skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would the insulation also make it sound-proof?

Not necessarily. Thermal insulation uses light materials, sound insulation requires heavy materials.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42651593 - Jan 2025 (2 comments)
God people really think other people GAF about their beards. FWIW I stopped reading there, so this might be relevant to why people talk over you.
Sure, megacorps never had genuine interest in liberation at the very top.

But it is a genuine sign of renewed danger when megacorps are perceiving the general public as valuing reactionary politics instead of valuing diversity.
I disagree. DEI has nothing to do with an ancient empire.
I'm sorry. What other state has it so that taxes only reset upon sale?
I've definitely been praised for regularly doing timely reviews, but I imagine your experience is probably more common and why that mindset is widespread.
A larger bill for enterprise customers.
> if the outcomes of this kind of blind hiring did not result in a "diverse" workforce, I don't think many DEI advocates would be on board.

I really disagree with this. Obviously there are the extremists on the far end of the spectrum which this accurately describes, but the vast majority of people who support these types of programs arrive at it by observing 1) the literal centuries of examples like the one above and 2) the numerous visible day-to-day examples of racism/sexism one sees directly (not talking about silly microaggression shit)

It doesn't take an extreme viewpoint to come to the conclusion there are knobs that might need to be turned a bit more deliberately in our society to bring it closer to the blind evaluation model.

It's a shame how much of our discourse is people in the middle of the bell curve arguing principally against people on the far ends of it (or observing such arguments and wisely choosing to stay out of it).
> Is there much space for opposing views on a forum answering science questions?

Perhaps more than anywhere. Science is a process of challenge and response, not a static body of knowledge.

> Presumably the purpose is to answer from established science.

"Established science", which is still subject to debate itself, isn't what link aggregators cover. They bias towarss stuff more like science news and novel study outcomes, which are nothing to do with established science except as a seed for critical discussion.
> The Supreme Court of the United States has recently made decisions signaling a shift in how courts will approach DEI.

Does anyone know what decisions he's referring to?
My experience with DEI at Microsoft was that the true believers really had their hearts in the right place. Almost all of the negative consequences I saw, came from people who saw DEI as a way to get ahead. I think the biggest problem with DEI initiatives is how much they seem to only benefit cynical people.
I read the article and it's interesting! I learned something from it. From an end user POV it explains the mechanism behind how hash(-1)==hash(-2), which is neat. There's not really a why behind it, though. It wasn't really planned or designed for -1 to have an unexpected hash value. That's just the value the devs randomly picked as a flag. It could've been -837 just as easily.
Good old vdiff: https://catb.org/jargon/html/V/vdiff.html

Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by eyeball search. The term optical diff has also been reported, and is sometimes more specifically used for the act of superimposing two nearly identical printouts on one another and holding them up to a light to spot differences. Though this method is poor for detecting omissions in the ‘rear’ file, it can also be used with printouts of graphics, a claim few if any diff programs can make. See diff.

An interesting variant of the vdiff technique usable by anyone who has sufficient control over the parallax of their eyeballs (e.g. those who can easily view random-dot stereograms), is to hold up two paper printouts and go cross-eyed to superimpose them. This invokes deep, fast, built-in image comparison wetware (the same machinery responsible for depth perception) and differences stand out almost immediately. This technique is good for finding edits in graphical images, or for comparing an image with a compressed version to spot artifacts.
No, people are not corporations despite what Haraari et al. would love you to think. This does not benefit US citizens. It benefits corporate profits.

Your point is moot anyway since countries, including the USA, have protectionist policies.
A few small holes will not sink the aircraft carrier, but eventually there will be enough holes. See Disney.
To really blow peoples' minds use both hands to tap the differences, keeping the left hand for the left image and the right hand for the right image!

From your POV the images are merged so your hands will look like they're tapping a single image, but from the audience's point of view you look like a savant with multi-attention!
This happened to me on imgur, i explicitly filtered out politics but once the election got underway I started seeing it everywhere (except in imgur's case it was left-wing content). I turned off the politics filter and then turned it back on and they vanished for a time but then slowly leaked back in. If i reset the filter every week then i could keep political related content hidden for the most part.
Maybe fear mongering is overstating but...

Speaking to a lawyer is not the first step when building something in this domain (unless you already have someone bankrolling you).

In this case there's an app that this guy built for families to use. It's obviously in it's infancy. The helpful advice here would be about posting that this is in beta or maybe reading the HIPAA guidelines and ensuring that he's adhering to those guidelines where applicable. Focus on tightening up security. What's his plan to ensure that data in encrypted in transit and at rest? What kind of monitoring will the app have? Does he need to be thinking about intrusion detection? Will he need to enforce 2FA?

