skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The definition on dictionary.com that fits my understanding best is this:

"A tendency to turn inward, first examined by Jung, which often results in avoidance of social contact, isolation and loneliness."

I see introversion/social anxiety/disdain of others in the modern world to be like depression, or getting winded after going up one flight of stairs. It doesn't make you a worse person, but it shouldn't be embraced - it should be seen as something to periodically work against to keep the condition in check.

When we get winded after walking up some stairs, we see we should go on more walks or jogs. When we have depression, it is beneficial to get therapy, change habits, and/or take medication. When one finds themselves disliking the idea of interacting with people (even the occasional stranger), that is a signal to periodically flex one's "emotional muscles" to counter the condition.

I don't like making appointments on the phone anymore. It causes me anxiety. I find that to be a fault in myself. It is a flaw. I sometimes don't get back to friends quickly when they ask how I'm doing or if I want to hang out. That is a flaw, and one that I need to work on. I don't embrace it. When I have a negative feeling about "people" - like "ugh, people are so annoying" - I remember that is poisonous thinking to mental health and put the thought away. Or at least, I don't embrace it.
Imagine a future where babies can be incubated in an external enclosure, rather than a womb.

This doesn't seem too unlikely. I've been hoping tech would go this way -- We're doing IVF in June, and it's still hit-or-miss whether it'll work.

In that future, if someone identifies as nonbinary but still wishes to have a child, neither "mother" nor "father" would accurately describe them. And since a womb isn't required for a baby, there's not necessarily any "mother" (nor "father") in that scenario.

That said, I think the argument is "mainboard is better than motherboard for the same reason that denylist is better than blacklist -- the whole point is so that people don't have to be reminded of social issues whenever the word comes up in discussion."
I think there's a difference between "we make and adjust policy based on the strongest theory we have with an extra dose of caution" and "we think science is infallible."
Cow burps drive global warming. Scientists think feeding them seaweed could help
This has been amazing to watch unfold.

Netflix after canceling all of its best shows during a period when piracy has never been easier: "Let's start doing ads!"

I wonder if anybody at Netflix has seen the UX of popular streaming apps like (now defunct I believe) terrarium and its successors. They're easier to use, just as fast as Netflix, have much larger libraries, allow DRM-free downloads, ad-free, no algorithmic spam, etc. It is incredible that when faced with that as another consumer option they've gone for "severely degrade user experience" as the strategy.

At this point, some vulture private equity firm should just take them private and sell it for parts. Clearly they've spent far too much time being the biggest player and have completely disconnected from what their customers want.
Well, there used to be daughterboards (but no sonboards).
DEI is never focused on viewpoint diversity, though, it's focused on racial, ethnic, gender, disability, etc diversity. The latter kind of diversity does not imply the former.

> one should be careful not to allow emotions and sensitivities to creep in, to do the ideological work for you

Attributing all questioning/resistance of DEI to emotions and sensitivities is pretty condescending. GP was clear and reasoned about the contradictions they saw in DEI efforts, and your dismissal of them is quite frustrating and unproductive.

Also, are you saying that the work that needs to be done is, in fact, ideological? Ideology should be nowhere near this.
CI/CD often suffers from poor execution, but the alternative is even worse. Curious what cromagnon ways are still in use for teams that haven't even bothered to try CI/CD yet.
Ask HN: Job application advice fresh undergrad web dev
Hello everyone i‘m a soon to be finished computer science student with internship experience in full stack web dev, some personal projects and some team projects on uni and I am based in Germany and want to work in Switzerland. How do I apply for junior positions? What do I have to mention and what should I pay attention to?

