skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really good article about countertenor (both history and a current star) from last month in the New Yorker[0]

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/22/a-millennial-c...
It's very easy for people to be 'woke' about these issues and voice support for groups like BLM, but there's a difference between someone talking and someone showing an emotional response to someone that ought to impact them if they genuinely cared.

If you talk to tech folks about poverty every single one of them will give you a great essay like answer about the injustices of the world and how they support the working class, but the very same people will treat the cantine staff when nobody is looking with lack of respect that I've not seen in many other places. And that matters personally because that to me says more than speech.

And I would say that at least from my personal experience this is not just because people in tech earn a lot. Before I worked for a stereotypical tech company my first gig was in finance, and altough bankers tend to have a bad reputation, I've rarely seen someone mind taking a train through a rough neighbourhood, or mingling with people from say a working background.

In tech on the other hand I have to say I know a lot of people who are so insular in how they live their lives while at the same time touting all kinds of inclusivity that it's honestly pretty angering. It's not that I'm surprised that rich people don't think about poverty a lot, or that the OP is surprised that predominantly affluent white coders don't have a personal connection to african-americans getting shot, it's that if they're going to voice support it better be more than just lip service.
I've long been a lurker on HN but these protests have compelled me to create an account to chime in on the situation.

As someone who's bilingual, travelled to both China and Hong Kong, and worked and interacted with Chinese people, the sheer volume and intensity of Sinophobic comments on western social media (Twitter, Reddit) following the wake of these protests painting China and the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) as an evil communist government which brainwashes and oppresses its citizens, reflects to me deep ignorance and opened my eyes to how environment and media shapes your worldview.

I'm not saying the CCP is without flaw; China has done things I strongly disagree with. But making broad sweeping statements about how China bad based on what you know from western media, without having stepped foot into either China or Hong Kong, without making an effort to understand a foreign culture, is an even greater crime. To me, it's no different from liberals claiming conservatives are all brainwashed by Fox News.

Regarding the Hong Kong protests, most people don't have time for deep political analyses. You read headlines, read stories, read social media, form an impression of whats going on, and then you pass judgement based on your worldview. Western media has largely framed these protests as a fight for democracy against China and oppression. Who's the audience? The English speaking world, which is largely democratic.

However, if you can understand Chinese/Cantonese, I would suggest looking at Hong Kong and Chinese media and social media. It's also prone to biased reporting, but there are moderate and sensible comments as well, and you get a deeper understanding of both sides of the conflict. In my opinion, the situation is alot more nuanced and complicated than what's portrayed in mainstream media.
They host it for you. My experience has been that they scale fine.

I don't know about your use case specifically, but for our case (~100GB of searchable data at any given moment), searching takes a few seconds for basic queries.
I dropped my scrip when I realized a long morning sit has about the same effect but without the side effects of stimulants - which were considerable. Not to get down on stimulants, those can be amazing drugs.
I've reached out to some folks on the gtm team to look into this.
It isn't just a place of corporate business, though. That's why Trump was not allowed to block people.

Twitter shouldn't be able to, either.
It doesn't get faster when cars are the priority. Neighbourhoods are built without consideration for transit, and roads sprawl out indefinitely into the countryside.

As long as the investment priority is in cars, transit will suck.
Android has about 40% market share in the US [0], are you claiming that 40% of the us are unable to identify social cues? I have a hard time believing that this isn't just classism. Most of my friends from poorer areas, especially the ones who grew up without access to the internet, have an Android. And my group chats with them work pretty well since android supports the open standard RCS

[0]: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...
> Blender would really benefit from exposing its inner data structures in a way that lets people write high performance plugins.

Not that I want to dismiss the benefit of plugins, but why not just work on getting the new features merged in instead if the Python API isn't sufficient for the task? Unless you have something the maintainers really don't want to deal with long-term there's little benefit to keeping your functionality out-of-tree.
Do you think Federation will be a distinction the public and politicians will make when the next manifesto is posted on Mastadon instead of 8chan?

It’s common for technologists to assume the underlying technology / implementation is relevant, when in fact it’s really just the user facing functionality that counts.
Or you don’t have the resources that Google has.

This statement holds water only to a handful of companies that can actually afford to build their own silicon.
> Nvidia really lucked out with VR, crypto and AI all happening at once

Not really. Team Green is very careful after the crypto kerfuffle to jump on minute trends like "AI," and very reasonably so. The first wave of cookie cutter "AI" companies are already beginning to offload their GPUs.
I mean, "the problem" in the author's eyes is capitalism, technology and entertainment. His solution is that we need to get back to subsistence farming as our main way of life.
I don't mean to sound mean here - 3D art is like any other disicpline here. No software package is going to make good art easy to achieve. Just like any form of programming, making sure that the mesh is rigged correctly, and looks aethetically pleasing, and animates well, takes a lot of hard work.

