skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This analogy is quite weak though. I mean in all honesty: Who in the world would be okay with streaming is drunken bar ramblings on youtube? Of course you have something to hide.

There was a Movie "Circle", which kinda was spot on. Privacy is about being able to be yourself. Exploring things. Doing things other people might find creepy. Things that might get you fired, if your co-workers or employer knew about it. By removing privacy, you remove the ability to be yourself. You need to be exactly as society demands it, at all times.

The effects of that are catastrophic on humanity. China being a world leader in demonstrating what this does to people and societies, but even China allows for some measure of privacy, as long as you don't do it online and do it at home. Take that away, and society is done. There is only the borg collective left.
It's not so much a question of legitimacy, but one of action.

Nation-wide protests embolden people who want insurrections of various kinds. Some worthy, some questionable, some wrong.

There's no rhyme or reason to it all, because there is no intellectual foundation to what constitutes 'fair' or 'not racist'.

Ironically, were it up to the general public - little would change. Almost nobody is concerned or bothered by most language or epitaphs. Even among the groups who might take offence, there's not huge concern over most of these things.

It's mostly a war among the elites in Academia, the Press, Government etc..
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Sounds like an Uberish Travis Kalanick culture but more haphazard and murky. Also sounds like that only resentful employees provided input for the article.

She does not treat humans like humans. That is a pretext. But the (non-)actions during her LEAVE should not be the cause for stepping down. And it is not like her actions were bad but how she did not take the same actions like other members of her class were taking. This is absurd.
Writing a competitive concurrent garbage collector is probably the hardest part these days.
Use the Forth, Luke!

https://github.com/codr7/gfoo
” And the idea that only 20-30 year olds are getting the disease is wishful thinking - the highest risk situation is from household transmission, at over 80% likely.

Combine high infections with a general disregard of safety and those older populations are bound to be infected as young spreaders interact with their families, at offices, supermarkets, etc. I think this is why the death spike lags a fair bit further than expected.”

Three things:

1) It’s been over a month since case count started to grow in the southern states. Hospitalization and deaths by day are not growing at all in FL or AZ, and only hospitalizations are growing slowly in TX:

https://covid-19.direct/state/FL?tab=daily

https://covid-19.direct/state/TX?tab=daily

https://covid-19.direct/state/AZ?tab=daily

2) It isn’t “wishful thinking”; the age distributions of positive results out of Texas clearly show that most of the people testing positive are younger, and it seems to be true in FL as well:

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news4jax.com/news/florida/2...

3) It’s not very common to see multi-generational households in the US.

Maybe it’s true that this surge will eventually make it’s way to the high-risk, but it’s been over a month already, and that doesn’t appear to be true yet. At some point, predictions of the future have to be tempered by current evidence.
(I work at OpenAI.)

I am finishing up our fine-tuning API this weekend :).

If anyone on HN would like to try out the fine-tuning API (or want to build something on top of the base API), send me an email (gdb@openai.com) with your use-case and I can try to accelerate you in our invite queue.

PS: We're hiring — if you enjoy building APIs with Python/Go/Kubernetes/Kafka or building front-end interfaces in React, then please get in touch — gdb@openai.com.
Psychology by Bernstein, Penner, Clarke-Stewart, and Roy is an approachable, comprehensive introduction.
This project explores an extreme niche in original ways, which is the whole point of adding to the existing "so many wrappers".

And regarding the "same old shit", you'll be entitled to spit on mature frameworks when your GUI from scratch supports screen readers, 3D acceleration and printing with the same API on Windows, Linux and OSX.
As a conservative, it must be frustrating for Larry Sanger to see Wikipedia focus on scientific correctness so much - Especially in the Global Warming and alternative medicine articles. Truth has a very well known liberal bias. It is hopeless to expect Wikipedia to change to balance the truth with the truthiness. Volunteers should focus on a new project such as https://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page
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If you could have seen the local Lowes or a big park in Salt Lake City a couple weeks ago - 70% of people no masks, no social distancing, packed with long lines, many people almost intentionally, defiantly disregarding guidelines. This is happening everywhere in the US and is a totally different level of opening up from what is happening in Europe. Your apples to oranges comparison is completely misguided.
> This is what I do every time

Nobody cares what you do all the time, though. In order to reduce accidents overall, we care about what the average person does. And if the average person does something else, then common sense isn't really the right term.

