skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And just to get my word out there: I think the transgender passage was kind of meh. To me it sounds like the article conflates the fact that biological sex exists with the idea that it's somehow extremely important in our everyday life. I think it's important to respect everyone's biological needs but the way we see each other should definitely be our gender identity. Pressing on "the importance of biological sex" kinda feels like a good way to make people believe their identity must be defined by their biology.

(By the way, I am curios as to how biological sex is treated during a transition. Like, changing your body isn't instantaneous, apart from that there's also intersex people, so is it really all-binary from a scientific POV?)

And the Rowling piece kinda read like a non-apology to me, sorry.
As a general commentary on your style, characterizing something someone says as "laughable" does not promote dialogue. We have enough ugliness out there, let's make an attempt to be civilized.

That said, the world of business if far too complex for a single rule or statement to fully encompass every aspect of it. What I can say, with absolute certainty, is that the world you are referring to, the world of VC's, and the companies they represent, are but a rounding error in the business megalopolis.

Yes, sure, they have created a few massive high flying companies of great influence. And yet, if you take stock of the entirety of businesses, from the corner grocery store, through construction contractors, garbage processors, laboratories, hospitals, architects, engineering firms, transportation, manufacturing, medicine, chemical plants, shipping, publishing, household products, consumer electronics and, yes, web and software development, you will find it dwarfs the VC sphere. And yes, that ecosystem very much responds to natural selection. Brutally so.

Government, by comparison, evolves at a glacial pace.
It's also just as easy to hide it.
Let's all pray that it isn't true. Let's all hope really hard that it doesn't help and Trump is still wrong. That is the most important thing.
Yeah agreed that the substance of the complaint might have some merit. This sentence just really rubbed me the wrong way.
Note the graph of the money supply in the pjc50 sibling post.
I just posted a comment saying thedonald.win on my own subreddit and sure enough it was gone.
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The viewpoint that hunter gatherer societies had healthier diets and lifestyles than sedentary societies is something I've seen expressed in various places. But the argument that what initially promped hunter gatherers to become a farmers is coercion by the state isn't very fleshed out. In a world where everyone is a hunter gatherer, how did the first small and outnumbered proto-state have the power to coerce them into settling?

The following is a hypothesis for how this could have occurred.

1. Hunter gathering requires a wider range of skills and knowledge than sedentary farming, such as knowing how to identify wild foods, being able to herd, ride, and hunt, and being self-sufficient with resources gathered on the move. If a generation of hunter-gatherers is prevented from living a nomadic lifestyle, this survival knowledge is lost and cannot be regained without costly and deadly trial and error. Moving from a nomadic to sedentary lifestyle is a one-way trip.

2. The environment hunter-gathers live in may suffer occasional periods of prey shortages due to unusual weather cycles causing ripples through the food chain. Although hunter-gathers can travel to find more food, there is a limit to how far they can search before resorting to drastic changes to their nomadic lifestyle in order to survive.

The first sedentary civilization could have been a band of hunter gathers that, during a period of prey shortages or simply because they were less skilled at hunting than competitors, resorted to farming in order to survive and forgot the skills they needed to revert to a nomadic lifestyle. But once they locked down a piece of fertile land and built up a food surplus, they could force other hunter-gathers to settle and farm during times of prey shortages as they would be the only source of stockpiled food in the neighborhood. Their descendants would be the first sedentary civilizations, and although they had less nutritious food and more labor-intensive lifestyles, it was more resilient to black-swan events that would wipe out a hunter-gatherer tribe and required less skill and knowledge in return for a life of hard labor. Once the first sedentary civilizations had a stable foundation, their high population growth and the inability of sedentary peoples to switch to a nomadic lifestyle and escape their rulers would set the historical trend.
Just saying you're satire is usually cover for being offensive. There's a simple formula for offensive humor to be acceptable and that's that is has to be funny. The more offensive, the funnier it has to be. South Park usually nails it. Not 100%.
This article resonates with me. I feel very strongly about spyware (Bossware is too kind). Views expressed here are my own, not those of my employer.

I work for a company that makes an automated time tracking product (WiseTime [1]). We migrated our infrastructure to EU/Germany because we wanted to fall under a jurisdiction that is one of the strictest when it comes to privacy. This is how we think about the problem.

- Many professionals (lawyers, contractors, ...) get paid for the time that they bill their clients

- Manual time tracking (start/stop stopwatch) sucks

- Automated time tracking is an order of magnitude more convenient

- If you are going to automate the problem away, make sure that the system cannot be abused to spy on people

- Otherwise no one will want to use it!