No amount of UI revamps are going to compensate for those who want to do 3D art, but refuse to do the hard yards to make things look good.
Jim is from the Philippines. I don't know if he has U.S. citizenship. Perhaps he is just responding as a courtesy to help diffuse some political tensions around his site / business in the same way that Moot did regarding 4chan.
We made an interactive demo to show how the hacker exploited the vulnerability https://application.security
You're seriously suggesting that the West would be happy about any city in its heartlands being an independent state with allegiance to communist China? I can't believe you really think that.

> People generally prefer to move from the former to the latter, and not from the latter to the former.

And thus justifies all the evils of the West's relationship with the Middle East. So whilst I agree that such a tendency can indeed be observed it does not stand on its own as an argument.

I'm not here to argue for China. I'm trying to balance for the worrying lack of understanding about the actual circumstances surrounding the grave events of recent weeks. Of course it shouldn't matter what some rulers in Qing China or Imperial Britain did, but that is simply not how the world works, we do not live in vacuums. As I'm sure you've heard many times before, those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

HK has a fundamental right to self-determination, but as we all know such rights don't automatically grant you a free pass. HK is exploiting the world's lack of knowledge and collective fear of China's burgeoning power to paint a distorted picture. How can we help HK if we don't have an accurate picture of the situation?
I really like this. I never thought about it this way before and am glad you wrote this. I can't think of a single habitual drug user who is an emotionally mature adult.

I'm going to save this and say something similar in the future when I have kids.
Always funny seeing a company touting their own security, and then when you click on the link you find out their certificates are..

>"Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for link.sqreen.com. The certificate is only valid for 1click.sg."
Even the most rational people can get dragged into systems of reactivity and emotion. There are very few truly rational voices left today, since the new description of "rational" is non-religious and liberal.
Thank you. I still like my construction, because it comports with the other languages I use daily. (I also did not know it was fashionable, just that I was lazy.)
I'm seeing a few comments in this thread that come very close to saying just that.
Trump reportedly held call with bank CEOs as the stock market plunged
> Just building silicon doesn't make you a security expert, clearly.

What about building silicon and have the project zero level security experts in house?
Act itself is a success because like many healthy activities you don’t get the results right away. Do it for 2 weeks and you will see the results.
Could we skip a step and just eat manatee steaks?~

Perhaps we could get the same benefit by feeding the whole herd seaweed for a month, then put everyone but the fistulated cow back on regular feed, and just mix her rumen contents into it?
I mean, what do you expect after 2 months of peaceful protests and no indication of any shift in policy?

I’m just quoting here, but this has seemed incredibly appropriate to these protests:

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
No they just have to be emotionally insecure, and busy. It isn't 'awful' to ignore 99% of the issue-of-the-day demands on our caring. Its practical.
What evidence can you present around the existence of this oppression, as someone who has not experienced this type of oppression?
Yes, but still pre-madonna was an amazing mix up, creativity wise :)
Thanks but it was just illustrative. I was not trying to start that debate. Only to highlight that the “conversations” that the author wants to see are largely just echoes of the same opinion, not an actual lively debate about who Sansa Stark will marry. I’d rather argue for an hour about whether Tom Brady or Joe Montana was better than sit in a drum circle and see who can say Black Lives Matter the loudest.
The comment you responded to was not about "learning in billable hours" Vs "learning in your spare time" but about the willingness to learn at all.
You have the right and freedom to disagree.

But at least ask yourself why you disagree and why you think someone is wrong about their oppression. And then apply that lens of thinking to another era, say Jim Crow, and how your lens of thinking can affect others.
Good book, that.
Twitter has denied that it is a publisher in court. It is a Common Carrier in effect, and has benefited - to the detriment of its competitors - from common carrier protections.

Any time Twitter has been called to account for what it publishes, it claims it's not a publisher. Give them what they want.
From my understanding, and I may be wrong, the reason why systemd is..."controversial"...had mainly to do with the heavy-handed way it was incorporated.

It was almost like it appeared out of nowhere, written by one person who "thought he knew better" (maybe he did? but that's not the point), without any community input or discussion, and yet despite all of this somehow it got crammed into a distro (I don't recall which) - in what seemed to be an almost unilateral manner. A "my way or the highway" attitude of sorts.

It smacks of the whole "rockstar coder" mentality, where you have one guy on the team who forces everything to be his way, and he's begrudgingly recognised as probably right, and good for his work - but you still feel slighted as not having input on anything, because you're supposed to be a team (or a community).

