skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That's what Image Comics was (owned by Marvel)

Image comics was never owned by Marvel - it was founded when 7 of the big marvel/DC artists realized they didn't need marvel to publish them and left to do their own thing. Each artist had his own company (like Silvestri's Top Cow, Liefeld's Extreme Studios, Todd Mcfarlane's Todd Mcfarlane Productions, Jim Lee's Wildstorm, etc). Image's job was to act as a publisher that took minimal financial value from the project away from the creators, and didn't own any of the IP.

DC comics did have some smaller publishing houses - Vertigo comics, Wildstorm Comics after they bought it from Jim Lee, etc. Vertigo owned IP so it wasn't creator owned stuff, and I think Wildstorm was a mix. Vertigo imploded after a woke reboot that lasted from 2018-2019, and DC consolidated its adult oriented lines to DC Black Label.

Marvel had Icon Comics with creator owned stuff like Kick Ass (that later got a movie) but it was really about stopping Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Millar (netflix acquired Millarworld Limited in 2017) from shopping those IPs out to other places.

>good literature isn't supposed

99.99% of comic book writers today don't know how to write good comics, let alone good literature. DC has imploded and gone through multiple rounds of layoffs and there are very few of the people who were involved with the comics you remember left there anymore. Marvel is happy to make garbage if it hires people with the right diversity checkboxes (see Vita Ayala, who somehow keeps getting more work while being completely unable to write stories people want to read).

>V for Vendetta

Originally published in the UK, later put out by Vertigo Comics (DC) in its hayday. But Alan Moore is better writer than almost everyone left at either of the big comics houses these days, and he was writing in a time where it was less culturally acceptable to write blunt propaganda into comic books.

>Again, from the 80's /sigh ... it was a freer time, when risks could be taken

This is because our society has switched. In the 80s the left was fighting right wing christian censorship and largely winning. Today we have inverted.
Literally no scientist has ever said that they know everything definitively about any topic, let alone those.
Quick example from starting to learn Anishinaabemowin/Ojibwe : there different color-names for living things and non-living things. The brown fur of a squirrel has a different quality to it than the brown of dirt, and the language reflects that more readily than English.

Gaeilge/Irish has more-specific terms for rain, at least according to The Blindboy Podcast (he wrote the forward to the recent edition of the Hiberno-English Dictionary). 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.
India never had freedom of speech. Opposition newspapers are often harassed and shut down. They have a law criminalizing offending religious feelings. This is not an exaggerated paraphrase, that’s what the law says. A scientist was convicted under this law a few years ago for demonstrating that a “weeping” statue of the Virgin Mary was not actually weeping blood. The truth was offensive, so the law applied.

EDIT: I remembered inaccurately. It was a statue of the crucified Jesus, not Mary.
I’d pass on Soviet stuff right now, at least until Eastern Europe stabilizes.
I’m glad I scrolled far enough to catch one of the few thought-provoking comments in this thread.
I've been on both sides of this, having been in a male-predominant industry and then in a female-predominant industry. In the male world, there was plenty of "mansplaining" and in the female world - I was actually really surprised at how female colleagues approached me. There were hilarious moments of "reverse mansplaining" where a group tried telling me all about the industry I had just come from, when none of them had any experience in that field. I remember a moment too where I was offering a business opportunity that would benefit all of them, but they very clearly did not think I was qualified simply by being a male - but would have been totally on board if I brought in a female partner. On the other hand, there were places where they wanted my opinion because there were (to me) weird gender role things at play - something like "we need a big strong man to defend us here, so let's get his opinion."

Men and women approach things in very different ways that even now with 40 years of life experience continue to surprise me. I think some of the bias is not intentional, but rather a lack of awareness, and frankly acknowledgement.
To be clear, that's not my logic, it is of my previous employer. I don't think trying to index hiring decisions to the broad population distribution is a good thing.

But if you HAD to index to a population distribution, I think it should be tied to the pipeline of competent candidates. However, my previous employer was already fairly representative of the pipeline in the summer of 2020.

The protests that summer sent a cultural shockwave in urban/upper-ish class society, and the social pressure ratcheted up for orgs to favor non-white male groups, particularly for one particular non-white group. The issue was that this particular non-white group was not overly abundant in the pipeline, so there wasn't as defensible of a position for the discriminatory policies the company felt they had to put in place, so they resorted to indexing to the broad US population. (which I flat out don't think is defensible myself, but I'm empathizing with the mindset that they were employing at the time)
Women's representation in tech fields varies from the low 20 percent to high teens. It can vary since "tech" is a nebulous designator.

Computer science: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-the-declinin...

