skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, is a woman more qualified to judge whether a situation is an example of misogyny? Perhaps not, as a man could reach the same conclusion. But it's certainly more appropriate than leaving it to a group of men, or an industry that is generally dominated by men. It's relevant, not because the logic is dependent on the fact, but because it is a perspective regarding societal power.

The article indicates that hating astrology is characteristic of white cis men. The parent comment says "FWIW, I'm not those things, and I hate astrology." They aren't asserting their authority to make a logical argument. They are offering their perspective as a sample.

Respectfully, I think you are letting your intellect get in the way of your ability to think by dismissing these perspectives, misidentifying a report of someone's subjective experience as a logical argument, and therefore a fallacy.

Personally, I hate astrology, but I wouldn't have this app flagged as spam and banned from the app store because of it. I think the argument that this is a form of (probably unintentional) racial/gender/sexual discrimination holds water. If nothing else, I find the idea that Apple happily exerts this kind of force on their customer's personal interests super frustrating and distasteful, and bad for business. Money talks, and bullshit walks. If there is no market for it, let it die on its own merit. I don't need Apple's protection from astrology.

We don't all have to embrace each other, but we do have to suffer each other. And traditionally, some of us have been suffering a lot more than others.

That's just my opinion. Take it for what it's worth.
Good? Do you have any idea how much this would cost? The administration alone would be a nightmare.

The solution will be to stop doing business in many of the countries, where it no longer makes sense. Besides, it will still be cheaper to buy politicians. You'd have to fix that first.
It's harder the other way around: starting with his real name and finding slatestarcodex, which is what he's concerned about since his patients will be googling his real name.

Now, for me google autocompletes "scott $REALNAME slatestarcodex", but it's not clear whether that is personalsied to me since I'm an avid slatestarcodex reader and have been googling this all over the place.
Lifepo4 has 99% coulombic efficiency
Oh, I dunno I just found that by exploring gitee
> What's to stop governments from having a perpetual state of semi-emergency with always-on citizen trackin

The same thing that stops companies from doing it continously and selling that data to the government, companies, bounty hounters, and ad sellers... I don't know what it is actually.
If you don't set achievable goals then you just waste a lot of resources trying to achieve them.
Everyone is entitled to their dating preferences, but not everyone is entitled to their ideological consistency.

I’m currently out of the dating pool, but I had my share of preferences at that time and my potential partners did too. Preferences aren’t the problem, holding two contradicting beliefs is (it’s ok to discriminate based on unchangeable properties when dating, but wrong when setting salaries).

And I will follow the regression further to fully admit that my desire for rationality is itself a preference and not an unmitigated good.
Comparing vaccinating someone to driving under the influence makes no sense whatsoever.

As for the other content, it just shows you don't understand what kind of problems an insufficiently tested vaccine could cause. You should educate yourself better:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/dengue-vaccine-fiasc...
Integer factorization using regex (with backreferences)
Hmmm. The new design seems to be pushing hard towards "dev in the browser" with the new. "Add file", which forks the project, and drops you straight to editing a new file, ready for commit.

Kinda interesting. But beyond a README, I can't imagine making any significant edits this way.
Not all bikes / riders. Many cyclists have trouble with more than 10 - 12 MPH over an extended time period. I know that when I was a decade younger, and working out for 2 years cycling for 30 - 50 miles per day, a 15 mile ride into work (on a mountain bike) took a good chunk over an hour. I could average 15, but I'd be sweating heavily when I got to work.

So the argument is that it isn't bad when a small percentage of cyclists hit 25 - 30 mph, but when all of them are able to that is where the issue is.

My personal feeling, however, is that especially the models that are pedal assist (where you put some effort into it, and it multiples your effort) is a good way to get otherwise low-fitness people to bike ride more. The more cyclists, the more push for bicycle friendly infrastructure. And people still get exercise on them, more so than in a car.

But regardless of powered vs unpowered, anyone that rides a bicycle fast by pedestrians and dogs is doing it wrong. On an ebike, it should be no effort to slow down to 5 - 8 mph, then speed back up after passing someone.
‘Academic’ Torrent Client Offers a Safe Haven for Pirate Sites
Ok, I see. I did some reading and it looks like this to me:

* the DB is supported by a backing file

* this backing file supports multiple read threads simultaneously but writes are locked via filesystem locks

* write performance with multiple writers is therefore dangerous

* read performance is good if no one is writing and consistent even if someone is
It’s already happening. macOS Bug Sur (Apple’s wording) enforces a read only system partition, which cannot be easily disabled or mounted as rw.
You don't need to compromise a site they visit regularly, there are plenty of other ways to get someone to visit a malicious page, phishing email or even a link on HackerNews for example. People will visit new sites for all kinds of reasons, you'd just need to understand your target.
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You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 of the CDA
Hospitalized Increase is being tracked. The good news is it hasn't increased with positive cases. That is likely because the younger infected cases.

https://vida.io/dashboards/ckbk04mht00000ul63lr6m53w
I think we're not in any danger of a true socialist revolution here seeing that the Chopistani warlord Raz himself is literally an Airbnb landlord who drives a Tesla with a trunk full of AR-15s. The moment anyone comes to him for the actual money (from each according to his ability, after all, and he's certainly able) they'll get punched in the teeth or shot.

