skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... and Black folk are still much more likely to die during police interventions."

Care to link to a source?
But thanks
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Are you suggesting people give up their cushy, lucrative, fully-remote jobs in the name of a cause they claim to support? And potentially make sacrifices for themselves?!

No no, my friend, life is much more comfy lying through your teeth in the interview, taking that cushy job and attempting to subvert the company from within via social media or internal comms, knowing full well the media has your back and will be armed with outrage porn should you get canned for fomenting what amounts to hostility in the workplace.
Never virtue signal if you are a CEO, unless all consequences are thought through. ;-)
I don't think Chrome can run on a machine like that.
I'll take it one step farther: I'm guessing the original etymology wasn't even master/slave but master/copy. For that matter it's not obvious to me that whilelist/blacklist was racially inspired. I assume it's more like "black mark" -> "blacklist" -> "whitelist".

But you're missing the point. You can't rationalize your way out of an emotional response. You can't talk people out of being disturbed or distracted by the terms master/slave.

Rational or not, if we know that this metaphor or phrasing makes a sizable group of people uncomfortable, why would we continue to use it in technical writing or source code? It's such a small "accommodation" to ask for.
QI protects the police similar to how an LLC protects owners and employees. The difference is that the DAs dont really like to pursue criminal charges against the police, so in many cases of misconduct nothing comes of it. That can lead to believing the misconduct is OK.
I'm still confused by the statement 'Flash-based content will be blocked from running in Adobe Flash Player after the EOL Date.' are they literally going to stop the flash player loading SWF files on the 1st of January?
Not even mentioning that one of those charged used to be a police captain...

...but what the hell is wrong with people that they take their job so seriously that they'd personally harass the people who run a newsletter that's critical of the company they work for?

And that six of them would do it together?

There are no lives at stake here. Nobody's curing cancer or saving democracy here, where maybe I could at least understand how somebody might take criticism as something immoral that needed to be fought against, even if I deeply disagreed with the method.

But I just can't even fathom why these six people even cared enough in the first place about some newsletter criticizing them. Where are their psychological work-life boundaries? Why would they even care?

This is just so beyond bizarre. It's like some kind of pathological level of psychological identification with your company. Your job is just a job, folks.
These were officially called "variant" links. Within Apollo R&D they were known as "deviant" links. They got the idea from Pyramid.

Apollo's downfall was that they clung to their proprietary OS long after everyone else had switched to Unix. They kept putting more lipstick (compatibility layers) on the pig (Domain/OS) but it wasn't enough. To be fair, at the time Apollo was founded commercial Unix wasn't possible because of licensing issues. By the time Sun was founded just a couple years later Unix was the way to go.
Will self-sampling transform Covid-19 testing?
I thought Gmail loaded images when it got the email, not when users opened it? Doesn't this prevent pixels from tracking?
The Mario Kart example is interesting, because you can achieve it's effect by simply teeing off the GPU output both to RAM (scaled down to native) and directly scanned out.

The neat thing about the perfect dark effect is that they read modify write the entire framebuffer and it represents the full scanned out frame, so in those cases you'd need to drop scan out resolution back down dynamically, where as on the Mario Kart example you can keep the higher scan out resolution.
It's not broken. It just works under assumptions applicable to the most common use cases. I know that a software engineer will sneer about dependencies of this kind, but such assumptions really simplify reality/software/whatever.

And yes, they are a pain in the ass when it comes to changes and that's why one should be careful with unnecessary changes.
Large insurance companies have ten figure net incomes on top of paying out lavish executive salaries, paying out dividends, etc. But the game isn't biased. Right.
Your app store provider can be FISA compelled to send you (specifically) a special update.
Right, but it's hard for me to see how that argument proves anything since it ignores the slow and deliberate nature of judicial review and how events can occur out-of-order.

A policy opportunist would try to simultaneously appeal a law through the appellate court system while also trying to circumvent that process through the legislature. If the appeal were to eventually pass judicial review before Congress were to finally enact the clarification of the law itself, does that render the judicial opinion inaccurate?

Put another way: if Congress had tried (and failed) to pass a law that clarifies the interpretation of the First Amendment per Citizens United before the Citizens United decision happened, does that make CU any less "correct"?
ICE arrests are significantly down under the current administration compared to the previous administration.
Being an immigration cop is not a protected class, and shouldn't be.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. I think a lot of these tech workers want to justify their stance and feel like they did something to help. Anyone working for Facebook, Google, Amazon and now Github needs to reconcile that they are working for companies that throw morals out the door for money (which is what business usually comes down too) and deal with that in a certain way, or leave.

