skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised how frequently this line of argument is used. Someone complains about intolerance for their contrarian views, and the response is "boo-hoo, this (male, white) powerful senior editor of this prestigious publication (or whatever) is complaining being censored, but he never gave a shit about (certain oppressed group) being silenced and living in fear — he's just upset some little power is being taken from him".

I mean, sure, people care more about what affects them directly. Maybe they have their own contradictions. But the point they make should prevail or fail on its own merits.

Plus, I find the whole framing of the issue in terms of power very reductionist. It's a powerful tool, but if we merely want to redistribute power in a more just fashion, then the most efficient way would be to send some people to the guillotine. The means through which we attempt to redistribute the power matter and we should strive to have a more tolerant, liberal society, not the other way around.
This is analogous to the principle of composition over inheritance. Using is-a relationships (inheritance) is concise and convenient, but sometimes leads to wrong models of the world. It's safer to use has-a relationships (composition).
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Nice website, thanks for linking it. But, it looks like I'm in the minority here - having always worked on 60Hz screen computers and never finding myself wishing for higher refresh rate than a better screen ratio. Perhaps, personally speaking, my priorities are different.
> Why would someone do this?

Robbery? Murder during attempt to get the victim to transfer money or bitcoins to an intruder? Lots of possibilities even without any context except the victim being somewhat wealthy.
This is a fair point, but we have seen "faux" shutdowns before of Chinese companies abroad. A good example of this would be Zoom, which was shutdown but then suddenly not in 2019. I have personally spoken to the CEO, Eric Yuan, about this incident, so I consider myself at least here decently informed (regarding Zoom): https://technode.com/2019/09/09/china-blocks-us-video-confer...
I’m not sure what to say here other then. A fool and their money will soon be parted.
I personally don’t know anyone that holds that opinion as you stated above .
So, the answer to the 4th 'W' - where.

And 'where' matters, given this: The condos in the building are full-floor and the keyed elevator opens right into the apartment.
Luxury condo just means prefabricated with central air and heating.
It's not an assumption. You can measure this, it's experimental fact. White christians vote republican, go check some exit polls, etc...
The things I listed all involve supposed purity (whites are pure, virgin women are pure, gender nonconformism is sexual deviancy which is impure), rules for expression and behavior, and negative consequences for not following said rules.
Yes, there are a lot more neutral to positive comments now (including yours, which wasn't posted yet when I made my original observation). I am glad to see a more balanced discussion on what seems to be a well-liked article, as judged by votes.
This is a professional hit. The hitman cut up the body in order to dispose of it. Presumably, he had to flee the scene early. This wasn't a crime of passion, this was an organized hit carried out on behalf of someone powerful. The hitman is probably a professional who was just carrying out a contract.
That doesn't apply here. Nuclear war & nuclear winter wouldn't necessarily be an extinction event. It would result in millions of deaths and a regression in quality of life for those who remain, but they most people would be alive and experience that possible universe.
Well, this incident did go viral the other month.

https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/watch-tiktok-video-seattle-de...
>Some people are able to honestly assess their past positions and statements, understand why things could be construed as problematic, and make efforts to better themselves. That, and a sense of what conversations are appropriate for public forums versus informal conversation over drinks, act as pretty great cancellation buffers.

This is wonderfully sensible when the problematic things in question are unequivocally problematic (e.g. justification of genocide, or explicit racism). For those things that are borderline, as well as those whose problematic nature is in dispute, it's not so clear cut. Herein lies a strategy for silencing a viewpoint - descend on those who express it with vigorous Twitter fury, deprive a few of them of their livelihoods, et voila! Something that has been discussed in public (and perhaps ought to be discussed) is now confined to "informal conversation over drinks". The offensive-to-some viewpoint is silenced, all is well!

Well, not to me. I am a liberal, and thus I believe that discussion and disagreement over ideas helps improve the good ones and helps sink the bad ones. Disagreement is not a chore, it's the fundamental feature that every free society should cherish. But we should probably restrict justification of genocide, and explicit racism.
He explicitly mentions that whenever you talk about speech in the abstract, people will assume you believe whatever thing they don't like.

Agree with him or not, I think it completely misses his point to need to hear his opinions before you decide whether he's correct in the abstract about speech.
This is a quite hard question to answer, as if it's done correctly no-one will know and the person will simply vanish.

And there is of course countless reasons why someone vanishes, but then again, there is a lot of missing people: https://www.statista.com/statistics/240387/number-of-missing...
Is that even true? The early days of the United States were fraught with military (or militia) action and small rebellions. Less than four score and seven years after the declaration of independence, half the state governments went to war with the other half.

