skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Swastika is a racist symbol across an entire hemisphere of this planet. The Nazi flag, itself, isn't racist minus the Swastika - in fact, when people want to graphically portray a Nazi analogue without offending people, they usually just use the flag with the Swastika swapped out for something else.

The fact that it isn't racist in, say, China doesn't mean it also isn't racist when spray painted on a synagogue.
These guys are probably planning to IPO next year. And when they file the S1 they can claim they had 100% year over year growth (mostly due to price increases).
Interesting idea. I am hearing impaired and have a set of in the ear hearing aides that aren't very noticeable. However, they are quite old. I got them in 2001. I rarely use them because I cannot get used to the background noise that I normally don't hear.

I haven't upgraded due to costs. Personally, I would like to see the manufacturing costs of better hearing aides come down. The last time I looked into it the costs was about $3500 per ear for modern in the ear hearing aides.
Thesis needs work. There is a dearth of mass capitulation to lawful orders for sheltering in place or wearing masks, and booing isn’t censorship (and before you argue that it’s another form thereof, tell me again that gentrification isn’t a term charged with meaning beyond the OED).
I’m thrilled to see this article here. Politically correct culture has gone way too far.

Privacy and free speech are quickly eroding and it seemed like not many people are willing to get loud about it.
Unfortunately, the totalitarians are already in control.
You can use all chrome extensions directly from chrome Web store, plus install from Microsoft which has most of the popular ones already published.
Scientists move to strip offensive names from journals, prizes, and more
Grandma...why do you keep bothering me! Just use wget!!!!
A lot of actual malware is signed with a legitimate developer ID. Not Microsoft or Adobe's cert, of course, but one that Apple handed out and has not (yet) revoked.
I’m not sure that apathy is more of a problem than people caring so much about things that they’re willing to hurt people to accomplish their goals. The status quo is often fiercely defended.

FWIW, South Park’s main impact on me has been to make me constantly wonder what stuff I believe that is actually wrong and ridiculous. It’s raised the bar for when I feel it’s appropriate to force my beliefs on other people, which could look like apathy, I suppose...
But can you explain the rationale for removing the blog though? I don't see his actions to be well thought-out here, unless it was a publicity stunt to infuriate his followers with NYT.
How come you're paying $200 for 5.1k queries on App Search? 5k doesn't seem like a big number so I imagine the lower tier plans/configs like the $20-30 plans should be enough right? Right now I have the lowest configuration and I pay $25/month.
No, not really. There have been multiple instances of actual malware being distributed signed with a developer ID. This isn't theoretical; being signed is no assurance because these days it's hard to get such software to run at all on Macs if they weren't signed.
Ten bucks says whatever new symbol gets used will be (considered?) a de facto racist symbol within a couple years.
He wrote a very thoughtful explanation of it on his website.
Now Ben Horowitz has to step down from a16z out of respect to Taylor.
> The posts rankled some workers, who found that her decision to write about the media in the midst of her maternity leave, rather than Black Lives Matter or Pride, reflected poorly on the brand.

How is this real?
If you look at all the religious megaliths we have today, like the Vatican or whatever, the reasons those exist is because they were built using several hundred or even thousand years of accrued wealth. (And a significant amount of 'reappropriated' building materials.) If the second temple really was built in 586 BCE, does it make any sense whatsoever that that could have been built with only 3 generations or so of accrued intergenerational wealth? That just doesn't seem plausible. Even assuming the bible is 100% made up, common sense suggests the longer biblical timeline is probably closer to the truth.

If they'd instead stumbled into Dubai-style wealth from these copper mines or whatever only a few decades earlier, surely that would have been written down somewhere.
Sometimes regular folks are the demons. Regular Germans became history's most punchable bad guys.

If someone is telling you that you're terrible on a regular basis, perhaps some self reflection isn't unwarranted. The track record for regular people who just don't want to be called bad people turning out to be truly awful in retrospect is pretty close to 100%.
I love it. I even use it on my iPhone and my Mac...I can’t wait for default browser settings in iOS14
There's plenty of knowledge and technology left to discover, plenty of resources to transform, and plenty of space to grow into (including off-planet).

We just lack the will to do what's required because we're used to comfortable lifestyles and are unwilling to take risks.
LinkedIn is a website. It works just fine as a website. Why would anyone install it as an app?
My understanding was that a golang program's heap size will automatically grow as needed, and later (eventually) shrink as memory goes unused.

Is this true of java? Is it possible to run a java program in a way where it is allowed to use up all of the system's heap if needed, but also plays nicely with other processes on the system (i.e. yields the memory back to the OS after it becomes unused)?
Did it convince you? It certainly did not convince me.
> Taking advantage of their monopoly is not the bad part IMO. The bad part is doing it in such an tasteless way, i.e. making the product suck.

They aren’t separate issues. Monopoly is the absence of effective competition (a place people go when you make things worse, whether in cost or UX or otherwise). That's what makes them free to do it “so tastelessly”.
You can't close it (easily). The [X] button, Alt+F4, Ctrl+W, etc. are all blocked and you have to click a "Get Started" button to unblock it.
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Mine hard locks regularly requiring a power cycle. It is even worse with more recent kernels.
New Edge is Chromium.
Truly disposable burner emails are the best, though many larger corps block the more popular ones or require an email at specific providers.
https://www.mailinator.com/
No, but they do symbolize the things they represent. That's actually where that word comes from.
> but they sound like something people should stop doing business with until they go away.... because emigrating to another country -- which may not be any better -- is a dramatic high-cost change to your entire life, whereas not investing in or working for a particular company is the default state that happens if you do nothing.

This sequence of thoughts expressed so closely together powerfully demonstrates how fundamentalism results in motivated reasoning that retards certain conclusions in one context and hyper-charges rationalization in the opposing context.

If you don't like market capture in the USA, you have the simple choice of simply stop doing business with the USA. Just like businesses always have the simple choice of simply stop doing business with abusive counterparties.
It's hard to take that objection seriously, though. His pen name and his real name are already strongly linked in search engine space. The only thing that will change as a result of the NYT article is that there will be additional scrutiny of his ideas.

I also agree that protecting his patients and his business is something he should have seen to, but it is a problem he should have addressed six years ago, not after building a minor media ecosystem around himself, including books, published articles, and con appearances.
Avoiding the “average” trap and building products that grow
> the living conditions, healthcare, lifespan, and overall societal contributions of people paid less than minimum wage?

You’ve obviously not grasped the point - these people are not paid “less than minimum wage” - they are paid nothing, zero, because well-intentioned but economically clueless people have decided that it’s not morally proper for low-skilled people to make whatever their labor is worth.

> Minimum wage laws put a floor on just how much you can abuse your staff

No, it puts a floor on who is employable, hurting the least capable people the most.

> you take your considerable privilege for granted

Chastising me doesn’t work - try again with a reasonable economic/utilitarian argument. Thus far you haven’t said anything to suggest you’re approaching this from any kind of reasonable framework.
this is why you don't hire "woke" people. there are insufferable and make normal people's worklife a living hell
Why is this getting downvoted? It seems like a constructive comment, or am I missing something?
I'm pretty sure I've seen the ancient alien hypothesis applied to Stonehenge too.

In any case, I just don't think there wasn't a lot going on in Europe at this time for the "ancient alien" folks to attribute to aliens.
> However, if a company borrowed the money it "sunk", it still has to pay that money back from future sales; if it was raised through equity, continued losses will continue to drag the share price down. Sunk cost is not a free lunch argument.

Even if a company has borrowed the money it "sunk", it's still in its interest to maximize revenue even if that's not enough to pay the interest on that loan. The alternative would to make even less, and cause its debts to rise even further.

Maximizing revenue means charging the most the market will pay. Not participating because the market won't pay enough to "pay back on the initial investment" would not be maximizing revenue. Not participating because doing so would mean operating at a loss _excluding the sunk cost_ makes sense, but that's not what we're discussing here.

> The sunk cost of design does not justify sinking further funds into building an assembly line, if the expected production is not going to pay for itself, even though the design you now paid for is so to speak "free!"

The cost of building or operating an assembly line was not the subject of my comment. I was only referring to your comment about Boeing's development costs being "already amortized". That part makes no difference to the economics of the situation.
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I've written a blog off and on for many years (http://jakeseliger.com for the curious) and it takes a huge amount of time to do well. The amount of time Alexander put into SSC is enormous. People who haven't done it or tried to do it often don't realize how enormous. It's like software: end users often don't know how tricky it really is to get right.
Visiting google.com doesn't silently install Chrome.
The SSC diaspora is collecting in a number of locations. The two I am most familiar with are Naval Gazing (a blog about naval affairs) and Data Secrets Lox (a new discussion forum).

Data Secrets Lox is set up as a replacement for the SSC open threads, and is run on actual forum software, which means there are topic-specific threads for easier navigation. As membership increases, I expect we'll add subforums, also.

https://www.navalgazing.net/

https://datasecretslox.obormot.net/
Personally, what's helped me is watching Rick & Morty, and it finally hitting home that none of our lives mean anything in the grandest scheme of things, if there is such a thing. So we are free to live as we want. Nobody can judge us except ourselves.
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The lockdowns? The linked interview doesn’t mention lockdowns once — it talks about the effect of the pandemic.

They go even further to say that it’s not so much money that’s the concern right now — it’s the supply chain.

Critical, essential services aren’t being shutdown with lockdowns. They’re being shutdown because people are getting sick — like the food processing plants in the US, where people work in very close proximity to each other, indoors, all day long.
They didn't create an account called "Amazon AI", they created an account called "@AmazonUK" which is what was referenced in the original comment. @AmazonUK has a human behind the account, not an AI.
>People can speak freely without restrictions using their own resources.

The average person cannot. "Just host your content on Tor" (as it was eventually suggested elsewhere) is not a solution to there being lack of an accessible online public space, when faced with private entities who will deny you hosting and domain names.

But I would like you to answer the question posed in the post you replied to (yes I know it wasn't originally addressed to you). Are you someone who believes that a place like that shouldn't exist because of the content you believe that would be posted?
I seriously doubt that.
It takes serious effort to learn a whole other language (cmake) to do anything useful in C++.
It’s interesting to consider the centrality of the city in ancient literature, and the equation of civilization with urban life. In modern American political discourse, it feels as if the city is constantly slandered or considered alien or “un”-American, in contrast to purported “authentic” rural areas. The city is seen as debauched and somehow apart
> My wife didn't respond, of course. She immediately looped in her admin and explained what was going on. Fortunately that was the end of it, but it's not hard to imagine someone getting caught up in a similar situation and it becoming a full on witch hunt.

Well, the hunt began when your wife made a kid run laps because he made an OK sign on his leg because he thought that was a 'cool' thing to do comparable to giving the person in front of you 'rabbit ears' by making a V-sign behind their head, not when that kid's mother started social media dumpster diving for 'evidence' to use against your wife. The way to avoid these witch hunts is to avoid starting them, not to make the first step and then complain when others follow suit. She could have taken the kid aside and asked him why he made that sign, he probably would have replied he got it off the 'net or from his friends who made him think it was 'cool'. She then could have told him why it is not cool, i.e. that him making that sign would be interpreted by some as him being a supporter of a nefarious ideology. By singling him out to run laps after he low key photo-bombed the team picture by making the "Ok" symbol on one of his thighs she more or less handed that kid's mother all the ammunition she needed to follow in pursuit.

In Dutch there is a saying which applies to this; "Wat gij niet wilt dat u geschiedt, doet dat ook een ander niet", it translates to "Do not do unto others what you do not want to have done upon yourself".
The acquisition was 4 years ago, almost to the day: you're right, it's time to blame the real owner.
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And those resources would tell you "we already give you the option to create a non-admin user account, try using that".
I would never have called the discourse on this website "nuanced discussion." It's just one of many echo chambers on the internet where people think very similarly and otherwise rigorously suppress dissent from their consensus worldview. So let's be clear about what kind of community you're looking for: one that comports with your worldview.
I don't remember Microsoft ever being this obnoxiously in-your-face. Force-feeding users full-screen adverts is a new low of the Win10 era.

The similar screens that get shown when installing updates are just as creepy, to the point that I've heard of others mistaking them for a ransomware infection:

http://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/a9PQep0_700b.jpg

I seriously do not understand the group of people at MS who think doing such things were an excellent idea.
It's a setup that is somewhat similar to GANs (and even closer to a related method called Fader Networks):

- a first network take the input data and return a representation A (like an embedding vector): let's called it the "censor network"

- a second network take this embedding A as input and is trained to predict the class that should be censored (for example the gender of a person) : the "discriminator network"

- a third network take the same embedding A as input and is trained to predict the real task of interest (for example the probability of credit default) : the "predictor network"

The idea is that, by training the censor to make the discriminator fail (predict the wrong class) while making the predictor work, it will force the censor to learn a transformation of the input data that keeps the task related information in the embedding A, but removes the information correlated to the "censored class" (and that could be used to discriminate).

Here's a reference about this kind of methods, but it's still an active domain of study in ML and there are many papers that followed this one: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.07593.pdf
slashdot has gotten a lot better. Still have it's troll, but sometimes they are even upvoted for saying what everyone is thinking but would regardless get you modded down or hellbanned here on HN.

Also the moderation model for slashdot is golden. I strongly suggested anyone interested in online forum design to take a look at the source code. The idea of rating comments based on a few categories, allowing readers to assign different weight to each categories, and forcing voters (moderators) to abstain from commenting when voting, works really well and solve problems that are impossible here or on reddit/facebook/etc.
Yeah, I think the confusion stems from the word "enum" being used to mean different things in different langs.

A great illustration lies in comparing enums in Objective-C (essentially just named integers), whereas the associated values in Swift enums make them "Sum" types.
Truly amazing read. Thanks for sharing.
Oh that's neat. But I think the BEAM here was open sourced in about '99 and was developed in the 80s.
And by "the results," you mean fewer deaths per million than Sweden (or France, or Italy, or the UK...)? https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
You still consider Microsoft of 2020 a monopoly?
This might not be the first "incident", but it still sets a dangerous precedent where not posting about whatever social cause is currently being hyped up becomes dangerous for your career.
Another perspective is to look at traditional use of opiates in cultures before they were illegal. Raw opium has a much higher ratio of lethal dose to effective dose vs heroin. For example in parts of India elderly will take some opium with their chai to ease the discomforts of old age. While you may become addicted it’s unlikely you will overdose.

A big part of the potency of recreational drugs is due to its illegality forcing suppliers to pack as much of a punch in the smallest package. Another contributing factor is Western culture - you don’t see a huge demand for low potency cannabis. People like their drugs strong.
If you search at images.google.com for "black people confederate flag" without quotes, you will see black people who support the confederate flag. Strangely, that is practically all that is shown for pages. I don't know what all of their reasons are, but they exist and those people have just as much of a right to their beliefs as others have. They are people with their own heritage. One heritage is that some people fought for freedom and the ability to secede, not for slavery.
Which data are you referring to? Last I heard, there wasn't really data available, since contact tracers aren't asking people whether they went to the protests.
1488, yikes.
I call it the "EAR 'N I.T." act.

works much better.
I don't have this problem. Firefox still my browser. No Edge in sight to do the shenanigans described in article. I even ran manually a "check for updates" and came back saying I am up to date.

But I have a local account, and I've disabled all of Win10 crap using WPD. Maybe that's why? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
China isn't any more back to normal than the US is, despite the relative absence of the virus there.
There is a big problem with the argument that the virus would have destroyed the economy no matter what — look at how people are behaving in the places that have reopened. They were behaving that way before the lockdowns too. Restaurants are packed.

People just don’t want to hide in their homes from this. If they had been doing that, the lockdown orders would have been unnecessary and superfluous.

It’s fair to say that the virus would have damaged the economy, but it’s just not reasonable to believe that damage would have been as bad as, or worse than, the damage caused by the virus plus the lockdowns.
I would say from some recent conversations I've had, there is far from a consensus on HN, even on political matters.
They do exactly this with the heated seats, and of course, AutoPilot.
I agree in regards to cynicism/fatalism, but I fear everyone's cynicism is someone else's obvious ill-that-must-be-named.

For example, I consider the relentless attacks on "mainstream journalism" coming from tech people to be repetitive, superficial, ignorant of history (journalism today is leagues ahead of the past), and misguided (phonebook-style "just the facts" neutrality is neither possible nor has it ever been the goal).

The same goes for "every politician is corrupt", etc.

But I can sort-off see that, to someone with the unfortunate flaw to wrongly entertain believes different from mine, my insistence to criticise every new low of the current US administration, might, in a certain light, also subjectively feel like tired, repetitive cynicism.

That's a logical paradox and it has its roots in our discourse no longer being grounded in a shared, objective reality.
> At the outset, I should say that I am a fan of Kissinger and his realpolitik

Let me tell you a quick story. I have a branch in my family who was entirely wiped out (save for one boy) in the genocide in Timor-Leste, which killed 150,000 to 200,000 people (if that doesn't seem that much to you, the population of Timor was 688,000). That invasion was approved by the US (Kissinger and Ford met with Suharto on the eve of the invasion to give the OK), financed by the US, with troops trained by the US and armed by the US. The reason? The people of the freshly liberated country were on the verge of holding their first democratic elections, choosing a left-wing party, and declaring independence.

So pardon me if I'm not "a fan of his realpolitik". Disgusting mass murderers is what they are, it's not because they wore a suit that murder becomes something else. "Ivory tower" indeed.
It literally doesn't. EU authority over the national security is very limited and the treaties only state that member states should cooperate amongst themselves.
That seems an optimistic reading of those graphs. As far as I can tell. a lot of them are 20-30% the speed of native, not 40-60%.
Slate Star Codex wasn’t a nuanced conversation. It was a gathering place for people who wanted to discuss “scientific racism” without using those words or the other well know dogwhistles. It’s great that SSC stopped providing a platform for that.