And even average person isn't the right bar. To really cut down on accidents, we need to see what the person who's behaviour is a couple of standard deviations less safe does in various scenarios.
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In terms of mind-expanding or intellectually stimulating, I find it's easier to get that from Youtube. I recommend:

3blue1brown for math (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw)

Everyday Astronaut if you are casually interested in rockets (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6uKrU_WqJ1R2HMTY3LIx5Q)

Bret Victor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII&list=PLS4RYH2Xfp...) or Rich Hickey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc&list=PLXsqD83He-...) for programming and design.

Doing a full college course is such a time investment and it usually takes a few weeks to start proving the interesting stuff. I find it more fun to look to shorter content for inspiration. I might realize I don't understand the fundamentals of the topic and then seek out a way to study it.
Holistic data across the entire animal kingdom is difficult to come by, but everywhere we look we're finding hints that there are serious issues. On just insects:

> A reanalysis published in 2017 suggested that, in 1989–2016, there had been a "seasonal decline of 76%, and mid-summer decline of 82%, in flying insect biomass over the 27 years of study". The decline was "apparent regardless of habitat type" and could not be explained by "changes in weather, land use, and habitat characteristics". The authors suggested that not only butterflies, moths and wild bees appear to be in decline, as previous studies indicated, but "the flying insect community as a whole"

That's not a small, random decline - 70-80% of insect mass has disappeared over a single generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations#...
In the German BLM protests it was:

1) Peaceful protest

2) Police declares protest is over, but people stay.

3) The police respond with violence
I like the general look and feel but it still feels clunky to switch between the markdown and presentation view, copy-pasting markdown (tables, etc) doesn't work right, and more importantly, Latex is clunky.

Still waiting for something to best VSC. What do people working with a combination of code and Latex use?
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The issue I have with this is that the system is in a given microstate. We may not know which one, but there is one and exactly one. And it will evolve deterministically from that one. And if we look at how it evolves it may do things that seem very unlikely from a random macro point of view.

Assume for instance there is a macrostate with a huge amount of energetically favourable microstates. But our little microstate could be destined never to enter any of them.

Typically there is an assumption right, that any state could transition into any state at a probability given only by the energies but that isn't really true.
I see your point and respect your position but disagree with the logic.

In one example you are an employee, in the other you should be running a business and the two are not equivalent in pay, process or responsibility, so trying to treat them as they are is improper.

IMO freelancer is just a label for an employee with no benefits, no protections and full tax liability. Consultants (or dev shops etc) generally build real businesses and are treated considerably different.
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It’s interesting how comfortably you claim to speak for others and whether they may or may not take offense.
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We should all agree to come back and read this thread in 3 weeks and, many of us, apologize for being completely wrong in our angry, condescending and ultimately irrational responses, then think deeply about where we were coming from in this moment.
I've been using Zim for daily notes stashed to a Dropbox folder for many years.
? They absolutely are requiring people to change their language. That's literally 1/2 the article.

The term 'noosing' is perfectly reasonable language for describing how lizards are 'noosed'.

Blacklist/Whitelists - again, perfectly reasonable language.

People are being asked to change the use of their language for no pragmatic reason: even among possibly offended groups, nobody cares.

If you were to ask 1000 random African Americans for some things they feel should change about America to make it more fair, and to combat systematic racism - 0 of them would identify the terms 'whitelist and blacklist' as problematic language.

These are tropes in the minds of people who think for a living, and who have little better to do than argue over words like 'noosing'.

There's legitimacy in the concept of 'micro triggers' etc. but I think it's been taken entirely out of context.
So you want to grow a community of software developers? Or a community of software users?
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This is the case all over the web. Many of these cookie/privacy modals just don’t work or are deliberately engineered to be as obnoxious as possible. We need some legal test cases where this behavior is declared to be in violation of the spirit of GDPR and CCPA.
One feature I have yet to find in any Markdown editor is a simple "block" mover, which I describe here: https://twitter.com/jgthms/status/1225513837379641350

Underneath, the data structure would remain straightforward Markdown. So the data wouldn't be stored as separate blocks; the moving would act similarly to Sublime Text's "Swap Line Up/Down".
Is it really that much?
I’m unsure how to feel about this. On the one hand, I can most definitely sympathize with feelings that a name, no matter how inoffensive to some groups, might be deeply offensive to others. However, in my mind there’s the question of standardization to be considered. Science (unlike the software world) can’t change every few years (at least it shouldn’t). Some of these definitions have become so ingrained in existing literature and cultural knowledge over the decades that you have to ask what happens if you suddenly decide to change something; you have to wonder what effects it can have on a field if something is suddenly and forcefully renamed (students can get confused, older but sill quite valuable reference texts can be made confusing to read).

