skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in an agree-to-disagree state with various sql server consultants on this matter. I disagree that merge is harmful and should be avoided. Using merge w/hints for upserts has a decent performance advantage over the alternatives and comes with some theoretical risk of deadlocks that depend on implementation details of your use case and/or the shape of your data (I've yet to encounter it in practice, I tend to batch upserts and limit concurrency and suspect the folks having trouble do the opposite)
Ok, turns out I just maybe don't have humor :)
> Illegal construction, encroachment on public land will sometimes get this response.

Illegal construction is rampant in india. Please contextualize the act of bulldozing with the riots that happened. Let's not be blind to the clear use of power and authority to specifically root out people of a certain cast.

The level of politics being played out in India is nearing to the intellect of a badly scripted bollywood movie and people are turning the other way or even worse making excuses for it.
Right -- the "bar's landlord" is in general not it's proprietor.
AWS IoT Button – Cloud Programmable Dash Button
> Terms like "motherboard" are readily findable on Google's internal search.

This is meaningless. I work at a large organization that has banned terms like "master/slave" and "whitelist/blacklist", and I can also readily find these terms through internal search, simply because it's taking a while for the requirements to be implemented and enforced.

> I could not find anything referencing a banned non-inclusive words policy in the employee policy guide.

This also doesn't mean a lot, unless you've comprehensively searched through every possible location for the relevant policy, as almost every organization in existence has terrible knowledge management.

Go talk directly to someone in HR and tell me if they tell you that those words aren't restricted.
Does that cover the entire financial industry?
>May I ask for the empirical proof that they protect narratives?

I am not sure what kind of proof you expect. The Protocols of the Elders of Snopes? I guess most of the time it is simply an emergent phenomenon of like-minded people working together. Maybe they don't even think deeply enough to fully realize what they are doing (Are We The Baddies?).

>I dislike the need for centralized censorship in the hands of for-profit corporations having the power to manipulate the population’s view on anything, but not doing anything is just passing the same power to government-funded bot networks that will upvote/reshare their own propaganda.

That's a false dichotomy.

>And we have seen how russian state-propaganda (in part) managed to elect a Russian-friendly president and even start a resurrection.

If Russia can swing a presidential election in the US using only $200,000, imagine what for-profit corporations and media are doing.
Are there any blood test as a service sites?
Where I can point and click order a blood test panel ?
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123767.)
Racism is a problem in large parts of Europe, and generally any country with a history involving enslaved Africans. I wouldn't be surprised if ethnic discrimination in Russia went a different direction though, since their colonization all happened in central Asia, where skin color isn't all that informative.
Maybe you hail from the Fallout universe, but this strikes me as a totally specious comparison. Nuclear waste is the consequence of highly specialized processes occurring in highly regulated situations. It's easy to detect, straightforward to contain, and the average person need never run into it because, in addition to all this, it's regulated out the ass literally everywhere.

PFAS is already in everyone's bloodstream because we slathered our cookware and dental floss in it, and nobody can stand up to DuPont.
Snapchat was novel because of the ephemeral nature of the messages (and introducing stories). However in the late twenty teens they began focusing of face filters and introducing cringe ads & news networks which made it unusable for me.

Good to see they are still thriving though. Compared to Instagram they have maintained to be an app solely to communicate with friends vs. Instagram's philosophy of a feed of edited photos that can cause you to compare yourself to others.
Most of the age discrimination I've ever seen has been anti-Boomerism, not specific fixed ages. i.e. it was "people over 30-40" 20 years ago, and now is basically mainly against people in their 60s+. I've never (as far as I can tell) experienced age discrimination, and I'm >40 now. There may be passive age discrimination (incompatible schedules for people with families, etc.), but most of the companies I've interacted with have been explicitly pro-family which goes against thag.
> "what I want" is merely to support the article's assertion that the current version of type hints Python provides is confusing and not very good.

What I am having trouble to grasp is: if you understand that Python is not a statically typed language, and if you claim that you do not want to "turn" Python into such, why do you keep conflating type hinting with type checking?

They are two separate things. That is the nature of the game. Do you have criticisms about limitations from mypy, fine, but then you are not talking about issues with type hinting but merely the type checker tool.
you can turn that off in the settings.
Didn't expect to see whataboutism and Islamophobia on this site but I guess I should have low expectations from those supporting Modi and his fascist regime.
Chesterton's Offence: Before we change a word, we should first understand why it was there in the first place. :P
Republicans believe men should not compete in woman’s sports.

That woman have babies.

How either of those are controversial is beyond insane.
> I try to describe in English the differences between the rain of the Midwest (big, cold drops that hit hard) and the Pacific Northwest (rain so light you don't need a raincoat), and can imagine cultures eventually making up easily-spoken words for common phenomena.

