skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't speak for others.

This subthread is literally a response to someone speaking on behalf of a friend.

And that logic is a little suspect: cancel culture is such a pervasive threat that (1) no one can talk about it happening despite (2) everyone talking about it happening everywhere, pervasively, without evidence.

That doesn't seem off to you?
I think I could make it work, but the hindrance to my media (library of 65,000+ RAW photos from three different camera bodies and about 8 TB of 1080p video projects (and counting)) workflows was what really killed it for me.

Even basic photo import / adjustments were a pain with any of the applications I tested, and that was partly due to the Pi's slower GPU/CPU, the 64-bit ARM paucity of desktop apps, and the lack of good (read: like Adobe/Apple/pro-tier media apps) UI-based applications on Linux.

Most of the other issues (like window management and resolution problems) I ran into with the 'Pi for a Day' project I could probably resolve with a few more days' work.
In some countries, people would be willing to die for democracy, yet the US is on he verge of pissing it away.
Given how things turned out, this might be a good lesson as to whether "I measured my own library informally on some benchmarks that I couldn't be bothered to describe to you and it WINS!" is trustworthy in future.

When we introduced simdjson, we went out of our way to explain (a) why we thought it might be faster than other libraries and (b) how people could replicate our measurements or find fault in our methodology. There were zero performance claims, public or private about the performance of simdjson before this material was available.

In my long experience, undocumented and non-reproducible performance claims suffer from the fact that people generally stop benchmarking when they get the result that they wanted to hear, even if the absolute numbers involved are unreasonable. It's very easy to make mistakes in performance measurement (compiling simdjson with anything short of -O2 or -O3, doing repeated runs of a tiny input and thus getting perfect branch prediction behavior), but people generally fix these mistakes only on the side that makes their stuff look good.

Back when I worked on the Hyperscan project ( https://github.com/intel/hyperscan ), we had an API call that allocated scratch memory (necessary due to Hyperscan's rather constrained approach to memory usage). I lost count of the number of times we had users run this allocation (which only ever needed to be done once per thread, effectively) inside their measurement loop. And whenever we were competing against an incumbent system and the people doing the measurement were the authors of that incumbent system, it was amazing how quickly they'd accept the "truth" of their benchmark run.
How does it compare to Kaldi?
Those are all excellent questions, and I've very tempted to discuss them. But on the other hand, I didn't get much sleep last night, and I'm tired.

Also, in any case, I doubt seriously that any of that discussion will have any impact on the current situation.

My solution (which I admit is easier for an old ~retired guy like me) is to avoid attracting attention in meatspace. I have no social media presence, in part to avoid attracting attention from my past activities. Hopefully most of my old associates think that I'm dead ;) And now that we're all wearing masks, being ~anonymous is much easier.

I'm quite active online, however. As Mirimir and other personas. But there are absolutely no links to my meatspace persona.

So anyway, regarding "freedom of speech on the internet", ~anonymity and compartmentalization are essential.
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. We're trying for a bit better than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In addition to the fact that you're neglecting to take possible long-term health consequences into account, you're also failing to consider the health risks to people other than the students, like faculty, staff, and even the parents and grandparents of the student body.
It reminds one of the story of the Dazexiang uprising.

There were army units ordered to report to another location. On the way there they were delayed by flooding. The penalty for being late was death. This was no different than the penalty for insurrection, so guess what they did then.

Proportionality is important.
Can't do crypto without visualizations; I can't say how many times I've wanted someone to draw stuff out! Great article
This has a big flaw. If the future visitors copy all passwords to a usb stick and take it with them then anyone in the present time that gets a copy can pretend to be from the future. Worse still, everyone would believe the phoney future visitors without question.
> they all believe ...

Over-generalising, much? :)

I went to school with a lot of chinese people. Some of them went to school in the US full-time, and some of them just transfer students for a single semester. The latter group was much more likely to express nationalistic ideals. One girl told me that she didn't want to visit her aunt, who lived in the US, because the aunt supported the HK protesters. The former group didn't tend to have strong feelings one way or another; one person complained that there are no good horror movies from china because the chinese government has outlawed ghosts (and made fun of how ridiculous that was), but also used a VPN to get inside the GFW (yes, it goes both ways).

But even this bit of nuance I presented is a generalisation. It's vitally important, when speaking of trends in a group of people, to avoid superlatives. Because even if you're conscious that you're making a generalisation, other people might not be, and such statements have a tendency to radicalize people.
Anybody in GA can take their children to pre-K for free.

Any young person in GA can work hard and go to top schools for free.

I think that’s a pretty awesome deal for disadvantaged communities. Especially compared to every other state that has legal lotteries and eye watering tuition.

