skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know what’s going on, I just don’t care that much. I’m not going to claim to speak for most people, but neither should you.
My guess is an English speaker was forced to take French or Spanish in college and struggled to remember the gender for a word like “bicycle” and decided the whole notion of gendered language was silly and should be abolished.
I found The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics by Dona Wong extremely useful for developing good grasp of data viz basics (especially in business setting)
Some aspect of philosophy considers what place and impact we, humans, have in the world. In that regard, from the second half of the century onwards (earlier as well, but less specifically), there's been a resurgence of these questions with the emergence of globalization and neoliberalism, and theor consequences on global systems.

I noticed that anthropology seemed more and more cited as a source of diverse perspectives. See Descola specifically.

As an example, I heard a recent quote from an environmental activist that I found striking: "We are jot defending the Nature. We are the Nature defending itself".

I'm not advocating for or against the quote, but it deserves a thorough analysis, in 202x, and cannot be dismissed easily.
Live video tends to have 30-90 seconds of delay so it's not hard to imagine that the AI transcription can catch up or outrun the video.
I don't think someone gossiping about how their work superiors are fools is really notably strange to be honest.
Please Explain, Elasticsearch
Yeah they want a canned answer, like they want some standard algorithm for leetcode. You need to be as standard as possible so they can check their boxes
How can someone less experienced that you gauge your competency for a position that requires more experience than they have?

That’s before wondering why they’re asking a question to gauge my competency when they don’t even understand the nuance of the question themselves.

An interviewer working on google’s enterprise nosql db but not knowing about (at least on a surface level) the breadth of nosql dbs doesn’t seem crazy to you?

The tech interview circuit has really become a bunch of people asking questions that they couldn’t really answer themselves without a rubric in front of them (whether leetcode or system design).

To be crude, it’s a bunch of nerds hazing for jobs.
Similar ideas behind The Denial of Death. The idea is that we are aware of our mortality and many of the reasons we do anything stems from trying to forget that.
Still cheaper than a real person + divorce
They have lots of franchise-like agreements, it just isn’t their preferred model. American airport locations are run by Marriott I think, QFC and Safeway run their own locations in grocery stores, many locations in China are JV owned, etc…
Correct. They are intersex. They are the exception that proves the rule.
But interpreting someone's words in the most uncharitable way possible is an ancient sport, intended to slight and annoy the opponent, when finding reasonable, material objections fails. It's just an ancient hold of wresting in the (verbal) mud. It sort of gives the party who successfully pulled it an upper hand.

Now that these wrestlers found out that they can persuade the public that the most uncharitable interpretation is actually harmful to some third party (nobody from the audience usually says that they personally are offended), this approach became immensely popular.

Since simple reason would usually dispel much of the effect, leaving only the small and easily correctable issue, it is common to excite a large amount of reason-eclipsing emotions over such issues, preferably the righteous rage.

But it may feel fun to express a strong and righteous emotion, especially in a crowd of other people doing the same. It does not take thinking, it does not take making a difficult decision (because everybody around can't be wrong), so it feels good. A big echo chamber like a popular Twitter thread make it feel epic in scale.

This makes that kind of righteous rage a very convenient tool of manipulation, for fun, profit, and any other purposes.
Just wanted to write I also used the service and found it to be worth the money. Not perfect, but, it did a good job getting me through a rough patch at a price I felt was reasonable
Annoying fact about these shifters, when mated to the ZF-8: if your car doesn't start you gotta go under it and screw in some bolt to make it go into neutral.
Im european and the app still worked perfectly fine when my data bundle ran out and I had to finish downloading data/apps on 4kbps.
Let me add a data point in the other direction. The first ~six months of my kid's life was by far the worst time for me.

Yes, there were other challenges as he got older. But the sleep deprivation of that first period was awful in a way that is difficult to put into words.
Why not? Are you saying “because a lot of people don’t use Firefox”, or because of some problem you perceive in turning off custom fonts?
>For example, it seems like we can't say "mother" anymore in medical settings. For my partner's entire pregnancy, our providers only referred to "birthing people" because of some tiny number of trans men that exist and also want to give birth.

The troll argument here is: now that we're saying "birthing people" instead of "women", it's time to acknowledge that abortion is not actually a "women's issue".
so...AI kills us (waves hands in the air). Ah yes clear as mud.
The free speech panic. I'm all for free speech but we are like defcon 100 from anything resembling an actual clampdown on speech and it's extremely tiresome to watch people with editorial boards and national readerships act as if they are being brave for saying what pretty much everyone already believes.
Sounds like we got a winner boys.
The Tunguska Mystery 100 Years Later (2008)
program main
implicit none
integer :: i ! Declare an integer variable
character(len=16) :: msg ! Declare a character variable
msg = "Immortal noodle nester" ! Assign the string value
do i = len(msg), 1, -1 ! Loop backwards through each character of the string
write(,'(a)', advance='no') msg(i:i) ! Write each character without advancing to a new line
call sleep(1) ! Pause for one second
end do
write(,'(a)') "" ! Write an empty line to advance to a new line
end program main
The regulation requires the support of same security (and encryption) as native users have.
I understand your reasoning but it seems to be focused more around developer time rather than bundle size and user experience if I am not mistaken.

