skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you and I are arguing on different levels and its leading to a confused discussion. So lets move from the abstract to the concrete.

I don't know your opinion on trans-people. I'm sure it is a fair and compassionate position. Please don't think I'm criticizing you or your beliefs on trans-people. I'm challenging your belief that hate speech can be objectively enforced. Nothing else.

Sex is defined as:

> either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.

You said:

> While the presentation of sex and sexual orientation may be mutable (someone can be female passing or straight passing) their orientation or sex itself is not.

Your thesis therefore is:

> A trans-person can adopt the form of a male or female but can not actually become a male or female. It is impossible for that person to assume the reproductive function of the opposite sex. The characteristic is immutable.

Your argument for enforcing hate speech regulations is:

> public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a group based on immutable characteristics.

The statement "trans-women are not female" is not hate speech under your definition. Correct?

If so you are in an interesting position. You have a direct line of communication to our censor. I would encourage you to post on your company's discussion board "it is not possible for a trans-person to change their sex". Or "trans-women are not female". Or "sex-change operations can not change a person's sex".

Be realistic with me. Can you imagine a scenario where those comments are received as plainly as "I prefer Warren over Sanders" or something similarly political but demure. Can you imagine a world where a significant fraction of the Bay Area would call you a transphobe and a bigot for those statements? Can you imagine a world where you keep your job after saying that?

Surely politics enters your company's discussion board from time to time. Would those statements fit well within the political discussion that takes place within your company?

I'm not asking rhetorically. I'm looking for your honest insight into the beliefs and attitudes of the people you work with and for.

Finally my argument:

> You can define hate-speech however you like. Enforcement of it will always depend on the attitudes of the group enforcing speech. The group enforcing the speech are your co-workers. Can you guarantee they will adhere to your strict definition of hate speech? Can you guarantee it will always be applied fairly and with restraint? Can you guarantee there will be appropriate appeals and review processes? If not how can you support censorship this close to the margins?
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> If you truly believe that this sort of censorship can be carried out effectively and with restraint: prove it. Make the post and I'll read about it on the evening news.

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Disclaimer: I have not and will not share my opinion of trans issues on this forum. Please do not interpret anything I've said as argument for or against trans rights.
Not a good ideas, just ask the Shadow people
Why are we judged so heavily on feedback, WHEN NO ONE LEAVES FEEDBACK?
Do you need to be more than 1km underground, or away from outside walls? Just put the GPS-receiver on the far end of an RS485 serial connection.

First google hit: https://www.worldtimesolutions.com/products/gps_rs485_time_s...
Well this is more about Dystopian fiction which is rarely terrifying. I think bleak visions and grim conditions in fiction are satisfying though. I know that whenever I read 1984 I find the very grimness of Winston's life gives me pleasure. The framing of his discussions with O'Brien in the context of torture also is very satisfying. To people who don't read fiction this sounds like sadism but that is not the case. There may be a small pleasure in the simple fact that it is not we ourselves that suffer ("do it to Julia!") but I think that is marginal. More important is the powerful resistance such a world presents to the character which gives it an intense reality and that reality being immersive is the pleasure as it focuses the whole mind on the meaning of what is shown.

About actual terror and horror Thomas Ligotti makes some interesting points about this and principally views it as a way of dealing with the actual horror of life which is all too real.
>value/$ of these phones are horrendous

Sounds like you value the open/libre aspect at $0. Not everyone feels the same way: Those phones are for people who value the replaceable battery and libre stack at $x where x > 0.
s/ford/tesla/. Fixed that for you
I can back that up. In 1997 I managed a GSM network and could update a phones firmware over the air. You might notice your phone rebooting but that's it.
In cars with manual transmissions, stepping on the clutch turns off the cruise control. In one '96 Honda Civic I was driving, I decided to see what happens if you slip it out of gear while cruise control is on without stepping on the clutch.

Answer: it revs the engine up. I hit the clutch before I got the chance to find out whether the cruise control or the rev limiter has ultimate authority. My guess is the rev limiter, but I didn't want to bet on it.

Still, it's surprising that a computer that clearly knows vehicle speed (well, wheel speed) and engine speed (presumably, for engine control reasons) doesn't know that the vehicle is out of gear (or suffering some kind of serious mechanical malady) and respond appropriately.
I actually don't believe an individual will make a breakthrough, that was more of a if an individual did do it statement. IMO it's actually going to be the result of a lot of methodical work by an army of researchers over a really long period of time.
Show and Ask HN: Declarative Responsive API on Angular
In #angular you have a declarative responsive API[1] for short access to responsive. It's included on the `FlexLayoutModule` but you can use it without flex or grid elements like tables.