Thanks in advance.
Sorry, i'm a kde user but not sure how this would be done...? Would you kindly provide details, or a link to a how to?
Tech Companies Face Billions in Fines Under EU Content Rules
:) I know you're not yelling, more figure of speech. (did not mean to offend) But this is on HN where we allow pay-wall bypassing for all articles (which is also theft) so you wont get sympathy there. Like I said I agree with your sentiment, its just not the way to fix it. And I dont think it's a difficult problem to solve, especially from an extremely profitable and rich company.
I’m not a data scientist but doesn’t this just dirty the data pool and lower the confidence of any actions taken or is it rather easy to clean?
Thank you! This article creates a dichotomy where our hypothesis must be either

1) self-assessment is perfectly correlated with skill, or

2) completely uncorrelated.

I think neither of these makes sense as a null hypothesis.

The model you describe matches my intuition about what we should expect: people know something about their own skill level, but not everything.
Forgot about that. Maybe if enough people/generations use the mouse, our hands will start morphing to a more appropriate shape?
I canceled because they were raising my subscription to $19.99 (I had the UHD subscription), and I really don't watch it enough to make it worth $20/month to me.

I still have Hulu, HBOMax and Disney, so in 6 months or so I'll probably drop one of those and return to Netflix to look for new content before they delete my viewing history. I've been with Netflix since when they were DVD-only, so they have a lot of history on me.

I imagine that before long, the streaming providers will get tired of people rotating through and will require 1 year contracts.
I guess it depends on how they react now, and who the price increase hits.

For now subscription loss is a one-off event, so it's a bit early to call it a cycle. They project to lose subscribers this quarter as well, so it could be the start but I'd guess that a base price increase is at least a year in the future since they just bumped it up. If they do it sooner, that would be a key sign of the cycle you're talking about.

They have hinted at a price increase for accounts that are sharing passwords. On the other hand they've also hinted at a cheaper ad-supported plan. If they go ahead with an increase for shared accounts that could get messy. There's a lot of potential for angry customers here. Get it right and people will be frustrated at higher prices, maybe cancel, maybe share the cost, but probably not be outraged. Get it wrong and they've got a million or more customers essentially getting fined for sharing an account that they're not actually sharing.

It will be interesting to follow along, I just think it's too soon to project any particular path. They could pull it together (maybe?) or they could proceed to botch things up with customer-unfriendly punitive policies and lower quality content as they try to cut costs, and maybe two years from now we'll be looking at a Disney(+) buy out at a steep discount. (more likely, at least the part about screwing things up. A buyout... I don't know. Maybe just stagnation.)
Cuties isn't a children's film, it's rated MA (for mature audiences).

There is no dispute that Netflix has woke programming, or heck many other kinds of programming and no sensible person would claim otherwise. What is being asked is which programs for children/kids are you arguing is politically motivated?

The only examples anyone has been able to produce are children shows that have homosexual characters in them. I am going to assume the best of intentions here, but it's very hard not to find it appalling that many people would think that a show that has some gay characters in it is making a political statement or has a political agenda.
https://archive.ph/89LDy
We are talking about freedom of speech in the UK, and in general.

There is nothing inflammatory in his speech yet it gets reported s i$l##*bia
> Which sure sounds to me like "employers try to fill low-status, low-pay, often-crappy female-dominated jobs with yet more females".

What an absurd interpretation. It takes a certain sort of mindset to react as if women having an advantage in certain jobs is somehow a downside, just because these jobs are "low status." It's not as if a man who gets rejected as a cleaner is going to instead become a FAANG engineer.
Paraphrasing a bit: [1]

> He was charged with Section 120B (criminal conspiracy), section 153(A) (promoting enmity between two communities), 295(A) (injuring or defiling place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), and 506 (criminal intimidation). In addition to that, the police included one more charge under Section 66 of the IT Act. The most appropriate subsection in this would be Section 66A, which was struck down seven years ago by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional!

India has really vaguely worded laws that can be interpreted against any action or speech by someone. Offending sentiments, disturbing peace, inciting violence, promoting enmity or hatred, "sedition" (which is a favorite nowadays: criticize the country or a politician or praise another country's cricket team and you may be charged with sedition). There are even worse draconian laws (UAPA, Goonda Act) that allow the police to detain and imprison a person without producing them in court for a year or longer. Just claim that the person is a criminal or terrorist and they can be confined and isolated.

