skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand. Where did you get the "potent and beleaguered" from my comment? Heterodox doesn't mean good or bad or strong or weak, just that it's outside the norm. Lots of heterodox ideas are bad and deserve only criticism and rebuttal, including many of Alexander's. They don't deserve doxxing from the NYT, though.

The New Yorker reporter criticizes Alexander for calling on his audience to lobby the NYT not to publish his name, while ignoring entirely the much worse consequences that Alexander was likely to face from the NYT's own mob. I think it's hard to be that blind by accident, so I think it's deliberate, and that the proposed doxxing showed either an intent to harm Alexander or cheerful indifference to that harm. Do you disagree? Note that I'm asking whether the reporters were pleased to harm Alexander, not whether you think that harm was justified (i.e., whether you'd be pleased to as well).

I insulted the New Yorker article and reporter, but I accompanied that with an argument for why they deserved it--I believe the article contained many false or misleading statements that tend to impugn Alexander's character. If my reasoning wasn't clear from my brief comment, I've explained it to exhaustion elsewhere in this thread. Your comment quotes from the article to insult mine ("stridency", "hyperbole", and "grandiosity" are all strongly negative terms), but with no such accompanying argument for why the insult should hold.
The free trial code was pretty poorly implemented. I remember I signed up, and it didn't let me watch immediately. By the time I verified email or whatever the heck they wanted and tried again, the trial had expired and so I never even got to try a single video...
Is indirect harm okay? A lot of anti-maskers can't seem to grasp the concept that they aren't just putting their own lives at risk. The infection and death rates show how much damage this mentality can have on a country.
Perhaps worth noting: This is the same John Cleese that has decried London becoming a multicultural city that is "no longer English."

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/john-cleese-is-cancel...
"If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behaviour."
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The issue with emerging and easily accessible technology is that in 2020, especially for the younger folks venturing into their first jobs - at least some kind of social media presence is a pre-requisite. Our school's career center gave a presentation where this issue was raised.

What if a student wants to not associate his/her political thoughts lest they create a hindrance for a future employer digging through the candidate's social media history. The solution offered was simple - never post anything remotely political on your 'real' profiles. But, we were asked to create them regardless and were told to be mildly active. A ghost profile seems a red flag, as such a non-existent one. Which to many people raises concerns about an individual.

We were simply asked to bifurcate our online personas into two - one that was professional and one that was like you mentioned - anonymous.
> Slavery existed in part because people thought black people were subhuman and plenty of people argued that quite publicly.

Slavery has existed in every human society, everywhere in the world.

You are correct that this was the pathological, disgusting justification for keeping it, at least in the United States in the 19th century, but that isn't why it existed, not even in part.
This is the best. Liberals created the cancel culture and then turned around adnd said "...but..but..guys we're on the same team,obviously I didn't mean any of that stuff I said on my quest to get known for something.."
Yep at such a large company there is such huge variance in quality. Wish you and many others were still here to help fight against this mindset. There is lots of high quality work done here, but it doesn’t matter if we end up with issues like this.
I want hack my phone
Fast – Dynamic Themes with Adaptive UI
I saw a few tweets saying 'remember to cancel Quibi', so I guess it's auto renew by default? Most streaming services are like this
Getting older, getting married, and having kids: all things that have significantly contributed to the shockingly low levels of care I give to the opinions of strangers and acquaintances.
> It's bad UI if people just learn where to click.

A combat pilot would respectfully disagree. :)

Source: Diving pulling 5Gs canopy side down.
I think an electron app will beat both Vim and Emacs to it.
"If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behaviour."

Watching the current state of the western world, apparently only very few people have the ability to reflect on themself enough to realize this. Hopefully this is only a loud minorty.

I maybe the wrong person to judge, but imho, we need to resolutely oppose the PC- and cancel culture.
The difference is that Apple has their own ecosystem and about $200 BILLION cash on hand to keep trying...and to buy content https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/28/apple-q1-2019-cash-hoard-her...
There is no such thing as 'maths'. It is called 'math' which is short for 'mathematics'. I have an advanced degree in mathematics. No one ever called mathematics 'maths' while I was in college. Absolutely no one. They would have been laughed out of the room.
That's true but still limitation is not fully resolved. In order to increase consumption rate, we need to add replicas. In pulsar Brokers are merely cache nodes over Bookkeeper. Adding more Brokers is trivial in Pulsar.
Very useful I must say. I have a bunch of those with different filters on points. Means the same article will show up multiple times but in more and more exclusive feeds. This removed my FOMO quite nicely!
Hagia Sophia: Turkey turns iconic Istanbul museum into mosque
No, that's as patently absurd a statement as "if you are not free to break the law, you are not free to obey it either."
SQLPad: A self-hosted web app for writing and running SQL queries
I think the old style menus were more functional for technical people and other experts, but the ribbon might be easier for new users. MSFT seems to have understood that trade off. It's interesting that the Metro design, which seems closer to the ribbon, didn't take off the same way.

But from functional perspective I do like the old interface better, and especially that I can pullright to get at things without having to make multiple clicks.
I'd think that the jump in breadth would qualify as a categorical difference instead of just one in degree. Distribution has gotten more efficient before, as with cable TV or the birth of the modern music industry, but the low stakes and nonexistent barrier to entry of being a YouTuber is a whole new kind of flux in celebrities.

This doesn't suggest that no youtubers have staying power: Pewdiepie has been around for a while and has a massive subscriber count. But he is literally the best of the best, and my point is just that the staying power of a celeb is now more fluid all up and down the distribution of popularity.
The "not legally required to help" thing sounds silly in the abstract, but most people interested in police reform are going to want to keep it. A police force that's required to help people is, by definition, a police force that can be sued for not policing aggressively enough.
The traces are wired to CPU pins, there is no potential BIOS update to make it 8 channels from CPU pins for only 4 channels. You need different socket with double the number of pins for memory to double the number of channels.

Your 4 channels with 2 slots each have the 4 channels daisy chained to 2 slots, but they are just 4 channels. With 8 channels and 2 slots per channel you can have 16 slots, with 32 GB unbuffered (regular) DIMMs you are limited to 512 GB of RAM, for 2 TB you need registered or load reduced RAM.
I want hack my phone. Because it is broken
This could be fun to implement in arduino hooked up to a color led matrix that also double as buttons.
I think the hat a lot of men (especially those with less hair) are looking for is called a boonie hat. More than a few guys I've recommended this hat to have said it's exactly what they wanted, they just didn't know the name.

These things cost 10 bucks at an Army/Navy surplus store. I've had mine for about 15 years now, it's held up great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boonie_hat
Yes. Because losing your job due to using hate speech is the same as losing your head for being on the wrong side of the committee of public safety. Next you'll tell me that I'm literally hitler.
> eg "Insert -> Image -> From File".

In the latest version of word the progression is:

"Insert > Pictures > From This device"
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Most folks are in favor of some form of "political correctness", in the form of polite manners.

The threshold should be different in comedy versus, say, the boardroom. It's not surprising Cleese, as a comedian, is focused on that aspect of things, but you can get equally Orwellian with fervent opposition to vaguely defined "PC" stuff too. People who lose their shit over "Happy Holidays", as an example.
Great points. Agree with all of them.

Interestingly, I see the same trends with Rust -- high ratio of packages to users (already ~43K crates, despite having only 3% share of Stack Overflow last year), easy packaging (`cargo publish`), and high composability (e.g., via traits, type parameters, etc.).

An obvious question is, why does Rust have 10x more packages than Julia already, and almost a fifth as many as Python? I think it's because from day one Rust has appealed to a broader group of developers (anyone seeking better performance and/or concurrency, with memory safety and modern language features like algebraic data types, will consider Rust). Julia, in contrast, has always targeted the scientific computing community, which contains a much smaller group of developers who seem mostly content with existing tools.
There is a way to respond when a corporation says libel thing about you... you can sue. The target can also respond, thru social media at the very least.

Where in this article were they 'supporting the decades old trope of the “uppity” black male that just won’t shut up'? I felt like I read it pretty closely and I cant even begin to understand where that took place.
From one perspective, the rise of Politically Correct English evinces a kind of Lenin-to-Stalinesque irony. That is, the same ideological principles that informed the original Descriptivist revolution---namely, the rejections of traditional authority (born of Vietnam) and of traditional inequality (born of the civil rights movement)---have now actually produced a far more inflexible Prescriptivism, one largely unencumbered by tradition or complexity and backed by the threat of real-world sanctions (termination, litigation) for those who fail to conform.

This is funny in a dark way, maybe, and it's true that most criticisms of PCE seem to consist in making fun of its trendiness or vapidity.

This reviewer's own opinion is that prescriptive PCE is not just silly but ideologically confused and harmful to its own cause.

...

Forget Stalinization or Logic 101-level equivocations, though. There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact---in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself---of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.

Were I, for instance,a political conservative who opposed using taxation as a means of redistributing national wealth, I would be delighted to watch PC progressives spend their time and energy arguing over whether a poor person should be described as "low-income" or "economically disadvantaged" or "pre-prosperous" rather than constructing effective public arguments for redistributive legislation or higher marginal tax rates.

(Not to mention that strict codes of egalitarian euphemism serve to burke the sorts of painful,unpretty, and sometimes offensive discourse that in a pluralistic democracy lead to actual political change rather than symbolic political change. In other words, PCE acts as a form of censorship, and censorship always serves the status quo.)

"Authority and American Usage", 1999
It would be funny if a two phase approach to sorting would result in increased average performance.

First sort using the ML algorithm. Then sort the almost sorted result with a traditional algorithm optimized for almost sorted results.

In fact, I think my own brain does the two phase approach to many problems.
PMF = Product Market Fit
You are taking an extremely literal position on the word "exist", which may be where your disconnect is coming from.

Let's say you are LGBT in a place that denies you certain medical care, marriage (and associated tax/estate benefits), denial from many stores, etc. Alongside other discrimination. Yes, you still /literally/ exist. But you also have an argument to say that your existence is not valued as much as others, and many parts of existing (see above examples) are denied to you.

It's a bit more pithy to say that your right to exist is being challenged, than having to dance around your extremely literal definition of existing.
I think we always need to strike a balance between nice and direct, but one thing I've noticed is many people who claim to be A culture people (are proud of not sugarcoating things or "saying it how it is") are the people who especially don't like it when others are like that to them, which I think is just a lack of empathy.
In a broad sense indirect harm is OK. There are many activities that result in indirect harm. The argument about which should be banned should focus on the amount of harm and the degree of restriction required to be placed upon people's freedoms to reduce the harm.
Why do you feel this is relevant in the context of PC?
I work in this industry and generally agree with your assessment.

However a few things, the general industry perspective went like this:

1. David Katzenberg and Meg Whitman were creating a consumer service targeting a demographic they don't fit in a field they've not worked in. (Consumer apps for a younger demographic)

2. They got 1.8 Billion in funding. For fuck's sake you should get one breakout hit piece of content from that. (Note Apple is struggling a bit with this one too). With the funding, hype and content they've spent on the expectations are going to be pretty damn astronomical, they brought high expectations on themselves.

3. Their entire premise was based on this concept of quick bites of content. With an almost 2 billion dollar war chest the right thing to do would have been to test this theory maybe? Roll out a single show first, backfilled with some news? Get some feedback maybe?

Quibi is led by some serious heavy hitters, so its not spoken much out loud but I think a lot of folks in the industry felt this play was based mostly on hubris and now there's a certain sense of schadenfreude as they start to flail.
When the natives make up less than 50% of the population, he might have a point. What does it mean to be English? Nothing more than holding a passport?
Yes, the ribbon interface was initially pushed on the world in 2007, and it's still as bad as ever.
Who? Export substitution of non-fungible products is quite difficult.
I think it used to be the case back in 2015 or so, I believe they meanwhile fixed the issue. For sure it hasn't happened to me for a couple of years now.
Things you can do with Moveable
My experience wearing a hat on my college campus was similar. I found a faux leather fedora (same style as Indiana Jones) and I'd wear that for sun and rain. I don't think anybody said anything negative about the hat, but I got several compliments on it. People like hats, they just worry too much about what others think of them.
You prove your racism by implying only Whites can be Americans.
Which also begs the question: How many such projects in different industries (eg, agriculture, aviation, food, healthcare, etc) would need a slice of that defense pie?

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[Note: I'm not advocating for/against the idea of the parent comment, just adding a layer to it]
The CDC, in America.
I agree with you re: moderation. I agree that it can get out of hand.

But (IMO) there are two separate issues at play here. 1. everyone is entitled to free speech 2. every action has consequences.

[truth] 1. People who get "cancelled" complain that they don't have free speech [which is obviously not true], which is the crux of the discussion here. The right/wrong of the opinion doesn't matter in free speech.

[opinion] 2. "Consequences" (IMO) is a mix of {a sense of righteous indignation, mob mentality, schadenfreude} - but more importantly, also very much free speech. Vigilantism implies taking the law into their own hands, which "cancelling" is not.

When I say "deserve a backlash", (IMO) it is because people who get "cancelled" are often people with a platform/entitlement/privilege. Taking that away is pretty much the only leverage that people have. Even after that, the right to free speech is still not lost.

(But do I think "cancelling" is ok? That's context-specific. I agree with some cancelling, some not.)
The English complaining about natives losing power would be a bit rich, wouldn't it?
>that doesn't directly harm other people

This side-steps the entire conversation. Surely you agree that laws and orders are intended to prevent harm. You can and should debate whether a particular example is practical and just, but just saying "I want to be free" and "the government can't force me to do anything" is generalized to the point of having no value aside from provoking people and encouraging anger.
I actually know a lot of asian women who like watching what's essentially food tourism TV series and even recommend them to me. Food is definitely a genre that has fans. Besides big fancy ones that go to new cities and regions every episode, there's also smaller fun ones like how the Japanese have a live action and cartoon version of a guy who goes to a different food shop every episode.
Yes, massive starvation and death due to inept industrial policies is the same as getting fired from your job for advocating hate speech. Next you'll tell me I'm literally hitler.
Apart from the gross sentiment that could easily be read from this comment, "natives" do not in fact make up less than 50% of London's population.

This whole story is a terrible fit for HN.
Great project! Obviously a stretch, but would be curious to see a breakdown by workshop, general conference, orals, etc. The umber of publications is not the same as their quality.

Also, do you disambiguate corporate affiliations in academia? E.g. many papers will be +1's for a university and a corporate research group (Stanford + Google)
That's not true at all. This sounds a lot like the random anti BLM propaganda you see on facebook.

The core tenants of BLM are that CURRENTLY black communities are policed in a radically different way than white communities. BLM activists want everyone to have a just and fair policing.
One of the trends I’ve noticed is that people who have minor SaaS success can 5x their income by creating an ebook + course + masterclass about how they did it. Selling shovels in a gold rush....
> If you want to be disingenuous more effectively

That it was a deliberate disingenuity seemed to have flown far and high over your head. What do you think I was trying to do?
> 95% or so of the entire universe we infer must exist

Isn’t the reason we infer dark matter exists, is our observations of the spin of galaxies? In other words there must be a lot more gravity produced by matter we aren’t observing (dark matter) to explain large scale observations?

Aren’t there competing theories to dark matter, which haven’t been ruled out, from Einstein’s theories of gravity being wrong; or in the same way Einstein’s theory of gravity breaks down/is incomplete on the quantum scale his theories may breakdown at the scale of galaxies; and even more simply our observations not be accurate?
He's rather right about London and many parts of the EU, Europe has been losing its cultural identity for years.
U.S. finalizing federal contract ban for companies that use Huawei, others
Heh, people were not very into Trump building a wall and "making Mexico pay for it" but let's see what they say about installing UBI and making the rest of the world pay for it.
How do you defend against abort() in library code?
You can go to Dell, HP, or Lenovo to get a premade Xeon workstation. Getting Epyc premade requires rather more research to find and qualify a vendor, and that vendor may not make it easy to configure and but from the web site with or having to enter a relationship with a sales rep.
I like it. As going through it though I had read so many in the list it provided. I see 6 is the maximum for a search, but it'd be useful to "neutralise" all the ones that have already been read to clear the stage a bit
Being downvoted is not being cancelled. If people don't agree with what you're saying, they're welcome to exercise their own right to speak and tell you so.
Thank you so much for saying this. I had no idea until I read your comment and immediately opened the view menu. I am blown away I didn’t know about this after over 10 years of using LO...
>>A ghost profile seems a red flag, as such a non-existent one

I guess my future is going to be limited then, because I have never, and will never have a "real" social media presence. Ever.

That is a hard, never going to happen, even if I have live under a bridge
I'd make mention of the fact they likely think the English can be British, but they also probably imagine that a good Englishman can eat pork and beef!
> The reason lockdowns have to be done is to prevent the much larger number of deaths that would occur if coronavirus is allowed to spread unhindered.

This claim is not accepted by all in the medical or scientific community. This is just the line from the epidemiologists who have the most influence, and it has been amplified by the media into some sort of unquestionable creed. My guess is the damage that these epidemiologists have done is going to be far worse than the disease itself. If you can't see that their over-simplified non-linear models are essentially just guesses too, then you are missing a big part of the picture.
MapleStory had a "cash shop" in 2004, not loot boxes. Very common design at the time, it was just an in-game store that only took real money in return for items. MS was actually somewhat famous at the time for having a fair, cosmetic-only cash shop (which has now since changed)[0].

PCGamer [1] puts "ZT Online", a Chinese MMO, as starting the lootbox trend in 2006.

[0]: Albeit, this is all coming from my experiences on the Global MapleStory servers. The Korean ones could have been different

[1]: https://www.pcgamer.com/the-evolution-of-loot-boxes/
He said "can lead to" in 2016.

I think he would say "has landed us in" today.
As a chemist I squinted at “need to be absorbed to be effective”.

The molecules in sunscreen either block or absorb UV. Nothing gets “absorbed into” the skin. It just sits on top (the skin is an amazing barrier).

The fact the molecule can absorb UV doesn’t change if it’s sitting in a tube or on top of your skin.
Looks like he is consistent