I am not sure the issue fought during the revolutionary war was the "peacefulness" of the British government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays%27_Rebellion

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Indian_War
Really? Can I write off depreciation of my assets (car, house etc) against tax?
Some of the first zoning in the US was race-based.
Meta but why is it called 16:10 instead of 8:5? Ratios should be brought down to the lowest common denominator, just like every other standard aspect ratio, no?
I can see what you're saying (in good faith). I do think interview anxiety is a collocation of multiple factors. I don't think the correlation of anxiety to the listed categories are easily deconvolved from other factors -- it might seem like a common-sense correlation, especially if you start from certain priors, but it's a big assumption to make on average.

(Only this past week I had experiences that challenged my assumptions about certain demographics (seniors) and how I would expect they would behave, and how they actually behaved. The lesson I learned was -- don't assume, always collect real data)

The white-male interviewer power dynamic has some basis in reality (I've experienced it occasionally, not all the time), but its effect on my interview performance may be less than 10%? (to throw out a number). I find I'm much more affected -- maybe 90% -- about (1) my competence in the subject matter and (2) how well practiced I am (for instance, I know the theory for a great many subjects but am unpracticed at some of them, so I tend to stumble and lack ease when it comes to demonstrating my subject matter knowledge in real time).

For different people, those percentages shift, and I believe in a way that is not obviously or necessarily correlated with their demographic (psychological conditions, yes, but also depends on which ones -- some don't affect anxiety). But all I have is anecdata so I'm not able to provide strong evidence one way or another so this is just my two cents worth -- and I do mean this in good faith.
This. When I travelled to Vietnam I was shocked to find out access to Facebook was free (unlike the data plans, which seemed expensive to me and therefore likely out of reach for most of the folks there.

It was really nice to be able to communicate with my travel buddies reliably, but this is definitely the tiered internet people are afraid of.
This is the second suit from this firm that seems to be formed on an incredibly weak and intentionally misleading argument.

Here: the user turns off data collection from Google services, but third party apps use a Google Cloud offering to collect analytics (which Google cannot access).

Previously: I launched Chrome in incognito mode, but when I log into Google it records my activity.

Given the article's mention of Oracle as a client, it seems likely this is part of Oracle's continued smear campaign against Google. Keeping a stream of negative headlines regardless of substance, especially as the big Supreme Court case looms.
I can't think of a TRUE statement that you'll be cancelled for. I can think of a lot of opinions presented as truths that will get you cancelled. For my edification, can you all please present some hypothetical examples of current TRUE statements that cannot/should not be said?

Something like "Fat people are a burden on a healthcare system" is true and won't get you cancelled.

Something like "Trans people are currently the gender they were born" is a philosophical opinion and might get you cancelled but whether its true or not is a sort of Ship of Theseus problem.

Something like "Donald Trump has a low IQ" may impede your work progress but that has its own implications about cancel culture that aren't what we're talking about.

So please for the sake of argument, show me an actual truth that will get you cancelled. Seriously looking for examples...
related / duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23846654
Tell me you honestly believe this interaction would play out the same if the driver were white: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/hrny1v/watc...
> Instead they return back up the stack to whoever called the function that signalled the condition.

Not necessarily. They may return to any point on the stack that has been "announced" as a valid return point. One can compute a list of these return points, choose which one to utilize, and under which conditions.

That's what constitutes the power of restarts (and non-local exits) in Common Lisp.
Because what got him killed may have been related to his leadership position at a startup he founded... so definitely a word of caution for tech founders that read HN in similar local political fights.
Threads is an excellent and unique medium that is easy to consume and share, take a look at these examples:

- https://twitter.com/dannypostmaa/status/1282952961857970176

- https://twitter.com/robhope/status/1265278107088347136

Of course, you can make a blog post from such threads (and probably should, if the thread got traction), but it would look and read differently.
I don’t know why you think it’s less conspiratorial to believe this was just a regular joe vs a professional hit man. He had an electric saw and empty suitcase. left no blood and few clues.

didn’t take anything from the apartment either.

a regular joe who wanted to do this would’ve just shot him.
Is this fundamentally different than your next door neighbor replacing their SFH with a 4 story apartment building? One could say Airbnb rentals are based on want and traditional rental housing is based on need, but the residents of the theoretical apartment building don’t “need” to live on your street.
Complete tangent, but, by any chance, when you read things, do you not 'hear' a voice in your head reading them?

Curious, because I'm pretty sure the first time I ran across Whatsapp it was in text, but I tend to 'hear' the things I read/write in my head, as though a voice read them to me. And because of that the pun stuck out. It might just be I'm more inclined to look for puns (playing games with them all the time with friends and family), but wondering if that might be part of it: if you just see the name and it's just a word, not something sounded out in your head, you of course would not notice the play on words.
Skin rash should be considered as a fourth key sign of COVID-19
I'm not sure they'll release specs.

