated with crazy stuff, it seems like there's more breathing room for people to sit back and requestion their prior beliefs. And the audience is more receptive, more ready to hear, less occupied with anti-Trumpism.
covid may have leaked from Wuhan, but the origins of research have started in the US in UNC-Chapel Hill where there is Biosafety Level 3 high security virology lab.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02903-x

The gain of function for coronaviruses has been successful in UNC-Chapel Hill as of 2015 when other researchers raised alarms that this research is extremely dangerous and US government pulled funding out of this research.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18787

After public funding for corononavirus Gain of Function research disappeared, UNC's visiting researchers, scholars, postdocs went back to Wuhan to continue research at Virology Institute.

And the rest is history.
>The comment you replied to was talking both about the negatives of hidden allocations and about purity

That is incorrect. The comment was requesting that `Add::add(String, &str) -> String` should be impled by creating a new String instead of mutating an existing one. My comment pointed out why this request was meaningless.
Why should they increase? Please don't shoot the questioner, but is your thought that this would increase the quality of scientific output?
I would have never guessed that some people could hesitate between whether the Earth is revolving around the sun or not. Wow.
Well there's no such thing as 'morality', there's mostly power and sometimes law.
The golden rule is a pretty easy starting point for determining which rules are fair.
The poster knows that.

* "Semi-recently I had an (maybe my first?) experience where I wasn't the favored party in a situation."

* "almost everyone else has dealt with similar circumstances much more often than I have."
The mode is a problem when sending fractions of cents (the elusive micropayments), but the core problem is sending money in the first place.

Giving people that's not money comes with fewer administrative burden - and even less if it's digital.
Maybe the micro SSD card. Swallowing the entire USB drive sounds like asking for a different kind of trouble.
To defend OP, he probably doesn't even remember putting the car into reverse, and probably hasn't reviewed the video. Yeah it's a weak defense, and I agree with you, if he's making big claims he should've reviewed things more carefully.

OTOH, I wonder if "The car must indicate to the driver visually/audibly that it's been put in reverse." is a clause in a law somewhere...
Considering whether it is polarizing or a crackpot theory would be an ad hominem fallacy anyway right?
I am sorry Pluto is a Plant, it is Settled Science... ;)
Agreed. This quote seems relevant: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

The article talks about using rate limiting using Redis and dropping it in favor of handling it on each server node and assuming uniform distribution of requests. Doing that is a trade-off of precision rate-limiting for a simpler architecture.

That may be a good trade-off, but only if you can get away with it. If they were required to have more precise rate-limiting then the simpler architecture would not have been possible.

In my own work, I used Memcached instead of Redis for rate limiting data. The applications were coded to fall back to the per-node rate limiting if Memcached weren't reachable. Memcached may have been another dependency, but it was one of the less troublesome dependencies. I never experienced a problem with it in production. The fallback behavior meant that we didn't even need Memcached in a dev environment.

I guess my point is this: Not all dependencies are as troublesome as others.
What makes "mediabiasfactcheck" a more credible source of info than the outlets it is labeling, judging and sorting into categories? Is the founder Dave Van Zandt a famously reliable, neutral, fair person?

If the Daily Telegraph says that "mediabiasfactcheck" has a mostly Clown bias with Medium Rare Credibility, will you consider such ranking equally reliable?
It was labelled as racist and sold through the news. Many people felt that xenophobia aftertaste. The message was designed to make you feel that way.
I think you're oversimplifying what is a massive systemic issue into two points that, while true, might not contribute as large of an impact as you're assuming.

Also, just in defence of female teachers, I don't think it matters so much that they're women, but that they understand that boys will be boys. Anti-male teachers were, at least in the experience of myself and a friend who went to a different school (we discussed this once), definitely present but firmly in the minority.
I think we all need to have a talk about what a "heavy" plot is. You don't NEED a villain for a plot to be heavy - I would argue that Encanto's focus on internal, emotional stakes is far heavier (and darker!) than most movies with clear-cut heroes and villains. It also resonates with people in a much more personal way - the vast majority of people can't identify with Aladdin's battle against Jafar (As fun as it is), but I know several people who were on the verge of tears watching Encanto because they could identify with Mirabel's struggle with her place in her family.
Great initiative! I love it.

I'm trying to get people interested in developing a model for an open, digital, printable, free textbook, that anyone could access online, download, in full or in part, share, or print if necessary.

The general idea is to create dematerialized textbooks, organized in modules: an officially approved minimum basis, and additional optional modules. Redundancy would be allowed for easy adaptation to local needs. Learning and teaching communities could also make contributions.

Bundles could then be customized or made available in presets. Schools could have their own official bundles, and students could get them in print in libraries, online, and the digital versions would, of course, have open formats.

The best example is that of a Math textbook, that allows for direct translation, and which main contents never get old.

So, for example, LaTeX modules would be made available online, and compiled into one document as needed. Indexes would, of course, need to me made universal in some way. And bundles would get their own UID, for easy sharing.

Today, the available digital textbooks are heavily copyrighted walled gardens, and their licenses expire after some time, so they're broken by design. But their contents are, for the most part, already Commons. So what gives?

When I started writing this comment, I had in mind that the Portuguese Ministry of Education had spent around 40 M€ buying textbooks from large publishers that are distributed for free to students in need, in a voucher system. While checking this, I found recent news reporting that this value, in the Portuguese national budget for 2019, had underestimated the cost by 100 M€ (and that year's budget had a surplus of 0,2% of the GDP...). I expect that an annual sum this large would be more than enough to fund a long term project.
Developers create things users wants, of course, but they also create things they want. Things like user tracking or data harvesting.

