skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But people elect the parliament and the parliament electthe PM, so it's OK, there's a chain of accountability to the populace. In HK, the parliament has only 70 seats of the 1200-member committee, and only 35 of those are geographical constituents representing the people, the rest are "functional" constituencies mostly representing businesses). Laws have to be passed by a majority of the LegCo however, and the Chief Executive can be impeached by a 2/3 majority in the LegCo, so the LegCo is still very important. The main tragedy is that only 50% of the LegCo is elected democratically.
Water filtered? Or assume water is safe?
Lots of air pockets?
Well, they do for me.
You're absolutely right and I think the metaphor "standing on a stage speaking to people" is very misleading at best and malicious at worst.
The New York Times has a course to teach its reporters data skills
...unless you count the risks of something bad happening.

That’s always the unspoken actual debate when it comes to nuclear energy: what’s the probability of the worst case, and how does it affect the amortized cost?

We’re terrible at doing this calculation in other areas (e.g. terrorism vs. the cost of security theater), so it’s not especially informative to talk about the status quo. Clearly, we believe it’s cheaper to just store the stuff, or we wouldn’t be doing it. With nuclear energy, the exceptions matter a lot.
I completely agree here.

And from my vantage point what I see is that the powers that be, that can effect change in this regard are solely focused on the obvious parts of it. They are struggling with simply grasping the concept of Facebook gathering and selling the data users voluntarily supply, so expecting them to be able to grasp these subtle data collection tactics are next to impossible.

The average person wouldn't even understand how it's possible for Facebook to capture data when they're not on Facebook. Expecting some 70 year old politician who can barely use a computer properly, to understand it is impossible. And sadly they're ones with the power to effect meaningful and immediate change.
> I don't do any of the tricky stuff that 'speed readers' do.
The only thing I'm aware is different is I don't hear the words in my head when I read as I'm often 'reading' a chunk of 3-4 words at once.

That IS the tricky stuff speed readers do.
> Do you think that’s gonna have a distorted economic outcome?

Yes. Typically, such laws embed exceptions. But the exception list is always inaccurate.

For an example, when the EPA set fuel economy standards for cars, it exempted trucks. The station wagon disappeared and was replaced with the SUV, which was a "station wagon" configured to pass the EPA definition of a truck.

Instead of banning plastics and having an ever-wrong list of exemptions, raise the price (via taxation) so other materials become cost effective.
This is your paraphrase:

> The writer breathlessly warns that "campuses across the country" are succumbing to mob rule.

And this is the actual sentence from the article from which you took the quote:

> As on other campuses across the country, these protests are encouraged by an array of faculty members and ever accommodating administrators.

Not exactly a fair paraphrase. And I found the article's tone quite level; hardly 'breathless'.
Agreed here. I have a 2-week-old and I (as a dad) found a ton of things to do to help.
Maybe it's because the other piece has more comments?
I don't get the point of this article, ostensibly a discussion about a play, but it goes off into abstract philosophical points. It comes across as trying hard to demonstrate his eruditeness, but it doesn't make any point that I can grasp. It has a title that got my attention, but it doesn't really say anything.
Reading this I can't help but wonder where people graduating from Oberlin get jobs. Maybe as political campaign people or marketing or something?

Just picturing someone walking into a large cement plan for an interview. "Why yes, I do believe I can pull this company into the black within 3 quarters. As you see I have a degree from Oberlin college...".

Point being, graduating from there seems it could be not a positive signal but rather a huge red flag for any company engaged in productive pursuits.

Like the person has been pre-trained to be aggrieved and look for issues and possibly sue over the smallest of slights. At least that's what would cross my mind as an interviewer.
> matplotlib

And now a problem that would be great to solve is having vectored images and being able to change my fonts on size, lines are too small, I changed the paper format, whatever. I can't express how often I've had to redo plots simply because they don't look right in a paper.

I also cannot express the beauty of LaTeX but the absolute horror it is to create Tikz images. They are beautiful but it is definitely an art that one can never master. I want to do it with code, I don't want dumb gui interfaces that only work on certain machines and never work as expected.

If a nicer version of Tikz could be made that had a lot of power under the hood was created, this would help a lot of people. That's why matplotlib is so great. To do basic things is extremely straightforward. But if you want to do extremely complex things you also have that power. (Even something as simple as matplotlib for LaTeX - which results in vectored images - would be incredibly helpful)
> > They don't get told "Mr Copper trace, you are going to do i2c and send XYZ data! and you are going to be a pci express and send ABC!" at the fab. Jeez.

> I do only very basic electronics, so I'm asking here in honest confusion: Why can't you figure that out?

You can. OP is trying to be snarky, but he's wrong.

I don't think it's worth getting into an argument with someone with such an obviously demeaning attitude ("Dear God," "Jeez," etc.), but a few points:

1. It's not just bare copper, silkscreen frequently tells you what's going on, even in secretive government airplanes.

2. Even without silkscreen, e.g. on assembled boards where the chip part numbers have been lasered off for "secrecy," you can often uniquely identify a chip family just by the pins connected to power/ground, certain passives like crystals or filters, etc.

3. If it's a chip with highly remappable pins where you can't just look up which ones are i2c in a datasheet (e.g. FPGA), you can often find them routed together with obvious strategies for impedance control and/or shielding.

4. For i2c in particular, you will likely see two wires routed together, each with a resistor-like footprint pulling the line high.

Amateurs regularly do stuff like this... It's silly to assume a state level actor couldn't do the same or better.
Really I think the issue isn't activism per say but how they are doing it - demagoguic and tribalistic instead of even a coherent philosophy or let alone a logical one. There is a lack of reflection before or after for actions and just concern about how they feel.
Used in that way, it still uses pdflatex, which sucks if you have Unicode symbols (even Umlauts äöü are complicated...). Though latexmk can easily be configured to use xelatex with the -xelatex flag.
These types of protests are largely encouraged by the West to deepen division within it's enemies, same as with sunni/shiites in the middle east, or gop/democrats by the Russians. You can tell because the West didn't give a single shit when hk wasn't democratically ruled by the Brits, but now democracy there is headline propaganda.
I agree. Doesn’t FB also agree, and hasn’t it already disabled that kind of API access? At least when I tried to get access to friends-of-friends info for an app I was working on a couple of years ago, there was no way to request it.
The latter is not a deprivacy of privacy, as it is already visible to you.
And for their ability to survive extremes of temperature and humidity. Awful to use, but they do continue to operate.

But manual controls (with differently-shaped knobs) is a superior system.
Yes. Second Life has that problem. Second Life has about 30,000 to 50,000 concurrent users at any one time, which is about equal to GTA V Online and would put it in 10th or 11th place on Steam if it were on there. But it's 16 years old and a "dead game".
Isn't this more like the venue owner bugged the room and then shared your private truths? It's not your "friends" sharing your info with corporations, it's the venue. Big difference.

(Granted, buried somewhere in your contract for renting the "venue" you've probably agreed to such a thing but that doesn't make this analogy a good one)
Digital sound and lighting control surfaces too. Gets you multiple logical layers from the same encoders.
I'm curious where people like you were when hk wasn't democratically ruled by the Brits.
For all purposes I would claim LaTeX does take full control, only because the damn thing is so obscure that it takes a very specific mind to fathom how to use it.

I've done desktop publishing, I've done my MSc thesis in LaTeX, I'm a software engineer by profession - but if I would want any control by myself to any aspect of the document I would probably choose some other layout system than LaTeX.
Can we keep crap like quillette off this site?
but what is "the movement"? the situation here seems like small-time stupidity and jerkiness (of behavior), not a movement.

just to note, group-labeling people tends to undermine openness and short-circuits revelation, so i'd like to avoid that (especially dichotomies like left-right and liberal-conservative).
> Burying it doesn’t really solve anything though.

It solves it better than any of the alternatives.

> And while seemingly unlikely, dumps can be damaged.

Not only does it seem unlikely, it is unlikely. One case doesn't make it likely.
Vectiv and the Browser Monoculture
Never gonna happen, but it would be amazing.
"interspersed with air pockets, like a sponge or a box of spaghetti."
SwiftUI tutorials
So for a slippery slope argument to be valid in this case, you would have to show that governments (or the UK government specifically) tend to slowly expand their repressive powers?
These are great novels, but they are just novels. To the best of our knowledge, all intelligent species in the universe have an "inner sight," or, the ability to observe at least some of their own mental machinery. Although the starfish of Blindsight seem possible, whether they are likely seems like another question entirely.
For those interested in this, take a look at the work regarding "grievance studies" by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose. They made intentionally unscientific studies with the intent of publication, and actually got themselves published on a few of their works. The objective was to demonstrate that not only does academia in the social sciences operate according to a completely different standard than the hard sciences, but is so ideologically driven that they behave in much the same way as a religion might.
FB notion of privacy is wrong. Privacy is not about what i publicly share.

