skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I figure that the problems with •-isms are mostly when:
a) there is antipathy against a group,
b) one falsely infers a causal connection from the membership in the group to the thing,
c) or the •-ism otherwise causes undue harm to members of the group in some other way (I guess this option is just a catch-all to make me not wrong, which suggests that my splitting things up in this way may be a mistake.)

We acknowledge that infants do not have the capability to competently vote, yeah? We have a minimum voting age requirement, which shows that we don’t find all action based on correlation with age to be illegitimate.

I think I am probably forgetting the original context.

Suppose that you are running a class at a local library on how to use some software, and you intend for it to be accessible whether or not the people attending have some specific background knowledge, but it is easier and faster if they do, because you don’t have to explain the background first. Suppose you also have a note sheet that you give out for them to take home in case they forgot any details. You actually have 2 versions of the note sheet, because one version also includes an explanation of the background information, and therefore takes more pages of paper.

Every time you run this class, you find that some of the people attending need the version including the background information, even if all of them are young, but you also notice that people over a certain age are statistically more likely need the longer sheet.

Therefore, when you know that a particular session you are running has a greater than average number of people over that age, you print more of the longer version of the notes sheet.
Have you acted wrongly in doing so?

Is doing so “ageist”?

I don’t think so.

I would imagine in such situations, that the people with the largest amount of background in the topic would likely also skew somewhat older, at least for some topics.

But, seeing as I forgot the context outside of your comment itself, probably this hypothetical is quite unlike the situation in the context.

Edit: Ah, the context was politicians.
Ok.
Idk how to apply this to politicians.

I suppose I am not especially concerned for the individual politicians’ interests, as, aiui, politicians in the US tend to be fairly well off, have enough savings to retire, etc.

Therefore, the goal should be primarily based on how the choice of politicians impacts the rest of the populace.

There may be issues where a way of choosing politicians could cause or reenforce harmful stereotypes that harm other non-politicians?
> Yes, it is very common to use exaggerations in Chinese and when a certain exaggeration is widely accepted, its figurative meaning took over its literal character-by-character meaning.

All that is also true in English, of course. But one does want to take context and history into account. If an office worker says "I'm gonna kick his ass" when a coworker makes a stupid mistake, you assume he's being figurative and is just going to reprimand the coworker. If a drunk guy with a history of violence says the same thing, a reasonable person assumes they intend actual violence.

Given that China has a rich and recent history of using violence to suppress dissent, including in the specific situation we're discussing, Hong Kong, it seems pretty disingenuous to claim that their intentions here are purely peaceful.
That's not so great when you switch ISPs, move, etc.
Do you have a link to more info on this? As someone who's never used OS 9 I have no idea what a spacial file manager is and would love to learn.
To fix Climate Change, stop being a techie and start being a human
My and my older brother loved the game very much as well. We only had the demo but we kept playing it over and over for a very long time.
One major difference between the former Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, is that in the latter I am led to believe that a majority of the public wanted to stay one country. The split seems to have been a way to create more posts for national elites. Ordinary Czechs and Slovaks who I have talked to (admittedly a very small and anecdotally collected group) don't seem to have had a problem with staying part of Czechoslovakia.

In the former Yugoslavia I have no direct knowledge of anyone's opinions on the matter, but I am led to believe that a majority of several of the new countries was solidly in favor of splitting up.
I'd go further and extend that to "every citizen has access to the source code of all software their governments use".
Air pollution is completely orthogonal to the deployment of autonomous cars.
just a follow up, I found myself on a lakeside this weekend and took the opportunity to read the book.

Thank you again for recommending it, I really enjoyed the insights it had. I found the idea that democracies tend to end up dictatorships/authoritarianism to be extremely fascinating.

And the observation that market driven economies have happened in the past helped me realize current times are not nearly as unique as I believed.
LIke others are pointing out here, there seems to be bigger issues in the software world of digital reading, while on the hardware front seems to be OK.

Converting pdf files to epubs is unreliable and often just produces garbage. Calibre may be open source but it seems to be controlled by just one person. pdf2html seemed to be making some nice progress but now seems to be not maintained any more.

In a perfect world we'd have completely open, maintained and well-known conversion software and reader software. There doesn't seem to be a Linux or Firefox in this category.
And if you use the Apple toolkits, you lose around 95% of your potential market. For my project, Krita, made with Qt (not QT, Qt...), 90% of downloads are Windows, 7% Linux, 3% macOS. And since Apple seems hell-bent on making people share-croppers in their walled garden with asinine things like Metal, and notarizing and all that, well, in a year or two, it might be 0%, and I'll be fine with that.
Ah, the mysterious roving packs of racists.

