skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If White people want to be capitalized, maybe we can call them "Euros"?

I think this would be controversial. While a lot of White Americans are proud of their ethnic background (I'm a quarter Irish!, I'm an Italian American), many are not. Maybe because they have mixed backgrounds, don't know where their ancestors came from, or because their ancestors fought or fled wars with those European ancestors. For instance my great-grandfather left Europe in disgust after WWI, and after coming to America told his family that they were going to be simply Americans.

According to wikipedia, 6.6% of Americans self-identify their ancestral origin as simply "American". Most of these are visibly white. Many of them are descended from British people, and quite possibly don't want to self-describe as British-American because America was founded by a war to terminate that connection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_ancestry
Not really censorship but more like the algo. Algo promotes Facebook videos over YouTube. For a while also promoted text posts over external links, so that you don’t go outside Facebook.
And now promote reels over video on IG

This is the beauty of algos!
Charging celebrities $5 a month doesn't seem like a great way to make a lot of revenue.
Your embedded a false assumption in your summary, which is the source of your problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyRU-0uH2rw
Spiegel is the one that fell for the faked Hitler journal.

Also they sell ads. Their articles therefore need to be catchy and revolting.
Do it like the real high class cable installers do: run the wires on the outside of the house and just drill through the walls where you want the drops. Looks fine from the inside!
I didn't like A Scanner Darkly. I thought it was mediocre. VALIS was better, but not in the top tier of PKD's books, IMO.
It's not new but it is undergoing a bit of a revolution because of growing interest in privacy and decentralization. Monero didn't exist in the 90s
Jurassic Park meets lgbT-Rex
What I call "really old stuff" uses glBegin() and glEnd()
This is, of course, the point, and why a court that's perceived as partisan can be very dangerous.
Wow, I had not seen those. The hdplex is an especially beautiful case.

And it's quite obvious that they care about details from their CAD illustrations [1].

[1] https://hdplex.com/hdplex-h5-fanless-computer-case.html
BetterUptime to get notified if it goes down.

I deliberately avoid measuring traffic.

That's all
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_d...

I wouldn't call that "substantially". For the most part it looks like "mixed race", "other", and "asian" displaced "white" since then (with no hint of how much "mixed race" is partial-white). "Black" and "native" has barely budged.
Low income and (to an extent) wealth are also gameable. Especially if you're well off and privileged.
I think this may add value for a discussion on Roddenberry’s legacy. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/plane

And the best new Star Trek is Orville, clearly carrying the mantle from TNG.
It's just a json file, of course you can statically host it.
Lament for Gilgamesh, the Gold Lyre of Ur
I wouldn't go quite that far. But it seems counterproductive to vilify a large group of people based on their skin color, because it's likely to cause significant resentment and backlash in the near to medium term.
I’m cool with that.

We could start by defunding public universities who refuse to fire professors pushing their political views on young, vulnerable students.
They get information from the FAFSA form from some students. (If I don’t expect to get any substantial aid, I don’t plan to participate in FAFSA process as it’ll have no benefit to our family and is none of the schools’ business otherwise.)

To the extent any SES-sourced disparities have left a given student less scholastically prepared than the school’s standard, should the admission action be to admit or reject?

FAFSA - https://studentaid.gov/apply-for-aid/fafsa/filling-out
Elon Musk tweets unfounded conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack
> I thought it was telling that Andrej immediately "reframed" the question because Lex asked the "wrong question". This is a classic evasion technique

I agree with this assessment. However:

> Telsa can't support additional sensors without incurring a prohibitive amount of additional risk to Tesla. Risk to passengers doesn't appear to be a consideration.

This is a stupidifying take. Of course when you work in a line of business producing gadgets that, as an unintended side-effect, kill a lot of people (napkin math suggests above 2 milli-kills per car in the US), you will need to pick a point at which you say further fatality reduction is no longer justified given the economic cost of achieving it. Even if you are a pure altruist (if you go out of business, less safe cars will replace yours). Conversely, even if you are the embodiment of capitalist evil, risks to passengers will absolutely affect your bottom line and if are rational you will take them into consideration. Any meaningful criticism needs to be about the trade-offs they make, not that they make them or are loath to explicitly say so on camera.
Worth noting by the way that legacy admissions are themselves racist in favor of the types of people who were allowed into those schools several generations ago… i.e. white people.
Oh noes I invalidated my whole argument ToT

edit: y'all are taking this exchange much too seriously.
Gentoo still builds i486 versions: https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/

Get going! By the time X finishes compiling we'll probably be at 128 bit.
There are structural inequities in society than benefit one group more than another. Jamal’s family could make the same money as John’s but the world they meet at birth is not the same.
The linked article uses a strange system for calling white students a 'minority'. If you count everyone who is not 'white' as one group then sure, but that makes no sense. In this discussion here people are speaking of 'Jewish' 'Asian' and 'Black' students as distinct, yet when 'white' is counted then everyone 'not-white' get grouped together. 38% white with 20% asian and 10% black, etc, does not make 'white students a minority'.

