skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The college’s statement, then, is not a message to Peterson, but a message to other would-be dissenters: Comply with our politics, or risk losing your livelihood.

Dissent all you want; the buck stops somewhere though. When you pay to become an alumni of someone's college, you're (to a degree) channeling the power of a cult. They're giving you a voucher of credibility that you earn through appropriate conduct on-campus. If you turncoat down the line, that institution can still revoke their support - their loyalty is not unconditional.

(Better Call Saul spoilers I guess) Whole thing reminds me of Saul getting his law license suspended in BCS. We're saddened as viewers, because we see a human side to the protagonist - but he's clearly unfit to serve in a role that demands his professional and emotional integrity. The rest of the industry is right to highlight that Jordan Peterson is crossing that line, and the people who vouch for his credibility are right to reconsider their support for him.
You're also missing gp's point. The photographer should be in control of interpretation, because she knows the intended use of the photo. Phones assume everything is a selfie.

The idea that "reality is the goal" is the product of not bothering to think at all. Choosing what to make an image of, and framing the image, will always be in service of a story or "emotional reality". It always was, from cave-wall paintings onwards.
SciAm is still broken.

Author notes:

I'm a socio-cultural anthropologist whose ethnographic research uses sport to theorize race, kinship and care, gender, and the performing body.
Ask HN: Markdown publishing from a phone?
I've been trying to write more this year.

I notice that I naturally spend more time on my phone than at my computer, but I don't have a great workflow for publishing content from my phone—other than tweeting or posting to Mastodon. I could lean into that, but I'd really love to be able to accumulate the posts on a medium I have more control over.

I think if I had a simple workflow for authoring and publishing short (250 – 500 word) posts in Markdown, I'd spend more time writing and less time doom scrolling on my phone.

Do you have a combination of apps, tools, or technologies you like for (micro-) blogging or writing on your phone?
Oh yeah, it's spectacularly bad at some of that sort of thing. Ask for a list of academic papers and it'll make half of them up and give others new authors...
Yup! We even have an FAQ entry on the reasons for not merging features without careful consideration: https://faq.i3wm.org/question/778/why-is-patch-not-merged-an...

Also, saying “it’s not that many lines of code” comparing the before and after state is too simplistic: it doesn’t include the cost of changing the existing code into the desired state, which can be a significant effort, even if the number of lines doesn’t differ much before and after. See https://github.com/i3/i3/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Astapelberg... to get an impression of how much work it was to merge gaps.
Dell Plans to Phase Out Chinese Chips from PCs by Next Year
Thankls. I'm a little cautious if this as it relentlessly uses he word 'abuse' instead of 'use', as if it has made up it's mind already.

I also found this, which may disagree: https://academic.oup.com/book/32900/chapter-abstract/2766221...

The ‘Problem’ of Opium Smoking in Canton
Virgil K.Y. Ho

Abstract

Both the causes of opium consumption, and the allegedly calamitous social, political, economic, and cultural impact of opium smoking on Cantonese society were greatly exaggerated in official propaganda and scholarly writings. Opium served Canton and its urban inhabitants many positive social, cultural, economic, and political purposes, making it difficult to over-simplify the phenomenon of opium smoking as nothing but pernicious.

"but I find it hard to believe that opium addicts were particularly productive in most jobs"

well maybe, but do you have any experience with this other than feeling? Same has been said of dope smokers, but many are productive. Also in china a few centuries ago there was no welfare state and for most, no work = no food = beg or starve. So as a non-productive person, you didn't live too long (edit: to be fair, this is just my assumption. I may be wrong).

Abit more, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium#Recreational_use_in_Chin... that suggests something very different:

It is important to note that "recreational use" of opium was part of a civilized and mannered ritual, akin to an East Asian tea ceremony, prior to the extensive prohibitions that came later.[50] In places of gathering, often tea shops, or a person's home servings of opium were offered as a form of greeting and politeness. [...] The image of seedy underground, destitute smokers were often generated by anti-opium narratives and became a more accurate image of opium use following the effects of large scale opium prohibition in the 1880s.[50][51]
CGI is fine for unfrequently accessed pages on a machine that has some other purpose. Say, a stats / monitoring page on a file server, or something similar.

[FastCGI] keeps most of the CGI's simplicity of the interface, while keeping the worker processes running, instead of starting a fresh copy every time. It's very widely used to this day.

[FastCGI]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastCGI
Last time I saw Radar, and its source code, which was admittedly over a decade ago, it was not a "project management tool" as such, although radars could of course be used in project management. It was indeed just a bug tracker, but yes, a very powerful one. At bottom it was a giant Oracle database, with several frontends.
Right, I was talking about the specification, not the use.

