skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this article is a lot more nuanced than you give it credit for. In talking about blackface alone, the author talks about Al Jolson but also John Howard Griffin and his book "Black Like Me". Very, very different!

It feels like you're talking about the views of cultural appropriation you bring to the table, but you aren't addressing "American Dirt" and the money that went into that book and the inaccuracies that reside in it* -- I think Russo treated this point quite lightly and quite deeply at the same time -- nor are you addressing the very real questions writers themselves have about representation, mis-steps, and the place of "own voices".

If you hang out with writers, for instance, you will find that many are concerned with how to 1) make their characters reflect the world they live in, which does have people from many ethnic/racial/religious/socioeconomic/gender backgrounds, and yet 2) write that diversity in a way that isn't fake, isn't offensive, isn't distracting for stupid reasons, etc. That's why this article was a good read. If you wanted to write a scene in which your black female main character was taking care of her hair before she goes to bed... would you know how? How would you learn? Would you understand the nuances?

There's a reason that the scene where Annalise Keating removes her wig in How to Get Away With Murder happened in a show conceived of and run by a black woman. I don't think most white guys know the first thing about Black women's hair! And the question there is not about appropriation, it's about getting the details of a character and scene right. If you were driven to write the story of your black woman fighter pilot or whatever and a Black woman training at Vance Air Force Base read it, 'Would [your character] feel real to them? Or would they laugh her out of the [plane], and [you] along with her? Because, come on. Who is this middle-aged American writer who clearly never spent a minute in a[n air force base], or in a [fighter pilot's seat], or probably even [being a Black woman]? What gives him the right to intrude so arrogantly into our lives? Why doesn’t he understand that [her] story simply isn’t his to tell?' And are those the right questions?

* there are some poignant and pointed articles about American Dirt as well as some hilarious twitter takedowns making fun of the inaccurate Spanglish and the 'machete' in the book that's very small and folds like a penknife...
That kind of stuff still happens with automakers -- maybe even more so these days. Heck, sometimes competitors buy an entire platform from another manufacturer and put their own branding on it.
Personally, doing mushrooms helped me work out some stuff for my PhD thesis research. What he says about making your brain more plastic is the key point. I thought about things from a new angle, which directly informs my current research.

I also saw palpably how much I judge myself in every moment of the day, which I had never realized before. Reducing that judgement has become an important goal. That's just useful. It's not wacky far-out magic thinking.

Now, if I tried to describe to you the beauty of what I saw, I would say it looks like a cathedral, and have to stop there, or it will start to sound like nonsense. But that's only because we don't have useful language to discuss the specifics of the experience, so we have to try to use metaphors, which easily sound like BS, unless you've seen it yourself. But then, the metaphors used to describe any specialist field sounds a bit like BS if you don't have the technical language, or direct experience, to make sense of it.
US House: Justice in Policing Act of 2020 [pdf]
I disagree.

Both of them massively reduce the complexity by working on position-aligned images of purely the head. I would estimate that even a picture of a cat from the side will already be too much for this network to handle.

These kind of networks learn their feature space mapping by treating the input data set as continuous. So for them to learn a good mapping from cat to dog, it would need to also see photos of an animal that is half cat half dog. If I had to train this case for work, I guess I'd try to go through baby pictures. Dog -> baby dog -> baby cat -> cat. That might work if baby cats and baby dogs look similar enough.
The author of this essay does ultimately come to the conclusion that writers should be willing to write from perspectives outside their own, and lists a number of positive examples of such writing.

The question he seems to be wrestling with is where the boundary is in his own mind between doing so for right or wrong reasons. It is not as obvious as blatant ill-intent: the desires for fame and commercial success, while perfectly reasonable on their own and necessary for a writer who makes a living from their craft, could blind the author to ways in which they fail to do justice to the experience of others.

My guess though is that for most authors the problems of ill-intent are rare, and that a failure of execution is far more likely the real issue. Writing believable characters of any stripe is tough work.
Retrotech: The Novell NetWare Experience
Yup. For my main machine, I've never had a Linux laptop last more than six months without a problem that required reinstalling the os (wouldn't boot, wouldn't connect to display etc.). I had a laptop used mostly for web browsing that lasted a bit over a year back around 2006. I try it every few years but it always fails. It's especially a bad idea on Apple hardware. I'll check back in a few years but don't expect much.
The margins in insurance are extraordinarily thin. Even your largest health insurers have an average profit margin of ~5%.
Somehow Vic Damone claimed that spot for me a few years back, so I've got him in my head instead
Compare that to systems which are not nationalised.
I know when my dad grew up, in Scotland, he'd get hit with a ruler if he was seen writing with his left-hand..