We view privacy as one of our most important features, and our systems were designed from the ground up to protect it.

- Your activity is captured into a private timeline that only you can see

- To make your time available to your team, you must select the activities that you want to share, and explicitly post them to the team. It's like sending an email. Your draft is private, but once you send it off, then your recipient has a copy of it.

- We allow you to anonymise your posted activity data when you leave a team

- We allow you to specify filters around what activities should and shouldn't be captured. Of course you can delete anything you want off of your private timeline.

- We provide user-level and team-level data retention settings. We automatically purge data that falls outside of your desired retention period.

- We silo our data layer so that we don't store any personal information with user activity data. User activity data is siloed away from posted team data, and so on.

- We take GDPR seriously and we even have automated processes to purge data from our Sales team's CRM

We are a remote-first team, and we wanted to build a system that we personally dogfood without any qualms.

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That doesn't mean anything.

Facebook doesn't claim to be neither "platform" or "neutral ground" or "publisher", anywhere. There is no law making that distinction. It's entirely in your head!

It's a website. You may post. They may delete. You may leave.

If just one of their billions of users writes something bad about billionaire <y>, who then sues in a UK court and gets a Gawker-like verdict, Facebook suddenly owes them a a few million of whatever the local currency is.

Repeat for every single mistake of their team of moderators, and they are done for within 20 minutes. And so are Youtube, HN, and Google.

No moderation would lead to 4chan. Or, really, worse. Because even the chans all moderate to some degree, as far as I can tell. This would also be the end of any platform as we know it, obviously.

Therefore, you either don't even understand what you are arguing for. Or you somehow enjoy the idea of every single online community degrading to a constant stream of snuff videos and swastikas.
I'm a long-time fan, but Lineage breaks the Android security model - knowingly.

Other AOSP variants are more secure by an order of magnitude.
This is the opposite of what they should do. Encryption is verboten on amateur radio.
>Why are people being fired because they made a tweet that wasn't supportive enough (or supportive in the right way) of the "correct" social causes?

I honestly rarely have seen this happen. There's almost always some other context to the story or the people who feel that they've been unjustly fired actually vastly underestimate what the impact of their statement was.

The reality is when you post on twitter with your name attached to it you are making a public statement that can reach thousands of people. Doesn't matter if you tweet from your toilet, you're reaching an audience that is larger than most people 20 years ago could ever dream of.

If that actually for some reason causes a PR shitstorm for your employer, you've damaged their business. This has always let to people being fired, this is not new.

Do you know how many local politicians or celebrities or public figures have lost their careers over a single sentence? A ton, there's nothing novel about it. Twitter gives you the opportunity as a complete nobody to reach hundreds of thousands within minutes. It's time people recognise they're not nobody's any more when that happens.
They are increasing the precision of the phase while decreasing the precision of the amplitude. Since the amplitude of the light determines how hard it pushes on the mirrors, this has the side-effect of also making the positions of the mirrors more uncertain. To get the most accurate measurement possible, I'd guess that they would squeeze the light until getting any additional precision in the phase was not worth the added noise in mirror position.
But think of the utils that you’re leaving on the table by not fully exploiting comparative advantage.

/s
So long smooth handfish: What can we learn from the first marine fish extinction
yeah, definitely used to rock when it killed your laptop battery in an hour while running in the background routing other people's calls through you.

skype rocked after ms acquired it, fixed these types of problems by providing infrastructure, and it rocked for a decade. it stopped rocking only when they replaced it with the app-looking cut down app, and years later killed the desktop mode program.
it's washington post, so any of this may or may not be true.
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You can modify both the author date and the commit date on a commit if you need to. Git log is not trustworthy spying tool.
My comment was meant to point out the hypocracy of the mainstream who thinks conspiracy theories are bad but at the same time bought into the trump/russia conspiracy theory hook, line and sinker
^huge ...medicine, college education...
What are specific examples?
I've thought about this quite a bit recently and have come to the conclusion that free speech, broadly speaking, is way more than a constitutional amendment protecting us from government persecution. That's a last resort protection.

Free speech is an ethic, an ideology, a deep part of our culture as Americans and essential to western enlightenment. It's a human right.

You don't have to agree with someone to think it's wrong to censor them. Corollary, you don't take away someone's human rights because they have an opinion you think is reprehensible.

History has a pretty damning record of what happens when societies allow silencing of undesirable voices.
Alaska was in fact nuked three times; from 1965 to 1971 three underground tests were conducted on Amchitka in the Aleutian Islands, including the largest underground detonation ever conducted by the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amchitka#Nuclear_testing
Are these things PIV or something else?
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But, no verified boot?
People just came from a global war that eradicated 3% of the global population. The danger of radiation seemed very tiny in comparison.
Politicizing wearing masks. Oh wait, that's utter insanity even today
I saw zero mentions of Trump or the current administration and their efforts to curtail free speech, threatening people into complying, the attacks on journalists or protestors.

Instead what I see is fear of 'cancel culture', the fear of BLM being a bunch of secret marxists (ironically she should be advocating for their right to freedom of speech as well, but it seems that marxists are more scary than nazis) and a bunch of links at the end to people who have done their fair share to either stifle free speech or cancel people on their own.

She even links to Andy Ngo who is a known liar and provocateur and has even himself encouraged violence against people he disagrees with. Frankly I'm disappointing this article is even given a millisecond of anyone's time of day.
Counterpoint: progress is messy. In an ideal world, we'd shape society through rational democratic debates where everyone is discussing in good faith. Maybe we'll get there one day, but there are a lot of things in the way: poor education, economic hardship, inaccessible healthcare, wealth inequality, and biases deeply embedded in our culture. These factors not only make a lot of people unequipped to express nuance in their frustrations, they also don't exactly incentivize them to do so.

(And even if these issues are resolved, there are also the complexities of crowd mentalities that affect even very rational people. To overcome these complexities will take a mindfulness not really currently studied or practiced at scale.)

Throughout history, we've seen that change usually comes from very messy, ugly, forceful action. Polite discussion has its place, but when people are pushed to the limits, politeness is discarded and those who take action get what they fight for, polite or not. In those moments, enforcing "politeness" only works to preserve the status quo.

Politically correct mobs are a form of this - they are ugly and indiscriminate, but effective at shaping culture by stigmatizing ideas that have been used to justify harm. I'm not saying it's great - this is only a description of what is, not what ought to be. But people being mean or annoying online is as old as the internet, and is not limited to politically left-leaning people. It just happens that the mean left internet people are on the side of society's conscience, and luckily for now it's generally working for the greater good by correcting some big imbalances in American history.

Of course, the lack of accountability and balance makes this powerful hammer prone to swing wherever gravity carries it. It's dangerous, but to lash out against it is to lash out against the atmosphere for climate change - we need to address the root causes. We need to improve the livelihoods of everyone so they don't feel desperate and angry - this requires tackling hard economic and healthcare problems. We need to improve critical thinking so people can identify the truth - this requires solving difficult problems with our education system (which also tie into economics and healthcare). We need people to be more empathetic - this requires better urban planning, and all of the above. We need so many things and solve so many tough interconnected problems to get to the point where nuance and good-faith discussion rule society. Interestingly, these are all the problems that the mean left people are trying to fix. So it's possible to be on "their side" and not be in love with their techniques. It feels complicated, but isn't that what nuance is for?

Pushing back against the mob for being too uncivilized is trying to stop the swinging hammer, when it's probably best to just stay out of the way, and help finish building what the hammer is working on.
It's almost like you can ask your users to help with automated one-touch bug report submissions, instead of taking the data without asking.
The key idea is that if the semantic description is abstracted enough, a grammar engine can convert the ideas encoded in it into the right structure for the language.

Not all languages have "X is Y" constructs, but all known human languages have some structure to declare that object X has property Y. Capture the idea "Object X has property Y" in your semantic language, and a grammar engine can wire that down to your target language.

The largest risk is that the resulting text will be dry as hell, not that it's an impossible task.
Utility is actually a really useful framework, provided you've correctly specified your utility function. [1]

"I've shipped my N95 production off-shore and there is a global pandemic" is the kind of thing economists leave out of their models.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Morgenster...
I often find myself thinking about problems in the shower or out on walks, and that's also when I have big breakthroughs. How does WiseTime ensure I'm paid for that time too, not just when my butt is in my seat?
Neither, it is only for legal company usage up to the borders of privacy laws, minus gov surveillance machinery.
I'm using both Chromecast widgets.
Mind linking to a news source for this? Curious to read more about it.
There are corona denialists out there still to this date. So I'm a pessimist on that one :(.
Does anyone know if there's a firefox extension to show when a site reads your clipboard?
Isn't standing for the national anthem or playing it at games also an, obvious to anyone, literal political statement?
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Props to you. I used to work as a carpenter, and I see the world differently because of it. When I walk down a city sidewalk past a brick building, I can picture what it was like, in say, 1910, when the brick facade was being laid. I'll look at a brick and wonder if it was hot, or cold, or rainy or sunny when that particular brick was bumped into its final resting place by the handle of the trowel, and I'll wonder what the mason had on his mind when he laid it.

