skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, makes me remember the amazing talk by Rich Hickey called "The database as a Value" [1]. I felt like my brain was reorganized after watching it.

The simplicity of Datomic is very appealing, it's just a timestamped series of EAV entries, and some fancy indexing. Avoiding the latency (the database over there issue) sounds like a big win. Most of the simplicity is made possible by only having one single synchronous writer which is a major drawback you have to be able to live with. Some write-heavy applications would struggle.

Related to the timetravel feature I've bookmarked a blog post by Valentin Waeselynck where he talks about some of the misconceptions and drawbacks. [2]. My company have a not super-great setup with triggers on MySQL, and have longed for MariaDBs SQL 2011 compliant Temporal Tables which looks very interesting [3]. I guess an advantage with Datomic is that you don't have to create an entire table history row when all you want is to update a single field.

I was interested enough in Datomic that I started building a Python bridge but never finished it [4]. An added bonus was that I learned about the Transit serialization format which was ALSO super inspiring [5].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6nYfttnVco
[2] https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/2017-07-08-Datomic-this-is-not-the-history-youre-looking-for.html
[3] https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/temporal-tables-part-1/
[4] https://github.com/runekaagaard/brygge/blob/master/src/jolle/example.py
[5] https://cognitect.com/blog/2014/7/22/transit
When I go to bed I visualize tech problems that I want to solve, maybe start with some possible solution, and let the visualization evolve with a lot of what-if's.
I'm curious to know what you would consider better or at least not-rubbish pursuits, just as a comparison.
I'm honestly curious too. Our kids watch chip & potato, octonauts, number blocks, and all sorts of things. None of it seems political. But maybe I'm missing something.

Hell, Netflix even has barbie cartoons, which leftists don't exactly view highly.
Diversity of thought usually results in improvements in quality of discussion. That does not hold true in this case.
Yes. It is not easy to 'logout' when the browser knows your basic auth credentials.
Even if the server sends a new cookie that will overwrite the basic auth cookie the browser might send it again.
Not hypothetical money you think you might have been entitled to. The truth is, not a single cent was stolen from you.
Can you name any of these male dominated companies that hire men disproportionately to the gender demographics of their applicants/interviewees? The issue isn't the distribution of employees, it's whether there is sexism present or not and the first thing you'd probably want for evidence of sexism is disproportionate hiring of a demographic compared to their applicant/interviewee demographic.

Just because something is more represented by a demographic does not make it sexist. e.g. Nordic countries seem to be generally celebrated as being socially progressive and ridding themselves of sexism, yet female representation in STEM fields is incredibly low.
>seems odd that it can meet with unexpected resistance and not trigger some sort of emergency measure. (eg. stopping)

This is a requirement unless you want it getting stuck on minor bumps and whatnot.
I can't even begin to follow this line of thought. Is 'billionaire' offensive because it distinguishes those who own billions of dollars versus those who don't? How, by your logic, is 'property owner' not offensive?
The study found no discrepancies in mixed and male dominated industries.

> Male applicants were about half as likely as female applicants to receive a positive employer response in female-dominated occupations. For male-dominated and mixed occupations we found no significant differences in positive employer responses between male and female applicants.
Yes, but the point is that PG-13 isn't hardcore porn. If 12 year olds are watching porn, maybe, just maybe, most 7 year olds can handle a PG-13 film.
When I open IMDB database a drop down with links appears. If publisher decided not to provide movie for purchase - these are links to torrent files to download movie in HD, FHD and 4k with preselected language and subtitles settings.
If publisher decided to provide movie for purchase - links to buy it with comparable price to a movie ticket. But you buy Movie not an HD+English+SpanishSubs file version and you don’t have access to 4k video.
You can also buy subscription to IMDB which will include 100-200 hours worth of content per month. You don’t buy movies this way. You stream them and they don’t belong to you once your subscription ends.
Publishers get their money based on minutes of content watched by users.

It won’t work?
My guess: "lord" is male, thus offensive.
The idea. A lot of company computers have autolock on, just an example.
Here is the article as a pdf-file => https://www.spohngymnasium.de/images/stories/presse/SZ_2018_...
Using your own terms of 'marginalised groups' you should actually be fighting for men's rights, not against them as you seem to be doing. Given that the discrimination is especially rampant in female-dominated professions the 'marginalised' group in this case is men, not women. In other words, women in female-dominated professions discriminate against 'marginalised' groups (men) to further increase their domination.
Yes, that's largely it. Many of the shows, especially newer ones, are actually just kinda trash. Why pay for trash? Not to mention the raised prices and cracking down on password sharing.
We get deprived of the income when it is consumed without providing money for that service.

