skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every single person I've met in my life that was racist or sexist or whatever-ist (including myself) has only become a better person and more open-minded when they were forced to work in close proximity to people of other races and cultures. As to myself, I was raised in a pretty racist place in the USA, and via the military I met so many other people that I finally realized that the stereotypes I was taught about others were incorrect, or at least if they were correct there was some cultural context to why that stereotype had been warped from the original context. I think it's better to randomly throw people of different races, sexes, and cultures together than not, personally, even if it makes business a bit less productive or the person hired is slightly less optimal for that position. We're not machines, after all, and shouldn't be treated like only our output matters.
Check out Place Not Race by Sheryll Cashin for a more nuanced, intellectual discussion:

https://www.amazon.com/Place-Not-Race-Opportunity-America/dp...
PoE is one of the few games that actually makes use of lots and lots of cores/threads.
Automate your way out of it
"Hey honey, do you want to go to the giant aircraft hanger filled with stores that sells junk we don't want, surrounded by a giant parking lot? Maybe we can go to one of the chain restaurants inside staffed by people who don't give a shit, and have a microwaved slice of pizza!"

Or I can go have a nice hike in the park, go to an actual restaurant afterwards, and buy the shit I don't need off of amazon.

For me the greatest disdain I have for malls is the lack of green space. I spend all day indoors. I don't want to go to a larger, more expensive room.
You have a 15A Fuse. You use a 12A Microwave, a 10A Toaster you have blow your breaker right there, and a 10A Bathroom vent?

if you run a separate circut for the Microwave, and separate your bathroom vent + your bathroom LED lights, you can run all of them at the same time with your toster. Running circuts is comparatively easy, vs installing a new 200A fuse box.
It's frustrating to see so much nationalism in this day and age.
I don't live in the US, and I don't care about good service.
Correct. And Alma Cogan is dead, but being Alma Cogan is not equivalent to being dead. They have other properties that differ. This article claims the two are equivalent.
Something like standard ML modernised, with a decent ecosystem.
No thanks. To take the contrary example, Kuwait is a constitutional monarchy by definition, almost taking the playbook of the English monarchy verbatim. Except that the monarch has the conditional right to dissolve the parliament for any "valid" reasons. Monarch hates the PM secretly? Monarch doesn't like a new law being signed into place? Monarch feels a bit whimsical? Find a pretext, dissolve the parliament, rule in absolute until the next elections, by which time he will have devised another method to dissolve the next government.
GPT-3 armed with a Python interpreter
Some data to back any of these feelings up would be helpful. Academics are well aware of the difficulties associated with wokeism and are actively working on finding practical solutions. This post feels very 2018.
The intent of this spec is to actually put "whatever Google did in protoc" into a readable format, so you don't have to read the C++ code. The official docs fall short on providing much of the details that are included.
"sort of comically smug"
I get the fun for a developer to set up something like this to experiment and learn new things. But I'm left with a question: why? Like, is there really a point aside for the aforementioned intrinsic dev fun?

There has to be a point of diminishing return. And again, I'm not discarding the dev side of things but it seems a lot of extra tooling and complexity cor not much gain.
I don't understand what your point is. A company hiring a woman with no relevant experience because she's the niece of the CTO is bad. A company hiring a woman with no relevant experience because she's the niece of the CTO but it's ok this time because she's a woman also seems bad. The former is "garden variety" nepotism, and we all agree it's bad. The latter is the new "woke" nepotism, but it's really the same as the former, with the "woke" part being used as an excuse.

How does that benefit anyone other than the people doing the nepotism?
No, you missed the point of my comment. A commute can be a positive thing. Not having a commute can be a negative thing. It depends on so many factors that claiming all commutes are bad is at best childish.
You can favorite comments, you just need to click the date to get to the page for that comment first.
"It's generalizing at a higher level than texture / image sampling and it can tween things in latent space to get to visual spaces that haven't been explored by human artists before."

The very fact that the model is interpolating between things in the latent space probably explains why its images haven't been explored by human artists before: because there is a disconnect between the latent space of the model and genuine "latent space" of human artistic endeavor, which is an interplay between the laws of physics and the aesthetic interests of humans. I think these models know very little about either of those things and thus generate some pretty interesting novelty.
Surely there's a middle ground, where you can put more RAM in your laptop but it also comes with working hinges.
Yes. And there are many Names to describe such grayness. You do not want to call "water" even weak wine as there are those who do not appreciate alcohol it contains
No. The correct answer is No.
It's not hard to come up with valid critiques of institutional DEI. But the blog post we're reading here is conclusory and derives almost entirely from a tendentious definition of a single word.
"Woke" is very different that other types of cover.
"Woke" gets celebrated and praised, and people have to pretend that hire wasn't hired due to nepotism.

