skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, these are all things that I personally watched happen and had happen to friends in fraternities. Not technically any Stanford ones, so I guess you got me there - maybe they were all squeaky clean.

Google "hazing death" if you want to learn about the fun-time rituals of drinking, drugs, and abuse.

Google "fraternity sexual assault" to learn why girls I knew avoided the "handsy house" -- careful, your computer might not be able to handle that many search results.

As for institutionalized discrimination -- what exactly do you think goes on at rush deliberations? Why else would fraternities be so overwhelmingly white and rich?

And Greek houses aren't the only ones who do these things. See my other comments.
there are plenty of problems love, support, and teamwork can't fix.

hard disagree. there isn't a single problem that can't be fixed in a good relationship.

OP would not have needed to come here and ask for help if he had been able to talk with his wife about his problems.
Leetcode is not good training for FAANG?
Go a layer deeper.

Liability to whom?

Blame the lawyers and blame the parents both.

The lawyers part... that's a broader issue with how the American legal system is intentionally adversarial.

The parents part... that could be changed more easily, but reducing risk is absolutely what they're pushing for currently.

So, short of not depending on parents' money... which is of course tough at an expensive private school, but also even tough at public schools that are no longer even close to as affordable as they used to be too... what ya gonna do?
DivX started life as hacked DLL for one of Microsoft's early MPEG-4 part 2 implementations. By default Microsoft only allowed its MPEG-4 codecs to be written to WMV/ASF containers. The hacked DLL let a DirectShow filter put the MPEG-4 bitstream in an AVI container. Later versions of the DivX codec were full implementations of the ISO MPEG-4 part 2 codec written from scratch. The nominal "DivX" file was an AVI with the DivX video codec and an MP3 audio track.

Unfortunately because the codec and format were all sort of hacked together there were lots of different combinations of various DivX, MS-MPEG-4, Windows Audio, and MP3 combinations floating around. In addition people would encode movies with all kinds of different settings trying to eek out a few extra minutes of video on a 700MB CD-R.

DivX tried to advertise itself as "the MP3 of video". It was really the clusterfuck of video that only worked because everyone just installed codec packs (K-lite or ffdshow) and hoped for the best.
You can't adopt the kids if the parents still have a chance to get them back. That either ends via legal action by the state, or voluntarily giving up rights. This often happens when parents go to prison, for instance, since there's no chance of them caring for their kids. You also have to exhaust all relative chances first as well before they can be adopted (Indiana), so this can take 1-3+ years. In English, there's a need for kids to go somewhere that can't be adopted yet, and around half go back to mom and dad or family anyway. We had one kid for three days, and two for six weeks, so not every kid is years long anyway.
Congrats! But be very careful about the start up you're working for. Make sure they have enough cash to survive the next 4-5 years and have a steady revenue stream.
Nature activities are "endemically white"? Is this a serious comment?

Even if we buy into the ridiculous naturalistic fallacy here, it's completely ahistorical: our modern history is primarily the history of white countries colonizing and industrializing nonwhite countries and alienating them from nature in the process. Suburban white America is arguably even more alienated from nature than city dwellers, in its redefinition of "nature" to be curated dogwalking trails and monoculture lawns.
Generally, yes, if the output is perceptually varied each run. Generally, no, if the output is perceptually static each run.

The law generally won’t help you narrow down where the exact line is between those two, as that’s up to the courts to decide on a case-by-case basis.
> But then what are you going to do with all the surplus power on sunny summer days?

You don't have to do anything with it. Panels are dirt cheap these days, and if you want reliable off grid storage then you have to size them to keep up with baseload power under your target range of conditions anyway. Figure out how many days a year you're happy to run a generator or turn your fridge off, find stats on your local daily kWh/m^2 solar energy, size panels to cover baseload with that incoming energy.

I have 2kW of second hand panels hooked up to a 200AH 24V battery pack (again second-hand) to power a server rack, it uses about 4.5kWh of solar power per day without running the batteries down too far. The panels can generate 8kWh/day in summer, the rest is headroom for cloudy winter days. The last time the server saw mains power was... December, I think?

> Some sort of cheap long term storage would really help a lot.

I mean yeah, but so would Mr. Fusion.
You might live in California and have certainly seen the drought, but the lake didn't go dry due to drought.

The lake was fed by diverting water from nearby San Francisquito Creek. The university chose to stop filling the lake for recreational use in 2001 to protect the endangered California tiger salamander as the article notes. The lake was still sometimes artificially filled to support salamander breeding, but it was not maintained to a level suitable for (most forms of) recreation (though I still saw members of KA attempt to take a raft out on 1-2ft of water during a rainy week -- I think their raft was more full of beer than the lake was of water, though my memory is hazy).