Happily the rules had relaxed by the time I had to write left-handed, and very messily with a fountain-pen!
But developers sometimes are or become CTOs or technical decision makers. These two statements are contradictory:

> For Microsoft, the text editor market is not something they need to dominate, but they absolutely do need positive developer mindshare. Why would they possibly care about extinguishing the competition?

> You're not going to convince me that EEE applies to text editors for pushing Azure. Decisions on what Cloud platform to use are not made by a developer's choice of text editor, but by executives over fancy dinners, or the CEO's personal favourite in a startup.

For positive developer mindshare, every little bit matters. For pushing Azure adoption, every little bit matters. New generations of developers using VSCode in coding bootcamps and undergraduate courses will keep the habit of using VSCode for a very long time. One click deploy-to-Azure plugins that works just that little bit better than the equivalent deploy-to-<somewhere else> or with remote development functionality will combine with the loss-leader that is cloud credits to make it just that little bit easier to choose Azure. Just that little bit of better integration with Github and NPM.

All of this seems far fetched, but it's how you build market share from behind. Microsoft is in it for the long haul, even if the pace is glacial, progress is progress. Again, it's not necessarily bad for every involved developer, it will definitely be great for most in terms of productivity or other benefits. Microsoft's incentives must be aligned with getting rid of the competition if possible, it's how for-profit public companies work, but before that's even possible, they need mind-share -- you can't just buy mind-share, you have to build it sometimes.
rsync, rclone

really depends on what formats the data is in, how it will be used, how long it needs to last, how long the code that reads and writes the data will last, how much out of band information vs inband information will be sent along with the data.

You talked about movement, movement is the last of your worries, formats and provenance should rank higher on your list of concerns.

My gotos are sqlite, xml and avro. Try to keep things under 2GB so you don't run into lame data transfer issues.
I expect their list is for ordering, not individual stroke. If you only put ╷ and ┌┐ you could get to the second by starting at the bottom right. The alternative would be to list individual strokes e.g. ╷, ┐, ─. Or to use bolding but it's really hard for me to notice that┍┓is BOX DRAWINGS DOWN LIGHT AND RIGHT HEAVY followed by BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY DOWN AND LEFT. Plus it still doesn't really specify stroke order.
╷ Down
┌┐ Right, down
口 Right
I haven't but I'll think about it, thanks for the idea.

Mainly the custom-made proxy allows scaling the app to several pies if I ever need to.
I have the Pinebook Pro which is built upon the Rockchip RK3399 SoC incorporating a Mali T860 GPU. The Panfrost open source GPU driver written by the article's author offers support for this GPU, and on Linux Manjaro with KDE/Plasma the GPU-acceleration works, but for some reason I cannot figure out the performance is very low compared to what I've seen on other RK3399 demos running Linux. Anyone got any ideas what could be wrong?
“Ray Tracing in One Weekend” in TypeScript
It's also possible that these abilities are discrete but are correlated because they're subject to selection as a package

It is also possible, but there's no evidence for it. There's no evidence for any of Gardner's work. The biggest criticism of his work is that there's no empirical basis for the classification of his "intelligences." Gardner even admits to this, saying the choices are the work of an "artistic judgment" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligenc...
The current trend in MMO-like games are basically sandbox games like UO.

The thing about MMOs is that your first great experience is going to be tough to top. Even if I tell you there are 20+ sandbox MMOs that do what UO did, it will never live up to UO for you.
Node.js Writable Streams Distilled
That applies to health insurance. I don't believe it applies to any other kind. Lemonade isn't a health insurer.
How to be More Productive and Focus with Timeboxing
Usability Checklist for Web Developers
We shouldn't make literally everyone take it, that's silly. The John's Hopkins studies do show sustained long term (6-12 months) clinical improvements for about 80% of test subjects -- from a single dose. No other psychopharmaceutical drug comes close to such success, much less with a single dose.
Pulsar glitches are a thing, here's a great resource: http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/pulsar/glitches.html

I'd worry about pulse identification over any significant period of time.
i'm sorry you feel that way. maybe you should shit your pant
Exploration Strategies in Deep Reinforcement Learning
It's no really about experience but rather about the ability to reason from first principles. Lots of developers with experience don't even attempt doing something because the structure of the problem demands it; they would only do something if they've seen a similar approach before.
I've sometimes submitted some of my own content here, usually without much happening. Then have someone else (not always with more karma) submit it again 1 to 24 hours later and it got to the front page. I've also had content do fairly well on e.g. Reddit or Lobsters be pretty much ignored here as well.