As a manager whose been thru this rodeo, let me tell you what happens.

1. We have to have a mini celebration for "woke but really nepotistic" hire at big corporation.

2. We can never mention that persons skill or the "real" reason they got hired.

3. It gives the "elites" far more power to harass people via HR if they don't like the nepotism

4. The non-nepotism hires can become bitter and resentful, even more so when they have to pickup extra work for no department praise or celebrations if the "woke" hire is bad. I also have to give cover for the "woke" hire.

5. My team starts to collapse, and I have to negotiate all sorts of shit to keep my talented hires.

It's just an absolute nightmare when managing a high performance results required teams.
> The author isn't a rando! This is a tenured professor of philosophy at a major university. You know, writing like a high school sophomore on a message board.

Man, that's disappointing. I like Prof. Huemer's writings on free will and philosophy of mind [1] a lot ("Existence Is Evidence of Immortality" is a fun one). I was unaware of his blog up until now—reading it makes me think significantly less of him.

[1]: https://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/papers.htm
Out of curiosity: why write proto language implementations rather than protoc plugins?
You can say that AI art is bad. But you can also say that normal people have bad taste. So the two meet in the middle and the normal art-consumer is satisfied with his junk.

It's like fast food and normal people. Everybody knows it's crap but they eat the stuff by the megaton.

The argument againt AI art is an argument against popular markets, basically.
> Tornado Cash is a service, _run by an individual_ who was warned to cease serving sanctioned entities, and failed to do so.

This is false. The (vast majority of the) Tornado Cash contracts were either deployed to Ethereum as immutable contracts, or updated in 2020 to revoke mutability (once the final zkSNARK parameters were included) [0], meaning that they could not later be updated by the user(s) that deployed them. Arguing that Tornado Cash is run by an individual means arguing that the entire Ethereum network is run by an individual. There was no way for a warned individual to comply with that warning.

[0] https://www.coincenter.org/education/advanced-topics/how-doe... - Section titled "Can Tornado Cash be removed or updated? If so, by whom?"
Great project.

Is the code for this project or similar projects available on Github?

The unstated implications of all this are unsettling.
Yes anecdotes are a thing. My impression was that this post/thread was about massive societal change.
> A recent example is WakaTime, who replaced Celery with a custom-built queue. This effort took one week to build and productionise, and consisted of just 1,264 lines of Python.

What a load of BS. Wakatime doesn't even have tests, has been used by one person and has no error handler. It's 1k lines because it's alpha sotfware.

Celery is not the most fun to play with, but it's not big for nothing. It supports many routers AND result stores, and you can mix an match. It has several policies regarding errors, has a beat daemon, provide an API for monitoring and managing (see: https://flower.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ for UI), etc.

Also, you can use celery in a very bare bone setup using only the FS for routing and storage: https://www.distributedpython.com/2018/07/03/simple-celery-s...

I understand you may want to avoid celery. I had bad experiences with it myself. Most projects can get away with rq, or even just multiprocessing.Pool.

> Before embarking on the mission of creating a new task queue do survey the existing options, but make sure not to underestimate the hidden costs of using one, or the benefits that may come with writing one from scratch.

Writting your own task queue is like creating your own csv parser. It seems like a very simple task that is barely a for loop with a split. And then you start hitting edge cases after edge cases.

Basically you are coding an asynchronous, fault tolerant process manager including task serialization, communication protocol, priority queuing and lifecycle.

That's not something you usually want to do. The cost of using one is unlikely higher that the cost of creating, maintaining and documenting one. Just go with a simple existing task queue if you need something simple. Pypi is full of those.
Also not an ad-hominem argument! In fact, it's even less of an ad-hominem argument than "written like a teenager" is. And it is in fact smug!
Toronto UNIversity System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUNIS
I don't even think ideological / philosophical / political diversity is that good a thing. If you are the college admissions person, are you more likely to admit a eugenicist who thinks their ethnic group is best? I mean, that's a really unusual opinion for a prospective student to express! Wouldn't that increase diversity? You work in a media company and someone who wants to bring their niche fundamentalist religious perspective to your content - whoa, super diverse, right? Hospital hiring a witch doctor? Don't have too many of those on staff!

I think for the vast majority of positions what you want is someone who can do the job well and their ability will naturally constrain their opinions and experience and, in some cases, their demographic characteristics as well. For students you want smart people who have a documented history of being able to learn. Intellectual diversity should arrive naturally from a population of smart people trying to learn. Intellectual diversity should not be a goal itself.
I'm still living in 1708 Sweden, don't spoil anything for me!
Fun fact: this industry also has a habit of fraudulently remarking harvested chips (which are usually fine anyway) to look like brand-new ones. It caused a bit of a minor scandal in the retrocomputing community when this was found out.
And because the App Store does not allow to download the last version of an app compatible with an outdated version of iOS, I [as a 6s-ipadPro1 owner] should install now all the apps I need for the decades to come in their last iOS15-compatible version.