All these laws and charges are applied selectively. Those in power have abused and do abuse these to suppress dissent. When the people in the ruling party commit far worse offenses, they're not held to account (please search for public hate speeches where some people have talked about killing other people). When faced with protests about an inconsistent and controversial law, the Prime Minister himself said in a speech that "Those creating violence can be identified by their clothes itself" (a reference to Muslims). [2] Obviously, no action was taken against him.

What's even sadder is that the Indian Supreme Court seems to have long abdicated its responsibilities to citizens, and appears to mostly favor the governments if it does hear any important cases (it seems to wake up once in a while from its hypnotized state). It's painful to say that if there were ever a sellout that most people haven't questioned, it should be on this court.

Obviously, many other countries may be in similar or worse situations. But the bar cannot, and should not, be so low in India for people to feel proud in comparison. As the largest democracy in the current times, India should be setting a much higher bar for freedoms and be a pioneer that other countries seek to emulate. That likely won't come soon, and needs generational changes.

Edit: If everyone points fingers at other countries whenever such incidents are reported in any country, we'd all soon be living in places that nobody would choose to live in.

[1]: https://www.medianama.com/2022/04/223-jignesh-mevani-arreste...

[2]: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...
Better pro tip: Outright avoid assholes if possible. I don't want to play such mind games.
The thing is, those substitutions are logical because "fireman" doesn't refer to female firefighters. But "motherboard" is different, because "board" doesn't refer to a person.
We could all mostly ignore it if there wasn't a bunch of idiots in government passing laws every chance they get to ensure it continues being a very real human rights issue. The right initiates all this non-sense, they do some oppressing and the left has no choice but to react, because you can't just let that stuff slide, so both sides end up completely consumed by an issues most people aren't effected by.
It is absolutely the woke aspect that is driving people away.
To the point of the original question, Patterson & Hennessy includes a bit on history at the end of every chapter.
Just deleted my venmo account.
Cause birds aren't real.
That's huge pain. I love my Apple TV and I'm much more likely to cancel netflix than not use the ATV. I also really love the TV app and Watch next, for apps that work with it it's such a great UI IMO.
Just like Google is not an actual search engine but a "recommendation" engine that prods users into getting recommended just what Google needs to recommend ("did you mean...?") this is not an actual writing assistant but a "write (and think) the Google way" mould
> My question is, does this really happen as described? Or only at the extreme end? And I'm being totally non-facetious here.

You won't get an answer to this question. These op-eds usually exhibit a glaring lack of humane, sharply observed, or life-like storytelling. Everyone seems to be a prop standing in for a different coalition's ideology... if there are any specific humans at all in the story.

They're a yawn no matter what side they come from.
I just got tired of them putting the same movies in every damned category:

Horror? How about The Truman Show!

Sci-Fi? How about The Truman Show!

Action? How about The Truman Show!

Adventure? How about The Truman Show!

Finally I just unsubscribed.
I wasn't necessarily saying they have to make a complete career switch but rather find a niche within those fields that can use their software experience. For example, building a pressure systems database that isn't god-awful would be useful for oil/gas or firms that do aerospace research. Knowing the mechanical side would obviously be a huge plus, but it's also possible to lean on the mechanical engineers who are the system experts. Same thing with managing environmental requirements, or building automation/energy systems, data acquisition for medical devices, or software quality testing etc.
"Mainboard" is arguably a bit more literally descriptive: it is the main board of the device.

The figurative part of "motherboard" is pretty vague: it's just larger than the "daughterboards" and in charge of them--it doesn't birth or nurture them or do anything that's stereotypically maternal.
Sounds like you need a new job mate!
Its basically a live action comic book and it does that well though its not everyone's thing.
> The skew only means the smartest 1% of men are smarter than the smartest 1% of women.

