skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Genghis Khan

Funny you mention that because the majority of ethnic Mongols live in the jurisdictional equivalent of a reservation.
So when are they going to get to all the other unlawful stuff the government does?
Have you contacted Dubner about this? He'd probably love to have you on his show. Would be great marketing for you.
for light, you are mostly correct.

LED strips over a sheet with a diffuser produces a more useful light. But, as light is in the Thz range, doing any meaningful beamforming is exceedingly difficult.

Because speakers are well within the range of controllability, its perfectly possible to alter the phase to steer the audio output. this is possible because changing the phase moves the peaks and troughs of the waves to "move" the sound to where its wanted.
Isn't he effectively doxxing his patients by revealing personal information (albeit slightly jumbled)? He's been writing under the thinnest veneer of anonymity and if he's considered about the things he writes affecting his patients, maybe he's either not taking enough measures to be anonymous or shouldn't be writing those things in the first place as a professional.
Keep a treaty. We've a long history of breaking them when we feel like it.
Despite trying to avoid this facet of the discussion in my original post, this response is where the argument becomes irrational: "businesses can certainly afford to pay them" is not a valid argument to justify a tax.
I think there's just nothing better to invest in right now, and wealthy people have a lot of capital. With things how they are in Hong Kong maybe there's even more capital flight out of China because they see the writing on the wall.
Which Native Americans should we give the state to, the ones that lived there originally or one of the tribes we force relocated to the area?
I'm all for anonymous publishing, I think it's a powerful and useful.

Retconning SSC as an "anonymous" publication is silly, though, and really dilutes the efforts of people who truly want to or need to remain anonymous.
Internet freedom in Germany?

https://stadt-nachrichten.de/fahndungen/hasskommentare-im-in...

https://www.bild.de/news/inland/news-inland/hass-kommentare-...

https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/gesetz-gege...

Boy China is childs play compared to us.
Takeout is 15-20 minutes, delivery is 40-60. Call ahead, and the food will be ready by the time you get yourself together, walk out the door, and arrive at the restaurant.
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You can consider it an over-reaction. But calling it a tantrum, using that specific word, really highlights your flared emotions. When people resort to value laden language instead of more objective, reasonable language, it says a lot about their mindset.

On the actual subject, scale and magnitude are issues that most rational beings consider. His avoiding people knowing his name on scale makes sense. Our society in general has even codified this difference in law by separating 'public figures' from 'private individuals'. It seems disingenuous to ignore this concern or equate using your name online with having it published on one of the most read publications in the world.
> Note too the lack of any real investigation or original reporting here; the author hasn't bother to talk to Metz?

The article specifically mentions that Metz did not want to be quoted directly; most likely, the author did talk to him. (Though, it's even less clear to me why Scott would want to lie about what Metz said, so I'm definitely inclined to trust Scott's account of the matter.)
For ML/scientific computing, it can fulfill both roles, I'd say. Julia looks about as flexible and easy to use as Python, R, and matlab for experimenting and iterating quickly with throwaway code, and superior to those languages in every other important dimension except one: it lacks Python's gigantic ecosystem.
As someone who works at the intersection of technology and journalism, it hurts to see how many misunderstandings there are in these comments and elsewhere. The tech world (and HN in particular) deeply needs a solid explainer on how journalism works. So many misunderstandings!

(Of course, many/most journalists also need an explainer about the tech world. And that is not to say that some of the more nuanced critiques on journalism or its implementation are not on point — as many journalists would agree! e.g. Jessica Lessin... and Taylor Lorenz https://twitter.com/Jessicalessin/status/1278332719974449152)
When someone with standing sues.
Dude, you had one kick ass cub scout den.
Obviously there's a wide spectrum of possible uses and different people have different "focus" tastes. I've found Firefox's PIP particularly useful in watching videos while grinding in certain types of MMOs. So long as the MMOs support "Borderless Window Fullscreen" rather than "pure" fullscreen, Firefox's PIP shows up right on top. I just recently upgraded to an ultra-widescreen so I've got plenty of horizontal space to play with. In a previous dual monitor setup I might have just had the game on one screen and the show on the other. This PIP gives me a bit more flexibility than that, especially I discover which games sing in the "2k" fullscreen. Some of these MMOs I didn't realize quite how cramped they felt in 1080p until I got to extend them to ultra-wide.
That's not 'why', that's 'how'.

