skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that the collective output of Twitter users has risen to the level of having massive influence, perhaps it's time we rethink how "freedom of speech" meshes with "private service".

For example, when it comes to publicly-available services such as this, we often hear about people referring to "Twitter's freedom of speech" in terms of censorship of its users, which boggles my mind. Twitter provides a publicly-accessible service that allows users to post short entries, and when they prevent someone else from posting something, it basically amounts to "Twitter's right to free speech is more important than the user's ability to speak" and that seems a bit counter-intuitive.

If Twitter's policies are unjust, then Twitter does not deserve the level of influence that it has. My opinion is that such a service could not have been foreseen by the writers of the Constitution. In their day, the greatest threat to freedom of speech was the government. Remember, they had just fought for their independence from England. I don't think they could have envisioned a world where the greatest threat to free speech would come from the private sector.

And if we're not careful, we're about to be making it worse. As it stands, platform operators are not generally liable for the things they automatically publish on behalf of their users, outside of certain highly egregious things (such as child abuse imagery), and even then only if they don't follow the proper procedure with regards to reporting to law enforcement, etc. If that ever changes, expect freedom of speech to be null and void in context of the Internet.
I think one prevailing idea is not that there can't be man on man abuse or that victims must have "done something to invite it", but that men should protect themselves on their own in those matters. So it's more like "yeah, and what do you want the Marine Corps to do? You're a marine, you should have fended the other person off".

E.g. nobody would have said anything of the kind if an older man raped a young boy (they'd want to send their ass to jail), but for a marine this kind of thing is not something they're expected to allow to happen to them, or complain about.

So, it's part of this macho thing, but then again, this goes hand to hand with being a marine.
There isn't weather stations every half mile.
This is HN. Advanced knowledge is not an issue.

People making changes to user.js will have some knowledge of what they are doing, and handle the issues.

The post points some security/privacy extensions to complement. Nothing that a user changing user.js wouldn't already know.
I'm most disappointed in the Canadian gov't and their lack of action. This would have been the perfect opportunity to mandate change - We don't have to send data on all of our people and their credit history to this American company. Or at least without actual legislation and rules around governance, security, and actual penalties for breaches.

Instead we let them get away with - no more than a handful of Canadians were affected - followed by - oops, yup lots of Canadians - followed by - holy heck, how many Canadians are there way up there?

We don't need to go along with this. Yet it never seems to get better.
Regarding sports news, major collegiate and all professional sports are doing fine. Small collegiate and high school sports suffer without local media coverage. ESPN covers high school sports very, very selectively. The days of a mom clipping out the high school soccer coverage of her daughter or son are coming to and end.
A 1h flight takes a lot longer than 1h. To do some math:

8am flight:

4a: Wake up, complete packing.
5a: Travel to airport
6a: Check-in
7a: Security (take off shoes)
8a: Takeoff, if not delayed
9a: Landing
10a: Checkout complete?

10pm bus:

9p: Travel to bus
10p: Bus departs
2a: Bus layover for driver lunch (assuming 1 driver)
3a: Bus departs layover
7a: Bus arrives
7:15a: Checkout complete.

This assumes 1 hour to travel to either bus depot or airport, and that the bus is traveling overnight on empty highways for almost all of the trip. I've never flown so please update any inaccuracies with that time table.

> Also many travelers arrive the day before an event to get a hotel and sleep, so perhaps this time and cost can be avoided with the bus.

There's a large value in starting your day in the same city where you're working or otherwise spending a lot of time. From not having to spend the time and effort on traveling, to the relaxation of not having to "scene-change" and adjust to the behaviors of people in two different cities. And this package lets the right traveler have both for cheaper.

>>> If riders can't get a good snooze in, they're way less willing to pay $178 to $228 per round-trip. (A savvy flier who buys their ticket at the right time can usually snag a trip between SFO and LAX for about $115).

This basically combines the bus into both transportation and lodging. For an example, let's use a $250 hotel room. This assumes you'll fly in the day before a 2-day event and fly out the day after, or bus in on the first day and bus out the following night:

1h flight & 3 nights:

Flight: $115
Room: $250 x 3 = $750
Total: $865

8h bus & 1 night:

Bus: $230
Room: $250
Total: $480

Even if the bus costs twice the plane, it could still save money over the hotel.
You claimed that no one who had experienced cluster headaches would advocate for mindfulness as a potential solution.

Someone gave you information to the contrary, and now you are suggesting not using an anecdote as proof of a treatment’s efficacy.

That’s called “moving the goalposts”.
I've been teaching for over 20 years, and I've loved it. One of my biggest frustrations over the years, though, has been this notion that good teaching can't be taught. There's this notion that you have to be born a teacher, which is ridiculous. Certainly talent has a role in the profession, as it does in any profession, but there's a whole lot that can be taught.