If it's an "appliance" -- e.g., no official support for installing other software -- then the specs aren't really important.

The question would be how well does it work as a video conferencing device, regardless of specs.
This product makes me worried.

I‘m afraid that putting a teleconferencing app on a separate device will make it easier to add distracting or privacy invading features.

I wouldn’t want to keep this thing always on and let anyone connect anytime.
Whatsapp sounds lile what's up
There was (is?) a serial killer in LA killing homeless people with a bat in 2018/19 that got barely any news coverage.
It's a mavic 2, it's rather small and inaudible above 50 meters or so. Which seems to be roughly where it's hovering based on the footage. It has a camera with optical zoom. Ironically, it's made by the Chinese company DJI.

Also, wild speculation, but maybe it did get taken down. The footage shown is a recording of the live telemetry feed streamed to the base station, not the much higher quality video stored on the SD card on board the drone itself.
ipad doesn't have 27" screen, 3 cameras and as good mics. This is a dedicated device, so you set it and forget it.
Something something American Psycho
They exist as potential, the same way the rock at the top of hill has a certain amount of potential energy. You choose whether to push the rock down the hill or not, and declaring that the rock will absolutely be harmed to an unacceptable degree, when it's foggy and you can't see even 10 feet down the hill, is irrational. Especially given that billions of other rocks have been pushed down much steeper hills with extremely rough slopes in the past and still managed.

When we're talking about humans instead of rocks, being harmed is part of life. At the end of the day we're all harmed by something that ends up killing us. That doesn't make life worthless, and attempting to prevent harm at all costs is the definition of maladaptive behavior. If that's your argument then you're basically the ultimate helicopter parent. You're so worried that your child might get harmed you won't even let them be born.

Reward requires risk, and greater rewards require greater risks. That's true for every lifeform down to bacteria and viruses. Granted not all risk leads to reward, but the risk of parenting tends to reward those involved above a certain baseline of effort and capability.

As for your ancestors, you're descended from a line of beings stretching back millions of years that, whatever their flaws, managed to reproduce. If there is a point to life that we know about it's that life exists to propagate in harmony with nature (often brutally enforced by various aspects of nature). The point of society is that we all help each other in that endeavor and make it more meaningful. To fulfill our potential as a species. Even those who choose not to have children help in some way through jobs and taxes. This is part of the reason helping others makes us feel good.

There are many valid reasons to not have kids, but I don't understand how you can trust someone who says "I don't want to succeed at the basic function of life because the 2nd best civilization ever produced just isn't comfortable enough for me", and means it. Someone with that level of weakness is not going to be reliable in bad times, regardless of their intentions. Maybe you don't care if I trust you or not, but if you don't care if anyone trusts you... well then I hope your life is as comfortable as you clearly require, because you'll be getting by on charity if it's not.
This is NYC. A $2M condo is not that special.
The cost is simply too high and even the leaders that were popularly perceived as being unstable haven't been that unstable.
I'm not trying to say keto isn't helpful. If it works for you that's great, go for it. It may even be better than other diets in certain scenarios as you have mentioned.

However prescribing it as the default solution isn't right. If you're gaining weight the default solution is to reduce total calorie intake. Most of the benefits people see on keto can just as easily be had by simply avoiding processed junk foods. Demonizing carbs is counterproductive as it causes people to needlessly exclude nutritious foods like fruits from their diet. Yes, you will feel hungry on a low calorie diet initially. Keto will also give you the "keto flu" in the first week. Later on your body adapts to it (in both diets). The insulin release and hunger is your body's primary mechanism developed over hundreds of thousands of years. If you're advocating bypassing that in favour of something else, you better have a very good reason to do so.
ThinkPad's announcement of 16:9 displays in 2009:

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> I stated in my last post that the industry is going to go through yet another display ratio change over the next year or so.

> For years we've had 4:3 “square” displays. These have all but disappeared from the market as the current standard is 16:10 “wide.”

> The industry is about to move yet again to true 16:9 wide. This means that the ratio of your PC display will match that of your HDTV. This change won't happen overnight, but will phase in gradually. In fact, it's already started. Many of the newest consumer notebooks, especially in the 15″ class now sport the more rectangular 16:9 display.

> Again, we can thank the LCD manufacturers for this change. By cutting everything in the same aspect ratio, they have less waste per large sheet of glass. Since these manufacturers make more selling TV displays than laptop displays, the PC vendors have almost zero say in this change. We simply have to adapt. As much as I would like it to be so, 4:3 is not coming back.

> For readers of this blog, yes, I had our team run the math. In order to provide a high end IPS display option, we'd need well over 15,000 confirmed orders to make it even worth considering. This is due to minimum order quantities, creating models, stocking replacement parts for years to come, etc. If someone enterprising wants to create a database of (legitimate) credit card numbers of confirmed, non-cancellable orders, I'm sure that it would get some attention around here. (For you legal types, this does not constitute an offer to sell.)

