skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a very loose interpretation of “Markdown or similar syntax” (XML is text, too), there’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronized_Multimedia_Integr... (spec at https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil/smil30.html, examples at https://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/RA-examples.html)

QuickTime used to support it, but I don’t think it’s well supported nowadays. If it did, writing a transpiler from something more Markdown-like to SMIl might be an option.
Not true. BitKeeper, which git was modeled after, which used the "master" and "slave" branch terminology.
Utopia has been achieved!

We haven't solved lots of computational problems or made the internet and computing more usable/available to everyone, but not to worry, we changed the naming standards on a tool used by a small subset of the worlds population to placate an even smaller subset of loud and vitriolic people.
> Trump is not anti-gay:

Which was asserted where?
The domain "Maincard.com" just became very valuable. For when Mastercard has to change its name too.
But isn't it literally the Supreme Court's job to interpret competing possibilities of extant laws? This seems like the weakest argument you could think of.
I wish I had saved all the comments and downvotes to comments leaning progressive, but I never did.

The most recent interaction I had was a user saying CNN and Fox news are equally bad because one of CNN anchors once said "we" in the context of democratic party.

Also my original comment is at -5.
"Eliminating the incentive for outsider trading" is one way to think of it.

Another way to think of it is that it creates an incentive for corporate espionage, so that outsiders may gain insider information.

In a world where corporate espionage is not itself illegal, the market would then be composed of private companies plus external "auditors" who are slipped in by all interested shareholders whether the private companies like it or not.

...which is oddly similar to governments performing intelligence on allies.
The only people of color that I could spot in the discussion were against the change. Some Asians were especially annoyed by the proposed change.

Looks like a cult-like group of white SJW developers within GitHub/Microsoft have painted themselves into a corner with this suggestion. It will be difficult to get out of this situation without losing face or causing more damage.
There are two dissents, one by Alito joined by Thomas, and one by Kavanaugh alone.

The Alito dissent is fairly straightforward -- Congress has tried to fix the language of the bill several times, but has been unsuccessful, indicating that the legislators have not universally agreed that this is how it should be applied. They claim that fixing this should be Congress's job, not the court's, and the attempts to amend it are clear indicators that Congress recognizes that the law does not current protect those classes.

> Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination on any of five specified grounds: “race, color, religion, sex, [and] national origin.” 42 U. S. C.
§2000e–2(a). Neither “sexual orientation” nor “gender identity” appears on that list. For the past 45 years, bills have been introduced in Congress to add “sexual orientation” to the list,1 and in recent years, bills have included “gender identity” as well. But to date, none has passed both Houses.

> Last year, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would amend Title VII by defining sex discrimination to include both “sexual orientation” and “gender identity,” H. R. 5, 116th Cong., 1st Sess. (2019), but the bill has stalled in the Senate. An alternative bill, H. R. 5331, 116th Cong., 1st Sess. (2019), would add similar prohibitions but contains provisions to protect religious liberty. This bill remains before a House Subcommittee.

Kavanaugh makes a very similar argument, even citing the same attempts to amend, and I'm not sure why he didn't join.

> The Court has previously stated, and I fully agree, that gay and lesbian Americans “cannot be treated as social outcasts or as inferior in dignity and worth.” ... But we are judges, not Members of Congress ... Our role is not to make or amend the law. As written, Title VII does not prohibit employment discrimination because of sexual orientation.
Is it just me or is 13% of the population getting 9% of bachelors degrees - and then the 9% going on to get 7% of PhDs not such an outrageous stat?

I thought the numbers were a lot more worrying.
Politics = morals.

There is not a "large faction of LGBT that hate the politicization of their issues". In fact, I've never even heard of such a thing, or from my circle of LGBTQ friends and acquaintances.
If someone sells you insurance, they are taking a bet that you will (on average) not cash out any more money than you put in through your premiums minus any profit margin. So you could argue that in the casino analogy, the insurance company is the player and the policy holder is the house. I believe that they find it immoral to be involved in any aspect of gambling, including being on the "house side" of a gamble.

I personally think it's a bigger leap to argue that Social Security is a form of insurance, but I guess that depends on your political viewpoint when it comes to whether Social Security is a kind of bank account that holds your money in escrow or if it's a government-run social program that provides a guaranteed pension. There is still a kind of gamble going on, but it's more that you're gambling on the government upholding today's promises into the future (when you retire) and if that's immoral then so are many other things in life (such as money).
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But she was a beautiful Bond villain...
Since Firefox mobile doesn’t use the same versions as desktop, I’m guessing deepnote has just incorrectly implemented the browser support logic. This is a very common issue (Firefox specifically)
> the possible MNIST digits are 0-9

Except - and this rather ties into your point - those are not the only possible digits; your network also has to deal with (ie reject) other possible digits such as "P", "E", "3̸̶", or "[Forlorn Sigil of Amon-Gül redacted]"[0], which look like, but are not, decimal digits.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k
It's not the same thing, because by paying for it you have a binding contract and can switch providers too. If you don't pay for it, then you don't have a claim on that email address, as the terms of use can change at a moment's notice.

