skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course now is too late, the police state is well too developed for such protests to not turn out very bloody. And yes, Belarus and Kazakhstan crushing their protestors is also partly the fault of the complacent apathetic Russians. Without Putin's support both would have probably succeeded.

> When was the last time you've left the safety of your home to put your life on risk to protest against your government?

Many times. Admittedly the risk of arbitrary incarceration or death has always been low in my case, but it's because the places I've lived in didn't allow things to get as bad as Lukashenko and Putin's regimes are.
I can attest to this
Are you distinguishing equality & inequity?

As I understand it, “equality” in a society refers to people’s equal access and treatment in some aspect of society (health, education, financial, legal, …)

Whereas “inequity” in a society refers to different outcomes for people (billionaires vs the indebted unemployed, for instance).

Outside of scams and fraudulent or deceptive launches, crypto seems to be very equality supportive to me.

That it has magnified inequity isn’t a reliable indicator of a lack of equality.

Equality enables everyone equally, it doesn’t provide equally for everyone.
> Look at PayPal's fees and understand that they exist due to regulatory compliance.

Look I’d be thrilled to be rid of paypal but until eBay let’s you accept payouts to a Bitcoin wallet, I’m stuck with the banks and companies built on their platforms.

Oh whoops eBay doesn’t even let you receive payouts through PayPal anymore it has to be done through an ACH transaction.
It sounds like you are on the right track - but because it is an unconventional role, you might just have to keep trying until you find the company who needs what you want. It also may be a patience game - if you identify companies you'd like to work with and they want to work with you, keep talking to them. If they do realize they need such a role in the future, you are already in their minds.

The other way to help speed that up is to go join one of the management consulting firms. A couple years doing that will build up your network to know who needs the help and teach you how they find and sell themselves into organizations. I suspect you won't love that work, but it is a valid stepping stone.
Ask HN: Whatever Happened to Progressive Enhancement?
In a world now (overly?) populated with SPAs, SSR/CSR and whatnot, what happened to this (traditional?) (outdated?) (still very much valid?) technique/tradition?

<hyperbolic>Has Javascript finally killed Javascript? :-)<hyperbolic>

It is a question I have a hard time translating into words but hopefully, dear HN, your discussion and insight can enlighten me.
> (You) to tell users that 'landlord' is 'inappropriate' is way crossing the line.

> (Me) It does not. It says "This word is gendered.

> (You) No, and you've made my point for me.

What is that "no" referring to?

The feature does not tell you that a word is "bad" or "good". It provides context, the same context that a dictionary or a professional editor will provide.

In this example, it enters the realm of etymology. The word is made up of "land" + "lord".

The appellation "lord" is primarily applied to men, while for women the appellation "lady" is used (which in itself is dated). The tool does not know the identity of the people who you are writing about. So proposing "landlady" is a not a good option. It would simply shift the issue across. Instead, it will proposes "proprietor" which is an accurate title for someone who owns a building or piece of land and rents it no matter what their identity is.

Another example would be if you write "policeman" and it proposes "police office". The tool there would not be saying that "policeman" is wrong and should never be used. It hints you that if you do not know who you are talking about, you might want to use one of the alternatives. Emphasis on "might", since the feature is presented as a suggestion.

Even your example of "latinx" could be included under such a feature. What you did here was the same thing as what the hint does.

Did you censor me by explaining to me the historical context of "laninx"? No. Even if your explanation means I will never use the word, it does not censor me.

It simply provided me with added information so that I can make an enlightened choice when it comes to my vocabulary.
Yes. Google search quality is abysmal today. Results are always content farms, top 10s, click-baity headlines, and sponsored articles. I've tried Duck Duck Go. It's "ok". I like their stance on privacy, but their results always seem to miss the mark. I've ended up using !g more often then just using the engine itself. I've tried Brave search. Similar experience. I most recently have joined https://kagi.com/ . I've been enjoying it the most so far. I enjoy the results enough and its features to pay for a subscription when it eventually comes out.
I'm still using my Thinkpad X61s.

Nothing today even comes close, and never will.
We can can use definable numbers. Pi is used with such massive frequency that is seems silly to say it has the same nonexistence as numbers that we can literally never even mention, let alone use.

My assertion is that there is something wonky with these u definable numbers and that wonkiness is directly related to how absolutely massive the infinity of reals is.
You can avoid the awfulness of chocolatey by sticking with WSL2. Install that, docker desktop, windows terminal and vscode, voila you are back in linux land and can completely avoid powershell and windows broken file names.
From what I remember from years ago (so, check your own scientific sources to verify), it's not that weed causes schizophrenia, nor that it makes symptoms worse, but that it can make the onset of symptoms occur earlier in people who are predisposed to having it.
The whole article seems like a cop-out. You could write it about any group or movement, good or bad: identify some legitimate grievances and then frame the group as just trying to solve those grievances. Hand wave away any disagreement by saying "well, I'm not saying they have a good solution..."

