skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CEO of Cisco and upper management within the company are openly recommending the book White Fragility to their employees. The book basically claims that anyone who is white is automatically a racist and that there is no way out of being a racist. I am sure it will be any day now where I will be compelled to openly confess and apologize for this new original sin. I will have to stand my ground as a non-conformist and declare that I will never apologize for false accusations about my character and wrong-doings that I never did. The world is becoming disturbingly Orwellian very quickly.
You don't have to be perfect every day, you just need to be better than everyone else averaged over some long period of time.
Azure DevOps Service Outage
I feel ya. Software is a world that’s constantly evolving.

Apache is great at software engineering, but sorely lacking in product design. Because open source software is almost definitionally not a product, but a tool.

With that comes increased bifurcation of the tooling when different requirements arise, and increased complexity with running it. Kafka and pulsar both have zookeeper as an external dependency, for instance. Pulsar has an extra dependency even in bookkeeper, one of the few things I’ll readily fault it for. It’s a stark contrast to openly commercial products like CockroachDB, which has a single static binary, with symmetric nodes, and built in management UI. It’s a product, not a tool.

FWIW, Apache has a project directory - https://projects.apache.org/projects.html

But it’s a far cry from a comparison matrix as you (and I think many other confused and disheartened engineers) desire.
>How many people in the US today, would be eager for quality care from an "unethical" side-show clinic, rather than delaying their own care, or being bankrupted by it?

This is actually possible today, in a way, with crowdfunding. I've seen several funds set up for someone facing expensive medical care.
This is the question I always had and confused myself over.

In addition to this, I previously stumbled upon a few situations where I visited an AMP site to read an article and I noted down the site name in my mind.
A few days later I tried to visit that site and when I put the site name in the address bar in hopes of getting helped by autocomplete, guess what?! It was nowhere to be found.
Not exactly. For a CDN to work, the DNS is repointed towards the CDN's servers. In this case, Google is trying to cover-up that Google and not NYTimes is serving the page.
Grabby and wrong, and most of the value created is for Google.
It destroys public trust. What do you now say to people who refuse to wear masks? Do you say "I was lying to you earlier for the greater good, but now I'm not." Why should they ever listen to you again? You could be lying again.
You don't weigh your eggs?
> Combine this with the increasing popularity of digging up old comments, taking them out of context, stirring a moral panic, and getting someone fired over them

I hear you loud and clear. Signed up for reddit in 2007 and last week finally decided to run "shreddit" and delete my entire post and comment history from the website. No way I'm letting some comment I made 13 years ago get taken out context and ruin my career or relationships.
CSHL to remove James Watson's name from graduate school
Well, for computer science, it is straightforward. Computer science is the science that lies somewhere between science of astrology and the science of numerology, without the popularity of the former or the formality of the latter. (Not my line, sadly.)
"Don't be evil", using primary colors in the logo to bring that kindergarten familiarity, fun doodles, a dumb funny movie and quirky April Fools projects were a great marketing strategy to distract your average person in lowering their guard and feel safe to give all the data to an advertisement company. I wonder if they currently teach this case in marketing/PR classes.
OK no college for them. We'll use your idea instead. What is it?
What goes around, comes around. Before IE destroyed Netscape, Netscape did it to Mosaic. Do you remember where the name Mozilla came from?
"Here, we show that the risk is conferred by a genomic segment of ~50 kb that is inherited from Neandertals and occurs at a frequency of ~30% in south Asia and ~8% in Europe."

Hmmm...thus far, the mortality per capita from Covid-19 has been much higher in Europe, especially western Europe, than in south Asia. Not saying that couldn't change, but the weekly mortality peaks in western Europe were literally an order of magnitude higher than for Bangladesh, India, or Pakistan. So either this finding is flawed in some way, or (perhaps more likely) even the biggest genetic risk factor for severe Covid-19 is not that big of a factor, and what's going on is mostly not genetic.
Induction heats much faster than a stove burner coil. As for the dial, apparently different kinds of tea taste better at different temperatures according to the variety.
Although some of my beliefs were certainly refined and adjusted, for the most part, I would say, yes, I left college with the same beliefs I had when I arrived: racism is wrong and racist slurs are unacceptable. Let these racist brats work at McDonald’s.
> If they didn't learn that at home [...]

And if someone comes from a dysfunctional home then tough luck. Be born in a better home next time.

