skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This iteration of the Black Lives Matter protests has a lot in common with occupy. The main difference seems to be that this time the protests and direct action are actually causing the intended change in society, which as a cynical person that loves the aesthetic of protest, is really beautiful and surprising.
For me, dark mode is what you used on old 50 Hz CRT:s, where a light background would flicker so horribly that it drove you crazy in five minutes. If you had the luxury of professional kit, you used black-on-white.
Whoa, these are some great ideas

You might enjoy https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1982-01296-001 (taken from the comments from the same post but on reddit). tl;dr: proposition that social relations follow a logarithmic trend
Things have flip-flopped over the years:

CRT - Black didn't light up the pixels (I don't remember the details as to how), so it did reduce power usage some.

LCD - Had a constant backlight (see sibling comment for details), so there was little to no difference between black and anything else.

OLED/AMOLED - Black LEDs are actually turned off, instead of displaying a dark color, so we're back to it saving power - more even than CRTs did.
In which time period were the political leaders' drawn from the nation as a whole, and had a smaller cultural and ethnic divide between the wealthy and poor?

According to wikipedia, 60% of the African-American senators EVER have been elected in the past 20 years. 40% of the total in the past 10 years. A significant proportion of the total African-Americans to have been in the house of reps are currently serving. Similar statistics for Latinos and Asian-Americans.

Most western nations came from the British system, which literally had people born as noble.
I think you have to be updated. Rust has had success in countless places after Firefox/Dropbox.

With that being said fast compilation times are amazing and must be a default in new languages. If not they should follow an approach like Dart where there is a VM for development and also a AOT compilation support for producing binaries.
That's fair. I'd be ok with forcing two bedrooms of housing for each worker space added.

I don't think all the McMansions and condos are good however. I'd rather you force people to add space for lots of people. Otherwise there'll be a period where you drive a lot of poorer folks away. Artists and retail workers and mechanics. People who don't work tech or finance or real estate. I don't know that cities can readily recover from it.

It's why I left San Jose. If it continues too long, it'll be why I leave Seattle. Give people reasonable rents, please. I want to live with artists and civil servants and retail workers and chefs and vets and all these people. It makes life so much more interesting
It won't stop, bud. Everything must be sanitized.
Hey! Full disclosure, but I wrote this -- do you have any specific papers or notable people in these fields you'd recommend as starting points?
>"The Quadriga cryptocurrency exchange that saw millions of dollars disappear just as its founder died was a "fraud" and Ponzi scheme, according to the Ontario Securities Commission."

There is one school of economic thought which says that all fiat currencies (including cryptocurrencies), and any asset which is a derivative of those things -- are ultimately all Ponzi schemes...

I'm not sure that I believe that, but, I do know the following:

First food had value, because you could eat it.

Then gold had value, because you could trade it for food.

Then dollars had value, because you could trade dollars for gold.

Then stock shares and cryptocurrencies had value, because you could trade them for dollars.

Then increasingly complex derivatives had value, because you could trade them for stock shares...

Perhaps all that we are really debating then, is what can be traded for what, when, and for how much, and will the transaction work or not?

If all of this comes down to a belief that something will be tradeable in the future for something else at a given valuation -- then wouldn't any future failure in the ability to make such a future expected transaction for the expected amount of future exchange -- be indicative of a Ponzi scheme (intentional, unintentional?), of one type or another?

Well, I for one wouldn't know.

It might make for an interesting debate among economic theorists, however...
It's not helped by the abandonment of fresh traditional foods and their replacement with highly processed imported foods, such as canned spaghetti and corned beef. Polynesian countries are also large importers of cheap fatty cuts of meat that aren't eaten in more developed nations, such as turkey tails and lamb flaps (both of which are delicious, but incredibly fatty).

The traditional Polynesian diet is quite healthy, fresh fish, root vegetables like yams and taro (as well as their leaves), and coconuts. You have to eat a lot to get fat eating that kind of food. One thing I noticed when travelling Fiji (not geographically Polynesia, but culturally) is that outside of the cities this kind of diet is fairly common, and obesity is a lot less common.

Most Samoans and Tongans I know back in New Zealand have terrible diets. They basically eat white bread, tinned spaghetti, corned beef, instant noodles, and rotisserie chickens. I had a mate who would for dinner would put back a whole chicken and 5 packs of noodles; or a loaf of white bread, 2 tins of spaghetti and a tin of corned beef. He worked in demolition and did boxing as a sport, so he burned the calories, but it was completely lacking in proper nutrition, just carbs and sodium.
You're basically arguing that serving a no-knock warrant is inherently a wanton act.

I think it's unreasonable to argue that police disregarded a substantial and unjustifiable risk when a Judge literally signed a piece of paper that said it was a justified risk.