I call it the HN roulette. I think HN is just too large and a lot of good content (or at least, I'd like to think my own content is good, heh) gets missed. Quality of the content is definitely a factor, as are things like an enticing headline, but you also just need to be lucky.
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For what it’s worth, these type of anti-fur or anti-animal-farming protests happen quite a lot over here, albeit in slightly less numbers. I suspect the fact that the past few months with the lockdown and everything has frustrated people, which increases their willingness to protest.

All in all, I don’t expect any revolutions in the area of fur farming in The Netherlands any time soon, nor has the public opinion about this drastically changed.
Thanks. Found what I was looking for: "Fast Radio Bursts from Extragalactic Light Sails"

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017ApJ...837L..23L/abstra...
Covid-19 Can Be an Opportunity for Businesses to Support Women in Tech
One monad at a time is fine, but the problem starts when you need multiple. Monad transformers are completely unergonomic.
The UK is still under EU law, as they haven't fully exited yet.

The citizens would still have to agree to allowing their personal data to be processed by third-parties and consent for their data to be processed outside the EU.

Is there any evidence that this consent was given?
It's a bad one.

Controlling medical expenses isn't easy. Neither is getting admin + overhead under 10%. You need both to get a reasonably profitable insurance product.
The relevant metric here is:

Do you gain more in expense reduction than you lose in loss increases?

By itself, the loss ratio tells you nothing because the pitch here is really that they can reduce expenses, not that they can reduce losses.

And I think the way they present this is slightly misleading. They only handle 1/3 of claims by computer in their entirety. The innovation is really on the front-end. And whilst this is probably a big part of costs, it isn't exactly huge. In addition, this is something that is fairly easy to replicate.

The specific claim made is: we have a "flywheel" (as ever, every company has one of these in 2020) whereby we use data to reduce costs and losses. This seems, from what I can see, false.
Right half folds inward, and right half's right half folds outward.
Google V8 internals (quite-extensive, one-page)
this article was terribly written. totally meandering, unorganized, rambling. I was desperately curious to understand it but it barely explained anything and went around in circles, with gratuitous jokes that just served to further delay the info.
Following the SARS outbreak, there was a great interest in understanding the potential risk coronaviruses pose to human populations.

This is done by collecting viral specimens from all over the world and looking at ways in which they could combine or mutate, and how the resulting virus behaves. You then infect and animal with the most dangerous (or probable) new virus, and test new vaccines for treating it. If done correctly, you have a catalogue of vaccines for potential threats before they occur in nature.
A knock-off dreambox or a PCI dvb-s2 card is your best bet. Any cheapo DVB-S2 receiver will work, provided that you can get the raw MPEG-TS stream out of it and into a computer that can run oscam.
All Japanese words (not characters) have kana pronunciations, but yes, for individual kanji characters, people use a specific type of dictionary called kanji dictionary (漢字辞典) and the order of this dictionary is indeed not (always) based on the pronunciation (stroke count of radicals is often used for the paper version).

Here's an (online) example:

https://kanji.jitenon.jp/

On the right hand side of the above site, it shows the pronunciation (both on-yomi & kun-yomi) and the stroke count.
I totally agree. I think that we are headed for a "Dependecalypse," with Jurassic-scale disasters over the horizon.

Dependencies are not per se bad, but some dependencies are just bad.

Also, we can get these hideous cocktails, where dependencies are mixed together, with alarming results.

A fairly common issue with me, is if I am setting up a Web site, I need to be very careful what theme I use (assuming I don't write my own), because the themes tend to come with a fair bit of "baggage," that does not play well with others.

I'm the original author of a fairly ambitious system that has been getting a lot of traction, lately (partly because I stepped back, and let some "new blood" take the reins).

I am constantly reading reports of dependency collisions. When I wrote the original framework, it had zero dependencies, and fit everywhere.

But I can't argue with the results. When these new folks came in, and started adding dependencies (sometimes, under protest from me), the utility of the system skyrocketed.

So did the problems.

These guys are pros. I trust them implicitly, and they have been anything but reckless, yet they have still had some issues.

I cannot say the same for a lot of folks out there. I see people throw together massive systems, with hardly a thought to the dependency debt.
Pulled from Wikipedia, which might've been a mistake.
THIS is the best description of WoW I've ever heard. Truly wonderful. I thank you.
Dealers of Lightning
Karen as a name dropped out of common use in the mid 70's. It's a boomer name attached to a boomer stereotype.

https://www.everything-birthday.com/name/f/karen
This is such a great example of how CSS is often overlooked. Very impressive. I learned a lot from reading it.

I bet if you had asked how to do this on StackOverflow without any prompting about language, you would have seen a LOT of javascript Me included.