Note how it's always someone else that needs to pay/atone/change, never the "activists" themselves. It's always this amorphous "we". Not a single virtue signaling white executive that I know of has resigned their position to "increase diversity". Not a single white actor has foregone a role. And so on and so forth all the way down the list. You know how many black people worked in the building I worked in while at Google? Zero. You know how many I interviewed in nearly a decade there? One. He was rejected (not by me though, the guy did very well in my interview). Talk is cheap. Want something done about it? Be the change you want to see in the world.

I come from a country where there was a socialist revolution. The entire contingent of the current "movement" would meet a quick and brutal end after a real revolution, because the moment you don't like something a real revolutionary likes, you become a counter-revolutionary, and those are dealt with quickly, with a bullet to the back of the head. Or, as was the case in the Soviet Union, with tens of millions of bullets to tens of millions of heads.
(Meta) I’m curious why this isn’t on the front page, given the number of upvotes. Has this been flagged or is it in some way being hidden?
If you're entire binary fits in L1, you're going to realize significant performance improvements over a 30mb binary. It's just that simple.
Funny enough, the three 'things' you learned out of it ain't even all true. :) Still a great game!

I played mostly Sim City 2000.
Yeah, it's too cute by half to pretend you're working to respect his pseudonymity and then link a tweet you sent out with his real name attached.

That's also clearly not a clean incognito search, as it has your previous search with his name included.
Why is this not achievable? New York pulled it off...
There's a great guideline: Always be at least two of: kind, necessary, or true. Publishing Scott's legal name is truthful, but neither necessary nor kind.
I'm not sure which one tptacek was thinking of, but https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/efficient-charity... (a cross-post, which now says "Scott Alexander") comes to mind for me.
Bottles aren't a substantial source of microplastics, partly because they're easily recycled. In developed countries synthetic fibers like polyester and abrasion from tires are two of the largest contributors to environmental microplastics; there's no capturing system in place whatsoever, yet they're ubiquitous in modern life. See https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documen...
I don't think it's correct to assume from this that the Segway as we know it is dead.

All this article says is that the New Hampshire plant is shutting down, and that the Segway PT is being discontinued.

However, the majority of Segways are manufactured in China by Ninebot.

Will the i2 SE, x2 SE, and police branded models be discontinued as well? It seems unlikely.

I personally was introduced to self-balancing vehicles through the Solowheel, invented by Shane Chen of Camas WA. (Also the inventor of the hoverboard), and never thought the Segway was a particularly attractive proposition.
Plenty of people get bitten by dogs, does it mean I have to attack every dog owner?
This is true. I think they also brought stock. I wonder if MS hung onto any stock? It would have been a pretty good investment.
At this point HTC headsets like Vive makes sense only in China. Everywhere else it's Valve Index at the top end, Quest/Rift S in the middle and discounted/used WMR headsets on the lower end.
iOS has a number of features that provide similar functionality; getting kernel level privileges on iOS requires multiple vulnerabilities to be chained together. It's not like RCE in the web browser process instantly compromises the entire system.
Well, in Sim City you can't mix residential and commercial on the same square. And the bigger buildings need more than a single square, I think.

In real life, I very much like having shops on the ground floor of residential buildings. Very convenient for me.
At one point ventilators had a 90% fatality rate or something like that. I think they found that in a lot of cases they either weren't helping or were hurting.
Right, but the x86 code _thinks_ it does, and those semantics have to be maintained.

What that practically means is that x86 executable pages get mapped as RO by default as seen by the ARM side even if they would normally be RWX. Modifications trap, the handler mprotects the pages as writeable, flush the translation cache for that region, then returns from the trap. Then on an x86 jump to that region, the JIT cache sees no traces for that region, marks the page as RO again so that modifications will trap, and starts recompiling (or maybe just interpreting; they may be using a tiered approach in the JIT).
a few years ago, I getting a beer after work with a colleague. we had become friends and talked about quite a bit outside of work. As the topic of religion had come up in the past, it was not unusual for us to discuss. He was a devout Christian (some kind of protestant) and I am a self-described "athiest Catholic". At a certain lull in the conversation after a couple beers, he leaned in to me and asked in a hushed tone: "so, if you don't believe in hell, why be a good person?" I put my drink down and looked him in the eye and said "that's the scariest thing I've ever heard."

Plainly, I don't believe in deterrence as effective or a substantial reason why most people don't engage in bad behavior.
Is it normal to ship with scss source maps? It seems like it would be a net negative for performance and delivery times.
Go is a good in the middle, modern, well thought out for contemporary development process pains, and definitely one of the top languages going forward.

There are a ton of frameworks around Go now, some of which aim to be the GoR.

You might like something like https://apollokit.org It's full stack JS/TS with grapgql, lots of batteries out of the box.

TBH, I skip on devs who's primary thing is RoR
Characteristic patterns of EEG oscillations in sheep induced by ketamine
Full title too long for HN: Characteristic patterns of EEG oscillations in sheep (Ovis aries) induced by ketamine may explain the psychotropic effects seen in humans
> For example a lot of libraries use Lens. I want to understand Lens? It is not simple: check out the diagram on https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens.

You're making it seem harder that it really is. Yes, it's hard if the package documentation is all you have, but that's the hard way to learn. There are other online unofficial documentation and tutorials (of diverse quality). There's also a book (https://leanpub.com/optics-by-example) that I find adequate for a reasonable learning experience (I think I would have saved much time if I had started learning lens using this book.). And, you don't need to know the entire lens package to use it. The most commonly used part of lens (Lens proper, not Prisms, Isos, etc) is only a small fraction of the whole thing.
> My Air is 2.8lbs, far thinner and lighter than a 12” PowerBook G4 (which I used to own as well) with way better battery life. I don’t want to go back to an old brick of a laptop like that. I think most people don’t.

Not saying you'd have to. Battery technology has improved since then; we can make lighter batteries that last longer. Hard drives have been replaced by small PCBs with a few chips on them; again, much lighter. Further miniaturization of the internals means a smaller chassis which means less material; again, much lighter.

It's be perfectly possible to build a laptop with similar dimensions and weight as the current crop of laptops, but allow for easier battery replacement, and even RAM/storage replacement. I'm not saying it'd be as simple to swap as it was in 2005, but it'd at least be easier/possible and not involve special tools.

Apple seems to implicitly claim that their anti-repair/anti-upgrade stance is due "delighting customers" with smaller, lighter hardware, but I suspect it's mostly driven by their desire to lock down their hardware against tampering, and keep people on the upgrade/purchase treadmill every few years.

> You’re part of a very small niche. The tinkerer who doesn’t want to jump to Linux.

I actually do run Linux (previously on Mac hardware, but I finally gave up on it last year), so that's not the niche I'm a part of.

But that's not really the point; I'm not speaking for myself, I'm speaking for average users. I see a lot of posts here claiming that average users "don't think about" this or "don't care about" that, and I posit that the average user doesn't care about an extra few millimeters of thickness or an extra few tenths of a pound of weight. Especially if it doubles or triples the useful life of the device through a RAM/storage upgrade and easy/cheap battery replacement every few years.

> They prefer to leave the service to service people.

That's fine too, but Apple is actively against allowing a robust, price-competitive field of independent repair shops. And even if they weren't, soldering in the RAM chips and NVMe drives means the only thing those repair shops could do would be to swap out batteries and main boards, rather than do cheap, targeted upgrades.
I think it's sad that this article is being flagged. It is pretty divisive, but it was also a perspective I haven't heard before about who the Appstore hurts.
Took everyone involved by surprise, but it made sense in hindsight. Half the people were there because religion was oppressive, and half were there because religion was factually wrong.

These two groups were never the same, and they got along only until it became obvious that the first group didn't care about facts and (according to the first group) that the second group didn't care about justice (I would say they do, but not if it means lying about facts).
This is it, you expressed it much better than me.

Those years before the digital transition held a lot of optimism and general hype around what the future would bring. The lack of constant media stimulus also let imaginations run wild. It reminds me of the fantastical predictions of the 70s with jet cars and robot maids.
“'Unnotarized.app' will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash.”
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Some positive feedback that may be overlooked with all the UI changes:

Love that releases are shown prominently on the repo page! It's always been a 'trick' of mine to check for releases for a repo by appending `/releases/` to the URL. Now I don't have to, and can just peek at a glance.
This video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIyckKhZrpA) has a few good points on having private conversations via that don't "obscure the message" via ham radio, namely:

- Use rare/odd frequencies that are hard to access with commercial off the shelf gear

- use esoteric modes and modulations (like you mention)
Not that one. I'm uncomfortable sharing, though honestly I would have a hard time articulating why, since my whole point is: this guy's identity is not a secret.
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It seems crystal is single threaded by default.
Although you can configure it to use more threads.

https://crystal-lang.org/2019/09/06/parallelism-in-crystal.h...
On iOS there are pretty much none. Any that claim to detect such things are generally selling snake oil. (Rebooting your phone is usually a good way to get rid of an infection, since persistence is generally not a part of these attacks, but you might just be infected again.)
That’s because it’s in a conference room. Having that setup in your office next to a desk is like talking to the person in the cube next to you. Really weird the first time because the person is not really there, but you behave like they are. It’s a virtual window looking into the office miles away.

FYI, helps to have it to the side of you instead of in front of you for best results, so that it’s like sitting beside someone.
Its actually kind of funny for them how much money they seem to be making hand-over-fist with their Oculus Store and Quest titles.

But not funny when you are locked out of that. And they can lock out apps or games that they have a conflict with in terms of titles they are associated with themselves or any other reason.

I think if their new distribution system isn't open enough, that leads the market wide open for someone to come in with a device that has an open marketplace and I would drop Oculus in a second if that were the case. Because Sideloading is a pain in the ass.
IRS Publication 334: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p334/index.html

It's actually a very interesting little booklet.
We're not even a dirty blank slate.

There are a zillion skills, aptitudes, and personality traits more or less hardcoded in a newborn.

Which is why there is such a thing as "human nature" that is meaningful to talk about.
I know literally every thing you've stated. The question I'm asking is not whether we know those things, but if you honestly believe, after having read Tom Cotton's op Ed, that his preference is for the national guard to go in and work with protestors to help control violent groups, or if instead his goal was to quell legitimate protests.
Thanks, but this should be a prompt that can be rejected!
They switched to lambda and said "latency shmaytency!"

just kidding... good luck with your webinar :)
Here I'll out myself as on the "loathing" side of Scott Alexander receptivity so I can ask: what was the SSC take on COVID? In what ways were they ahead of the curve?

(I'll have no trouble believing they were; COVID really seems to have scrombled everyone's brains).
The death rate is most likely lower due to a higher percentage of the infected being lower risk.

White people under 50, to be specific. As many as 50% of new hospitalizations in Texas are under 50.

The problem will be if they infect higher risk groups, potentially in catastrophic numbers, and the deaths surge along with cases.

Also, deaths remaining somewhat flat is concerning considering the low risk population getting infected.
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So, the SSC outing/doxxing story is now hitting the Spectator, National Review, Washington Examiner and Free Beacon websites, at least. It will probably spread to other parts of the mainstream media soon enough. How the NYT will react to this whole ruckus is anyone's guess, but sticking to their previous policy of publishing the article without removing sensitive info would be pretty hard at this point. Quite amazing, regardless.
As I once heard from a Wyoming rancher, “Whiskey’s for drinking, water’s for fighting.” Water rights are treacherous to navigate.
Good point. Mob rule is arguably much more dangerous.
It's not _most people_ that I'd. worry about, though.
> Note that the vulnerabilities that they use are all the same ones used by jailbreaks, so fixing them necessarily means preventing jailbreaks.

Well, unless there was a method to jailbreak your device that did not require a chain of software vulnerabilities.
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Thank you for the kind words.

Databases can be daunting but for a variety of reasons. In my experience, it's not so much because of the sheer amount of features and function that need to be implemented. It's because you have to make sure that the every component is fast and reliable. Ultimately, the software can only be as fast as the slowest part of the stack. So you are going to spend a lot of time hunting for the slow part and looking for ways to accelerate it.

More generally, the way I approached this was to break down the project in small pieces, making each as fast as can be. This makes the problem more approachable. Also, you have to know and love how hardware works.
Pumped water batteries are geographically limited, since they can basically only be installed wherever you could build a dam anyways.
I’m open to change. But I question whether this was necessary.

I’ve admired Github for having a clear and readable UI that didn’t change. All their UI feature additions before I thought were fantastic.

Devs don’t want to have learn new things if not necessary. I’m hoping it will grow on me.
Interesting, if I give email another look I'll check it out.

Does it have a way to auto unsubscribe from and delete promotional content and other non essential stuff?
It looks like a bunch of outlets are picking this up and repeating it under headlines like "Segway is dead". Bit of a PR nightmare.
So this might he a little off topic, but I picked up an SDR with some cool projects in mind. And when I opened SDR programs I quickly realized I had no idea what I was doing. Much of the terminology seemed foreign, etc. What kind of background knowledge do I need to get up to speed with this stuff? Would a few signals/ DSP course suffice to start out?
Talking about specific issues which relate to race does not mean all issues which relate to race have to be brought up.
Probably a big opportunity cost though. It surely takes a lot of time from senior engineers to port the software, figure out this whole translation system, etc...