If paying for it is a problem, then pay it in advance for 10 years and setup automatic renewal. Also leave a digital will. You probably want to do that anyway.
That's very kind and thank you - the photos are a great resource and hopefully this will inspire other people to build and improve on our simple design.
I guess the "spy pixel" image URLs would all be unique, so by comparing the mail that was sent to different recipients you could reveal which were trackers and which were not. No idea if that's what they're doing.
You can use a custom domain with FastMail, and they aren’t reading your mail to target ads at you.
funny - i never thought about using js, even though when i'm doing webapps, that's how i generate all my html and css. thanks ! and looks like google's official high-contrast extension will do this (i've been wary of using random extensions that do this since they get access to everything)

it's a form of photosensitivity, maybe similar to [this form of
epilepsy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy). i also don't do great with 3D movies and if I don't have something concrete to focus on ~50 feet in front of me, I'm prone to motion sickness)

while i'm reading the dark mode text i'm generally ok, but when i look away i get scrolling almost-horizontal light-and-dark bars in my vision and extreme nausea for a few minutes, milder auras, cramping and nausea for several hours and don't feel "myself" for about a day. i've never been in a situation where it happened and I couldn't walk away (i'll either lay down or sit facing a blank wall) but I'm guessing I'd get what doctors diagnose as a concussion (i've had several triggered by similar things without evidence of impact)

i haven't gotten a medical diagnosis, but assume it's a combo of being capable of extreme focus (both intellectual and athletic) and being prone to electrolyte imbalance

on my best days, I can handle dark mode for a few minutes without symptoms. and over time I've had more and more "best" days (mostly through managing electrolytes) so possible that i'll eventually not have to worry about it

I appreciate both the query and the intent to act on the info :) Not only for this particular set of symptoms, but more generally - visual designers have wide audiences and it must make for an interesting and at times frustrating set of trade-offs
I don't think we are in disagreement actually. I am for pausing rent payments during the crisis (during the entire crisis even, not just the three months or so that the government seemed to have been for).

The author seemed to say to me that because it's apparently no big deal to pause evictions during a pandemic (i.e. the world didn't end), that evictions are bullshit outside of pandemics as well. I would argue that it makes perfect sense to pause evictions during this extraordinary time, but evictions are still a necessary function during a normal economy.
McConnell refused to allow the Senate to consider Obama's nomination for the Court, so, were one to assign "blame" and "credit," I would say one should credit McConnell for Gorsuch, and not Trump.
It's a nice gesture but it's silly.

There are multiple definitions of 'master'. This has no connotation with master and slave. My other branches are not someone inferior to the master branch, and the master branch does not command the other branches. The other branches are normally an improvement on master, and master is usually transformed to resemble another branch.

If you want to fight systematic racism in society, changing the word master, when master has nothing to do with master/slave, seems a nice gesture, but rather kneejerk, and forces people to do a lot more work, all because someone failed to use a dictionary, which causes annoyance rather than a change of mindset.
More accurate? Maybe.

More effective? No. You'd have endless lawsuits debating what traits do or do not affect a person's ability to perform.
The Pre-History of Calculus in Medieval Kerala (2005) [pdf]
MS was on mobile before mobile was mobile (pun intended), and part of the issue was probably that they got in the game so early that, by the time tech was actually mature, they were out of gas. Ballmer thought he'd seen it all, and he had not; when he realized, they panicked and reacted like headless chickens. It's a cautionary tale for the ages, but it could have easily gone the other way around.

On the other hand, they entered the game-console game very late but still had a pretty good run. They entered the cloud game similarly late but they're now killing it. They won the Browser War I and would have likely done it again in BWII, were they not forced to behave by authorities.

So it's not like they cannot execute, or like they are fundamentally impeded by their fundamental structure. They can smash it with the best of them, when the lead is focused.
Why is "from scratch" the determinant of a good engineer? That's a tiny portion of the work, and only a single component of an individual's contribution.
It was implied here:

> And it just got a lot harder for Trump to brag about his SCOTUS picks.
I fear it being 'GNU' they will shoot themselves in the foot somehow. Bad marketing, unnecessarily geeky and childish nomenclature, GPLv3 and make it all free software, no proprietary drivers, hard to get proprietary third party software to install et cetera...

'GNU Guix is a transactional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system that respects user freedom.'[0]

NixOS is developed using the MIT license and does seem to just want things to work.