Same thing for people who've been arrested for anything violent or threatening. Wouldn't want to be forced to interact with someone with a criminal past. They need to do some soul searching, which can be done from a prison cell.
If you are down for a little bit of hands on work with installing a router distribution, a PCEngines APU2 make an absolutely wonderful router that can handle full gigabit, at around $150 usd, and the case is just a generic black/red/blue box, rather than some scifi spaceship from a cyberpunk fever dream, it doesn't even have any logos.

https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm

https://i.imgur.com/Fa8nSN8.jpg

They are just generic x86 machines so they are never going to fall afoul of the problems of a lot of closed ARM routers like closed source drivers that never get updated, AND they have coreboot and no intel ME/amd PSP style nastiness!.
Internet before shows the real URL. Plain and simple.
Protests are inconvenient, that’s part of the reason they’re effective at getting people to question the status quo.

Similarly, having admission rescinded is especially inconvenient for the people involved and will stimulate some of them (and those around them) to question their racist beliefs. If people renounce their racism, I am all for giving them a second chance. But giving racists the privilege of a top-tier education, often at the expense of non-racists who were denied that same privilege, all while the racists are unrepentant? Nope.
If the Trump era has taught me anything, it's that for the most part it's usually a fools errand trying to explain to racists why their views are wrong. As you mentioned they're just set in their ways. There's usually a fundamental mind shift required that goes beyond a few conversations. It may sound intuitive that a college experience may help them get over their views but I really don't think college is the place for that.

>...outside world will always hate them for saying the things they were raised to say is the absolute most perfect way to make sure they never want to change.

This can't be a serious argument...since when was beliefs held as an adult, however grotesque, become 'okay' because it was taught at home? People learn all sorts of screwed up behaviours and beliefs at home, racism being just one among many, it's still up to the individual to be self aware and self improve. And as I mentioned in the previous post, their admission poses a risk to the social cohesion and mental health of all the students at the college, which I think would be unfair.
Toastmasters! Public speaking is an incredible valuable skill that you need in all walks of life. People should check out their local chapter: https://www.toastmasters.org/
People see Graham Hancock on Joe Rogan and think those are the extent of his beliefs. Watch his other talks where he ponders of ancient Egyptians used some kind of telekinesis to move stones and build pyramids.
That doesn't seem like a simplification that misrepresents a relevant, core dynamic of Bitcoin. The exact details of how you ramp up difficulty are a pretty low-level technical issue.
https://github.com/lhartikk/naivechain is a rather decent introductory implementation as well.
Ask HN: Why open source free E-commerce ecosystem sucks?
There is WooCommerce but it doesn't even have free shipment tracking plugin. Nearly all additional functionality (I am sure it's helping WooCommerce owners) are subscription based with yearly subscription.

Why there aren't good free Opensource e-commerce systems which aren't very complicated or have too much legacy and are free and easy to add functionality through other Opensource free
plugins?

It seems this space is least developed of all software spaces.
The right to free speech gives you a right to speak. It does not give you a right to be respected for your words. Respect must always be earned.
This is a good read “The Masks Masquerade” by Nassim Taleb of Black Swan fame:

“First error: missing the compounding effect”
...
“Third Error: Mistaking Absence of Evidence for Evidence of Absence”
...

https://medium.com/incerto/the-masks-masquerade-7de897b517b7
It is. You have to pay for it. Nothing in this world is free.
If you have 23andme, the exact allele is not on the chip. However, a different allele is strongly associated with the region:

https://you.23andme.com/tools/data/?query=rs10490770&filter_...

The major A/A variant is listed as T/T on 23andme. If you have a result other than "T/T", you're likely to be in the high-risk group.

refs:
https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs11385942 [not on 23andme]
https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs10490770
Interesting tidbit: Marcus Aurelius, despite being a Roman emperor, wrote Meditations in Koine Greek.

I once had a conversation with a Koine Greek scholar (also a Lyft driver, he was driving me to the airport -- turns out the job market for Ph.D.s in Koine Greek was/is not great), and he claims that most native English speakers should be able to achieve reading proficiency in Koine Greek in a matter of 6 months. It's apparently a very regular language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations
I don't think universities should only be for people who share popular views.

Seventy years ago universities had very different views. If they had had an effective way of screening out students whose views they considered dangerous or harmful, then perhaps we would have a worse society than we do now.

These are powers that make me uneasy.
This is essentially the thesis of Silvia Federici’s tremendous book, “Caliban and the Witch.” Witch hunts were pursued to reorganize familial, gender, and labor relations to suit the needs of an emergent Capitalism:

>For serfs, who tilled the land in exchange for a share of its crops, home was work, and vice versa; men and women grew the potatoes together. But in capitalism, waged laborers have to work outside the home all the time, which means someone else needs to be at home all the time, doing the domestic work. Gender roles, and the subjugation of women, became newly necessary.