How people use the preprocessor is by just fiddling with it till it delivers what they want, then they move on.
And if your land is in a highly desirable location and/or contains desirable resources, you end up paying ever increasing property tax to keep it that way.
A friend told me students were using this for cheating on math exams, so I assumed (incorrectly) it had something like Wolfram Alpha built in.
It makes sense why people get all their ideas in the shower. That's about the only time the modern human has where you aren't distracting yourself with some other external stimuli. I've even seen people use a public urinal with a phone in one hand.
Standing all day is also bad for your health. Variety is the key. I switch between sitting, standing, and kneeling on a pillow. I tend to sit while coding, stand on meetings, and kneel when catching up on emails. But I also just do what feels right. Listen to your body.
Probably would have been more cost effective to have worked with Amazon in Seattle on the Kids launcher on the Fire OS fork of Android (the one that merges the App Store and Launcher for the kids).

It's not safe to allow school administrators to jam and deny students' (possibly distracting) communications at least on their personal devices, eh?

Perhaps students could voluntarily submit to an App Launcher for focusing on school that deprioritizes content streams that haven't been made educational while attending unpaid conpulsory education programs under threat of prosecution for truancy, not nuisance.

Non- FireOS Android forks have the "Digital Wellbeing" tools for helping oneself focus despite persistent distractions that will always exist IRL.
I'm not a designer, so I can't really tell you why the little bit of extra negative space helps. Maybe just the fact that a little bit of the background can bleed through makes it seem more modern, and its easier to distinguish focused windows. Default i3 just gives me like... 90iea vibes, but not in a nostalgic way but a regressive way. Maybe it's just a matter of different tastes.
Or you could just use the standard '2001-08-12' with no special syntax needed and avoid the problem altogether. ISO-8601 or it's invalid. There's no reason to allow other formats or need other syntaxes when we have a 35 year old standard to use.
I'm really interested in this. How do you handle DB connections? I guess each CGI file becomes stateful because it's not reloaded all the time, and there's a connection handle there.
Here we go: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13554

From the Supporting Information:
[Correction added on 5 January 2022 after first online publication: Information including ad hominem comments directed by the author at people critiquing his work was removed by the author from the appendix in Supporting Information during copy editing between Accepted Article and Version of Record versions of this article. For more information about Wiley policy on changes to Accepted Articles please refer to https://authorservices.wiley.com/ethics-guidelines/index.htm...
It's all still too low. LVT should be 85% of the assessed value of the unimproved land, as a flat tax with no brackets and no controls.
I think that as a policy matter it is better for society to create an exception to the rule of complete bodily autonomy, mostly because of harm to people around the user. I don’t think users should get jail time but some penalties are ok. This is partly based on personal experience and partially on stats like increasing DUI rates post cannabis legalization. I don’t see much of a slippery slope argument to be made from psychoactive drugs to carbs, which are a basic nutrient anyone can find anywhere.
Yes and no. Too much 'relax mode' and you don't really get anything done either.
EDIT: Nah that's not it. It's way too old. And in mine the police crash for no reason before they even get anywhere near the scene of the crime.

I will skim thru it, but it doesn't look like the right setting. The movie was some generic action movie for some reason I remember Denzel Washington being in it but I looked through his movies from 2006-2012 and didn't find it. It was around that time. Setting had to be something like late 90s or later. Black SUVs dispatched and crashed for no reason at all. I have no idea what the movie was about but it was hilarious when this happened because IIRC it was a serious movie.
I believed he was saying the author should run his idea of indexes on disk taking up a lot of space by the engineers.
But you can still land on top of HN with a "I replaced kubernetes with this 500 line bash script without unit tests" blog article ;)
Great project!!

I was building something on similar lines. It is a semantic search engine for codebases using Openai's embedding and FAISS https://github.com/rahuldan/codesearch

It fetches the functions in the code for a query
Atlantis disappeared overnight

Forest and fossils under Antarctica

Forest under the Sahara

Poles can flip overnight

Civilizations disappeared overnight

We are just not prepared for the unknown
Except Pathfinder is literally right there. Wizards of the Coast has no monopoly.
Good to know, though that obviously is only suitable where slates are standard, and - to be fair - it is easier to replace something that is already flat and dark/gray/black with something that is typically flat and dark/gray/black.

I have seen another couple firms doing something similar, but they were discontinued AFAIK, so it seems like there are not many alternatives, I believe also the "Tesla" ones are (still) unobtanium at the moment.
>I wondered what happened to the HN hive mind over the years, has it become more deferential to the authoritarian state, more accepting of the erosion of essential freedoms in exchange for ostensible safety, more dismissive of clever hacks?

>But then I read a thread from 13 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=702247

>While there's a noticeable positive sentiment, many of the skeptical comments of today could have been copied verbatim from July, 2009.

