skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean that can totally be what consulting is. The nice thing about consulting is when you're doing your own business with it, it is what you want it to be. If listened to people who do this kind of consulting but you've got to be pretty setup to get to this point.
The Problem with Git Flow
I think you deliberately avoid taking an effort to appreciate the ethical side of the issue.

There is no vaccine that we currently mandate for the sole reason of protecting someone else.

The fundamental requirement of the Hippocratic Oath is "First, do no harm". If you are vaccinating someone, you better cause less damage to that person than the disease itself would do.

I have a kid, I am not an anti-vaxxer by any stretch of imagination: the whole family gets flu shots every single year.

But will I rush to get my kid vaccinated with a new thing rushed to market during a exaggerated hysteria, a vaccine not properly vetted for long term effects ... uhh most certainly not. I am going to wait a couple of years to see how others will fare.

(FYI I work in life sciences and I like to believe that I understand the inner workings of a living cell better than overwhelming majority of the population)
My point was demonstrating that there are broadly accepted professional situations where even quite public people operate under pseudonyms due to perceived risk of harm, in a way which is probably not legible to the news media.
The popularity of widely-adopted social media apps tends to cycle with 4-8 year periodicity, roughly in line with high school / college cohorts. By that logic, Snapchat’s time is nearly up. TikTok will probably be popular for another 4 years until something else takes its place.
What’s the value of a virtual education?
Of course you're allowed to like it. But it remains true that the hardware wasn't very capable.
Yea, I don't want to stand off and with real bullets. If someone pepper balls me I'd hit them back with some paint though.
The PVM – Python Virtual Machine
Don't be so fast though: the term "master bedroom" is similarly criticized (and probably with a stronger case for its removal).
https://yochicago.com/is-master-bedroom-a-racist-gender-bias...
A golang expert isn't going to flip to crystal based off of one benchmark.. Humans don't work that way. The first reactions to a post like this always involves golang fans trying to reconstruct the evidence into a reality that is convenient and proportional to their time invested into golang.

The results do say something about golang and crystal. Without more data we cannot confirm anything, therefore the following possibility remains an open question:

Crystal may be generally faster and more efficient than golang for most use cases.

To not acknowledge this possibility or to fully embrace it as an absolute is a form of bias.
I think this technology is spot on for private trackers. The token used doesnt need a monetary value. It's not about monetizing per se, its more gamifying seeding. Indeed, terms like «ratio-economy» is already widely used about the seed-what-you-use model most private trackers use. Im already paying for my downloaded bits, Im just not paying money - i pay with my ratio.
EchoVR is very exciting because it demonstrates the 6DoF VR experience pretty well and interaction with space (e.g. you have to throw discs and catch them, while floating), but it's still in beta so it has limited content. Pavlov Shack too but it's also in alpha and requires SideQuest. The Climb is pretty cool as an experience, but not necessarily mind blowing.

One of the first games I tried with the Quest was "The Exorcist" which was pretty creepy and really showcases the immersiveness of VR. You really feel like you're there in that game, which was not always a good thing.

Unpopular opinion, but personally I don't really like Beat Saber (yes, partially because I suck at it). It feels too casual and very repetitive, which I don't feel demonstrates VR's potential. Too much like fruit ninja but for VR.

Outside of games (you can use Oculus for more than games!), I'd also check out Immersed VR. I don't think it's there yet, but the idea has a lot of potential. Very innovative app.
I refuse to even entertain the idea of this. “Master” has nothing to do with slavery and “slavery” is not unique to any group of people or race. Read a history book.

Renaming “master” to “main” helps absolutely zero people. It’s just some pathetic, low effort, virtue signaling.
I'm not at all familiar with arithmetic encoding (or adaptive version tehreof), but, after reading some guides, it seems to me that the novel thing here is using GPT2 to somehow generate a character probability distribution?

The theory being that GPT2 should have a distribution closely matching "reality" and thus minimizing the output size?
That's freedom of speech.

To avoid making an incorrect assumption, and reading this in context with the rest of your post: are you saying it's "Freedom of speech" if someone has a blog or "Freedom of speech" is having your identity revealed as the owner of said hypothetical blog?

Just trying to make sure if I've read and interpreted your comment the way you're wanting it to be consumed and understood by people reading it.
What is an easier compiler to get into? Interpreters do not count ;)
Lol. Thanks for that laugh. Ironically, as you get older, doing something 'dorky' in public and not caring what anyone thinks is a signal of total individualism/self-assurance. Which is cool in my book.
That's what the Boogaloo group is and one recently killed a cop.
It is kind of crazy how many people can’t - or won’t - connect the dots about this. If you have an online presence you cannot be anonymous. Some of our parents, whether they know it or not, were actually pretty wise to tell millennials “everything you post online is forever.” The corollary being it will be linked back to you eventually.
"The EU" can't enforce this list to member states - it's up to each government to act. it also can't "reinstate stricter borders" - EU is not a government.

It's not surprising that countries want to avoid travelers from infected countries though. There are already tourists with infection that tried to "sneak in" to the south by traveling through germany for example.

Going forward, containment a-la new zealand seems to be the most viable economically solution for reopening, even if tourism is gone for a year or two.
So NYTIMES policy is to Dox their sources ? I don’t see them dox the opinion column of the famous “anonymous” government official or other tyrants.
IMO, the dorkier, the cooler.
This seems like a pretty disingenuous representation of the progress made under the pressure to use inclusive language.

When I was young, it was really popular to refer to things via homosexual slurs to show how cool you were. Can you imagine how much trauma such an action imparts on someone who is a part of said slurred out-group when it is widespread and socially accepted?

I think that all social change is imparted through pressure, and the pressure to use language in a fashion minimizing slurring, outcasting, and denigrating structures is important. It's true that in this instance, it may not make sense and may be an intrusion on you and what you feel - and that's okay. It's also important to put the same pressure back that says "this piece of language does not have negative connotations and taking it away is policing free speech".

Surely you see how it can be appropriate or not appropriate to push back given the subject material.
I also hope not. My extension relies on intercepting and blocking, though not for ads.
We're at 26k cases per day in the US, yes if you continue with r<1 for long enough you have few enough cases that you change strategy to eradication, but that isn't really important. Saying what your strategy is now doesn't mean you're bound to it for months or years, you have to shift based on reality, we're not just dealing with a mathematical model.

Focusing on the rate as the metric of attention seems very much like the right thing to be at the center of public policy.
Privacy is a human right. It's particularly important to cryptocurrency fans, as they get swatted, murdered or tortured occasionally:
Swatting: https://www.coindesk.com/reflections-on-a-swatting-one-bitco...
Murder: https://toshitimes.com/norwegian-man-murdered-after-cashing-...
Torture: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
(There's more instances, but you get the idea.)
While it is appealing compared to many alternatives and is more portable for smaller settings, when used on an industrial scale like this giant battery, I wonder how it compares in overall utility to gravity batteries [0].

The nice thing about gravity batteries is that they can form a closed loop with water supply, too, pumping reclaimed water back up into reservoirs when there's excess power. I'd expect compressed air to have much higher energy density, but it would be interesting to see if anyone has the numbers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery
Both publishing on your own blog and publishing true, not-legally-protected facts about someone who owns a blog are exercises of free speech.

It's not either/or.
I honestly don't know why people are resisting these sort of changes so much. I think it's due to Parkinson's law of triviality.

It's so easy for people to have an opinion on this, when I would rather change the offending name and move on to more important things.

Personally, I like the name trunk, since it makes more sense with the branching metaphor. But ultimately, call it whatever you want, I'll adapt.
Haha, sounds like the Magic Leap.
fhtagn - Where bugs wait sleeping.
> If the industry as a whole is going to make this change, I would prefer we choose a name that can be unambiguously referenced in conversation.

It that case, though, we would name our default branch "stable". We don't allow pushes to master unless everything has passed our full test suite. I'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing to have the development model hardcoded into the name of the default branch - I've certainly worked in long-lived repositories where we've changed the model over time.
I understand you know PDF internals and you can verify that you're not serving javascript in your PDF content. I'm glad you've gone to that depth of knowledge!

But I'm saying that what you're serving and what the user receives can be different. When you're using plain unencrypted HTTP then anyone between you and the user can inject javascript into the PDF. The user can get a PDF file with javascript in it even though you didn't put any javascript in it.
Ah, now I recall the "it". I wonder if anyone had the headline "Is that 'it'?".

It seems like the stupid hype over it killed the product when they revealed it was just some boring gadget on wheels...
We're not surprised, we're just disappointed.
Master and Apprentice. At least as an american with family in "the trades", this is a much stronger connection for me over master and slave. But maybe this relation is not a strong anymore as trades-craft has fallen off in modern society as a popular career.
In this context, he's not a "source"--he's the subject of an article. Using the subject's full name is one way to prove to your readers that you're writing about who you claim you're writing about.
I saw a genuinely brilliant use of a Segway (or similar):

I saw a person with one leg using a Segway. Presumably to make this less tiring, somebody had mounted a post to the place where the feet normally go, and then mounted a bicycle saddle that slides back and forth. I didn't get a close look, and I might have some of the details wrong, but I think this covers the gist of it.

For a person with a mobility impairment that limits the speed or distance they can walk, I can see it being absolutely transformative.

For the rest of us, Raymond Chen overheard a colleague who worded it better than I could hope to:

"I was floored by the engineering achievement of creating a device that combined the speed benefits of walking with the exercise benefits of driving, and for just the cost of a used Honda!"

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110520-01/?p=10...
I assumed that was the meaning, but I'm also trying to defer to authorial intent-a bit risk averse to assume with how hot this topic has been lately and all.
I find this kinda amusing since CoinDesk as a media site might be ok but the whole space of coin sellers are super not into pseudonimity.

Last I looked you needed to provide bank-level identification to do anything while, you know, not dealing with a bank.

Come to think of it, Paypal requires less identification than any site touching coins and for Europe they are a bank in Luxembourg.
The article mentions all of that content (though without those links). Perhaps they changed it? It's a fastcompany domain now.
I think that ideological groups "naturally" seek to quell all differing groups. Like dueling beehives.

In decades past they could exist peacefully, insulated by a natural inability to communicate. An inability to rub against each other.

But now we are in the age of communication. We have the internet. The sensitivity and power of the hive has grown vastly. It touches much that it never touched before. Various ideological groups are now crowding each other. Grinding cheek and jowl. A thousand new "threats" become apparent. A thousand new demands for quelling.

So now we see more of that inter-ideological friction happening.

This is not a conscious act. It's more like gravity. Gallivanting glaciers. Or weather.

Charles Fort examined this phenomenon a bit. Check out his "Book of the Damned" for more on that.
This looks great!

Just a couple quick feedback items. I had a little trouble finding that Add/Remove Icons' link and after i selected AWS in the preferences i couldn't figure out how to make it go away and get back to the palette. Moving that to the navbar on the left with a gallery type icon might work.

One other suggestion would be to lock the aspect ratio of any kind of stencil that has a product logo in it.

Again these are just minor nitpicks, fantastic work!
Very interesting article. I'd hypothesize that this comes out of the fact that this is rooted in the idea that "the personal is political". This has led to the growing idea that not taking a stand on an issue is supporting the status quo and therefore just as political. Therefore, everyone must "pick a side". This is reflected in the attacks on people who don't condemn political movements, but refuse to support them.

While this isn't directly related to the situation with Scott Alexander, it sets the precedent that everyone is now "fair game".
missing from my comment was the implied sarcasm (I was one of them a few years back and had my fair share of visa issues and had to leave the US)
> Maybe they are trying to push towards using badges/shields inside the README

If they're pushing for that, then keeping the README below the file list seems counterproductive.
Trump Administration Price-Transparency Rule Covering Hospitals Upheld
or maybe not so reasonable. not sure if "encirclement" may be related to "kettling."

- application of force will be judged under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_v._Connor , not the 4A.

- in principle a jurisdiction can be sued for "failure to train" its justice officers but City of Canton v Harris and Brown v Bryan indicate it's difficult in practice.

- states that the vast majority of a protest is composed of everyday citizens protesting, neither "professional protesters" nor "anarchists."
In a quick browse of the thread I didn't see this mentioned yet - it seems to have broken multi-line suggestions which I thought was a great addition.

I do wish there was an option to use more screen-width, and this does seem to be a step in that direction.
Funny you should mention that:

> A Warning is a 2019 book-length exposé of the Trump administration, anonymously authored by someone described as a "senior Trump administration official". It is a follow-up to an anonymous op-ed published by the New York Times in September 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Warning_(book)
He doesn't really say anything about the story. He says he knows the journalist and believes them to be well-intentioned. A well-intentioned journalist can find something worth reporting that the subject of the reporting doesn't like. We don't really know anything about the story other than what subjects and sources have inferred about it. Such inferences aren't always accurate and they certainly shouldn't be attributed to the writer before they've actually said or published anything themselves.
Not if that means they have to move everywhere (which only big tech can afford), and not if the EU continues to be a bad environment for startups to flourish. The best talent will be underpaid or scattered, which is the point.
Arbitrary restrictions like that just make me want to get around them... and reminds me of this phrase I heard many years ago (in the era when encryption laws were far stricter):

"What's the difference between encryption and steganography? You don't know."
Wouldn't processing time depend on your CPU, and unless you run the benchmarks in the article, this comparison would be meaningless?
Sure, I think there are good technical reasons to consider doing that, I just saw a load of strange commentary that race had something to do with the name of the principle branch in a git repository. And I stand by the fact that if you believe that you are seeing things that don't exist.
> This is child abuse

And assault with a deadly weapon.
And this is back to where I commented recently about the "problem with 1984";

"I don't like the terms master/slave, they make me uncomfortable with the connotations of my ancestor's slavery, can we change them?" -> "NO MORE CAN A MAN BE ENTITLED TO THE CHOICE OF ASCII CHARACTERS ONE WOULD DEMAND IN A FREE COUNTRY! THIS IS THOUGHTCRIME BY THE BACKDOOR! ORWELL! TYRANNY! HAS EVERYONE FORGOTTEN 1984 ALREADY?!"

> "where we can't have an honest discussion about terms without automatically being slapped as racist despite multiple meanings of the same word."

Except we can have such a discussion, without being automatically anything, and many people do have said-discussions. There is no accusation of racism in The Article against people who aren't making the change, there is only a discussion of pros and cons and reasons. Same (so far) in these comments about the article.

Newspeak was not a "more politically correct" recommendation of words to avoid offending people, Newspeak was a reworking of the English language to make it literally impossible to think certain thoughts, and a combined revision of all historical records to wipe those ideas out completely.

Asking people to change "master" to "main" like the opening tweet in the article, "I'm doing this. Join me" is not tyrannically oppressive insanity. It's not trying to wipe historical evidence of slavery. It's not trying to change what you can think about.
Once my younger brother got big enough to want to push the shopping cart at the grocery store, I lived in constant fear for the health of my Achilles tendons. I don't know how many times he crashed into the back of my ankle, and those were only when I wasn't watching him like a hawk.

I look at a Segway and wonder where that deck would intersect with my ankles today.
I don't think anyone's arguing that doxxing should be illegal or that doing news-worthy things doesn't make people interested in unmasking you, but that's kinda orthogonal to the main point that, generally, doxxing someone is a shitty thing to do, especially in a context like this where it has a solid chance of doing serious harm to public discourse. It's like codes of journalistic ethics: few to no violations are actual criminal violations, yet we look disfavourably at news orgs that don't publish retractions or whatever.

Your advice is good advice for the status quo, but it highlights how fucked up the status quo is. "Just have perfect opsec and do everything through tor" is hard/inconvenient enough in practice even for tech people that the barrier to entry it poses to other groups is significant. There's your chilling effect.

So, yeah: I can get behind raising awareness around/increasing usability of anonymizing techniques, but without societal/political legs to match that tripod just tips over.
Thanks for the feedback about the latest commit status. This is something we should definitely fix.

Also – I don't think there is a principle of lowering information density at work here. I think it's just a design that we will keep iterating. We are pro information density at GitHub.
> what do you think is a reasonable number of shootings of unarmed people? Personally, I think that number is zero

I humbly suggest that if you give this some thought, you'll see that isn't a very good answer. Any complex system, especially one that involves humans, will have errors. There's no way around that. So the only way to eliminate errors completely is to eliminate the system entirely. This understanding is perhaps what fuels the call for police abolition: No amount of reform and training will get the error rate to zero, so the only way to get zero police accidents is to not have any police.

To illustrate my point further, consider medical malpractice. How many deaths caused by doctor error is acceptable? If the answer is zero, one needs to abolish medicine. How many automobile accidents are acceptable? If zero, we must abolish all motorized transport. I think for the most part people accept the unfortunate fact that accidents are an inevitable part of any system, and should be accepted if we consider the system to do more good than harm.
The "air" gets stored in liquid form... but what I don't understand is what parts of the air? The gasses in air mix as gasses, no so much when liquid. Will the tanks include a layer of liquid oxygen? What prevents those layers vaporize selectively as the tank temperature is raised again? That would seem very dangerous. Or am I misreading this and they are only liquefying nitrogen and aren't playing around with liquid O2?
I'm curious how FB Gaming (I heard it first now) could plays better than Mixer. I've heard Mixer is great about latency.
-infinity is clearly out of bounds as the whole discussion is about the policy to take to save the most lives, therefore assuming lives have values (or else you wouldn't want to save them). Even the quote itself implies it with "more money, more lives saved", clearly implying you want to save lives.
> Your position is that it’s justifiable for people to burn down private businesses.

I'm unsure in what sense you mean justifiable. If you mean "rationally explainable from a set of observations" then yes. If you mean "morally justifiable", I don't believe I've made any claim to that effect, and once more I'd ask that you examine what led you to believe such a thing.

I previously responded to this at length, but I think we're leaning into territory that dang would prefer we not. So I'll leave it at that, with two final requests:

First that you take some time to actually listen to the protestors and their complaints. Second, that you look into the use of the Insurrection Act in the US, and ask yourself why since 1965 five of the six times it was invoked were to put down civil rights protests.
I hear this advice a lot, but what does an accountant actually do differently? It always sounds magical. Are there super secret deductions and credits that aren't on Turbo Tax, and only accountants know about?

I feel like I'm doing 90% of the work already, having organized all my expenses and income. What are they doing other than typing it into their own Turbo-Tax-equivalent?
I question your use of quote marks there. AFAIK she is being much more precise in referring to biological sex.
The Oculus Rift S and Oculus Quest are both in active production; they're just usually sold out (as is the Valve Index, presumably being the $1000 headset you're referring to.)
Follow the hanging chads...