My right to privacy is about all the info they secretly collect, keep and sell to make a profit. My right to privacy implies that they do not keep a shadow profile on me and my relatives who are not on Facebook. My right to privacy implies that they dont read through me phone messages at will. My right to privacy gives me the freedom to avoid being spoon fed by the highest bidders such as Trump, farage et al

FB knows this and they consciously divert the attention towards what we publicly share. Evil.
Thanks! Any other details / specifics would be welcome, since it seems you already have some knowledge in this area.
I am not sure this would be as useful as the new method of "pre-registered studies" [0], where the null findings appear automatically in the publications. Null findings are not the goal of this approach, but a side effect. Important are the initial hipotheses, which pass peer-review.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07118-1 via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18297724
It might be carbon for us, but in general it might just be exponential growth. Exponential growth will always hit some kind of limit in a finite world.

e.g. if we got a magical free energy source and dealt with carbon emissions, we'd still run into direct issues with waste heat eventually. Even at a seemingly modest 2% yearly growth, energy usage would reach the level of energy Earth receives by the sun in just 500 years or so.
Facebook is awful in numerous ways but this article is misleading. FBs argument is entirely correct. The problem is of course that this is not the issue with Facebook.

Facebook is like a stalker. Even if he only uses public information, like following you in the street and sitting down next to you in a cafe to listen in on your conversations, it’s still creepy, and it is not expected, even if you have the audacity to walk about and talk to people in cafes.
But you shouldn't be able to just find things like that so easily. Sure if I go on a post I could find it but the fact Facebook notifies me of this in the first place is incredibly disrespectful.
Show HN: Minimal and clean ordinal date utility
I block every tracker and don’t have Facebook installed and yet they show me ads that are uncanny.
Rode my bike and hurt my back. Pretty sure I searched for remedies - likely on DDG. And bought a massage ball on Amazon. Instagram is filled with ads to address my back pain.
Sea rise, while significant, is the least of our problems regarding climate change.

Agriculture will be severely affected by drought, heatwaves and cold waves. This will have very serious consequences.

For example, the 2010 heatwave in Russia produced wildfires which reduced its wheat harvest by 30%. Russia decided to stop exporting wheat which in turn increased global food prices. This incident is considered the be one of the causes of the Arab spring revolts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires

Imagine something like this on a global scale.
Definitely a +1 for the image descriptions. This is a pleasure to read with a screen reader. I haven't seen a website doing such a great job in ages. No one, except the BBC (which sucks at accessibility in other ways) and accessibility focused websites really does that. This guy deserves so much respect for this.
almost 7k stars: https://github.com/GetStream/Winds
Bill Gates Reveals Data for Causes of Death, Disconnect Between News and Reality
The tl;dr seems to be an underage black person tried to buy wine, apparently stole wine, then there was a fight with the owner's son. There was a demonstration that was probably based on an unclear understanding of the events. So people over-reacted to events, yes they were stupid to do. But you shouldn't use this as an excuse to clutch one's pearls and conclude colleges have lost their way. This looks like a cya activity after the true(-er?) facts came out.
Absolutely! The level of data my name as a whole is unquestionably invasive and has far-reaching lifelong societal impacts That we cannot allow.

It will take time but hopefully we can replace Facebook with a more benevolent social communication platform.

Is mastodon growing?
Passive components are not safe from sabotage.

Saboteurs might design in PCP boards that pass aging tests, then fail in reality much faster. Detecting mechanical or chemical failures that are designed to pass testing is not an easy task.
Am I using the same system that the reviewers are using? These kinds of assessments are a bit of a red herring. If you have to use the touchscreen you’ve already lost. But when I drove a rental car recently, CarPlay+Siri pretty much took care of it all for me, including responding to a text while I was driving.

To my understanding, Android Auto may even be better because of Google’s superior voice recognition. The touchscreen is there to convey more information, not to be used as a means of control.
Madonna: Instagram designed to make people feel bad
LaTeX should be regarded as a legacy technology, not the future.

It's useful because it's a standardized language everyone knows and can be applied across the web, e.g. on many StackExchange sites (at least the TeX subset via MathJax), but it's too limited to be held up as a standard to move toward.

For a discussion of some of its limitations and things that can be improved: [The LATEX3 Project][1] (1999).

Personally, though, my main criticism of LaTeX is that its logic is static and based in plaintext. The future is in interactive documents (e.g., in the direction of [Wolfram's][2]), not statically compiling plaintext to image-like documents.

Of course, credit to where credit is due: LaTeX was a hugely powerful tool that's done a lot of good in the world. It also continues to be useful for many purposes, especially due to its widescale adoption from this bright history. It's a great page for the history books -- but, it's not the future.

[1]: https://www.latex-project.org/help/documentation/ltx3info.pd...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_Document_Format
I'm curious where all these concerned westerners were when hk was undemocratically ruled by the Brits as a colony.

