skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At risk of godwinning, by this logic the US should never have taken in all those Jewish scientists fleeing Nazi Germany... Or any of the many, many incredible Iranians I've known and worked with in my life. Often the best people are fleeing intolerable conditions.

btw, the Open Borders graphic novel is fantastic:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/openborders/
Gods and Monsters Accidentally Goes Live on Google’s Stadia for 30 Minutes
Ah, the life of an early adopter!
The patchwork shutdowns should have been used to buy time to scale up testing, improve contact tracing, acquire as much PPE as possible, and equip hospitals as best as possible to handle excess demand. The reality is that the shutdowns were used to enforce social distancing (because apparently Americans can't understand how critical it is to prevent the spread) and display the appearance of testing and contact tracing.

What we ended up with was the illusion of a "win" when really we're just waiting to lose a second time and in a more dire way. I'm not sure the country will stomach another shutdown with a second wave, so I'm thinking that we'll just let the virus burn through and incur the high human cost it comes with.
You are not mandated though. If you don't want to maintain it, just accept the downvotes. If you have 14K rep, getting downvotes from a couple of obsolete answers is no big deal. When it starts to become a big deal, you can always do something about it -- or alternatively, you can opt to do nothing about it and accept the rep hit, again no big deal.
It's also super expensive compared to opening the windows once in a while, and ensuring good air circulation in the first place.
Master is already not consistent. For some repos it's the development branch, for some it's the stable branch, for some it's something else, for some it doesn't exist.
>illegally

Presumably illegal. There wasn't a state law banning it, and Buck vs. Bell technically still stands allowing state run compulsory sterilization.
Ah, that's a bummer! I'll probably create weekly newsletters soon with the same content, I thought Telegram was quite extended in the tech community but apparently not. I'll post it here when the newsletters are ready

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HaxBall [1] and WebLiero [2] are two other games with pretty decent WebRTC P2P netcode by the same author.

[1] https://www.haxball.com
[2] https://www.webliero.com
I think we are all just waiting for ETA Prime to get a hold of one to see what emulators we can run on it.
> I'm of the impression that a law may not disproportionately target one race or another (it's insufficient to show that a law doesn't explicitly target one race; it must also be shown that it doesn't cause disproportionate harm to one race),

You are incorrect. Laws may both explicitly (or otherwise intentionally) target race and may disproportionately impact race without explicit targeting.

Laws doing the former are subject to “strict scrutiny”: the discrimination must be the least invasive means of achieving a compelling government interest. The latter isn't prohibited at all, though it can be evidence of discriminatory intent. (You may be thinking of employment law, where disparate impact is generally prohibited discrimination, unless closely tailored to a specific legitimate non-discriminatory business need.)

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause for a discussion, especially the section under “tiered scrutiny” and “disparate impact”.
You seemed to be making a programming related joke, which I responded with another one.

I wasn't really trying to make a point there, just wanted to be (arguably) funny.
If you read the article, you’ll see that basically the virus is now surging outside of the developed world and into South Asia and South America. The West is still stuck with it, some areas definitely surging, but it’s hardly surging on the whole.
I look at my old AI Touchbook with some nostalgia.

Seems like this PineTablet, at $US99, may just end up delivering on the promise.

Lets see.
You can disallow Featured Snippets with `max-snippet`. Read the docs here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812
In fairness to SO it was envisioned and originally created as a peer helping network and all the content is licensed in very liberal ways. The fact that it turned into 99% of the questions asked by noobs / answered by a very small group of experts may have been inevitable but I don't think it was planned. It's one of the few socialized Q&A-style sites that I feel as primarily a question "asker" I have benefited while the predominately question-answerers have as well.

Synergy!
Ah, I'm sorry. You can also receive the same jobs via email creating an alert at https://findmegigs.com/?remote=true (it shares the backend with the Telegram channels)
Didn't know who he was but saw a video by Trey Ratcliff (https://www.treyratcliff.com/About) with an Alan Watts voiceover. Seemed interesting so decided to post it.
Ahhhhh... I've never run into that issue, but I can see how it would be frustrating. I guess I've always just taken those risks from a cross-join for granted. Possibly because I cut my teeth on Oracle 10g, and when you are having to consistently write update statements the ANSI way you get in the habit of making sure that you'll only get a single record per row. Unless I know the table in FROM is going to be 1-1 I'll make sure to consider the right way to put a TOP 1 in (usually null merges)
> 4. If it prevents even a single black person from feeling more isolated in the tech community, feels like a no brainer to me!

Does/did slavery only affect black people?