Early feudal elites in rural Europe enclosed public land, rendering it private and controllable, and patriarchy enclosed women in “private” marriages, imposing on them the reproductive servitude of bearing men’s children and the emotional labor of caring for men’s every need. Pregnancy and childbirth, once a natural function, became a job that women did for their male husband-bosses—that is to say, childbirth became alienated labor. “Witches,” according to witch-hunting texts like the Malleus Maleficarum, were women who kept childbirth and pregnancy in female hands: midwives, abortionists, herbalists who provided contraception. They were killed to cement patriarchal power and create the subjugated, domestic labor class necessary for capitalism.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/21592/capitalism-witches-wom...
> maybe it's never too early to put them in a leadership position where they can do that.

Whether or not they're put in that kind of "leadership position" should be up to them, not anyone else. It's not the responsibility of under-represented groups to educate white people about the history of racial and economic injustice. If we want to learn, the resources exist for us to learn on our own. If we don't want to learn, no amount of prerequisite classes in "Humanities" will motivate us to do so.
Vakantiehuis Met Jacuzzi
I preferred InkDrop on my laptop, but I had to switch back to SimpleNote because SimpleNote does both sync and mobile extremely well. Doing mobile well just requires it to never take time to load. InkDrop would usually have to refresh its contents when switching to it.
Does anyone know what it would cost to charter a flight like that? Is it relatively reasonable if you split it amongst 10 people, or are we still talking 10/15K per head?
I suspect that it loses some of the intended meaning of the original; while there are lots of things that Elements of Style suggests, the overwhelming thing that a reference to it communicates, to me at least, is concision. I don't know if its the only not-wrong thing in the work, but its certainly the only thing I've specifically retained from it, in any case, and when I've talked to others its been the main thing of value most have reported getting from it.

Actual usage and more substantive style I'd tend to use a more current and comprehensive style manual like Chicago, even before considering qualitative issues of the Elements relative to its time.
IMO the core point of the article is false.

> To be blunt, this is a really dangerous pattern: Google serves NYTimes’ controlled content on a Google domain.

No, "Google serves NYTimes' controlled content" is an oxymoron. Google controls the content that is served, and that's all your browser is verifying. Google could very well make the NYTimes content on there display something else and your browser wouldn't show a warning. NYTimes could do nothing about that.

I disagree that this pattern is dangerous. While Google taking over serving the world's content is hardly a thing to celebrate, at least we're seeing that it's doing so here.
They will be back
Something about the logic being so off is what I intuitively find logical: we're making these AIs "in our image" in a sense (we think of "neural networks", train them with mostly human-generated datasets), and there's a lot of evidence that pure logic evades us without the use of some heavy artillery to address it (cognitive biases, illusions, optimizations for goals that do not necessarily align with "objectively observable" reality). So in a way, I wonder if we'll have to "teach AI logic" at some point too. In this quest of running logic software on logic hardware with.. steps.. in between, I can't help but think about us humans on our parallel quest when it comes to our brains.
This is a curious comment in that the West set up apartheid in the first place. Millions of Africans suffered under it and thousands died in the struggle to overthrow it. The role that external condemnation from western countries played, if any, pales in comparison to what actual Africans sacrificed and accomplished.

Western sanctions generally produce misery and discontent as their main outcomes. North Korea has been sanctioned for decades and shows no signs of responding positively. Iraq was sanctioned for decades until the US invaded and further ruined the lives of everyone there.
Ahh I was hoping you'd go for an exponential increase - I might well lose this bet. But sounds good, see you then.
What is stopping individuals from holding a nuanced understanding of politics similar to this comment?
The main talks seem too advanced for me (as a beginner), but the tutorials on Sunday (starting at 9AM EDT) are interesting: https://act2020.mit.edu/#tutorialday

Thx for sharing.
A group of us maintain an annotated bibliography of math textbooks used at the University of Chicago. The entry level ones (like Spivak's Calculus) would be good to check out:
https://github.com/ystael/chicago-ug-math-bib
Imho America is the only country where it's easiest to make money and where probability of your business succeeding is much higher than elsewhere. Partly due to America not trying hard to kill incentives which capitalism offers to entrepreneurs
Bailey's book he mentions here is called 'Origins of the witches sabbath'.
The idea that satanic witchcraft was invented by mediaeval authorities is preposterous IMO. Occult practices go back to ancient Egypt and have been practiced in multiple civilizations as white, grey or black magic respectively. Black magic is what everyone obsesses over (attempts to use supernatural powers or magic for evil and selfish purposes). Grey and white are 'do no harm' or curative (health etc) efforts.

Michael Aquino has just died, some may be intrigued by his standing and history as evidence of 'witch craft' being alive and well today.
https://burners.me/2020/06/29/michael-aquino-dead-was-leppo-...