What I really don't understand is how systemd has been so "infectious" - it seems like every distro is or has switched over to it...

...whereas init was (from what I know) more organic in how it came about, which might also explain its warts and other pitfalls that systemd supposedly addresses. I haven't been so deep in the weeds of linux to really understand all of the arguments of this nature; while I sympathise with the init crowd, I am but mostly a mere user of the system, who occasionally throws on an admin hat, but has found over time this has become less of a need for me to do (ah, for the olden days of Turbo Linux 2.0 and kernel recompiling - though my first Linux experience was via Monkey).

Had he introduced it in such a way to promote a discussion and dissemination of his ideas, maybe it wouldn't have turned out to be exactly like it is today, but it might have been more accepted (and maybe not as monolithic as I understand systemd to be - maybe it would have been more akin to a hybrid between his ideas and init?).
In fact, the more I think about it, the more I realize this is a dark-pattern. Amazon must realize that the "Amazon's choice" label ONLY increases sales if consumers misunderstand what that seal really means in that context.

A consumer has every right to feel outrage over intentional unethical behavior from a company. Similar deceit by other companies doesn't excuse this, nor does it mean the shopper's repulsion is invalid.
Most people use those handful of companies, so it holds a lot of water.
360 is directly in response to open source pressure though, I imagine.

That tool forces use of their cloud, which they have said they inspect the contents of to verify claims of hobby (free) use.

It also uses dark patterns to hide exports to standardized formats.

I hope blender wins.
It'd be nice to see a few of the images. Did I miss a link to them?
You seem to be assuming that the message was “if you understand what is going on, you will choose to build your own silicon”—if so, then, yes, it overlooks threshold resource needs to do that.

OTOH, the intended message could be “you can't fully understand the issues without the insight gained by building your own silicon”, in which case it would be just as true of companies without the resources to build their own silicon.
Verizon is a public company would you allow them to block you from making a call because of a text you’ve sent 9 years ago?
Nitro is crazy cool. I don't know if Google has anything publicly known that's equivalent.
Yes, vulgarity is completely allowed. Here's a tweet that was popular enough for the WaPo to write about, but not actually print:

> Fuck my fucking face I’m about to get skinny as fuck

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/09/dont-worr...
>Why do you need studies to give you permission to do something?

No one said that.

>Particularly when science is facing a crisis of reproducibility, I would not put so much emphasis on them

Err.. science is facing a crisis of reproducibility? Excuse me? If you can't reproduce something- that means you haven't proved it scientifically, thus the science is telling you that it can't tell you anything.

>It’s really no different than the religious dogma of previous centuries, where scientists act as priests, and scientific studies as scripture.

Ok now, hold up. You are saying scientific studies is the same as religious dogma....? Do you honestly need me or someone to explain to you the difference?
These stories are few and far between. Well-being checks happen routinely here in Massachusetts--it's a big part of a police officer's job. If you listen to a police scanner for an hour or two here, you'll probably hear several.

I had a series of medical issues when I was in high school. On more than one occasion, police came to do a well-being check because I wasn't at school--they knew why, but they were still required to check. One time I did need immediate help and was taken by ambulance to a local hospital. These efforts do save a lot of lives--easily more than they take.
Email, ActivityPub, and Wordpress are decentralized publishing communication standards. Email one-to-many distribution / spam being the thing youre ignoring. Facebook and Twitter are proprietary, centralized, and closed systems.

Shifting the conversation from publishing to the audience, completely glosses over the actual minutia at hand.
It’s a next/macOS idiom to save user settings in the program’s defaults domain, which is a key value store backed by plist.
> And the author fails to explain why (in the context of climate change) that's actually a problem ... if those ICE cars become electric cars, and that electricity comes from solar/wind/nuclear/hydro/geothermal/etc., then... where, exactly, is the carbon footprint?

The author very specifically points that out:

> ...our cars primarily exist to connect things, things that require immense extraction and fossil fuel energy to build, run and maintain:
roads
buildings
factories
shopping centres
suburbs
cities
airports
and so on.
It is not just the car itself that is unsustainable; it is our entire way of life and the system that underpins it.
A rejected connection means a bricked device, on the other hand. Sure, newer drivers could protect me against attacks, but simultaneously prevent me from using my BT headphones.
How to Use the Geolocation API in a React Native App
I am Sol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Orwell (see previous name).
Support the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI
Constant-Time WebAssembly
I have been meditating for sometime now however lately I have been thinking that this is one more attempt at managing the stress of daily life. Its not the cure and definitely does not help in finding out why we need to do this to begin with.
Yes, I hear you. But please note, I was intentional about the words I used. That is, "Generally unhealthy."

