skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slaves had their labour stolen from for hundreds of years and were given no land or other economic basis for them to thrive with. In a competitive landscape, without any capital there is no way to rise.

This is also ignoring the fact that slavery does still exist in the prison system. Prisoners are paid almost nothing for their labour, and are charged astronomical prices for essentials such as toothpaste or deodorant.
>Slavery ended more than 150 years ago. To claim that it is a contributing factor to current economic inequality is absurd. Racism and discrimination, sure. But not slavery.

The history of slavery directly fed into racism and discrimination post-abolition into ways that minorities without a past as slaves haven't had to experience.

Not only that, but these persons didn't even have a state culture of their own (being owned things and not people, and being forcibly abducted from their own cultures). They had to inhabit a dominant culture created by the norms of others (their owners) and run by them. Their culture was half-adopted from their masters, staff they managed to save from their old countries, and whatever they improvised (under the stern eyes of the whites) here.

Besides, 150 years is nothing in historical terms as it relates to the continued impact of something on a population, doubly so for something as impactful as being see (and having to live as) "an inferior class of persons owned by other people".

For example the US was founded by religious zealots, and even today, 300+ years later and tons of immigrants from others countries having been added, it very much shows, and is very much a dominant part of the cultural landscape.
How do you know who is a "bad one"? If you discount the "little wisdom" of people you disagree with, you're creating a a confirmation bias problem.

A good scientist tries to find evidence that contradicts her theory. Evidence that is consistent with the theory proves nothing.
Snarky but true. Why would anyone ever get involved in a popular smart contract when the network devs have shown they’ll play god with the block chain when it doesn’t come out their way? It’s definitely given me pause...
I did. But is that like how programmers often think everyone else is incompetent? Professionals can be just as biased as everyone else. If there are real grievances, why are they not being brought up to the board? Doctors more than anyone are ethically expected to bring incompetence to public attention. It is why we as a society consider it a good to give them an artificial market advantage that we would not consider for a cashier at Walmart.
The problem is that cheap meters will give bad readings. For example, reading AC on top of a DC offset voltage can produce incorrect results on a cheap meter. Or it can just be broken.

An experienced tech can spot the errors and work around these limitations. But for someone trying to learn electronics bad test equipment readings can present a real obstacle.
Yeah it seems like a good way to get the best of both worlds :)
The lack of multigenerational wealth due to slavery is still a very real and relevant issue.
Well most of western Europe has cheap perfectly drinkable water. I don't think you can blame social democracy. Blame incompetent and corrupt locals.
This is fine, except then your teams interactions with another team might as well be interactions with a competing company. This produces some behavior that can be difficult for outsiders (customers, the CEO, etc) to understand.

So it works well as long as your teams don't interact. And if they don't interact, why do you have a 2000 person company?
Wow, it’s so easy! See, poor people? Just get a job, gawd!
The genie can't be put back in the bottle, counselor. Move on.
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> keep well behaved things from stepping all over each other and breaking everything

Containers help with keeping bad behaviors from stepping all over each other.
We know that a lot of nasty (carcinogenic) chemicals will bond to plastics, poisoning any animal that ingests it.

If you can't get the plastics out of the water you can't get the other chemicals out, because the plastic has already grabbed it.
For National Geographic, an Exploration of Race (and Commercial Opportunity)
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Cool indeed!

As for Medium feeds, it's all about whether or not you can find a pattern in the data to exploit. For instance, maybe links for comments contain "/c/" whereas links for posts contain "/p/" or something similar. There is, of course, no guarantee that there is anything to exploit or that what is exploitable won't change—that's the joy of dealing with third-parties! :)
I am the primary developer for what I listed, but I believe us to be fairly single threaded. While I am not looking for work - I do believe that given the range of skills required, it's not easy for someone to just jump in should something happen.

While it's not really my issue to correct - I am trying to be helpful, and attempting to figure out if a lot of people just dislike this work, or maybe it's how we're presenting it, or both.
"The tension here goes far beyond the pages of the magazine and its marketing pitches, with deeper questions looming about how the era of personal genomics in general will shape national conversations about race. Will all of this sequencing help people come to understand race as a social construct, not a biological fact? Or will it enable new forms of scientific racism, as researchers, corporations, and governments deploy new ways to taxonomize human beings?"
Yes, use a HDMI capture card and have it interface using /dev/videoN
> I posted to the SolveSpace forum at the time but there was never any feedback from there.

Yeah, I know that filling too... It's happen because current main developer (whitequark) not very friendly with SolveSpace's users and their feature requests... Sadly, but I dream that some time SolveSpace will be maintained such developers as Yorik van Havre and other developers of FreeCAD ;-)

Hope, FreeCAD team will fork SolveSpace for further development and give SolveSpace second breathe then.