Electrical engineering: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_325.45.a...

Mechanical engineering: https://www.bu.edu/eng/about/dean-lutchen/engineerings-gende....
Read the summary. The finding was driven by female-dominated professions. Presumably things like teaching or nursing. Definitely not tech. Research was also done only in Sweden. I've never seen a US tech company that wasn't overwhelmingly white and male.
Ask HN: Is a dedicated DBA a needed role?
My philosophy has historically been senior+ backend engineers with database experience should be able to set up a database schema, or devops engineers on the team should have the expertise to set up things like high availability plans, disaster recovery, and slow query observability.

DBA = Database Administrator

Curious if anyone has any viewpoints on this or if folks have seen success bringing on a full time DBA.
just one example of weird insanity from that table:

slli rd, rs1, {1,2,3}

add rd, rd, rs2 Fused into a load effective address

...this is so insane. Whoever thought that this is okay and good, has, in my opinion, severe psychological and psychiatric problems and would do well to seek professional help. If this gets "fused" into a lea, why just not implement a hex code for lea? I'm just completely at a loss as to how messed up that is.

You know what, I'd like to know what a person who thinks that this is okay looks and behaves like.
I remember stories of people beaten up for not standing for the anthem in the cinema, one of them was disabled wheelchair user. So I guess it is like that for a while especially after the Hindutvas got into power.
I went looking for a la carte options for all the Star Treks. They really want almost $50 per season for DS9, a show that premiered almost 30 years ago. There's just no reasonable way to justify that but greed. I can't believe people like Stunting actually see much of that ~$50, and I think they're here fighting over people not giving them their scraps when there's no guarantee people are making a choice between paying $50, paying $10 to Paramount, or downloading a copy ("pirating" IP is a made up concept no one uses outside the world of RIAA, MPAA, and similar).
I read somewhere that, "In order to be interesting, you have to be interested."

So many people are just not interested. Or maybe they're too afraid to be interested. Or maybe they have distorted expectations of themselves before they think they'll be cool enough to show interest. Starting a conversation feels like a massive risk.

And all of this existed before the pandemic started. Add all the social distancing to the mix and we have a population of introverts.
Also if you look for sales on Slickdeals for 4K movies (digital as well as physical), you can OWN (albeit another discussion exists for what owning digital content actually means for the buyer) a 4K movie for as little as $4-5 dollars when sales slide down that low.
Ben Eater also sells a kit for those who want to follow along by building their own: https://eater.net/shop
I think when a company get fined for its dodgy warranty policy, a person coming around saying that it’s all good it’s either lucky or not super partes, not sure what to say, ok you got good experience with Apple, on the other hand it’s shit and get fined so I guess good for you
What dominates our culture is by definition not nerdy. It was taken from the nerds. The nerds lost.

Now they have to go find some still obscure interest to invest their time in if they hope to retain their nerd status, otherwise they're just into mass culture like the rest of the lowest common denominator.
Theft is when you take something from someone. As in, what you have materially gained, they have materially lost. Copyright infringement is not theft, and must be treated differently, because what you gain, nobody has lost; the supply is infinite.

If you accuse someone of stealing the income, but they haven't gotten any money out of it, how does that make sense? What you're describing is a missed opportunity for a sale; had someone 'stolen' nothing and simply passed the product by, you would still not have made that sale and nothing would have changed.
The "Budapest Memorandum"[1] article 4 would be invoked:

4. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used.

That doesn't really answer the question, however, since "seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine" is not a very strong statement.

NATO would not be directly involved (IMHO) because NATO is a mutual defense treaty and (hypothetically) no NATO country would be attacked. However, spillover from an attack into / onto a NATO country would (theoretically) draw all of NATO into the war.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine#Bu...
"Broadly the same" and averages don't work well when you're talking about a very specific sub population that would, necessarily, be picked from the few at the top end of the intelligence distribution.
I don't give out exact income on the internet.

Our base pay is daily rate governed through SAG-Aftra CBA with the Producer's guild and scaled off the budget of the production. Then there are OT factors and bumps that go along with how difficult the particular work is.
At bare minimum, one would think we could all agree that it's a good thing to honestly teach our nation's actual history — rather than trying to ban teaching it so that we can pretend that systemic racism is not and never was a thing.
It looks like art. It acts like art. It stimulates the senses and evokes emotion like art.

Whatever "creative" means, either the AI has it, or it isn't really relevant.
Shout out to Ben Eater. This dude explains how the internet works and rips open an Ethernet cable and hooks up an oscilloscope to it and decodes the bits that transfer over the physical cable.