In this case it's set up as "they're asking the right questions". But everyone's "asking the right questions" as long as you don't look too deeply into whether they're actually asking those questions or not, or whether their proposals could even hypothetically answer those questions, or what other actions they take aside from answering those questions.
I clearly stated we were working on floating points here, ones originally provided by the c++ application.

There was a thought to just make everything into big integers here but for this particular application it really just was the realization that all of this stuff was better off server side anyways for state maintenance reasons
I personally have no desire to use it, but I appreciate that it's a significantly more efficient way of providing more info compared to a thumbnail.

This is one of the few places on the web where I'm not utterly overwhelmed by visual clutter, and I genuinely wish more sites had a 'no images/thumbnails' mode like HN.
I'm a firm believer in alternative search engines. The fact a company monopolizes 90% of information consumption is absurd.

https://dkb.io/post/the-next-google
You're saying that the use case for cryptocurrencies is crime, which I agree with, and the world's police won't touch you because they can't, which I think is ridiculous.

If the EU and the US alone said, "In a month, we'll consider every crypto transaction to be criminal in nature, and we're going to enforce it," the market would collapse as everyone stampeded for the door at the same time.
Rust will eclipse C++. C is a harder nut to crack, particularly for the embedded space where ease of implementing and maintaining a compiler back-end/code-emitter for your new weird 8-bit architecture is important. C is pretty close to an assembly macro and it's barely updated, which is great for that use-case. But for use cases like interpreters Rust is perfectly suitable.
It's because of two reasons:

1. iMessage interacts with SMS just like normal

2. It gives you the "blue bubble" which is a sign of higher class, because you have the more expensive iphone platform.
> they've gotten rich from selling their early-adopter cryptos to the next fool.

And that's where it all falls apart. Crypto-fanatics assume that "good for me" translates to "good for us." As we know, the crypto-rich only exist because others (usually many others) became crypto-broke and/or fiat-broke.

At least, in general, people have no realistic expectation of winning the lottery. You also don't usually have people betting their entire life savings on the lottery. The analogy is only very loosely true.
> Technology does not solve political problems.

Bitcoin has solved an international transaction of money which were political problem.
This guy's insight has been enlightening, and highlights how alien Russian Authoritarian thought is compared to Western Individualist thought.

One thing that's been especially shocking is the relatively low status the military has, which seems insane to us here in the West. Here, it's "Thank you for your service!", there it's a very low-status thing. It makes more sense once you realize the military represents a coup risk for a dictator, and has to be kept politically weak to preserve the State. Our military's undying loyalty to our civilian governments is something we here in the West take for granted, and is severely underrated.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1502673952572854278.html
Same experience. Makes life easier with no downsides I can perceive.
My xps had normal sleep untill s bios uodate removed ut. I eas wondering if this gave me grounds for a lawsuit
Oh sure. Tabular data is still tabular data.
But it has always been semantically wrong to use tables for layout.
And if no one else accepts my bank?

If selling things to US citizens for cryptocurrency is criminal, and enforced?
My favorite marmite recipe is where you bake the toast yourself, then toast it, use a good knife of fresh unsalted butter, apply it on the still-warm toast, let it melt in, then take the marmite, throw it away, and use cherry jam instead.
wow, this is scary
Reading this makes me wish we could have all of the above right now, no limits. Public/private missions to Venus, Mars, Moon (and stay), Ceres, Saturn moons, and outer planets, and some laser + light sail interstellar to boot, all launching this decade. I understand budgets are a problem and this is highly naive, but seriously, can't we do all that instead of wars?
Hint for the uninitiated: skip the bread, and spread marmite right on a slab of cheddar. It's just amazing that way.
This is a funny way to frame mass indefinite home detention, filthy quarantine centers, and the many, many reports of people not having enough to eat, and deaths from lack of access to medical care.

Did you know that only residents with official permission to be in Shanghai are getting food? What do you think is happening to everyone else?
the problem with an approach like this is that it doesn't offer any evolutionary advantage, and so the gene will be lost after a few generations.
I've read my fair share of Reynolds and for what it's worth if anyone was looking to get into him, I'd recommend House of Suns but to skip Pushing Ice. The latter starts strong but kind of gets nowhere.
> Any suggestions for how to get help learning QEMU as a "power user" hoping to eventually contribute as a dev?

