skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Next you'll tell me that I'm literally hitler.

You seem to be repeating yourself.

> the same as losing your head for being on the wrong side of the committee of public safety.

Your pattern recognition engine must have some problems. In 1789 and the following years people were vilified and arrested (and eventually killed by truckloads, but that's not the point) because they were too moderate or not extreme enough compared to the radicals leading the "new culture".

Here's what St just said in the good old 90's (1790s):

> "We must not only punish traitors, but all people who are not enthusiastic. There are only two kinds of citizens: the good and the bad. The Republic owes to the good its protection. To the bad it owes only death."

And Robespierre:

> "There are only two parties in France: the people and its enemies. We must exterminate those miserable villains who are eternally conspiring against the rights of man... We must exterminate all our enemies.” "

If you don't see any parallel with what's happening right now (the insidious dichotomy between good and bad), minus the guillotine, I am not sure what else I can tell you.
Nice story. The fact the thief subsequently lost the ring is fascinating!

The link with the development of the LOTR is pure gold.
The suit doesn't claim he shouldn't be tried for his crimes. It claims he should be tried by a federal court, not a state court. Nobody is "releasing" any criminals here.
> It's pretty hard to get humans to murder their neightbors without inciting speech.

Eh, I'm not so sure about that. En masse, with coordination? Maybe, but speech is mostly about coordination at that stage.

Would you say that everybody ever saying something untruthful or hatefull about the GOP is responsible for some lunatic storming the base ball practice of some GOP members of Congress with a gun and shooting at them?

Speech is certainly involved in the actual act of a pogrom, but it's not the driving force (unless your definition of speech gets really vague and everything ever said since the beginning of time is part of "the speech"). You don't have pogroms without previous animosity. Somebody saying something might spark the fire, but the wood has been there all along, soaked in gasoline.
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Interested in why writing it in PHP made selling it a non-starter. I'd expect that if it provided value it wouldn't really matter much what it was written in.
And you are still avoiding the equivalence that everything you describe is already happening with sms messages at least, and generally much more. None of your arguments carry any weight especially since they don’t explain why it’s ok for data to be unencrypted on your google drive in the first place.
This is such a facile and stupid response that doesn't even attempt to engage with the very real issue being raised with how facebook promotes and supports hateful content, up to and including inciting an actual genocide in Myanmar, but also allowing advertisers to target anti-semites and white supremacists, and automatically creating groups for white supremacists to organize and connecting them with each other.

And even aside from promoting explicitly hateful content, their algorithms promote divisive content in the name of pursuing 'engagement'.
Every success story is really about people selling the secret of success, which is to sell the secret of success. Twitter is full of this. Every success guru is selling a course about selling courses.
I love John Cleese but he's gotten a bit "Old man yells at cloud" in his dotage IMO.

(Odd trivia: John Cleese is into Gurdjieff, or was.)

Look, I'm a left-leaning SJW type, but I'll stand by the idea that when "PC" goes beyond common courtesy and starts becoming an OOC mob-power thing, that's bad.

There's a point to be made about historical context: women weren't allowed to wear pants until about twenty minutes ago; Black folks in America have had a bit of a rough time, and many still do; everybody everywhere reverts to savage form when pushed outside their comfort zone.

Things are a bit rough here. Let's all keep calm and be nice to each other, we're all in this together.

In re: PC in comedy, specifically, I have what I call the "Lenny Bruce test". When you feel the urge to tell an off-color joke to a mixed audience stop and ask yourself first, "Am I Lenny Bruce?" Check carefully and be sure. If you're Lenny Bruce, go ahead with the joke, it will probably land, and if it doesn't, who cares? You're Lenny Bruce.
However, if you check and find that you're not Lenny Bruce, carefully put the joke down and back away. It's probably not worth it.

(In case it's not clear, that was [an attempt at] a joke. Comedians should say wtf they want. Only the worst sort of person kicks a Fool.)
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Ah, yes. I see. There is no doubt that the Federal Government ignores a number of Federal laws. More importantly, I believe, they ignore the US Constitution and Amendments.
Basically our system is, we want every country to be able to elect their government through some sort of democracy.

China's system is, we have a cabal of secretive elites that run the show and they can't be elected or unelected by the people.

Which one should be the world standard?
Great question! A combination of techniques were involved in cleaning up institution names. First, I deleted all department names so that only the university/lab name was left. Second, I used local sensitive hashing (wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing) to find similar strings. LSH maps similar strings to the same bucket. This resolved some ambiguity like: UC Berkeley/University of California Berkeley etc. But there was also a good chunk of manual clean up necessary at the end.
Would be nice if you could see comparisons between the frameworks all in one page.
ThiefQuest: The new macOS ransomware that’s more than it seems
Yes there is: a remote kill switch that prevents the third party SDK from loading. That puts you back in control of the software you’re shipping.

Fool me once, and all that.
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I started learning Clojure yesterday,I've gone through the docs here and have a grasp of the language. Does anyone have some good resources for further learning? Maybe some high quality tutorials? I'm mostly interesting in web / apis
>Imagine taking enough of that money to support these 40 LibreOffice developers and maybe say 20 more.

There are infinite ways to spend every dollar, why is LibreOffice funding worthy? In other words, why is LibreOffice's popularity so low that it cannot find a way to fund its operations? Which then raises the question - why do you want to fund an unpopular project?
Amazon pulls Washington Redskins merchandise from website
Right. May have been. That's why I commented elsewhere about how we are really unable to figure out what percent of this 35% is actually caused by Covid-19, and what percent is caused by the shutdown or people being overly fearful.
> just look at the Gillette ads

Decrying political correctness and then complaining Gilette ran an ad with a message you didn't like, to the point of calling it oppression, is just... amazing. Is this satire?
It's a good analysis but misses the central issue with today's "culture war": people in a B type society aren't actually overly concerned with their emotions, they just pretend to be mentally fragile in order to exert power by demanding compliance. It's a sanctioned form of violence. Sure, some fragile nutcases exist too, but they're just exploited by the majority of SJW folks.
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>Your conclusion reminds of witch-hunt-approving arguments like, violent games make kids violent. Which is moot, Take for example Children's Crusades[1] in 13 century, which was induced by religion and politics. Or, I know some parents who watched a documentary about how a talented musician was raised with beatings, so they took that literally, you know what I mean? Sick ideas find a fertile ground.

I can see and understand the concern, and some results can fuel moral panics and witchhunts, but they don't need to lead to there necessarily. Finding that porn has effects on attitude and aggression, and long-term, increased, or more violent use can have greater effects does not provide an ought from the is. It can provide some scientific and empirical basis for such an argument (for example, an argument to ban porn), but we shouldn't reject science because of the normative conclusions it might lead us to.

You may be interested in a book[0] from a little while ago which examines the debate quite closely, with lots of empirical data which supports both sides of the argument. From what I've read, behavioural scientists and policy-makers largely do not consider the evidence "against" porn to be all that decisive in supporting a ban.

In other words... the proper strategy should be to get the data, scrutinise the data, and then decide what action we will take (if any) based on the data. The book mentions a comparison with the effects of alcohol, which is quite apt. Many people who would argue for porn to be banned, I imagine, would not have the same opinion on alcohol, especially given the history of the Prohibition.

[0] https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/debating-pornography/
Doubtful... I don't think I ever managed to snag "edavis" as a nick on IRC. Sorry!
This seems great app.
Why Is Norman Finkelstein Not Allowed to Teach? [2009]
GTK3 has the best integration, it now uses native widgets and elements thanks to the work of Caolán McNamara (it is hard to comprehend the amount of effort required). Example: https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2020/06/libreoffice-looks-gorgeou... (this is using the tabbed interface from View - User interface)
On the other hand, the idea of FOSS is to put effort of a few for the benefit of them and many more others, a positive sum game.

In some cases this idea is able to deliver, in others it isn't. But the expectations of having a working, maintained and free product are justified to a degree.
Up until the very early 1990s, computer keyboards had a place to position a cardboard (or sometimes plastic) strip, documenting the meaning of the function keys.

The computer (or OS) might come with one, but commercial software would also include a cardboard strip in the box, along with the manuals.

Many examples: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/issues/as-clos...
I believe it's because the ribbon is context-sensitive. What shows up depends on what has focus, and that makes it harder for retention, similar to how Office 2000 has automatically hidden menu items that ended up being confusing.
The author didn't bundle, so it's like running `npm install && npm run build` on every start
The suicide rate from 1999 until 2019 increased by 35%[1]. It's been an unaddressed growing systemic issue for a long time. As of June 23, the COVID death rate was 36 per 100,000[2] in just a handful of months. As of 2019 the average suicide rate was 14 per 100,000[1]. Unless that suicide rate does an unprecedented 250% jump it's not going to have the impact Covid has had so far, not to mention the rest of the year, which as we can see is going to be messy given the rate of increases (many of the current hotspots had a big jump in deaths per day the last couple of days).

It's tragic that suicide is increasing, it really is, but COVID is the far greater threat.

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db362.htm

[2]https://www.statista.com/chart/21170/coronavirus-death-rate-...
I believe there’s three sources:

1. Galaxy rotations require more mass than is visible to be gravitationally bound.

2. Clusters, super clusters, etc seem to lie on filaments and other large structures of something.

3. The map of gravitational lensing when we look past a cluster.

I have my own personal pet theories — but that set of observations is thought to be explained by “dark matter”.
> You must live a very different life than I do. Video has so very many problems...

I'm more on the side of design/art than programming so maybe its more of a thing in my industry but basically anything you can think of a video exists, "How to remove green leaks from greenscreen footage" "How to render great metal material in 3D software" etc

But now I even use it in the rest of my life, if I'm going to cook something I check 2 or 3 videos on the recipe before I make it looking for tips. Sure I could have used a cookbook but that would mean I'd have to own multiple cookbooks to get the same information for the dish that I get from 2-3 videos and also I'd need to have planned ahead not just watch the videos then go to the supermarket.

I completely get the things you're saying about the format and I used to feel the same, but honestly the amount of content has overruled my previous feelings.
Likewise with https://standardresume.co/. Our customers are primarily people working in the tech industry.
Still, I guess more MS Office users will have used the new interface for longer than the old one than vice versa (I googled for data, but couldn’t find numbers)

It even wouldn’t fully surprise me if, a few years from now, there were more MS Office users who never used the pre-ribbon interface than who had used it.
Very true, and it has been around significantly longer as well. It's rooting in puritanism, and is pretty strict about moral decency. I suppose you could say the Left version is as well, but with a different idea of what moral means.

The difference, and the reason I think people are in a panic about the more recent left version, is the difference in enforcement. It feels like we're starting watching the Left take their turn at McCarthyism, but largely using technology instead of government.
> Now, there ARE people who learn Excel but refuse to go further...

Since Power Query was first included by default in 2016, I've introduced tens of regular Excel users. Because there's no way to work cell by agonizing cell, there's a mental tension for a few minutes then usually the concept of working with fields and sets clicks into place so well you can practically hear it. Even if they never use PQ again, they often change how they use spreadsheets for the better. If you're really lucky they don't just start using PQ, they find the advanced editor and start doing some basic fiddling around. While it's fair to criticize M [0] as a niche language that only exists in a tiny corner of one company's data modeling features, it's also what finally motivated me to learn functional programming. That accessible step by step ramp from introduction to functional language data modeling in a common office tool is an underrated juggernaut of a feature.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/
Don't do this. If it's good, it's good.

For crying out loud, you earned 42$ for a year of work with it and he's on a tech minded forum.

+ If they don't like it, they can request their money back afterwards.
A better deal would be Fed paying MS, then MS charging other countries all over the world and MS collects big $$$ in profits and US tax paid. Much of SV started like this too.
No, you suck at dissent and debate ;).

So, I’m saying that to tease you, but also illustrate a point.

Was your comment itself a good example of debating?

Is mine a good example of dissent or debate?

Are either of our comments reasoned, or specific, or providing logic or evidence to support our conclusions?

Does humor belong in debate? ;)

Does being annoying serve a value or is it a self-justifying position?

Am I being annoying? ;)
> It works so well that I thought it was the official feed.

Reading this just made my day!
Isn't a third party admiring/honoring someones beauty independently an inherently different act than publicly proposing that ones own beauty should be admired?

agree there can be a double standard, but if there is, it can go both ways
No. Read it again. Some are. Some aren't. We don't know what percent fall in each category.
Where do you get the spec for video? That really something that can be done in a weekend?
These enterprise versions are already available since years, for example:

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/solutions/collabora-office/

https://libreoffice.cib.de/
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> police have other duties like maintaining public safety

This duty has been used to justify arresting peaceful people and creating violent situations for decades. "He was gonna cause trouble".
Would that be the Seattle-specific Cornell study [1] that came out on Monday?

Aside from relying on data collected in a specific locality not under discussion, it doesn't appear to make any sort of assertion regarding what drivers want, contrary to your claim on its behalf. Where are you getting that information? You should cite your sources, so others in the conversation can evaluate them independent of the claims you make for them.

[1] https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/reports/71/
Thanks for posting! I'm the author of the article. We're sitting on over a million trivia responses and I'm sure there's much more interesting digging to be done. Happy to pay an aspiring data scientist to go spelunking for more fun facts if they'd like :)
> 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.

I'm a man. I didn't make any special choice to be a man. I got labelled from birth, same as most of the other men. Someone may not like me enforcing the same standards on them as I do myself, or may think the standard unreasonable, but they aren't being valued any less if I apply a standard to them that I do to myself.

And it isn't an argument or slogan I've heard any actual trans people making; they tend to have non-metaphorical complaints.
Manners and tolerance are key. There are very few issues that cause me to "lose my shit", but as an observer, it seems to me that "Happy Holidays" is a response to people losing their shit over being wished Happiness in regards to a Holiday that they choose not to participate in.

I mostly try to stay out of the discussion because I think it's pretty much all ridiculous and a giant waste of time. Don't we he have more important things to be getting on with?

If somebody wished me Happy Hannukah, I would say "Thank You", even though I'm not Jewish. I'm not going to get my panties in a bunch over something like that.

Since I mostly fall into the WASP category (non-practicing I guess), perhaps I'm not qualified to talk about it since I've never actually been in the shoes of the minority, but I do have what I believe is evidence that I can bear careless words without "losing my shit":

My oldest daughter was born with Spina Bifida. Her legs are different, and not very strong. She can walk, but normally she uses crutches or a wheelchair. She is prone to falling without the crutches, and also with them. She's a great kid. It might happen sometimes that a person who has never been in our particular situation will compare her to "normal" kids. While I notice these things, I generally just let it slide. I know the intent is not malicious.

Even if someone says something like "Has she always been crippled?" (Yes it happens), I might politely mention that we don't really think of it that way, but I will certainly maintain composure, and I don't think I would lose a friend over it. Again, the person who says this most likely doesn't hate me, or despise her - they just don't relate to the particular issues that we are dealing with, and I can recognize this and accept it.

As you say, politeness and manners seem like a reasonable solution to most social problems from my perspective, but I guess a lot of folks disagree.
That's personal preference! I've found the sliding to be faster and more precise in my day to day usage but I wouldn't expect everyone to feel the same way.
That too. But I was mostly referring to political positions.
What do you think is the maximum transmit distance with error correction bits? Obviously it would be affected by string tension and string material, but do you think it would work strung between two nextdoor neighbors child bedrooms?
Definitely TF2 and the infamous "hats". Other games may have sold cosmetics, but none truly gamified it like Valve. They even had a proper economist [0] whose whole job was to tweak and optimize the system to make as much money as possible. In 2011, they switched TF2 from paid to F2P, which also was a huge step forward for the microtransaction model. CS:GO soon followed suit.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/yanis-varoufakis-valve-game-...
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Except its not I have seen people called Neonazis just for being Republican or siding with Trump whether or not they are "Trump supporters" on issues. Even saying the name "Trump supporter" is evidence alone that there is an element of cancel culture. A woman was rejected from a college recently for posting a MAGA video on Tik Tok. Some developer is being called a Neonazi for protesting against an open source org that banned someone from a conference for wearing a MAGA hat.

I say this too often on HN: today they silence the voice of those you disagree with, tomorrow its your voice.

Not to mention: master-slave throughout tech, master branch in git, are all examples of absurd cancel culture. Meanwhile minorities shake their head.
Oh sorry, bad phrasing, I meant right now LO is stuck at blender 2.7 and needs a 2.8-like push.
That's an interesting benchmark.

There's quite considerable variation in the device ranking if you look at each scene render time - the GPU is faster on the quicker-to-render (sub 1 min) scenes, but slower on the slower-to-render scenes (1+ min).

I wonder why that is? I see the 3990X is hugely faster than anything at these slow scenes, which is pretty interesting.

I'm not familiar with rendering, but in the deep learning world it is moderately easy to get considerable speed-ups by using multiple GPUs. Is the same possible here?
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OnlyOffice are not a community-oriented project, with their aggressive usage of AGPL+CLA, previous policy of withholding parts of code and throwing the rest over the wall once in a while, and their compatibility is far from what they claim: LibreOffice is far better compatible with MSO. Also, feature-wise it's crippled in comparison not only with LibreOffice proper, but even with LibreOffice Online.
Here are examples of people who were cancelled without even saying anything [1]. One was due to a misunderstanding. Another was due to something a family member said.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...
Your argument is that state sponsored violence for incorrect political opinions is the same as being fired by a private corporation for hate speech. Those aren't equivalent and one doesn't lead to the other.
Uptake in Northern Europe seems to be lower, but rapid change in Western Europe over the course of a couple of weeks/months:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/08/face-off...
> Feel free to use a VPN, though Tor is more than enough for your needs.

This is a misconception. Using a VPN with TOR makes you less anonymous, not more.

https://write.privacytools.io/my-thoughts-on-security/slicin...