skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Criminals' is better be read as enemies or threats. It's used as a catch-all term for people who would do you and your loved ones harm without remorse.

If the tables were turned and the police were no longer the servants of the white community, how might that look?

Patrol cars driving around suburbs at night blasting sirens then arresting people who came out to complain. Harassing middle class white dads mowing their lawns by telling them to stop and go inside, then escalating into one-sided physical altercations requiring reinforcements. Ticketing mom groups for loitering and trespassing for congregating to chat on sidewalks with baby strollers on front of their homes, or threatening them with CPS. Breaking into homes and shooting pets and family members of kids who brought home pot, or their neighbors if they show up at the wrong house.

Who would these people call to complain to if no one else cared? How would these communities look after years of being afraid? Of having to accept that their lives were forfeit and losing loved ones to the police was just a fact of life?

Unfortunately, we already know.
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The article is mainly about how cis white males don't like astrology and thus it is misogyny. So the connection is pretty much perfect as he is giving an example of how you can be annoyed by astrology without being a cis white male.

edit: typo
No. You've comically overestimated the amount of effort required. I understand why: the way he wrote his announcement, you'd think it'd be tricky. I'd say more, but I'll respect the norm --- you may have to take my word for it --- and just say: people I've talked to have been shocked to discover how easy it was to find out. No firewall existed here at all.
What a joke. Here in the US, as long as you don't give over $15,000 per year to a given individual, you don't have any tax or reporting obligations.
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There were three follow-up articles to the big thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610416) on the front page just now. Three is too many. The other two are:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23617887

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23621466

Which is best?
King of Torts IRL

"Timothy Litzenburg has spent the bulk of his career battling the manufacturers of cancer-causing products. That kind of undertaking is akin to David v. Goliath, but he has found that when the truth is on your side, the playing field becomes more level."

https://thenationaltriallawyers.org/profile-view/Timothy/Lit...
Ask HN: What podcasts do you recommend CS/geek related?
If everything goes perfectly, there are a couple vaccines that could start being given out in Q4 this year. Experts are being realistic and conservative though and not playing those timelines up.
Freelancers - what is your “back office” stack/setup (ex. LLC, acct/tax, etc.)?
Try a big screen at hi resolution and stereo. It changes the experience.

And by big, I mean 40+ inches and resolution of 1080p or greater.

If you’ve ever tried it, you’ll see how incredible videoconferencing can actually be. It’s as different of an experience as Wolfenstein 3D was from the previous 2D map version. Totally different.
Cynically, I think he is just trying to save his job. If he is a nationally known blogger, he risks losing it (for reasons stated elsewhere).

If he can go to his employer and say “look I deleted the blog, there is nothing else I can do”, they might be sympathetic, even if the outcome is potentially short term negative for his psychiatry patients.
So is this broad enough to make https illegal?
Some examples:

1. On larger monitors e.g. 4K the menus are on the far left whilst the content is in the middle which makes it far more of an effort to navigate around.

2. Row separators have disappeared so I have to be a lot more deliberate about which file I am clicking now since it's a lot easier to mis-click.

3. Buttons are a mess. You can't distinguish what is a button and what is not e.g. Clone versus the Open Issue label.

4. Clone button is so prominent. I only do this once per repo and yet it's like a giant CTA begging you to click it. Likewise for the folder icons. No need for them to be coloured.
I'd make the languages bar expanded by default, and for repositories where I rarely contribute hide file list elsewhere (like on mobile), bringing README to the top.

Also show latest release link with summary.
That's why you have contracts/ToS, so it's clear what is and isn't your responsibility.
I did the one in SF (electric tour company) three times. It was a great experience each time, and I would highly recommend them.
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The firewall wasn't burner phones and foreign VPNs, it was Scott emailing people who use his real name to respond to his blogging, and asking them not to do that. And it has worked pretty well up til now - when I search his real name I see nothing about SSC in the first 50 google results.
I have a tax person - google sheets I use for timesheets/invoicing and keeping track of the business expenses (csv bank transaction import).
I've heard a similar saying regarding songwriting, "your first 50 songs will suck, so get them out of the way quickly"
There's a H-1B quota exemption for people holding master's degrees.

But that is not the only reason they go for a master's degree. Many do not need it for immigration purposes yet they obtain one regardless.
There was a clear objective in Iraq and Afghanistan - justify (and grow) an already humongous defense budget. It worked.
Agreed, and as a parent I can watch it with my kids over and over and I still enjoy it. Not quite as good, but close: Puffin Rock.
Rhetorical "you"! Sorry about that.
I'm the author and I welcome constructive criticism -- I'm seeking feedback that I can add to the README to improve it, such as if/how you've used NPS, any alternatives, any lessons learned, etc. Thanks!
> So NYTIMES policy is to Dox their sources ?

Both revealing facts about the subjects of news pieces and offering the subject the opportunity to contribute at iroutine in journalism, and, yes, that generally includes clarifying the identity of the subject if possible.

A subject, merely by being offered the opportunity to be heard, does not transform into a protected source.
> God knows though during the next national security crises all democrats will be onboard.

Not if Pelosi leaves/is supplanted, which I think could happen in the next congress. She's the major Dem arm-twister on intelligence issues; there are several others who are likeminded, but she's the power center.

And a lot of the younger Dems are far less impressed with the intelligence/natsec boogie-man presentations and more aware of privacy/security issues.
The odds of finding a linux system without perl5 on it are pretty slim. How much do you hate yourself? Is it enough to want to implement a JVM in perl.... :D
How to create an LiveUSB with ROS pre-installed and its technical description
This is a good overview of the landscape. From what I see, even if there's an AI bubble burst in funding, a lot of the ML techniques and algorithms can still be really useful for general computing with a smaller budget. Deep learning with neural net might be too costly to run for most projects. Shallow learning algorithms are a lot more cost effective to add to general computing. Algorithms like Support Vector Machine or Decision Tree learning work surprisingly well in targeted areas.
It is literally the second hit on an incognito google search for his full name. The address of his business is up on hit one.

Please show me the veil.
I'm really impressed by the kits from ebikes.ca. The owner, Justin, innovates several of the components sold through there and other retailers. Specifically their "cycle analyst", which is a multi function ebike computer controller.

For my needs, I ended up with a geared rear-wheel hub kit, as the motor is smaller and hidden by the gears and disc brakes. The battery came from Luna Cycle.
I promise you, no one is impressed by Rust’s compile times.
> Black people are more likely to die or be injured from other black people more than they are by cops.

> reeks of Americans being more scared of terrorism than heart disease

I'd like to point out it's not just any black people that are most likely to kill/injure others. There is a very small subset (likely less than 1%) of the population. In that way, being deathly afraid of other black people in the USA, being deathly afraid of police in the USA, and being deathly afraid of terrorists in the USA are all irrational (or at least disproportionate) fears.

That said, we don't tell people their fears of lightning are unfounded or disproportionate to furniture falling on them. Using pure statistics against a limbic system response isn't particularly useful. Your limbic system remains fearful, even if your cognitive brain knows the odds don't require that same level of fear.
the alignment is so jarring its mind boggling how this got shipped.
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit”

The average age of US Senators is 61.8 years, nearly the oldest in U.S. history. Our policy-makers are seniors who won't be around to suffer under the consequences of their bad policy.
The funny thing is, the government spying on citizens without a warrant is what popularized this technology with consumers to begin with. So, are we really going to trust them to get a warrant next time?
I'm not. PZ Myers was on the Atheism+ side of the schism in online Atheism in 2011 (from which my pseudonym derives), and Scott was firmly on the other side. They've been on opposite sides of the culture war since either of them became aware of it.

But even if you didn't know that ancient history, Myers is orthodox progressive, Scott is heterodox. They're natural enemies.
Along these lines, I work in geophysics/AI right now and trained a GAN on some seismic data, which people usually visualize with ridgeline/joy plots (literally just realized people call them joyplots because of the joy division cover...). It ended up looking pretty cool: https://brantondemoss.com/seismicdream
It's on the first page of Google search results for me. I won't relate the query --- that seems out of bounds --- but, uh, it's a pretty obvious one.

If it was 50 pages back, I'd agree with you. I'm saying what I'm saying because that is simply not the case. And, again: he was a public, vocal part of the rationalist blogosphere (I think I'm using those words right?) under his real name, for some time.
Good question. I would attempt to track what your costs would be without the free tier and use that to calculate your profitability and other business metrics.

So long as you think of it as a one off bonus then it should be OK.
They already won a $289 million judgment in California and were threatening to leverage that result into more lawsuits.

I imagine that because their the CA case had some unusual facts, they must have thought it would be easier to switch-sides for a small fee rather than trying to catch lightning in a bottle again.
For me it's been the opposite. Rust was the first programming language I learned back in 2014, and it's what I've mainly been using until recently. Rust is still my go-to for situations where performance is key, but my most used language today has become Haskell.

Rust is very nice, but when you've used it for long enough you start noticing the warts. I especially miss Higher Kinded Types from Haskell, and I'm constantly reminded of the lack of Functor and Monad etc. At some point I simply realized that for most applications, the generally lower performance of Haskell and the GC is really not a problem at all. I mean, it's not like it's Python slow—it's just a bit slower than C/Rust. The more advanced type system of Haskell is just so nice, that I feel it's worth it.
> Instead of Haskell we should be thinking of programming language research and how to get the best ideas into our mainstream languages. How do we make immutability easy and ergonomic and get rid of nulls in C#?

F# pretty much plays this role within the .NET ecosystem. Almost all of the important advancements in C# over the last few years originated in F# (and FP in general).
I really, really prefer the original Mr. Rogers to Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. The latter feels like it abandoned the pacing that made Mr Rogers so calming and effective.
There is also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_Un...
Thanks I was devastated by the word "master" and now I feel very, very "welcome"
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Easier app moderation. So incredibly many apps are made and most of them are just garbage, Apple has an interest in maintaining quality in the contents of its store so a blanket ban on categories of apps that are most commonly low effort and low quality with high chances of taking advantage of people... just makes moderation easier.

Apple doesn't owe you the opportunity to sell on their platform, they need to be careful to not abuse their moderation and to act in a way which is reasonable and fair, but they also have to think about their customers and keeping them around for high quality content.
I’ll point out, by the way, that a taser is one of these “non-lethal” weapons with which we should be fine with cops firing at groups of protesters indiscriminately. But apparently when someone uses one against a cop it’s worth the immediate death penalty. I wonder what’d happen if a protester shot a cop with a rubber bullet?
That is almost certainly already compromised. If the NSA cannot create arbitrary certs trusted by your browser, I'd be utterly shocked.

There have been several cert-vendor compromises publicized over the years - how many weren't publicized/discovered, and now many were not compromises, but rather subversions?
iPhone, iPad.
While I haven't tried it with current video conferencing solutions, I did a lot of meetings with that setup conference room to conference room years ago, and I don't recall it being significantly better.
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PubZone will hopefully solve this by providing a platform specifically for publishers to share and discover new tools, ultimately resulting in a central database of solutions supported by information directly from the experts who have first hand experience with them.

In its current iteration, a "publisher solution" refers to 3rd party vendors that provide some sort of publisher technology or source of ad demand/supply. Eventually "solutions" will expand to include how-to guides, case studies, industry news, etc.

The site features a chronological feed that features daily submissions, category feeds that sort by solution type, search, solution profile pages that house additional information about the vendor, and PubKits which are curated collections of solutions used by major publishers as well as general collections created by the community.

Would love to get some feedback! Thank you.
gollvm? vs gogcc.
that's why i said "an IR interface" when someone asked about transpiling crystal to go and vice-versa.
That study by Dunning and Kruger did not find that 'Dunning-Kruger effect' that you are citing here. (What they found is that both more and less competent individuals err in their assessment of their own skills towards average competence. The less competent don't give themselves higher marks than the more competent give themselves.)

Btw, the kids who are worse at it would probably get their ass handed to them in the class games already anyway. Even after some training. So that's a good corrective and immediate feedback.
at least with a pandemic there is a clear end goal of "no more pandemic," and we're not entirely reliant on the government to get us there. even if the journey ends up being way way way way way more painful than it should have been, with far too many lives lost, we do have a path to eradicating the disease through widespread vaccination etc and people in the private/academic sectors can push on making progress there. With the war and the trade war though, those are quagmires the government got us into (with the citizens vocal support for the wars), and it really mattered that there that our leadership didn't know what it wanted to achieve. At least we have a long term goal in fighting covid, even if our leadership doesn't know what short term success should look like...
I really don't like seeing the code stats way at the bottom.

Also, on mobile I'm not really sure how to go directly to commits to master.

Edit: figured it out...
Not necessarily. You can have a single SVG file with multiple 'defs' that you can reference around the page, or just embed the SVG code in the HTML itself (via a templating language) if you're not using too many.
The tiny number of people who read The End of History seems unimportant compared to the founding of neoconservativism causing the US to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. Though the impact of neoreaction is probably smaller (that is, it hasn't literally killed 500,000 people), I don't think you could get a good estimate of that impact by finding out how many people read the blog that founded the ideology.

Maybe the tech workers you read who are afraid of being cancelled are afraid of being cancelled because tech companies have shown they are totally willing to end people's careers over fairly mundane speech.
Well, unfortunately your opinion doesn't change the fact that those are the requirements for containment outside of vaccine development. Any other strategy will likely ultimately fail. Sorry if that makes you unhappy; sadly the virus doesn't really care about our opinions.
Why is it terrible?
What piece was that? Just curious as I have no idea.
I was interviewed for the article, and it did seem like it was likely to be positive. The questions Metz was asking were things like (paraphrased) "how did SSC and rationalists end up being so ahead of the curve on COVID?" and "Does this mean that we should take them more seriously on AI?"
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I worked as a Windows sysadmin. I'm familiar with Windows Internals and Sysinternals. But when the bootloader decides it's going to go into automatic repair or now or when the indexer decides that it needs to use 100% of your HDD for the next year, there's nothing you can do about it but reinstall. When some Windows services will fail exclusively if your locale is set to French, there's also no explanation, and the log gives you no clue about what's going wrong. I could go on and on. Every update the already incomplete Internals documentation gets slowly more obsolete. And that's not even taking into account the clusterfuck it becomes when you need to modify anything.

There's a reason why when you need something to be stable you don't use Windows.
There's probably a much greater amount of energy lost from conversion to liquid form and stored and converted back into usable electricity from steam generators. I believe the article mentions it but it likely has better long term storage than batteries as well. The equipment required for the 'air' battery would have a longer lifespan and be cheaper to repair then a massive battery bank. On top of that batteries aren't exactly the most 'green' thing to produce, so from a carbon footprint perspective, I imagine the air battery is much more efficient.
Funny how an anti-ideology that purports to be not a religion but rather the absence of religion would spawn so many schisms and holy wars.
I agree. Something must absolutely be done about the orphan rules, IMO they are Rust's biggest wart. They damage composition in a fundamental way, and gimp the otherwise extremely expressive trait system.

I find it hard to believe that there exists no set of import declarations which remove all ambiguity, i.e., allowing orphan traits but requiring that they get imported explicitly.
Lookup LucidCharts. I haven't tested it myself.

Edit: They have another service for this.
to be fair, you also live in a city that has been slowly building out bike infrastructure.

unrelated, it's been too long - we should grab lunch after this mess starts to settle down :)
Without purity norms, who would join!?
With the new notification layout, I lose a lot of vertical screen real estate on a laptop. Between the site header, the repo header, and the notification bar I probably lose 50% of my screen.
“The tragedy of the commons is a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users, acting independently according to their own self-interest, behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling the shared resource through their collective action.” It is definitely a Tragedy of the Commons at least according to the Wikipedia definition...
> every move we make is monitored, every interaction is scored, and every associate we have implicates us

If Snowden is telling the truth, and he seems very credible, we're basically there already. E2E encryption is among the most promising ways to retain our Fourth Amendment right (to have protection against unreasonable searches). Taking away E2EE is akin to taking away our fourth amendment right.

I don't want terrorism or other criminal activity, and I'm sorry if this makes some security roles more difficult, but the bill of rights must still be honored. I hope this argued well and goes to the supreme court if necessary.
This is why I insert multiple choice questions throughout my lectures to test understanding of the concepts. They're usually brutally simple, but once you've taught a course a few times and see how students get confused afterwards, you can put answers that diagnose that misunderstanding in pretty straightforwardly, and having to actually figure out a multiple choice question and then getting it wrong are enough to force people to integrate information.
The author is incredible:

> On 31 December 2009 he claimed the world record for calculations of pi, having calculated it to nearly 2.7 trillion places in 90 days. Slashdot wrote: "While the improvement may seem small, it is an outstanding achievement because only a single desktop PC, costing less than US$3,000, was used—instead of a multi-million dollar supercomputer as in the previous records."[10][11] On 2 August 2010 this record was eclipsed by Shigeru Kondo who computed 5 trillion digits, although this was done using a server-class machine running dual Intel Xeon processors, equipped with 96 GB of RAM.
Isn't this almost the same as the Windows/IE bundling antitrust case? Actually it's potentially worse.

Basically they have disabled a feature that already exists on the OS, and only let you take advantage of it unless you use their bundled system (app store).