Note: I did that for my ipad1. And guess what? Those apps still work like a charm.
Got any concrete examples? I hear this a lot, but have never experienced it. I’ve been using Firefox as my primary desktop browser for years now. I can’t think of any website that didn’t function. But maybe I encountered one and just thought the site was down?
I'd agree that those sorts of outcomes are just as bad as ignoring the problems of internalised systemic biases towards particular sexes, age groups, racial backgrounds or lack of obvious but irrelevant physical disabilities.
We may not have found the best way to ensure that a 60yo black, wheelchair-bound woman is just as likely to be chosen on merit as a 30yo white able-bodied man yet but it doesn't seem we shouldn't keep trying.
The absurdity that statement art highlights is how artistic merit is assigned more so on the artist than on any inherent quality of the art itself.
It's a MikroTik issue in the end, their buffers are too simply too small for the interface speeds they support. It's part of being budget chips. Flow control is a poor solution as it blocks all flows whenever one flow makes things busy, best is just a properly scaled chip.

I swapped a more expensive "low end" (for the family) Broadcom Trident 3 based switch in in place of 2 different 10G MikroTik boxes and the mixed speed transfers are now behaving exactly like one would expect without any flow control.
I mostly agree, if you remove disincentives people do seem to like biking a lot better.

That said, 12C is pretty warm for cycling actually. Are you sure you're not confused with F? At 12C you don't even need a hat yet. (And at that temperature you can actually ride pretty fast without needing a shower either.)
>If your life is so good you will be happier than any substance could make you feel

this is massively false because nothing compares to injecting heroin which is why its so hard to quit and life becomes dull once clean
no, it's money laundering even if the funds haven't been procured from criminal activity. The regulations don't care where the money comes from, they're just specifying what reporting needs to happen around the movement of money. Not being able to properly describe where the money comes from is a crime.

I've worked in the finance industry, and I've worked with people who've seen bad guys turn up with suitcases full of other people's money. I'm totally happy that these regulations are in place.
This kind of thing has been around for a while, e.g. https://nexdock.com/ these days, or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G 10 years ago.
I realised what they were doing on the second photo/video.

OMG that's the most terrifying thing I have seen in ages.

Amazing, innovative, tipping-point-sign, but still, terrifying
I'm not a fan of having a such a large USB-C hub built into the laptop at all. This adapter shows the weird compromise where there is not enough space inside the laptop for a complicated adapter but a non-trivial amount of space inside the chassis is still being used.

I'd much rather have more battery volume inside the computer with all the USB-C ports directly exposed and then have the option to carry around a USB-C dongle with the extra ports I might need.
The implication is that somehow being correct in an argument matters more than tone, which is... childish.

If you want to have a productive argument (as opposed to just being an asshole screaming at passerby) you need to convince people that you are worth engaging.

This means showing good faith and not being overly dismissive (i.e. tone).
I wrote my own in-process task queue in Go tailored to my needs.
I needed auto-scaling and ability to connect different pools into a pipeline.
https://github.com/cmitsakis/workerpool-go
> Uber was hard on the taxi industry, but fundamentally you still have drivers taking people from A to B. First you had to call the cab company now you use an app. It's an improvement, but not truly disruptive. Not like level 5 self-driving cars would be.

>Amazon and Walmart by contrast did disrupt entire industries. Independent book shops and mom&pop retailers saw the writing on the wall. They knew they couldn't survive facing this kind of competition, and largely, they didn't.

Sorry, I’m still not seeing the distinction you’re making between these cases. You say that with Uber, it makes no difference because there are still drivers going from “point A to B” (a pickup to a destination), but it was a huge difference with Walmart because small shops “saw the writing on the wall”.

But … in both cases you have the same service still being provided (rides and retailing) and the unprofitability of smaller providers (small shops vs taxicab companies).

If there is a difference between the two, could you highlight it clearly and in plain language?
One of my colleagues broke one when he fumbled an extra large gum ball.
To be fair, we all mostly thought the Russian exercises in January and early February in Donetsk and Crimea were just grandstanding, and now look where we are...
Google actually requested that the community contribute to a real specification.
https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/6188#issu...

So we've taken the initiative. No rent-seeking.
Japan Won Its ‘Traffic War’
As a copenhagener i fucking love my bike commute. I feel very safe, I'm able to zip across the city faster than most types of transports for <7km distances.