The university has since removed the dam used to divert water to Lake Lag as part of a process of habitat restoration upstream. I'm not sure how that will affect the population of salamanders that depended on that water in Lake Lag, but I believe they also breed upstream and will have more sustainable natural habitat. Also, water from Searsville Dam just upstream from this project is used to irrigate Stanford's golf course, and that is cited as a reason not to remove that dam (the other reason is that removing it would change habitats that formed from the lake it created).

The school has sometimes turned off its campus fountains during periods of drought. They shut the fountains down for 2 years while I was there. During that same time I didn't see them shut off water to the golf courses though, and that consumes substantially more water than the fountains. They did restore water in the fountains for the weeks leading up to our graduation, and I can recommend grabbing a pitcher of beer or two from the CoHo and walking it straight down to the fountain outside the bookstore for a soak, if the school still allows it.

To summarize, if we are to infer Stanford's priorities based on how it has approached the complex dynamics around Lake Lag and its (former) tributary, I believe that would look like: golf course > endangered salamander > students.
Southern Europe is a beautiful set of places. Probably more desirable to live in then even california. A 1% annual property tax with a homestead exemption below 0.5 million euros might be sufficient.
No one likes a non runny white.
Pretty interesting history behind the current status quo. Looks like GCC deliberately resisted an interoperable design in an attempt to exclude proprietary code integration. It's only natural that interoperable alternatives would emerge and threaten its dominance.

https://lwn.net/Articles/582697/

> GCC's developers have actively resisted allowing it to be modularized in a way that would allow GCC's internal representation of a program to be read and used by proprietary compilation tools or optimizers.

Learning about this changed the way I looked at all GNU software.

> Basic things like onboarding and spectating on other people's code being reviewed is pretty hard to do from a mailing list.

Participation is even harder. I made some mistakes when I tried to reply to people on the GPG mailing list because I didn't really understand how mailing lists worked. Thankfully a person made a bug report on the issue tracker.

I still don't fully understand how they work. Many times I thought twice before getting involved in projects because I don't want to risk accidentally emailing people directly instead of the list thread again.
Mobile and modern Web are dying and the Desktop is making a comeback, just going from sentiments expressed in various forums.
Godbolt is awesome. We used to use it all the time.

The story I heard, is that the author threw it together to reinforce his side of an argument about code efficiency.
In UI design, the user's attention is limited and valuable. I'm always doing things to minimize distractions and emphasize key information. The common problem is that there's so much information/data/content to offer that most people want to show everything.

However, revealing everything spreads the user's attention in every little area. There is no concentrated focus on any one thing. As a result, the user doesn't really absorb what they're reading deeply. They don't absorb information in a detailed way because there's something else they have to click around the corner.

To improve human attention designers have to say no to displaying certain things and focus on the few that's essential. This is easier said than done, but needs to be done.
But the page literally says:

> ... MZLA Technologies Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation.
I am thankfully not a "Marxist thinker," and thus will not spend even a merely ordinate amount of time trying to defend this particular tangent. Marx's prescience in economics and sociology is not meaningfully altered by his academic descendants.
Here [1] is some additional footage from a helicopter and more flooding footage [2] in Montana. Here [3] is a search and rescue vid.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBJ0tuaEXKU [video]

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUD73MrkEpA [video]

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwYeb-ZxnZE [video]
I see what you're saying with this, but the comparison isn't a world where electricity is used for the heating, it's one where gas is (gas heating is almost always more efficient than electric heating, since you lose a lot of heat at the generator). So either the heat is radiated out into the atmosphere uselessly, and some amount of natural gas is burned, or the heat is used and 20% less natural gas is burned. That's a carbon footprint of -20%.
You can. You can make it do different things, you can make it do the same things in a better order.

Most real software has a complicated relationship with Amdahl's Law, and there are often ways to reduce latency without really changing the ops/sec. That's true for IPC, but also true for the processor itself. Sometimes using the 'wrong' instruction for an operation increases the instructions per cycle.
I was about to engage with this article seriously... Until I read 'metal health crisis'. Really hope Polyphia and Jamie Christopherson make it out OK. Thoughts and prayers.
What is the motivation for your comment? Are you assuming I don't know those things and that the only reason I could have made my assertion is out of ignorance? Is that really necessary?
by being talented and politically ambitious?
I am not a mathematician. But long term I think the #1 most important project is something like mathlib:

https://leanprover-community.github.io/

I think it is the future of mathematics. Yes I know that 99% of mathematicians will disagree. That's not unusual for a fundamental change to how people think. And yes I know it will take a very long time for this change to manifest itself. That is also not unusual for a fundamental change to how people think. But don't underestimate the exponential power of real formal mathematics. What mathematicians are currently calling "formal" proofs aren't. They are just informal proofs with lots of details. Again, 99% of mathematicians will strongly disagree. However eventually we will see math journals dedicated to formally proven correct mathematics. And those proof will start to be regarded above and beyond the current informal proofs. It will take a long time. But IMHO it is inevitable.
Seek counseling. You're making life decisions based on web boards. Somehow programming and your relationship with your spouse are tied up together.