Also, it is incredibly difficult to take the 'white' demographic label seriously when it comes to people concerned about it becoming a minority because it is not a demographic that can be joined. A black person and white person have a child, and that child is black. There is no way for a person of color to have a 'white' child, while the opposite is true for a white person having a 'child of color', so therefore the 'white' demographic cannot do anything but become smaller and smaller until it ceases to exist.
Set width and height to the ratio of the image to prevent those layout shifts.
Star Trek (1964) [pdf]
Mostly what has replaced X11 and Wayland is HTML, where you create GUIs in a completely language-agnostic way by writing angle-bracket-delimited <tags> to stdout, with no need to deal with C libraries. The main difference is that the escape codes are introduced by '<', ASCII 60, instead of ESC, ASCII 27.

For some good reasons and some bad ones, the HTML escape-code language was coupled to a shift from the time-sharing interactive terminal applications of MGR or the VT100 to a revival of the 3270 block-mode interaction model, which later got formalized as REST.

Paul Graham wrote some essays about the advantages of doing things this way late last millennium; they're worth reading if you haven't read them. It really took off about 20 years ago.

More recently spitting out HTML on stdout has largely been replaced by JS and the DOM because you can get lower interaction latency and higher bandwidth by running the app on the client, sending mostly just database calls and actions to a backend server.
But if you're out in public and you start shouting harmful, hateful or abusive messages there can be real-world consequences.

On Twitter you can be the most vile person possible with absolutely no fear as you're entirely anonymous.
Not at all. There’s a Musk post just about every day or every other day. Much of it is either flaming the guy or praising him. I’m raising the question - why the obsession with this person? If you don’t like him, don’t do business with his companies. It feels like the people against him give him a shocking amount energy focusing on him, as opposed to themselves.

And your post is part of the problem. Because I’m not Musk bashing, you assume I’m on the other “side” and must be his fan. You’ve condensed the world into a binary operation. I’m more annoyed that he gets all the attention he gets. That’s all.

If you don’t like him, the best thing you could probably do is not let him live rent free in your head.
> Having a freshman class filled with people who’s parents wanted their kids to get into a good school isn’t the goal.

Interesting - what is the goal according to you ?
From what I read, he was inspired by futurist Jacque Fresco and Roddenberry wanted to show that a better world is possible and challenging norms that are holding back humanity.

That's what I meant with what he was 'trying to achieve' at the beginning with TOS.

I also read that later in his life he believed the hype about himself and became difficult to work with. Whether it's true or not - I don't know.
I guess I’m a weirdo, I worry more about my actual private data from other sites being vacuumed by Google, not credit cards that I can easily cancel if they get stolen.
Definitely interesting as a puzzle, but personally I'd prefer a write-up on each of these novel algorithms, including what it is and how it works, with complete code.

To each their own.
Same.

I love the look it started and that culminated with XViews: check http://www.martin-graefe.homepage.t-online.de/xview_en.html for a simple example (and working code)

Scrollbars that can carry your mouse around when you click (so you don't have to do a gesture), and pin button for menus (so you see what can be pinned) are innovation we seem to have lost.

Also notice how some windows have special corners: you know immediately which window can be resized, and what you should grab to do that.
Hard science or soft science?

Biology and Physics are hard sciences because you can make falsifiable claims and predictions.

Sociology and criminal justice aren't, because they don't lend themselves to the same. It doesn't mean they're invalid.

Most liberal arts disciplines involve a lot of essay writing and reading opinion pieces. Sure, there is the analytical argumentation, there are sound and unsound arguments, interesting claims worthy of consideration.
Crime has multiple causes, and multiple solutions. One proven solution is increased police presence. It isn't required, though.
I fail to see how you’d make a scifi TV series that isn’t what you just described. What do you mean by “everything else”?
Unless you are an especially forward thinking Operations Engineer, I don’t think this is necessarily true.

Most of the people I’ve worked with called like that stopped their professional development somewhere around the year 2000 and are now coasting along.

For the new title, I feel like they completely ignore the Dev part of DevOps.
Its freedom to manage yourself, if you can hack the system sufficiently enough, that it avoids interacting with you. So as strange as it sounds, if you are clever and already managing your manager, nothing changes.
The left does not maintain that. Many people were charged and convicted. You can find a rare person claiming these things, but the vast majority of the left believes the corruption happened. Lula's involvement however is debated.
I'm sorry but this is deluded. This isn't happening because it's impractical. No one is listening to you because it's insufferable and abnormal. If you want to put your plans into practice, you have to convince people to follow you and so far you've drastically failed. This isn't a failure of imagination or even will. It's monomania.