I am bringing this up purely as a question, is that fear justified or am I missing something? Would be glad for a take on this from someone who knows more.

[0] https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix
You are mistaken. The terminology came from BitKeeper, which did use the terms in the sense of master and slave repositories: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...

In any case, the git dev responsible for the choice has made their views known: https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1271477451756056577
I assume you mean Lilypond. It's great, but the interop with MusicXML format (the closest thing to a standard when it comes to machine-readable sheet music - and also supported by MuseScore) could use some improvement.
> Similarly, "ss" and "sz" (very rare) should match "ß" and vice versa,

Szene should match ß?
Trump is absolutely anti-gay, and I say that as a gay man who voted for Trump and has since come to recognize that decision for the error that it was.

On the campaign trail, it was useful for him to pretend (sort of) the same concern for LGBTQ* people as for working-class people. Since winning the office, he has apparently found little utility in that pretense, and it has largely ceased to be maintained.

Granted, to say that Trump's "anti-gay" doesn't really capture the issue. It's not like he has it out for us in a special way, particularly. He doesn't seem to like anything or anyone who doesn't make him look good and feel good, and given the man's myriad deficiencies, that's just about everyone at this point. Without power, he'd be merely pitiable. It's a shame he is not yet without power.
Here is a project set up to review each of these individual reported incidents.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GeorgeFloydUnmasked/

There will need to be a lot of discussion // more than be traced using Twitter // to solve any one of these incidents.

That's why we set up a Reddit for threaded discussion. This is Don't Fuck with Cats style.
You can be massively misleading even if you're filming reality as it happens. The first of the recent Atlanta shooting videos to air left out the part where you see the suspect point a taser at the police. Ie the video appears he was shot in the back, but security cam footage shows the full story.
You're being downvoted due to being needlessly divisive and partisan. We should be able to discuss individual political events without turning it into an "us vs them" shitflinging contest.
Maybe, although they might just be trying to keep the site apolitical.

It's just that, given the circumstances, staying apolitical can almost seem like a deeply biased thing to do.

But having rowdy political flame wars on a computer-focused site isn't super great either... tough choice for moderators I guess!
Oh my, this point again. It is entirely possible to wave a flag on the campaign trail and then engage in a pattern of actions once in power that repeatedly and systematically materially harm the group whom that flag represents.
I read it the opposite way. It looked like a comment celebrating the conservatives' loss more than one celebrating the progress made today. The edit confirmed it. A lot people here - regardless of political orientation - don't appreciate those types of comments, because they're not really about furthering discussion at all, but rather 'rubbing it in' to the side of the argument you don't like.
Trunk would have been the best choice from the beginning.

Maybe elephants will be offended by this name? Who knows.
This is a process I’ve never heard described before, but sounds interesting. Do you have any examples or further reading?
They also cite that Congress has attempted to amend the law several times (to date unsuccessfully), indicating that they recognize that the law as written does not cover the classes of sexual orientation or gender identity.
I like the container support! Declarative containers is an area where Dockerfiles fall short in my experience.

I’ve been using the NixOS container support which has drastically streamlined and unified the largely similar but many small variations of containers that I use https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#ch-containers
> Police generally have contracts where they have weaseled out of criminal, civil, and even administrative sanctions

No, they don't. You can't contract out of criminal sanction, for one thing. You could be indemnified from civil sanction, but QI makes that mostly moot anyway.

And, to the extent they do, those contracts are negotiated with and approved by local elected officials. Work—and, yes, this takes convincing others—to change those officials minds or change the officials, and you change what contracts get negotiated, or even of the police department continues to exist. Cf. Minneapolis (especially, but not exclusivelt) right now, Camden in 2012, etc.

The idea that citizens don't have control of local police through local government is wrong. Normally, local citizens are between actively approving and tacitly tolerating the behavior of police rather than actively seeking change, but they absolutely do have the power should they choose to exert it.
But doesn't this then introduce the problems with fines? They can be disproportionate and can also be viewed as a tax. Making them proportionate has other issues, such as effectively making it a non-punishment for some people who can optimize around it (people working under the table) and can easily lead to situations where corporations can structure themselves so they don't have to pay any significant fine with caught.
No you are the one not getting it still, components are an area of OOP, usually referred as object based programming.

SELF, BETA and JavaScript don't use classes yet are OOP.

VB originally did not do inheritance and yet it did provide another OOP approach.

Plenty of other languages can be looked upon on SIGPLAN.

Speaking of failed OOP projects, Web DOM, Android, iOS, CUDA, DirectX, LibNMN, LLVM, Metal are indeed such a colossal failure, what were they thinking.