It’s really tiresome to see companies and celebrities voice support for equality, freedom, human rights in America while staying quiet (and even telling people to keep politics away from their platform) when it comes to the Hong Kong protests.
Then there was Altamont.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert#Security
Am I missing something here? How can sterilizations save money when prisons are already gender segragated? Unless they are saying that it is inpractical to have male prison guards/staff not have sex with the inmates.
This isn't about protecting prisoners or their rights, this is about protecting the jobs that the California Correctional Peace Officers Association controls and insuring no one else performs this task. Private prisons were forced into accepting CCPOA members but he union set forth in campaign after campaign to rid the state of private prisons.

Back in May Newsom announced he was trying to reduce some of the in excess of thirteen billion dollar prison budget and between allowing more prisoners out, reducing chances more got in, and considering the role of private prisons. However the CCPOA basically went to the legislature which it effectively owns and here is the result. More money instead of less.

It gets wrapped up and sold under a different banner to hide the real move. California state government is under the boot of the CSSA and both are responsible for that the high incarceration rates. go look at any state approaching those numbers and you will find a similar police related organization behind it all.

This all synchronizes neatly with the problems all the recent rallies brought forth. The public sector employee unions that run our police, fire, prison, and education, have so much power that any attempt at reform instead usually ends up with more money going to the very organizations causing the problem. Besides the front facing public relations problem the back end that will soak the public is the largess in the pension and health retirement programs, the very same gold plated programs that resulted in the ACA being hampered from day one.
The governor of Washington and the mayor of Seattle are absolutely incompetent and unfit to lead - at best - and insidious liars at worst.
The word “master” still makes sense to me, as it has many different meanings, most of which are appropriate for how they are used in technology.

However I have always felt that the word “slave” (as the counterpart to master) was/is a mistake. It seems to be a relic of the past where people weren’t really thinking through the terminology they chose.

More modern approaches typically use other word pairs, like master/minion, sever/client, active/backup, master/agent, etc. Different pairs are chosen that better describe the relationships, and I suspect those choices were made, at least in some way, to avoid using the term “slave”.
> "Yes, if you want to keep your points, you should maintain your answer as long as it exists"

This is just one more example of the absolutely toxic culture within Stack Overflow itself. Everyone uses it, but we all get to it from Google.

Nobody I know bothers answering questions, and I don't think more than a half-dozen people I know have even submitted questions. If you do, the gatekeepers are going to jump down your throat.
[regexp] Remove trivial assertion

The assertion in BytecodeSequenceNode::ArgumentMapping cannot fail,
because size_t is an unsigned type. This triggered static analysis
warnings in SpiderMonkey.

Does that mean Chromium doesn't use any static analysis tool? Or one that does not work for this trivial assertion?
First they came for the bikeshed...
This. It is hard coded all over the place in thousands of things.

In fact is it even git any more if the master branch isn't called master? Nope it's an incompatible fork by Microsoft purely by a chance encounter of irony.
I'm so close to buying a Pinebook, and I know that everyone wants "just one more feature", but jesus, 4 GB or RAM?! If it had at least 8 I'd buy it in a sec. But 4 just won't cut it (thank you, modern web).
> > Boy scouts?

> Probably not, but who knows?

Just a long history of homophobia there.
It wasn't a useless piece of turf, it was a park that the residents of the neighborhood, myself included, used to be able to enjoy. Now we can't, because hundreds are camping on the area.

I am all for their cause, but I feel like the methodology of 'camping in a park' is not the right way to enact civic change at a policy level.
And no, I'm not affiliated with any of the jobs. I find them on Twitter and then parse the original URLs to get more info about each one

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Is it "noice" (the colloquialism) or "no ICE" (ideological)?
I don't think he is misunderstanding anything.

Using the average sometimes works, some times doesn't. Number of arms an average person has is less than 2.

Definitely check out the fighter jet seat problem.
Software engineers are, by both education and corporate training, intellectually corrupt.

Hardware engineers tend to be less corrupt than software engineers.

The most ethical and meritocratic, and the least racist, group of people in America is the military.

The F-4 was the best fighter-bomber ever made. The A-6 was the best close-air support aircraft ever made.

ANSI C is the best commonly-used programming language. Python is a distant second. Rust is fun only because of its complexity.
Imaginary: Open Mathematics
The end of that failed experiment was marked by the release of a much better keyboard - which is what is shipped in the device featured.