Sure, I’d rather lotteries were illegal again. But I’d keep the HOPE baby as I dump the bath water. It’s a model for other states!
Hey, I tried to scale up my server mid hn ride and now I'm just getting a 404. I'm not experienced with doing this, and I can log into the server and everything seems to be working/up to date. So I don't understand why it's not working. I'm using a Hetzner, and I'm bummed :(
Those files are individual JSON entries though, as per the spec. They're not read as a JSON (since they aren't) they are read per line, and each line is parsed as a JSON.
Elements C++ GUI Library
New Release of Arch Linux ARM for PinePhone
To be clear, are you saying that if I don't agree with preserving the abstract freedom of expression on private social spaces, I am pro angry mob destroying peoples lives?
Cantonese and mandarin share a script.
Rats and a sinking ship....
Transducers and Effects
How can people be motivated to put the mental effort into understanding the other person's point of view? Participants are still volunteers, not workers, and that's unpleasant work.
A well designed online course needs online tested milestones, segment by segment. Student get an online automated test. What he gets wrong creates a fork to an online module to teach that item. Fail again = re-teach in a different way. Repeated failmode might attract an online human to step that person along. Then back to the lessons.
This is just smart teaching programs do. Labs can be done youtube style, but need careful design to deal with each possible fork in the road where a student can get off track. Some people might not be smart enough for complex abstract stuff - I have met and failed many 'memory machines' - students who can read and repeat everything they see, but are unable to use the knowledge in a novel way that has not been worked out in examples before.I used to tutor goofs like that in Engineering Physics at U of T. They had near perfect recall, but off the beaten track they could not solve new problems. Weekly problem sets were made to make them fail. They fought back with study groups - I was always in demand to help. In the end they failed the problems exams or at year end in the exams because they were basically dummies with near total recall.
Of course. I nearly mentioned in my previous disclosure or disclaimer that I have no interest at all in these areas, financially or in any other kind of quid pro quo. I don’t receive any benefit from posting, for any of my posts. I just do it because I genuinely don’t learn or reason well in a vacuum, and I don’t know enough about most of my fields of interest to be an expert; I’m a generalist user in most advanced discussions and cutting edge areas of computing at best, and my interests are usually cursory and self-edifying, if not deep-dives.

I hope my post was not interpreted as shilling. That’s why I also mentioned other topics I’ve posted about in this space, to show my own hand as well as show that I’m not playing favorites. I’m just here to learn from those whose experience and knowledge surpass my own, and whose skills I care to learn myself.

In all honesty, I was having trouble sleeping and was just clicking around on Twitter, found some interesting projects, so I thought, and shared them. There really wasn’t a whole lot of reasoning on my part, beyond my perhaps-mistaken belief that the content was of interest to readers of HN.

I’m open to further discussion on this or any other matter. My only motive is to receive and share info, and if I can help, I want to do so.
I have been ill for 4 months now.
Ask HN: Siteuptime.com but running my JavaScript every 5 mins?
Is there a Saas product like Uptime Robot or Site Uptime, but where I supply the JavaScript that will run every 5 minutes?

I want to check that my service is up by doing more than simply making an http request. (In my case I want to set up websocket and send and receive a few messages, but I'm looking for a more general commercial product)
do you have a blog for your thoughts?
I have reported many people for doxxing on twitter and of the ones that even got a follow up notification, they were all given 12 hour suspensions. Takes about a week on average for them to get to a report.
Usually the Bible is taught via stories, especially the Gospel stories, rather than individual verses and the verses are quoted to make points.

While there are, e.g., yearly Bible plans to read everything, not many people these days have the patience to read all the numbers in Numbers and there's an incredibly limited theological value in knowing how many there were of the tribe of Napthali or what have you unless you're trying to pass a Bible quiz.

I mean, why would a modern day Christian want to memorize all the rules on kosher food when Paul explained at length why they're irrelevant to us now? Or the rules on making a potion out of the dust of the Temple floor of a temple that's no longer standing? Or the rules about wearing clothing with multiple materials?

Yes, there are yet some principles that might be extracted of some of these--take for example, not muzzling the ox while it's treading the grain as an exhortation to take care of your animals and anyone who serves you. Or the prohibition on harvesting the last bits of crop at the edges of your fields, which were then reserved for the poor, to always reserve something for the poor among you.

But these things tend to be explained elsewhere and it ends up as trivia that doesn't matter much unless someone is insistent that a Real Christian [TM] must know whether the witch of Endor is from Samuel, Sirach or Star Wars... which in turn depends on whether she's named Charal or not.

Yes, really -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Charal
It is because of the actor really. Conceptually their strategy is "if they give an inch take a mile and keep on taking" while using every bit to beat them with it over every little petty issue. The way to shut them down is to tell them to take a hike from the start to deny any leverage. Reconsider if they have anything worthy of consideration.

Part of effecfive communication is not looking like a bad actor with an approach.
Actually I think that’s only the version they export to US now
some faculty are unionized (I know of at least a few where the faculty are all NEA members)

Additionally there are not-officially recognized groups such as AAUP (American Association of University Professionals) that represent faculty issues.
I'd like to emphasize the point even further for CPython users. Here's the author's closing sentence:

>Your setup script is not going to run out of file descriptors because you wrote open("README.md").read().

In CPython, files are closed (if necessary) in __del__, so the descriptor is released immediately after that line executes, thanks to CPython's reference-counting mechanism. That idiom wouldn't cause you to run out of descriptors even in a long program.

(The author knows this. Their point is that even if you're NOT using CPython, you STILL shouldn't worry about it too much, and I think I agree.)

I know, I know, CPython's reference-counting behavior is considered an "implementation detail", but for RAM-intensive workloads which are common in Scientific Computing (especially biological imaging), it's often a necessity. So if I were to force myself to use context managers in cases like this, I'd be losing the benefits of terse code without actually preserving portability. (I didn't have portability in the first place.)

In other words, if you're dependent on ref-counting anyway, you may as well admit it and enjoy the benefits that come with it!
Oh yeah, for sure. I worked my comment badly. I meant that right after the media publishes a story, corporations immediately feel threatened/called to action, and actually do what the mob tells them to do. Sometimes it doesn't even take a media article. Seriously, if you "@" any company now, ask why they haven't spoken about about x yet, wait and see how long it takes them to say something.
“ being physically located in, and largely beholden to, a state that doesn’t care about, ”

You appreciate the irony that this hostile state and her backwards residents paid to have this top school with top facilities and top researchers, right?
Are you a time traveler from 2010? IME Newegg has allowed itself to turn into another marketplace wasteland.
Ecclesiastes is very easy to take out of context. Individual verses seem like nice aphorisms, but the book as a whole is actually quite skeptical and even critical, at least of certain worldviews. In some ways, it's a series of rejections of easy answers.
> Who knows what will come of any future project that she is working on.

Are you serious? There are three (three!) studio films in production based on her works. She has two novels in the publication channel right now for release this year. I don't even want to count the number of auxiliary projects like theme parks and derivative products she's currently involved with. And none of this, NONE OF THIS, has changed in the last few weeks since she got in trouble for being a TERF.

In my wildest dreams I couldn't imagine being cancelled so hard.

This "cancel culture" paranoia is just out of control. There are excesses, sure. People are mean on the internet everywhere. What you think happening, though, is simply NOT HAPPENING. You're being misled, yet again, by your media who are telling you about "problems" that don't exist that Just So Happen to be "solved" by voting for the right candidates or hating the right people.
Never mind combating the historical inaccuracy - somebody is offended! Take action now! Absolutely pathetic.
| Debubble will make sure you wait for your turn before you can deliver your arguments.
What if you forget to say something when you first make the post?
| It will also limit each response to 1500 characters (roughly one page) and the entire debate to 12 turns.
This bit seems unnecessarily limiting to me.
Largely the state leadership is in for the economic benefits, but not the social consequences of having a more educated population.
Third Minneapolis officer charged in George Floyd's death released from jail
The husband getting fired is extremely disturbing and the most fucked up thing about the entire situation.

There was another one recently where a middle eastern grocery store in the US had their lease pulled because of tweets by the owner’s teenage daughter.

Mob justice is bad, but mob justice against people simply for association is terrifying.

Ask HN: Will you allow your children to have social media associated with their real name?
You can do any stupid things in any development environment. Let's execute a SQL from Android App to Oracle in Bank!
I totally realize that China is far from liberal but it has been much more prosperous and became a superpower because it has liberalized vast swaths of the economy. I guess it would have been better to say that it's doing better than India because it moved a hypothetical protectionism-free trade slider further to the free trade side. There are tons of smart decisions from China that also made the liberalization very successful, such as understanding the vital importance of foreign capital, access to the world's markets, infrastructure investment, and slowly building up knowledge instead of going all in "in house" too quickly.