Very informative!
It’s about a lot more than just forbidden words. The ‘social justice’ fanatics are a black hole for productivity.
If your company is paying you to work on Product X and Product X depends on Open Source Library Y, Open Source Library Y's bugs are Product X's bugs. Open Source Library Y's features are often productivity enhancements that make Product X better. Your company is paying you to work around Open Source Library Y's defects and use Open Source Library Y's productivity enhancements, no matter what. Sometimes the fastest way to work around Library Y's defects is to fix them yourself and sometimes the best way to get more productivity out of tools like Library Y is to contribute Library Y features yourself.

Because your company may see Open Source Library Y as free as in beer they may not value the vendor relationship with Open Source Library Y. The "cultural" Maintenance Agreement with Open Source "vendors" is that good open source users contribute back to open source those bug fixes they need for workarounds and those features they request for productivity benefits. Compared to the costs of Maintenance Agreements with many large, classic closed source vendors, the cost of a few hours labor on dependencies to products is often quite cheap relatively speaking especially with the "free as in beer" platform/networking effect that other "good" companies following cultural Maintenance Agreement norms contribute as well.

The only real missing ingredient is that because that Maintenance Agreement is cultural more than it is written down in a way that Corporate Lawyers can read it and Actuaries and CPAs can understand it to be an asset and/or liability that impacts the books, it just becomes invisible guilt: either the guilt that you aren't doing your part as a developer with respect to that culturally assumed Maintenance Agreement OR the guilt that you are doing your part but that your company may find out and claim you are wasting their time. But seriously, that vendor relationship even though most of the "assets" are "free as in beer" should be on the books and have its own billing codes for the culturally encouraged "liabilities" of Maintenance Agreements to spend a few hours of developer time here or there for the "greater good", but also the specific good of "making Product X better" because that is an asset directly related to the performance and success of "Product X".
I have no idea what happened with Netflix.

Their first few originals were great, or if not great, then at least interesting.

Now, they produce so much, but most of it is just… feeling like made by AI

Like they see what is popular elsewhere and trying to produce exactly the same thing. But as with GPT generated text, after a while, you can sense something is off.
Depends on the type of content. Not everything is a nail biter.
> I know it's a value judgement, it's just sad to me to see grown men spend all their time on video games and comic books - not because of the formats themselves but because the content is usually rubbish. Cultural junk food.

So you think they should move on to an "adult" hobby like stamp collecting or model trains?
And they are, right? How many times have you seen people push for quotas among pediatrician, veterinarians, or crime scene investigators? I certainly haven't seen any. And even if such agendas exist, they rarely manifest in overt discrimination like I've not only witnessed, but actively instructed to carry out.
As an example of this, compare the hype of “the cloud” with the introduction of XTerminals from people like sun and oracle.
This was a good enough question I started researching. TL;DR: Your microbiome adapts quickly, but you don't get to see the full effects for weeks to months.

Turns out, your microbiome will shift significantly within a few days of changing your diet [0]. A more recent study showed that increasing raw vegetables in your diet significantly changed microbiome at about the same speed [1].

However, because the _effects_ of a healthy microbiome are things like better vitamin reception and disease prevention [2] [3], it can take months to see the effects of something like better B12 can take weeks to see [4]. Disease prevention of metabolic diseases takes years to see fully.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-guts-microbio...
[1] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/10/study-finds-g...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_microbiome#Disease_and_d...
[3] https://depts.washington.edu/ceeh/downloads/FF_Microbiome.pd...
[4] https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/cyanocobalamin/
Clasp, the LLVM-powered Common Lisp implementation reached v1.0
I'd still consider myself a bozo (3 years out of school), but may I offer a humble thanks for your shoulders that many of the rest of us stand on!
I think due to the massive influx of people into this profession, the median age is still pretty low, but I think this will stabilize, and the age pyramid will look more even. As good, productive people will get older, recruiters will realize that people don't go senile at 40.
I too wish I could have a laggy experience with a bad interface requiring me to pull out my phone and search for which of the several services I pay for have a particular piece of content on my phone then slowly navigate to that service then try to enter the search term character by character by moving a little cursor to each individual character with my remote.

Then have a firmware update ad some advertising to the experience.

Sure beats my experience of pulling out my 12 oz keyboard plus touchpad bluetooth keyboard connected to a real PC.
I sat next to a guy who once complained that our new Pakistani CTO fired our black coworker for no reason (he was a top performer but was called “lazy”) and then proceeded to fire 3 Indians and only bring Pakistani candidates to the final round of interviews. He was called racist for pointing this out by HR (all white women) and he was the next person to be fired and replaced by a Pakistani developer.