Use the IRC channel. Or the mailing list.
I wonder how this works with scraping. If I automatically scrape and store sensitive data by accident, surely that would be the site's fault?
My understanding is that teflon itself is inert, but the combustion/precursor products aren't[1]. Given that, "burnt teflon flakes" should only be an issue if you burnt the pan while cooking but still ate the food.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene#Ecotox...
We take the view that Google and Bing are becoming answer engines. Answers on the SERPs suppress discovery on, and navigation of the web. A real search engine has organic results that minimise your time on the SERPs, providing a diversity of relevant, useful destinations to click on with enough info (snippets & title) to decide where to explore. You also need an independent index and crawler (spider that follows links). Otherwise you are a proxy service or a correlation to a search engine. Whether you use a real search engine API or scraping or query-click ML model(s) you are not independent and really a search service. We've taken the hard road; our search quality is patchy (now with an index >5 billion), but we are one of few genuine search engines if you think that matters.
No one is "defending their tech". It's not even about the tech.

It's about how much of a strawman this is. People are literally using the worst possible example of a new class of applications
to dismiss all of it. It's usually indicative they don't understand it or were fortunate enough to never having the need for anything like it.

To make an analogy with evolutionary theory: every single technological breakthrough results in mutation pressure and consequently a massive explosion of new species (products). Some of these products are good, fit well with the environment and thrive. Some of them are ill-conceived or mal-adaptive and do not last long.

Yeah, "NFT-as-art" is bullshit, and I would bet that it will go away sooner or later. But that does not discredit NFTs as whole, much less blockchain/crypto/web3/whatever-you-want-to-call-it.
they're an invasive species that previously didn't even exist on the same continent
I'm not sure how the advice of "just pass a law" is anything other than blind trust. If you didn't think I was advocating crypto, then what purpose does:

> And crypto isn't dominated by the wealthy and being used to serve their ends? Open your eyes my friend

serve? Why would you mention something completely unrelated to their point, then tell them to open their eyes? To me it sounds like you're retroactively recasting your argument.
I genuinely don't get your point to be honest.

First, you allege that Cloudflare took down a repository that you claim might harm their interests. It could be indeed Cloudflare or it could instead be just GitHub noticing this repository by the "crime" in the repository name.

Second, you have said that one legitimate reason is because "they categorically block" Tor (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31095920). I asked you if you can give a website that is fronted by Cloudflare and has blocked Tor users and is otherwise not something that would usually block Tor users and VPNs in any situation like banks (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31095982). I haven't received any reply from you or even someone else to substantiate this.

Then, you said that you will build a similar too to scan the IPv4 internet space. Guess what: automated nefarious scanners are pounding on every IPv4 address to find unprotected systems, either because it's Windows and it's SMB feature is so bug-ridden that exploits are patched nearly every Patch Tuesday. Or old Wordpress installations where fully-automatic worms will hijack the site for spam links. Or even directly hacking routers and servers for botnets. It already exists to be honest, so I don't get why are you pretending that this is a new vulnerability or something.
Theres one big weakness in the use of cryptocurrencies: swapping back and forth with the local fiat currency at scale. All a government has to do is shut those commercial ventures down, and the value of the $coin will disappear for those residents.

Plus, unlike drugs and prostitution, the ledger is public and permanent… simplifying enforcement against the remaining fringes dramatically.
"The economic system isn't working well, so let's smash it, eliminate the ability of the government to tax people, and give almost all the world's money to a tiny number of anonymous people, 90%+ of whom are affluent white Libertarian males."

Honestly, this whole thing just makes me tremendously sad now.
Hey - Fellow linux user here, I get issued a macbook by work because I touch mobile related code. I can tell you - I'll take win10 over macOS any fucking day.

This list is literally just the most obnoxious fraction of items that have impacted me over the last 5 years of use. I can absolutely keep going.

You want me to discuss the rapid phase out of kernel extensions that allowed VMs to operate well?

Or the minor annoyance that is allowing execution for every fucking brew installed tool, since macOS blocks it by default.

Or should I look at the random 2 hour update times, where the computer is completely unusable?

Or the utterly insane memory usage when running even a small scattering of containers? 4 fairly simple containers will eat 10gbs of ram running a mid sized RoR app, elastic, and a db.

Or how about the xcode install times required to use simple tooling, like git, because "muh system integrity protection!!!" - but don't worry, at least you can get away with "just the command line" version of the tooling, which only eats a few gbs, instead of the fucking 40gb that xcode proper wants.
I seem to recall that the original title of the post was more sensationalist; something about replacing human designers.
We are? What is "competitive programming", and where did it come into this thread? All I see upstream from your comment is a discussion of Google interviews and large tech company interviews generally. I don't recall anything particularly "competitive" when I interviewed at Google (or Facebook, or Microsoft, or...); they just had me solve problems, as usual.
> None of their claims have materially panned out.

* Starknet is running a Turing complete VM using nothing but zero knowledge proofs. It's now possible and practical to trustlessly prove general purpose computation with O(logN) proof sizes.

* Uniswap processes nearly $2 billion of trading volume a day. For reference that's about as much as the Australian stock exchange. In an entirely decentralized, non-custodial, trustless manner.