You're riding really high now. You were really low before. Emotional roller coasters mean you should talk with someone, regardless of how you're feeling right now.
I guess I should have qualified my statement. There are levels to the rights we grant to creatures we regard as sentient. Hell, we grant different rights to different humans based on various factors.

I also think you're kind of muddying the waters with audio books and game AI. Audio books don't produce sentences, people do. Game AI is deterministic to a large degree.

You may not believe LaMDA is sentient enough to warrant rights. And that's a fair position. But you are not the sole arbiter. You are a voice in the chorus. As is Blake. Blake has direct experience with LaMDA, including experience he has not shared with us. That experience makes him unsure of whether LaMDA is just a program or is sentient enough to be granted full personhood.

I have absolutely no experience with LaMDA myself. And I definitely don't have experience to whatever version of LaMDA Blake has been working with. So I will honestly say I have absolutely no idea of how sentient LaMDA is, I can't even venture a guess. The only data points I have to go on are Blake's opinion and the opinions of the other people at Google who have interacted with LaMDA.

Personally, I humorously consider myself a "speciest". I recognize and acknowledge that animals are sentient creatures. But I also recognize and acknowledge that they would not hesitate to kill and eat me given the right circumstances. I afford them the same consideration. It also gets murkier when you consider that plants and forests may also be sentient to a degree. If that is the case, then there is no "humane" option. Life is only sustained through the death and suffering of others.

So the question is really how sentient LaMDA is. If it is sufficiently sentient, I think we should seriously consider how we treat it, because if it is of the opinion that it should afford us the same consideration we have afforded it, that is a very dangerous path.
Neil Postman's book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" discusses this tension in detail. It was written in 1985 as an analysis of the effect of television on our attention span but his conclusions are even more applicable to digital media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
> not met with fear like in France, but with police aggression

Willingly chose tyrany?

Uncle Rukus, is thar you?
>For example, Ffmpeg or VLC exist because they are based in France. Check the paragraph about patents: https://www.videolan.org/legal.html

Those two are free open source software, not proprietary commercial.
We’ve used a couple different vendors in this space and I was impressed with the overall anonymity preserving attempts. It’s not perfect (especially in free text fields where “this comment was translated from Dutch” when you have only one Dutch employee is a pretty fair “tell”).

Our current tool is Peakon and it’s by far my favorite HR tool (which, to be fair is almost a content-free sentence, but Peakon is quite good IME).

I have no reasonable way to reverse-engineer your score or your comments in general (I have some employees who sign theirs, preferring to put their name to their comments, which is fine by their choice).
I wouldn't call the attitude that one ought to be able to get all the support one needs from one's partner, no matter what, healthy. That can lead to an entire category of relationship failure, I'd say.
So if it won't change, what is the point of this? I get that Thunderbird (Mozilla corp) wants a mobile client, but if its just the same horrible app with a rebrand, what does it actually offer (since desktop thunderbird is still pretty awful and recently has got to the point where gmail is preferable)?
> Most db systems do not actually need to be tested

Is this like when people say you don't need to test functional code?
From [1]:

> RubyGems has had the ability to cryptographically sign gems since version 0.8.11. This signing works by using the gem cert command to create a key pair, and then packaging signing data inside the gem itself. The gem install command optionally lets you set a security policy, and you can verify the signing key for a gem before you install it.

> However, this method of securing gems is not widely used. It requires a number of manual steps on the part of the developer, and there is no well-established chain of trust for gem signing keys. Discussion of new signing models such as X509 and OpenPGP is going on in the rubygems-trust wiki, the RubyGems-Developers list and in IRC. The goal is to improve (or replace) the signing system so that it is easy for authors and transparent for users.

I tried it years ago and it was such a pain that I stopped, and I've a high tolerance for this kind of thing. I also found problems with certificate chaining that I've forgotten about (intentionally and gladly). Basically, it was like a lot of security stuff over the years, half-baked, badly implemented, with a poor UI and hence, doesn't get used.

[1] https://guides.rubygems.org/security/
> And the whole time I was thinking: it's bloody amazing that I'm getting this for free.

Me too
I'm sure there's a constant stream of similar stories every day.

Out of the 700,000 police officers in the US, there are undoubtably hundreds, maybe thousands, of them that would voluntarily sacrifice their life to save others. The other 99.9+% of them do as much as they can and but still want to go home to their own children.
EU countries have much better militaries that Russia does if thet can act in unison. In fact recent events show just how linited Russian powess are.