If anything, it further illustrates the author's point that hardware has to respond to customer complaints, but software can seemingly get as awful as it wants and customers can't really vote with their feet, ironically.
The free books program that they had already planned on ending on June 30th.
Why are universities teaching this stuff? Stata, Java, no SQL
Interesting to see the HN community at large suddenly supporting copyright law status-quo...
I can tell that so much effort went into this video, with so much explanations and those impressive animations, but then the sound was set to -18dB on export, making it barely audible. Oops!
so you're dead-set on extracting "something" of value from me before offering any compelling reason tor me to do so? Seems limiting...
Is this intended for consumers or corporations? Could someone clarify the use-cases? It looks like it's $100+ for 1GB of data
Yeah. I was expecting to see Tornado among the async web frameworks as well. We use it at work for almost all the backend related work and are happy with it.
There's more benefits to Rust than just it's memory safety. It being a non-GCed language with ADTs is a big one, and that's been nice for the couple JITs I've written in Rust.

And the partial memory safety over the metadata around the actual JITed code is a big win as well.

Yes, Rust doesn't get you there 100%, but IMO it gets you closer than C or C++.
Double-digit interpreters per host? Where is the expense? Interpreters have a relatively small memory overhead (<10mb). If you're running 100 interpreters per host (you shouldn't be), that's an extra $50/host/year. But you should be running <10/host, so an extra $5/host/year. Not ideal, but not "expensive", and if you care about costs your biggest mistake was using Python in the first place.
I had never heard of both TerminusDB and MLOps so thx for sharing !

A git for data like you describe seems intuitively (but should be well defined) to be a technology very useful for many things.
From safely versioning knowledge a la mediawiki to versioning business data in DBs and making it seamlesss for all the human pipeline (data engineer, data scientist, ML engineer).

Actually I have a startup Idea that would require somthing similar yet different: I would need both version control for user data AND guaranteed immutability of what users have wrote. It would allow users to trust that the server cannot modify their data.
For such a use case, the first things that comes to mind are blokchains but the technology feels too limiting.
The only offer that I'm aware of as a general SQL DB is https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/

BTW git but for data is an idea that has a lot of competing implementations, it would be nice for your landing page to explain what differentiates you from e.g ->
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22731928

Anyway I wish you a good luck in this fun and probably useful project !
That's fair, and understandable. But at the same time, I don't think it absolves them of misconduct. "I'm used to shooting at the body and the head, so I shot the protesters in the body and the head because I panicked" doesn't really hold up to any kind of scrutiny. I know in the military, that kind of excuse would be noted in the court martial paperwork, but not have any impact on judgement or sentencing.

If they choose to use these weapons and tactics, they are responsible for how they use them. In a situation where the officers are in danger of physical harm, they are fully within their rights to go against usage policies to protect themselves. But in the vast majority I've seen, these officers have been shooting at unarmed protesters, not rioting mobs. It's simply illegal, a violation of the Constitution, and a chargeable offense.
Good question. All I got is ... law of averages? ;-)

Damn.
Tangentially: It makes sense that the asker of the question gets to choose the answer that worked for them, but by doing so the idea of "duplicate questions" is invalidated.

For example, I could very well ask a new question which ends up being flagged as a duplicate of another question whose accepted answer does not work for me.

Can two questions be duplicates if they have different answers? Do I only have to claim that the accepted answer does not work to show that the new question is unique?
Being a "better, stronger, faster" Python is fairly near Julia's sweet spot... :-)
Its more complicated than one might think.

People presenting themselves as families doesn't actual mean they are families.
Do you house men and older boys with women and girls?
Lessons learnt from first Flutter app
I know this sounds like a hot-take, but any analysis of "dark mode vs. light mode" that doesn't account for ambient light is HIGHLY suspect. This is particularly true if the analysis looks at eye-strain.

I work for a business that does contract work, and I find myself working from a variety of offices, including one in my apartment. In offices where there's often a lot of ambient light, dark mode is substantially harder to read due to the added glare. In offices with low ambient light, light mode becomes more likely to cause eye-strain. This can be compensated for to a certain degree by changing the brightness and contrast settings on the monitor, but it's not a complete panacea.

Of course, the whole discussion goes completely off the rails when you're talking about anything other than a monitor on a laptop or desktop computer. This is because different use-cases will dramatically bias the decision of which theme is best depending on how and where you use the device. For examples: Dark mode is MUCH harder to read when used with a projector, but it actually helps extend battery life on my phone. Dark mode is also less jarring on my smart TV when navigating in and out of videos and movies at night.

IMO, just use what you want to use, and don't worry too much about which theme saves you a few milliseconds of response time or reduces eye-strain by some infinitesimal amount. Nobody is going blind because of their choice of theme. Nobody is suddenly 10% faster at coding. "Dark mode vs. Light mode" is almost entirely an aesthetic choice.
Why is it unfair? I think SO should care more about the quality of questions and answers than about the reputation score of individual contributors.