I don't think you can put it like that. Even if the IQ (or similar "cognitive capacity" score) distribution is broader&shallower for males, it doesn't mean what you had said.

Judith Polgar was #7th in chess rankings, even if overall number of players scored with ELO is counted in millions?
I use Common Lisp in my day job, and I generally build software by livecoding, so I use this and other interactive programming support on a daily basis. Seems "legitimate" to me. I don’t want to have to stop my work-in-progress program running and lose all of the incremental state I’ve built just because I redefined a class or something.
Can someone reasonably explain to me why mother or motherboard is offensive...at all?

I try to be somewhat reasonable. I can stretch my mind enough to see the complaint with blacklist at least. But mother being offensive...my mind isn't able to stretch that far unless I'm missing something.
FWIW, they do. There's constant efforts to ensure apps are accessible if you use a screen reader and to not exclusively rely on sound for notifications. Additionally there's care to not assume people are using keyboards and mice when interacting with something ("tap" vs "click" vs "select" vs "pick", etc.). At least with the teams I've worked with there's a considerable amount of effort done in these areas.
Majority of Indians IT professionals or majority who has attended college in India are upper caste folks, the main supporters of current ruling party. So the trend is not surprising.

Many of them migrated to West and continue to do the same caste things even in silicon valley. Google the Cisco caste discrimination incident.
A simple answer that solves the problem, thank you!
It's interesting how one algorithm, a 'master algorithm', can presumably subsume all the others in the book, presumably a neural/evolutionary algorithm, that can simply learn/evolve when the other algorithms are useful for decision making/maximizing reward.
Virtue signaling is a hell of a drug.

I tried to explain to someone online that the word black has many meanings, not every use of black is about people. Oh man, in the end I was "taught" that just by not accepting his ideas I was a racist person.

My experience with this type of person is very bad. They are ignorant people, defending points without understanding the points. They are very aggressive and work in packs.

Today I try not to work or talk to this type of person/company.
Some other things to mention: the premium content is almost exclusively in the form of stories, which disappear after 24 hours of course. Sometimes creators offer extra services at an additional fee or if you buy a lifetime membership or whatnot (duck/face rates, custom photos/videos, phone calls, etc), all of which go through the Snap app. Some even have a menu which they re-post on their stories daily ($20 for a custom 3 minute video, $10 for a 5 minute phone call, etc, etc). Sometimes these are also sold as "packages". Photo/video archives in the form of links to folders on mega.nz and similar websites are other assets commonly sold this way.
I've been wondering about this for a long time.
Actually, ten different "very unusual" workplaces in a row over the course of 25 years.
Comparative airline ticketing wouldn't have gotten off the ground without copying.
Congress bulldozed a 300 year old temple in Rajasthan [0].

[0]: https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/bulldozer-razes-300-ye...
When I first had the thought that the UI was trash, it occurred to me that the point of the UI is to drive the user's behavior and not the other way around. I think there's an "In Soviet Russia..." joke around here somewhere.
I would argue additionally that once the person in need of blood has recovered they can simply donate blood and in so doing enjoy the benefits of reduced PFAS levels and hopefully save someone else's life with that blood!
> there is not even a single bit of tech relevance in this story

This story first came to my attention through a fellow LP in a VC fund currently deploying in India. If this is part of a broader pattern, it's relevant to anyone with or considering exposure to India, personally, financially or professionally.
What about a motherboard is specifically maternal?
L3 caches have grown monstrously.

The new AMD Ryzen 5800x3d has 96MB of L3 cache. This is so monstrous that the 2048x entry TLB with 4kB pages only can access 8MB.

That's right, you run out of TLB-entries before you run out of L3 cache these days. (Or you start using hugepages damn it)

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I think Intel's PEXT and PDEP was introduced around 2015-era. But AMD chips now execute PEXT / PDEP quickly, so its now feasible to use it on most people's modern systems (assuming Zen3 or a 2015+ era Intel CPU). Obviously those instructions don't exist in ARM / POWER9 world, but they're really fun to experiment with.

PEXT / PDEP are effectively bitwise-gather and bitwise-scatter instructions, and can be used to perform extremely fast and arbitrary bit-permutations. I played around with them to implement some relational-database operations (join, select, etc. etc.) over bit-relations for the 4-coloring theorem. (Just a toy to amuse myself with. A 16-bit bitset of "0001_1111_0000_0000" means "(Var1 == Color4 and Var2==Color1) or (Var2==Color2)".

There's probably some kind of tight relational algebra / automatic logic proving / binary decision diagram / stuffs that you can do with PEXT/PDEP. It really seems like an unexplored field.

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EDIT: Oh, another big one. ARMv8 and POWER9 standardized upon the C++11 memory model of acquire-release. This was inevitable because Java and C++ standardized upon the memory model in the 00s / early 10s, so chips inevitably would be tailored for that model.
> You want something. You don't want to pay for it. You take it without paying.

This is an age old argument... I'm not taking anything. I'm merely looking at something. The same way that I'm not "stealing from Leonardo" when I look at statue of David. I understand that the makers of the movie had some hopes of monetizing my looking but alas, they failed. Based on pure logic alone, it's clear that piracy is not theft, it's something else.
Along with several others of his works, and tons of other books, such as The deVinci Code. For various reasons such as being “poorly researched”. Here is a list of over 50 banned books:

https://sflc.in/read-me-not-list-banned-books-india

But there are others.

This is not a democracy.
read Aleksandr Dugin and you will understand
You'd be surprised! I once had lunch with a candidate who was glad no women were interviewing him, because he found salads distasteful.
How well does it shebang? Command line interaction tends to be a weak point for Lisps.
Maybe. If I look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_(missile), I can’t tell whether those things that point out from the main body produce lift (which, I guess, is the difference between a fin and a wing)

I added “quite possibly, fins” because I thought of that missile, but could hav been more explicit, and yes, those may be wings.
The current GPON type fiber installation seems to be fairly future-proof. The fibers themselves are quality single mode fibers (looked them up - pretty much the same as in undersea cable) and at least as installed in my neighbourhood, the passive splitters are in accessible in-ground boxes with lots of room to spare for upgrades. About the only thing missing for some hypothetical future change is electrical power to those underground boxes.

Here's one of the first-level splitters in its box, before everything was hooked up. Note all the (capped) spare conduits.

https://wandel.ca/pic.cgi?c1bd8b14

So no shovels needed in the foreseeable future. Of course a direct burial of a no-future fiber such as multimode plastic would now be useless.

Unfortunately here, the entire installation is funded by Bell Canada, and it is theirs alone with no last mile sharing, and the price is punitive (on the order of CAD$135 for full bidirectional gigabit after the initial discounts expire, and nothing practical cheaper than CAD$85).
> engage with whataboutry,

If you really want to discuss with civility, don't start with an accusation. I agreed with the commenter that there is definitely political motive to these demolitions and it is definitely not right to not follow procedure even if these are illegal. My point is against this belief that this is something recent. It has been always like this, no matter who is in power. It might have increased or decreased; that I don't know without stats. I am old enough to have seen media being used to create narratives like WMD in Iraq to know not to go forward with the narrative pushing in media.

> The reason that this has become significant enough

> The scale is enormous and is not showing any signs of decreasing.

There is also a narrative in media that these communal incidents have increased recently. When I looked at data on this the last time in 2020, the crime record data pointed to much higher rates of communal violence in 80s and 90s than 2010s, so I will not be sure if it has increased or is it just fanned more in media.

I am also aware it can very well be that cases are being registered less that's why the stats seem lower.

> that too targeted towards a specific community

This is something I am concerned about though. There seems to be definitely increase in overt bigotry.