I'm not American, so don't know the topic in details. I have found this online:

"The main goals of Indian reservations were to bring Native Americans under U.S. government control, minimize conflict between Indians and settlers and encourage Native Americans to take on the ways of the white man." [1]

[1] https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/india...
My guess is that Germany will lose its web hosts as no one will trust to host anything in that country if this passes.
You don't have to live by principles you raise espouse anonymously 24/7.
Sorry, Not Interested... (Plus You're Boring)
As an aside.. whats up with that file photo Reuters is using? Is that somebody naked in front of the supreme court wearing just a fanny pack?
Habit is also massively important in what products /brands people use. Even if there is a superior, cheaper product many people will continue using the same product because that's what they always done.
I had to scroll back to the top to double check the post date, because this sounds like information from four months ago...
When cases against all the other unlawful stuff reach them, presumably.
You are Mr. Photostructure? Cool. Thanks so much for making an awesome piece of software.
He's not an anonymous blogger. He's forthcoming with personal information. He's published his full name multiple times (even on his own blog). It's not doxing.
Native americans do pay the same federal income tax as everyone else. Tribes don't pay federal tax. If you live on a reservation, you generally don't pay state income tax. It is kinda complicated.
The US government was making treaties with Native American tribes as recently as 1871. One hundred and fifty years ago isn’t long at all. It’s two lifetimes. It’s recent enough for someone to have known someone who was alive then.
It seems that what they've ruled is not that the treaty must be honored, but that only the federal government gets to decide not to honor it. Absent a specific decision to that effect, the treaty is still in force which limits the state's authority.
When you file a lawsuit about it that makes its way up the courts.
RetroPie, Revision 2
I have (a few) static sites on places like Github Pages/netlify. How do I put them under a .onion?
I can confirm that the door close button works at least some of the time. I used to ride an elevator every day on the way in to work and was surprised to hear about that button being a sham, since my general impression was that it worked. So, I did a test.

I started timing how long the door would take to close on all of the solo rides I took on my regular elevator, alternating hitting or not hitting the button. The results confirmed my intuition that the button did speed things up significantly. I've forgotten the exact numbers but the increase was pretty large, something like 5 seconds vs 15 seconds, if I hit or didn't hit the button.
This is a really impressive demo, anything about the pricing for personal projects?
> Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the court’s four liberals in the majority.

The US supreme court is a special kind of circus.

For the life of me, I can't remember any of the names of the justices on the Canadian supreme court. Its extremely uneventful, and even if there have been controversies, they were so minor or rare that I can't remember them.

The US on the other hand... The partisanship is so blatant and just accepted.

And not only that, the controversy.

I am still astounded that Kavanugh was approved after he started ranting openly about clinton conspiracy theories, awkwardly asking people if they like beer, and lying about common terms like "devil's triangle".
It factors into parole release and other calculations
life in prison is usually reserved for capital crimes. But when someone acts so heinously, then they just tack on year after year.

However, AFAIK, rape or even murder aren't federal crimes, unless the crime crossed state/tribal boundaries.
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From long observation: no, one thing HN is remarkably bad at, even compared to the rest of the web(!), is taking context into account. Usually that kind of thing is deliberate trolling when it happens elsewhere, but here I can never tell. It seems so sincere.
Setting up a private satellite Wi-Fi network is now cheaper and easier than ever
Yes, it is. But it makes a valid point about HN and the elevation of technical prowess over other concerns. It points out the danger of using an echo chamber as a gauge for reality.

I don't use technical recommendations from HN users because they consistently underestimate pragmatic concerns because the HN echo chamber overvalues technical virtuosity so real world pragmatic concerns get drowned out by other voices.
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Some weeks ago I asked a few of the Codelitt team members a simple question:

“What is UX?”

I was happy that no one shied away from answering, and the difference in their responses was incredible:

Engineers focused their answers in very pragmatic areas that all revolved around friction and how to reduce it. The experience “behind the curtain” that helps make interactions smooth was what they thought of. Things like loading times or making sure that buttons were clickable came to their minds.

Designers saw the importance of researching both the users and business who would be investing in the product. They cared about making sure that the brand’s values were enhancing the experience. They wanted the users & customers to know exactly what to expect when interacting with their products.

Project Managers focused on understanding and empathizing with the users so that the end product is intuitive and useful to the user.

Simply put, UX means “User Experience”: it’s the experience that a user has while interacting with a product. UX Design is, by definition, the process by which we determine what that experience will be.

UX Design always happens. Whether it’s intentional or not, somebody makes the decisions about how the human and the product will interact. Good UX Design happens when we make these decisions in a way that understands and fulfills the needs of both our users and our business.

UX encompasses so many disciplines that it’s unfair to think of it as a sphere within visual design. Quite the contrary! The building of an interface is a subset of that product’s experience design.

UX happens whenever a human interacts with a product. Any product. Take a pencil, for example. There’s the way that the wood, plastic or metal feels on your hand, the way it falls on your fingers, the feel of the graphite against the paper. Does it have a rubber end or a button you have to press to get the graphite out? In every case, it’s all been thoroughly thought out and designed, each component a part of the experience of writing with a pencil.

From the business objective, to the product’s stakeholders, designers, engineers and project managers, the experience encompasses every person working on it. It is the culmination of a multitude of disciplines working together. Every decision we make when building a product shapes that experience. UX is at the heart of everything we do.
All you have to do to be "defensible" in many industries is observe the status quo, but add decent customer service.
You have read the title and know the woman is not being harmed. You probably don't have to deal on a daily basis with drugged and mentally unstable people, unlike someone who works in an emergency room.
TL;DR:

Some people are making claims that "the world is going to end in twelve years" or something, but it isn't. Lots of stuff about the author's experiences traveling in the Congo even though most of it isn't that relevant to the questions of climate or its effects. We've got other problems the author cares more about than the climate. Human ability to adapt might surpass the effects of the change. A couple of weird and IMO not very good arguments about volcanoes and asteroids being threats to humanity, and of course the coronavirus epidemic which apparently somehow means we should care less about climate change. People are getting depressed and anxious about climate change, so according to the author, we should worry about it less.

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Sorry, but I don't think the article really makes good arguments. Taking someone's claim that the world is ending in twelve years (or something similar), making the obvious observation that that's not true, and thus implying that climate "alarmism" is wrong is pretty much a strawman argument.

Pointing out that many natural disasters aren't necessarily a result of climate change (or at least it's hard to tell how much of a connection there is) is valid and potentially valuable. It would be better and easier to take as a non-motivated argument if the general tone of the piece weren't discounting the effects of climate change.

And yes, people in the Congo probably are worrying more about their immediate survival and coping than about climate, and factors other than climate change quite possibly have a greater effect on their lives. That doesn't stop climate change from being an issue; it just means that people whose daily life is mostly about survival have other issues that are even more critical to them.

The paragraph about other non-climate threats to humanity ("Consider the other threats humankind has recently been forced to cope with. ...") is somehow so absurd and irrelevant that I have no idea why someone putting the thought and effort into writing a lengthy article would include it.

Additionally, the article is entirely focused on humanity and doesn't touch on the effects of climate change on other animal life at all. That's a possible value choice to make, but effectively saying that us massively disrupting the ecosystem is fine because we ourselves will somehow be able to manage falls a bit short of a responsible philosophy in my books. The lack of any focus on other life would make it very difficult for me to agree with the article's thesis even if it successfully argued that it were in our best interest to not worry about the climate as much.
Pretty sure it is just the sum of all the sentences they received.
I like this. What a great idea for a consultancy. There must be so many organisations that are paying way more than they need by not tweaking each aws service they are using. Anything from using the wrong S3 storage type to using ECS when they could switch to Fargate.
Fair point. But I'd say that we kept them when we thought it was convenient to do so - when the land that it gave them wasn't land that we decided we wanted. So my point was, not that we never kept them, but that we should keep this one now, even if we decided it was inconvenient.
I think this is a great proposal and a huge step in the right direction for JS. I am curious though, is there a reason not to just essentially duplicate the Joda[0]/Java[1]/ThreeTen[2] API? As far as I understand, they are generally considered a gold standard as far as datetime APIs.

Is it too Java-y that it wouldn't make sense to port to JS? Are there copyright implications?

The JS Temporal proposal _does_ as far as I can tell, share many of the underlying fundamental concepts, which is great, but then confusingly has some types, such as `LocalDateTime`, which mean the exact opposite of what they do in the well-known Java API [3].

There is still discussion going on about these details, but
from my perspective it seems like the best thing would be to just copy the Java naming conventions exactly.

[0]: https://www.joda.org/joda-time/

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/package-...

[2]: https://www.threeten.org/

[3]: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal/issues/707
>There are many valid laws we don't treat as valid

Including several on the bill of rights.
I zoomed in and think it's a brown top with brown shorts. You can see the armhole.
> The real name of anyone posting anonymously or under a pseudonym has always been the gold standard of doxxing.

The word "doxx" comes from "documents" because it originally didn't refer to just a name, but an actual document listing out lots of personal information. Everything you mentioned afterwards and more.
Who should do the assimilating? Why?
AI as a field relied mostly on 'understanding' based approaches for 50 years without much success. These approaches were too brittle and ungrounded. Why return to something that doesn't work?

DNNs today can generate images that are hard to distinguish from real photos, super natural voices and surprisingly good text. They can beat us at all board games and most video games. They can write music and poetry better than the average human. Probably also drive better than an average human. Why worry about 'no progress for 50 years' at this point?
Kenya: I Want My Money
Facebook wants to show you ads.
You want to see updates from your friends and family.
Facebook will come up with a clever way to show you updates from your friends and family but not all at once and not all at the top. So, you'll have to scroll and scroll and scroll to see updates and might even have to visit multiple times to see updates, all the while seeing a lot of ads along the way.

UX enhancing brand values! :D
This is what Oklahoma was initially meant to be. There were even talks of having two Native American states in the united states, the other being Sequoia I think. Then the US renegged on those promises, land was given to railroad companies, and flooded colonists.

In many ways we're seeing the same thing with Tibet and China. It's horrific.
It means Congress is shortly going to renege on yet another treaty they made with a Native American tribe.
So let's say fraud has a standard tarriff of ten years.
And we agree that committing two frauds is twice as bad, so we add them together. Still makes sense.
And someone defrauded a LOT of people. Say sixteen THOUSAND.

That's how you sentence someone for 141,078 years...
(They served eight.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_prison_sentenc...
It is perverse, but there is a method to the madness. Some sentencing mitigations or parole decisions are based upon length of sentence. Someone who is given a 20 year sentence may be eligible for parole when, for example, 1/4 of the sentence has been served. By setting the sentence to a ridiculous length it is effectively denying any possibility for parole without directly stating that the sentence is to served without any chance for parole.
In Canada we use the term "nation".
It's both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Dancing_Rabbit_Creek

> Lands (in what is now Oklahoma) west of the Mississippi River to be conveyed to the Choctaw Nation. Lands east of the Mississippi River to be ceded and removal to begin in 1831 and end in 1833.
Confidence in Machine Learning
Yes, we came for the cross-platform nature of Flash (browsers were even worse at being standards compliant back then so something like Java/jQuery/Flash was essential), but we stayed for the low-bandwidth high-quality vector animations. It's too bad they didn't just stick to the core features and had to continually add features that introduced security holes. I had high hopes that between SVG and Canvas that someone would create a flash replacement, but it hasn't happened yet.
> Why not everyone assimilate?

You raise a great question - why don't mostly-European settlers assimilate into American culture?
It is there with folks who know about those people and feel connected to them. SSC has a lot of it's audience on HN. Hence you see the outrage here. People can't feel similarly outraged by every doxxing since they have limited time, energy, and emotional bandwidth. If people were forced to worry about issues just on their impact, a large number of kids are starving in Africa, and by that logic people shouldn't worry about anything else till they can do something about that.
when someone - like you - starts working for it. You are going to start, right?
Not exactly as easy as they make it sound, thanks to encryption and especially signing. Of course there's probably still enough software not using it and/or users not paying attention.
Plus having ARM widely deployed on the desktop via Apple may start to incentivise developers to fill in the remaining gaps where native code libraries are used?
The IP itself can be a very valuable information if you target
famous people, politicians, criminals and so on.

Such people usually know, that clicking on random links is not safe.
It's particularly easy for Scott as a psychiatrist. The top Google result for his full name is the address and phone number of the clinic at which he works, plus a bio with portrait (he looks exactly like I thought he would) for prospective patients.
I've been reading the NewYorker for decades. And this article makes me realize 100M Spotify is paying for Joe Rogan podcast is actually a bargain. Old media is done, they do not have a business valuable outside of adds driven model, all they can fight for is the power to develop narrative(s). In other words, they are fighting for status
Crops also sequester CO2. Breeding and/or engineering for traits like deeper roots can increase the rate of uptake and also improve yield. There is a lot of potential computational work in this area (automating phenotype data collection with robotics, growth modeling, data engineering and web development for science gateways) and more research is needed. The funding is there for this in the U.S., e.g. from the DOE.
https://uxplanet.org/brand-experience-and-user-experience-e0...

That the whole interaction is consistent with brand guidelines, values and identity. It’s called Brand Experience, and it’s often a conversation in really big company interface design.
Lol. That is what I initially thought as well, but it turns out it's a lady wearing a nude colored dress.
We just started using teams. I hate it. UI and colors are bad with no other support for 3 choices that all suck. Feed is confusing and cant hide items etc. I'll stay on the irc server for as long as possible.
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It is essentially a summary of their opinion.
The entire piece is an expression of an ideology digesting a perceived threat to itself and producing antibodies in the form of snide, cognitively limiting tropes. As an example of watching the beast in action, this is a truly valuable specimen.

Highly recommend reading it as an example of the form.