The ratio between built code size and source size can easily reach orders of magnitude in TypeScript projects with exhaustive types.

Sending all that code to the user is wasteful, and this wastefulness is multiplied by X end users, as opposed to the development process which is centralized.

From a money perspective the picture is different of course.

I would still love to be able to execute TS directly in the browser, but this is purely a DX thing.
But what do you classify an intersex person as when you see them, assuming you don't know this detail? Our social lens is focused to a binary, even if there isn't a definitive binary.
NAACP stands for "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People". Interesting how "Colored People" was an enlightened term in 1909, but "Colored People" is now out and "People of Color" is the new way to go.
https://github.com/pricing

I see only 2 non free options. $48/yr and $231/yr for enterprise.

Why would you be paying ~$600/yr when the enterprise option is less than $250?
If you have a small project and you only need one or two RDS databases in production, stick with RDS. The cost isn't that high and you save a ton in aggravation. Yes you need to set up separate monitoring, firewalling, etc. but it's really not a big deal.

When you start to have dozens or hundreds of databases in production, and developers asking "I need Postgres in production, why can't I just click a button and get a Postgres instance for my service in production?" then scaling the monitoring and firewalling gets a little more complicated. Hooking into standard Kubernetes monitoring and service meshes can really help to simplify things.
As a strict definition that's fine in a context.

However:

> The fact that 1 in a million people is neither a man or a women

the number you are looking for here (ie only ..

conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female

) is 180 in a million, or some 4,625 or so in a country such as Australia - which does have some real bearing on things such as national passports and why Australia has a three value gender field there ( M | F | X ).

Less strictly, the prevalence of "nondimorphic sexual development" might be as high as 1.7% or 17,000 in a million.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
That is the exact opposite of “doing something about it”.
A particularly stark example of the harms of relying on hosted services.

But at least they haven't managed to leak users communications, at least not yet and in so far as we know.
If you want to explain what a timeseries db is to someone who has no clue in a 45 minute (already time constrained) systems design interview (where you’re supposed to be actually showing how you would design a system), be my guest.
> Am confused. Normally you'd modify buffers after they've been acked at the application layer. Do samba clients not send acknowledgements?

If the file is being locked against changes while the network transmission is in progress (e.g. the "stable pages" idea mentioned in the article), then in normal circumstances (unless the networking subsystem is very overloaded) the network transmission will be completed quickly, so the file will only be briefly locked against changes. By contrast, waiting for the client to acknowledge can take a lot longer, and will result in the file being locked for a lot longer, which is much more likely to have a negative impact on applications, other SMB clients, etc. Consider if you had a database file (bad practice I know, but some people will do it anyway) being read/written over SMB, blocking all writes until any outstanding reads are acknowledged could have a big negative performance impact.

Hence, they are okay with locking things in place until the network transmission is complete, but not until an acknowledgement happens. But, the splice() API doesn't provide any way to notify that the destination has finished processing all the writes the splice call sent to it.
>I know what’s going on, I just don’t care that much. I’m not going to claim to speak for most people, but neither should you.

No I'm pretty confident that the majority of people don't know what's going on because why would they?
> defcon 100

So everything is fine? DEFCON 5 is the _lowest_ threat level, it's DEFCON 1 people should worry about.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFCON
I'm well aware of dumb shit that I've done in my life and I try to learn from it and improve.

The difference I suppose is that I don't think that words I use are dumb shit.

Someone wants to be the moral authoritarian over the language you use? Only if you let them. And why would you do that?
And therein lies our folly
Owner of radio shack in danger of bankruptcy
I am laughing each time I hear this so call anonymous process /data. Each time, there were different ways to link back data or things were badly scraped.
It’s an exercise of power by a wealthy ($30k/yr is rich in most world), western, educated, native English speaking elite over the unprivileged. Someone who studied English in high school in rural India does not have access to the latest equity terminology nor the western cultural context to understand it.

Changing language is a great tool to privilege the non working academic class with access and time to study the latest fad over the global working class who build the consumer products these elites type their screeds on.
Ask HN: Feeling Pretty Empty Tonight
Been at this new big tech job burning out for 10 months working remote. I happened to move to a small town around the same time and feel isolated. My work performance has been sub par and can’t seem to shake it. I feel it’s mostly due to the fact that I don’t fit in much at work. Anyone been in the same boat?
Numbers? I’m curious what AI comp looks like these days.
Thats a great idea. I'm thinking there's a lot we can do with the idea. Especially through this layoffs season, might be a valuable tool for many.

Re your edit:
I know right! I've built a few thing with GPT-3 before but the ChatGPT API somehow gives a totally different result. Especially in regards to tone.

Slap Whisper API to this, you can practice with your voice and not only via typing.
This can happen accidentally as well. For example, the default Windows 10 wallpaper was created using a physical model, an array of projectors, and a smoke machine. Alas, the end result turned out to be indistinguishable from CG. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewmXizBqjl0
This sounds similar to what both psychedelic trippers and meditation practicers often describe.
Just rebranded chineese low quality BS. So, probably, we will never see Amazon Basics GPU/CPU.
In my life, I have been deaf, hearing impaired, hard of hearing, hearing challenged. I suppose at some point I will be acoustically disadvantaged.

You know what? At the end of the day, I'm still deaf. It's true. I have limitations that others take for granted. If I can't see someone speaking or if I'm out of batteries, we aren't going to be communicating well. That's pretty deaf. I won't be offended, it's just reality.

Changing language does not, and never did, give me preferential treatment. People are always always going to discriminate and pretty words won't stop them.

Character and intent is what matters.
Because claiming experience with something when you’ve only studied it is a lie.
For me it was less the increase in price, what was bad enough, and more the shifting of functionality to higher tiers and basically the evisceration of the open source version.
What about the other side of this "relationship"? You'd have to really hate yourself to opt-in to become the drop-in replacement for a bot for someone. Who in their right mind would sign up for that?

Even assuming someone had such crushing low self-esteem to agree to be put in that situation what are the chances a genuine, healthy relationship can form out of such an arrangement?
We call them a chimera?
Its Cloudflare’s implementation of an Ethereum node

The node level doesn't involve any speculation or payment, you would have more applicable discussions if you were willing to separate the platform from whatever you really wanted to talk about

The developer side is pretty benign
It does bring a lot of value for recruiter. But sourcing talent from community doesn't ensure top quality. If you have checks in place to filter out those candidates, then it's really a big time-saver.
My 11yo came home from school today:

"Dad! We can't get rid of any of our Roald Dahl books. They're changing the words in them. My class talked about it and we all think it's stupid".

A few months back, my 16yo was telling me about a class conversation about their futures, and what everyone wanted most was a stable relationship, a job they enjoyed and to be able to afford a modest house.

It's reassuring that in a seemingly insane world, the kids who are coming up seem have their heads screwed on straight.
Unfortunately, that type of experience is becoming more and more common, and that speaks to the interviewers and their lack of understanding of the whys of the systems design interview process itself...

I suppose this is one more sad byproduct of the title/level-inflation or skill-dilution that has been happening across industry, as well as the 'gamification' of the interview process on both sides.

Some interviewers can also end up being lazy as well.
Weird, I've never seen this stuff in the US, this is entirely different from my experience. But I left the US a long, long time ago, so maybe things have changed. I haven't been back since 2022.
> Amazon pitches its Basics line as providing keenly priced, no-fuss and reliable products

It is also very silent, because it doesn't rotate. /s
Bathysphere: Historical Photos of the World’s First Deep-Sea Exploration Vessel
What was it, 10 to 20 years ago, people started to be noticeably nervous when they were coming near a description of my disability. It used to be so simple. I am 100% blind, and guess what, I prefer the term blind because it is pretty descriptive and relatively short. But all of a sudden, people external to the community started to fumble around with "visually challenged", and all the nonsense variations of that in my native language. It is so weird, because it adds yet another layer of distance between "us" and the "normal" people. You can almost feel how the stumbling-word is making communication even more awkward. I (and almost all of my friends with a similar disability) make a point of letting people know that we actually prefer the word blind over everything else, and not even that does put people at ease.
It sounds a bit provocative, but it feels like that: The language terror they were subjected to has made them so unsecure that they actually dont want to hear that blind people have no issue with being called blind. They somehow continue to argue, sometimes not wanting to accept that and going on to use weird language.

Its a weird phenomenon. The longer I watch all of this, and I also mean the gender-language-hacks, I feel like this move has added to the distance between various groups, not made it smaller.

It is so condescending to believe your own language-police more then the person you are talking to. Yet, the peer pressure seems to be so high that this actually happens. Sad.
Slightly OT, but what documentation frameworks do you recommend?
> XX instead of XY. The fact that 1 in a million people is neither a man or a women has no bearing on this fact.