EDIT: I literally just went to a project I'm working on and removed a piece of JS code that animated a feature because of what I learned from this example.
I think Haskell would be the perfect language to write reference implementations in. I.e., stuff that gets spec'd out by committees like RFCs or Web technologies.
Tribalism comes for pandemic science
I believe some people use this to make ramen noodles, too.
Petition to remove Les Wexner's name from all OSU buildings
Improving Experimental Power Through Control Using Predictions as Covariate
Covid-19 Could Be End of Line for Some Regional Colleges
My understanding is that niacin is often used. It is a high enough dose to cause noticeable changes and flushing, but of course isn't psychoactive.
The author does mention reducing sugars later on:

"Instead, these proteins require "reducing sugars," which are essentially simple sugars that attract amino acids at certain moisture and temperature levels."
Problem Solvers and Problem Creators
Capitalism with a Transhuman Face: The Afterlife of Fascism
How is this any different from Amazon offering the NHS Amazon RDS licenses for free/£1?

Is the argument against this that the NHS not be allowed to use any cloud infrastructure, and that everything ought to be on-premise?
Likely never know the answer, or the burden of proof for accepting an answer?
> obviously harmful to actual people named Karen

That's like saying "Peeping Tom" is harmful to Tom's (it isn't).
It always strikes me as uncannily brave to see a post like this. So many statements associated with one username..

- I no longer work at $company, and their stuff sucks

- ergo, they fired me, or I left on bad terms

- I clearly didn't get on well with my coworkers, as I'm happy to shit on their work from across the pond

- ergo, I have some deep attitude problem I'm likely to bring to my next placement
Yes, and most of them know next to nothing about the drugs they take beyond what their doctors have told them. I've watched this blind faith harm people dear to me on multiple occasions.

These are the same institutions that failed across the board in preparing for COVID. Their recommendations should be scrutinized.
I wonder if this is a problem in India too. I have seen multiple Sanskrit textbooks insist on writing devanagari with the right stroke order, and the right direction left–right or vice versa, even though with a modern ballpoint pen the final result will look the same anyway. Does that same pedanticism carry over into teaching of the modern languages like Hindi?
You don't. The point is to charge based on risk. There is no sense in which you can transfer gains from one set of customers to somewhere else. The profitability of any group of customers depends only on the price you charge them.

And btw, lots of insurers specialise in pricing high-risk customers. If another insurer comes in and tries to subsidise low-risk customers using high-risk customers, then a specialist insurer just comes in and undercuts them profitably.

Even a low-risk customer becomes a bad risk at the wrong price. It is all about the price.
Tuned in to watch the initial broadcast; unfortunately I'm having a lot of issues with it streaming. Good luck to the team responsible for getting it going!
As long as we're being pedantic, the trip is only instantaneous if you're able to instantly accelerate to c. Otherwise, it would take around two years for the occupant (one year to accelerate to c upon departure and another to decelerate on arrival), assuming acceleration at 1G.
This is not a good thread for a disgruntled grudge post.
Dynamic Height for Text Field in SwiftUI
Ethernet-over-HDMI is so poorly supported in consumer devices that in HDMI 2.1 they dropped in completely and reused the pins for eARC audio.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11837511
you're right. thanks for the informative explanation.
opex is significant in the insurance industry's profit margins. If you can sustainably conduct underwriting or any of the back-office flow w/o humans, you are at an advantage in terms of operational cost.

Quite often in the insurance industry a cost margin in the low single digits is considered good.
how do you tell the difference between investing in growth and poor underwriting discipline in such a young company?
So from your insider vantage point, how will the insurance job market look in 5-10 years ? What jobs, if any, would be left ?
> they can no longer use the defense "we can't do that, system doesn't work that way, it's automatic, etc etc"

Have they ever used that defense for Apple Maps?
I was in the same situation. Tried it every few years, and my rule was "If I need to google a CLI solution, I don't want it".

But 3 years ago I tried Fedora on an Asus N56VZ and it's been flawless. Well, less issues than Windows anyway. That's my definition of flawless.

I will admit it's a bit of a hardware and distro lottery though.
Palantir already works with a a huge number government agencies is my point. They're basically a contracting firm. If they had charged the NHS at least a few hundred thousand pounds it wouldn't have been newsworthy.
>>>If it was merely about the entitled attitude there should be plenty examples of black 'Karens'. There are none

Well, Tim Pool called out the recent NYC park incident between a white woman and a black man as "two Karens":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt22YivWOoM

Let's see how the term evolves now that it has really gone viral.
Well people have different taste but this metal version blowed my mind: https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw (make sure to watch the outro)
Healthcare spending per capital for G7, note how the UK has historically been at the bottom, way below Germany, let alone the u.s.

https://i.imgur.com/iab51Zq.png

From OECD https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm
yup I see it now. Thanks for the explanation.