The way I've heard it said best is this:

"Cows' milk is a nutritional and hormonal cocktail intended specifically for the growth and development needs of baby calves. Needless to say, if anyone is reading this, they are of the cow species, and should be mindful of their dietary consumption.
The comment was made specifically with that in mind. The parent was saying that therefore, given their influence and ability to manipulate participation and discussion, that's a problem for democracy.

I don't know what your comment added to the discussion. Does anyone know?
I’m not saying it doesn’t make sense to Google, I’m saying it’s too broad of a statement to be generalized.
True if you mean "control" in the sense of "package and sell".
> All so I can seamlessly play music on TWO bluetooth speakers while also browsing logs without learning regex.

Are you suggesting that the alternative is to choose to just not support these features at all? (Which isn't implausible as a suggestion; OpenBSD doesn't support Bluetooth at all, for example. But in an ecosystem where everyone is building software to scratch their own itch, and then adopting the software that gains traction...)
Poor amazon and microsoft, unable to afford to build their own silicon
With AWS Fargate you can't interact directly with Docker in any way, you just use Fargate via an AWS API, and Fargate handles the rest.

So we do validation in the task definition you supply via API to make sure that things check out before AWS Fargate launches the container. So you shouldn't see a "container configuration" based error because our API catches config issues first and won't let you create a task definition that is invalid. If there was such an error that caused Fargate to construct a bad container run command and fail to launch the container that would be a missing validation or bug inside our code and we'd fix that.

If you do find something like this please reach out to me or open an AWS support ticket for the oncall team to look at, and we'll fix it!
Updated. I've never owned a smart phone, so I suppose I've never taken that into consideration.
It seems to me as someone with no experience of designing aircraft control software, avionics or anything to do with planes, that the entertainment system should be on a physically separate network to anything safety critical. Like, different everything: power supplies, switches, cables, control panels, the works. There should be no entryway into the flight control network except from the cockpit.
> This “but we can’t fix it all alone, it’s a global issue” thinking mode has to go.

Ok, why? It is a global issue, that’s not something we can ignore. You can change your way of thinking if you want, but I don’t see why you would ignore that point. I find it disingenuous to say “if the US government doesn’t do X in 12 years then we are doomed”, because it’s not true. Of course I’m not saying that nothing should be done, and I never said it cannot be fixed (or dealt with), that’s just you putting words in my mouth. But the US government has a terrible history at dealing with other countries, and creating a giant mess all around. Just imagine Trump deciding to focus on climate issues, I cannot see how that wouldn’t result in a complete disaster with international conflicts.

I think that we should keep the framing on the global aspect, and think about it as a common goal.

I don’t disagree with the rest of your comment, I completely support any effort at a local level.
This is a very good question. I was always thinking how it is possible to see at mosts posts first comments like "OP/author here". Most probably there ara good tools for this which I haven't figured yet.
Genuine question, where have you sourced this line of reasoning from?
Thanks for chiming in. It sounds like the article may have conflated the investor and employee deals. To be fair, the conversion to a corporation usually happens at the same time as raising the next round.

So, it sounds like the deal with the employees was simply that you'd get the equity if and when the LLC converted to a corporation. Notwithstanding whatever other representations were made, was there anything in the equity offer that would trigger/force the conversion to happen? In other words, was there any kind of guarantee that the conversion would definitely happen?
Is people trying to hack the attendees a common occurrence at Defcon?
iirc a single speed or fixed gear setup is already as efficient and the prototype can't change gear anyway...
iMessage reverts to SMS when the recipient doesn't have an iPhone. All within the same app.

To what does Whatsapp revert when the recipient doesn't have Whatsapp?
The waking up app was more to my taste personally. I’m not a consistent practitioner however
And wait until islands (and Florida) start sinking under the sea and there is this big Norwegian oil fund there sitting like a target...
They want autonomy which is functionally equivalent to independence.
In the US none of my friends went to a top university and we all make a good living as programmers (150k+). Of course we're from the previous generation (in our late 30s) and things might be different for people in their 20s.

Edit to add: my dad dropped out of high school. My mom did not have a college degree. My siblings and I are the first generation in our extended family to graduate from college. None of us went to private school. My siblings have a similar income to me: 1 works as a CPA, 1 as a lawyer, and 1 as a software project manager.

I still consider myself lucky, and recognize that not everyone may have had the same support as we had growing up.
What do you mean with "works well"

There is no empirical data to support that it is more effective than other methods.

Theory is not that valuable when evaluating papers in AI. It is all about the empirical results.