> I didnt feel inclined to put more work into it. I'm happy if someone forks the GitHub repo and becomes the maintainer.

OK, think, I could work on it[0] soon ;-)

Currently I try setup[1] AppImage builds with patches (features), that already exists as pull requests but still not merged in official SolveSpace branch.

[0] https://github.com/symbian9/solvespace-docs

[1] https://github.com/symbian9/solvespace-appimage
There are so many other ways to "influence" people's opinions by distorting what they see on their news feed, front page Google results, etc.

For instance (from Wikipedia):

> In April 2016, Correct the Record announced that it would be spending $1 million to find and confront social media users who post unflattering messages about Clinton.[1][4] The organization's president, Brad Woodhouse, said they had "about a dozen people engaged in [producing] nothing but positive content on Hillary Clinton" and had a team distributing information "particularly of interest to women".
You're right, it's an external system. Left it out since a key/value db is super simple to operate and very cheap by just using dynamo/cosmos db/cloud datastore to maintain it globally.

All the benefits help offset the extra dependency and make database backups much simpler, especially since every row has a unique id.
What I have witnessed there is beyond everything I could possibly have imagined in terms of software engineering. Far more serious than just a lack of professional competence was the utmost contempt for human dignity which at some point made me compare the whole experience to (what I imagine can be) jail.

I think these two actually go hand-in-hand. Happy Monday!
Agreed, I am wondering if it could be something as simply as changing the titles people have.
This is beautiful and I love the nostalgic UI design, but I really don't see any reason to use it.
Deferring to the law is a thought-stopper. It's entirely possible that something is illegal but should be tolerated or accommodated in some circumstances.

Equating the law with a perfect moral code - i.e. it is always wrong to break the law and always good to obey it - is a flawed way of understanding human society.
Surely now is preferable to during the downturn when you'll get half the value for the same percentage of your company? (Assuming of course that you and I are correct that a downturn is looming).
It is. I think that given the tremendous success in Atari games and autonomous killing machines, ethical efforts in AI are critically important now, with or without generality.
And therefore I find the cynicism above appropriate but less than insightful.
YouTube isn't some tiny niche, it's a huge sprawling expanse of content. You may be shocked to learn that what others view on youtube is completely different from what you watch there, and that leads to different experiences. Not just in the details, but in character as well.
Nope, currently siftrss is geared totally toward filtering the content which exists in the feed already. The goal is to keep the tool good at doing that one thing.

That is a neat idea, though!
In Finland this is the only way to get anybody even slightly competent to get something done.
Maybe this is different in Eastern Europe (you know, the old Warsaw pact countries), but in Western Europe tap water is of very reliable quality, and consistently delivered.
Well, and alcohol.
People are saying it isn't affected by the first amendment, but it seems pretty gray to me: Facebook is doing this because they need to sell a good story to congress. If they don't have that story, congress seems likely to bring the hammer down on them.

Obviously the threat is assumed. But can congress explicitly threaten a company? Is this all congress needs to do to run around the first amendment in the 21st century - threaten internet companies to do it for them?
I'm libertarian leaning and can offer my perspective on these issues.

I have no problems with unions, but I don't support state protection of them. I suspect if you pressed most libertarians this is how they really feel. It's just in practice, this comes out as being totally against unions.

(1) I definitely want to shift control of schools as locally as possible. It's silly to pretend that the needs of an inner city school in NY look a lot like the needs of a rural school in Kentucky. The more closely tied to the community the people making decisions are, the more likely they will be able to adapt to the needs of the students.

(2) I'm not just an atheist, I'm a Hitchens is my hero atheist. If I thought I'd get the best over-all life outcomes for my children by sending them to a private for-profit Young Earth Creationist school I would do it in a heart-beat. I don't understand why anyone would care more about the for-profit status of a school than they do about the actual outcomes of the students. I suspect not-for-profit secular schools will provide the best outcomes, but I could be wrong.

After the Parkland shooting a bunch of my liberal friends are starting to see the light of day regarding school choice and heading towards the privatization end of the spectrum. It's going to be very difficult to change national policy on school security. It's only slightly less difficult to change state policy. But a hand full of activist parents could very likely get metal detectors, armed guards, etc. at their one school if they were given the freedom to vote with their money. And they would also not have to demand that everyone else make the same choices.
Agreed. I’d prefer it if it otherwise the same (taste/nutrients).
I wanted to do this, but 7.5% is taken out before the money gets to the charity. That is more than credit card processing fees! I no longer use that option and donate directly. Doing that does increase the amount of work to do your taxes if you itemize deductions though.