We do in Spanish, some of the words used in my country are:

Lloviznar: Very light drizzle

Pringar: Drizzle

Temporal: Rain that lasts for more than a day

Llover: Tropical rain

Elver (slang): Very strong rain, with dark clouds, strong winds, thunders and lightnings

I once had a conversation with a European friend in which we briefly couldn't agree if it was raining or not, due to the difference in what each of us considered rain was. I was like "Look, but that's not even rain" and they said "of course it rains, look".
You don't have to hold clear-text data around for very long for it to be exfiltrated.

And noone said clear-text passwords would just stick around in ram.
This is the second article that I've seen on the front page of HN. Both had comment counts in the high hundreds. I have to say, for all Netflix's foibles, that certainly shows a lot of interest in the product. In a sense having a product where people write multi-paragraph comments on everything they dislike about your design is a compliment.
I have a similar opinion as the person you replied to. There are many issues that I care about, but this is probably the most important to me because it will affect the educational and career prospects of my children. Unfortunately in this country the only meaningful votes are "blue" or "red", and "blue" is the side that is pushing DEI to the detriment both of my family and (in my opinion) the competitiveness and efficiency of the entire country.

So even though I don't agree with all of the politics of "red", I will vote for them until "blue" stops with DEI.
LOL as if politicians are going to solve this. There's already enough laws governing this stuff for companies or groups of people to self govern while having a reasonable DEI policy that doesn't harm anyone. It's a cultural problem and voting for trolls is not going to make it better but worse, as it will elicit a panic reaction on people that hold power and are scared by the trolls spewing vitriol about how everything is wrong with "X".

I don't like government bureaucrats and I don't like paying taxes for stupid bullshit like everyone else but thinking "voting republican" is going to change anything is as deluded as thinking that "voting not republican" is going to save us from the end of the world.
Thanks for the clarification (I was going by memory). So he was arrested, and presumably would have been prosecuted had he not escaped.
Never rioted nor looted nor seen either, so can't comment. Joke, it is not.
The left in the US has a very broken mentality when it comes to this. How it is:

*Sees picture of company that's 50% white and 50% black*

"Wow! How diverse!"

*See picture of company that's 50% white and 50% Asian*

"My god, it's nothing but white people!"

You might think I'm exaggerating, but I'm not. I've seen plenty of articles from mainstream tech blogs and the like talking about how very white tech companies are, even though they're actually less white than the US population as a whole. The articles often do their best to ignore the Asian population present.
> It's kind of ageism-adjacent, but I wonder if some of it is a bias that expects that past 40 you shouldn't really be needing to apply to jobs by resume drops any more.

I think that is an assumption made by people who have had a single smooth career trajectory, but it often does not hold water.

Making a career change in your 30s or 40s is a thing. Honestly, I think it’s one aspect of the US that makes the economy robust and resilient.

Having made a bad career choice (e.g., former employer) is also a thing. I know that there is one place a friend of mine worked at that was basically a real-life Dilbert documentary. The specific work she did was right up her alley, but the organization was just an absolute train wreck. The few good people (including her) in that org left as quickly as they professionally could. Sadly, that was her second bum employer in a row, so all of her previous work contacts were not recent.

I wish more people would be open-minded to these possibilities.
Spectre. It was a vulnerability before 2015, but not known publicly until early 2018. It's hugely disruptive to microarchitecture, particularly with crossing kernel/user space boundaries, separating state between hyperthreads, etc.
What is funny to me is that for me 2 and 3 are swapped.

2 really was just me being unimpressed generally. For some reason I didn't think much of the ipad...

Now I'm old and everything is amazing.
Somewhat, I have experience working with HR and recruiters and from what I've encountered filling a position is a lot more about finally finding someone sufficient rather than someone exceptional. This is not to say that employers don't look for the best and the brightest, but rather, they often settle for the first few acceptable candidates because to hold out for an even better applicant has tangible costs for the business and is often not worth it.
Second this. I helped a guy get into a programming career in his mid-50s. He was/is really sharp but it took forever for somebody to give him an opportunity. He shined when he finally got it but there was a real struggle.
Although I find it unlikely it would get upstreamed (but would love if it was), I think it could be called i586-windows-msvc-chicago instead.
So a bitcoin miner in space...
Yes, and that is a better argument than someone simply being desperate enough to accept contaminated blood rather than die.
That's how typesetting should be done.
has this option been explored?
-Oh, anything can be bad if overdone.

What balance we've struck is that coaches keep track of their results - say, to the nearest 4 inches in the long jump pit, we've labeled the edge in 4" increments and see how they fare without making a fuss of it.

Then, at the close of the season, we typically note that everybody has made significant progress, and then it's time for 'Listen, Ken, when we first started outdoor season, you jumped here - and now (big stride!) - now you jump HERE.'