And I don't think doing your job in a way that judges sign off 40,000 times a year is a "gross deviation from the standard of conduct".
(Edit: Thanks for the clarification on the other comment--I had read the "you" wrong)

Sure, that example absolutely works. One reason why you wouldn't cheat is that you know that a specific outcome you want requires something of you that you must learn. I found it striking just how rare this was, though. We can fault students for not having made up their minds, but I found that many of them are just really open to new directions, and this can help to enable part of the plagiarism equation, but it's also something of a gift...

Anyway, talking to my students I discovered that the discipline is really often completely up in the air. So while the rhetorical / imaginary student's path for the purposes of argument might be be "study math -> work in applied math," quite often it's "study phil -> work in I don't know what" or similar.

The students who plagiarize with this mindset are really quite something. It's nuanced--they're smart about it, leaving no final question on which points against them can rest. For example, the student submits a first prospective paper in which they quote-paste for pages on end and then plagiarize not by direct-copy, but by reading and then re-hashing someone else's conclusion from a book or another paper, and they get a C+. Well, if a B- is all they need in the class, they are good to go. Then they take a reactive / tactical stance and only change this approach in the future if they absolutely have to.

This pattern happens over and over. If you attempt to pin the student down on qualitative issues, they have a number of tools to use here. You have to be ready for extreme negotiation. They _may not be able_ to learn about quality, ethics, etc. Shocking sometimes but it's a struggle for many. One of the most common negotiation techniques is, "I just...I don't understand. I'm really not that smart" and then they start crying or leave the room in a rage. This can instantly shut down a professor with average or greater levels of sympathy. The student converted the negotiating professor's original value proposition into a risky interpersonal issue. If further negotiations occur, they will find ways to illustrate why things are unfair to them. What is the prof going to do about that? Do they even have time for it at all?

Then you can go back to students who are in the "study math -> work in applied math" group. You look outside of the math classes and you can see the same pattern. They know wasted effort when they see it, or think they do. And again--some, not all. Savvy employers also weed out some of these people but then other employers hire them because they desire tactical cleverness in their organization, and they recognize it when they see it. Maybe it's how they got the boss job in the first place.
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This doesn’t really make any sense. If there were overwhelming riches to be had in the Android market, companies would allocate greater resources to making Android apps good. But there aren’t — at least not compared to iOS — so the resource allocation is commensurate. Companies want money first and foremost; they don’t care which platform allows for a prettier UI if it gets in the way of $$$.
Spoken as a software professional and computer scientist.

Human beings rely on signals to communicate efficiently, especially in larger groups.

In the absence of well defined signals people will use what they have on hand and the results will be arbitrary at best and unhelpful in all likelihood due to propensity for misinterpretation and misrepresentation, especially since they may rely on inegalitarian mechanisms like gender or hair style or age or other intrinsic characteristics which may be gamed or are inaccessible to all.

By dismissing corporate culture so egregiously we have also done away with most established signalling mechanisms without offering any new substitutes.

The definition of dressing up in this context is in reference to establishing and manifesting visible and unambiguous signalling cues for such things as rank, status, team membership, privilege or clearance and other relevant metrics.

Since we're so sensitive to traditional methods it's difficult to convince anyone to put on a shirt and tie and quit acting like children but nobody has offered any better alternative than a printed T which in my professional experience and opinion is an all-too-naive solution that fails the military grade requirements after which we've modelled our private corporations.

Imagine you're a new member on a team looking around the floor for someone with an admin override. You need to ask six people before you get referred to Joe who has the keys to production. If Joe had a stripe on his jacket you'd be able to tell right away.
Yeah, I understand single page app levels of JavaScript but why complicate things to save a few lines?
f.lux is still a thing.

https://justgetflux.com/
Did you hear about the ice cream man who goes around town serving rancid rat milk sundaes to kids?

Of course, he doesn't exist, but, if he did, I'm taking a strong stance against him being taken down, by whatever means necessary. Threatening to serve dubious sundaes to kids is not cool.
Java, C#, Visual Basic and JavaScript all are less than 30 years old and all started off with proprietary main implementations. The phenomenon is probably real, but it's more recent than you suggest.
Douglas Adams got there in the 80s with his Golgafrincham B Ark storyline.
What government doesn’t use propaganda?
I once made a PHP page which fetches a random wikipedia article, but changes the title to "What the fuck is [TOPIC]?". It was incredibly funny, until I started getting angry emails from people, mostly threatening a form of libel lawsuit.

Turns out, since it was a front for all of wikipedia[1], google was agressively indexing it, but the results rarely made it to the first search page. And since this isn't exactly an important site, old results would stick around.

Hence a pattern:

1. Some Rando creates a page about themselves

2. Wikipedia editors, being holy and good, extinguish that nonsense

1.5. GOOGLE INDEXES IT

3. Rando, by nature of being a rando, googles themselves, doesn't find their wikipedia page anymore (that's gone), but does find a link to my site in the first page of google results with their name.