Here's a few ideas that can be taught:

- Relationships are important. Students learn best from people they trust, and you can do things in a school and in a classroom that develop trust between students and their peers, and staff.

- Formative assessment is critical to growth. Formative assessment is assessment for the purpose of growth and learning, not for the purpose of grading. It's written and verbal feedback.

- When conflict arises, restorative approaches are more effective than punitive approaches. Restorative approaches look at what happened, why it happened, what harm was caused, and what can be done to address the actual harm that was caused. Restorative approaches are not weak if they are done well.

- Classroom management is important, but if you go at it by being too controlling you won't be a good teacher. A healthy amount of interaction is more effective than a silent classroom where everyone is afraid to talk.

- There's no place for zeroes in a grade book. A zero doesn't represent a student's learning, and it throws off all other measures of learning.

I could go on, but the bigger point is that there are many techniques and ideas that can be taught and modeled in the school and in the classroom. I think many student teachers get pulled into old, ineffective ways of teaching because of how it's modeled to them. They're taught many good approaches to teaching, but their ed school teachers just lecture at them. They're told to use well-researched, effective techniques, but then they're paired up with a mentor teacher who only uses an old-school lecture style, an overly strict approach to grading and assessment, and a punitive approach to discipline.
I was expecting to see this channel's previous upload[0] instead. This other video shows off what happens inside the mellotron when keys are pressed. It's pretty neat!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsEso9JagdQ
> West sued Equifax for nearly $5,000, but the judge agreed to give her $690 ($90 of which was for court fees)

Come on.

> Going toe to toe with Equifax’s representative in front of a judge, Haigh won $8,000.

That's better. But you could still argue that it's not adequate.
Wasn't the rumour that this was Nokia 5g (https://www.semiaccurate.com/2018/07/02/intel-custom-foundry...)?
In my view, whatever we learn at a fundamental level, we know there is time. Thinking of an analogy, we know that a smooth piece of metal is smooth, and smoothness is "real," even if the metal is made of atoms, and the atoms are made of quarks and leptons. Similarly, I've seen pictures where they magnify somebody's nose a thousand times, and it looks gross, but the person has a perfectly nice nose.

We experience periodic phenomena, such as the cycles of days and years, the moon, our heartbeats, and our pace when walking. Even if some of these are not utterly uniform, the general observation that there are so many days in a year, etc., are objective in the sense that they are experienced by everybody. A concept of time could be formed by associating events with days, and noticing that some of the timelines formed in this way always point in the same direction. For instance, birth is to the left of death on this timeline, never the other way around. Now you've got a clock -- the sun -- and an arrow of time -- birth to death.

I describe a "theory of time" to myself in this way because I imagine that primitive people could form such a view, and find it useful enough to keep. For instance, knowing when it's time to plant, or when certain kinds of fish are likely to be found in a particular river, would improve the survival of a primitive group. At least, it would improve my survival in such a situation.

So I think, even if time and space break down on cosmic or microscopic scales, they are satisfactorily real.
Star Wars… as Chinese Ink Paintings, by Tik Ka from East
> Hate speech is not free speech any more than contract killing is just a financial transaction.

Personal anecdote.

When I moved to the UK in the 1970, there was a little platform in Hyde Park called Speaker's Corner. Anyone could step onto it and make a speech about anything, anything at all; they could do so in the strongest terms, without being bothered; there was always a small audience standing around, and often lively debate would result.

Most of what was said on that platform would now be characterized as "hate speech" by people of your ilk. And the times were not exactly peaceful; there were IRA bombs going off in England at least once a week. Yet the authorities made a point of not interfering, because memories of WWII were still recent, and the right to free speech was considered sacrosanct.

Draw your own conclusions.
Many firms implement clawbacks for this instance
Citation please, he never mentions "cultural marxism" in his memo, nor says criticism will prove him correct.
Vim won't make you a more productive developer
The best iPad manager
This is addressed in the article; turn over in these schools is a huge problem, especially mid-year, where students dealing with lots of instability in their lives suddenly have another major change. There's no guarantee that the replacing teacher will be any better: indeed, given the stress and low pay, it seems a decent chance you'll end up in the same place you started.

Furthermore, firing a third-to-half of the teachers (even during the off season) will create a pretty trash work environment, where /everyone/ is fearing for their jobs.