Does he need to stop everything and start speaking to lawyers? Probably not.
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Terminals are asking but that doesn't mean people are tipping, as the article points out:

> People are tipping less at restaurants than they have in at least six years, driven by fatigue over rising prices and growing prompts for tips at places where gratuities haven’t historically been expected.
Sturgeon's law applies everywhere, so I’d be hesitant to simply suggest that people are just satiated with slop. That said, I do think this is a domestic “regression to the mean” like you suggest.

Or, if you wanted to enjoy fun video games in China in the 90s and 00s, your favourite stuff might have more likely been a pirated copy of Age of Empires II. The cream of the crop was coming from foreign powerhouses. Just this past year though, there’s a blockbuster Journey to the West action game made in China. I can imagine it’s a more accessible way of playing big-budget video games since the language and culture are more familiar.

In some ways, it reminds me of the console game crash of the 80s and Japanese software being very dominant in the United States until the late 90s and 2000s. The stuff from Japan was a little more foreign, but it was very good. Now though, western AAA games make up more of your average American’s playtime than they did in the past.
Yeah I've found that SAC solder typically doesn't contain nearly enough flux to get the job done (just 2% at most, seriously?!). Small joints like really tiny wires work great at something like 370C so I can just touch it for a split second and it's instantly done, for anything else it's dripping into flux paste time and it works almost as good as leaded used to. Would've been easier to streamline the process if the rosin core was like 10% or 15% instead.

Not all types of flux work well though, my local store sells something that has no labels but seems to be very aggressive and works exceptionally well, the more common no clean types don't do anything at all.

Tips are definitely eaten a lot faster than leaded, but it's not exactly a huge expense when they're like a dollar or two for a 10 pack on aliexpress.
Yep, with very little upfront cost needed.
Well if the point is that Zimbabwe starts playing games and corruption starlink can ignore them. Sure the Chinese could play Zimbabwe’s game, but then they’d likely be more expensive and worse quality by blocking things the government doesn’t like. If people can still access starlink why would they use the state sanctioned but crappy provider?
No idea where you get your news on Germany, but the only valid thing was the part about the auto industry being legacy. As someone working in the energy sector, I can gladly tell you we got rid off most dependencies, we’re 95% independent regarding electricity. Oil and coal are still a problem, but we’re getting there. That ballooning welfare deficit you talk about must be a joke, what are you even saying? Germany has a zero deficit policy in it’s constitution (which what’s actually causing trouble right now, especially regarding Ukraine help funding). Please also point me to information on unions fighting EV because I haven’t heard anything about this (being active in the largest German union).
C[++] never ceases to amaze me. Just yesterday I saw this, totally valid, code snippet:

void g();
void f() {
return g();
}
Top schools like ivy league in America exclusively discriminate against Asians and there was a lawsuit but its not being enforced.

This is a different issue that precedes DEI.
You should read the research because its actually good.

They studied the effect of telling people that they had an unconscious bias and it worked in eliminating it.

I would like to see that reproduced as it seemed like only certain demographics followed as you would expect; and primarily not the one you would like to hear. But it would be good to do something actually effective that doesnt introduce racism to fight racism.

Fire vs Fire style.
YouTube is nuts when not logged in as well. Those crazy clickbait thumbnails eg. Mr. Beast or whatever.
The Power Broker, perhaps?
I don't have access to the article but would guess that this is about a pushback against that. I've personally begun my own pushback and try to base my tipping on where I think it's reasonable and never give into awkwardness or default values.
I use it every day and my feed is full of intelligent, thoughtful analysis and discussion. Even the edgy humor is much more clever and subtle than what you'd find on Reddit or 4chan
> It’s a expensive for companies to (legally) fire people

Maybe in Europe, in the US it's an email.
BR is a masterpiece. First pulled a rip of Battle Royale 1 + 2 off of Limewire back in high school. It became the underground "crazy" movie we'd burn to cds and pass around to friends.
When I worked there the North Star was always "build ML so good we don't need human reviewers".
In other words, this is a case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-band_signaling versus out-of-band signaling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling_(telecommunications)... .
Lawyers are how professional adults resolve things amicably. Having your lawyer handle it doesn't mean the interaction isn't amiable, it means that the person amicably resolving the situation is both aware of their legal rights and responsibilities, and that the principal is savvy to the concept of liability because they have a professional advising them.