4. Lawyers get involved, somehow

Details:
http://omershapira.com/blog/2013/03/randomfax-net/

[1] Hebrew wikipedia. I can't imagine what would've happened on the English version.
I agree with the paid part adding an extra amount of bad connotation, that was an oversight in my analogy.

Regardless, being called any form of a shill should not be censored and the root of it's usage comes from a legitimate cause, especially when you're not using the phrase at a specific person, just an event like the GP did.

Using the phrase the way he did, he didn't target anyone but the CCP.
I don’t see why the trends wouldn’t hold up internationally. Android is more popular than iOS internationally because the vast majority of the world has a lower PPP than the US. Android is popular in places like India which pale in comparison to US revenues per customer simply based on PPP alone.
You can certainly get emails that talk about "we'll give you advanced standing" or some such bs, but credits don't actually transfer.

You're deluding yourself, as people who go to these dead end institutions often do. You're of course free to do so, but if you think you are actually going to a real university, you're going to be in bad shape.

Of course all this ignores the fact that the curriculum isn't adequate.

Reddit posts aren't really proof of anything.
Does anyone write their S's from the bottom up?
Are Google's lobbying efforts considered to be rent-seeking?
Capital Hill Autonomous Zone FAQ
It is because Google wants a monorepo, then Google choose to use Perforce (and later Piper). It is not that Google uses Perforce and thus are limited to a monorepo.

The core value behind monorepo (and monorepo-like approaches) explained in the book is that dependency management is harder than version control.
That demand was not consistently communicated. My time at Occupy made it feel like it was basically against everything bad in society as believed by left/socialist/anarchists.

The Occupy demand messaging never really worked cause it was never nailed down to a simple single talking point. That this current movement can be simplified and understood as one demand, “abolish the police” seems related to the success of the movement.
Splendor, Jaipur, and Seven Wonders: Duel are all fantastic 2 player games that get a ton of play at my house
Then how come a column of white pixels next to a column of black pixels looks perfectly sharp, as sharp as a black sheet of paper on a white background?

Whatever pixels "are", they are certainly tools for inducing a certain perception in the eye of the viewer, so we should go by how that works. We're used to this from color itself - no one denies that 0xffff00 is "yellow", despite the physical emission containing no yellow light, because red + green in certain proportions induces the same response in our eyes as light whose wavelength is actually yellow. So why can't we apply the term "squares" to things that our eyes see as squares even if they are not physically squares?
Well, the article is about the discovered government propaganda by mainly the CCP.

If you have other reports about services finding bots that shilled government propaganda from other state actors you're welcome to share them.

I certainly don't like the mainstream media in the US and I do believe they peddle domestic propaganda, that doesn't mean we divulge in whataboutism and distract from this specific article we are all discussing though, definitely not without specific evidence or events.
I think you are in some way looking for those information, or have a place ready for those information in your mind, and therefore those are not really a surprise.
Anyway, I'm very curious, what are the things you do to 'push your boundaries to find such surprises'?
It's more likely that the "winners" would sue the lotto company for false advertising, breach of contract, and mental distress, and force a much larger settlement - possibly 1000x what was offered ($200k in my example). They might even force the company into bankruptcy. But that option isn't available to poor people in places like the Philippines.

The "multiple winners" thing "makes no sense" to you because you're looking at it from Pepsi's perspective. Not from the perspective of someone who thought their life was going to be transformed, and now it's not. Their thought process is more like "It's not my problem if the people running the lottery screwed up. I won fair and square according to the rules that were set out. They have to pay and that's that."

Pepsi marketed the heck out of this thing, gained a ton of market share, and would stand to make lots of money even after their ultimate $20 million bill. But instead they reneged on a contract by blaming it on a technical error. I don't understand why you're so eager to let them off the hook for this - don't contracts mean anything?

> the alternative being having a new ticket issued for free

There are plenty of other alternatives actually, all the way to "Pepsi actually pays the $32 billion, in installments". But that's not realistic - they'd probably just exit the Philippines market instead.

Here's a more realistic alternative that might have gone over better: Pepsi says, "We get that a lot of you bought Pepsi because of this promotion and we feel terrible. To make it right, we're upping the prize pot to equal all of our sales in the Philippines this year. After all, the only reason we made most of those sales was because of the prize, so we're gonna forfeit those."
> If you want to see a real "Autonomous Zone" in Seattle, 3rd and Pike is your spot. The cops let pretty much anything go there and it's a crap hole.

Too true
My answer is less useful to the discussion. But here you go:

1. I wouldn't use GPLv3

2. I wouldn't care if people stole my code that I open sourced or if they tried to license it a different way.

3. I personally follow the license of others when using their code. I wouldn't steal GPLv3 code without proper attribution etc. That's their right.

All that doesn't go against my initial opinion: GPLv3 for a small micro blog templating system is lame. Enforcing it for a bit of CSS is petty.
This is a great meta level view of the moral perception landscape, the individual replies advocating for one particular prescriptive position or the other are missing the forest for the trees.
- There may not be a successful vaccine for COVID-19

- COVID-19 is just a dress rehearsal for something even more deadly.

- Since there is no apex predator for humans, viruses will likely rise to become the leading cause of death

- Modern society is, by definition, carbon positive

- The one time that society allowed young people to explore their interests, to not work (the 60s), the establishment was so scared at the revolution they never wanted that freedom to ever be available again

- Universal healthcare in the US would cause massive economic shock due to the unemployment

- Affordable college education would also cause massive economic shock with unemployment as this would mean removal of government backing for student loans

- Racism is a cultural disease sort of like cancer that has many forms, mild and severe. It is individual and cannot be cured.

- Those who lack money problems always have problems. Humans need drama in their lives to feel alive.

- The attention economy that Facebook started is destroying normal human behavior year by year

- To be a producer in the new visual economy (IG), it helps to be conventionally attractive. But that if not enough, you also have to demonstrate that you are not perfect, whether fake or human

- Political correctness and its evil twin Virtue Signaling are dividing all of us, perhaps on purpose

- Everything is faked or polished to be better than it really is at some level. Technology has been good enough to do it for a while to do it offline. Lookup Melodyne for singing. Now technology is getting to the point where it can do it live

- We may not make it past the Great Filter

- Smartphones are actually dumb phones because they make us dumb

- Time is everyone's most precious resource, yet we give it away sometimes like it were free "Do you have a minute?"

- Using headphones in an office to concentrate is training your brain to require headphones to concentrate

- Caffeine is the most successful drug

- Capitalism is the only economic model that works because it gives people something to aspire towards

- You cannot have capitalism without personal debt.

- Capitalism is unsustainable as you cannot expect to grow X percent a year and not eventually run out of Y.

- The Pareto Principle can be applied to anything. For example, how many people in a company actually do useful work (20% do 80%)

- Education is the most powerful force

- Sex doesn’t just sell. Sex is everything.

- Happiness is biologically meant to be fleeting. Otherwise we would eat once, have sex once... and then die.

- Companies spend large sums of money to create controlled, temperature controlled environments to make people focus on work called offices

- Some people think they are wealthy. They are not. You are only wealthy if you can maintain your preferred lifestyle without having to work.

- Monogamy is a cultural construct

- Without biological or technological adaptation to combat radiation in space, long-term space travel is impossible
Hopefully you find what you want in life, but I’m not betting you will.
I see young people don't swear by Knuth anymore, like we did in the good ole times .
...buried 2 or 3 menu layers deep, using a magic sequence of three buttons to handle all the up-down/left-right multi-level hierarchical menu navigation complexities.

One of Apple's biggest innovations imho was to make brightness +/- two of the default keyboard buttons. Every keyboard should replace their F-keys with brightness by default (seriously, who uses F-keys? It's wasted real estate.)

TV's should do this too. With smart TV's/rokus/firesticks/whatever, what's the use of having a channel toggle? Repurpose that for one-button brightness shifts. I don't need my TV being a spotlight into my face when I turn it on to watch a movie at night with the lights dimmed.

Dark mode and red shift are helpful, but really this thread nails it... it's relative contrast that is the big eyestrain contributor. It should be as easy to change brightness as it is volume.
The west is falling and all the solutions to prevent the fall are morally awful. I find this depressing.
Come on, Carmack isn’t interested in solar. Not when we can literally mine the energy straight from Hell, do you know how many btus we’re talking about here?

...I’m now being told trying to extract energy from Biblical Hell is a bad idea?
Thanks for the plug elric!

Anyone interested in seeing what the book is about can check the (slightly outdated) preview here:
https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide_v5_previ... (a more descriptive title would be high-school math, mechanics, and single-variable calculus three-in-one)

I also have a followup book on linear algebra, which you can preview as PDF here: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide2LA_previ... or as spoken tutorial + SymPy notebooks https://github.com/minireference/noBSLAnotebooks#no-bullshit...

Other goodies and free stuff on the website: https://minireference.com/#freestuff
Even the cheapest things are, by definition, not available in famine. Being fat is pretty clear indicator that you have not been recently suffering from famine.
X11 is an extremely chatty protoy. Try it over a higher latency connection (say, across the US from you) and you will notice that it can take minutes before even xterm will show up.

Also, another benefit of VNC is that it's like tmux: if your session gets interrupted then your programs won't all get HUP'd.
More and more coming out about actions from China..