In case you are lacking CS literature I can give you some hints.
> I think every society with lower crime has significantly smaller police brutality

Crime-rates do not correlate with police brutality and mass incarceration.

Canada locks up way fewer people, has way less harsh sentencing than the US, yet Canadian crime rates are not that different from those of the US [0].

It's also really weird to evoke HK in this discussion when the current police response in the US is way worse than anything reported out of HK. Particularly in the context that for the longest time the HK police actually had a rather splendid international reputation [1].

While US police had a "Dirty Harry" like reputation for several decades now, something that's reached its current peak with the whole "blueline" mentality and the glorification of comic vigilantes like the Punisher as a symbol for law enforcement.

As such a whole lot of this is rooted very deeply in policing and incarceration culture and not some countries being inherently "more criminal" than others.

[0] https://youtu.be/wtV5ev6813I

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/world/asia/24iht-hkpolice...
There is considered to be semantics in individual glyphs. So IIRC there is a unicode minus sign and a unicode dash and even if they are visibly indistinguishable you're not supposed to mix them. I'm no unicode expert though. I doubt the unicode consortium is comprised of fools and nincompoops. Best assume they know what they're doing.
I think most of the Chinese Communist Party support is Chinese gov directed, not native to most membership in HN, though there is definitely a subset of those with significant investment in China who would possibly let that influence their moderation.
Trump had lawyers involved in this case that were pushing for these protections to be denied to LGBTQ people.

From the article: "Trump’s administration and employers accused of discrimination in the cases argued that Congress did not intend for Title VII to protect gay and transgender people when it passed the law."
all identities here on this board are fake to certain degree...
The dissenters said that the 1964 Civil Rights Act did not intend to cover sexual orientation or gender identity and that the proper remedy is for Congress to change the law and not for the courts to, in effect, become legislators.
So you mean to say "email done your own uncompromising way"?
Did you know that the initial rank at chess is grandslave? /s
> they can slow down terminal I/O quite noticeably

If you're using a GPU-accelerated terminal like alacritty to sink stdout many orders of magnitude faster than a human can possibly read it¹ it's noticeable, but otherwise it's not.

https://danluu.com/term-latency/ (^f tmux)

1: I personally don't understand the use case for this — when would you run a command that writes multiple screenfuls of output without anticipating it and not ^C and redirect it to a file or pipe it into a pager?
They should go protest chess tournaments, there they have not just masters but also grandmasters. And while they're at it, call for banning Might and Magic series on the same grounds.
Try commenting that capitalism isn't 100%, absolutely, perfect sometime and see what the resulting vote total looks like.

Edit: 7 minutes to hit 0 points. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful.... Keep mashing that down arrow. Y'all are just proving my point.
Probably the best reading is: "Fraud is bad."
Multics Stories
There are tons of research projects that do exactly what you're talking about, initializing an agent with zero knowledge in an environment which just provide rules of discovery and reward. The agent then takes actions in that space and learns from its own experiences. It's just that it is hard to compare with humans, who have had the benefit of evolution over millions of years. A basic example is that of AlphaGo Zero[1], which learns to play a top level game by being given enough time and just the rules of the game. This is similar to how a child learns to walk, it is just that we only have the capability to model toy situations (a board game in this instance) right now, and access to harder instances (movement in the real world) will slowly come about. There are cases of robots being programmed to poke / move / pick objects to try and learn about their shapes[2], in case you are interested in another such example.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_Zero
[2] - https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2019/03/21/tactile/
The comment is gone now but I think it cited some specific groups that to me weren't obviously part of the case / didn't note their opinion, and outside that I'm not sure they really said much about expectations... more so cheer leading that disappointment those groups might feel.

Granted the more we parse a comment the less nonsensical this all gets ;)
PinePhone: PostmarketOS Community Edition
The answer is "all of the above". Guix is largely community-driven, but receives donations[0] as well as sponsored work like the NLnet grant mentioned in the article. In addition some research institutions employ Guix developers[1].

Personally I have used Guix to convert a CentOS "appliance" into a full-blown desktop system, on a professional contract[2].

0: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/gnu-guix-receives-donation-fr...

1: https://hpc.guix.info/

2: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/running-a-guix-xfce-desktop-o...
Excellent - might be a good idea to add a button get your location's lat/lng - looking up where you are in always a fun thing to do.
I haven’t posted on the internet in nearly 10 years
No. It's literally the supreme court just doing it's job.
> Is it though?

She had to use 20 different identities do to this. That should answer your question.
I'd interpret it as the supreme court isn't a political weapon to be used against or for a sitting president rather a tool to interpret law and the anti trump appointee stigma was baseless.
I would say the majority of /Coastal/ engineers are progressive. I'd say the average engineer elsewhere in the states leans mildly conservative/libertarian.
Strip all params, hope for the best?