> https://web.archive.org/web/20111030050311/http://www.lenovo...
> while in most of Europe(except the East) it does not.

Wait, something doesn't add up here. I see many programmers migrating from eastern to western Europe, but not the other way around.

It is true that programming as a profession will offer comparatively higher standard of living in eastern Europe (when compared to other professions), but that's because the overall standard of living is lower than it is in the west.
Why do you think he meant "orthodox" to be the majority or historical view? Never occurred to me that it could be interpreted that way.
I highly recommend Ezra Klein's Why We Are Polarized.

My personal takeaway TLDR:

faceted identity is normal.

increasing sorting and polarization somehow coincides with all of our identities becoming much more aligned, aka superidentities.

the novelty is social media activating and amplifying identity.

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Presumably these social pendulums will swing back. Methinks Millennials and younger will go in the direction of the phyles from Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Where people chose their cohorts, which all kind of mutually coexist.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
Could have just as easily been a date, a hookup, a serial killer, someone perturbed at wealth inequality and better living standards.

Just as much as this financial or business hitman speculation.

Its all happened in NYC. Chopped up into bags sounds like cartel or organized, it happened to OneCoin promoters in Mexico this month too. But we dont know yet for this case.

The chance is part of the rush.
That’s assuming that everyone in your city is vaccinated, and that the vaccine is 100% effective.

We’ve had a measles vaccine for three generations, we still have the measles.

We’ve had a polio vaccine for three generations, polio is not eliminated.
What? You're literally using the LinkedIn profiles out of a hand-selected cohort of engineers who happen to be from Chinese universities as strong evidence of a company being part of your conspiracy. Is every F500 American company that hires engineers from those universities compromised? I attended a CS graduate program that takes in research grants from DARPA and other American institutions — if I work for a non-U.S. based company, should I be accused of spying?
Emmanuel Cafferty wasn’t in a position of power. Sue Schafer wasn’t in a position of power.
The US Military Is Using Online Gaming to Recruit Teens
IMO, purpose in life as motivation to live is a double edged sword. It motivates someone for sure, but when he/she lost the very purpose, depression comes, even suicidal thoughts.

Which is why I like the concept of Dukkha in Buddhist, that knowing how meaningless I am can make me enjoy life more and not caring too much unimportant things, such as comparing myself with billionaires.
I'd love to learn more! Is there something in particular you don't like?

As a marketer (and the growth person on the Legacy team), I've learned you can't build a strategy or business that appeases everyone. Ultimately, a name is just a name.

Ultimately, we are working to help hopeful fathers build families.
The current system zoning still reinforces racial and socioeconomic division. Wealthy neighborhoods keep out less wealthy people by only allowing certain types of housing (more expensive housing).
Are machines going to replace programmers?
CCP money

Ironically, $$$
What considerations do you put into how to handle versioning? I'm thinking mostly of the "decider" logic.

For example, in SWF + Flow land, I maintain different versions just by keeping the old implementation and using version numbers. For Temporal, your team's recommended way is to have a single decider get the execution's version, and write conditionals into the business logic for both cases (https://docs.temporal.io/docs/java-versioning). Is the change in approach intentional, or just a matter of what's been built so far?
> the sites were running VBScript, using Microsoft Access databases.

Why doesn't this surprise me?
Here's a list:

https://mobile.twitter.com/SoOppressed/status/12824046471609...
What a tragedy. If this has ties to any foreign business or government entity, I truly hope that the U.S government and military forces take swift and lethal action.

Sometimes I feel like this is the sort of thing where the justice system and public media just don't work... send some SEALS to knock out whoever did this. It reminds me of the type of thing that happens with central american drug lords.

I wish the article talked about such political issues instead of the weird sort of implied schadenfreude with regards to his material possessions and postings on instagram.
Perhaps they mean the cryobanks we work with?
Louisiana Purchase Exposition
If a challenger doesn't appear soon, I may have to look into stitching together my Chromebook Plus display (12.3" 2400x1600, 3:2, with Touch Screen) to some new AMD laptop body.
Have you seen The Act of Killing[1]?

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The Oxford vaccine (ChAdOx1) uses another vector virus called the adenovirus to deliver the coronavirus genes which the body can fight against. The issue is that some people might have pre-existing immunity to the adenovirus, making the vaccine ineffective. Since ChAdOx1 uses an adenovirus which infects chimpanzees, it is likely that most people will not have any pre-existing immunity to the vector virus. I guess the parent comment is referring to the fact that the body might develop immunity to the chimpanzee vector virus after two doses, making booster shots ineffective.