Still, none of what has been accomplished in China could've been possible with very high tariffs, obsession in homegrown industry before acquiring expertise, and obsession with policies that have always failed but still sound good to the electorate. All of which are characteristic of India, Argentina, Egypt, etc. And I'd argue that China is better when it comes to free movement of trade than India even if it's much worst in almost every other type of freedom.
Bill Clinton, Ghislaine Maxwell and the inside story of their trip to Britain
I am a Georgia Tech faculty member. I've been reading this thread and considering how to respond, and decided I should be transparent. There are a lot of things being discussed here and I don't think I have the bandwidth to respond to all of them but I'm happy to try and answer some questions. No clue how to verify this but happy to do so non-publicly.
There’s already evidence it causes immune system disregulation, similar to HIV:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/health/coronavirus-immune...

The idea that we know anything meaningful about what impact COVID will have on people’s long term health is foolhardy to the extreme. Extreme precaution is the only reasonable path in the face of these kinds of unknowns.
I don't disagree wrt transparency (although for many people I suspect genomic data is worth a lot more than a few hundred bucks a year), but these are separate concerns. I'm just disagreeing with the OP assertion that "submitting your own DNA is always negative value"

Definitely making no claim whatsoever as to what the best way to make healthcare more cost-effective is.
If it is abhorrent, we must make a law to make it illegal. Otherwise, anyone that think that you make something that is abhorrent can pressure your employer to fire you.
So build accountability into interactions with the internet. For example, I believe for most purposes people should use government-issued access to the internet with an identity that ties to their physical self. Anonymity should cost extra and there should be an implicit lack of trust, credibility, etc. from anything anonymous until it can be thoroughly vetted. I like the urbit model for this where short memorable addresses convey value and social reputation whilst fully anonymous entities are allowed but implicitly untrusted.
A single bus can change all of that. It almost never pays to self insure unless you are fabulously wealthy
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This is yet another illegal tax (in the state of WA) that Seattle’s inept, socialist council is trying to push through. Attempts at enacting this tax have failed before because it is hugely unpopular, especially in the business community. It is primarily the work of Kshama Sawant (not Mosqueda as the article claims, who has basically revised a prior similar plan from Sawant). Sawant is an extremist council member who is part of an organization known as Socialist Alternative. The tax is so blatantly targeted at Amazon through its various rules and exemptions, that Sawant herself calls it “the Amazon tax”. The reason the tax may be pushed through now is because Seattle faces a huge budget shortfall after years of fast growing spending. Instead of trimming the fat, their solution is more taxes.

My guess is the council members supporting this hope to invite legal challenge so that an activist judge can rule in their favor despite the state constitution preventing graduated income taxes. My hope is that Amazon just declares all their tech workers remote and moves out of Seattle.

If you’re new to how these socialist organizations think, check out their self-avowed plan to infiltrate BLM early and leverage its cause for their own Marxist ends (https://www.socialistalternative.org/marxism-fight-black-fre...). They have a mentality to implement their ideology at its fullest with no compromise, and that is definitely the case with this proposed tax, given its repeated unpopularity here.

If you’re curious about Kshama Sawant specifically, check out her tweet from July 4th (https://mobile.twitter.com/cmkshama/status/12795239378445557...):

> "I've no respect for the stars & stripes, or any other flag symbolizing slavery. Triumphant socialism will haul down that flag & every other that symbolizes capitalist class rule & wage slavery. I'm a patriot, but in the sense that I love all countries."
So even more tax burden on earned income from the upper middle class, rather than taxing capital gains or wealth from the truly rich.
A History of Silicon Valley: Marc Porat
I'd like to maybe add onto that with a personal anecdote regarding twitter:

I've never used it and had an account created from about a decade ago. The only people I had followed when I first created the account were a few random celebrities and public figures. I pretty much never logged in despite many emails from Twitter to remind me of my account. A few months ago I opened it up to look, and I was really shocked and appalled at what I saw. My reaction to it was quite visceral. The best way I can describe the content I saw is just "hate", not the general term hate-speech that people throw around, but rather just people tweeting hateful things and exhibiting what appeared to me to be their hatred over something or someone.

Sure in between all of that there were a few wholesome tweets of course. But for the most part, it was just hate. I didn't really stick around too much other than to maybe add some additional public personas I do follow (I guess in support of them). The whole experience left me with the impression that Twitter and perhaps social-media entirely, are really bad/toxic/divisive to our society, at least in their current form.
This[1] tells us 2017-18 was a bad influenza year in the USA with 61,000 deaths, 2018-19 34,000 deaths.

This[2] tells us Coronoa deaths in the USA to date are 129,576.

How do you reconcile your opinion this doesn't represent a considerable risk with these numbers?

1. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

2. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/us-c...
There is some evidence that ratio/octave recognition and preferences for consonant sound are culturally contingent

http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/papers/McDermott_etal_2016_conso...

http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/papers/Jacoby_etal_2019_Bolivia_...

Preferences vary individually as well: modern music may feature or favor dissonance (e.g., some forms of metal, electronic)