Like the Yeti, nobody has actually ever met one. But, some "journalists" keep reporting that they've, like, totally heard that someone has seen them a bunch, fer shure...
Absolutely. The last step can be surprisingly hard and requires a good skill set in dealing with people.
Oh they rebuild those mountains?
This post resonates a lot with me!

I've got a side project that's current bringing in around ~2-3K MRR (https://buttondown.email).

I spent a long time daydreaming about having it hit four-digits in recurring revenue — it felt like such an accomplishment that if I were able to crack it, it'd be a dream come true. It's certainly not enough to live off of (especially living in Seattle), but it's a non-trivial amount of money and gives me a great source of pride.

The idea of doubling that amount, though, seems — well, if not _exhausting_, certainly unappealing. I can't think of a way in which my life would be improved by additional revenue, but I can think of a lot of ways it would be hampered by having twice the customer base:

1. More customer support and time spent writing emails

2. More time working on features that aren't what I care about

3. Less freedom to experiment with other projects or ideas

One of the joys of having a project that is truly _yours_ is that you alone get to dictate your terms of success.
"Solutions Architect @Cisco", what can you say?
While I'm glad that I'm not the only one who is in the same situation and frame-of-mind as you, I wish more people admitted this. The endless chain of Linux re-distroing to fix issues is absolutely the main issue with Linux.
> Publication date: 14 October 1926

> In 2001, Disney bought all rights to the character from The Royal Literary Fund, whom the estate of Milne had sold the rights to. The $350M purchase gave Disney full rights to the franchise until copyright expires in 2026.
In fact there are situations where companies get paid to consume electricity because it is very difficult to store large amounts of it.
Unfortunately this will not work. Google must stay until lawmakers figure out all the walkarounds company can use and close all the loopholes. One by one, law by law. Or there is going to be another google company stepping the same steps.

But this is just the beginning. Cloud is next, raising prices, preventing people from leaving by crating apis you cant simply rewrite... Mainframe history all over again.

(disclaimer: googless for a decade, once I prediceted where this is going I became completely self hosted, learned to build my own roms without gms etc. Today is much easyer with microg, newpipe, aurora, apktool, ... On the other side, people are less and less knowlidgable as a result of helpers from companies and dependant to them. I am eager to see how this will end)
On the other side, while trying to force their way into the South China Sea, and still pretending that they own Taiwan, not being able to hold or control territory that everyone agrees is their's dramatically weakens their position on the global stage, and they can't really let the HKers win this one.
Are you trying to justify China putting a million Uighur people in concentration camps and the suppression of Hong Kong with the argument that other people have done it in the past?
I'd read the grandparent post as sarcasm, but perhaps Poe's Law strikes again.
Apple’s ‘key growth driver’ in 2020 will be a new $399 iPhone, top analyst says
For all software the government itself uses, yes, but the article is detailing a law in China that gives them the ability to just take ALL data (and source code) unilaterally if it exists anywhere within the border.
I don't think there is any copyright on mere names of fictional objects (e.g. Palantir).
If you have GSuite you@yourdomain.com is your gmail address. yourdomain.com's MX records will be pointed to Google.

This is different to the various techniques, such as IMAP/POP and forwarding, used to get them@theirdomain.com email (actually hosted elsewhere) into a theirgoogleacct@gmail.com mailbox
I once heard that, when Vietnam and China were at war, the Chinese went to the Vietnamese and said, "When you grind a pebble against a boulder which one disappears first?"

The end result here depends on a lot of factors, but as it stands the CCP has the long-term advantage. The "super camera"[1] along with the ban on face masks is just one obvious vector for the techno-authoritarians to win by attrition. They can analyze the data, find the key nodes (people!) in the graph, and make them disappear.

AFAICT, there is no long-term defense against ubiquitous surveillance. Technology makes it possible and politics and economics drive it to the limit (e.g. Vernor Vinge's "locator dust".[2])

From this POV, the crucial question is whether the administrators of the system are themselves subjected to it. It's a global problem. Authoritarianism anywhere threatens you, today, wherever you are. The inexorable logic of it means there can be no stable equilibrium. Notice how the CCP is already working to control people outside the bounds of China? That's not going to stop. The people of HK are the "tip of the spear" in the war between free humans and dictators.

If Xi really was Papa Smurf [3] the people of Hong Kong wouldn't be so scared to be a part of his village, eh?

[1] "China's super camera can pinpoint specific targets among of thousands of people" (abc.net.au) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100048

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust

[3] The Smurfs are Communist Propaganda!? https://www.buzzfeed.com/richmonahan/13-reasons-why-the-smur...
What Makes a Song a Hit?
Here is a great, low emotion description that covers the "CO2 lags temperature change". Potholer54 cites his claims, and does a lot of work to run down where claims first originated, then reads that paper instead of just citing some random web blogger or popular news article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ3PzYU1N7A

One of the problems cited: the temperature/CO2 graph probably came from an antarctic ice core sample ... and temperature leading/lagging there is different than in non-polar locations.

