skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not "anti-white". It's calling out a lie. If Jesus was real (and I'm in the camp that believes he wasn't), he wasn't white.

I'm as white as they come and these statements don't threaten me.

How was the statement I cited racist?
>I really don't understand this idea that speech doesn't have consequences that cause disparate impact.

It seems you are tilting at windmills. Where in this discussion has anyone claimed that words do not have effects?
And Zuck is a billionaire, you don't think that's messed up? The wealth distribution that lead from the success of the company consolidated itself overwhelmingly in the hands of maybe 4-5 people, despite tens of thousands contributing to the creation of that same success.
No. You are not representing the article or the study accurately. There are many other reasons for excess deaths than the two you mentioned.

From the article:

>there were 96% more diabetes-related deaths than experts predicted. For heart disease, the figure was 89%; for Alzheimer’s disease, it was 64%; and for stroke, it was 35%.

>As well as people not being able to get the necessary treatment due to hospitals being overloaded, the study authors also speculate that people may have stayed at home due to the virus despite experiencing worsening symptoms of another condition they may have had.

>They also believe that the pandemic’s effects on people’s mental health may have played a part.

>As Prof. Woolf notes: “We can’t forget about mental health. A number of people struggling with depression, addiction, and very difficult economic conditions caused by lockdowns may have become increasingly desperate, and some may have died by suicide. People addicted to opioids and other drugs may have overdosed.”
If I insisted on labelling all women as men they'd have a right to exist. Men and women both have a right to exist and a valuable place in society.

The basic position is crazy nonsense. It is so stupid that I doubt the trans people actually came up with it. They likely have a more nuanced view of their own existence - potentially even defined by their accomplishments rather than their gender. Perish the thought.
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Good point -- workers.
Imagine a world where all programmers do is write the tests and the generalized learning algos write all the implementations.
Of course they will. Youtube was created to earn money on ads. The time to suck it out dry is now before users get bored with it and new generation will flock to other types of entertainment.

Requiring content creator to individually opt out for each video is such a transparent dick move. If that was done in good interest of content creator why not just honor their explicit opt out in the first place?
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Some of the very brightest software engineers in the world work at Facebook. As much as I would love to rip on Facebook, I also understand that integrated software development is hard, and I guarantee you that Facebook is "doing it better" than most.

Don't sit in an ivory tower and throw stones in glass houses. Can you guarantee that your own SDLC house is in order? Because it might be, right up until a sneaky edge case nips you in the butt, and then suddenly it isn't.
Not the Vienna you're thinking of:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/38200+Vienne,+France/@45.5...

(shout out to Aventicum!)
Before everyone stopped taking the subway here, it was quite common for business commuters to be carrying a briefcase. Though some sort of casual/dressy tote bag is just as common these days.
Same thing happened here. Spotify wouldn't open and I thought "oh no, I need to downgrade to listen to music via Spotify."

Someone recommended airplane mode and lo and behold the app started working. This is Facebook's fault, but also Spotify's.

How such an established platform with supposedly-established engineers can let a third party library crash their app at startup is genuinely embarrassing.
The beautiful thing about php is it might just work even without updates. There are quite a few extensions which are not updated for almost 10 years and they still work on newest php versions
Could this be related to their TypeScript perf. problems?
AirNow is your one-stop source for (mainly U.S) air quality data
How it's different than SimpleLogin or 33mail?
My suggestion is to skip the article and read the original paper instead: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768086

It's not any longer and written in clearer language.

The paper simply summarizes the reported causes of excess death.
I didnt build this as a means to make money, it was more of a project to prove that i can. It is built using AWS' free tier services. Its my dream to keep this up while having it cost me as little as possible.
Not just competition, but the ability to pay limits pricing.
> What Facebook needs to do is to test whether their changes don't break other people's apps.

I'd argue this is at the very core of why you test. I mean this problem is as simple as (n+1).m vs n.(m+1) in terms of versioning vs revisioning.

If that is not being tested then I'd say Facebook isn't actually testing at all - at least not in a practically relevant sense ...

... despite the shit-load of YouTube videos from FB devs lecturing about CI/CD and what not.
I'm still using the managed workflow for the time being. I've considered ejecting to the bare workflow, but haven't made the jump quite yet. Wow that's awesome! At the very least I should try ejecting to see how slim I could get the app size.
For a very rough baseline:

> The industry conversion rate from a free trial to a paid subscription hovers below 33 percent

https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/is-anyone-watching-quibi.htm...
Deploy mattermost with secrets and to a Docker swarm
Can't read it because of the paywall. Either way, I'm one of those Americans that wants to be free to do whatever I want that doesn't directly harm other people, including being stupid. Most likely I won't intentionally choose that, and hopefully I haven't accidentally chosen that, but I vehemently oppose being forced one way or the other by the government.
Attention without awareness in blindsight (1999) [pdf]
That's technically true, but horizontal space can be parceled out somewhat independently, vertical space can't, and that's a big deal. You're right that it's a political stumbling block rather than a physical stumbling block, but city housing is expensive everywhere, so it seems appropriate to treat it as an empirical law rather than something that can just be hand-waived away.

I'd support efforts to build vertically in a heartbeat, I just don't have high hopes for them.
Unfortunately, in many places tests were not being performed as part of the autopsy, so to understand how many of those were Covid19 deaths, researchers will have to use a model derived from known cases and causes of death.
A few others have mentioned that Quibi is not an interesting enough alternative timewasting app to Snapchat, Instagram, etc. I agree and I'm glad to see it fail for that reason; I want my attention span back and I'm trying to cut these things out of my life. I notice my well-being improves when I do.

That's personal preference obviously, and people are free to spend their time how they want, but I think the loss of attention span is a culture-scale problem now and excising these companies from our lives is a necessary treatment.

I hope Quibi folds permanently and we salt the earth where it stood.
What he is & what he wants to be?
Hmmm, there probably is actually a benefit to the other students there, but not “Harvard Experience.” Assuming the child of a previous Harvard grad is more likely to have important social connections than the average applicant, them being at the school gives other people potential opportunity to make connections through them. And connections do of course matter a lot.

Regardless, the reason colleges actually do legacy admissions both seems obvious and isn’t something they’re likely to say. It makes Alumni happy, and keeping Alumni happy is how you get those fat $donations$.
This is very incomplete advice for the given threat scenario of "fearful of government persecution".

> Snagging a cheap or used device is a good option

Cheap devices may well phone home and a used device may be tampered with. I was surprised when reflashing a burner Xiaomi device to see the bootloader contained a nod to the CCP.

> Navigate to WordPress.com and setup a free account with that new email address.

Certainly Wordpress is not an ideal platform here from a security standpoint. You want a blogging platform that is overwhelmingly dumb - raw html files with minimal formatting would be perfect.

> Feel free to use a VPN

Don't use a VPN without knowing who it is owned by and seeing audit reports and even then be skeptical.
That did the trick, thanks! Weird that the error details would talk about code signing when the problem was a missing runtime, but go figure.

I've switched over to using Lunar as of this morning, following the runtime install. Unfortunately, it looks like today's going to be cloudy straight through, so I don't know that I'll get the best opportunity to see the app strut its stuff right away. That said, the UX has been very solid thus far, and I like the extensive configurability even if I have no intention of using more than about 5% of it.

Strong recommend, and definitely worth a coffee!
This is awesome! Thank you for being a total bash nerd.
I 99% agree with you, except that I believe LibreOffice is not just old, it's subtly bad. I didn't notice it before but it's too adhoc, just too laggy, just too crummy at times. It lack tastes, consistency and responsiveness that you got even in office 2003.

I wish LO to improve everything, they came from far and did a lot. But it's not enough.. kinda like blender 2.7 to 2.8.
>How are we so goddamn inept at writing software?

Wow who would have thought no standards, free access to learning, fake-ass meritocracy, and exorbitant profits and market control would have led to such a thing

Pick a standard, whether it's a degree program, a cert, or apprenticeships. Hurry up! Just give us a solid target to aim for.
That brand recognition and catalog would also increase the denominator of people signing up for the trial though. It's not clear to me how these two effects would net out.
In my view, the issue is not so much cancel culture. It’s that journalists can publish inaccurate information and libel people without any sort of punishment or way for the targeted party to respond.

Also, this article is extremely racist. They are supporting the decades old trope of the “uppity” black male that just won’t shut up and behave like an Uncle Tom. At least these journalists are no longer hiding what they really think about minorities.
And besides that, YouTube, TikTok, Twitch... already provide endless engaging content for free. It's not like you can exhaust any of those services.

People can’t keep up with everything as it is. There is a massive content bubble. I don't think Quibi or even most of Hollywood will survive.
> I've installed dozens of life-safety-critical services and none of them had ads or the Facebook SDK

Can you give a few examples?

> none of them had ads

The comment was about the Facebook SDK being used for ad attribution, not that the apps themselves have ads.
If you are not free to be stupid you are not free to be smart either.
Sexual reassignment surgery is, which increases the risk of suicide by about 20x, the risk of suicide attempts by about 5x, the risk of inpatient psychiatric hospitalization by about 3x.

If you want to discuss the plight of transgender individuals, then the tremendously harmful medical treatment they receive should be right at the top of your list of grievances.

Unless that’s hate speech, and you’d prefer to discuss only alternative, less hateful realities.
I'm old enough to remember the Christian conservative mob of the 80's - the Jerry Falwell/Pat Buchanan/Tipper Gore crowd. When they went after you, they were vicious. They were ruthless. They wouldn't stop until they had done everything they could to destroy you. Slowly, people started waking up to the damage they were causing - in particular, sexual deviants (like homosexuals) were at the top of their hit list. Rational people started pushing back. Although it seemed unimaginable in the mid-80's, by the mid-90's, they had been made irrelevant by constant, gentle backpressure.

Now, though, the people that they targeted, instead of rejoicing that their oppressors are finally powerless to harm them, are taking up the mantle of oppressor themselves. There's a sense of "giving them a taste of their own medicine" - and if the actual perpetrators are too hard to find, anybody that reminds them of the perpetrators will do.

History suggests that this, too, will ultimately be defeated, but not after a lot of damage is done to very innocent bystanders.
I want to write about my opinions on software but I'm nowhere near experienced enough to have good opinions and I don't want my blog posts to get attached to my professional persona.
I’ll wait until those land leases are up in Singapore.
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The article is not what I expected. The 35% are deaths caused indirectly by the disease, not the results of things like change of behavior or economic downturns.

The 35% are from people who supposedly recovered from Covid-19 but died later from complications or a weakened body. I still would call that Covid-19 deaths.

In the same way that if you fall, break your leg, and later die from infection, we can still say that the fall caused your death, even though what sealed your fate is a bacteria and not mechanical damage.
So a culture that respects free speech something like this would occur

---

Person A: I think we should have strong border protection and limited immigration for these reasons ......

Person B: Well I understand and respect your position however I disagree because of these reasons.....

---

Now a society with out a respect for free speech it would go

--

Person A: I think we should have strong border protection and limited immigration for these reasons ......

Person B: You are a racist nazi, i am going to call your employer and tell them you are a racist nazi, and I will post on social media to get 1,000's more people to call you a racist nazi, i will also have news stories written telling the world what a racist nazi is, and after you are fired I am going to follow you to any new employer to make sure they know what a racist nazi you are...

-----

Cancel Culture, aka the twitter verse is option B today.
It sounds like the issue is that the layout isn't spatial. There isn't a 1:1 mapping between place and object. The same place can have multiple objects depending on what tab's selected.
power users have macros and hotkeys. I've met plenty of excel power users, and I haven't met many excel power users that click on anything in the ribbon all that often. Maybe it's different since they're bankers and the amount of time they're spending on spreadsheets is an order of magnitude more than other people that could still be called power users but maybe don't have their lives revolve around excel and powerpoint, but hotkeys and macros are where its at
Actually, shooting jackets (for high-power shooting, at least) tend to fit pretty tight. The idea is that they help hold your body more rigid, giving you better stability when shooting at longer ranges (200, 300, and 600 yards). While I agree that sport coats aren't fit the same way, the lack of mobility is pretty common.
That was also illustrated well in an xkcd comic:
https://xkcd.com/610/
Seems like human tendency to want to feel unique.
First launch of Chinese Kuaizhou-11 rocket ends in failure
:wave: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11813473

Still not going to install anything Java, but I hope my comments were helpful!
Interesting, maybe old menus had some trivial adequate nature for most users and ribbon, even with all its worth doesn't tap into that. Personally I'm still incapable of deciding.. because I hated nested menus (too deep, too adhoc) but the ribbon is a bit less easy to remember than I'd hope. That said it's a good step toward keyboard shortcut memorizing.
"""Admitting this is even the case (which it isn't, as people recently are being cancelled for being just moderate, or for stuff they said when they were teenagers which is ridiculous), how can you justify having someone fired by a mob for something they SAID, therefore denying their livelihood?""

Go into your bosses office and use an ethnic slur and tell me what happens. Speech has consequences and hate speech rightfully has more consequences.
"I don't know what HBD is, care to explain?"

Yup, pretty much.
If "free-dumb" doesn't appear somewhere in the article, it missed a real opportunity.
I hope so. The world is going to be a much nastier place if this new anti-free-speech in the name of manners and harm prevention stuff takes hold.

Free speech is the greatest equalizing force between the powerful and the non-powerful that has ever existed. The only people who are against free speech are the ones that plan on being among the powerful.
You should be using deno bundle:

https://deno.land/manual/tools/bundler
This appears to just be articles about examples of the harm of the lockdown, which isn't what I asked about, nor did I deny it. Another person could just as easily post examples of the direct harm of the virus and call it "descending into chaos" because we didn't lock down enough. The point is to be rational.
> What would Chinese companies do if half or more of their business suddenly dries up?

Sell to another country at lower prices, and less profit than the can get from the US?
Did the author not bundle their Deno project before uploading it? This would be as if they ran Webpack on Node on each start, so this isn't really a proper comparison
As someone working with cutting-edge CAD in the browser, I badly want to throw more threads at problems.
> I hate that I have to break it to you, but the masses of civilized society are not out to kill any people group, regardless of anyone's hateful speech.

Have a look through history, and you'll find many examples where this statement is absolutely not true. Is it true today? Maybe not, but it's reasonable to be worried about the direction we're going, considering where we came from.

> The speech is not the problem. The hearts of evil men and women are. You can't suppress speech enough to get rid of evil in the hearts of people.

If the heart is evil, but that evil is not expressed or carried out, is that really an issue? If speech is the manifestation of that evil, is it really meaningful to draw a distinction between the two?

You might be technically correct, but you're really just arguing semantics. And to what end?
This is a good mantra, along with "You are not immune to propaganda"
What's PMF?
I actually don’t know if 8% is a good or bad conversion rate for free trial to month 1 paid subscriber for streaming services, or even just subscription services. In online marketing world, yes 8% is terrific, since just CTRs stand around 1%. So, just curious what baseline you’re referencing to conclude 8% is good.

Edit - some cursory googling suggests free trial to paid conversion for subscription services are generally somewhere in the 10-25% range. So I don’t think 8% is good, maybe mediocre. Note this is distinguished from lower rates associated with freemium model products(e.g., spotify). Will try to dig up some better refs to link out to.
So more hassle.

Which could be the difference between teenage curiosity and the beginning of a debilitating addiction (depending on the transfer speed).
Aren't those "lockdown deaths" still "Coronavirus deaths" though? 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. So it's not clear to me why you need to make this distinction here.

Of course the distinction matters from a biological and medical point of view, but from a policy point of view all you really need to know is that if coronavirus didn't exist then those deaths wouldn't have happened.
> system where I actually refer back to things because I seem to google for the same things over and over again

Yep, this often frustratingly turns nothing up for me. Hence, Pinboard :)
That's the point; the old shortcuts did not always work. Worse still, they did something totally different. For "power users", it was a horrible experience.
> guilty by association

True. It's peculiar how a nuanced presentation of Scott's blog and the values of rationalist culture are not sufficient, and a crude description of Scott's purity test results is offered to readers, likely so Lewis-Kraus can avoid worry about being cancelled.

Do readers of the New Yorker really need such blatant reassurance that Scott is not a Trump supporter, and that he was actually a vocal opponent of Trump and strategic supporter of HRC?

The New Yorker can't insulate itself from the many illiberal negatives of cancel culture when it stoops to this level.
No, it’s 100% not related.
Emacs keybindings will come first
> How would you solve homograph/glyph attacks though? One idea is yet another encoding where there are no homoglyphs

First, modern operating systems (should?) already provide APIs to canonicalize UTF.

Second, perhaps an additional API needs to be created which suggests similarities between characters intended for use by an intelligence (artificial or otherwise...).
Fixing array type look-up on r2dbc-PostgreSQL, a reactive library from Spring
I haven't seen those before but scanning over the home pages of both it seems like we all offer very similar services. SimpleLogin seems legit and looks like they offer a ton of cool features. It seems like something that I would aspire this project to become
> The main reason for this is the Deno runtime currently downloads external packages on cold-start. There are probably some mechanisms to speed this up, but that's for another post.

I thought I remembered reading that there's an environment variable you set to tell Deno where to look locally for packages? Or you pack everything into the script executing? I imagine one of those would provide a more accurate comparison to Node, if those are how Deno is expected to be run.
Hmm, strange then. We tried it just recently and it would not let us create Insta ads w/o the FB SDK. Can you point to a source?
The is more Cultural Revolution than French Revolution. Either way, it's a dangerous development that poses serious risk to free societies.