The difference is that in 2009 and now a Democrat is in the White House, so those who are convinced that "their side" can't do anything wrong are more willing to accept the authoritarian state.

Look at the Warrant Canary Wikipedia page. Would Jessamyn West—associated so closely with Metafilter, a site that basically self-destructed because its hivemind became so self-reinforcing as to immediately shun anyone at any variance with it in a way that would make a Maoist struggle session conductor proud[1]—have created her sign for libraries if George W. Bush had not been president at the time? I doubt it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32880651
It's not hard to check, the guidelines are posted online:

https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf#page17

AV Rule 14 is the one in question. Uppercase suffixes are fine, lowercase is not, and the rationale is "Readability."
If failure is never the school's fault, why do they keep getting more funding?
I used it (Xtreme version) to chat with my now-wife during my university graduation ceremony, as I sat on the stand and she sat in the upper level audience seating.

It worked really well, and the chats managed to get me so distracted that I got into the diploma line twice.

This and many other memories have me wishing I could use it emulated somehow. It would be so funny to set it up on her laptop and send a chat.

Thanks Cybiko!
I play around with different variations of grip widths and positioning, and feel like there's a time and place for pure isolation or totally compound movements. If one area is significantly weaker than the others, it helps to work on that in isolation, and if another significantly stronger, you're probably going to be doing all of them a disservice and possibly risking injury.

Leg presses, delt flys, and lat pulldowns are some that I prefer to sometimes do in isolation to ensure that one side isn't significantly compensating for the other. I find that it's also a more effective use of the mental energy required, by reducing the total amount of muscles to pay attention to.
Indeed. For all the ills of modern politics, doubting the indifference of the free market lands people in the most trouble.
> every news source reachable via Google says the change has nothing to do with COVID or the effectiveness of the COVID vaccine.

Does that sound logical to you? The definition went unchanged for years until the CDC came under direct attack for the effectiveness of the COVID vaccine compared to other vaccines. If it's unrelated, wouldn't that make it quite a coincidence?
I’ve seen that in every sector (.com, .edu, and .gov) — there’s a huge management culture pushing untruths (e.g. “a good manager can manage anything”) and contempt for the actual workers which causes those pathological outcomes anywhere so afflicted. Part of what makes it popular is that when one contracting company produces another 8-9 figure write-off you can blame them and try again with the latest set of expensive suits swearing they’re completely different, but it’s harder to shirk responsibility if it’s people who report to you.

This is more common in government due to politics: if agencies aren’t allowed to hire competent technical staff, the contractors will be poorly supervised but when it fails the same people who cut staffing will use it to argue even more things need to be contracted out. Again, the problem isn’t the sector but the lack of an effective feedback loop.
They want held to maturity accounting treatment on all the things.
>The point is that we should have a coherent policy in the US around how we treat drugs.

But we have had a coherent policy around drugs in the US:

1. Identify a potential issue with a particular drug;

2. Investigate the issues and examine the evidence;

3. Create a set of policy solutions to address the issues;

4. Pick the least effective, most harmful policy solution and implement that.

5. Profit!

All you have to do is look at all the major drug legislation over the past 130 years or so to see that such is, in fact, the case.
Vaccination can still be helpful to the immune-compromised people around you (like me) even if you’re hale and hearty yourself.

If I can catch flu or Covid a couple fewer times over a lifetime because the healthier people around me were vaccinated, or masked, or installed better ventilation, that would likely improve my life quite a bit.

(I say this with no judgement, just to raise awareness of something I assume you haven’t considered, and I hadn’t much thought about myself before I was personally affected)
Yeah IDK if that one usage on Wikipedia is consistent:

> [Regression testing > Background] Sometimes re-emergence occurs because a fix gets lost through poor revision control practices (or simple human error in revision control). Often, a fix for a problem will be "fragile" in that it fixes the problem in the narrow case where it was first observed but not in more general cases which may arise over the lifetime of the software. Frequently, a fix for a problem in one area inadvertently causes a software bug in another area.
> You jump when they say jump

Thankfully sometimes 'they' are the customers paying real money for a product or service that's valuable to them.

But as you say, larger organizations have more room for political distractions on the way to giving that customer what they want.
I have no doubt that some people find it easier to get money than others. But there's a lot of high-profile failures, most recently WeWork, which pretty clearly show that having lots of friends in powerful financial institutions isn't sufficient to get the public market valuation your investors want.
Saying this is production Twitter is like saying that rsync is a Dropbox.
Presumably there's an entire data engineering / event processing pipeline that's being used to track user interactions at a fine grained level. These events are going to be aggregated and munged by various teams for things like business analytics, product / experiment feature analysis, ad analysis, as well as machine learning model feature development (just to name a few massive ones off the top of my head). Each of these will vary in their requirements of things like timeliness, how much compute is necessary to do their work, what systems / frameworks are used to do the aggregations or feature processing, and tolerance to failure.