* The Solana network processes 65,000 transaction, about equivalent to the entire Visa network.
C Is Still Everywhere
It’s not a government-run system, so it’s irrelevant.

A guy who got a court-ordered twitter-sitter should probably not be in charge of Twitter as he doesn’t seem to understand what protected speech is.

You don’t get to say whatever you want as the CEO of a publicly traded company without consequences — especially as it relates to stock prices and shareholder information.

You don’t get to argue that a company is infringing on your right to free speech — that’s not how free speech works.

As a long-time Musk fan, I find this unhealthy obsession with Twitter to really be the final straw. The man is unhinged and may be completely undermining all the good SpaceX and Tesla are capable of.
> Participants were eligible if they tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by random polymerase chain reaction swab (n=62), a positive antibody test (n=63), or had typical symptoms and were determined to have covid-19 by two independent clinicians (n=73).

> The prevalence of pre-existing conditions was low (obesity: 20%, hypertension: 6%, diabetes: 2%, heart disease: 4%), and less than a fifth (18%) of individuals had been hospitalised with covid-19.
How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel?
Politically working in sound money (no printer go brrrr) is governmentally forbidden. Bitcoin subverted the corrupt political process and has brought that choice back.
Wait, society respects Elon Musk? That's news to me.
faraz
It's unlikely to be website memory leaks. If it was, on "memory flush" it wouldn't drop to about the same amount every time that fits comfortably in RAM, with no visible effect except the pause. This event does not unload tabs.

With the numbers I'm seeing, think it's too risky to commit to 16GB non-upgradeable RAM for a laptop that must last many years to justify the cost. The ask HN author wants their sub-$2000 laptop to last for a long time, and I'd worry that even if browsing is smooth in 2022 brand new, what about 2025 and 2028, with more dev and comms apps running as well?

Usually it climbs to 20-30GB or so then triggers the flushing, with many annoying freezes on the way, but yes I've wondered if there's really an upper limit. Given any amount of RAM, will it use all of it and then try to swap even more? Could more RAM even be worse due to some accounting-ratio bug? (67GB is rare, only seen with Telegram which does have a severe leak.)

Like you I'm auto-suspending inactive tabs, and their size certainly isn't a problem after restarting.

Yet I see large RAM fluctuation even on text-only HN tabs. Just now, a new HN tab used 2.5GB more RAM in a few seconds before settling down to 1.2GB. Later the flush event happened and dropped 9GB. The new tab is still open. It wouldn't be a problem if it was just vm stats, but it does cause too many annoying freezes.

So what I think I'm seeing is that bloat has accrued over time, and optimising memory, or perhaps doing it right on MacOS, is not a priority for FF devs (or Safari in my experience with many tabs or windows), and won't be any time soon. If someone has usage similar to me, they should at least look whether RAM usage is borderline now before assuming 16GB (non-upgradable) will be enough over the years they want to keep using the laptop.
The first fact you need to know about this:

There are ~800 mosquito species. This is about removing 1 of them which can and do carry diseases that kill people.

If this is successful, the ecological niche left by Aedes aegypti will be filled by other mosquito species, and no ecological disaster will occur.
The reason the skills matrix seems overwhelming is because there is no true singular "data scientist" role. It's a title that's been abused. So my answer is, it depends a lot on the TYPE of data scientist you want to become:

- Data Scientist MIGHT mean Applied ML Scientist (important distinction)
- Data Scientist MIGHT mean Data Engineer
- Data Scientist MIGHT mean ML Engineer
- Data Scientist MIGHT mean Data Analyst
- Data Scientist MIGHT mean Statistician
- Data Scientist MIGHT mean Product Analyst

The traditional idea of a data scientist for the last decade or so is someone who is able to do insight extraction, create models (ML and otherwise) and build dashboard and presentations. In practice this has mostly proved to not be practical and little value is being extracted from the role, so a mature organization will properly break out the responsibilities into the above mentioned functional areas.

I think it's super important that you reach out to industry data scientists at companies or in domains you're interested in and ask them what it is that they actually do on the daily. Be careful with most data science roles as they are really just data analyst roles in disguise.

Very few true data "science" roles exist, and I'd argue that might you not actually want to work in those roles since they likely exist in companies that have no idea what they want out of them.

That being said I think the 2 absolutely crucial technical skills to have for almost any modern data related job will be:

- Python + Pandas
- SQL

That's really going to be the technical foundation to make a data career in industry.

The breadth of other skills and required knowledge is too much for any single person or post to tell you.

I'm not entirely sure what your PhD is in, but if it has an associated domain in industry and if you're actually interested in that domain, I would recommend starting there and seeing what Data Scientists with similar academic backgrounds as you might be doing. LinkedIn is a great place to find people and connect!

Best of luck.
Well on your last point it does. "Money should be inflationary" is a "weird ideological monetary policy idea" it's just one that you agree with?