Second, the climate is a complex feedback system; there isn't one independent variable and everything else is dependent. If something forces any of the variables in the feedback system it can affect the other variables. For instance, say the artificial release of CO2 by humans results in the thawing of the arctic, releasing gigatons of methane, at which point CO2 might no longer be the primary driver. Over geologic time there are different causes for these forcings, but that doesn't mean that the current forcing (human released CO2) isn't the current problem.

He covers all of that and more, much better, in 13 minutes.

[EDIT] I forgot to address "what's even the big issue with changes in global temperatures?"

That is a supremely cavalier attitude. Nobody is saying AGW is going to kill off all life. In the long term life will recover. But in the short term we humans are going to have to deal with the consequences: displacement of millions of people through crop failures and loss of coast, disruption of economic systems, and more civil unrest. The US military is gaming out these scenarios because they believe the science, not because they are pinko tree huggers who hate freedom.
SYN Packet Handling in the Wild
OP seemed to suggest that business should be conducted with ethical entities. My point was that the U.S. itself is not so and thus his point being null.
Agree on missing Vine - there was a high level of quality there and people did some amazing things with the constraints.

I don't think there's been something that's really had the same base features outside of TikTok? (and lord knows I'm not installing a piece of Chinese-based software =|)
Yes! Now Domino's can offer a convenient option to the blind users they're forcing to call in because they've made their website unusable!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21188092
Actually there are no words which can describe my hate of GNU and Linux, so you Sir are confused. On top of that, the easiest and fastest way for end users to install software is through OS packages, rather than making poor users install one piece of software through pip, the other through npm and yet another through some other arbitrary, language or ecosystem proprietary "packaging" format. Poor users; my heart goes out to them, for their suffering is also mine.
I see ads in Gmail all the time
> One current, big, internal effort is to encrypt the code on the controller, so that people can't dump it, or at least not modify it.

Do you work for John Deere?

Wouldn't it be funny if abusive behavior by the Chinese government ends up undermining abusive behavior by large corporations?
Imagine a green field of grass.

Imagine a groundskeeper.

Imagine a small box where every day at 6 am, an instruction on paper is written and the groundskeeper checks it.

Imagine a network of voters who vote on the instruction to be placed in the box. Their wide variety of votes will be automatically distilled into the winning instruction.

The groundskeeper dutifully clears a path, shouts at people to stay on the path, fills in errant paths.

Finally there is one path.

Who made the decision?

I only bring this up to suggest “emergent” decisions is a vapid framework to analyze this. Every phenomenon involving the aggregation of different agents is an emergent one, whether it’s an emergent system of politics leading to regulated actions or an emergent system of market participants leading to a price.

This doesn’t distinguish a situation of high regulation from a situation of low regulation.
>Took me a while to figure out how to remove the apps I never intend to use

It took you a while to figure out how to drag an app to the trash in the same way that deleting any other file works? =/
It's reminiscent of the "quote" from Ahmedinejad that "Israel must be wiped off the map". It's as if the journalists, or those who feed them, look for the most incendiary and provocative free translation that can be justified by a dictionary or thesaurus.
You gaze into the meme too long, and you become the meme.
World Agility Forum Celebrates Excellence, Flays Fake Agile
Props for escaping the Apple cult for Windows, but I'm sorry, how much RAM? Why does anyone need that much RAM? And more importantly, how much did it cost?
Yes, but we haven't worked out how use public transport to divert billions of dollars of investment into paying machine learning specialists telephone number salaries, so it's not actually plausible.
Research document: http://ubc-emotionlab.ca/wp-content/files_mf/witkowertracy20...

I think the key here is the photos are shown at eye-level. Otherwise, to me atleast, it evokes a feeling of frustration, which is not a dominant trait.
There are multiple ways for Google to know that NewPipe is installed in a device. Play Protect scanning is one way mentioned in the OP’s github link.
Another method I can think is, when I download a mp3 file using newpipe, it adds the text “NewPipe” for the Album mp3 tag. and PlayMusic automatically uploads any new mp3 file downloaded to your device.
People give Google too much credit. It was never a good idea to give them so much undeserved trust with your personal information. They are an advertising company, and should be treated as such.

