skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a shame there isn't a normalized chart available. It makes a concerning situation very hard to read.
That’s fine with me. More resources for my grandkids!
Lua is an interesting one.

while true do
io.write "1"
end

PUC-Rio 5.1: 25 MiB/s

PUC-Rio 5.4: 25 MiB/s

LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3: 550 MiB/s <--- WOW

They all go slightly faster if you localize the reference to `io.write`

local write = io.write
while true do
write "1"
end
Would you dismiss Martin Luther King as an “activist”?

But your point is in some ways valid, as it’s important to be able to see Israel through the lens of colonialism and to show that the state’s brutality applied to brown people of all faiths, including Jews.

I also find it really strange that any criticism of Israel is labelled as anti-Semitic. I actually think equating the brutal behaviour of the Israeli government with Judaism is the real anti-semitism. The Tora has exactly zero passages about it being OK to murder children or sterilise black Jewish women.
On Student Loans, Joe Biden Is in Thrall to the Most Radical Voices in America
Ah, makes sense. I'm not sure I agree, but it's an interesting take.
> Not investing in ETFs after being burned by past downturns

Helloooo Japan!

ETFs are great, it will never happen to the US economy :)

In other words, based on market behavior from multiple countries, it is definitely a possibility that ETFs won't return much in a period of 30 to 40 years.
Even the original Toy Story suffers from this - they downplay it because they know it's bad, but the humans in it are low-quality animations that are jarring today (YouTube kids shows animate humans better than that now).
I don’t think it’s likely to happen but sometimes I think it would be fun (maybe not the right word) for a really story-driven exploratory game like RDR2 to come with an NDA for the first month or so. Not anything that the company would seriously enforce but just as a way to give players a bit of time to explore the game without any spoilers.
Four key principles for a delightful start to parenthood
Exercise: Let M be a square complex matrix satisfying M = M^T, and furthermore assume that M is not singular. Prove that there exists a matrix K such that K^2 = M and K = K^T.

Non-solution: You are essentially being asked to show that given an invertible complex-symmetric matrix, you can find a complex-symmetric square root. You might be tempted to use the Taylor series of sqrt(z) centred at some z_0 to obtain K, but this won't work if M's eigenvalues can't be fit inside a half-plane not include the complex number 0. An example of this is when M is

⎡1 0 ⎤
⎢ ⎥
⎣0 -1⎦

Another non-solution: You might attempt to extend the spectral theorem to complex-symmetric matrices, but the only such extension I know of is complicated, and results in a block-diagonal (but not necessarily diagonal) canonical form.

Solution: To actually extend the sqrt function from the complex numbers to matrices, use the Jordan canonical form of M. Then you only need to take the sqrt's of each Jordan block. Note that this sqrt won't exist if a Jordan block is non-zero and nilpotent, so we require M to be non-singular. This obtains K. Finally, observe that there exists a polynomial p such that p(M) = K (which can be obtained via Hermite interpolation), and therefore K^T = p(M)^T = p(M^T) = p(M) = K.
It's rather you to work on the explaining there. Pichai isn't claiming to be unaware of how caste politics may work. I think it's not only OK but desirable for companies to stop ruining the workplace with societal politics. There is a law and public debates for castes and how to address the (no doubt existing even outside India) problem.

Prompting an employee of a tech company, even its CEO, reminding the audience of its ethnical background is what i find suspect.
https://archive.ph/K9lux / https://theprint.in/india/who-are-patels-and-how-they-have-b...
> With a recent data law introduced in India requiring all VPN providers to store user information for at least five years

By not being a VPN provider? A private VPN isn't hard to make.
Maybe they don't. I've heard this story a few times, but never in a way that could be verified. It's a bit of an urban legend equivalent for me. Maybe there's even someone who pulled it off for a while. But just as likely it's a joke that became a "true story". Same as the manager throwing the CVs in the air to choose the lucky ones.
Often PEDs are just biological hormones. In particular testosterone, HGH, and estrogen (for off cycling). It is definitely not as clear cut as “PEDs bad”. I tend to agree the impact physically is not high (e: for mortality) but most trans people have mental illness in their lives and the hormones they take can play a role in that.
Your parents tell you your caste. You can also get a caste certificate from you local municipal office which helps you take advantage of some perks if you belong to a "lower" class.

Generally you wont be able to figure the caste of someone but there are clues like skin color, fairer skin generally is "upper" caste, sometimes your surname also gives away your caste.

Unfortunately some Indians specially from the "upper"caste take this very seriously and think they are superior compared to other Indians.
Yeah, in an ideal world content creators could make an entire salary off of donations and offering simple perks and exclusive access. But actually this is a terrible career advice and relatively few people actually end up making anywhere close to $100k on Twitch or Patreon.

For each example the author mentions there are 100s if not 1,000s more who are wasting their time. We just aren’t a society where most people donate thousands or even hundreds of dollars out of altruism or for “exclusive access” except in a few niche scenarios.

I personally subscribe to a few content creators on Patreon. These people are very talented and have die-hard fans, because frankly their work is seriously exceptional and unique, and they make money. But not $1000 or even $100 per person, more like $1000 a month in total. The average subscriber donates ~$5 per month.

That’s not to say you shouldn’t do Patreon, in fact I think Patreon is a great tool to give you a) motivation, b) feedback, and c) a decent supplement to your income which is at least part of what you deserve for your work. But don’t think you can quit your job and do Patreon full time, that won’t happen unless you’re especially lucky or successful, and it takes years of work. And don’t think doing Patreon full time is any easier than a full-time job either.

Not to mention, the audience who donates is often very different than your main audience, who are very different than the creator himself/herself. Often what gets the most money isn’t what the most people want: case in point, mobile games, or at least mobile-style AAA games. And, often what gets the most views (and thus ad revenue) isn’t what the creator likes to create: case in point, clickbait videos and the “kid-ification” of popular YouTube channels.

Work on your passion, but don’t expect to work full-time on it.
Background on refrigerants:
The EU bans water-polluting unnatural refrigerants with a high global warming potential,

but water-polluting unnatural refrigerants with low global warming potential (e.g. R1234yf) are unfortunately still permitted for the time being.

Refrigerants from split heatpumps (everything that isn't R290/R744: https://danfoss.com/media/ic5drwy5/gwp-graphic-visual-1120x7... ) endanger water.

Federal Environmental Agency therefore urgently recommends natural refrigerants (R290=propane (monobloc, A+++), R744=CO2): https://twitter.com/Umweltbundesamt/status/13974613677167247...

Please only buy climate&water-protecting heat pumps with natural refrigerants:

Vaillant aroTHERM plus

Viessmann Vitocal 151-A,150-A,250-A,252-A

===============

Also please don't burn wood, it's even more harmful to people & environment than gas (#StopFakeRenewables): https://twitter.com/Umweltbundesamt/status/14917311547639234...

===============

Use cases of natural refrigerants:

- R290 (climate&water-protecting natural refrigerant propane) is perfect for heat pumps and other household devices:

https://www.vaillant.co.uk/homeowners/products/the-arotherm-...

https://live.viessmann.com/en/product-innovations/heat-pump-...

https://www.swegon.com/uk/products/cooling-and-heating/air-c...

https://amazon.de/Royal-Catering-Slush-Eis-Maschine-Arbeitsz...

- Fridges often have R600a (climate&water-protecting natural refrigerant isobutane).

- Carmakers like Volkswagen have switched to R744 (climate&water-protecting natural refrigerant CO2) or intend to.
The Internet turns everyone over 20 into Rip Van Winkle.
This quote from the article best summarizes similar efforts, even outside of Google,

>> Longtime observers of Google’s struggles to promote diversity, equity and inclusion say the fallout fits a familiar pattern. Women of color are asked to advocate for change. Then they’re punished for disrupting the status quo.

I'm not a big culture warrior, but I believe that if as a company you choose to do a thing, you do it fully, from top to bottom.

Yet the outcome described is exactly what you get when you have {status quo} + {new initiative from leadership} + {failure to dedicate time and resources to following up and implementing}.

People are always going to be resistant to change. Middle management is especially resistant to change, not unreasonably.

Consequently, effective change takes follow-through, verification, reminders, and eventually termination to actually implement. Otherwise, everyone shrugs their shoulders and returns to what they've always done... and punishes whoever is still dancing off the beaten path.
Honestly, knowing how to google things constantly seems like a mystery to people.

I often get people saying "how do you know all these things?" and just have to reply "I'm really good at googling."
I've found that frequently bluffing in life pays off. Generally you don't get caught very often and the cost of getting caught generally isn't very high, even if the stakes are. You have to be prepared to take your way out of sticky situations though.
Exactly so. Water is cheap, plentiful and available in nearly limitless quantities in the amounts used for urban living.

The only scarcity centers around the far larger amounts of water used by agricultural industry -- which are in large part not growing food needed for sustenance. Much of what we grow is exported, and could more easily be grown elsewhere. For example, Saudi Arabia has been expanding hay and alfalfa farms in California because they wish to reduce the depletion of the Saudi aquifers. California water policy simply allows this to happen, at the expense of our own aquifers.

Domestic water curtailment programs are a fraud. The only issue is industrial allocations of farm water.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-w...
> Would you dismiss Martin Luther King as an “activist”?

The word means basically nothing on HN, outside it’s use in political slurring.
Loxism

Dominicans and Haitians

Colombians and.... the rest of Latin america

People are hardwired to perceive outsiders as a threat and usually this originates from good reasoning.
I was getting different results depending on when I run it. Took me a second to realize it was my processor frequency scaling.
Python pushes 15MiB on my M1 Pro if you go down a level and use sys directly.

python3 -c 'import sys
while (1): sys.stdout.write("1")'| pv>/dev/null
It's not "people volunteering" to test performance enhancing drugs in sport any more than it's "people volunteering" to test the effects of concussion on the brain in contact sports.

It's a perverse set of incentives designed to exploit the underclass into becoming celebrity gladiators for the entertainment of the masses. It is a free choice and so on, but let's not pretend it is a randomized sample of humans in a double-blind study conducted with ethical oversight.
Your assuming that for airship travel the journey wouldn't be the point of the trip, not an inconvenience in getting from point A to point B.

With that kind of thinking there would be no market for ocean cruise ships - but there is :)
Forgive student loans has to come with fully free education, since the people who give student loans will start to be more selective on who they give loans to, or stop all together and then nobody gets loans. I don't think either of these things will happen. We can solve the problem and only this generation will have to deal with it but stopping people from getting loans for stupid degrees that don't pay.
Really cool! I would take this in a heartbeat. I wonder if it would be possible to get Wayland running on this. If it does, you could have a very simple GUI and a software manager and you are set!
>The role of caste within the US is a super important conversation to have, and every resident of the US is entitled to participate, but there are a lot of people with a vested interest in shutting it down and the tools to do so.

I don't believe HN's current moderation policies/leadership make this the place to have that conversation though. Participate in good faith all you want, you'll still earn a ban/warning for "arguing" if you piss off the right people.
"Except my special bugbear is special and should be exempt from basic social norms. Everyone should have to agree with me".

The issue is that any and everything can be claimed to be racist, and therefore transferred to your special pre-political exemption.
Physics Pages – Short notes on various physics topics
Active/passive are just reasonably close English equivalents. Acts that were seen as subservient were deemed feminine.
a specific point of view to talk about it while delegitimizing all other perspectives as inherently beneath consideration it's not gonna go well

Why do we owe this degree of sensitivity to some types of bigot but not others? Why don't we need to be careful about "delegitimizing" the beliefs of people who think black people are inherently inferior or gay people are inherently immoral? The realpolitik answer is that Google isn't dependent on the work of klansmen and gaybashers but they are dependent on the work of casteists, and throwing them out the door would hurt their bottom line.
Please understand that in the suburbs of Contra Costa County, where swimming pools are very common and a few still raise livestock, there was a county initiative (pre-2007) to dramatically rise the price of water use for those properties using more than 1000 gallons of water per day, and there was a mass scene at the Board of Supervisors meeting with irate home owners. The initiative did not pass.
Then please enlighten us and tell us what you feel the article is about rather than a snarky "rtfm" comment.

Because I started reading. I got pretty far, and it was _still_ talking about integer types. The article is very long, and I gave up, not having any idea why I should keep reading. So saying the article isnt about them "at all" is wrong.
Maybe, the int type thing is an intro to some other thing? But thats a long intro. So, tl;dr, at least not all the way. Why don't you tell us the point so we have desire to actually read it.
Feels like this should be a language feature, though - like how python passes self for objects - or ruby binds self for you?
I remember this crazy game when I was a teenager, and followed its development on and off for many years -- the combat was just so ahead of its time. Glad that they found a narrative to back the action, and an appreciating audience with Overgrowth.
As someone that has (admittedly minor) struggles with reading and visual processing, I would call the accessibility at least absolutely atrocious.

I don't know if I feel more or less betrayed by the fact that the HTML seems to be more or less bespoke and a screen reader would have no problem with the page, but all of these choices feel all the more intentional.
Only caveat with this is that it could potentially be a hindrance for someone getting life insurance.

I recently applied to a couple companies and they all asked me if I had flown an airplane in the last 12 months.
One of the counters to this is to have various ways to play - Stellaris for example has well known "best builds" where you pick the proper civics, traits, government, and origin and follow a pretty basic tech rush, and win.

But then after you've done that a huge amount of fun is trying to win with non-optimal builds, often "for the lols".

In this way it's more of a roguelike (or similar to Dwarf Fortress, et al) where the goal isn't to "beat the game" but to beat it on your terms.
Let's be real here. The talk was likely scheduled by a moral individual which thought the topic important. Then controversy began and middle management was made aware to this. Guess what happened next?

It's not that Google gave up. They were never going to allow it to begin with and the organizer likely just hoped it would fly under the radar.
+1 for Endless Sky. Excellent game!
Democracy dies in darkness, please enter your credit card to continue.
I'm a serious but hobbyist player with ~15k hands last month.

The thinking like a poker player is mostly about being upfront about your risk tolerances and then having a culture supporting people who make the best risk adjusted decision, even if it doesn't work out.

Expected Value is complicated because a 50% chance for $100 is the same as a 10% chance at $1000. It's the variance, not the EV that makes a lot of decisions hard.

You (and businesses) need to decide what risk is acceptable, communicate that clearly. Reward people who manage risk in a way that's aligned with the business even when it doesn't work out. Get rid of people who are either take too big risks, and people who don't take risks.
Cum Town makes close to 100k per month on Patreon. Proof that you can make a lot of money by just fucking around.
yes - Bakersfield, Calif. and a few other places, mostly in SoCal.
It's hard to generalize because the East German doping program evolved over time and eventually included other compounds, but the levels of testosterone esters that were administered to the female athletes (typically 25mg/week) were actually lower than typical HRT regimes for trans men.
Ok so a way to top off account with a one time payment may be a good idea.
Which would give grounds on the hiring manager front for investigating one's employer for de-facto blacklisting.

Which is illegal.

Just because someone points out the elrphant in the room at a workplace does not make them "radioactive". Quite the opposite. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
> Put more extremely, if I offer you a 99% chance to take make one billion dollars (legally) and a 1% chance of being killed, would you take it? I definitely wouldn't.