Walkouts are worthless if you come back to work.
All corporations engage in politics. They just usually do a better job of hiding it.
Fast14 looked amazing and it's one of those technologies that seems/seemed so promising. It's a tragedy (for them) that their FastMATH missed the machine learning wave - simply too early!

Alas, with the Apple acquisition nobody else can use it and we don't even know if they use it (but see https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/evidence...)

While Intrinsity claimed powered advantages, I've heard off-hand remarks that it was too power hungry. I speculate that dynamic logic might have mores issues as geometries shrink.
Is there a standalone player for old flash content? If people wanted to still view old things created in it.
also looking for this but haven't found it yet
I like data collection too, I guess I was just confused by the first part that was the author talking about their commute and how they would forget an umbrella.
Your argument is invalidated by the fact that apparently "conservative" judges here voted to SUPPORT LGBT rights in this case.

The notion that the Supreme Court is an ideological legislative body is propaganda meant to subvert the integrity of the court.

Some of the most liberally-hated conservative judges, just voted FOR LGBT rights here, because it's they believe it's what the law implies - not because it's what they believe is ethical.

In fact, none of the dissenting opinions said that LGBT people don't deserve the same protections - they simply believed that it's congress's job to make those changes - and that's a hard point to argue honestly.

Sowing partisanship by demonizing the people you disagree with, whilst also undermining the institutions our government is based on is... a really shitty thing to do.
Tell HN: Skiena's “The Algorithm Design Manual” currently free from publisher
Prof. Steven Skiena's book, "The Algorithm Design Manual", is currently available for free download from the publisher, Springer, as a PDF (no registration required).

This[0] is the book's page and this[1] is the direct link to the PDF (note: there is a reCAPTCHA).

The book is one of many textbooks that Springer has made available for download during the Covid-19 period (see here[2] for a complete list). While there have been prior posts about these free textbooks, I wanted to make a post about this specific book given how highly-regarded it is here on HN and because I expect that many of the people who might be interested in acquiring this title might well have skipped HN posts titled, e.g., "Free Textbooks from Springer, Categorized", thereby missing out.

P.S. If you like "The Algorithm Design Manual" and wish that there were a similar text about data science, Prof. Skiena's book, "The Data Science Design Manual" is also freely downloadable from Springer -- it is similar in style, e.g. conversational, with war stories, etc.

This[3] is that book's page and this[4] the direct download link (again, note: there is a reCAPTCHA).

[0] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-84800-070-4

[1] https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-1-84800-070-4.pdf

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23520545

[3] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-55444-0

[4] https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-55444-0.pdf
Any talk of how compliant Turbo C++ is to modern C++ is missing the point of my post. I'll say again, the point of learning CS at that level of schooling is to learn programming, not learn C++ and instantly be hirable as a C++ developer.
ICE was a consolidation of United States Customs Service, the criminal investigative, detention and deportation resources of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the Federal Protective Service.
Unfortunately, the modern GOP's primary goal is to prevent legislation from passing. There are hundreds of bills sitting in the Senate that will never receive a hearing, much less a vote.

The Courts invented qualified immunity, and the Courts should have done away with it, as well. Now, unfortunately, we will have to wait until we have the House, Senate, and Presidency controlled by the same party to fix what the Courts fucked up.
> But to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy.

It really isn't. Private institutions are under no obligation to collaborate with public agencies unless explicitly required by the Defense Production Act[0]. Please remember that the government is meant to serve us, not the other way around.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950
You are carefully tiptoeing around race & gender here.
Get woke go broke.

Time to leave Github
Rekognition is Amazon, not Microsoft.
I mean, even if it did originally, I doubt anyone that has worked with git in the past decade thought of a master/slave connection; it just doesn't make sense.

I talked about this today with a black coworker (obviously doesn't represent the feelings of all black people etc), and he actually got quite angry about it - but he was angry at the idea of changing master to main, not the idea of keeping it! From his perspective, it's nothing more than virue signalling, a distraction from real issues. He also thought it risked ridicule, and that things like this risk turning people against real change. He did kind of see the point about the separate blacklist/whitelist debate though.

Personally, instead of "master" I like the word "trunk", as I think it goes well with the branching concept.
I looked on reddit -- seems like it is https://www.ecommercebytes.com/ and maybe a sub-thing "auctionbytes"
There was a detector that had a catastrophic failure during construction, and I am thinking it was this one. Anyone recall that story?

