skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never tried them, but isn't the selling point that they use natural materials rather than cheap synthetics like something for $25 from Target?
Ok, we've downgraded its ambition in the title above.
People are hard pressed to explain what is the identity or culture best represented by what's a flag of sedition/treason

It's just a symbol of identity or culture, like most flags. There's a massive cultural difference between the rural south and the highly populated coastal cities. The flag to many is a symbol of that difference, and has many of the psychological undertones that makes the "don't tread on me" flag popular, mostly a willingness to push back against external influences.
> Except that it’s not a public space and the harm is far less than a beating.

As in "you can't speak any more, because your website is offline". A gag is the offline equivalent.

> Think of it like going to a coffee shop

I believe that example would be more accurate if we all lived in company towns, where no public space exists and your presence, and speech, is merely tolerated under normal circumstances, but you have no right to either being there nor speaking your mind, and can be removed at any moment, should anyone "in charge" have an issue with your behavior. That also has the angle that you lose a lot more than just your ability to speak: you lose your home and need to find a new place that will take you in, need to tell everybody you know and do business with about your new address etc, like when Google shuts down your Gmail account.
Covid-19 is a Tragedy, but not the one that the news will have you believe
Since precision is important: no, there were not swastikas. There was a symbol of an eagle (the Reichsadler) over an 'iron cross' symbol as part of the advertising. You can find that fairly easily by looking at an image search on your favorite search engine.

n.b. the iron cross symbol is still used in Germany for e.g. the roundel of the German Air Force.

I don't doubt that the design would fall afoul of the MS content guidelines as I'm sure perching the Reichsadler on top of the iron cross would be the kind of thing they mean by "contextual clues".
Because we have statistics to prove it. The productivity of our whole eng organization has been great while being 100% remote. As a caveat to this, before the pandemic only half of us went to the office. I believe that helped us be prepared.

Also, haven’t you ever made friends online? Building relationships online is nothing new. In fact, many of the in person relationship building activities excluded different individuals. For example, going out for drinks with the team was never my idea of having fun. I am glad I don’t have to attend those anymore.
> I'm assuming that swastikas have much more universal unpopularity than the confederacy flag.

Coincidentally, a news item from yesterday about swastikas: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53249645
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https://github.com/sum12/songbook - dynamic video-clip-loops for guitar practice. Demo: http://fast-reef-15821.herokuapp.com/book/

https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:sumitjami
Well, Al Gore's "climate change agenda" was hypocritical corporate crap, even if (or especially if) you believe in human-induced climate change and the need to stop it...

Same with the "new green deal" which is mostly "business as usual with a green facade".
Minio also does this... Haha
https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-select-api-quickstart-guide.h...
The TikTok edition:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23634138

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23691190
Okurková sezóna in Czech
Agreed! I actually think the entire industry is moving forward in really amazing ways, and it's entirely science based. The amazing of science that goes into improving the soil on a modern farm is amazing.
Doesn't this put the burden of proof on the accused?
Does this recurring problem suggest a missing API?
A court jester plays to the appeal of the court. The things they poke fun at are the things the court will tolerate being made fun of.

So you're right. South Park is like a court jester. It makes fun of everything society deems acceptable to make fun of and gets away with some light ribbing at the expense of the "Middle American normal" that is its bread and butter.

And they eat it up, thinking that the show poking light fun at them is the same as how the show treats actual minorites and other marginalized people (ie. very very very gross), and that makes it ok.

The analogy is apt. It just doesn't say what you think it says.
It's not about statues, but the Wikipedia article about the modern display of the Confederate Flag seems to offer a decent summary of its usage beginning in the 1950s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confeder...
Southern pride is another way of saying "treason against the U.S." that resulted in the mass murder of hundreds of thousands so that a few people could treat other people as property.

The winner gets to make the rules. The South has had 150+ years to celebrate their treason. It's more than enough time that the winners put that symbol to rest.
Have you seen the ludumdare community?
“Essential workers” is a nebulous term - formally there are only “essential businesses” that are allowed to operate, and their employees are informally “essential” too. But only a subset of such workers are necessary. E.g., cleaning staff at hotels might be called “essential workers”, but if the hotels are virtually empty most of those workers aren’t needed. Granting extra UI benefits allows the employer to determine which workers to keep, and compensates those actually laid off to avoid unexpected hardship.

None of the essential workers mentioned in the article lost their jobs that I can see. One was just temporarily overpaid for taking an otherwise unpaid leave. They stayed home, and received more pay for doing so. The fact that the UI bonus encourages this behavior (within the bounds that employers tolerate) is exactly the social benefit I’m pointing out in my original comment — the UI benefit encourages people to stay home if they can.

The workers in the article are complaining about the unfairness of not receiving extra pay, and justifiably so — it is unfair. The UI benefit helps slow the spread of a deadly pandemic (and mitigates foreseeable bankruptcies/evictions) while also making the world less fair for the people who are still employed. The article only discusses the latter, and I was pointing out the former.
This reminds me the graffiti robot that was painting a wall of a 5-story: https://www.robotmuralist.com/

Also heard about similar robot drawing the lines to the pavement (can not find the link just now). I think similar technologies will play a large role in building, and maybe even more importantly, building inspection.
This is a great summary of how to show causal effects. Thx for pointing it out.

I feel like we need a new way to do peer review, that is more real time - so that papers can be upvoted/downvoted, flaws can be pointed out - and we have some way to assess the truthiness of what the paper is claiming. Your comment is a step in this direction (but we're not capturing the wisdom of the crowds quantitatively around papers today - arxiv is great, but 1990's era web design).

I'm working with a team that is trying to build better tools for science at https://www.researchhub.com/about

Rethinking peer review is one item on the roadmap.
You’re right and I absolutely will be voting. I actually regret my earlier comment it didn’t contribute to the discussion.
Anyone interested in the exchange can watch the whole thing in 8 minutes and make up their own mind:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?473393-1/covid-19-response-reo...

Starts at 1:15:00.
I find it pretty well stuffed with appropriate information. You're looking at an ontology, not a wikipedia article, it's supposed to be dry (subject, relation, object). It's being used to disambiguate concepts, named entities and support machine learning models with general knowledge in a standard format. There are plenty of papers on the topic of link prediction, auto-completion and triplet mining.

Also, if you look:

> radius: 6,378.137±0.001 kilometre

> applies to part: equator

So it clearly states how the radius was measured.
> If it's any consolation, it fell on to me to maintain this code

That's not any consolation... If anything, it's all the more reason for you to be pissed off. He should have dropped the project, rolled out a future-proof tool and taught to do differently next time.

Anything short of that is just enabling the dude's delusion of grandeur and therefore a mistake on everyone else's part...
> clearly the Confederate flag has been spoiled -- the racists won out and now people associate the flag more with racists than Southern/rural pride.

This postulates that the Confederate flag did not start out spoiled by racism.
Waymo is running driverless taxis in Arizona and has approval from California to go full driverless(L4). They inked a deal for 20,000 cars and a leased a factory in Detroit to install the sensor equipment. Why would they spend that amount of capital if it wasn’t a few years away?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/27/17165992/waymo-jaguar-i-p...
I like to have a useful goal. It helps me find purpose and complete the task. Then I might do some reading or other research to learn the basics. Then I try to do whatever it is. I evaluate how it went and do more research to make improvements.

For example, I want to grow mushrooms. First I start with a grow your own kit. Then I read a book by an expert. Then I bought mushroom plugs for logs. Now I built some equiptment, learned sterile techniques, and I am culturing mushrooms to create my own mushroom plugs.
> It's a complete non-sequitur

It's quite literally not a non-sequitur. The parity of reasoning in both cases is clear: they are the same argument, I just swapped the details.

Every good regulation is intended to address some negative externality. Before a regulation is enacted, people point out the negative externalities and how they're harmful and that we should do something about them. Maybe they have some idea what that entails, maybe they don't.

You can't consistently dismiss such concerns by arguments like, "it's private property", while simultaneously supporting other regulations, like those enforced by the EPA, that also restrict one's rights to use one's property.

> unless you want the federal government to enact laws that enable them to micro manage every form of communication

I don't know what a good solution would be, I just know negative externalities in this case do exist. You can continue to deny them, you can accept that they exist but deny their importance, or you can accept they exist and that they are important, and so participate in a dialogue about how they should be addressed.
My impression from talking with a few people from India working in UK and working with Indian outsourcing agencies/contractors is that India routinely gets cost cutting projects based on price/employee - this creates "coder farms" which breed code farm quality developers + the education system on the whole is inferior (from what I understand India took diploma mills to the next level). So the best talent emigrates because even with the remote option, the increase in life standard and opportunities from emigrating are worth it, and low skill/almost bot level development for rent culture reinforces itself.
MIT Pulls Popular AI Dataset Due to Racist, Misogynistic Content
All good reasons to like your job and very understandable.

However, it sounds like your architect is more of project manager than an architect.
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I think Eigen's template strategy is probably hard to beat from the perspective of combining operations.
How well Fortran does is probably mostly up to the compiler implementation. In some of my benchmarks, gfortran sometimes seems to fuse the operations and end up much slower than if it has performed them separately in succession, but I wouldn't be surprised if compiling with `-fexternal-blas` (and linking MKL) would've solved that.