I think the mediaeval purges were largely political and cynical property grabs along with a desire for populations to conform to dogmatic religions and drop ancient customs and beliefs
The temperature control is good for fine teas and coffees that require more fine tuned temperature settings.
The folks in power are literal corporate overlords and the political elites in bed with them, draining the value of the labor and knowledge class who provide the wealth for this country. These are the same people going along with movements like BLM and the woke movement because they realize it has no threat to them. The targets are a scapegoated white-majority america who have the same struggles as everyone else. Your misconception is that BLM or the woke movement are doing anything to address the real roots of inequality rather than the appearance of it. BLM is a pack of slogans. It's not sophisticated enough to tackle real problems. They've given their donations to the democratic party, knowing that they have no legitamate leadership or process to bring about real change. The democratic and republican parties are both corrupt instituations that exist to enrich their own elites. How is this going to bring about racial equality?

How are ideologies like systemic racism which inform its followers to view all encounters in the lens of racism, and that we should all act in accordance to the idea that racism is inherent in all of us, going to bring about net good change in society?

These ideas are absolutely backwards and will drive us backwards from the hard-fought progress of the past.

Racism is an issue, but it's improved drastically from the past. Entrenching the idea of racism into all encounters can only deepen the issue of racism. It erodes the idea of the individual, the American, and places racial identity foremost as to the quality of your personhood. If you only read some of what's been written as the foundational teachings of this movement - the origins of systemic racism, writings like White Fragility, the bare insanity is there to see - it has zero contact with reality. And these ideas are coming to life by humanities students and activists.

The value of the Evergreen story is that the pattern has emerged across the country and spread like a virus into higher education and soon into private corporations. Evergreen is a dying college now. No parent wants to send their child to an institution which places merit far below sexual or racial identity. Yet the administrators cling on, doubling-down on decisions representing an inverted ideology. The same thing, if the ideas of this movement are taken to their logical conclusion, will happen all across America in its knowledge centers.
I have lived, worked and paid taxes in Denmark, the UK, the USA (Washington D.C.) and Australia. I am absolutely blown away by how out of touch you and others are from the reality of people struggling to survive in the USA compare with other rich nations. Having the intelligence, interest and family support needed to learn how to program is in itself a huge privilege. One that I benefited from myself. However the difference is that I am grateful for it and know how privileged I am. The difference is that I don't use it as a hammer to attack the people who are less fortunate.
Based on the fact that a group of eight or so people with Confederate flags, tattoos and armed and wearing body armor went out of their way to pose, in front of a BLM protest, all making that sign.

"wasn't meant that way" - you're going have to try harder than that. Saying "oh, they meant nothing inflammatory, even though they're the group (3%ers) who are most associated with the nefarious intent and are absolutely aware of it's purported meaning" is wilfully disingenuous.
+1. The way I think about it is that signed exchanges are basically a way of getting the benefits of a CDN without turning over the keys to your entire kingdom to a third party. Instead you just allow distribution of a single resource (perhaps a bundle), in a crytographically verifiable way.

Stated another way, with a typical CDN setup the user has to trust their browser, the CDN, and the source. With signed exchanges we're back to the minimal requirement of trusting the browser and the source; the distributor isn't able to make modifications.
Historically, yes. But in a world of mobile OS with permissions everywhere, it would make sense to deny full read access by default.

I may be wrong but I thought that even websites cannot access clipboard content except in write mode. Even, I remember that long ago, a Flash script was commonly used to be able to copy stuff into it.
Spivak was my 1st-year college textbook and it convinced me to major in math. I highly recommend.
Are there really no popular alternatives to Youtube to keep them honest? It is the virtual monopoly that allows them to be complacent enough to enforce such lousy automation. This is not healthy.
As a rough estimate, assume $10k per hour of flight for a rented plane + crew. If you own the plane, it would be more economical.
My family had one of these, and they works as magically as the article suggests.

It died after a decade of use when a glass of water was accidentally tipped into it, causing earth leaks. I threw it out and went to buy another only to find they were nla. Alternatives, even expensive models, are primitive in comparison.

I too wonder why all toasters aren’t made this way.
On NetJets or ExecJet which is like kind of an Uber for private jets owned by Berkshire Hathaway you could probably get to $15k a head.
Hey it’s looking good! I wonder how much of my idea was used in the final product :)
Unfortunately, they never implemented the legal extensions I've requested. There's no good markup for legal documents.

UPDATE: It came out I was a bit unfair as I've submitted the issue to AsciiDoctor. [0]

[0]: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/1316
Not strictly about math but still recommended and specially for younger folks: Logicomix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix
Many people have often pointed to scientists as an example of this productive use of twitter, but if you look at the recent clash between Yann Lecun and Timnit Gebru that got some attention, it even causes shitstorms between otherwise polite academics who have conversations on what one wouldn't consider to be a mainstream issue.

The medium is the message and sooner or later the twitter mechanisms get everyone regardless whether you have good social media hygiene. It's built for outrage. Instantanious nature, slot-machine like feeds, blinking like buttons, 'getting ratio'd', virality, this is what it's built for.