I also actively pick jobs where I'm forced to ride my bike to get some medium level activity. Several times I've thought about trying to live and work in other cities and I'm not sure I could live without this part of my day. I can really recommend it. American urban design is just really unattractive as a european due to being so anti-human and pro-car.
Ah, yes I forgot to mention that part of the idea is that everyone on that particular "smart freeway" would be required to have the hardware to support it, no exceptions.

Yes, I understand that would be quite regressive and has a host of other concerns. However, for the narrow purposes of easier, safer, and more efficient driving while on the freeway, I do still wonder if it will work.
Why is an ebike so impractical in Texas when motorcycles are so popular? And what about all the people on bicycles/motorcycles/scooters in even hotter regions like Vietnam and India?
The relationship between plant-based diet and risk of digestive system cancers
>Without the added context of the original book's description, since it seems no one was aware of it, do you think the uproar was justified?

No, I don't think willful ignorance justifies cancel culture.
That's a good point. However, when a phrase becomes its opposite, we should take notice. PRC and Holy Roman Empire come to mind. ;-)
But they do not have 10k followers on the Fosstodon instance; that doesn't really make sense unless you were awkwardly counting only followers from other users of that instance. They have 10k followers on the whole network. At any rate, it's still conflating the software with one instance that is running it.
Wait, when did this stop being the norm?
They are! Unless you'd like it to be a USB A card occasionally. Or and SD reader. Or you would like to buy a laptop that lets you choose exactly what ports you want, with the power to change it any time.

In that case, an expansion slot sounds nice.
Why do you assume it would be to tick a box? A movie that reckons with war should reckon with the people it leaves behind. I don't see how that's "ticking a box".
Sure does... also the Intel announcement is on the same date that AMD releases their new chips.
Wow... my whole desktop setup, with 3 screens, a 7-year-old intel CPU, a gaming GPU, and a grip of hard drives is showing a draw of 143W right now, up to 289W under stress (prime95). 235W just for the CPU is nuts.
why do you make that assumption?
I wasn't disagreeing with you. I agree culture is the most important factor regardless. Maybe doing work in the open can exacerbate a toxic culture, but idk it was just one experience.
The same is true in other industries. For example, most of the cooking in a professional kitchen is done by the more junior cooking staff. The head chef doesn't actually cook much, but handles more logistics like the ordering of the food/wines and dealing with suppliers, planning the menu, maintaining a high level of service.
I am still using Fireworks, it's the main reason I'm hanging back on Mac OS Mojave on my personal machine (Catalina drops support along w/ all the 32 bit apps). And I'm waffling between getting a hold of the Windows version and using that indefinitely or just learning something else that has raster / vector combined.
Ask HN: Is there a Stable Diffusion for music?
I've seen some models like MuseGAN but nothing yet that has the same level of performance and generality as Stable Diffusion (granted, they are different applications). Does such a model exist?
How come HN isn't full of death threats and toxicity and generally objectionable hate content?

Your online community will adapt and shape itself to fit the moderation scheme and environment you build for. 4chan doesn't attract the clientele it does because shitty people flock to it, 4chan has the clientele it does because it's one of the only places shitty people can go be shitty in public and not be ostracized for it.

If you run a business, it's okay for you to tell shitty people that they aren't welcome, as long as you don't consider them shitty because of their skin color, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. Banning someone for personal opinions or disgusting (to you) takes is a 1st amendment right of an individual and business.

It's not cloudflare's responsibility to ensure that websites run by people they don't like remain reliable and capable of weathering attacks on their infrastructure. If cloudflare thinks you aren't doing enough to not be a toxic, violent, gross cesspit of hatred, it doesn't matter if you are actually working 24/7 to take down bad stuff.

If I'm the biggest billboard maker in the US, I am within my right to not sell any billboards to the people who put up anti-abortion advertisements, purely because I don't like their message.
Why would this be better than the Rust Book?

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/
That sounds great, but what's the governance story? Are the authors of the spec document committing to keeping the document up to date here henceforth? Are the protoc maintainers committing to have these folks involved in project direction decisions?
I use them as garbage bags, and to pick up after my dog.
Don't get confused by the terminology and don't get into word-thinking. A "contract" on the blockchain is nothing like a "contract" in the legal sense. Even if I get your signature on a blockchain saying that you are transferring your assets to me, there won't be any court willing to uphold this. In the same vein, it's not because that people talk about TC as a smart contract that gives it legal backing or makes it subject to the legalities of a "real world" contract.

You could call it "stored procedures" if you prefer, but at the end of the day outlawing tornado cash based on its code is as ridiculous as outlawing RSA.
Well I'd then say that it's a failure of the source text, or at least Coppola's interpretation of the source text, that Apocalypse Now fails to give a voice to the native people. Which, in fairness, is a sin that many commit. John Le Carre, Graham Greene, and many others have failed as well.