This is a downside of gamification though: it becomes all about ego and earning points, which I don't think should be the goal of a site like SO. If keeping the quality of the content means some people must lose rep points, then so be it. If they have 14K rep they won't notice, anyway.
I like the possibility of reaching people directly, instead of them having to visit a web page.

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Does the banner asking for donations count as ads? If we assume that, wouldn't this hurt their ability to keep their servers running?
I prefer Newspeak
Battered by Coronavirus, Micromobility May Have Route to Revival
Oh weird! I guessed so first, but tested changing my timezone and the times didn't change (upon reload).

Sorry for the false alarm!
The HP webpad has pretty good software support even today, albeit obviously unofficial and not from HP. People are even looking into running pmOS on it; it's just hard because it's not a standard device in any sense, so it comes with its own booting, flashing etc. workflows.
I don’t think any of those examples are really misconceptions. You even admit that many people have this experience with “blue collar” unions. Most developers are not foolish enough to think they are immune to these foibles. We have a lot more in common with blue collar workers than big name actors.
Great job! I'm really impressed with the simplicity. But more than that, congratulations on writing proper the documentation at a so earlier version! That's really awesome. I hope you the best for you and your projects.

I played the online game versions (minesweeper & tetris), I enjoyed a lot. In general, using GameLisp, how much work do you need to export a game to work in the browser?
In theory. In practice unions are run by union leadership. Who are elected. But then again so is Congress and the President - and we know how that works out.
Interesting and disappointing. Thanks for the correction.
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Dedicated lines need density for them to make financial sense. We tend to not have that (except where we do, but those places already have lines)
I highly recommend Drew Nobile's book or papers on functional circuits as an adjunct to this on how to recursively generate songs from an initial seed progression.
Private prisons have a financial incentive to detain inmates for as long as possible. The prison has some input into when a detainee is released (good behavior, etc) and private prisons have been observed abusing this power. Private prisons also have incentives to find ways to cut costs and often do so in ways which harm detainees. Private prisons also have incentive to lobby for longer mandatory prison terms regardless of whether it makes sense for the crime or not.

Tons of conflict of interest in private prisons which are in addition to the potential abuses associated with public prisons.
You can make a fair news channel if you give a news channel the right incentives. You need to create a news outlet where biased reporting is an actual scandal.

The problem in the US is that news outlets are expected to be biased and so they take full advantage of that to make their news more entertaining.

These news channels are driven by add revenue. And divisive, incendiary reporting is the best way to get people to keep watching.
Or maybe we could just let content that doesn't receive upvotes sink towards the bottom:

- a fresh upvote is 1 point

- one year old upvote is 0.5 point

- a two year old upvote is 0.25 points

If nobody votes, answers relative positions stay the same.

Old answers aren't worthless but it also isn't impossible to lift updated content to the tip later.

A person might vote for the same answer again after half a year, but it really just refreshes the vote to 1 instead of adding more value to it.

I'm not a fan of deletionism and in stack overflows case I'm fairly certain it has destroyed value for millions both in knowledge and reputation.

(Why? For years around 2009 - 2015 or something whenever you found a good answer that solved your problem it would most probably be flagged for removal or something.)
Wow, you're really coming across as such a magnanimous individual. We should thank our lucky stars that we have a solemn protector like you watching over us.

It feels incredible to be able to say:

INTPenis is saving us from wrongthink.
Three people with inherited diseases successfully treated with CRISPR
It looks more like any other object within an environment, reducing eyestrain and improving the illusion of reality.
U.S. lawmakers ask Zoom to clarify China ties after it suspends accounts
This is very unfortunate. I agree they probably infringed on copyright, but I also think they were in the right. If we respected the law in this emergency when none of our social systems could cope with unprecedented crisis, the human costs would mount even higher.

The publishers will continue to do what's in their interest (immorally imo), but what they could have done instead was jump onboard and say yes these books will be offered for the duration of the crisis.

Of course, I feel that publishing should be at least partially publicly funded so that copyright wouldn't be a concern and we could read everything for free above production cost and authors would get paid. However, the private system should have at least tried to legitimize itself by providing necessary services for the public instead of continuing to deprive people of what they need out of concern for their own profits.
I saw someone make an excellent point, when someone else was asking why we have a black history month in the United States but not a white history month. He said that we don't have a white history month because every month is white history month in the United States.
It's not a straw man, it is fact. Parent post wasn't saying this was no big deal, just pointing out correctly that there are more fundamental issues in play - like qualified immunity and the cultural racist cancers we suffer from that demonize poor and brown people and fetishize the military and police. Private prisons are awful. Any sane ethical person must agree with that. But calling out that it isn't the root of the issue is far from a straw man. It is a rallying call that the fight is far from over (!!)