This is not going to gusto, but it taken out as part of the services provided by FirstGiving their partner to handle the donations: https://support.gusto.com/hc/en-us/articles/220929687-Charit....
For me, OO doesn't create code that is easy to understand. It creates massive hierarchies of inheritance and this creates complexity.

I would much rather look at a single function to figure out what it does rather than having to go look for how changes in it affects the hierarchy of classes.
Can we only include non-paywalled articles? Hard to contribute to the discussion when you can't read the content.
A startup I once worked at a decade ago decided to hire a sales executive in the UK. They initially hired him as a contractor and only made him a full-time employee a few months later because in the UK you can easily fire a contractor but not an employee, and they really wanted to make sure the guy they hired was the right person for the job.

(To answer the inevitable "was he the right person?": Yes, he was. EMEA was continually our best-performing sales region the whole time I worked there, and he built our EMEA sales infrastructure from the ground up. Some years later, after the company exited, most of the senior people regrouped at another startup. He was in charge of EMEA for a few years, and then he was promoted to CEO.)
> If you do those 3 things you will not stay in poverty 99.8% of the time.

I know a lot of people in poverty, having come from it myself. I refuse to believe this without a direct citation.
Make people pay for a user account
So you are exactly confirming what I am saying, they have or are building the sales team anyways.
Err, no. Docker is not coupled to Systemd. If anything Systemd is competing with Docker via their nspawn sub-system.

I could have sworn there has been even a few instances of Systemd cock blocking Docker even though Docker had a clear precedence.
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Do it in the console, you won't be disappointed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstone_(medieval)#Sources

"One medieval source in Iceland, "Rauðúlfs þáttr", mentions the sunstone as a mineral by means of which the sun could be located in an overcast and snowy sky by holding it up and noting where it emitted, reflected or transmitted light (hvar geislaði úr honum).

Sunstones are also mentioned in Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar (13th century) and in church and monastic inventories (14th–15th century) without discussing their attributes. The sunstone texts of Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar were copied to all four versions of the medieval hagiography Guðmundar saga góða."

Perhaps you are making the statement that possession and understanding of such a mineral's capabilities is not definitive proof of them actually using to for navigation? I suppose strictly speaking that is true, but the leap of imagination is very, very tiny.

So what are you actually saying and why?
I tend to focus on configurability up front, while respecting system defaults. That approach doesn't always yield the cleanest results out of the box, but I'd want user feedback on functionality before I get into polishing the look and feel.
The parent post was saying that race doesn't need to be the end, because there is simpler explanations for why people want to pull up the ladder behind them. But using race to close the doors is making it the means, not the end. I think the overall point being made is that these days race is neither purposefully included in either the means or the ends, but due to historical factors accidentally included. Pulling up the ladder for everyone poorer than you will have a disparate impact by race if poverty isn't equal between races, and due to historical reasons it isn't. But that doesn't mean that anything about race fuels the choice of action.

The core problem is attributing bad behavior that is caused by something other than racism (such as classism, greed, or just trying to win a non-infinite sum game) can create problems by hampering discussions of the actual root issues.

Of course, we shouldn't completely dismiss it as a reason for some people to do what they do. But there has to be a middle ground between saying it is the primary factor and it is never a factor.
I love these stories. They are wonderful, and heartwarming, and they remind me to keep in mind that the people on the other side of a news story are human beings as well.
This is pretty true. I'm always watching my sister-in-law, who can barely make ends meet, buy stupid shit. Big TV, new furniture that she can barely get credit approval for, clothes that have brands and logos on them that are twice as expensive as plain clothes that are usually better quality.

A lot of it looks like compensation for being on the poverty line. Like her self-esteem can't take the hit of buying the sensible items that she needs so she can get ahead. Doesn't realize she's getting in her own way.

I think culturally we're taught to have nice things and that becomes the goal instead of acting sensibly and doing the right things. Would probably need a couple of generations of kids who value a healthy savings account and an on-track budget more than whatever shiny things they encounter in the media they consume. That's a tall order
Framing it as "the encryption debate" instead of "the eavesdropping debate" is telling, in terms of the inherent bias in the article.

The free ride enjoyed by law enforcers in terms of solving crimes by following the money and listening to unguarded communications may be coming to an end, thanks to cryptography. But end-to-end encryption by default isn't going to do anything but raise the lowest-hanging fruit a bit higher. Stupid criminals will still be easily caught, because they cannot avoid doing stupid things. And no one has perfect op-sec. Everyone makes mistakes, and mistakes lead to convictions. The difference is that police resources will have to be prioritized and targeted to uncover those mistakes, rather than continually picking up cheap finds from a surveillance dragnet.