If you watch it with your friends, 5 people watch it for one purchase. If it's good, you all tell 3 more people. Of those 15 people, 20 percent end up purchasing a viewing and the system repeats.

When you pirate it you take all the service for zero cost. That affects real people.
Discrimination based on gender is not discrimination?
There's a market for 'help you write english better' tools that spot things like grammar errors.

For example, if my english-as-a-second-language eastern European subordinates feel self-conscious about their english, they might find an automated tool helpful - where a professional journalist would be better served by their own judgement.

The 'inclusive language' thing is just weird though.
It prevents your computer from sleeping with just a webpage. Why does it need to be more special than that?
Genuinely curious: what do you do internally for "male" and "female" connectors?
Obvious ruse. They want you in the office, they are going to get you in as much as they can now, and they fully already intend to then adjust it to as much as they can later. Boiling the frog.
This is pretty close to my own experience. I actively use Snapchat more than any other social platform because in many ways, it's not really a social "platform", in the same way that Instagram or Facebook or Tiktok are platforms. There are some people that use it that way, but largely, Snapchat is a convenient way of ephemeral, low-friction way to include a few people into your life. A picture here, a link to a cool article there, to a few friends at a time in a non-public way (very few people use it to cultivate an online persona in the way the above platforms encourage) that disappears within a day or so unless explicitly saved.
Kodi with the right preloaded plugins can do wonders and make it accessible to non-technical users
If you can (i.e. you don't fear persecution), please let them know that this was the reason.

Part of the reason these things have taken off is that their proponents are very vocal, while the opponents prefer to just mind their own business.
Yes. It's modeled after a republic, in contrast to today's dominant models, which are, in fact, either feudal or corporate (monarchical).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_governance
Sure. And once you land on something worth keeping, you clean it up then. But between time point 0 and then, a whole lot of code gets written to be run very few times.
There are plenty of useful/interesting things, e.g. reactive lights, more proactive climate control, controlling ventilation on demand, presence based interactions etc. Some of this can be achieved with dumb solutions, e.g. humidity controlled switch etc. But when you start integrating devices together they can coordinate to do much more complicated and "smart" things.

Does everybody want to do that? No. How far do modern systems go towards achieving any of that? Ehh, IMO not very far unless you put a lot of effort into it. Do the UIs of modern systems really make setting up these sorts of complex interactions up accessible for the average person? Nope. Are there glaring privacy and security concerns? Yep. There are lots of perfectly valid criticisms, especially of "smart" homes as they are, but there are certainly lots of possibilities.
That's fair enough and I did not know that, and will certainly take into account when making future purchasing decisions, thank you.

But the bottom line is, it's just not worth paying for digital content for me, merely by knowing the fact that it's available for free. A file has no intrinsic value, why should I pay for it?

I'll gladly pay for an experience, or service, such as a movie theatre or a streaming platform that does the work of delivering content to me. But there is so much free stuff out there, paying to download the latest Batman movie is simply not worth it.
It can! You can read more about how to do that yourself here: https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Perf_tools_support_fo....

magic-trace uses perf. If you want, you can think of it as a mere "alternative frontend" for the Intel PT decoding offered by perf.
This is literally within walking distance of me and I have a friend who is working on this project.

Sure the actual replacement only takes 3 days, but it's been worked towards with construction on the area and the roads underneath for something like a year. It's a very affluent area, and an absolutely vital corridor into and out of the city for employees, because affording living close to the city is laughably difficult.

The common joke here in Maine is that there are two seasons: Winter, and construction.
Everyone thinks of "comics" as "superhero" but we used to have comics other than superheroes.

The Disney Duck comics used to be moderately popular in the USA, though they remain popular outside the country they're basically moribund here.

Archie comics continues to publish but they're nowhere near as common as they used to be.
> There's no deeper logic here than decades worth of social stigma.

Oh, there is. There's a whole school of thought that is basically non-stop hand-wringing about how superheroes are displacing religion, and We Must Take Back Our Media from those Hollywood heathens and so on.

Stupid, yes. But dangerous too - book-burning season looks like it is just getting started, they already are going after Disney, and those people seem geared up for a serious push.
I'll fight for these terms because trying to "blocklist" them is such a ridiculous thing that I have zero interest in entertaining it. Nobody's actually offended by any of it, it's all made up by people with nothing better to do and then piled on by more people with nothing better to do.
> masquerading as a privacy solution

Urbit has almost zero privacy features and it never claimed to have any.

> The original founder is a neoreactionary authoriarian, and the system is designed with his ideal vision of the future in mind.