Move your account(s) elsewhere because they are ephemeral and untrustworthy.
That's not remotely practical and you know it. Let's not pretend that burning gas is a sustainable approach to power generation, regardless of how it's generated. I also don't really understand how you think we're going to suddenly flip a switch when "balancing the grid becomes a problem" if there are no alternative plant designs that people have actually constructed in large enough quantities to learn how to do it cheaply. In practice, if new nations onboarding with solar energy also add gas plants, we use more gas faster and contribute more to global warming. To me, it's pretty indefensible not to look at alternatives because they're more expensive.
There is also no proof (screenshots/etc) that this user is actually suspended, and not just random trolling.
I totally agree with you. What do you think such a wide-reaching and evil policy will do to groups that essentially are trying to do good?
I would gladly use a US government sanctioned e-mail service. The US government and its allies already have access to Google data should they desire.

I just would not use it for everything (not for criticizing the West; for that you could use a Chinese or Russian e-mail service). They can already snoop all the metadata anyway.
I use NewPipe because I was tired of YouTube's dark patterns, and addiction-building related videos/autoplay. In NewPipe those things, as well as the YT comments, can be disabled...

But well, maybe it's my way of justification. I already use an ad blocker on desktop and don't even notice that I don't get YT ads. Please don't ban me, Google!
Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman on Hiring People
1300 paying users for a markdown app, I'm actually impressed by the size of that market. That's either a great job marketing or a much bigger market than I realised.
Nuclear is also much more expensive than solar, takes a long time to construct (so it's another "big infrastructure" project), and it's heavily regulated. Most countries demonstrably do not want to deal with it. Not to mention, nuclear isn't actually "sustainable" either, it just doesn't cause global warming.
No I am not. OP suggested that no one should deal with China because it is "evil". I'm saying the U.S. is also evil. I am not saying they're equally evil but still. Business is business.
Google Reader was a nearly perfect 'social network' for me. It offered an RSS feed with the ability to share news and articles with friends and a comments system to discuss the topics with a small group of people. Google killed it off for what? Google+, presumably. No one in my friend group moved on to Google+, though.
Also note that some deserts are variable, and human activity can tip the balance [1].

especially considering the global carbon balance, it seems that tipping some parts of the desert back to forest would be a net plus. Humans are already doing massive uncontrolled experiments with bad results, it may help some to do some deliberate experiments with good foundations with the goal of creating good results?

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-really-tu...
Research guide for convolutional neural nets
Stylish Avalonia
At least in the case of Overwatch, role queue feels more like an attempt to assure a minimum level of viability for each team and less like an authoritarian approach to controlling how the game is played.
China is the biggest failure of the western nations in a post USSR world. The fact that the whole world let China become so huge and powerful while being so authoritarian is a travesty. They have now completed integrating the internet and big data into their despotic regime. This is the worst place imaginable for a free thinking brain. Even now the the western world is just following along to their dollar tunes.
The foundation of laws is coercive. It is one thing to sell the third world counties that countries like USA are based on rule of law.

Since laws are coercive, whoever has the power (both legal and police) can jail secession leaders.
The title is misleading. Their subheading is $190 in tools and a $2 chip.
Where is Calexit now btw?
In former Yugoslavio the split is again "enforced" or "allowed" based on the arbitrary criteria from the past. The only "rule" here were "rule of armed force" and "interest of the mighty".

Some ethnic group were allowed to have their right to decide in which country they want to live, some never got that right. In the end that injustice is what led to the whole bloody conflict.
Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster
What do you think about things such as room 641A [1]? In short it is one tiny part of the NSA - an NSA office inside of an AT&T building that only NSA "minders" have access to (funny how terminology has such powerful connotations isn't it?), and is used for hoovering up all information which is then processed and used as part of our surveillance state.

As for arbitrary detention, how about the National Defense Authorization Act (2012) Section 1021 [2]? The language is a mixture of strong and weak. What I mean is that it says, for instance, one can be detained for providing direct support of a specific terrorist group, but it also includes anybody engaging in a "belligerent act" against the United States as similarly sufficient grounds for arbitrary detention or transferal to the custody or control of any other nations. This remains one of the loopholes for 'we don't torture' - we just transfer to countries that do. When Obama signed this bill into law he openly acknowledged this, as well as the rather extreme constitutional conflicts, and simply claimed his administration would "interpret" the law in a way that would avoid a constitutional conflict. [3] Whether that was true or not is anybody's guess. In any case 'the law's still here, he's all gone' (in my best Springsteen impersonation.)

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization...

[3] - https://www.ajc.com/blog/jamie-dupree/obama-defense-bill-sig...
This is true. I still use occasionally a Kindle DX I bought in 2010. Sure the battery lasts only for a couple of days now, and it has always been slow, but it still works, and is a great reading device. It even still has free 3G internet.

Though to be honest I much prefer my 12” ipad pro with high refresh rate for reading papers.