I would be most surprised if any kid felt under pressure to improve from their previous best; however, kids, like adults, tend to like both to make progress and to know that others notice, too.
I can absolutely see why people would be lonelier now than in the past but I also wonder what the baseline is for this data.

I also wouldn't be surprised if 30% was a normal number historically.
I can honestly say I don't even know what Snapchat does. It's like chat? I'm a social media grump, but I can't avoid passively absorbing what they do. Snapchat has not entered my consciousness and/or its value can't be easily summarized.
There's a great video from Medlife Crisis about why this might not be a good idea

"The Problem With Silicon Valley Medicine": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW3DGnHO2iY
Yeah, does seem like quite a bit of that. After many decades it's relatively easy to buy a $20 dead bolt for a door and it will resist easy attacks, take a fair bit of abuse, and likely last decades.

The "cloud enabled" version, from a well known brand no less, has all plastic internals, can't take any abuse, and even 5 seconds with a $2.00 screw driver you are in.
He was gone after not because of proving it false, but because he accused the church of purposefully lying I believe.
One could call it not much different but it isn't the exact same as being prosecuted for debunking a "miracle"

From wikipedia:
he skeptic-rationalist author Sanal Edamaruku proved that the water stemmed from a faulty sewage system, which seeped due to capillary action. However, Edamaruku also accused Latin Christian priests of regularly scamming devotees and defrauding miracles to make money, and build bigger and newer churchs or convents,[1] and mocked the Pope as "anti-science".[2] A church representative admitted Edamaruku had the "right to doubt", and Christian activists said that the backlash was not for debunking the alleged "miracle" but for the defamatory statements made live on television.[3]
I think karrussell is talking about the live demo linked from NoSleep.js' project page: https://richtr.github.io/NoSleep.js/example/
Given we are talking about Google them randomly renaming things isn't exactly new :)
I think there is some merit in piracy being a service problem. There are certainly a number of situations where I just seek out a less than legal solution because there is no legal way for me to buy some media. Be it language barriers, region locking, license expiation, censored/rejected media, etc.

However, people professing this quote everywhere should note that it's very hard to compete with "free infinite media" for those with the knowledge to pirate. So don't be surprised if instead of catering to that crowd that they instead focus on people who can't or don't want to pirate. It's a double edged sword. If I do pirate, I don't pretend I do it in some effort to make the product better. I do it accepting the risk that they may never choose to cater to me.
Relicx
I think "PulseAudio replacement" is a pretty good description of it, but it's functionality goes much further. It can also route Jack, ALSA (and PulseAudio) through it to create a unified audio layer that can "do anything" so to speak. It's also a sort of hardware abstraction layer in that sense, but in reality it's so much more.
You've got a... loose definition of "proven".

There's compelling satellite (example: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/world/europe/bucha-ukrain...), video, and eyewitness testimony... against "nuh uh!" and the threat of a Russian veto of any UN investigation.

I'm not inclined to trust the "we have no plan to invade Ukraine!" people on this without compelling evidence, and Russia certainly hasn't hit that threshold.
UK is half way to Sharia?!
It's not true, but even it is, why has that got to do with the criticism?
There are continuous calls in India for genocide of Muslims, publicly.
Past two weeks, religious processions have been undertaken by Hindu extremist orgs in front of mosques with swords and Guns, mocking Muslims.
And PM of the Nation has been silent, with no calls whatsoever for peace.
It's not 'funny' to criticize PM of Nation to do his duty to people of the nation.
And it's not funny that Guardian is reporting it.
People living in India know how terrifying the situation has become due to these repeated calls for Violence against Muslims
HBO Max buffers content and fails to play all the time for me (on Samsung Smart TV), which almost never happens with Netflix.

I love a lot of HBO Max content (especially Turner Classic Movies) but the app is experience is painful.
No, that's just advanced corporate propaganda.

Old "recycling doesn't work" articles used to feature quotes from the very same industry groups that are now being accused of inventing recycling to fool consumers.
> The group of people who are comfortable pirating media and find it "easier" than Netflix is at least an order of magnitude smaller than Netflix's user base.

This view is very US-centric.

In most of the "rest of the world", netflix either doesn't exist or has a very very limited show list (even here, in a relatively developed EU country), and piracy literally is the only way to get a lot of the very popular shows.

And if you already pirate 3 of the 5 shows that you watch, why would you pay for the other 2, that are available on netflix, if you can just pirate those too?
https://web.archive.org/web/20170701150031/http://articles.l...

> Some people, he tells us, absorb too much iron, often as a result of a genetic condition called hereditary hemochromatosis. Over the years, the extra iron builds up slowly in people's bodies, causing damage to organs such as the liver and heart as well as the joints.