Were they ignorant of what they meant at the time or did they not care so long as others were ruled by their own?
A more precise version of the title would refer to "high-level nuclear waste":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_waste
I haven't injured my back, but I still see heavy advertising for that plexus wheel plus thing.
inputenc utf8 and fontenc T1 usually solves all my umlaut (and ğ) related problems
Arizona; they do not pardon felonies. They will let you "restore your rights" after a number of years; which I have done, but it was expensive and required representation. I can vote, but I can't do much else.
Is a box of spaghetti more interspersed with air pockets than a box of just about anything else?
But people who read blogs will just flock to the centralized services that solve curation & search quite effectively and keep users reading.

I don't think that's true. People read blogs by writers they like (they go directly to that writer) , or about topics that interest them (they follow links from a website or social account about that topic) , or because they're looking for a specific post about a specific thing (eg they Googled). None of those things are best served by gathering writers on a single centralised platform. In fact, so long as blog posts are open the reader probably doesn't care how the posts are published. (Side note: this is the flaw in Medium. No one want the subscribe to the Netflix of blogs. People might pay to access their favourite writer, but not in the long term.)

Centralized blog platforms serve the writer. They're easy, they often have good tools, and they have an audience, although I doubt that's actually very useful to most writers - just having more readers without caring who they are is pure vanity. You want relevant interested readers if your blog is going to be effective promotion for you.

Ultimately, blog platforms are fine. Writers are a great customer base to have. Just don't kid yourself blog platforms benefit readers. They don't.
Where? I'm always looking for other stuff to read.
I presume your ultimate goal is to increase the average life span, but phrasing it as “fighting” or “solving” death sounds like some mad scientist stuff.
The issue I think is not that “friends” disseminated the information but that companies get hold of it, which is the point the judge is also hitting.

If I hypothetically sleep with hundred people and they all show pics of me naked to their friends, I will still not expect penis enlargement companies mailing me their new catalog.
Would you please send me an email to discuss further? marius.andreiana@gmail.com

There's no contact in your profile. Thanks!
This quote:

"Again and again, Snyder blames the targets of surveillance capitalism for their own surveillance"

This is an awful way of looking at the world, because it denies that people have personal responsibility. Everybody knows what Facebook does. It is in plain sight. It's in their terms of services. It's all over the media.

A lot of people don't use Facebook because of what Facebook does. Using Facebook is a fool's bargain, just like smoking or gambling.

If people can't be blamed for their own conscious decisions, we might as well throw out the whole legal system. All contracts are void, because nobody has legal capacity.

This is all pretext for more legislation, for the nanny state to come in and save us all from our dumb and irresponsible selves, to create more positions for bureaucrats to extract even more rent out of the remaining members of society. Don't buy this.
Have you never read serious art criticism before? That’s how it always is. The abstract philosophical points are about context.
If I believe that outrageous deals are available, then I can't help but think that whatever I do, this company will end up outrageously ripping me off if I do business with them. After all, why else is an outrageous deal possible?
A shoutout for asking “what can I do” as opposed to “why is research so slow?”
your desired request for screen behind the wheel is available of course. This is known as the model s.
>> "All of the mathematical rules which underlie physics are computable."

I really have to ask- what are those mathematical rules that underlie physics and how do you know that they are computable?
That misses the point. Theft and hacking are still prevalent, that hasn't changed. What's changed is that people expect software like Facebook, Twitter, or Gmail for free. Decades ago the average consumer walked into a Fry's or Microcenter and bought their copy of Windows.
You think that there are equivalent sides to the argument? I'm going to quote Sartre on antisemites:

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
It's strange that stories from the progressive end of this discussion get (often rightfully) flagged into oblivion in seconds, but this conservative campus panic story survives to 45 comments.
Give an inch and they'll take a mile. The slippery slope is a very valid concern with one of the most powerful potential adversaries actively wanting to integrate you and dismantle your system of government.

From their perspective it's not hard to imagine China trumping up charges (or getting one of the other listed nations to do it) to get their hands on someone they want. Likewise, having the law on the books at all makes it a (comparatively) very small step to simply add more things to the list of acceptable extradition reasons.

China's domestic actions have not given HKers much reason to trust them, and they know that they won't have any chance of clawing back any measure of sovereignty in their system that they give up now.
Yeah, and that's how a college can really show some hustle and outcompete. I mean, imagine an idealistic 12th grader with a social justice bent. Does she choose a college that merely pays lip service to her righteous values, or does she choose one that jumps right into the trenches alongside her, blasting a megaphone and waving a giant sign?
Pandoc does all that, from LaTeX source (among others).

https://pandoc.org
Has Tokyo reached ‘peak city’?