Moral of the story being that unless you already have another job lined up you shouldn’t even question things like this publicly as it can cost you your job.
But we ascribe policy as if they do know 100%.
I thought it will be different from Twitter and YouTube comments, sad to see Indian IT professionals being part of that too.
AHAHAHA good one! This is some hilarious post-irony.
Yeah, I don’t look good in brown, so I have to be careful where I work.
I am 25 and from my observations of social media-active people I connect with that were born and are living in the US, it's a split between instagram and snapchat. Many are active on snapchat stories and instagram.

My observation is that that IG is more popular with urban, liberal, artistic (people create and/or sell art), style-oriented, older audience. It feels more professional and public, and it's common to follow accounts like celebs, artists, businesses, or generally people you haven't met in person. Artistic and lifestyle people will use IG chat to communicate and connect. For example a yoga studio or music venue may post events there. It feels like it's taking the role of a more image-oriented facebook. The stories are very popular too.

Snapchat is (in my observation) more popular with midwestern/rural/suburban people, and the network is more friends of friends or maybe people you met at parties. It's much more casual and it's more likely you have met the people you connect with. Trendy urban people I have met have shunned it for a while and think it's childish, but some are coming back. Either way it's the primary way I communicate with certain contacts besides imessage/sms (mainly through the chat).
I'll post something to a story and someone will comment on it or vice versa.

Anecdotally snapchat was very popular in high school and early college and then waned, but became more popular again recently for some reason (I'm getting more and more views on my stories than before even though I'm not adding friends that frequently). Also when I talk to foreigners, they see it as a childish thing that was a fad in the 2010s, but people in the US (especially suburban types) are very active on it and have been for a while.

I'm bullish on snapchat and it's my largest "fun"/risk investment in a single company because of the stickiness it has with people my age and younger, specifically in a more midwestern rural/suburban demographic. Also the snapmap feature is phenomenal and will be the next thing other tech companies start imitating.
Blockbuster new releases were $3 in 1990 dollars ($6.60 today). This was in a mid-sized town in the midwest, not Manhattan or LA. Blockbuster was also far less convenient.
The Washington post does not intend to be satirical.
Where is “here”? In the US, for example, defamation is a tort, not a criminal offense. And calling the president or any other public figure a “Nazi” would be totally safe.
what would be more helpful is if you actually showed where those comments were wrong rather than just cry about it
The most tragic part of the endgame of transgender ideology is the erasure of gender.

We'll promise them they can be a boy. They do all the things boys can: can play on the boys sports teams, use the boys lockers and bathrooms... And all the meanwhile we're banishing gendered extracurricular programs and making the bathrooms unisex.

We promise them we'll help them find their identity in gender, and destroy gender in the process.
>There have been some rumors of ads on the platform to boost revenue.

It's been stated elsewhere here but worth reiterating: the current description of this idea is to give customers the option to have ads in exchange for a lower overall subscription cost and not just shoehorn them into the existing plans.

At least that's the stated intent. I can definitely see where it can lead to a slippery slope where it's easier to just give ads to everyone when they need another revenue bump.
No, but looking down on gambling is definitely common. And that was mentioned in the parent comment
Sounds like an incompetent HR department. I've have experience with similarly composed teams, but they handled themselves professionally at work, and recognized that company events need to be sensitive to the needs of different types of people.

People who don't consider the needs of others are bad employees, regardless of their gender.
I didn't mean to insult you. My apologies.

All I meant was: it's not hard to write your weights to a file as floats and fread() them into a struct. I view this as the simplest possible universal interface.

And you're right: NN-512 supports only the classical ConvNet operations. It does that one thing, and it does it well. If you need LSTMs or transformers, or training, etc., another tool is needed.

Have a nice day.
Mike Tyson repeatedly punches a passenger mid-flight, video shows
> but Disney is taking a political stance, and does not deserve to have special political privileges if they take any form of political stance

Wait, who said this? Corporations lobby the government all the time. They absolutely have political stances. Sometimes these stances are transparently about making them money, and sometimes they're (ostensibly) not, but it would deny reality to claim that they shouldn't have political stances. Maybe you feel that they shouldn't, but it's tilting at windmills.

This is beside the point of whether they should have "special political privileges". Maybe no corporation should have "special political privileges". But in a world where they do, it's strange to confer them conditional on what has never been the case (companies not taking political positions).

edit:

"The Florida bill never even mentions the word 'gay'."

That statement does not make you sound very serious. The bill obviously involves -- at a deep level -- the concept of "gay" whether or not it uses that particular word.