Using the typical assignment of “sex” (really, a kind of gender ascribed based on a subset of sex traits at birth):

1 in 25,000 men is XX (approximately universally infertile, though chimerism might affect this, I guess)

1 in 15,000 women is XY (potentially fertile with HRT, and in at least one documented case, due to chimerism, without.)
I don't have an issue with using the term poor to describe people lacking money but it has other definitions and uses.

The second and third definitions I get from define:poor on Google are:

- worse than is usual, expected, or desirable; of a low or inferior standard or quality.

- (of a person) considered to be deserving of pity or sympathy.

I suspect these might be why the term is discouraged.
It's also heavily pushed in high school level journalism now.
I think so. Individuals shouldn't be forced to hire/fire people or work/not work with people whose lifestyles they profoundly agree/disagree with.
The topic in this thread was my point that restaurant food in the US is ridiculously expensive, and you haven't bothered to address that, and instead you seem to think it's just a given. I guess you can't follow a conversation.
already going daily! thanks.
The first time I saw that I was convinced it was a 4chan troll. I was so sure it was an elaborate 4chan ruse that when shared by someone else at work I instinctively told them it's a racist 4chan meme and they shouldn't be sharing that at work. It took some back and forth with links from the actual museum before it hit me that it was real. I was speechless.
Ask HN: Any Good TPB Mirrors?
I noticed that the same request for the different pirate bay mirror gives different results. It seems to be contrary to the idea of DHT but this is what I see. Most mirrors also have too intrusive advertising. Please share your list of usable mirrors especially if I want to share some files.
“Like dice in the rain” – full review of Blade Runner TTRPG
Sex essentialists exploding the gender binary is…a new one.
Is This an Example of Deceitful, Misleading Advertising in the Mail?
> I just didn't know how you're supposed to approach the question.

For your example, I would ask them to define what scale we were operating in, and what the footprint would be, etc.

Then you could start off with a more complex design (which seems like what the interviewer wanted.)
To be fair, “definitely” would not be a good answer to that question in a real interview :)
We'd have to know the CMYK value of your skin before sharing updated 2023 nomenclature. Please download the app.
> That means people are choosing to prioritize their current lifestyles over working less

If their lifestyle is extravagant, then yes, you are correct.

But if it's a choice between having a stable lifestyle with the ability to save for retirement versus living paycheck to paycheck, that's not a real choice, is it?

For a more absurd example, just about anyone could live more cheaply in a van. But saying to people "you could work part time if you were just willing to downgrade your lifestyle and live in a van" would be absurd. Not living in a van is a "choice" that we all make, but it's not really a choice, is it?
Try time periods with length at least 20y. Does that statement still hold true?
Rust does learn from python, such as crate and module, to some extent. The compilation tool of Rustc itself is written by python, interesting.
When I originally posted about the new game (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30955306) the post was moderately successful, so I think people would like to know how the actual game works.
I've been really enjoying using Quickcheck & friends recently for test cases, which is essentially that, but doing the test case generation while the tests are running (and if it finds an error, trying to reduce that error to its simplest form). It's been very useful for catching little things that I'd forgotten about, like handling a particular case, or unusually shaped data, or things like that.

The biggest difficulty is trying to create good test cases. Unlike normal tests where you're asserting that some specific case is true, with quickcheck-style tests, you're instead trying to find an invariant in your code that will always be true. So it's quite easy to do "this algorithm never throws an error" but harder to do "this algorithm returns true in these cases and false in these cases". That said, a lot of tools in this space give you a lot of flexibility for generating cases, like saying "generate strings matching this regex" or "generate these arbitrary primitives and map then into the correct structure with this function".

The randomness involved isn't ideal, because you can't necessarily guarantee that the same errors will always show up every time, but it's a good habit to copy the failing generated case into its own test as a kind of regression test. And obviously still write a lot of the standard test cases for more obvious problem points.
No web interface?

Are we experiencing a move back from the web towards Microsoft again?

Is Microsoft gaining a stronghold on the developer community via their tools and services ecosystem?
> Organize a big dinner between two distinct social groups with only one or two linkages

Unfortunately it’s difficult enough to get one together now. Particularly after Covid it seems no one wants to do anything anymore.
With dogfooding, it's a pretty easy argument

-non-aws Amazon engineer

It definitely feels like Amazon wants everyone to use lambdas for everything in the non-aws world (opinions my own)
Then you haven't been following the recent developments of stable diffusion. It is mind blowing how good the quality gets if you are using stable diffusion + ControlNet.

I guess the reason this particular example does not work is that a descriptive prompt is missing and / or functionality like inpaint is not available in the process. You can easily fix most of (all?) the artifacts using inpaint.
Would "wiping out all human value" remove your objection?