skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Copy-pasted my comment here, but similar to how we no longer use "retarded" to be sensitive to the disabled, people have been rethinking words like "crazy", "insane", or "sanity" to be sensitive towards those with mental illness. For people with mental illness those words may be loaded with negative meaning and there are often more neutral or descriptive terms that can be used instead.

Update: Not sure why I got downvoted for stating the rationale for why people are making this change. Objectively I haven't even stated my opinion on the change, just the rationale I've seen for it. If you want a source here's one from NPR around this language: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/08/739643765/why-people-are-argu...
Sure, but snow differences aren't determined by programmers trying to make the game more interesting by ensuring different skiiers have different amounts of snow to work with. If e-skiing were to become an Olympic sport you'd expect everyone to start with the same amount of snow.
Oh, this is truly excellent, thank you.
So the Rust compiler can be the basis of a compiler provided the language is exactly like Rust and if complex changes for the benefit of reusing compiler internals are implemented. Not exactly a value proposition.

> A lot of ideas we take for granted in our programming languages like loops, closures, and enums (sum types), have to be re-implemented every time a new language compiles to LLVM

If you don't want to implement the low-level building blocks of your programming language, why don't you just generate Rust code instead of attempting to write a compiler?
Thank you twitter engineers. To the people trying to deflect, consider this as an opportunity to learn and progress.

So much of the tech language is filled with insensitivity.
I don't think that's the plan. SwiftUI is where Apple development is heading.
Can you provide more some examples beyond item drops?
It's easy enough to design a level with certain items laying around...
Arithmetic by Paul Lockhart

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237513
Vaccination in the Elderly: An Immunological Perspective
A fun fact about Göbeklitepe; Urfa (the nearby city) is told to be the birthplace of Abraham, where you can still visit his cave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal%C4%B1kl%C4%B1g%C3%B6l

The border of Turkey - Syria - Iraq is one of the best routes if you're interested in history. I usually start from Urfa and follow Diyarbakir, Mardin, Hasankeyf, Van and finally Dogubeyazit (where you can cross to Iran if you'd like).

Each town in the border is full of gems. Take Mor Honanyo Monastery for example, a 4000 years old sun temple converted to monastery 1500 years ago, and still operating; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mor_Hananyo_Monastery
> We conclude that vaccine responses are blunted in the elderly when compared to that of healthy young adults
You said "non-white culture", not "non-western culture". The Celtic Britons (or whoever built it) would certainly count as white.

As the other commenter said, I think most would consider it a part of Western culture.
Agreed. "[since 1982,] by 2017 [Lenat] and his team had spent about 2,000 person-years building Cyc, approximately 24 million rules and assertions (not counting "facts") and 2,000 person-years of effort." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Lenat
Users that repeatedly edit contested boundaries are blocked from editing. So that doesn't help with the objection.
LinkedIn says it will stop repeatedly copying iOS clipboard
Wait, we can limit Algolia results by comment counts?

Oh, also author, points, and timestamps:

https://hn.algolia.com/help
An interesting tangent is-- "retarded, moron, imbecile" all were relatively neutral medical terms once upon a time.

Labels applied to disadvantaged groups linguistically develop a pejorative connotation over time.
There is a difference between commercial corporation creating a game with purpose of making money for shareholders and non-profit organization with elected president created by people doing an existing sport.
I don't think of those words in terms of race either, but it's such an easy thing to change. It might be worth considering that a lot of the people who are speaking up have to feel that way about race being a part of everything all the time and they hate it too.

Everyone's trying to get to a level playing field where race isn't an issue. Maybe equality can seem like it's oppression if you're used to not having to worry about that stuff.
Counter-Strike 1.6 is... only 7 years old? [1]

Starcraft broodwar is also still played competitively with a few hundred thousand in prizes per year [2], at 22 years old (and I don't think there have been any changes apart from a recent graphics refresh) it's probably a better contender for the olympics than cs.

22 years is still nothing compared to most sports, and it's clearly reaching the end of its life.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130214014350/http://steamcommu...

[2] https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/Leagues/Recent_Tournaments
It is not about the specific words, it is language and the use of words. Let's say ESPN came out tomorrow and said they will replace the word 'football' as it is offensive to people with limb difference - would you nod and toe the line without raising an eyebrow?
I really like Hancock
Are you white? What if a black person finds those terms offensive?
I'm very much fine with this, but the impact it will have pales in comparison to the good Twitter could do by, oh, let's say banning Trump, white supremacists, racists, etc. from their platform.
I would recommend highly "What is Mathematics" by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins. This is very accessible book for high schoolers who are keen and interested in mathematics, and will expose the reader to a broad array of topics and pique the interest and awaken the imagination and instill the beauty of mathematics. This in turn can drive the reader to find out more and fall in love with the subject.

I would second this by "Concrete Mathematics" by Graham, Knuth and Patashnik. This is actual university course book with very formal proofs and theory, but the subject matter is still largely accessible to serious high school students and demonstrates beautiful reasoning examples throughout. It is also very practical book, after covering techniques in this book, one can often times calculate exact sums of infinite series quicker than estimating their bounds. If your high school student decides to study math at university level, the techniques and skills taught in this book will prove invaluable in broad areas of study.
> I think it is about scale. If you stand up a public forum and you have 100 users, do your moderation choices actually sway a large percentage of public opinion? Consider instead a social media platform with a billion users and its moderation choices

Where's the line (aka "Sorites paradox")? And who is making the decision?
>Gendered pronouns (for example "he" or "his") become they or their.

For the love of grammar, just invent a neutral pronoun.

"He" or "she" is singular.

"They" is plural.

These things are not like each other.
Yes, but this is very much part of the Euphemism Treadmill[0]

I would fervently argue that 'sanity' has nothing to do with denigrating persons, merely ensuring that the solution remains "sane" in light of many people pouring time on things in different contexts.

Unless we're saying sanity in of itself is bad?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Evolution
Facial-Recognize
There is a lot of downvoting going on in here on very valid comments. I know it goes against the guidelines to complain about downvotes, but it’s surprisingly toxic in this comment section. I expected better on HN, it’s pretty disappointing.
- self-hosted miniflux, because products like NewsBlur remove posts older than some number of months (though if you're fine with that, NewsBlur is a great product and exposes the same API that miniflux does and so can be used with the below readers too)

- Reeder for macOS, which pulls from miniflux

- Fiery Feeds for iOS, which pulls from miniflux
That's what the EDITOR environment variable is for.
But confidence check can hurt people with low self-esteem. It’s turtles all the way down.
Thanks. The last time I considered doing this was a decade ago, before "https everywhere."

Is it some kind of wildcard cert that covers the entire internet? I'd have to research what it would break, and the security ramifications. Probably not worth it :(
If you head to the examples page (https://xatkit.com/chatbot-examples/) you will see other examples of bots.

It's true the one in our home page is a bot to illustrate a simple scenario with some of the features that Xatkit includes (if you ask the bot for a demo)
I agree about it being tied to a single for-profit company being a problem. I also don't think anything at such a big scale should be proprietary. (schools, government, especially anything international)
It would be neat to see some free-as-in-freedom games made with high-level competition in mind. Xonotic comes to mind, but something made with things like the Olympics in mind would be good as well. You could have judges as part of the team talking to developers.
This might shed some light on the thinking that motivates this sort of thing:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory
The rules in sports don't change nearly as much as they do in competitive video games. In the sports where the rules do change often, the focus ends up on the governing body for the league for changing the rules. This is one of the reasons the Olympics often has different rules for their sports than the professional leagues that feed competitors into the Olympics.
Because according to a woke worldview, there is no such thing as insanity.
Some people are constantly marginalised in their everyday, who are constantly reminded negatively of their race, and don’t have the luxury of forgetting about race for even a day.

If changing branch names makes them even just a little bit more comfortable I don’t care if they rename master jiggerypokery.
Really sad seeing a flagship company making headlines with something this superficial.
I thought the problem was that there 'you can't have records'? When we point out many events have no records, now the problem is something else? Seems like you're just picking whatever out of the air to object to it.

If we want a sport to be extant for a hundred years before it's considered (seems pretty reasonable to me), why not explicitly say that rather than looking for proxies?
github (owned by Microsoft) also was on the FP just recently for renaming master.

this feels like empty (if not hypocritical) when (as Cory Doctrow writes) the same companies:

"spend 20-45% of their budgets on policing on but cops run foundations that solicit millions from large corporations, which then take tax breaks for their donations. The money goes into a slushfund used to procure off-the-books military and surveillance gear.
" -- https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1278391796733669378

this just fuels the culture wars but does nothing to address the problem of racism
I don't believe we were visited my aliens or extra-terrestrials.

Check out Brien Foerster's indisputable evidence that many ancient things were not built by who we commonly think:

https://youtu.be/gwOEJ7bUSw4
You can manipulate your knowledge as though it were an object, but you cannot manipulate your ignorance.
In general people should have at the least vague "red flag limits" of what's reasonable in a field.

Let's use a hypothetical example: if I were to proclaim that I've found an overunity machine, most of the comments would (rightly) criticize and/or lecture me on how that's not possible without rewriting most of physics. The silurian hypothesis doesn't evoke nearly the same reaction, even accounting for the evidentiary strength difference between archaeology and physics.

We can discuss why that is and so on, but most people just aren't equipped to differentiate crackpots from legitimate sources.
Reminds me of a Canadian movie:

> The world of interconnected office buildings, apartment complexes and food courts (shot in all its fluorescent glory on digital video) is the backdrop for "Waydowntown," where young office workers Tom, Sandra, Randy and Curt, have all staked a month's salary on a bet to see who can stay indoors the longest. It's lunch hour on day 24 of the wager and everyone's pretty much reached their breaking point.

https://imdb.com/title/tt0219405/
I think this runs into an important problem of trying to overly formalise categories, which makes sense for medical usage, but just leads to pedantry in most cases. If some one feels "addicted" to some thing, and almost anyone would agree that they at least seem to be so, it's of no use to say "well technically, addiction requires these conditions and must be verified by this test".

There's a similar thing with depression, where people will try discredit others by implying their depression isn't real because it hasn't been diagnosed and confirmed by a doctor. If you're really damn sad for a really long time, our word for that is depression. If medicine wants to use the same word to describe a similar-but-more-precise condition, they can feel free. But most of the time we're not talking in a medical context.
It doesn't really help that a lot of what we used to consider mental illness was mostly just behavior not conforming with the mainstream. US suffragettes hunger-striking were institutionalized and force-fed under the guise of mental illness, and being gay itself used to be classified as a mental illness.
This is the crux of it. If something that takes nothing away from you makes things better for others why argue against it?
we have a data processing system in production that, for various reasons, will not scale horizontally without major work to the open source framework we're using.

Nobody has any appetite to fix the semi-abandoned framework, so if we want to process additional data from bigger workloads, we really have no choice but to rewrite our system.

Joel's right - there's a lot of pitfalls. We tried this once and it was a failure. Our 2nd attempt is going much better, though.
My vote is for blitz chess + allowing competitors to kick the opponent under the table.
Well if you are able to discover that the customers are asking the same question over and over, that's already a good use of the chatbot (as a "discovery" tool). Then you can indeed make sure the info is more visible in the website and iterate again.
"The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to 1375" https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
I think I would have really enjoyed Mathematics and its History by Stillwell. It does a good job connecting analysis, algebraic geometry and number theory following the historical evolution of modern topics.
Did anyone else spend hours of their childhood playing The Incredible Machine ? Anytime I read about a 2D physics simulator, I can't help but think of that game.
> If e-skiing were to become an Olympic sport you'd expect everyone to start with the same amount of snow.

Since competitive skiing is based on athleticism in the face of uncertain conditions, that sounds dreadfully boring.
Saying that these terms are racially loaded is, well, racist.

I can kind of understand the argument that there is a history of racism connected with slavery, but the concept of "slave" predates discrimination of coloured people by millenia, closely followed by the word itself, which is actually derived from "Slav" (like you sometimes hear Russians being referred as). But fair enough, seeing a connection to racism is maybe just misinformed.

But "blacklist" (and "whitelist") is just completely absurd. "Blacklist" is a term from a play, referring to a literally black list. Whitelist is just an antonym. Such color metaphors are incredibly common, think wedding dresses or "black death", or black flags, or white lie. Obviously, none of this is connected to skin color. How exactly does your mind have to be wired to come to the opposite conclusion?

As one of the largest (and most criticized) players in political information, one would think that Twitter could maybe do something better about the current situation than engaging in etymological misinformation...
Art competitions at the Olympics (1912 to 1948)
The whole idea is to remove the subconscious bias that it creates in our minds, always associating black with bad and white with good in the case of blacklist and white list.

None of this has any effect on me and I don't see the negative side of changing it.
The example in the screenshot uses anki-editor which lets you write anki cards in org-syntax anywhere in your knowledgebase and then sync them with your Anki.

https://github.com/louietan/anki-editor

As org-roam itself is not a spaced-repetition tool it does not mention that particular setup in the docs. IMO, the one thing that none of the alternatives to org-roam offers is a (very) vast ecosystem of packages. As your notes are just org files underneath, org-roam plays really well with any other org-mode package.
Obviously, conversion can be somewhat tricky, but purpose built mixed use has sometimes proven quite popular, e.g. at Santana Row.

My experience of living there was limited to a few weeks in a hotel, but it certainly had its advantages.
In Fortnite, item drops and the glowing chests very game by game. If you drop in the same place twice in a row, the chances of getting the same quality of items is vastly different. Yes, they could control that in competitive games, but Fortnite has not done so even in competitive games as they rely on running a best of X instead using a point system in attempt to minimize the effects of the randomization.

Plus, because you can drop anywhere, it's possible that some players fight sooner than others, creating yet another source of luck that can not be controlled. And yes, this could be controlled too, but again, Fortnite has not done so as it could result in removing one of the core aspects of the game.
In Germany we have a slow dying of mall and similar, now accelerated because of corona.

I have considered this before when seeing some empty buildings (turned out they just moved...).

One thing I see as a problem is sunlight. Any apartment must have reasonable sources of natural sun light and many mall's are build in ways which have much less entries for sunlight. Outer walls can be changed but the "inner space" which has no contact to an outer wall is stuck.
Because a mall is essentially a mockup of a town. Just without the clock tower so that you don't remember what time it is.
Your last sentence made me think humorously of Fermat's Last Theorem, and 350 years of grad students trying to prove it...so ironic and in that way funny.
I fundamentally disagree that you can't use a word in one context because of its use in another. If I call someone a bastard I do not mean that they were born out of wedlock the context and use of the word are entirely different.
Is signage not in the driving exam in your locale?
I -think- that's the general intent.

I also think it's an aspect that should be explored more. Sometimes people forget that the time to complete a task does not always correlate with the cognitive load of completing a task.

I've seen orgs where 'top producers' on a team slowly get loaded up more and more, eventually having 50-100% more points on a sprint than their peers on the team. They usually wind up 50-100% more drained at the end of the day too, and it winds up impacting their quality of life.
They is already used as a singular pronoun. Just because you want to play the grammar police won’t stop people from using it as a singular pronoun. It has already been invented, you’re welcome to use it.
Yes, but you know that wasn't the intended purpose of malls, it was to get kids and adults in there because the longer they're there the most likely you'll spend money.
I found it a bit ironic that Apple didn't require users to grant permission to its own measurement tool, "because it is engineered to not track users".

I don't know the details but I am guess it is still accesses the same numeric id and "trusting" that Apple is doing the right thing behind the scenes, i.e., only storing aggregate information is still required.
I Don’t Use Go Web Frameworks
see also
https://wiki.mcjty.eu/modding/index.php?title=Main_Page
https://mcforge.readthedocs.io/en/1.15.x/gettingstarted/
It's weird that when thinking of Minsky, I will always also think of Epstein now.
I'd bet this is exactly what happened, maybe a junior dev or intern took the ticket.
it distracts from the real problem and from actual solutions as I mentioned in my other comment[1]. companies actions (such as using off-shore havens, and funding surveillance Tech) need to stop. by playing the culture war we make ourselves feel good without stopping anything.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23727420
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Gridsome + Shopify = https://gridsomify.com
That will change a lot of stuff.

I really have an inside battle when I read this sort of stuff here on HN, because I don't want to post derailed political comments, I want this place to be like it is, keep it cool and avoid kulturwars, but man it's hard.

Look, I'm not in the US, so maybe I can't even think how it is with racism there, but I just can't help to think this is kind of stupid-naive virtue signaling. It feels like some bunch of uber-priviledged SV guys who think too high of themselves want to feel good about something and they come up with this BS that everyone will forget a week later.

Man, it's so surreal. Don't you have poor people in your city? What about helping your local NGOs? What about working for them for free? One week you help feed the people, another in the kitchen and another one in accounting.

Dunno, it feels sooooo far away from my reality. I don't know what is to be earning +100k year and thinking this is a great idea! It was even difficult to write this comment because I find it funny and just feel the impulse to mock this.
There were eras where slavery had little to do with race (see: the Roman Republic and Empire) but the history of slavery in the last half-millennium had everything to do with race; it is the edifice on which white supremacy was built.

You're not "controversial" for skipping over the blindingly obvious, but we're not allowed to insult people on this forum, so feh!
No, it’s more like trying to get the Redskins to change their name - which many people support.
Yes, this is about pebble bed reactors. From the article:

The Xe-100 is a small pebble-bed reactor that is designed to produce just 75 megawatts of power.

I should add that I'm thrilled steps are being made to make these a reality.
Then they would violate the specificity requirement, which states that you can not use data for a purpose that you did not disclose when you originally gathered it.
To begin with, I think creating a general knowledge bot that can talk about everything is an interesting research concept but not a very useful one.

Then Xatkit aims to be a very flexible platform that helps you create chatbots on top of any platform you need, more than a concrete solution for a specific set of technologies. For instance, most current solutions are tied to a specific NLU Engine (being DialogFlow, IBM Watson or whatever). Xatkit tries to abstract from the concrete engine and let you define the bot in a more abstract way and deploy the bot on any of them based on your deployment preferences.

(this doesn't mean Xatkit provides right now all the connectors you may want, it just means that the architecture of Xatkit was especially designed with this goal in mind, it's open source so it's possible for you to create whatever you need)