Effectively, a bad unit cracked, and because they were submerged in a fluid, it created a shock wave that caused other units to crack, which caused more units to crack. They had to replace some large percent of the sensors and it set them back something like a year.
Except in this case QI is 100% invented by the court, and appears to run counter to statutory text as many justices have said in dissenting opinions over the years and has Justice Thomas does again in dissent here in this court order.
Every non-white person I've seen commenting on this change has expressed they couldn't care less and do not give a second thought to these naming conventions. Maybe we should let their voices be heard rather than continue to try to speak for them?
Is the US the only country on _earth_ where the media is so hellbent on propaganda for opening the borders?

I can't think of another nation that does this. Not brazil, not bolivia, certainly not argentina, not spain, hell no japan lol, russia of course not.

What makes the US so special in this unique problem with the media?
You don’t need to mention sexual orientation at all. It’s illegal to fire a woman for being married to a man. If it’s legal to fire a man for being married to a man then you’re discriminating based on sex. The sexual orientations of the people involved are irrelevant.
Note that there is a distinction — albeit a blurry one — between concentration camps [0] and extermination camps [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp
Which part of the definition do you take issue with in this context?

> Concentration Camps: A place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard —used especially in reference to camps created by the Nazis in World War II for the internment and persecution of Jews and other prisoners
You must be the reason I get a captcha to read a single book.
Friedman made his bed years ago in this regard. I don't blame him though because the same people causing shit for him now will also pull the "silence is violence" or "remaining silent is being complicit" angle should he now tow the line.

And if he disagrees with them, well, look how quickly they ran to the LA Times with their private internal comms slack screenshots.
There is also a huge generational split between those on the left holding liberal values, and the new progressive left, which has been demonstrated by the recent crackups at media organs like the New York Times (who saw it in their mandate to publish an op-Ed by Hitler in 1941, but the publishing of a sitting senator (Tom Cotton) resulted in a staff revolt and cost the opinion editor his job).[1]

Anyone who was around when the OSI set out a basic definition of minimal requirements for open source licenses will remember that there were some arguments about whether a license could restrict use based on fields of endeavour. The idea that it couldn’t is aligned with universalist civil libertarian principles, and epistemological humility.

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.[2]

The principles of open source are still very strong, and somehow more obvious than free speech or due process. The network effects could make it impossible for any significant change, but I expect we’ll soon see attempts at licenses that are otherwise free, but attempt to restrict use by certain domestic enemies of the maintainers.
[1] Matt Taibbi - https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-i...
[2] OSI - https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
I’m not sure it needs to even be as nefarious as that. If I’m in charge of deciding what technology to use for another, less controversial, arm of the government and I see that one of the companies I’m considering has decided to stop doing business with another I might feel less confident in deciding whether or not to use them. What if they decide they don’t want to do business with me at some point in the future?

That might be overly naive and I agree that there’s great potential for corruption here as well.
You clearly haven't reviewed (or perhaps understood) the wide difference in the statistics involved with both.
Isn't this image a bit circular then (pardon the pun)? The "hot" pixels in the middle represent the electrons with a direction perfectly aligned with the direction to the Sun, while the cool-blueish outside pixels are a representation of the electrons traveling at an angle? Circular in the sense that you know where the Sun is, and are looking in that direction, and the electron trails are just confirming that.

Is this image telling us anything new? Can this method be used for any type of observation? Or it simply serve as observation in the opposite direction: knowing where the neutrinos come from, you can infer in what cone the bounced electrons can move?

A fun thought: if one day, a secret organization starts running an undisclosed nuclear fusion reactor, will it show up on this "photo"?
>but currently there is no easy way to immigrate to USA

The USA has the most immigrants than any other country in the world at almost 47 million residents. That's 4 times higher than the second place country. And the vast majority of them came perfectly legally. For every one person that immigrates to Canada, 6 immigrate to the USA. I don't really know what people are asking for here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
Going woke isn’t a great move for a company. And how many workers? Just the vocal “activists?”

In the near future companies will be wary of hiring people with a history of shrill woke activism. Better a quiet Nazi than a vocal Communist.
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> "Maybe in your country but in many, many places in the world this is demonstrably not the case."

as with markets, idiosyncratic conditions like sociopathy can lead to pockets of undue concentrations of power, no doubt.

but it would be even worse if those same conditions were concentrated on and elevated to wider populations. by distributing power, you can more effectively pit one against the other, and have some chance of bettering conditions over time. those chances decrease with power concentration.
That's not the argument the dissenters are making. They're saying that the fact Congress has tried several times and failed to add specific orientation and transgender provisions is evidence they shouldn't be included in "sex" (otherwise Congress would see no reason to add those specific provisions). Just because we happen to disagree with the argument doesn't necessarily make it a bad legal argument.
I don't completely believe in the "truth" in that quite a bit is unknowable or lost in the fog of conflict (a.k.a. war).