Every P2P network that I have seen has a hierarchical topology. At the very least there are clients and relay servers (2 tiers). If you can make a completely 1-tier, anarchy p2p topology, you should go for it and show that Urbit is way off-base here.
I don't want to die feeling like I took more from the universe than I gave back, I guess is what I'm trying to say. I'm not advocating cult-like asceticism or pointless self-deprivation. You could argue that those are the dark side of selfishness anyway.
But… minor bumps != airplane…
You, personally, are stealing from my income. All those issues you raise are valid and important issues to address. Stealing because those things make you angry makes you part of the problem.
This AI strikes me as being so dystopian. Time to break out and read Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four again.

A true AI would respond to user behavior and back off or change accordingly. Reminds me of Google News which keeps inserting articles about Kardashians no matter how often I tell it to "include fewer of these stories". For all the hype of Google's advanced AI, instead we get faceless, imperious NannyTech.
Depends upon what you set out to measure. lbs is specifically a unit of force. kg is specifically a unit of mass. It is a category error to equate these as measures, although (in many places) an everyday convention to do so on Earth.

IIRC the English unit for mass is the slug. If the tecnical limit is 70lbs or so, that is must technically be read as lbs force -- aka force of gravity which varies with location.
Check out jellyfin it runs fine as a service on the users PC. You create different directories for TV shows and movies and drop files in and they show up shortly after.

Plug the PC up to display and presto.
Parent comment about "men" not being a protected category is absolutely incorrect.

Here's Google's EEOC statement: "Google does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.".

Man, Woman (or something else) is an enumeration of gender. It's very much a protected category, and looking up any number of Title IX cases winding through the courts will show that discrimination against men is an active area of litigation.
People are encouraged by society to discriminate against men.
The diagram on Column's homepage (scroll down a bit to "our advantage") explains it quite well.

There are a bunch of banking-as-a-service middleware providers like Galileo, Treasury Prime, Unit, Synapse etc. who provide nice, easy-to-use APIs for things like opening a bank account, sending an ACH, provisioning a debit card, etc. Doing these things "on your own" can be incredibly difficult, e.g. the NACHA rules around sending and receiving ACH files are incredibly complex. These companies do NOT own a bank charter. Instead, these companies partner with lots of different banks that DO have a bank charter and integrate with their "core banking" systems (core banking systems usually run on mainframes and are provided by companies like Fiserv). Then, fintechs like Chime you want to provide banking services to their clients can focus on the "user facing" part of the experience and less on the difficult, nitty-gritty parts of the banking stack.

What Column has done is consolidate the roles of the middleware provided, core banking system and chartered bank into a single company so there are fewer middlemen to take a cut.
That's definitely good; there are hidden immoralities in every transaction and it is in the interest of all of us to be more aware of them.
Thanks for sharing this.

I've seen it on some recipe websites recently and was wondering how it worked.

I would recommend making the links (eg to the Mozilla page) use a different color or underlined.
The problem isn't that "allowlist" is preferred to "whitelist". The problem is that "whitelist" and "motherboard" are literally banned. Google is a private company so they can set whatever policies they want, but it's extremely condescending.

I'm generally on board with using culturally neutral terms, particularly since they're often more descriptive of the actual thing being described. I think there would be far less resistance if people didn't feel coerced.
Ask your friend where he bought such a wonderful device
The vast majority of tech middle managers I've met are former engineers.
That one is in the public list.

https://developers.google.com/style/word-list

You're supposed to use "plug" and "socket" instead.
Not if you replace what you rob with a loonie
I signed up for newrelic with unique email (myemail+newrelic@gmail.com) and I was surprised after couple months to receive spam email on that address. I am not sure how spammer got that email address - I would not expect newrelic to sell emails just to anyone - maybe business partners but not to just random spammer. Also, I have been getting spam on that email only from one spammer which makes me think maybe email was not sold but was obtained by some unauthorized way.
Don't get me wrong, Putin is a horrible horrible person. But there's a big difference between starting a war that resulted in 80+ million deaths (including the orchestration of ~10 million civilian deaths in camps) and Putin. Russia is committing war crimes and should be held accountable, but it's disingenuous to conflate Putin and the (arguably) worst person in human history
It's not valid to censor the word "mother". It's either laughable or sinister, depending on whether the people trying to do it actually have power.
If we can never know, then their speculation is as valuable as your anecdote.
My point was when they raised the price - insult to injury (not great content)
The 64 year olds used to say TV rots your brain, apparently it's true!
This is false.

“The laws enforced by EEOC protect you from employment discrimination when it involves:

Unfair treatment because of your race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, disability, age (age 40 or older), or genetic information.”

https://www.eeoc.gov/youth/what-employment-discrimination
I'd pay to see the data on how many paid google ads ran for 'flashplayer' 'flash' and similar.