The aliases for media queries are very useful for common scenarios. Just feel the words behind the letters:

- xs: eXtra Small

- sm: SMall

- md: MeDium

- lg: LarGe

- xl: eXtra Large

- lt-sm: Lower Than SMall

- lt-md: Lower Than MeDium

- lt-lg: Lower Than LarGe

- lt-xl: Lower Than eXtra Large

- gt-xs: Greater Than eXtra Small

- gt-sm: Greater Than SMall

- gt-md: Greater Than MeDium

- gt-lg: Greater Than LarGe

As you use it for hiding elements, if you prefer to doesn't even send it to the client you are not limited to the declarative API on HTML templates, the script API[2] with MediaObserver lets you be in more control.

In general, the so-called module "Angular Layout" provides a sophisticated API using Flexbox, CSS Grid, and mediaQuery. This module provides Angular developers with component layout features using a custom Layout API, media query observables, and injected DOM flexbox-2016 and CSS Grid stylings.

There are some advantages[3] including independence of Angular Material and no external CSS requirements among others.

The documentation is somewhat limited but I like it a lot but mostly for media queries. It's true we can deal with flex and grids directly on CSS but since you were working with Angular this can be useful for that too.

Do you have any other recommendations to deal with these 3 aspects (mediaQueries, CssFlex, CssGrid) on Angular?

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[1] https://github.com/angular/flex-layout/wiki/Responsive-API

[2] https://github.com/angular/flex-layout/wiki/API-Documentation

[3] https://github.com/angular/flex-layout/wiki/Why-use-Angular-Layout#advantages
They do deliberately slow their sites on Firefox, as has been discussed in many past hn articles. YouTube for example. Pardon my lack of references, you should confirm for yourself with a hn search in case I am mistaken
Being now 1/4th of the way through Doom Eternal I wonder how Canon that is. It seems Doomguy is the direct descendent of human-but-not warrior race? So BJ Blascowitz being human (maybe?) doesn't quite fit. They're doing such an awesome job expanding the Doom mythology that it'd be tight to watch them go back and explore Keen more, silly a game though it may have been.
I've seen plenty of couriers with their families inside riding around with them delivering food. Sometimes just a guy and the younger son? who hops out, picks up the food, and the dad drives off to deliver the item. It makes me sad.
I'd bet everyone on this thread will be grabbing their cheerleading squad and their pom-poms everywhere if John Carmack visited them in person. They won't be able to contain themselves and start bursting into tears of joy.

'Extreme' maybe an understatement here but it seems like HNers here love seeing the second coming of King Midas when everything he touches turns into gold.
Pretty soon you're talking about real money
I trick my well-developed procrastination skills
Ask HN: What is the most ergonomic computer setup?
That’s excellent info thanks. Would you mind sharing ballpark figures on how much it cost? How did you go about choosing motherboard etc? I haven’t built a pc from scratch since the late 90s, so I’m a bit lost with it these days! Back then it was a matter of what compatible components you could even source...
I mean, going forward, given the existence of Link (and that Link surprisingly actually works), there is very little reason for the Rift S to exist at all; it sucks that they sold it to people and then so quickly obsoleted it by another product that came out at the same time and cost the same amount, but other than the feeling of responsibility for those customers I can't imagine any reason for them to spend any time at all on that device line: that use case is now Quest Link; if they built and sold more of them they would just be digging themselves a deeper liability hole of more limited devices they don't want to support.
I get what you're saying, but I think it's great for people to see that an old-school hard core programmer puts effort into improving documentation and names. I've worked with a lot of people who think programmers can and should be too good to invest time and thought into changes like that.

Also to see that he would be so tactful about asking if the changes are welcome, even though he is who he is and knows it. I like to think there are people in their twenties or teens or even younger browsing HN and subconsciously absorbing the fact that this is how a programming god behaves.
Would it be possible to work around this issue by reading the executable file into a memfd and then exec() on that instead?
> Musk has been completely unhinged the last few weeks

The most logical guess I can make is he on some new drugs that's starting to damage his brain. Some form of synthetic or maybe good ol heroin.
Miami tier 3? hawhat?
> The Effects on Cognition of Sleeping 4 Hours per Night

I lived like this for nearly 5 years. I knew I was taking my health to an extreme so I did intermittent fasting (but ate one large meal with 7:5:1 fat-plant/carb-protein ratio and it was all organic) and worked out on a regular basis before I slept 3-5 times a week. I also had physical labour jobs with some driving involved on top of typical tech based startup stuff at night while trying to maintain relationships. It was taxing to say the least.

What I did noticed when I stopped living that way was that it felt like a fog was lifted and I stopped hearing what had become an omnipresent high pitch sound like the kind you get when you get hit hard in the head, also before I could only work optimally for maybe 7 hours max a day so I had to prioritize/schedule my day accordingly as the rest was a sluggish grind by comparison. I took cheater naps where I could, but simply put: those were brutal times.