If you want to try external BLAS/LAPACK with Eigen, I'd look at:
https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/TopicUsingBlasLapack.html

I have `A * B`, `A * B'`, `A' * B` and `A' * B'` small-single-threaded-matmul benchmarks here: https://chriselrod.github.io/LoopVectorization.jl/latest/exa...
I compared triple nested loops with Clang, icc, ifort, gfortran, Julia, and LoopVectorization.jl with matmul routines from ifort, gfortran, OpenBLAS, MKL, and Eigen.

While gfortran's builtin hit over 40 GFLOPS with `A * B` and `A' * B'`, it failed to get half that if only one argument was transposed. I'm supposed awkward fusing at the start of this post because if it had done one after the other, it should have still hit >40 GFLOPS when only 1 matrix was transposed.
With your point 1 I can somewhat agree. Yes, inequality certainly seems pretty high - I'm not sure that's a slam dunk case that it's morally wrong, but it's certainly something worth thinking about and deciding whether we want to do something about.

But here's where I lose you:
> 2. I think it is fair to ask questions about what kind of moral and ethical lines have been crossed in order to reach a net worth of $171 billion dollars.

Why? I mean, sure, it's always a fair question to ask if moral lines have been crossed, but why do you assume that amassing great wealth is in in itself morally wrong, or only happens if you do immoral things? That's at least the implication I take from your statements.

Many people who are making the median wage in the States (as an example) have vastly more wealth than the poorest people in the world. Did they do something immoral? Not really. Maybe the "system" itself is immoral or something (though I'd love to hear an actual suggestion of a better system), but why start off assuming there's a moral failure instead of just "here's the way things work, ok looks like it leads to some pretty bad outcomes, let's try and think how we minimize those". Why start name-calling instead?
> attached to southern identity

Southerner here. The South is a very diverse place with a sizable African-American population.

Perhaps I'm just missing all the African-Americans who proudly fly the Confederate battle flag, but my perception is the flag is used by a small subset of white southerners as an anti-virtue-signaling device.

Are you suggesting that African-Americans identify with the Confederate battle flag flown in service of keeping their ancestors enslaved, or did you mean that the flag had attached to a particular subset of Southern identity? Please expand, I'm curious.
Happiness is overrated; find something you like doing and do it. A job, a hobby, a pursuit--in short, an avocation.

The greatest horror for me would be to not be interested in anything. So many people seem to have this affliction. That is what I would call unhappiness: to be interested in nothing in particular.
Beware the Google Password Manager
There is not a lot of critics about the lack of ADTs because most people have never been exposed to them and don’t even know what they are and the concepts of product and sum types. Generics are much more common.
I agree that the 747 is a work of art and may represent the best we can accomplish in air travel (with regards to safety, reliability, and operating at scale) and reminds me of my favorite IdleWords article, "Web Design - The First 100 Years"[0] which talks about the unbounded optimism of the 1970s when moon vacations were still in the public imagination.

But the 747 was good enough and collectively we really didn't need to go supersonic or into orbit (or at least, most of the world couldn't afford it)

The article makes the pivot that web technology is no different -- that there might not be a supersonic quantum AI coming down the pipeline, that the tech we have now might be pretty much as good as it gets. Makes me feel less guilty about wanting to use old reliable tools and not follow the hype around smart contracts and adversarial agents. A relational database with some CGI scripts is going to be just as useful in 100 years as it is today.

[0] https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm
Note that all symbols are their meaning are made up. To say "this gesture is a symbol of X" is to say "people made up that this gesture is a symbol of X."
LinkedIn has had so many privacy disasters over the years, and it's kinda crazy how we kinda tend to forget most of that eventually. I definitely wouldn't trust them with much of your data.
Facebook admits Ben Shapiro is breaking its rules
No, it's really not. I can be very unhappy with what FB is doing and want it to change without disputing in any sense that it's their right to have that policy.
For the sake of argument, I'm willing to accept the idea that gun rights and abortion rights are equally restricted/regulated. That would confirm my premise that the Constitution is powerless. Because only one of those things is explicitly guaranteed, but that explicit guarantee was not successful in warding off restrictions.

Court rulings on these issues are aligned with the culture at the time, not the letter or intent of the law.
Canadian Tire peels back problem with Mr. Potato Head glitch in Lindsay
> Have you never been to rural NY? The Confederate flag flies all over the place there

Many times, and I can earnestly say I've never seen that. Nor in rural Pennsylvania for that matter, which I would otherwise characterize as slightly less sophisticated than NY. Are there racists in that region? Certainly. But I can't recall ever seeing somebody in those states flying the confederate flag.