After watching people I know search for it (years ago) and click the first result (which was never the actual flashplayer) - they must of infected 10s of thousands.

Also terms like 'social security admin' 'new social sec card'- I watched my mom do the same thing - g-search, click first results.. start filling in info, second screen more personal info, third screen start to question whyu.. fourth screen - wait this ain't right.. sigh.
Just testing it out with netcat, I can see the client is sending it as regular basic auth header:

$ nc -l 127.0.0.1 8000
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:8000
User-Agent: python-requests/2.22.0
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
Authorization: Basic dGVzdDp0ZXN0

>>> requests.get("http://test:test@127.0.0.1:8000")
It's interesting to see where the DEI stuff has gotten to.

Historically under the law, discrimination based on gender was prohibited. There was no provision for allowed discrimination based on gender (ie, prohibiting men from becoming teachers or nurses).

Now we are being told that it is OK to discriminate against men and the law only protects "marginalized" groups.

In elder care (especially with heavier elderly) a male nurse can be as good as a female nurse with lots of stuff including getting patients into and out of beds etc. This idea that it's morally superior to discriminate against men in these cases feels weird. Similarly in schools, many boys might benefit from some good male role models in these systems.

Anyways, interesting to see how things change from my "civil rights" days - it's civil rights 2.0?
It’s a pretty famous quote and he’s correct. Steam has DRM aspects but is pretty seamless. It is entirely way more work to look for cracked games and download those than to just buy it on steam.
Have there ever been any studies that show that using the masculine pronoun in the neuter reference in English, impacts (or has ever impacted) the well-being of females?
While I myself have purchased many seasons of TV, I should caution you that none of it can be "purchased outright" on these platforms. Your account can be cancelled at any time, and you then lose access with no recourse. "Purchasing outright" requires buying physical media, and even then, disc players are becoming dangerously niche.
This is how your post reads to somebody who doesn't benefit from working in an office

> There's plenty of value in in-person work.

There's plenty of value for me in in-person work, so everyone should work in-person even if there's no value in it for you.

> Spurious social interactions in the office are often the inspiration of important company initiatives.

I only know how to socialize in person, so nobody should be allowed to socialize virtually

> Async communication (e.g., Slack) is, IMHO, much less efficient than sync communication (e.g., tap on my colleagues shoulder).

I want to be able to physically interrupt your concentration and intrude on your personal space without you having any way to stop me

I hope this comment can help elucidate for you and other readers how miserable offices are for people who don't actually do better in-person, and how frustrating it is that people who want to work in-person feel the need for _everyone_ to work in-person with them, despite pro-remote people not needing others to change their working circumstances.
Isn't Microsoft rolling out a similar feature into Word 365, though?
This argument doesn’t take account of the impact on others of the thing that stays in your garage most of the time. The environmental impact of manufacturing it, of creating infrastructure to carry it etc.

We should absolutely celebrate lower car ownership in cities and work towards making it a viable option for more people.
This is a popular tool in hiring for creating inclusive job descriptions. They're competing with companies like https://textio.com/
I've always pictured a 'blacklist' as a document with blacked-out redacted text; a whitelist is just the opposite. It wasn't until this substitutional whitewashing[0] of the English language that I realized whitelist/blacklist held negative connotations for some people.

[0]: like painting over a fence, geez.
Feels like this is an entirely unrelated topic, but they aren't extremely different:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slur

1a : an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo

And to the point, in NYC media circles, it is nearly the equivalent of an actual slur which is why I called it that. Just one writers want to use as opposed to one they think it is inappropriate to use.
Again - it has been a while - but I did, indeed, use leech mode on the client … so no seeding.
I think u may have replied to wrong comment.
To you. The service I provide to society is entertainment. Perhaps in the dystopian sand planet of the future that won't hold much value but right now on Today's earth, entertainment is a service that is valued by society.

In the future, I suspect we'll still have storytellers for the same reason we do today. To Inspire, educate, and entertain. I cannot envision society with zero entertainment.
What? The 2008 Mortgage Crisis was the biggest news story for at least a year.

Comparing that to "inclusivity" is also strange because inclusivity is not an event. A single event has a natural decay of relevance, the further into the past it gets.
nearest((lord) + (woman) - (man),excluding=[(lord)])==(lady)
I know of at least one GDDR5 memory chip that should have chip art of a snake on the die.
Fair enough, but still, depriving you of potential earnings is not the same as stealing.

If I can't buy something for a price that's worth it to me, I will just watch something else. It doesn't mean I'm going to pay more for it.

You get the same amount of money either way.
A new state of the art for unsupervised computer vision
Why can't we legislate away discrimination? Make it illegal, and prosecute the companies that engage in it.