Left-leaning people seem to have mostly decided that the answer is totalitarianism. That if people don't do what you want you have to dominate them with force & otherwise shame. That all-too-popular option is odious.

> Personal responsibility used to be a bastion of the Republican party, but went completely AWOL for this issue.

Oh ok. We should all tip-toe around afraid about whatever butterfly effect will cause harm to someone in the world. Let's make "the floor is lava" and "step on a crack and break your mother's back" a way of life.
Seems like one of those things where if you need this flow you know what those mean.
This is a valuable upside to referendums I hadn't considered before, thank you.
The problem is np hard and d-wave runs quantum annealers, so the ultimate benchmark is likely wall time.
Or maybe everyone is guided by their own ideologies, covered up with a thin veneer of constitutional arguments.
I've bought many social media accounts before, this is way more efficient and less disaster prone than paying for likes/followers, as you won't get bots. You'll get a professionally curated and grown account with the level of engagement to your choosing, with the audience geared towards the brand/theme of the account's content.

What people don't realize is that each individual account is like purchasing a business. There are way too many similarities to think of it any differently.

When you buy an account, you get all the DMs which often include a whole network of traders, promoters, service providers, negotiations, trade lines. Typically you also get the email address and password used to create the account, which has even more of this.

You are mostly getting ROI pretty quickly by doing a few promos really quickly. Its actually based on a multiple of getting ROI.

Purchasing an account is a fairly low trust environment, fraught with scams. Most social media Terms of Service actually exacerbate this, by mostly banning the concept of buying/selling an account. Since this happens, the platform should actually be facilitating these transactions and there is a lot of value to extract. Escrow services charge 30% right now, but a network of trusted traders is better and more valuable.

With that said, $4.99/mo for the tip of the iceberg of the value of these accounts is extremely underpriced. Tolerable overhead costs are in the thousands if we are being honest. This should be its own separate tier than just "Twitter Blue", as it will price out too many people to operate at scale, but this is definitely a model that is neglected by social media platforms right now.
Related:

The Beautiful Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23983087 - July 2020 (1 comment)

The Beautiful Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22501462 - March 2020 (9 comments)
Downsampling itself requires a good algorithm otherwise you risked losing peak/valley data.
I keep thinking that the query portion should be entirely split from the ORM portion.
Query builder have specific usage, but are not the norm.
None of them can model an advanced postgres query, but at the same time, they provide little (or nothing) utilities to map the data coming from a complex query, back to objects, which is funny, to me that would be the definition of "object relational mapper".

I know why activerecord does this: it's way easier to do the join in memory, so that one row is obtained per object and not an enormous row representing many, but not providing any utility for raw queries seems a big missing feature.

Edit: to be clear, by query I refer to read operations (select) that are not trivial (find one by id would be trivial)
They probably were! Not having written any SunView or Open Look code myself, I never realized that was what XView was for.
I don't work on Google Photos and don't use it much, so I don't know.
"Human normal" is actually 47.5mm
This is true. My last company used fastmail, but one guy insisted on using Gmail. Sometimes fastmail didn’t arrive at Gmail. We (tech team) said, this is a problem with gmail. C-suite said this is a problem with fastmail.

And so the word comes down, we have to move to Gmail. It’s believable decision making, but that’s how it works.
It seems that this tool is fairly equivalent to everyone posting their mastodon and twitter handles to this thread.
It’s due to carrier landing requirements. When landing on carrier, you don’t flare the aircraft, you just dump it on deck with significant vertical speed. At least that is what you do with F-18 (with 200-400feet per minute descend rate), I would assume F-14 is the same for all the same reasons.

In short, carrier landings are closer to controlled crashes over the thing that everyone is calling landings.
Similar - many years ago, I used DEBUG.EXE to assemble the samples from "The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses" I found in the local library and started a long journey into computer security. I also used it to modify the COMMAND.COM on my all of my high school's DOS media lab and library computers to display rude alternatives to "Please insert floppy disk" and "Insufficient disk space" - which in those days were frequently displayed. (hey, I was a teenager).
SRE is a software engineering position -- someone needs to write the software (such as Kubernetes) that sysadmins use. It also requires a good understanding of lower-level languages, since someone who only knows Python will have a difficult time debugging a kernel panic or weird mutex issue in multi-threaded C++.
SCOTUS has been perceived as partisan since forever. What changes over time, is which party is calling the shots. But few can see partisanship when it is on their side.
I prefer to call it what it is. Using "algo" as an excuse to make friend-to-friend communications not get seen is tantamount to censorship.
> Guess what? mastodon.technology is closing down. Any connections using that address are going to be lost.

If you want a globally unique identifier, pay for it. I hate to be "that guy" but nobody owes you DNS namespace. If you are caught on the unfortunate end of this, Mastodon explicitly offers account migration tools to mitigate the pain. That will redirect your old account to your new one, so at least confused users will be able to find you in the interim.