I'm sure it's happened before, I'm sure you can find me local news reporting on instances of it. But it's definitely not a common sight.
I, for one, don't think data clarify the situation in political/social issues - they're either distorted (and mis-collected) to misrepresent the situation, or misinterpreted and diced and re-defined based on whatever biases a side has. Plus you always need to have a theory and a point of view to interpret data (raw data are just numbers and metrics, with tell little by themselves).

Having open eyes and a point of view trumps data -- it's just difficult (and of course you can think you've achieved that when you haven't).
Java Ranges: Range range = 1 to 5;
First, this was more tongue-in-cheek than anything else, so just keep that in mind ;)

That said, you aren't wrong! But I think you underestimate how many people think communion is the most important part and don't actually participate in the community aspect of it!

Personally, I'm more in your camp, especially for Protestant churches. I've often referred to the local Methodist church that my friends go to as "the poor man's country club". Not disparaging them in any way, but for them it's more about the community than it is about God.
For reference, characterizing the American Revolution as a war to preserve slavery was literally the central focus of a project that was published in the New York Times and that public schools are adopting as curriculum. It isn’t fair to characterize it as “nutpicking” when the nuts hold that degree of institutional power.

FWIW I agree with you about the Confederacy and about Confederate symbology, and I think I said that at the very beginning. But to a large number of increasingly powerful people, the facts don’t actually matter. And to some degree, they never have: consider the differing treatment of Nazi and Soviet symbology. They will use the facts when they suit them, and invent new facts when they don’t.
Heroin will not benefit society, the hypothesis is that it will cause less harm if users receive it from a boring, official, controlled source instead of letting violent criminals earn millions with it. The idea that prohibition can somehow end drug use was proven wrong a long time ago.
Here’s a NY Times summary: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/us/ok-sign-white-power.ht...

> The 4chan hoax succeeded all too well, and ceased being a hoax: Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen and other white nationalists began using the gesture in public to signal their presence and to spot potential sympathizers and recruits. For them, the letters formed by the hand were not O and K, but W and P, for “white power.”
Just a pot, cheapest one may be what, 5€, I mean I bet you can find something around that price in the US.
I don't agree with his analysis of modern happiness levels. It's yet another biased quantitative analysis of various metrics that are decoupled from human nature. Struggles, efforts, shorter lifespan is not a problem if your days are filled with deeper emotions, less confusion, better balance timewise (slower pace but more efficient labour).

A tiny instance to try to explain my above abstract: in 2020 you can have a lot of tech, a cute office but still asked to archive a whole room on your own. In other cultures this would have been organized differently in pair for instance (you can see videos of people in asia building houses by juggling bricks between another). This turns a 10h dreadful and lonely chore into a 3h shared, almost pleasant, choreography. I believe how era is filled with false modernity which are mostly absurd lack of good sense around human needs for flow, teaming, etc

ps: critic aside, I find it lovely to see that people are "researching" happiness, which is probably more important to 100% of the population than a lot of "matieral" research being done right now
This conflates LOANS with GRANTS. Your comparison lacks even the most basic understanding of finance.

In 2008, when the banks were "bailed out" - the government used loans - which ultimately turned a profit.

So all of the anger about "socializing the losses and privatizing the gains" was all baloney. Because the taxpayers literally made a profit on the loans they gave to Wall Street.
This happens to me if I don’t exercise for a while or don’t sleep well. I sleep well, it mostly goes away. I start exercising again, it goes away and doesn’t come back.
Exactly, most people I know don't want to ask themselves this kind of questions
One of my hobbies is looking at url strings with GET key/value pairs. Programmers must forget that they're visible to users. LinkedIn has a search workflow that shows "origin=TYPEAHEAD_ESCAPE_HATCH" which I've always found humorous.
That's just a more detailed explanation of the process of banning someone for using swastikas in a game.
That video had outdated information regarding the Estonian e-voting system. The report from 2014 has been invalidated by the newer system, IVXV, which has been redesigned to address previous criticism. The newer system is open source, available at https://github.com/vvk-ehk/ivxv.
A good source to quickly familiarize yourself with the architecure, is "Improving the verifiability of the Estonian Internet Voting scheme"[0] by Jan Willemson et al

[0] https://research.cyber.ee/~janwil/publ/ivxv-evoteid.pdf
I’m not sure why they didn’t add a permissions flag for it either to be honest. Most apps are going to stop doing it because of the notifications, and presumably those that continue will make some effort to explain it somewhere so people don’t panic and uninstall their app when they’re told about it. Seems like a permissions flag with the usual app’s explanation of why would work well.
In the "you need to care about and build public infrastructure" part.

Merely not having private interests build them is not enough - it's just the second, different, point I've made.
When I saw this video of a lot more apps doing it, I did wonder if it actually might be a commonly used third-party library causing this. It's certainly possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo