skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> aren't going to phase me and change my mind

Already addressed that, try to keep up.

> Regardless though, my point is that there are 'sides' and 'groups' and thinking poorly about the other side isn't going to go away when someone running for president of the United States calls people basically evil.

There are sides. I don’t care for the good/evil distinction, but there is a clear conflict of values and it’s not going away with the actual president who doesn’t seem to muster any effort for the values he claims to represent.

> People on the right think that people on the left are naiive and foolish. People on the left think people on the right are evil. So if anything, the left is doing what this entire thread is about.

Looks like we’re discussing thoughtcrimes not facts. One participating party doing violence and the other perceiving them as resorting to violence isn’t equivalent harm done.
It filters much more air with a single box fan. Box fans are optimized for flow, not pressure, and reducing resistance with four or five parallel filters means the fan can move much more air through its filters.
Those two goals are not mutually exclusive.
Its obvious to me that the Brahmins are a fraternity and dominate office politics. They have many centuries of administrative experience to draw from. (refer historical text books Chanakya Neeti, Aarthashastra etc)

If you go head to head with one of these guys in the office, expect to lose. They occupy CEO positions in Google, Microsoft, and 100 other big companies, and their inner circle of top lieutenants too. This is partly due to capabilities and partly due to 2000+ years of being the managerial class, inherited by birth.
Also as a British expat, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose in Bath had all of the types of onion you’d find in the US pre-pandemic - though I haven’t been back since. I’d imagine Brexit may have ruined that.
Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
Thanks! I don't know of anything exactly like that, but there are plenty of hackathons and the like that are similar. It's not to hard to sit down with the docs and/or tutorials for systems like Godot, Inform 7, Ren'Py, etc. and put something basic together. Expect to throw away your initial one or two projects, but after that you should be good to go. I built Minima & Anteform using PICO-8, a virtual console. The RPG game system they use I had to build from scratch first. For me it was mostly a challenge to see if I could fit that much gameplay and story into the available footprint, but if you're starting out with one of the systems I mentioned it should be a lot easier. Also, don't get discouraged if you seem to be "almost done" for a long time. It often takes as long (or longer) for the last 10% and polish than it does for the initial 90%.
I hear this often in threads about LibreWolf. I've never experienced in my (somewhat limited) use of LibreWolf, could you give any examples of breakages you've experienced?
When phone designers read posts like this, they try selling small phones again, and then nobody buys them.

(A variant is saying smaller phones are better for women who have smaller hands. They care even less because they have purses.)
I always find the Walmart Vlasik story funny.

I mean Vlasik could always say no? If they were dumb enough to enter into a deal with Walmart than was worse than no deal at all, that’s on them.

My guess is some sales dude thought he could get a good deal with Walmart, couldn’t, took it anyways, then decided to blame Walmart.

I mean if I need my house painted and some painter offers a deal where they lose money don’t blame me when I accept.
Can one provide a benchmarking suite that anyone can execute without posting the results of the test? Thus allowing others to run the test themselves easily but not putting you on the hook for the result?
> acquire businesses and consolidate their business. They will expand, not contract like the rest of the market.

exactly, downturns are an opportunity for the big players to "buy cheap", expand their marketshare, then wait things out and "sell dear" when things get hot again
Discworld MUD, if you flip a coin in a room where to many spells have been cast it might turn into a caterpillar.
Wow that is evil genius.
Agreed. I was putting it mildly, basically.
Man I admire how you want yep.com to be successful. I want it too.

At this point anyone who will even try to build a search engine will have my backing because God this world deserves another search engine.
You mean like PubMed?
Sold it long ago. What audio difference are you hearing? Can we agree both are a waveform, and a faithfully sampled waveform will sound the same as its original?

If so, the loss of faithfulness must be from somewhere in the signal path, like poor circuitry in the sampler or variation in mixer input stages. Is the same difference audible on a recording or only live?
How is that ironic? A part of anti-racism is understanding what's going on, how people identify themselves, and how people view others.

I feel like being unable (or unwilling) to ask these sorts of questions is the realm of the head-in-the-sand people who claim they're "colorblind", and somehow believe that if we just ignore race and racism it'll somehow magically just go away.
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> Ofcourse they would. They are mostly those whose parents (or themselves) were privileged enough to make it to the US.

I keep seeing this thrown around, but I am yet to see anyone respond exactly what form this "privilege" takes as it pertains to caste. The Indian constitution was co-written by a very forward thinking Dalit and affirmative action for lower castes is literally written into the Indian constitution. The only "privilege" I know of is that only upper castes can conduct priestly duties etc (at least used to), but I mean cmon that's just clutching at straws...
Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently (2019)
I'd argue that if a higher-than-reported percentage of Indian immigrants are Dalit, that supports the idea that there's a problem.
There are many bay area cities that have very large and dense Indian populations.
I know. I'm not stuck in C++98 land. I'm talking about how problems are approached in C++ and more generally, OOP land.
In large parts of the community, there seems to be this idea that (almost) each little pointer (naked or not isn't my point here) should also be a handle to control the lifetime of the object that it points at.

I'm not saying that it has to be this way, but there is a reason why something like unique_ptr (that can be quite tedious to use in my experience) has become so popular in many projects - IMO it is overused, often leading to more typing work instead of less.

If one is sufficiently used to this way of modelling, it can come as a surprise that memory management needn't be so hard, and doesn't require smart pointers or anything, if the program design (global flow of data etc.) is sufficiently clear.
Nice work! I built a "Corsi cube" using 4x 20" filters and a 20" box fan. Some simple extrusions for the filter corners would be a win (and probably a good basis for a DIY kit).

Since the Corsi cube can be hung from the ceiling (it looks weird being a cube hanging up there) but it is ungainly. This is a much more elegant solution.
Reactors in general produce 3 types of waste:
- fission products: after a Uranium or Plutonium atom splits, the daughter atoms are virtually always radioactive; the vast majority of these atoms have a half life of less than 100 years
- actinides: Uranium and Plutonium absorb a neutron but don't undergo fission. The resulting atoms, heavier than U or Pu, are part of the Actinide group, and they are quite nasty
- unburned fissile material: no reactor has a 100% efficiency, a part of the U235 or Pu239 is left unburned
- low and intermediate level waste: various materials inside and around the reactor, which either absorb neutrons and become "activated", i.e. radioactive, or simply get mixed up with particles of the first 3 categories.

Fast reactors produce very little actinides. Maybe 1-2% of what regular reactors produce. They also burn much more of their fuel, so there's less waster of the third category.

The coolant in various fast reactors is sometimes Sodium. Sodium very rarely becomes activated, and when it does, it transmutes into an element with half life of 15 days, which then decays into a stable isotope. So, after a few years, what's left is not radioactive anymore. If however, the coolant gets contaminated with particles from the nuclear fuel, then it becomes more complex.

For modern reactors, the Department of Energy envisions using Triso fuel, which they consider to be virtually indestructible [1]. If that is so, then the coolant in sodium-cooled fast reactors can be considered a very law level waste.

Another type of waste is the structural steel around the core subjected to the neutron bombardment coming from the core. That steel, when activated, transmutes into some isotopes that have a half-life of decades, so that's a bit nasty. That's not specific to fast reactors, it's something in common with regular reactors.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/triso-particles-most-robu...
One’s social identity should not play a role at work.

Companies should reject candidates who have are so clouded by their social identity that they can’t make good objective decisions.

This goes both ways, a candidate who takes pride in their identity as someone from a higher caste should be rejected as should one who feels oppressed because they are lower caste. Anyone who can’t focus on the work because of their social identity is a liability.

The only kind of talk they should hold is how to grow and get better at your job.

You can take any arbitrary characteristic of a person and find someone who likes/dislikes them because of it. The solution is to take power away from people who care about those characteristics that don’t pertain to work.

Tired of this nonsense that has taken over the world, wish we could go back to a time when we could appreciate the pure technical contributions of Einstein, Turing, Ramanujan and Marie Curie instead of primarily viewing them as a Jew, Gay, Indian and Woman.
1. You're right people should do that

2. It doesn't matter, because not everybody will and it's easier to make a better product than educate and change the habits of the world.

(Especially when it's now okay to do both on some search engines, but only one option on others, with no instruction manual on which is which)
Now if only those few rogue websites start working properly with Firefox, I'll have no more reasons to keep Chrome around
Good point, I’m sure more exist today and will be created in the future.
we're agreeing that the talk should have occurred, if DEI talks are already occurring there

when I was in Mountain View, and again on Blind App, I got the feeling that it was a completely distinct culture that found like company. Everything from relationship woes, to the role of an employee at first could hide behind the maladjusted software enthusiast stereotype, but it crumbles and reveals itself as a high concentration of South Asian transplants which isn't obvious at first, but makes more sense when its noticed. For a region that diverse, it could be useful to understand what is disproportionate in the pipelines from there to Google.
True, so they have to be very careful. But what he describes has been my experience. Every time I've seen a doctor for a physical my doctors(more than one) have spent the majority of time typing on a keyboard looking up information, going thru a list and filling out forms. Rarely has it been a situation of analyzing the situation and giving advice on their own. They are just going thru the motions, some of them robot like. Those visits could have easily been done by assistants (AI?). At some point a lot of it will be replaced by automation with a few superstar doctors that act as managers at scale rather than what we would hope doctors should be. The article is on point.
I don't know what that is but yes I'd totally get rid of it. As well as the people complaining about me getting rid of it.

They don't call me The Cleaner for nothing.
Because the stats have been completely misinterpreted in the thread by all the commenters. Kind of like the work visa vs green card legal requirements mass confusion on HN(and all the other tech forums) whenever H1B is discussed. No one is making that "odd argument".

rayiner's comment about 90% of Indian-Americans not thinking discrimination is a big problem is about perceived racism from non-Indian Americans. If you read the link it's about racist Twitter posts about an Indian American by what looks like white folks. No mention of caste. Nothing about internal casteism in the Indian community.

I say this as a HN'er but sorry HN can be just dumb sometimes.
Why cant you take $100 in donations to make an apple developer account and throw it on the app store?
> stores that sell photographic film, or stores that sell movies

You'll be happy to hear that Yep selects neither for top positions: https://yep.com/web?q=Film+store+in+los+angeles. Google, Bing, and Yahoo all get this perfectly right.

Other searches are much worse.

"los angeles, where to purchase roll of film" top 3 results: https://i.imgur.com/UxEXD0N.png

1. The movie Battle: Los Angeles on Vudu

2. A fake viagra spam with "la" in the domain

3. The LA muncipality definition of an "Unincorporated Area"
I'd imagine it's due to a systemic disadvantage. Even if there are programs in place today to attempt to bring equity to the situation, the past and inherited poverty shape us and influence the opportunities we might have.
You can predetermine function stack sizes as long as you don't do anything resembling C's "alloca" (Rust doesn't support alloca directly, but it supports dynamically-sized types in some contexts which would stymie this). But from there you need to use that information to figure out the maximum stack usage of the program, which means exhaustively determining all possible execution paths, which can be a hard problem (you also need to forbid recursion, even mutual recursion, which languages generally don't try to do (something something y-combinator)).
If you refuse to consider someone for something (anything!) based on their race, then, by definition, that is race-based discrimination.

I think many people are a lot more tolerant of discrimination in dating, though, even if it's (IMO) unfortunate. People who don't date outside their race are really closing their minds and their worlds to a lot of potentially great possibilities. I get that many people do it because of parental approval/disapproval, and I can absolutely understand the desire not to piss off parents in that way, but it's still a shame.
I was talking purely about what the GDPR might require you to do. That Thunderbird tells you more in no way necessarily means that GDPR requires it. GDPR doesn't prevent you from voluntary disclosing information. With extremely high likelihood, telling the user that your computer will remember your e-mail address in an application completely under your control that will never send it anywhere else on its own, just so that you wouldn't have to re-type it every time, is not something that GDPR forces you to do. Not to mention that privacy statements don't necessarily have to satisfy just one party. A single privacy statement may incorporate clauses to satisfy all the local requirements that an internationally operating entity making that statement is obligated to satisfy.
Was he really pushed out of Facebook for being a Trump supporter?
I was thinking the same thing. I don't see how paying creators directly disincentivizes SEO spam.
why is this guy so famous/popular. he sold some website 20 years ago and hasn't done anything since. not to mention, his advice is often just bad or wrong. it's like Seth Godin..someone who is hugely successful and famous despite being so mediocre.
00 flour is great for baking and pizzas!
Seems like it's not a tool problem, then - it's an attitude problem :)
No worries, I don't think you're being contrarian - I think projects that properly do this stuff have trouble rising above the micro-framework-style projects.

https://github.com/secretkeysio/jelly-actix-web-starter

I put all of this together some time ago, explicitly modeled after Django. This repo isn't up to date with actix-web 4 as I've been too busy with other (paying) work, but it absolutely exists. I've used this for services in production with no issues. I really do need to get time to finish and push the updates though.

Mine isn't even the first, I'm pretty sure there are others working in this space. Just needs the right people pushing it.
I suppose it's okay to complain about foreign investors owning residences, but not businesses?
At what benefit, you mean?

Slowly, more and more companies are taking a stance against activism. Coinbase did it, BaseCamp, and recently Netflix drew a line in the sand.
My work is often little internal tools and a few b2b websites. I hate down time due to bugs. I still get nervous when I install to production. Always taking back up after back up and talking myself through the process of rebuilding from scratch. Just in case this time I have to.

Would formal methods help with code at this level?

I suspect the cost benefit isn't there. Though I wish it was. I've seen the difference between having tests and not having them. Development time decreases, and my stress levels decrease. Is this the same with formal methods?
There is huge discrimination between upper and lower castes, I wasn't aware of it until I actually discussed this with an indian friend because of some news, he basically said society needs people to clean and labor work if they weren't to do it who would do it. I was mind blown to find out my life long friend was secretly equivalent of kkk member. And he saw nothing wrong with it. Upper caste people infact treat other religions/races better than the lower caste. Good luck preventing this discrimination in hiring if company isn't actively caring about this. Name is enough to revel what cast you are part of. Many companies take great measures in creating diversity in hiring boards/committees but completely ignore regional discriminations that can exist within same race of people based on dialect, culture, religion sect, cast, or whatever historical reasons there are. They care so much about unconscious biases yet introduce people with active biases in the name of diversity and defeating the whole point. You can see this in large offices, during lunch certain indians will hangout with non-indians than other indians it's because they are seen as inferior by their fellow country men.

Biases I've noticed:

Chinese have positive bias toward whites

Chinese have strong positive bias toward other chinese

Chinese have slight negative bias toward indian

Chinese have strong negative bias toward blacks

Indians have strong negative bias toward lower caste

Indians have moderate negative bias toward muslims/pakistan

Indians have positive bias toward white

White women have positive bias toward black

White women have negative bias toward white men

White men have strong positive bias toward other white men

White men have positive bias toward asian

White men are neutral toward chinese, hispanic, indian, pakistan...

White men have slight negative bias toward older women

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not enough personal data points to tell about muslims, hispanics, black and other groups and subgroups.

you can see this dynamic play out during lunch, in voting, and other various social interactions.
You have to be careful is all I’m saying, on both sides (as an investor or entrepreneur). Also, many times audit also means documenting your systems, reducing bus factor and decreasing time spent for new employees during onboarding.
By “studying it” I’d be fine with, like, reading Wikipedia articles.

The people who say “steelman” a lot aren’t just busy with other things. They’re like full time bloggers and write huge essays constantly about their own system of critical rationalism and thinking correctly and all that, all philosophical topics.

Avoiding the literature is more intentional. Part because they want their community to use all different words so they’ll sound different and engineer-y. Part because they’d be annoyed that midcentury philosophy already tried their project and now thinks it doesn’t work.
Personally I'd rather less fuel in the religious fire
I'd rather /g/ for the infinite gentoo memes, but seriously there are multiple boards more interesting than the stormfront containment board
Central Market is also in Houston and maybe other places - definitely not just an Austin thing.

My biggest complaint is that they don’t take Apple Pay, which I assume means they are doing something scummy with data collection.
The company's job is to maximize profits. If it's not doing that, then it's leaving money on the table, doing a disservice to its shareholders, and creating an opening for its competitors. Exploitation isn't always conducive to this goal.

It's the government's responsibility to deal with exploitation and create laws to prevent it.
You hold the standard European view on this, which is that we can "fake it till we make it", just treat everybody as equal and eventually racism will go away.

Unfortunately, this doesn't really seem to be happening, which is where you get the American view: oppressed minorities need to be actively supported so they can become more equal. But this, paradoxically, requires labeling the oppressed and stokes more of the division it seeks to eliminate.

My preferred solution comes from the hippie era: we simply need to fuck until we're all a nice shade of chocolate.
I use a homegrown web app that uses GnuCash behind the scenes via a Python Flask app. Works just well enough that I don't have to open GnuCash anymore.

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Source code:
https://github.com/bxbrenden/GnuCash-Helper