Also my raw strength got way better, likely because of re-introducing a recovery period, and my PB and max lifts went up 35% in almost all of my lifts and exercises. I think I'm at higher than my peak years in early university at this point on single max lifts.

Personally, I realized my most optimized sleep-work schedule follows a 6-3-6-3-6 routine (6 hours of work, with 3 hours pause to eat/sleep in between). I've cranked a ton of things that way, its not ideal as it doesn't allow for much leisure but if I need to get things done and I can afford to have that schedule I'll do it and get amazing results I can't emulate any other way.
You are right. I just wouldn't see those points as essential problems:

* If you have co-founders, 25k shouldn't be a problem if you pool your money. A group of people who have worked for some years should have that much money or I would fear that they cannot hold budgets for the company

* If you have employees, 25k is a month or two of their salaries. You are dead in the water if you don't have that amount of money in advance as a buffer

* If the CEO owns something like 90% of a GmbH and he screws up, his 90% go to whoever has to be compensated. There is no fundamental difference to him owning everything. If you are an employee, then you better start your own company with your colleagues, even if it was a GmbH. If you are an investor, well, start anew. You have spend less than 25k or this would have been a GmbH.
In NYC, you can't call cabs. You can call black cars, and schedule them to pick you up for say an early morning ride to the airport where you might not be able to street hail a cab.

The system went like this:

You call some number like 777-7777.

A man with a heavy accent answers gruffly. You tell him where you live and when you want to be picked up. He says "OK", and then you just hope and pray that someone shows up.

It was not a great system at all.
I bought the Ryzen 9 3900X (12-core) for my new work PC and it absolutely blows anything I've previously used out the water. I was considering a top-range i9 but for the price and performance I'm happy to have gone with the Ryzen and am now an AMD fan.
Yes, this is one of the first things covered in the article.
Somewhat off topic, but yikes, is this what using Twitter is like? Letting anyone from a global audience see your posts seems optimized towards fight picking.
Thanks to detaro's post I now know that I can flag posts.

Good to know, but I think giving the ability of _anyone_ to flag posts is a mistake. Underlying the whole idea of flagging is the notion that we all share enough in common (in terms of our values) that Person A flagging something somehow is a valuable warning to me to avoid that post. Which turns out almost never to be true...
I was about to ask about dmoz.org. But apparently it's dead. We could probably do something with bookmark sharing à la Delicious. Good dead things for a better future.
Show HN: Try out OSS webapps before installing them
The curve is more accurate going forward for sure, but it's possible to record an increase in new cases each day simply by doing more tests, even as the number of new cases per capita declines. This effect theoretically wouldn't stop until you were testing basically everyone, at which point the new cases per capita and the new cases would be the same.
What do you mean by embed the model?
Ask HSN: How many AWS instances you have?
I have 10. I think that just too many for me to manage.
As a former academic, the point is to get the research published. Whether the code continues to work after that, is irrelevant.
You forgot socialists and anarchists (also known in the US as libertarian socialists for historical reasons) which advocate for a classless democratic society. The former advocate for a transition state and the latter demands a direct immediate transition as far as I understand it.
Is the crawling not respecting your robots file? You don't state a reason for wanting to block the behavior other than it was fun to build the tooling to discover it for you.

Personally I don't see a reason to block non abusive things from crawling a site. Sites are there to be found and read. Indexers, archivers, etc... are normal things that may provide a non obvious benefit.

This seems to be a judgement call on if you believe the the actions are nefarious or not.
Sort of. Yes, you can't change the results, and that is often desirable for simulations. Consider academic publication and replication. You could make optimizations that do not affect results.
Yeah, $10-15/hour for a lot of non-skilled labor or even low-qualification desk jobs is typical in the Houston area. The average home price here is 1/13th that of Fremont, to say nothing of areas outside of major cities.
That answers the question of why management operates the way it does.

It doesn't answer the question for developers.

I actually can't fathom it at all, I find it completely impossible to sustainably perform tasks that I think are socially negative, pretty much regardless of the reward, I'd just shut down and get sacked if they pushed it.

The general response I get to this sort of thing is some variant on "you are privileged", which completely misses the point, it assumes that I have a choice in the matter of whether I do bad stuff.

Maybe I just have too much free time to think about this stuff in and that could be the 'privilege'?
I'd love to hear about a few more of these "watering holes", if you're so inclined.
I strongly resent you suggesting that someone not having kids must mean they have an "aching void" in their life. Have kids if that makes you happy, but don't presume that this is what everyone's life must orbit around.
Utility maximizing decisions. The efficient markets 'hypothesis'
Yea makes sense to use whatever free time to look for a better paying job, train for interviews ect.