I also had issue with how the article decided to present its opening argument, by saying that an African American felt disturbed when they went to “noose” lizards in a group of white people. While I absolutely agree that this would be in bad taste if they were at all implying doing this same thing to people, the context I got is that it was a purely academic term derived from the shape of the tool they’re using, and NOT at all oriented towards the act itself or the specific things they’re trying to catch. To me that sounds very similar to someone saying that programmers referring to “killing the child” is offensive, when everyone knows the act is not related at all to the death of actual children and is not trying to make light of situations where that happens. It’s a historical and technically functional reference, nothing more.

To be clear, I don’t feel that all of these causes are wrong. I’m just worried that in our haste to make symbolic changes, we’re pushing towards alterations that only have an effect years later when everyone that would be able to explain the changes is dead. I’m also worried that these very symbolic changes will be used as a band-aid and aren’t addressing the deeper issues at play here, and that they might even distract from what actually needs to be done.
I considered saying something similar but everything I've read of Ms. Stock's work is also close to unparodyable so it would've felt a little unfair.
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This is the real solution to these kind of problems.

It is OK to honor the people who first worked on a problem like the Gaussian Distribution, Hessian, etc... But nowadays, with so many people working on science and so many records, it time to find a new way to honor those people.
I disagree, you can still allow duplex, and require bigger spaces, better design floorpan, proper entrance. This has nothing to do about the fact that the zoning allows duplex.
A more appropriate medium would have been a technical blog post, with redacted information and blurred photos.

Not an attention seeking twitter thread with lolspeak...
I did not mean speak for the entirety of HN, nor implied that in any conceivable way.
Language is by its nature non-neutral.
No, it’s really important advice.

The big issue with trains is that it has an inertia that our brain is not trained to.

As signalling engineers, we get to compute safe braking distances a lot and they are /big/, even at relatively low speed. This means that trains in curves -> do not have line of sight all the way to the next possible stop point <- so the driver may never have the chance to stop if you fall while crossing the track.

So don’t do it. Even at 30mph in curves, you are in danger.
I think what's more interesting about Google backing it over Facebook, is that it implies that Android will potentially not follow suit.
Who needs the address wraparound, anyway? (2011)
I was talking about

int a[2][3];

in C. Is that jagged? I wouldn’t have thought so, since AFAIK you could only store 6 elements in that and no fewer. Interestingly you cannot take the value of &&a[0][0], assign it to an

int **b;

pointer b, and then access it via b[0][0] because it’s stored as a contiguous block of integers rather than an array of pointers that point to arrays as you might expect.
They have so many levers to do this too. Their public policy team has sponsored hundreds of educational institutions, lobbying organizations, and think tanks.

https://kstatic.googleusercontent.com/files/5a1907d78237ab17...

Then with journalists they use a time-honored tradition Apple has been known for: Managing exclusive access based on positive press. Blogs which promote Google's political positions get exclusive interviews with Sundar Pichai, which when factoring in the ad clicks it brings in, is a multi-million dollar payday.

TechDirt is a special bridge between the two concepts: The same guy who writes the "news" runs a lobbying organization, Copia, which is on Google's public policy team payroll.
I'm not saying it's inaccurate. I'm saying it's ambiguous. Literally every search result I got on the first page for "Facebook app" was about a mobile app written by Facebook to access a Facebook-owned service (fb, WhatsApp, Instagram).

Since some people might not read the article and just the title, it seemed worth calling out.

Edit: ah, the title was edited from "Facebook app" to "third party social network app". So never mind :)
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If we avoid anything that offends anyone, we’ll most likely not be speaking the truth.

Truth always offends someone.
Is it the generally-accepted practice to run an app like this in a network namespace or sandbox? How do I know it's not pilfering my research? I'd like to use a system like this for my work but I don't see how it can be trusted. I don't have the time to read the source. To be honest, I prefer a hosted solution because then I get a written contract about the privacy of my data.
org-roam is great for personal use, but it’s not quite yet ready for team use. It kind of breaks when synced across multiple computers likely because it stores absolute paths in a sqlite database.
Red light crossings seem especially disadvantagous for red colorblind individuals with the addition of white light signals.
So: containing slums == slums...
The density of those city is not contained in those slums.
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Seriously? This blog is a total joke.

It's just throwing out wiki articles and stating "ah because the facts here don't line up with my extreme right wing / conspiratorial values it must be liberal bias!"

example from blog :
- The first article I thought to look at had some pretty egregious instances of bias: the Jesus article. It simply asserts, again in its own voice, that “the quest for the historical Jesus has yielded major uncertainty on the historical reliability of the Gospels and on how closely the Jesus portrayed in the Bible reflects the historical Jesus.”

What is bias about that? That is the exact opposite of bias simply stating the facts as determined though scientific process.

or another example:
- The global warming and MMR vaccine articles are examples; I hardly need to dive into these pages, since it is quite enough to say that they endorse definite positions that scientific minorities reject.

There is information on both of those pages about the minority position, but it is limited because the scientific community is pretty much in agreement on the science behind those topic. Do we need to make sure half the article on the earth is dedicated to flat earth theory to insure there is no extreme liberal globe shaped earth bias?
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Thanks for the tip, I'll give that a shot.
Ask HN: Is it rational to be afraid of mailing my list due to unsubscribes risk?
I've gathered ca. 1000 emails so far on my new programming screencasts website. The call-to-action was "episode alerts", FYI.

For a while, I emailed out each episode, but I noticed that each email caused maybe 1% of the list to unsubscribe, which is painful considering how much effort goes into winning a subscriber.

I've since reduced the frequency of mails to every 3 or so episodes (i.e. every 3 weeks). But I can't tell whether this is good idea or not.

On the one hand, mailing every episode means my content gets more eyeballs (and more chance of some virality via social media shares). On the other hand, if I hold back on using the list, then I'll have a larger list to one-day pitch any eventual paid offerings I launch.

What would you do in this situation?
Fun and informative, a great combination!
> The creation of this book is mainly motivated by the lack of centralized and up-to-date information with regard to minecraft modding with forge. By documenting my modding journey, I hope to make the lives of other beginner modders just a little bit easier.

Cool. My kids are 9 & 11 and are pretty obsessed with Minecraft and just learning to code a little bit.

Like the author, I was frustrated by how hard it is to figure out the various "hello world" complexity level mod starting points from which to begin.
Sure, but this is Barclays.

Fun story: I had a Barclaycard once. I chose to get bills/invoices via snail mail because I'm old fashioned. Didn't use the card for almost a year after signing up and then finally bought something online with it. Got an invoice next month and paid it. Then got another invoice the next month over 60ct for the invoice sent via snail mail. Fair enough, they stated that when I signed up. But then I got another bulk the following month because, you guessed it, the invoice for the invoice was sent via mail. I tried to be clever then and paid 1.20€, but that doesn't work since I still got a letter saying there's still enough money in my account covering the invoice. So after four or five months I just gave up and canceled my account.
> Then you are not in favour of free speech

Correct. I'm in favor of certain restrictions on speech; I think Germany's bans on Nazi slogans and symbols are a good model.

I draw a distinction between "I trained a dog to make Nazi salutes" and comedy routines, yes. It appears the UK does as well.
Maybe so, but not using encryption at all is clearly worse.

What would be a better system?
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My understanding is that there's no real distinction between "sum type" and "union type" as such.

I may be wrong, but whether you have an indirection through a type constructor or not doesn't alter the meaning of the union. In the fictional Go syntax, you could also have the same indirection:

type Reader struct { R io.Reader }
type ReaderAt struct { R io.ReaderAt }
type Source sum { Reader, ReaderAt }

The difference is that Reader and ReaderAt are completely separate types, not type constructors, and that Rust has a shorthand for essentially valueless type constructors, allowing Rust's enums to act both like classic C enums and like sum types. But in Rust, as I understand it, enum variants aren't actually types. In your example, you can't have:

let r: source::Reader;

Of course, you can do the same thing in Rust, at the cost of readability:

struct Reader { ... }
struct ReaderAt { ... }
enum source { Reader(Reader), ReaderAt(ReaderAt) }

> The proper way to fix this would of course be the same one C# took

It's just too late for Go to do anything here, I think. Zero values permeate the language. For example, consider structs. It's normal to do:

var f Foo
if err := json.Unmarshal(b, &f); err != nil {
...
}

It's unfortunate.
TBQH I think the noosing one is pretty innocent (since it is an actual noose after all) - but note that the ending paragraph says that that proposal doesn't have much support.

I think most of the things described in the article that are actually changing (things named after eugenicists or unethical researchers or slurs) are good targets to change.
Neurons have weight and bias. Weight is multiplied, bias is added. Really that simple.

Here are examples of equivalent notations that may make it more familiar:

y = 2⋅x + b or
y = a⋅x + b

- x would be the input to the neuron, often named 'x'.

- a/2 would be the weight, often named 'w'.

- b would be the bias, often named 'b'.

- y is the output.

In neural network documentation this is often written as (often case sensitive, which may be confusing):
output = w⋅x + b (output = weight * input + bias).

I hope that explains it.