Almost all things resolved via lawyers are resolved professionally without a trial or a fight. This is literally the primary function of lawyers: to interface with the other party's lawyers and find a mutually consensual resolution to a problem without compromising your own rights and entitlements.

Showing up without a professional sends a clear signal to the other party that you're not interested in doing the minimum to protect your rights and ensure that the other party doesn't steamroller you, which incentivizes the other party to trample your rights and steamroller you, because there's a likelihood that you haven't been advised of your rights in full and don't have an immediate and convenient path to enforcing your rights against the counterparty. It's bush league.

Get a lawyer. Have the lawyer handle it. "Handle it" doesn't mean an immediate lawsuit, it's simply the way professional organizations indicate to other professional organizations that actions have consequences. No lawyer means you don't intend to cause them any consequences, which means you're ignore-able.
by that same logic Bluesky should be overtaking X but it isn't

X is growing even bigger and has international reach which Bluesky doesn't
> Makes me wonder what it would take for governments to actually hit Microsoft hard enough for it to hurt

They don't bite the hand that feeds them. Microsoft spends a lot of money for corruption^Wlobby.
thanks, this is helpful!

I certainly appreciate how the example in the README makes it instantly apparent how to use the code.
Post pictures, please.
My default tip is higher than most terminals have a button for, but if the server is standing there watching then a simple button push is what they get.
>and then a random $10k to "youth break dancing." And I'm like "why is that there? Seems like rage bait.

This, but also the implication is that if they'll waste $10k on break dancing, then they must be wasting similar amounts on thousands of other programs and the leave it for the reader to imagine what those might be and get angry about whatever they made up in their mind.
In what way is not recommending content, or demoting it in feeds, coercive?

I'm sorry, but maximalist free speech positions fail in the face of reality.
Pretty clear they want it to keep a moat on their side. Can't see Datadog continuing investing in this - it's a pretty direct competitor.

What happened to Vector the last opensource they bought? Are they still hired?
You may or may not be aware that Andy Warhol famously quipped that, "in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes," back in the late 1960s. As media has gotten to be ever more ubiquitous and the cost of entry lower, he was clearly onto something decades before the internet!
It is not that the entire working set has to fit within SRAM. Kernels that reuse portions of their inputs several times, such as matmul, can be compute bound and there AMD's AVX-512 shines.
10% is even easier math
> without any typing?

>>> "abc" + 321
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str

I rest my case.
It should be something similar to the copyright law.
For example if some movie studio makes a movie and I pirate it and share it with 1000 people they claim that i must pay 1000x$50 because they put a price of $50 for the movie

i can give them proforma that i can give them my personal info for like 1B and then they can choose if they want it or not, but if they steal it, obviously they choose to get something with price tag of 1B and i want my money

like the BOM for iphone in china is $150 but if i steal it from a shop i am charged 2K not 150.

I can argue that they did not lose 2K but only $150 because that is the cost of materials but the court is taking the final price tag, not the materials cost.

Same should be with PI data. The price tag for giving out my real home address is that, take it or leave it. (Or steal it and they pay the price).

That should be the fair thing to do. Free economy, you may sell your data for $50, other for $200, some may ask for a million, etc. It is the seller who decide the price, not the buyer.

Otherwise we can go back to the movie piracy and I say: ok, i shared 1000 copyes, 0.01 cent each = here's ten bucks and have a nice day because I choose the price, not you.
Natures own VR goggles.
Guess I will be rude then. I’m not going back to cash.
No, that’s the law. Employers in many service industries enjoy relaxed rates below minimum wage. The law is that if during their standard pay period, their net wage (paying below minimum for hour worked) + their total tips don’t equate to what they would have earned making federal minimum wage for the time they worked, the employer has to pickup the slack to assure they are paid at least minimum wage.

If the total sum of tips plus their lower pay rate exceeds what they would have otherwise earned making actual minimum wage rates, then the employer doesn’t have to pay any additional wages because tips picked up the slack. Also the employee is rewarded by making rates above the minimum.

In the first case, the employee getting tipped some but not enough to make minimum wage will ultimately only get minimum wage rates for their work. Your tips just close the gap a bit for the employer who would have to pay less to make sure the employee made minimum wage. So, subsidizing the employer/business.

As someone else suggested, tipping in cash is my preferred way because it allows the employee to pocket the tip without reporting, assuring the tip actually goes to them.