> What contains a lot of iron? Red blood cells! That's what. Thus, the therapy for iron overload (as it's also called) is to draw pint after pint of blood from patients until the iron stores drop to an acceptable level, and thereafter draw the occasional unit of blood so those levels don't creep up again.

Sounds very familiar if you replace "iron" with "PFAS".
I’m sorry you feel this way.

If you are miserable at your job, I would suggest talking to your manager about it, or seeking employment elsewhere.
Way too expensive. Why does everything have to be a subscription?
I think water sanitation is vital, good, etc

If every show I watched had ham-fisted dialogue about how great water sanitation is, how we should all happily pay more taxes to support it, how flushing chemicals down the toilet is evil, etc, I'd turn the channel off.

Even if you agree with the message, being preached to can be off-putting. If you disagree with the message and people like you are framed as cartoonish villains, it's a different matter entirely.
I think the demise of Netflix has been greatly overstated (although growth is slowing down)

The biggest change last quarter is that Netflix went from having 700,000 customers in Russia down to 0. In other words, they actually had a net gain of 500,000 subscribers in the parts of the world where they still operate.
> I wouldn't be surprised if ethnic discrimination in Russia went a different direction though, since their colonization all happened in central Asia

Yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31126173
When do you feel cancel culture started?
I went with Shapr3d, originally on the iPad but I believe they have a Mac version now as well. I've found it fairly intuitive for my light complexity projects.
Indeed. Some mints even stopped putting a face value on some coins, like the Royal Mint’s Britannias.

Union Latine coins from the 19th century (mostly Swiss, Belgian, and French francs) and some British sovereigns are quite easy to get at metal value (edit: I mention these because they are somewhat old; there are plenty of 20th-century coins in the same situation). They are convenient because everyone (interested) knows how much they weight and therefore how much they are worth, give or take some Greek shenanigans.
Parents can just watch the movies themselves and figure out whether their individual kids can handle watching it.

That's what we do. It works great. I know our kids and what they can handle. Some PG-13 movies are fine for our 5-6 yr olds, some are not.
> They sold shock and awe really well for the MiC.

Like that time they interviewed Osama bin Laden right before the 1998 Embassy bombings to make sure the public knew who he was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orawG7vt68o
You just said "people doing X, whatever that means" which strongly suggests that (at the time of writing) you either didn't know or care what X (in this case "dark patterns") means.

And which is about as funny as this other snippet you just wrote:

"Math plays no role in them beyond being able to understand an A/B test (i.e. to be able to understand math)"

Anyway the commenter's point wasn't that writing software with dark patterns requires super-heavy math (or even a math degree specifically). But how ironic it is that people with (sometimes highly prestigious) STEM degrees -- and who are in fact objectively quite smart otherwise, sometimes almost intimidatingly so -- end up at allegedly prestigious companies that we don't need to name doing ... basically mindless and socially harmful work like this.

And getting paid quite handsomely for it.
I can't tell you how many times historical knowledge from age of empires has come in handy. And I know my way around parts of DC due to fallout.

All 4 examples main benefit is knowledge to be used later.
I'm really skeptical of this. Women as a percentage of the workforce in general isn't low, and just as some fields seem to attract a lot of men, some fields attract a lot of women. Even if you believe that societal pressure is part of this, that still means that by the time you're talking about "who applies to companies for X jobs" there's self-selection at play.
No my response was squarely towards the parent comment not the linked article.
Nah, that's not why.

Women, on the aggregate, like professions that are people-driven.

HR is that. Recruiting is that. Nursing is that. Programming isn't.
That's nothing

Ő jóképű

Becomes, wait for it

She is handsome

Just like in English, handsome is used to compliment a man, and pretty to compliment a woman.
The article compares the Lucid range with a BMW.

But it's not strictly about range, no car will have unlimited range, it's about time to refill/recharge.

A gas car only needs a 40 seconds splash&go. An EV will always suffer from long recharge times.

You can't beat oil because it's essentially a "battery" which was precharged for millions of years before humans came along and now we get to only do the fun part of using that stored energy.

With batteries you need to mine the material, assemble it and THEN charge it yourself
How to Build a BVH (Bounding Volume Hierarchy) on the CPU
Three articles (so far) describing how to build a BVH and traverse it with a ray, on the CPU. Includes compact source code for each article.
A discussion around who should have a vote in a system is fair. If we forbid discussion 100+ years ago women would still not be allowed to vote.

Should kids have the right? Should some votes count for more than others? Should animals have a voting share? Should we have a free vote? Should women and/or men have the right to vote?

The original voting system only included landowners. You had to own land and be male to vote. Since this group paid the tariff taxes (income taxes do not exist at this point) they were the ones voting. Society has changed/taxes have changed, the one person one vote movement was won and will continue until a crisis.
This account has been spreading Russian disinfo and propaganda since day one which was right around the beginning of the war.