skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this discussion raises several interesting questions, two of which: “when is vocabulary non-inclusive?”, and “should vocabulary be changed accordingly even if the word doesn’t have an offensive origin?”.
I have played and replayed several debates on the latter in my head over the last 24 hours and it always comes down to someone arguing “why not?” with the counter argument being “where does it end?”.
To be honest I do not believe there to be a correct answer to these questions, and certainly not an answer that will last for more than a couple of years, maybe a decade.
My personal belief is that inaction born from fear is always worse than action sprung from kindness (yes history has proven me wrong on multiple terrible occasions, I know) so I would say, change it, for a better world starts with the first step.
You make a point but what I think the author is alluding to the fact that the US and allies have countered Chinese military actions (building bases in international territory) with words. If that track record holds, we may also use words to counter a missile strike on a TSMC fab.
DropBox would work (that's what FB did), so would serving the video directly.
And then it's a shitty trade, because your ISP still can track you without much difficulty.
> Meet our competent team of scientists, technicians and entrepreneurs. We have competent solutions for your needs.

Maybe a thesaurus?
Taiwan also has soul, though. It is not a completely cynical actor like PRC.
Apples market share in the US is 58% [0] which only leaves you with 42% of the market if you are a developer and don't want to follow apples rules. That's not a good choice.

[0]: https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/united...
I found the linked docs about Module Federation in Webpack 5 to give me a better insight to what this is about: https://webpack.js.org/concepts/module-federation/
> Just want to point out that telegram has the same security model as email.

Last time I looked, Gmail or equivalent products didn't allow you to easily end-to-end encrypt your messages without any additional effort.
I know, my comments sure do sound like a contradiction if viewed this way.

There just seems to be something fundamentally wrong here.

Semicon companies have been massive wealth generators for almost 4 decades, and how all of that wealth was genreated by clearly dubious means (Intel's lawsuits are legendary, as is there attempts at shuffling money out of the US buy building fabs in other countries to avoid tarrifs). But now they need taxpayer dollars to be competitive? Sure, the state of the US economy might be at risk, but that doesn't square with the industry leaders' malign actions in the past 20 years.

It's like if you were getting beat up by a bully every day on your way to school, and he took your lunch money. Then one day a bigger bully from another town shows up, and the school starts paying your bully your lunch money, plus additional money from your allowance, to beat up the other one to protect the school (a bigger risk), when they didn't care about protecting you as an individual (a non-important risk).
The thermal expansion coefficient seems pretty good - I wonder if this could be used for making lab glassware? Lab glass with complex shapes (think condensers, soxhlet, etc) can get very expensive
> As a group we earn more, have better life expectancy, and have to deal with less historical baggage.

We might earn more on average and might expect to live longer, but there's plenty of historical baggage. It's not a competition, but there's plenty of baggage. The internment camps of WWII are literally still in living memory. Personally, multiple times throughout K-12-college, in the most liberal cities in the US, I've been told to go back to where I came from. I don't let it bother me - I can't let it bother me - but it's still very real.

> If you search for it, any group can find areas where they feel they are being mistreated, but on the whole, your parents’ strategy has succeeded spectacularly.

It did, but there are some very important caveats:

1. My parents' strategy had to be built on top of the hard-earned victories by the black communities in the US in the 60's and 70's.

2. I personally benefited from my race's perception as "civil, unlike the other minorities". You don't get to choose which side of that fence you're born on.

3. My parents and their fellow immigrants were the product of extensive resources poured into their educations in their home countries. They were educated enough to perceive and understand the cultural "game" played by the American middle/upper classes. That's not a repeatable strategy for most people in the US, period, let alone for minorities.

4. In practice my upbringing, and that of my fellow immigrants and ABC's, wasn't just by our parents, it was a whole community's pooled time and energy. Just look at how Chinese American communities handle college admissions.

5. My parents understood, whether tacitly or explicitly, that as Chinese Americans the children would have to assimilate into mainstream American culture, and by doing so they could mostly pass as "white". My parents outright told me that it was necessary for my future career. Imagine telling that to a black person. Good luck doing that when your skin color literally doesn't let you do it.

> I think this is in part, because it was a win-win strategy. We were able to make our lives better without making another race feel bad or making their lives worse. Nobody had to lose for us to win.

That's not true. Chinese American communities, for example, enthusiastically engage in "opportunity hoarding". (https://belonging.berkeley.edu/richard-reeves-opportunity-ho...) The losers in this are usually other minorities. The effect is indirect, but it's real. A great example of this is the fact that Chinese Americans suddenly become politically active the moment there's even a whiff of anything remotely like affirmative action. We might frame it as a matter of meritocracy or fairness, but we also know it's not a win-win situation. We know it's about winning the game for our team to the detriment of other minority groups.
Electronics is about building useful circuits. Do you really need to understand what precisely happens within any of the parts? No, not really. I can't imagine what happens to electrons in MOSFET nor do I care. For my purpose it represents some transfer function which is what I use to build the circuit. When I think about OpAmp, the physics is not one of things I am thinking. My mental model of OpAmp has no physics in it and it is about relation between input and output signals.

Think this way: do you need to understand how a complex IC part works? No, you don't. You read the manual and learn that if you put something on particular inputs you will get something on outputs. You leave designing the internals to others. You take parts other people built and solder them to long pieces to copper glued to PCBs.

That's really most of electronics.

You need to know a little bit of physics. You need to appreciate some phenomena like losses, noises, you need to know what happens at high frequencies, maybe you want to understand how heat is conducted away from your parts, etc. You need to know couple extremely simple formulae and laws (laughably simple to any physicist interested in the matter). Other than that your parts function as tiny little lego bricks that are transfer functions to affect how your circuit works.
Apple is a minority player in every single market in the world, including the US. You can't have monopolistic behavior without a monopoly. You can't be a monopoly if you are not the market leader.

People want this to be a legal issue but it's just a market issue. If people don't like these policies they shouldn't buy Apple products or release apps on Apple devices.
Alphabet launches Covid-19 testing for Universities
Maybe this is good and useful for some people: but to me it feels like a continuation of the dark slide that frontend tooling is going on. Way overcomplicated, likely brittle and buggy, significant barriers to just sitting down and building stuff.
30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact
So he gets to take other people's money, invest it and take a cut without actually, like, having to do any actual work, but he's getting ignored at parties?

Damn it, where the hell do I sign up?
Awesome. Didn't know about reddit API wrapper praw! Thanks a ton, will give it a try.

One question: How does the locally run python script feedback the scraped data to bot user account app?
I was looking for town-wise data for my county and there wasn't anywhere that showed the numbers on a map. (This is still not accomplished by this map)

This started my journey of I'm-definitely-not-wasting-my-time-procrastinating-from-work project of making a COVID map.

There's a bunch of great tech that lets you display these amazing 3D maps, and nobody seems to be using it.

Here's my go at it.
I've also had some bad experiences with Docker for windows but that was quite a few (2+ years ago) - since then it's mostly been smooth sailing for me, even without WSL
Using throwaway accounts is a common practice on HN. It's right there in the username.
> you are welcome to donate to the Mozilla Foundation.

Which does not pay for the development of Firefox.
It seems believable to me. I've heard some other countries (South Korea, and Switzerland maybe?) have/had bridges rigged to blow up or mountain passes rigged to be blocked by massive concrete structures above them.
Ford Takes on Tesla with Hands-Free Driving Electric Mustang
> I have no idea where BlackICE came from in my mind...

Sounds like something from Neuromancer
So the most reasonable explanation is that Pavel is in a conspiracy with the Russian government and is living in exile as a cover huh?

Sounds pretty complicated when a simpler answer would also exist.
> It is not every single black person's job to be on the front lines.

Sure, but if everyone has this attitude then the collective group suffers. e.g. bandwagon bias, and thus the individual suffers as a result.

> It's not up to black people. It's up to everybody else to do that work.

Sure, and clearly whats happening right now is that people who are not marginalized (e.g. white people) are learning what is required to do the "work". That doesn't happen without the activists showing up and saying "hey white people, educate yourselves, read XYZ".

> it's also ok for black children dream of being a doctor, programmer, VC, whathaveyou, without demanding that they also be martyrs for a cause that's entirely out of their hands.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that everyone has to be a martyr for a cause, just that (1) their existence is important and (2) if marginalized groups of people just accept status quo then there is little incentive for those martyrs to exist.

> The point I glean from OC is that he can't do the work.

Because he literally can't do it (handicapped?) or because they don't want to because it's risky? The point I lean from the OC is that he enjoys the luxuries of his life but is unwilling to fight for others who are similar.

In the original article the VC basically says "I don't waste my energy on acknowledging racial biases on a day to day basis because I already know these exist". This is not the same as saying "I can't be a martyr".

> That's not only not his job, it's also an impossible task.

People don't get paid to fix civil rights, it's not a job. People have taken it upon themselves to answer that calling. I think it's fine to say "I don't believe it's my role in life to" but to pretend it's not required while still enjoying the benefits of those who do sacrifice themselves is an extremely selfish outlook on life.

> The people who need to do the work are the people who are making conscious or unconscious biased choices which disproportionately impact black lives.

And how do you propose those people fix that? Do they just wake up one day and say "ya know what I'm gonna stop giving into my unconscious bias"?
Well, a lot of style guides prefer "front end" and "back end" instead of one word (similarly to a web server, and not a "webserver").

If that's given, "micro" creates a compound noun that comes with a dash. Hence, micro-front end. Whether it's correct, that, I strongly suspect, depends more on your style guide than anything else.

As far as I'm concerned, whatever makes the technical writer happy is good for me...
I don't really agree. Disclosure for drugs is comprehensive and short. You can usually read the whole thing in 10 minutes and I always do because taking a new drug and I know many who do. For investor relation, real estate and such the value is such that those are also read, usually by multiple eyes.
And most software user agréments are actually much larger and harder to understand than the real estate papers worth millions I've seen, or even shareholder agreements worth even more.

Contrary to what you think it is very possible to have short legal agreements. The GDPR data policy basic template is quite comprehensive and rather short for instance, although it could get better. We could also imagine some informative shortened version with icons and standardized information in the same way you have for food components or drug warnings, or crucially apps permissions nowadays, that would cover 95% of the legalese in the user agreements.
An agreement under duress is just paper.
Microsoft bringing CSS subgrid support to chromium is a beautiful example of synergetic collaboration!
I hope mozilla take notes.
A continuously updated list of bad genetics studies

https://massivesci.com/notes/gwas-complex-behavior-bad-biorx...

the only reason why not most GWASare listed there is because it does not pay to prove that a GWAS is a nonsense,

it is way too much work to disprove, and you don't get paid/supported for doing so
> then there's been a massive failure in enforcement

I think basically everyone who works on anti-trust issues would agree that this has indeed been the case. Not just with Apple, but with anti-trust law in general.
VLC is a joke
> The ads targeted the far left group Antifa

So are we just accepting this now? It’s not a group, at best it’s an ideology.
JavaScript-true-clone: Deep cloning aware of prototypes/getters/setters/etc.
This is so true. I've started a few startups and had a good acquisition. I've since made it one of my missions to espouse the underappreciated role that luck plays in a successful startup, and in life, in general.

You don't often hear it from people who have had the kind of success that leads them to being keynote speakers, I think, because everyone wants to feel like they deserve the success they've gotten. So, survivorship bias tends to kill this message. I think it's important, though, for people to understand when evaluating decisions (past, present, and future) and for learning from and empathizing with others.

Everyone likes to think of life as a meritocracy; that when you succeed it's because of the decisions you made and actions you executed. But people can make the right decisions for the wrong reasons, or vice versa. People can be prevented from making the decisions they'd like through no control of their own. And perhaps most significantly to the point, two different people can make the same decisions with different outcomes.
Currently, this code is only reachable in the case of a hardware decoder, on macOS, using VideoToolbox library, when it needs annexB conversion.

But as there are other issues on other dependencies, we preferred to bump it everywhere.
What is the main benefit of using a VPN?

I download music, movie, tv, etc files via torrent using my Canadian IP address and I have never seen anything more than an email from my ISP saying essentially "so and so company thinks you downloaded their material, don't do that ok?".

Is the general public so afraid of getting the odd email that paying $5/$10 month to make them disappear is a good deal for them?

Why wouldn't people just use TOR for free? It was extremely fast the last I checked.
Even if it was MRI sensitive, never having a MRI again would be a small price to pay for a Parkinson's cure.
> Scientists observed that the animals preferred to be in areas of their enclosures where a magnetic field activated the stimulator, and provided a small voltage to the reward center of their brains.

reminds me a little bit of the wires in Larry Niven's books (ringworld, et al), where Louis Wu is implanted with a wire into the pleasure center of his brain and becomes highly addicted.

if this is as non-invasive of a surgery as the article suggests, it could be the next avenue of "fun".
That's a 20% yield if I'm not mistaken, there's got to be some catch to it.

Are those people renting a $30,000 house with $800 per month able to get banking services (and mortgages)? If not, I would feel like a dickensian landlord renting those houses to them.
JavaScript-true-equals: Deep equality aware of prototypes/getters/setters/etc.
so is that thread-safe ?
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What was the 500 startup guys phrase?

A product has to get you “Made, Paid or Laid“

Where Made was like a sense of positive promotion like a made-man in the mob I think.

Emotion is everything. If a product doesn’t make you feel good you’ll only buy it because you have to.
I've been using a set of grains since 2017 or so.

Since they're essentially a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast (SCOBY), they won't "stop working" as long as the grains are regularly replenished with milk, or kept in the fridge to slow down the fermentation process.
Hey-hey, Android users! We are so happy to announce that today our Connect.Club app is officially open for you. Thanks so much for your understanding and patience as we prepared our official launch. We are so happy to work with you now and want to hear your feedback about our product. So now, you can bring your network wherever you go! We work across all mobile devices!
Thank you for this, I've come to the beginning of the same conclusion. If I read you right, this is a conclusion you need to come to fully by living it, not giving up.

In any case, thanks for taking the time to comment.
Authors of article on IQ, religiosity and crime retract it
I recommend side gigs. I co-founded a reasonably successful business (5 employees) from a side-gig (i was supporting getting remote sensor data remotely from a modem into a form easily red by clients).

Side gigs are reasonably risk free and will grow or shrink organically. You're not trying to force a market. The question is do you know something that works as a side gig? If so go for it.

Remember that the big idea->millions in venture funding->unicorn or bust path isn't the only way to go. That's a very stressful path.
Does it finally work magically out of the box like Parcel does?
If someone were to do it, wouldn't it defeat the whole purpose of the system by answering "yes" to this question and letting the backdoor users know that someone is now laying traps to catch them using those backdoors in the act?

However, the effort of setting this up could be better spent on making (or contributing to) a messaging app that's open-source and secure by design, where you don't need such setups to detect backdoors because they are near-impossible to introduce (open-source code and lack of a central server).
They already charge developers to access the App Store. And I think any iOS/Mac developer will tell you that the cut they are taking is not being re-invested into making the developer or the App Store experience better for developers or users.
crashes on chrome browser (entire browser briefly blinks gray).
I have for over a decade, dozens of times in about a dozen languages over thousands of hours. That's what formed my opinion.
So this is like Server Side Includes (SSI) but with shared state and built on top of JS modules?
What makes you think surprisingly-random memnonics are aimed at specific audiences?
Portugal finally recognises consul who saved thousands from Holocaust
No, not good. Not good at all. "...because Fear drives you..." yes it does. It drives you to a heart attack, or to the offices of a different employer once you wise up and realize that is a terrible way to life your life, and you are borrowing time from your lifespan due to the increased stress.
I despise employers who play psychological games like this. Despise it. Are these people who burned ants with magnifying glasses as children?
I really like Tarnap's terms: http://www.tarsnap.com/legal.html

Concise, understandable, and explanations for almost all items are available.
This is amazing and very useful, now you will be able to compile any c++, c, rust app to wasm and run inside Deno, so you can easily distribute to any platform.

No need to re-write your current native apps, just compile them to wasm and they can run everywhere!
Credit card companies were forced to do this, and it has improved the industry for consumers having some bullet points of the key facts up front. Industries have to be forced to act on consumers behalves, as they stand to benefit from fleecing them.
Jamie Raine Releases 2 exclusive hot singles Already Fallen and Drive Down
Those are good points, and maybe I picked a bad example.

But my point is if that Apple claims that the security and convince is worth 30% we should let the market decide. This is to an extent what Google Music is doing and I think it would be healthy if more companies did this.
They used the "Global Screening Array (GSA), version 2.0 (Illumina), which contains 712,189 variants" [0]

[0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2020283?query=fe... "Genomewide Association Study of Severe Covid-19 with Respiratory Failure"
Has Apple sued Google for this, though? I haven’t heard of any lawsuits over this between the companies.
Development Environment Development
I would like to read more about this, do you have a source?

I cannot find anything reliable that suggests this! Thanks.
I think you're right, a lot of VPN usage has to do with circumventing some tiered, segmented, bullshit content provider restrictions such as region or schedule or device type.

The fact that all these people are paying for a service plus VPN means the services are leaving money on the table. If they would simply offer what we want, when we want, where we want it, on the device we want, on a single service without a hassle, many consumer would be lined up for that.
Honestly, that looks like the most horrifying piece of tech that I really wanna learn and try...

In my org, most teams that need it have like one front end dev that's shared among three other teams, and like one or two people who can hammer out some React and don't hate JS to help out with most of the stuff. I suspect this would be an utter madness for that kind of a team.

And yet I feel like I wanna try that for our next project.
Dumping us on the home page isn't really news, especially when there is basically no 'about' information there.

Even the tech page is 2 screens long with only 3 paragraphs, and I can't find any news articles about them in the last 6 months.

So it's a feedstock for very high resolution 3d printing, cured by UV to set it and then annealed in an oven to fuse it properly?
Just FYI just setting your DNS to 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 may not do that much. Not only is DNS in plaintext, but some ISPs simply redirect all port 53 DNS requests to their own DNS.

If you want privacy with your DNS, you should setup DoH using dnscrypt-proxy or perhaps DNS over TLS.

Personally, I think a better strategy with this whole vpn aspect is to just setup a vpn with pis in various countries + pihole. At least that way I know what the setup is happening in each locations and what expectations of privacy I can expect.