When I used to build staircases, it always gave me pause to think that people not yet born would be walking up and down those stairs long after I'm dead. And that's the nature of your work. Your work product will outlive you by decades, or possibly centuries.
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There are laws in some states where squares or common areas of apartment buildings are considered public for the purposes of speech, etc. I think we will eventually see this gravitate online.

One case heard was about an apartment complex which made up some absurd percentage of a district. If people were barred from distributing fliers it would have seriously upset campaigning in that district.
> what, exactly, constitutes "direct user request" that both...

> 1) does not break common programming techniques (e.g. an application rolling its own GUI, or implementing its own modes/keybindings)

A callback method that you can define to do anything you want in your program when the OS hands you the result of a user initiated paste operation because your program had focus. If you want custom keybindings to initiate the paste operation, you can register that desire with the OS. Want something perpetually backgrounded that exists exclusively to steal your secrets? Make _that_ a special permission if you must. Or just don't allow it.

> * 2) is not trivially spoofable by the enterprising developer?*

Ignoring the _minor_ contradiction of mixing "trivially" and "enterprising", rolling your own GUI and defining keybindings doesn't mean that you control access to the interface. The operating system mediating the hardware does that.

Could someone root your system and blahblahblah? Sure. But let's stop making "steal my secrets" part of the fucking standard system API and start working toward a brighter tomorrow.
I love writing documentation in asciidoc (using asciidoctor actually). However I keep running into certain issues. For example, if a document includes pictures, and the file path has spaces in it, then you have issues. I believe you can replace spaces using HTML escapes if your output doc is HTML, however that falls apart if you want to make a PDF from the same source.

I'm also still trying to wrap my head around the presentation side. You can use something like style sheets, but it doesn't look like the same style sheets are compatible with both HTML and PDF output (if memory serves). And if you want to output to docx format, you can do it, but again the output looks different.
They are putting cargo on the passenger area as well, either removing seats or tying them up over them.
Yes, Trump to be wrong is much more important than finding an effective and cheap cure for the disease that stopped half the economy.
> the Mongol Army practically wiped out the entire country in retaliation.

He can't have been the worst, then; worse things have happened to countries than just being "practically wiped out".

Compare Nongqawuse, who did not hold an official advisory position, but who nevertheless "successfully" advised the Xhosa that the solution to the stress they were under through contact with the British was to destroy all their crops and slaughter all their cattle.

Unsurprisingly, they mostly starved to death afterwards.
Lack of competition is forced by lawmakers.
You don't find this creepy at all? She googles something on her phone. Gets near me, and my phone suggests driving to the location she googled? We aren't on the same account or anything. Google just assumed that I wanted to go where she wanted to go and shared her private searches with me. What if she had gotten in the car and planned parenthood had come up as suggestion?
> Since I don't have any credible psychology background, nobody listens to my suggestions in real life.

The reason I prefer listening to researchers is because they study populations and try to account for confounding variables.

I'm glad to hear you're happy, but I'm skeptical of how well you're able to attribute that to particular circumstances/actions.
Yup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUmJ9rSVrKQ
I am delightfully amused you ~1’ed Microsoft because it’s 9 characters.
> Apport will notify you about the crash and offer to file it. Do that.

I wouldn't call it auto-reporting when the user has to agree first; consent is the sticking point. (Same for abrt) (granted, I should have been more precise and I suppose that is automated in a sense; I took "automatic" to mean "without asking")
I think you got "should" and "can" mixed up.
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Wow, I never thought I'd see you here of all places but it makes sense. Fellow catholic minister from the ULC living in Canada.

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Definitely worth it.
Which is part of a broader trend. I also don't find the "it's just a game" argument convincing either. Just take a look at how Reporters without Borders use Minecraft to evade censorship in opressive regimes. For-profit companies would be happy to censor these types of content too if the mechanism exists and are given free reign without any sort of oversight.

https://uncensoredlibrary.com/en
They poke fun at people who wrap their entire identity up in those activities or causes. Plenty of SP characters do things and have opinions and don't get ridiculed. It's the ones who take that activity and those causes so seriously and extremely that they become personal embodiments of them: Those characters get roasted.