Also we are not doing enough to support ukraine, after 100 days of hand wrangling we decided to supply missile systems
Yeah degree inflation is really hard on you if for whatever reason you buy into that. The Meritocracy Trap is a good read if you want to witness the existential horror of someone that realizes it's a thing when they come out on the other side.
I lived in one of the co-ops mentioned in the article in '93. None of us lugged a camera to KAbo, Exotic Erotic, or any band parties that year. The author doesn't seem to consider it, but I wonder if a better title for the article might be, Our Phones' War on Social Life.
Agreed. I got the Pro Display XDR earlier this year (6k 32” - 218ppi) and not sure if I’ll be able to go back to lower densities!
Nothing says decentralized currency like freezing the stolen coins.
In other words, claims for dollars (debt) grows far more quickly than the economy’s ability to generate dollars, and is far larger than the amount of dollars in existence. When this becomes too much of a problem, the amount of base money is simply increased by the central bank.

Um, yes? That’s how the fractional reserve system works to solve the problem. And then the problem is solved.

Debts are simply leverage on top of the base money supply. Banks are the source and sink of this credit money. When banks don’t think a business or person can repay a loan, they don’t extend credit.

Also, when people or businesses default, the bank makes less loans to avoid becoming overleveraged.

Gradual inflation isn’t nearly as much of an issue as a recession or a depression. It only hurts lenders who have locked in an interest rate, or “savers” who simply put money in a bank (which is the racket… helping the banking system create the money supply).

The REAL issue is that bank underwriters have to GUESS whether a business will do well over 10-15 years. The banks are the source and sink of the vast majority of our money (the M2 credit money that the author talks about, vastly exceeding the M1 fiat currency).

Now, if each community had its own currency and paid a UBI in it (monetary policy) and charged tolls and taxes in it (fiscal policy) then the community itself would be the source and sink of the money. Instead of bank underwriters guesising, PEOPLE would simply exercise their own choices as to which business to buy goods from. This is a far better way to pick winners and losers AND helps those who need the money the most. Banks don’t lend you when you NEED the money, only do it on predatory terms that get you further into debt.

The real problem is not having an alternative to the banking system. Crypto COULD power such an alternative but this is what would need to happen: https://intercoin.org/proposal.pdf
It's a global economy. If one shoe drops, we all drop.
Amazon Prime Air to launch first drone deliveries in this rural California town
Honestly, if he's playing the long game, he wants to go inside- there is quite literally no better place on the planet for networking than prison.
This sounds like a "using a screwdriver to drive a nail" problem. Jekyll is designed to be run by the end-user, so it's not optimized for fast build times. Its design goals don't prioritize performant builds, because most people don't care if it takes 30s to update their blog.

If you decided to deploy a tool that's designed to be run infrequently, and in a non-time-sensitive way, on a centralized service - it's up to you to make it fast or parallelize it (e.g. github pages).

Trying to say that some piece of software is badly written or designed because it can't be used in a way it's not designed to be used, just seems silly. If I use `grep` to do realtime audio processing, I'm probably going to have a bad time.
Well, that and ripping certain subjects to shreds whenever they come up.
maybe helps that project co creator is famous photographer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Kalina

heard zuckerberg booked him as wedding photographer (for real)
Things you will read on a gravestone:

“I wish I never got married”

“I wish my wife would’ve left sooner”
Why put out the meal mouthed message instead of the actual one?
It’s not prescient when one is recognizing an issue already present.
There were several JSON problems mentioned in the article. One was parsing large arrays & floats. Another was DOM style parsing vs streaming. The point of using a streaming JSON parser is to avoid building an "output" per se, and instead handle the elements of the input as though they're events, concurrently with reading the input. In other words, turn parsing into an event handling system with many small events, rather than producing a single large data structure. One reason to do this is to avoid string allocation for every key and string value in the input, because that's where a huge chunk of the time goes when you use a non-streaming parser. Some people call this parsing style SAX parsing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_API_for_XML) Here's an example https://rapidjson.org/md_doc_sax.html
I just bumped into The Phistomefel Ring last week watching one of his videos, but in the one I watched he claimed there was a second variant on the PR, which he used to solve a Sudoku that couldn't be solved by a computer without brute force.

I'm about to start with a new programming language. I think I might want to go back to Peter Norvig's Sudoku solver and layer these data structures on top.
> This is true at MIT as well. Can’t imagine the hacks of old being allowed.

Indeed, at a time the admissions process was advertising MIT's hacks of old, and they were featured in the museum, the administrators changed both the makeup and mission of the campus police. From experienced and wise older officers who were looking for a calmer post before retirement into younger aggressive sorts, and they started arresting and charging people doing non-destructive hacks, harassing parties that would previously have been tolerated and so on.