For instance in 2002 I witnessed a man in an Orangemen jacket punch a hippie outside a television studio and wrote about it on my blog. That got the attention of many of the organizations involved, all of which denied that they knew anything about the incident -- which may have been true. As an adult any time I have had anything to do with a fight (e.g. witness, participant) the people involved told very different stories about what happened.

I volunteered at a mediation center which frequently handled parenting plans for people who were separated or divorced. It was inevitable that the stories we heard were not coherent and that some of the people were wrong if not "lying" (which is a strong accusation.) We were not concerned about putting together the "true history" that a court might attempt to make, but rather give the parties a chance to work out what they want now and in the future.

See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Armies_of_the_Night
Yes, it would really be great if the Unicode Consortium designated some Unicode codepoints to be combining characters specifying the type of glyph to be used for the preceding Han character… and in fact, it seems like they have (for some at least)!

The Variation Selectors Unicode block¹ has three variation selectors designated for this purpose:

• U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1

• U+FE01 VARIATION SELECTOR-2

• U+FE02 VARIATION SELECTOR-3

I assume they work like U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 (for 'text presentation' of the preceding character) and U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 (for 'emoji presentation' of the preceding character). You can see examples of that in action here².

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¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_Selectors_%28Unicode...

² — https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/180400/how-to-turn...
Here's the legislation that needs to pass: https://amash.house.gov/media/press-releases/amash-pressley-...
Why would that be an abuse of power? The company has demonstrated that they are an unreliable government partner.

It's wholly different to not accept a contract in the first place, but to unilaterally end it for any reason, political or otherwise, is grounds to consider that service provider unreliable.
These are the newsletters in question. Looks like a normal niche trade community kind of site.

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/about/

Imagine being a (literally) mom and pop internet newsletter and having a giant come after you personally w/ lots of malice. Reminds me of nissan computer getting arm twisted by the datsun motor company.
He is using the correct definition of concentration camp, you are the one in error. Concentration camps have existed outside Nazi Germany. Just because that was the most horrible instance doesn't mean that other instances stopped being "concentration camps" just like how a particularly horrible murder doesn't make a less violent murder into a non-murder.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/concentration-camp
Take a look at the workflows set up here - it is clearly more than "like Gmail but without xyz"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23528451
No. Masks don't explain the dramatic differences in the IFR. That's the Infection Fatality Rate. Masks only explain the R differences.

Most countries are around 0.2% IFR, which you call successful, some are at around 1%. Masks just prevent infections (by about 5%), but does not influence the percentage to die when you got infected. The biggest factors (called comorbidities) for the differences are the age curve (significant drop at around >75), pre-existing conditions like diabetes, obesity, ... the effectiveness of the healthcare system, air pollution, but it could also be just two different kinds of strains. The 0.2% strain, and the 1% strain, because there's a clear geographical line between the two.

At the beginning it was the 45° parallel north latitude, at the end it was the Germany/France border, 10° east longitude.

The R differences on the other hand are clearly influenced by the measures: social distancing, travel restrictions, hygiene, lockdown, masks,...
Plus the weird brag(?) about "we don't use artificial intelligence, we use human intelligence".

I dunno. Seems like a marketing-first ploy to get $99 from a lot of people who aren't looking too closely or who don't really use email seriously to begin with.
I wonder how much did they pay for the domain. Anyone has a guess?
Providing standard, regular service to anyone willing to pay for it is almost always the "default" non-political way of doing business. Do you want an ideological purity test to buy a bagel or a car? Refusing to provide a service when you have the capacity to provide it is a much stronger political act because it essentially implies "I hate you so much that I'm willing to harm myself (foregoing profit) in order to thereby harm you."
Not sure triggering every nuclear bomb on the planet is a great outcome. I suppose if nations knew this was coming, they'd either dismantle their weapons or try to destroy the 1000km accelerator.
I fully support steps being taken to reign in police and ICE, however it's still painfully ironic that CHAZ currently has been prioritizing enforcing borders, has roaming groups (peaceful and otherwise) ousting dissidents or those deemed as dissidents and verifying "citizenship".

This kind of behavior in any form is troubling.