> This is not apples to apples but Whatsapp

And yeah, whatsapp isn't even close to an apt comparison. It's a completely different business model with vastly different engineering requirements.

Is Twitter bloated? Perhaps, but it's probably driven by business reasons, not (just) because engineers just wanted to make a bunch of toys and promo projects (though this obviously always plays some role).
to me the line between machine and cluster is mostly about real-time and fate-sharing. multiple cores on a single machine can expect memory accesses to succeed, caches to be coherent, interrupts to trigger within a deadline, clocks not to skew, cores in a CPU not to drop out, etc.

in a cluster, communication isn't real-time. packets drop, fetches fail, clocks skew, machines reboot.

IPC is a gray area. the remote process might die, its threads might be preempted, etc. RTOSes make IPC work more like a single machine, while regular OSes make IPC more like a network call.

so to me, the datacenter-as-mainframe idea falls apart because you need massive amounts of software infrastructure to treat a cluster like a mainframe. you have to use Paxos or Raft for serializing operations, you have to shard data and handle failures, etc. etc.

but it's definitely getting closer, thanks to lots of distributed systems engineering.
Happy i3 + Plasma user here, great combo. Thanks for all your efforts!
A lot of software these days has api dependencies for the things it works with, so it stops working if you stop working on it.
It seems completely wrong to me that every app should have a legal obligation to track the location of children to find out if they are at school.

To me the whole enterprise is totalitarian, but if I were trying to build a solution, it would look something like this:

1) Add a school control mode to the devices, similar to existing parental control mode. In this mode the school can block categories of content or usage during school hours. The school administrators don’t get to look at the student browsing data.

2) Schools can enforce a policy that unenrolled devices are banned from campus. The device can make it easy to check using something like NFC or an indicator accessible from the lockscreen (similar to the existing medical ID).
I’m honestly surprised why you can’t change your race. Race, like gender, isn’t really a real thing beyond an abstract human concept.

If you want to identify as black why not simply say you are black? Especially if you can pass as black without further modifications?

Most people’s lineages aren’t even so pure that you can say they are a pure example of a certain “race” anyway. We just accept people at face value. You could be 50% black and say you’re black and people accept it wholeheartedly (i.e. Barack Obama) So why not 40%? Or 5%?
Using Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments for Database Updates
I'm using it more than Google these days, but ok...
Discussed at the time:

Jailbroken iOS can't run macOS apps. I spent a week to find out why - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27420673 - June 2021 (64 comments)
The destructor is what distinguishes C++ from everything before and all but Rust even after, but is, as already explained above, just one part.

No exceptions, no RAII.
> It seems that mRNA vaccines are becoming like antivirus software updates

Uh...is this supposed to make us feel better or worse?
Upstream support landed a couple of weeks ago: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/search?o=desc&p=1&q=Xte...

Rust support landed before that, https://github.com/esp-rs

This is all being done by Xtensa themselves, including the Rust.
Given this particular court case is brought by Public Schools in Seattle, WA , does having assets in a totally different state even matter?

It's not like the Federal Government is suing them.
I know for sure if I was saddled with remote learning during elementary/middle/highschool I would waste all of my time playing games and try skirting by with the bare minimum. After all, that's exactly what we did with the computer lab in the school whenever we got access to it.
> it would be foolhardy for the government to cut funding for e.g. a bridge if it begins to run over

Exactly. They failed, so they get more budget. Happens with nearly all government projects. It's almost as if the department/contractor knows that if they fail they'll get more budget. Hmmm...
> super high performance tiering RAM+NVMe buffer managers which can access the RAM-cached pages almost as fast as a normal memory access are mostly only detailed and benchmarked in academic papers

Isn't this exactly what modern key value stores like RocksDB, LMDB etc are built for?
Ethernet (at least oveR twisted pairs) is a full duplex transmission medium, so two devices should be able to more than saturate the MOCA broadcast network.

Additionally, >1Gbps is starting to become common on consumer hardware.

Again, it is probably not going to be a concern for most home networks, and MOCA should still be better than mesh networks or powerline ethernet.
as others have pointed out, the defualt photos app is designed to do the best for the average user.

If you want control of every feature and no post processing then download a different photo app like https://apps.apple.com/us/app/halide-mark-ii-pro-camera/id88...

This to me is no different than the popular digital cameras vs the pro cameras. The built in app is targeting the masses. it can never make every choice perfectly and further it doesn't need to please everyone. That's the entire point of having apps
Record share of Americans have $1k monthly car payment
It all has to do with Islamic Aniconism (avoidance of images): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam

That’s the problem with all religions that have (strict/ancient/silly/unsubstantiated) orthodox rules: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodoxy