skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article borders on incoherent in terms of how meta it tries to get about responses to social justice activities.

I think the author should read, “Inequality Talk is About Grabbing” and “Sex Prizes” by Robin Hanson and reflect soberly on what they mean about society’s motives.

- http://www.overcomingbias.com/2013/08/inequality-is-about-gr...

- http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/03/sex-prizes.html

Cancel culture is about selfishly taking resources, that’s all. There are many things we could try to cancel that would make the world better, but why is it that it tends to only focus on removing someone from a position of (usually pretty menial) authority or influence, like a job or a high status social media outlet.

Cancel culture isn’t impacting overt horrific actions of billionaires. We don’t tend to try to cancel across international lines, or cancel people from the past, because we can’t take resources from them.

It’s purely about taking whatever stuff you can smash and grab, like social looting, from people positioned with menial wealth, power or influence, in your own country for the most part.

Anyone who can resist you is somehow conveniently not a worthy target.

We also don’t try to take things that aren’t easy to grab. It’s super easy to remove statues or cancel someone on social media, or get people in the middle ranks fired.

This is why you also see calls for direct cash payment forms of reparations even though that utterly makes no sense on any level whatsoever. Direct cash payments by grabbing tax money is one of the easiest things to grab. Real reform that addresses systemic addiction, gang influence, employment gaps, police discrimination, etc., are extremely hard to solve and require complex coordination. So of course conveniently major op eds are written defending direct cash reparations as the only solution.

I really wish people would wake up to this more.

The world around you is constantly trying to drum up covert hypocrisy reasons why it’s OK to simply take what you have and why this isn’t wrong.

The target on your back is a function of what stuff you have that they want, and how easy it is to take it from you.

Lower middle class doesn’t have much, so nobody focuses on taking from them. People in other countries are separated by complex laws so taking their stuff is hard. Very wealthy people have resources to resist so taking their stuff is hard. People from past eras are dead and locked their stuff away in institutions, so taking anything aside from symbolic gestures is too hard.

This leave you - upper middle class or low end of the wealth class. You have just enough stuff for it to be worth grabbing, and you don’t quite have enough power to resist social movements that take it from you under the guise of social progress.
>Given a fixed amount of resources

People don't consume resources, they consume goods and services. The IPhone is valued at a much higher price than the sum of raw resource components it contains.

Economic growth is what allows us to increase the amount of goods and services people can consume from a given set of resources. Economic growth is why a single farmer with modern equipment can produce more food than a hundred subsistence farmers could a few centuries ago. Economic growth is why we can have real-time high-definition video conversation with somebody anywhere in the world.

The more obstacles we put in the way of growth, the slower we improve our productivity, the slower we grow the amount of value we can extract from the resources we have.
They had that SD to WiFi card which was interesting to have say a non connected camera send directly photos to a server through an access point. An ESP8266 or ESP32 might probably accomplish the same by implementing SD card emulation on some of its GPIOs. But the form factor would be much less convenient.
Electric Jet Engine Could Lead to Carbon-Neutral Air Travel
I have two daughters, in their teens, and both have said that they are not interested in having children. I'm glad that they are giving both thought and pause here, but I'm also secretly hoping that they change their minds when the time is right for them.

I'd be happy with and without grandchildren, but it would be incredible to be able to give all of the love that I can when I am retired, when I have less going on in my life and the time to do so.
Because they stick a long cotton bud right up your nose, further than you would expect, not very pleasant. I wouldn't have one.
GDP growth is one of the most strongly correlated metrics with "health, happiness, mathematical research, etc."

Capitalism is the greatest force in history for increases in human wealth, happiness, abundance, etc., ie., for growth

Consider any metric of interest over the last century, and esp. the last 40 years: https://ourworldindata.org/
And I would not recommend stay in low latency feature of Twitch. You are there to show people something, not to live chat with them. Opt-out of it and comeback to normal 30 seconds delay. Reasons to do this includes, but not limited to:

-1 -if gaming on a FPS, enemies might use your Twitch stream to find you. 30 seconds delay allows you to actually use counter-measures and employ disinformation tactics on your stream

-2 -if showing something, chat should be secondary, not primary. You're not on a live AMA, for that use Youtube LIVE (or chaturbate if that's your thing, I don't judge)

-3 -as said above, to give you time to react to your own mistakes

-4 -post processing for additional effects/reasons. Making a loop allows you to cut into mid-stream in some cases. This is an advanced use though, I only know of one twitcher that uses this
Wow, native English speaker and I didn't even get the pun until this comment. I thought it was a stupid play on "What app should we message each other on?" and thus kind of a silly name. But folks use it regardless.
Explaining the Differences Between UI and UX – By Carolyn Hodges – Datamart
> What is an IC?

Believe op is using it as "individual contributor"
How does BSON compromise MongoDB security?
That’s basically why all studies on whether masks are useful (this is not a first epidemic, not even a first coronavirus epidemic) are inconclusive.
This post is very coincidentally timed with today's Dilbert.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2020-07-15
I remember the joy of finding a Siggraph paper from 1980 to implement Heckbert's Median Cut algorithm.
The book looks really interesting. Congrats!
The ISO UK keyboard layout exists. The North American keyboard layout is North American, not "English".
I think a very good metric would be the number of maintainers of a package and how well funded they are.

E.g. React has a huge resource pool and people are getting paid for development, while some (most?) packages are single dev with no funding.

Perhaps making this kind of metrics visible would introduce some humility for people pressuring latter maintainers.
I just compiled a list with companies paying more tax willingly:

If companies were allowed to murder people, I would feel staunchly more endangered.... but seriously, Ireland has lash tax laws to lure these giants into their country, this is no secret, we have several countries within the EU engaging in similar strategies.

I didn't say that the amount of taxes Apple pays isn't morally questionable. But you would still need to complain to representatives, because they are responsible.
> This is a pretty ridiculous comparison

No it is not ridiculous at all. What is ridiculous is the denial of the effects of the slow-violence of the ascendency of the rentier elite, and the subsequent plunder of the commons. [1] These rentiers pay very little taxes (if any) and park their illicit gains in offshore foreign tax havens. We are also in denial about the scary situation of the Precariat class, both in terms of the extreme inequality and class divide in global North (the USA, Europe, etc.) [2], as well as the divide that exists between the global North and the global South. [3]

The biggest factor of the ongoing plundering is the way the US empire enforces the corporatocracy's parasitic intellectual property rights claims:

"A globalised intellectual property rights system was immensely strengthened by TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) passed through the World Trade Organisation in 1994, shaped by a few US multinationals, backed by the US and UK governments. This has facilitated the commercialisation, privatisation and colonisation of ideas. Since 1994, the annual filing of patents has more than tripled, with the global stock of patents close to 12 million, each giving monopolistic control of some idea for 20 years or more.

Many patents result from publicly-funded research, diminishing the risk. But TRIPS allows corporations to receive monopolistic income for two decades, or use the patent to block others from producing something. Those claiming to believe in free markets should have opposed the trend, but reveal their class-based ideology by keeping quiet. There is evidence that the patent system hinders economic growth and innovation. It merely increases inequality and rentier capitalism. George Osborne, as Chancellor, made it even more blatant with his Patent Box tax break that in practice benefits multinationals coming to Britain if they have patented products, particularly Big Tech and Big Pharma. That tax break merely accentuated the plunder of the intellectual commons." [3]

I absolutely see the systemic inequality (and precarity) caused by the artificial scarcity mechanisms, lobbied for by the corporatocracy, as slow-violence and murder.

I say all this with the hope that we shift towards social production/Commons-based peer production, with a revolution of the parasitic rentier business models on digital assets, which make no sense anymore in a digital society where information now has a (near)-zero marginal cost of reproduction and transmission: Protocol Cooperativism.

[1] and [3] https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/plunder-commons-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnYhZCUYOxs

[4] https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/01/flipping-c...
I think we all agree that there are a lot of improvements that could be made in hiring processes.

At the same time, the idea that "ability to handle stress" isn't important for software engineering seems (to me) a silly one.

So yes, if you're trying to assess technical ability and you're failing at that, it's a problem. But it is not discriminatory (in the bad way) to weed out candidates who can't handle stress in an occupation that can be very stressful. Though it was pointed out in the article that "public" vs "private" settings made a difference, so your hiring process should reflect whichever of those settings is more likely to come up if the candidate is actually hired.

At the end of the day, the goal of an interview should be to assess whether or not that person will be able to do their job, so you want interview conditions to match working conditions as much as possible. Unfortunately every job is different so there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
If you look at it from the viewpoint of the most selfish person imaginable:

If you're infected and still asymptomatic, the direct medical consequences to you are going to be the same whether you know your status now or not.

But knowing you're positive obligates you to self-isolate, track down other people you've been with contact, etc. If you don't particularly care to change your lifestyle to protect others, if you don't care that you might kill people with your carelessness, it's beneficial for you not to know.
Isn't already a thing (or almost)? For example Dell Latitude E7470 14" (16:9) [0] and Dell Precision 5550 15.6" (16:10) [1]:

Dell Precision 5550:

> Front Height: 7.70 mm (0.30 in.)

> Rear Height: 11.65 mm (0.45 in.)

> Width: 344.40 mm (13.56 in.)

> Depth: 230.30 mm (9.07 in.)

Dell Latitude E7470:

> Front Height: 17.2 mm (0.68 inch)

> Back Height: 19.4 mm (0.76 inch)

> Width 334.00 mm (13.14 inches)

> Depth: 232.0 mm (9.13 inches)

Precision is bulkier (cooling and dedicated GPU) and by about 10mm is larger (in width) but it is close to mimic 14".

[0]: https://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/latitude-e7470-ultrabook_own...

[1]: https://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/precision-15-5550-laptop_own...
I have had the the test. It is really not that bad. I thought it would be worse but it was just uncomfortable, nothing more than that.
You can’t control something that requires people to cooperate if people refuse to cooperate.
Dicing and slicing society into groups based on sex, gender and race and then creating a hierarchy amongst the groups is what initiated cancel culture. It amounts to the proletariat fighting amongst themselves for the table scraps, while the owners of capital are generally off-limits.

All of it amounts to a slight of hand in the fight for economic equality.
This, but unironically. I know people who were told by their bosses they'd get sacked if they tested positive on the virus. Obviously highly illegal but the only restrictions my country has on layoffs is that you have to give 3 months notice and if you lay off more than 20 people at once you need approval of the ministry of work.
Could be nice to version control them. Some CLI stuff looks cool on a blog, but do you want to remember what commands you typed, and in what order, to bring up what production looked like two weeks ago manually?
Wouldn't you want to know whether you might be infecting others you're close to?
Sadly, I suspect scepticism about Covid and conspiracy mongering about the medical establishment was behind at least some of the refusals. Not to mention need to get back to work
Is it, though? It seems to me like you can't have a command economy without authoritarianism.
Reminds me a bit of jsonnet (https://jsonnet.org/) which didn't catch on much as far as I can tell.

I see very little practical value in a DSL like this. Using an existing language with an extensive ecosystem and great tooling was half the point of wanting TypeScript in the first place. Most of the "risks" can be handled with just a few eslint rules, tests (e.g. all outputs must satisfy a set of constraints), and code review.

Especially when the moment you need to do more than just generate config files (e.g. fetch some information from an external service, or even write an imperative script for the occasional task), you'd have to switch to a different langauge and all its tooling - where you can't just import the exact same type definitions, etc.
AI is just one piece of increased productivity. Even without AGI there are paths that could lead to 3x productivity faster than the population would go down by 66%.

There are other issues with an older age distribution which cannot be fixed by productivity though. There could be an oversupply of 5 bedroom homes for example.
I know your comment is for the majority but I have had meaningful connections with my hosts. Some I am still in touch years later.

If the host reached out to me on their own, I would probably help them. But to have Airbnb guilt trip people into donating is beyond me as well.
Oliver's face was probably created with https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Surprised that publications don't do more research as anyone can create a social media profile that looks legit these days.

Trolls have been here for years and they'll continue to find new ways to exploit weaknesses.
Despite the horrible click-bait title, it was actually an interesting read!
It's really not as bad as everyone says. I've had to have the same swab for other reasons and it takes less than a second.
They do provide it. The link is in github repo.
Google Drive shared folder : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fDW9rLssgDAv19OMcFGg...
They get the direction of agency completely wrong. Capitalism /responds to/ so called cancel culture of all sorts which by accident or design excludes ostracism well before it was coined.

Be openly gay, socialist, and/or in an interracial relationship in the the US in the 1950s - compile a very short list of places you aren't canceled from.

The framework doesn't exist in a vacuum and blaming it for its host context's dysfunction would be incorrect even if it excaberrates them in some way. Because it isn't the origin.

Capitalism driving cancel culture would be if it was possible to invest money in ostracizing someone and reaping financial benefits if it suceeds or ostracism being preferred because it is cheaper than a police force.
Maybe your Google-Bubble is just broken? For me searching for Element brings up mostly companies and products which are using this name. Just a low number of results are dictionaries and knowledge-sites. Good luck competing with all of them.
Although with that said, I don’t notice political views seem to enter most discussion regardless of topic
Agree that is exactly my point, but the article claims that capitalism drives cancel culture and that is what I was responding to.
Thanks. Hope that it indeed is interesting, and that it doesn't contain sizeable errors anymore. The Lisp community has been a great help when it came to reviewing and editing the hell out of the manuscript, both language- and content-wise.
Wouldn't "off-tangent" be closer to the original point than off of it? Heh
The salient point is that the __stylists__ wore masks.

YOUR MASK PROTECTS OTHERS.
OTHERS' MASKS PROTECT YOU.

--

[EDIT]: As an active HN user since 2011, I posted the (factual, relevant) comment above in good faith, and it garnered some upvotes. But then it got flagged. I don't care that much about my karma score, but really want to understand.

@Dang / Admins, is it because I used caps for emphasis? Thanks in advance.
Seems to match my experience.
It's not clear what type of tax are we talking about ? Is it corporate tax on gross income ?
Marital sex?
[3] is very much not correct. Your brain can just fine on ketones.

Your body is also capable of making it's own glucose, for the organs that need it: https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Biological_Chemistry....
I just got an xps 13 and decided to go to with 32 gb

I may not desperately need it now but figured to future proof it for the nominal upgrade price. this laptop is going to last quite a while for me so might as well make it worth it.
Something else that sets it apart is that the decision on how to handle something is decoupled from the implementation of that thing.

With traditional exceptions, the stack unwind all the way to the "catch" block which has full responsibility of handling the exception. With CL conditions, you can implement multiple handlers which do not catch the exception, and then a handler way up in the stack can decide which of the low-level handlers to run.

It sounds bonkers, but when you've tried it you'll see that "normal" exceptions are a very crippled version of it.
Recursion is often less efficient but looks more elegant and simpler. It breaks the problem down to is essence. Then you can trade some complexity for more run-time efficiency.
The federal corporate tax rate is 21% so its pretty close.
Working people in Ireland also pay high taxes on their income.

In Ireland you pay 20% income tax on the first €35,300, and 40% on income above this amount (if you are a single person, there are different cut-offs for married people and one-parent families).

You also pay an additional Universal Social Charge on all income over €13,000 - between 2-8% depending on your income level, or 11% for self-employed income over €100,000. Add on pay related social insurance (PRSI) of 4% too.
I would assume that I could be positive and isolate myself.
> ketones are much more efficient at crossing the blood brain barrier

Source?

> Ketosis is the default energy System, in that all things being equal when a person doesn’t introduce any food they naturally go into ketosis. People literally need to eat certain foods that spike insulin to get “kicked out” of ketosis.

That is not a sound argument for it being the "default energy system". It makes much more sense that "default energy system" is that which directly provides the energy source REQUIRED by the brain[1]. Additionally, our closest ancestors (primates) were frugavorian omnivores. Ketosis is a state of starvation and the long term complications from it support that[2] but I guess starvation could be argued to be the "default state" of all living things.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK28048/

2. https://www.thepaleomom.com/adverse-reactions-to-ketogenic-d...
I think this is another reason why solo developers don't benefit from grpc the way a billion dollar company does: solo developers often aren't using languages that are optimized with grpc (eg they're using python, node, Ruby, sometimes go; they aren't using c++, Java, etc)

Obviously these aren't hard and fast rules, but Google can't just spin up 10x more data centers to run their resource intensive stuff in something other than c++ or Java. They need the efficiency in a way solo developers or small teams usually don't.
As someone living outside of the US I find it interesting (and perhaps a bit predictable) how the normal response is something in the lines of "If you do not want capitalism, you want communism". This form of polarized view is false dichotomy, much like choosing with horn of the bull to be speared by. There might be other ways of handling the bull.

From my point of view there is a whole spectrum of things in between these two opposites.
I see full unfettered capitalism as harmful as I consider full blown communism. They're both totalitarian systems just with different masters and propaganda.

Social democracy as done in much of Europe is in between the two (or at least used to be when I grew up). It tries to respect basic human rights such as housing and health care, while still allowing corporations to do their thing. Controls imposed on corporations tries to ensure that they don't go completely bonkers in search of the almighty profit.
Crash of Cars 2020
Lots of VMs. VMs don't need much CPU time but oh boy do they need the RAM.
Why I Stopped Using Redux
Er... no.

Your productivity is your effect on net increases in economic transactions. A CEO has a massive effect. Jeff Bezos can literally, right now, change the GDP of entire countries just by making a decision.

One minute of his time can raise or lower a country's economic activity.

> while the money went elsewhere

Did it? Productivity increases is still the reason people have rising wages.

That we don't see the 1:1 wage:productivity increases we used to (post-WW2), doesnt mean that productivity isnt still the key metric to be increasing.

As to why that is probably the form automation takes today has a lot to do with it, ie., that innovations in factories used to increase the productivity of working class people; now such increases accumulate to highly skilled workers.

Ironically, I think this makes my point: our economy has become politically unstable because of the relative increase of low-productivity labour. This would get much worse with people transitioning to care work.
yes, but it isn't false
Certainly extreme in magnitude but I don't think anomalous in nature. There is considerable evidence that the non-STEM departments in US higher education are intellectually leftist monocultures.
Must admit, when setting up our company server I didn't even consider allowing it to federate as it just looked a bit to complicated, making it easy to get wrong and potentially have confidential information leak.