Overall in most cases tips should be a non-existent practice or at the very least, not nearly as frequent as it currently is. I regularly dine at several restaurants that have now included tips in their menu and service costs that assure employees are paid a fair rate. The menu prices are slightly higher but I prefer this practice because I know everyone is treated reasonably. If service staff go out of their way and above and beyond, I’ll throw in extra, which is what tipping should be, at least in my opinion.
Ending affirmative action, I assume
TaPL should be required reading for self proclaimed "engineers". Do untyped languages even exist, or could they? maybe something purely theoretical for ivory tower academics? Even POSIX shell and assembler type their values.
One thing to consider –especially at "non-standard" tipping establishments– is how much of the tip goes to the server/cashier.

CBC's Marketplace did some investigating [1], and found that in many cases, the owner or manager pocket part or all of the service tip, even in provinces where this is not legal.

[1 – video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF0zJIRe1J8

[1 - text article] https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/tipping-marketplace-1.73...
This seems like a loaded footgun: anyone writing a custome hash function has to know about -1 being treated like an error and handle it in a similar way.

I can’t think of any other language where this kind of thing happens, which means other developers won’t expect it either.

I can see the bug report now: “certain records cause errors, occurs only for about one in a few billion.”
Over a lifetime time scale, fiber will be the same price or cheaper than Starlink but 10x faster. Most people won't notice the performance difference and fiber takes years to install while Starlink is minutes.
I don't dispute they are massively used and important communication tools. The analogy to a public square is deeply flawed though.

A public space is not a broadcast medium. If I don't want to hear the crazy person shouting, I just have to walk a short distance away. The people who are presented to me are not chosen by some algorithm under the control of the space's owner. I can largely control my interaction with others. If someone is being threatening to others in a public space, then the police will arrest them, and nobody would call that censorship.
"dropped to 19.3%..."

That's already way too high. People started tipping more because the price of food didn't keep up with wages, but that's just not the case anymore. Restaurant prices in my area have doubled in the last seven years or so, most of that coming in the last three or four years.
Code traces are metrics. Run times per function calls metrics, count of specific function call metrics.

Otel is an attempt to package such arithmetic.

Web apps have added so many layers of syntax sugar and semantic wank, we’ve lost sight its all just the same old math operations relative to different math objects. Sets are not triangles but both are tested, quantified, and compared with the same old mathematical ops we learn by middle school.
> Sunsetting supplier diversity efforts

Why the hell would a company pick vendors based on the sexuality or skin color of the owner or whatever?
A time capsule still intact on the Apple store.
I agree with your last sentence, but I think we shouldn't say python itself is "strongly typed".
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Parent’s call methods on their children, while children use signals to communicate with parent nodes.
I'm sure if you filled a field full of 8.5 x 20/30/40ft slices of blade someone would buy them for something. Interleaved and stuck in the ground as a retaining wall or similar seems like a fairly obvious choice.

Any screeching about quality or defects can pretty much be overcome by just using more since they're waste after all.
> The indigenous groups probably didn't even have anything like our modern concept of land "ownership"

I doubt they had deeds to land. But they did fight inter-tribal wars over which territory belonged to which tribe.

Humans have a very well developed notion of "mine" and "not mine". Saying indigenous peoples did not have this is an extraordinary claim, and would need strong evidence.
>>> d = {-2: None}

>>> -1 in d

False

What gives?
I don't think that matters here, though. This specific hash function is literally used just for putting values in dict buckets. The docs say:

> Hash values are integers. They are used to quickly compare dictionary keys during a dictionary lookup.

They're not to be used as a crypto digest. The downside here, then is that if -1 and -2 are used as dict keys, they'll end up bucketed together. Apparently that hasn't been enough of an issue over the years to bother changing it. One advantage is that those values are common enough that it might break code that incorrectly expects hash() to have predictable outputs. If it used 0xffffffff as the value, lots of busted tests may never stumble across it.
Ah but then how do you record that the measurement actually happened but did not produce a value? I want a record of that failure.

I mean sure, you could do yet another table. But honestly that level of normalization is much more work than it's worth. Just because it's some academic definition doesn't make it right.
For me it's been a slow boil with the PoS terminals asking for aggressive tips on small $ transactions. Recently I decided

- Tip generously for in-person seated dining where I'm waited on (20-30%)

- Tip generously for bartenders (say, $20 cash up front if I'm going to be there for awhile/ordering multiple rounds)

- Zero tipping anywhere else.

No, I am not tipping 20% for an ice cream cone. I used to tip $1 for coffee, but I'm not going to go through the trouble of overriding the built in 15/20/25% suggested amounts on the screen, I'm just going to press "No Tip".
Seems like the latter to me. One or the other gem is fine depending on your preferred interface.