Not sure why someone wouldn't do this. I would definitely do that.
Deaths reported as COVID-19 in the US so far: 90,263

Deaths due to flu during the 2018-2019 flu season: 34,157

Deaths due to flu during the 2017-2018 flu season: 61,000

So with a particularly deadly flu season in 2017-2018, COVID-19 has already killed nearly as many people as 2 flu seasons combined.

There are also a lot of deaths that are likely caused by COVID-19 but haven't been attributed properly, for any number of reasons including not wanting to waste tests on people who are already dead. You can find a nice graphic here that expresses this phenomenon nicely using seasonal averages: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/27/cov...
What is a better source? Can you show some examples?
Part of living in a civilized society is that we band together to support activities that we agree are necessary, even if we don't personally benefit from them. My taxes go to pay for many things that I don't benefit from, or even disagree with. However, the "price" of living in society is that that you don't sweat the small stuff because in the end it averages out enough that everyone sees sufficient benefit for it to be worth it.

What you can't justifiably do, however, is complain about the specific instances in which you pay for a benefit for someone else without acknowledging all the other ways in which things flow in the other direction.

My favorite example is road costs. Suppose I don't drive a car. Why should I pay for road infrastructure? Because I realize that even if I don't personally drive a car, I benefit from a society in which people and property can be efficiently transported without having to pay the owner of each and every road a toll.

What about schools? Should people without children not have to pay taxes that go toward schools, because they don't "benefit"? They should, because everyone should realize that even if they don't have children, a modern society needs educated citizens to persist. The same reason applies to supporting those that do the work of raising the citizens of tomorrow. (Which you, if you have no children, might mistake for leisure rather than a job.) Presumably you, when you're in your 80s and 90s, would like there to exist people of working age that can take care of you?
> The whole story of buying pizzas from a normal pizza shop for $20 and selling them for $18 through your “app” is the stereotypical example of the current .com implosion

Lets not have this be the lesson that people learn, please. This is not an actual strategy - think of it more as a coupon. There is plenty of reason to think that with economies of scale a single company COULD win out, not have to raise prices and keep on trucking, a la google/fb in the advertising space.

The problem is when multiple people realize this it become a cold war-esque capital arms race. That there is absolutely nowhere else within the economy to make a decent return on investment at a lower level of risk is what is driving all of this. We have 0% interest rates everywhere, and tons and tons of money sloshing around.

Its completely conceivable to me that the best thing to do to grow the economy at this point is to do UBI. That there has been no inflation while the government pumps TRILLIONS of dollars into the economy means none of that money is getting spent within the economy, just thrown away to prop up massive company debtloads.
In-place lightweight XML parser (for C)
We desperately need a Post Office of internet content. At-cost hosting and completely content-agnostic.
I'm not really angry. I consider it a public service for the people who come along after me. These things are a hazard for runners.
Security, simplicity (at least in principle...), plus an excuse to understand other OS's. FreeBSD had a cool history, and its, like 80% of the way to OSX, right?

In practice getting help or fixing things usually required more deeper thinking than it should.

Laptop drivers, esp. wifi were problematic.

I liked FreeBSD as a server OS, but Fedora runs Steam and AMD graphics out of the box, and finding Red-Hat-related solutions is easy.
Ask HN: The Future of YouTube's Algorithm
Will YouTube get to a point where the algorithm will detect high quality content by reading through the digital structure of your video file, your thumbnail, your descriptions, tags and community interaction and then ranking/promoting it based on the amount of idea - to script - to video output quality/ hours/research/synthesis generation?
Can confirm that the facial recognition cameras and correlating faces to blackjack play is not rumor. To abuse a joke, "There are more cameras in a casino than in a East Village camera close out store." :-)

Back in 2005 I was approached by one of the casino groups that was looking for a director of technology to manage the team that did "camera analytics". Seemed like a pretty neat job technically.
Seems more like $X >> 0.
Ads are completely consensual.

You explicitly go to Google, Facebook, some website. No one is pushing ads to you PC without you making a request to.

I mostly dislike ads and adtech, because their value is overstated. However... You aren't entitled to stuff that people publish. Thus placing an ad blocker when visiting my site, you're being an asshole.

Would you pay Google $500 per year for all of their services? Then $200 to Facebook. Then your local news portal another couple of hundred.
The Fairness Doctrine was not struck down as unconstitutional by the courts, the supreme court upheld it several times. It was Reagan's FCC that unilaterally struck it down. And that led directly to the rise in prominence of right-wing talk starting with Rush Limbaugh which became the template for other right-wing broadcasts including Fox News.
> He basically evolved almost on his own two multi-billion dollar markets

Not sure what this had to do with AGI, I don't even think there is a relationship in the skillset required
Really? Who? A house near a big city in Germany is over a million and city apartment over half a million.

How many devs can afford that even with a credit?