I would even if it offered 50+% of getting killed. The small chance you strike a billion is worth the risk.
Faster still is

pv < /dev/zero > /dev/null
> How would you like it when your colleagues decided to call you by another name, just because they liked it better?

This already happens. It’s called nicknames. Sometimes a name in its original tongue is hard to pronounce for others, so we adopt a simpler one for convenience.
`process.stdout.write` is different to PHP's `echo` and Python's `print` in that it pushes a write to an event queue without waiting for the result which could result in filling event queue with writes. Instead, you can consider `await`-ing `write` so that it would write before pushing another `write` to an event queue.

node -e '
const stdoutWrite = util.promisify(process.stdout.write).bind(process.stdout);
(async () => {
while (true) {
await stdoutWrite("1");
}
})();
' | pv > /dev/null
From Wikipedia:

"Etymology
The term patel derives from the word Patidar, literally "one who holds (owned) pieces of land called patis", implying a higher economic status than that of the landless,[6] ultimately from Sanskrit paṭṭakīla,[7] with the ending -dar (from Sanskrit "धार" - supporting, containing, holding) denoting ownership.[8]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patel
Last time I saw a big thread related to the topic there were super deeper threads of people just straight up calling each other slurs. They probably would have been flagged, but the threads were just so deep you wouldn’t see that unless you’re intently following the thread.
The brigade of Elon Musk defenders in this very thread is a perfect example of how his skill lies in crafting his public persona.
I'm harmless, don't worry. :) Also you can find more information about me in my profile.

Even if I was working on Firefox/Chrome/whatever, I'd not be mad at someone who doesn't know something very well. Why should I? We're just conversing here.

Also, I've been very wrong here at times, and this improved my conversation / discussion skills a great deal.

So, don't worry, and comment away.
Writing a Recursive Utility Type in TypeScript
As we're snarking on MS Teams, let's talk about the fake DnD status, which has been deliberately implementated as a non-functional visual indicator only - it doesn't change the notification behaviour of teams at all, and if you work in culture that totally ignores status indicators, you will get pinged on teams all day even if you have DnD set. Skype for Business had a working DnD, and they chose not to keep the same functionality when MSTeams replaced it.
And what's your alternative? Cash under the mattress gets killed by inflation. Gold has its runs but usually underperforms. Bonds also get killed in a downturn.
This might just be me, but I prioritize agriculture over swimming pools.

It's strange that it is agriculture to blame when LA doesn't source its own water and instead diverts water from the central valleys away from agriculture. Agriculture doesn't "pay their fair share", yet LA is actively taking water away from agriculture and also draining 5-7 year reservoirs. When wild fires are in full swing we're going to really regret not having those reservoirs. [0]

Most farms have had their water share cut to zero already. [1]

People would rather waste water on LA lawns and swimming pools (or dump it in the Pacific, which is what happens to most of it that reaches LA [2]) rather than produce food with it. This is just baffling to me.

[0]: https://californiaglobe.com/articles/ca-reservoirs-filled-to...
[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/23/rain-califor...
[2]: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-rainwater-lost-wet...
Totally agreed. Strangely Common Lisp is easier to start than clojure. Only once I can handle the system build up. Quickload, quick project etc. not clojure so far.
One can manipulate arbitrary precision integers at the bit level. Nonnegative integers correspond to infinite sequences of bits all but a finite number of which are 0; negative numbers to infinite sequences in which all but a finite number are 1. There's no need in most programs to insist that variables have some finite (and fairly small) range beyond which integer operations stop acting like their mathematical definition.
The word you are looking for is bigotry. That's the generalized equivalent of racism. Thing is, bigotry in general isn't illegal. Specific kinds of bigotry are in regards to hiring though. Racism is one of them. But caste isn't.

A lawyer might be able to make the claim that it would fall under "national origin or ancestry" since, to my knowledge, caste is hereditary and hard to change.

But if so then that makes these kinds of talks all the more important. Because it helps Americans recognize a form of illegal discrimination they would otherwise not recognize.