This is no longer a matter for debate, at least in the US. We already went over this with Clipper Chip, and rehashed it several times. Encryption is protected by the 1st Amendment. Back doors can be used by adversaries in addition to law enforcers. Law enforcers cannot be trusted to use their granted powers responsibly. Indeed, encryption has advanced this far in part because governments cannot be trusted.
> I really don’t think you are making yourself actually smarter by judging Facebook in hindsight.

I've been blocking every Facebook domain I can find in my browser since 2010. Why? Because I knew they could connect up referer headers on Like buttons to my Facebook cookie, and create a complete profile of me and the kind of articles I read.

(I did the same thing with Google's Plus stuff, as best I could.)

Facebook didn't need to implement things that way. But they've been acting in a sinister way for years, their game plan has been clear as day. And I for one don't consent.
The requirement to label their milk as "imitation skim milk" is preposterous though.
Emacs especially with likes of Magit, Orgmode etc.
> If they already disabled the API that CA was using, is "inaction" really the right word?

You don't find yourself testifying to the Congress because of a single technical loophole. This happens when a series of failures occur and fail to be remedied. In some cases they may not even be seen, internally, as failures [1][2].

Zuckerberg is there to tell the Congress "you can trust me." The Congress wants him to say that publicly to gauge if there's political will, amongst voters, to go after Facebook. Treating this as a narrow reaction to limited failures as opposed to a general questioning of the viability of an internationally-scoped ad-driven politically-volatile social network is what I expect Zuckerberg to do, and why I expect him to fall down.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/30/17179100/facebook-memo-le...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2018/03/25/faceboo...
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What, concretely, makes you think that any of those companies wouldn't place a focus on safety and value alignment? Automobile manufacturers and their tier 1 suppliers are the world leaders in automobile safety, after all.
Tap water is about the same, old one: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/06/plastic-...

This is just our devouring of the planet, nothing to see here. Now reinsert head in ass and press play.
A more product appropriate name might have been AggregatingTheStatusQuo.ai.

I see no pathway to becoming a dissident here.
> Seems like people are mad that I believe that most food in restaurants are not cooked.

People should be mad at falsehoods. What better use is the feeling for?
Same way as in email, banking etc?

Also I find it puzzling that so many people here keeps on recommending WhatsApp over Telegram after all the lies from WhatsApps owner.

Edit: While I have no way to verify this, AFAIK both Telegram and Gmail stores data and keys in ways that makes them hard to access by everyone except for the user.

Telegram in particular say they do this by storing data and keys in different datacenters in different jurisdictions.

Add to this that WhatsApp has had their fair share of issues as well before they started working with Moxie.
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Would you be able to explain what you used to do and have access to and what has changed? It would be interesting to hear an advertisers view.
A thing of beauty happens when you write simple code in C and C++: the compiler has a field-day optimizing ad-nauseum. look at all those zmm(AVX-512) registers being used if your architecture supports it (on top of all the inlining and unrolling)!

godbolt link of the source + assembly -- all I did was combine the header, source and test files:

https://godbolt.org/#z:OYLghAFBqd5QCxAYwPYBMCmBRdBLAF1QCcAaP...
Is the coffee test?

More like commentary from a transhumerist, I suppose.
It’s an open source project with bold text saying not to use it for work since it’s incomplete and may be buggy.

The authors goals may not align with yours, and their decision of what they want to do on their free time might not align with yours - this is exactly why releasing it to the open is a good thing, talented and interested people can contribute to it if they choose, or use something else if they are so inclined.

I’d love to try themes developed by someone with as strong opinions on design as yourself, but you wrote a blog instead. Its what you wanted to do, and you did!
You've been able to download your Facebook contents in a zip file for nearly six years. It made absolutely no difference in competition.
i think we don't do those things, not because they're not valuable--in fact, we've shown they're immensely valuable by dedicaitng whole groups of people for decades of their lives to the task--but because patriarchal social structures benefit from the asymmetry in value placement. if only men can create value, they hold power.

we've been moving towards a system where power is shared between men and women. that has benefits but also tradeoffs (e.g., men can't monopolize power as before). as the system moves in that direction, things like value placement necessarily shift along with it (as you point out). what we're conversing about here is the grapplings we face along that shift as we negotiate what the new equilibrium will be.

the gender wage gap can then be seen as a measure of what that equilibrium is.

that's my take on it, at least. =)
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I assumed he did. AWS is transferable to most fields in tech these days. Unity is niche to video games. C# isn’t used in as many fields as python for sure.