I thought the principal in the article did a great job of managing the issue. She made it clear that she was building a new culture of higher expectations. When confronted with the higher expectations, low-performing teachers can try to get with it (which is a win), or quit, as many did.
Yeah, this pretty much sums up another media dilemma nowadays. The internet has made jack of all trades services obsolete, and so people don't need to rely on a single source for all that stuff any more. So the everyday newspaper or TV news network that tries to cover everything simply can't compete with a legion of experts covering their own specialities.
It's also blatantly unconstitutional because it discriminates against the sects of Islam that don't allow loans with interest (and that's the only way to build "credit").
With a clean slate (no cookies stored), the front page can get as ridiculous as recommended videos. For half the music out there yt will recommend anything between chemtrail videos, weird christian conspiracy videos, aliens, all manner of tinfoil hat shit. It's vile.
One big problem is that many aspects of social restructuring, long term projects, welfare, etc. that societies should do on their own, are being left to billionaires' charity discretion.
There's a purpose. Companies pay them, there's a market. The business case is solid, but you can certainly make an ethical argument against it.
At first I thought like "hey Carmel doesn't look so bad". Then I realized all the grey stuff is parking lots, not houses.
Hi @wanderr!

I'd be more than happy to discuss with you about how Grooveshark tackled specific issues. I'm especially interested in metadata/user uploads management: how did you process user uploaded files and match them to the corresponding metadata, was there some kind of metadata moderation on your side, that sort of stuff.

Feel free to drop me an email or contact me on matrix, all the contact info are here: https://funkwhale.audio/contribute/

Thank you so much for offering this kind of help!
the survey lacks basic UX visual hierarchy and drove me nuts - so I had to abort it :(
What’s your proof that love, honor, and truth don’t exist?
> Retracted? Yes, but only after an investigation, the results of which would then be made public by way of explanation.

Just to clarify: when papers are retracted, they are not normally erased from the database and replaced with an explanation. See this Nature paper for an example; the entire paper is kept available online, just as before, except that the words "RETRACTED" is stamped on each PDF page

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10167

Likewise, nothing published to the arXiv is ever removed. A retraction notice can be added as an update, but the complete version history is always available.

Articles are much more likely to be "un-published" (wiped from the archives) in journalism than scientific publications.
That wasn't a shitpost. I've spent my life teaching, and a good part of my work has been trying to undo the damage done by teachers who say things like "this is wrong, what's the matter with you".

I became a teacher because I love math and science. When I was in college I noticed how many people hate those two subjects. When I started asking around and trying to figure out why so many people hate these subjects, it almost always came back to how they were taught.

Some people are resilient enough to hear things like this and let it slide. But many young people who spend a year or more with a teacher who tells them there's something wrong with them are significantly affected by that experience.
A politician could probably sweep the board picking up all of this unresolved outrage laying around, I don't understand why nobody is trying to do it.
Who refers to a Tesla Model 3 as a “M3”?

“M3” has and will always refer to a BMW.
What’s the best github repo to get started with wav file data generated music... how big of gpu mem too? 6?11?24?gb
It's all tabloid news now; calf born with two heads, Grandma abducted by aliens, tells all! It a consequence of the death of journalism in my opinion. We're all worse off.
I ran my own small business, provided great healthcare for myself and a couple of employees, and managed to have good healthcare after I shut the company down and was unemployed for a while. I had to do a little research and make a couple good decisions, then it wasn't an issue. And that was before the Affordable Care Act, which provides free healthcare in many states for people who can't afford it.

Well, in my state the individual market is tied to the state healthcare marketplace, and all of these are PPOs. At the worst, you'll pay $1200 a month for a plan whereby you have to stick to a finite network, and get approval every time from the primary care provider. And there's still a several thousand-dollar deductible. Even if I chose to offer $2000 a month for a plan that's a more open one, there's nowhere to give that money to someone.

I consider that a barrier to innovation / entrepreneurship because many people don't want to quit cushy jobs as employees for a situation like that.
Another item that I think it vitally important but often overlooked: put yourself in the mindset of your audience, particularly with respect to vocabulary. For every word you choose, ask yourself: does the person I'm speaking to know what this word means? It's really easy to lose sight of this because you (obviously) know what the word means, and so it's easy to assume that your audience does too. But they may not, and if they don't, then as soon as you say the word, you will lose them because you'll be going on but they'll be back on that word thinking, "What the heck does that mean?" This is particularly important in STEM education.

Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown) is a master at this. He will go out of his way to coin and define new vocabulary in order to sound less intimidating. My favorite example is his invention of "squishification" as a synonym for eccentricity when talking about ellipses. It's a much better word because it's friendlier, it doesn't have semantic baggage related to weird mental states associated with it, and no one can ever forget what it means.
Or how corporate USA get unpunished over and over again.
ClosureScript is trying to replace JS for areas where you have to compile to JS such as front end and and Node.js, just as all other languages in that category.
I think the concern is not that the government can't spur r&d, but publicly funded r&d would be less efficient than private capital

Back in the 1960s no other organization but the government had enough money to fund something as ambitious as the space program. And the government spends a ton of defense research and always has. Sheer volume of capital can get things done, but that doesn't mean it is efficient

The belief is that private markets incentives more efficient research than public funding. So if there is enough private capital to support some r&d goal, it is preferred to fund it privately vs publicly

I'm sure there's research on this but as someone who has worked on r&d at small companies, large companies and with government funded grants, there's little doubt in my mind what groups are more efficient. If you look at r&d productivity at big pharma companies vs small, small companies are almost an order of magnitude better.

And out of 47 new drugs approved last year, 40% were developed by small companies, 30-35% by big companies, and 1 from a public private partnership (the rest were mid sized companies). That's despite small companies getting an order of magnitude less funding than big ones, and half as much funding as NIH
I've heard this sentiment before and I don't really understand it. There's no separating physics and math. Keeping math "pure" really means keeping it "purely abstract", so it resists any kind of practical application.
I don't see a problem with any of this. For 1) maybe you want to explain more explicitly what bothers you? I don't find the U.S. army ranger thing surprising in a personal blog post. If one cannot write this without losing credibility... now that's something that worries me.

For 2), this looks quite normal in terms of mathematical modelling. You make a model based on some simplifying hypotheses. You show what result you can get from these hypotheses. The conclusion is "these results follow from the hypotheses". You don't pretend to prove that this is how it works in the real thing, you just give one example of a mechanism that gives the observed results. This is basically how you propose a new theory. Then your "opponents" are supposed to show with more scientific work that a) you made a mistake, or b) your simple theory is a bad model, for example because after changing hypothesis X to better reflect reality, the model no longer produces the expected result.

(Your opponents are not supposed to suppress your theory by exploiting their social connections to prevent publication behind your back. Well I guess there is a viable argument for suppressing valid research if the "truth" is harmful to society, but I don't think this was properly argued here).
You're right, that's another reaction we often see.

The rejoinder is, how far should vigilante justice go? Should the abuser be killed? Maimed?

Because if the attack is just brushed off, the abuser will move on to other targets. And what if there's a misunderstanding -- if we rely on vigilante enforcement, how do we handle the fallout of a disproportionate or inappropriate violent response?

Once we accept that abusers should face consequences, it's in everyone's interest for cases to be handled through formal administrative procedures with proper rules of evidence and protections. But sadly, those administrative procedures don't always fulfill their potential -- as in the case of this Marine, the case where HR gets rid of the reporter rather than the abuser, etc.
Svelte is the best JavaScript UI framework I've seen in many years, better than React, Vue, etc. I'm using it for real work. I would love to see Svelte on this list.

https://svelte.technology/
This is interesting, but I'm going to be one of those people for a second...

I hate headlines that assume what I do and don't know. Just call 'em 10 physics facts that most people aren't aware of and are pretty interesting. Because I actually did know a bunch of those facts from school and I was a liberal arts major...
I think going non-profit is the best option for local news.
You’re saying it’s a different set of pain receptors firing, which are more uncomfortable?

The fact that it feels different to you could just be that it’s a different context. Different “metadata” so to speak, with the same pain.

Seems like GP thinks the metadata is making it worse, and you think the data is different. How would you tell the sifference?
https://xkcd.com/1138/

Pet peeve #208:

Geographic profile maps which are basically just population maps
It's a tough issue because both sides are right. Recent political and social events show that the general public is not yet able to discuss issues like this rationally and maturely. Yet at the same time science must be free to inquire without political restriction. I do not have an answer.
Wiring Communication Between Microservices
Using hardware-provided APIs might take more QA later, but I'm sure creating your own ray tracing implementation from scratch costs way more developer and QA time up front (assuming similar quality).
The constitution only applies to the federal government. You might mean illegally discriminatory per the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which disallows businesses to discriminate on the grounds of religion. Even that, though, might only be applicable Equifax's customers, since those are the businesses who would be denying service to people without credit histories.
I think you can be very productive with the code editor you feel comfortable with. every editor has good and bad sides.
Web Components are really a great option here. You don't need any library to use them, because they're built-in, or if you choose a library, they're very small.
Please keep click-bait title crap off HN.
Realizing in my twenties that not having a credit card was hurting my credit score, that really summed up to me how loathsome and manipulative the entire system is.

For those who defend the credit history system, where was the consideration that I was mature enough to limit my spending and save for future expenditures rather than use a credit card? Where was the consideration to avoiding unnecessary risk entirely and still paying my bills?
How so? A CRA will just report that a loan is paid on time or not. If you can get an interest free loan, and you pay it as agreed, that'll get reported same as any other loan.