There's an inherent trade off here where adding safeguards to protect users will make the life of developers more difficult. Balancing these two concerns is hard.

I find that Apple mostly strikes the balance right, and so I choose to be their customer. People who disagree have other options available on the market today.
Hence the roommates.

HN is certainly the place for this kind of topic, it is one of the most important topics discussed here. I've been on this site for over a decade and was exactly in your shoes when I found it.

Tech crap comes and goes and is repetitive. You'll sponge it all up sooner or later anyway.

It is absolutely not a piece of cake, I know buddy. It requires a massive investment on your part and I am flailing around to really drive home the fact that it is worth literally ALL THE EFFORT YOU CAN MUSTER. Guaranteed.

I sincerely hope you succeed in making the very necessary changes you know deep down you have to make. Best of luck!
It was pretty good for the field, which is not software development.
This is an excellent point.

I wonder if future QC design tools will require a QC to run effectively. Then we could get a similar feedback loop.
Visible Capital
> I'm really confused about your apparent conflict with having quit a toxic employer.

After only two weeks (and having never experienced such a thing before), it seems pretty natural to second guess one’s intuition.
It also helps with availability. If you got a recent kernel, it‘s already there.
I would encourage folks to listen to this podcast episode from April 2020 for some background on how the virus itself can carry detectable earmarks of being natural or lab-grown and what we see in SARS-CoV-2 based on that:

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/dvheexn/coronavirus...

Gives you some good additional questions to ask when reports like this come out.
> Nothing political about it.

It's not only about politics but also about money.

If it came out, with certainty, that some lab worker messed up, it could lead to further moratorium on virus research. The grants would be cut, money would stop flowing. Some people's wealth depends on that money not stopping.
I am extremely skeptical of the authors claim that only 6% of the general population suffers “moderate to severe” anxiety or depression.

How do you even quantify the intensity of a normal human emotion? It’s all relative to an individuals experience.

Human beings are fucked in the head. I believe it’s always been that way and always will be.
As other commenters mentioned there was a “high Bayesian prior” for lab leaks, too.
I feel you bro. I've felt that same way and I have empathy. You have solid points and a valid perspective. You could also really use an attitude adjustment.

We're here as a society because of mishandled social responsibility. Women have only started to take up their own personal care because they can't rely on established conventions any more.

We as individuals likely have not done much, if anything, to contribute to this social circumstance. Just like women as individuals have not done much, if anything, to contribute to it. It is none of our faults. Yet they are taking personal responsibility for their wellbeing in this situation anyways. They are "manning up".

Men on the other hand... are we just sitting around crying with our thumbs up our asses? Yes. Yes we are. That shit is weak. That perspective on the situation is what's hard to empathize with, not the situation itself. Change your attitude, take personal responsibility, and bask as love and empathy showers onto you.

We can do better than looking to others to solve our problems for us. It just takes seeing an example of how. They are in short order, but they exist if you dig hard enough. I encourage any men who resonate with this to dig deeper. There is sweet sweet fruit to be had if you do. And tons of pussy.
100% remote now. Team is 100% remote as well. I do miss some social interactions from the office, I love the freedom to explore and work.
And, as you might guess from my username, I remember some of those comments on the early BTC threads. +1, insightful
> Well then I guess there is nothing left to say, as there is absolutely nothing that can be falsified in your beliefs, only the single-minded faith in an absolute national enemy.

Got it, so since you couldn't argue against my statements with reason you are now attacking my character.

> makes me absolutely ashamed to be a westerner of any sorts

Absolutely nobody that is from the west calls themselves a westerner whatever the hell that means. Also FYI, there is an extreme mistrust and dislike of China from almost every country in the so called East. So it isn't a west vs east thing.
Ask HN: How do you cope with realizing you mostly wasted your potential?
Today I'm what I would a consider a mediocre software developer(and I'm not good at anything else). I may get harassed by recruiters because of the current state of the market, but I really don't think I'm good at (almost) anything I do. I learned a bit about selling myself but I'm not good.

I feel like I could have done so much more, I had so much potential, objectively(could have skipped like +4 grades if it wasn't for the terrible social consequences it would have caused(my father only accepted that I skip one), IQ higher than 99.8% of people(probably lower now tho), started coding in primary school...)

It's really, really crushing my spirits, when I see people who were really similar to me mentally until a certain age(but unlike me didn't have to live through poverty, extreme violence and in an overall terrible environment(or mental health issues cause by all that)), achieve so, so much more, whether academically, professionally or even in their personal life.

And I read or hear about this kind of people all the time because of the topics I'm interested in or because of the people I know.

I don't think I'd feel that way if I was born average. Weird metaphor, but I feel like I had a winning lottery ticket that was destroyed by the rain in front of my eyes, and there was nothing I could do but watch, and I rarely stop thinking about it.

Does anyone here have a similar experience?
How do you cope?
This was interesting but just wanted to note they defined "known" based off of a test where you are asked yes/no on a series of words based on if they are an actual English word or made up. Not remotely if you can accurately define/use them and they didn't go into details on how often people were voting "yes" on words that turned out to not even exist. I would be absolutely shocked in a random sample of American men if even 20% could accurately define "aileron" or "azimuth".