On the flip side, letting you use "somebody@gmail.com" as your ID just gives Google control over your identity, which I would consider a downgrade.
> 99.9% of users do not care about federation as a principle

Decentralization as a principle is currently responsible for at least some part of the enormous market capitalization of cryptocurrencies.

Nowadays everything is politics and identity politics. Especially on twitter which is the favorite hangout spot for the crypto crowd, journalists and political junkies....I mean twitter for sure is not the social media for pushing commerce and e-commerce, that ship has sailed long ago. They only have politics.

Given the preponderance of politics on twitter, Musk is the worst owner for the platform as he's alienating all left wing people in the US (and potentially abroad) and also right wing people who don't fall for cults and are still against subsidies.
Haha I didn’t expect to see my name while I scrolled through HN this morning. This is my PowerShell script I added to PowerShell Gallery this weekend. I submitted it as “Show HN” a while ago and the only feedback I got was “arrow keys are impractical” so I added basic Vim keybindings
Maybe. But I’ve been quietly saving for retirement. I haven’t been bidding $50k over asking price on houses or giving business to $30 post gentrification burger joints.

I live in the same house I bought in 1997. My vehicle is over a decade old. I save, sometimes invest. Im definitely not someone driving over bidding $100k-$500k on houses and paying in cash.

That being said, I am certainly not proud of where I used to work.
Reminds me of the text-mode font editors that used to float around in the 80s and 90s. There was one released by PC Magazine that let you create screen fonts for EGA and VGA. I wrote one myself -- in BASIC -- for the Tandy 2000.

Good times.
I just migrated myself from mastodon.social to a self-hosted instance. After a few minutes my followers all ported over fine.
Sure they can. It doesn't always work, but that doesn't mean it never works. You might as well say that seatbelts don't work because you can cite a few cases where people died anyway.

And if popular support were really overwhelmingly in one direction, a constitutional amendment can change what the constitution says. Constitutional amendments can make the unconstitutional become constitutional, and vice versa. Constitutional amendments aren't easy to pass, but that's by design. The constitution should only be amended when popular support is overwhelmingly in favor of it, and when that occurs, it's possible.
Twitter is the most prominent from what i can see
Google set to deprecate JPEG XL support in Chrome 110
They almost literally cannot, or rather cannot write good tests.

I have seen
If (testPassed) assert(true);

Nothing happens if the test should have failed...
I'd do exactly what I would do if I saw someone threatening someone in real life, call the police and give them all the information I had. Twitter has dates and IP's, in a lot of cases that's as good as an address.

Pulling the plug would be the easy way out, and would stop people incriminating themselves. Worse case scenario it drives people stupid enough to use a public un-encrypted network to plan a crime onto a secure encrypted network.
Musk is smart enough to know those were lies.
If you are a windows shop avoid DD like the plague. If you don't have Pwsh devs avoid new relic for windows.
Lula technically won at this time, the news is just out.
No it hasn't. It has had periods of being more, and less, polarized, based on the overton window.
Thanks for pointing out the missing attribution. Added a credits section to the README here: https://github.com/susam/hello#credits

By the way, I noticed just now that @userbinator occurs in the credits section of an earlier repository of mine too: https://github.com/susam/tucl#credits :)
Recent and related:

Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33377964 - Oct 2022 (85 comments)
Travel / change of environment
It’s a status symbol now. If it becomes a paid feature of privately owned Twitter then, whether they like it or not, it’s going to become a badge that says the owner supports an incredibly divisive specific person.
That mnemonic would be "JMP" on x86. At address 5 in the PSP is the CP/M-style syscall entry point, it is not advised to not use it because it relies on the A20 line being short-circuited to zero, which cannot be relied on in later MS-DOS versions.

I don't see why this would be faster than using RET directly and having the INT 20 opcode at address 0 do the work.
Exactly. It would make more sense to pay them.
You use two semi-stiff snake tapes with hooks on the ends. The idea is to snag the hooks.

The biggest skill is you have to hold your jaw just right when you do it. Then, it’s a piece of cake.
Still sounds like a huge hassle compared to municipal fiber.
These are ok.

The bad ones are managers who were never good IC nor tech people. The ones who simultaneously have very little social skill.

For all complaints about social skills of programmers ... have you ever tried to cooperate with manager? All the social work will be on you cause they just can't do it.
What are you talking about? I live here, I know dozens of people who say openly that Lula is innocent and that the whole Lava Jato operation was a farce. This is pretty common thought in the more radical left here.
“ Race in the US tends to be a proxy for class.”

This doesn’t seem to be a case in the top universities, which usually fulfill their diversity requirements by pulling from the elite class.

There is very little class diversity in our institutions and that is ripping the country apart.