skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it possible for kids to socialize well online?
A lot of kids have been feeling really isolated during this time of social distancing. And it is impacting their mental health. At my company, we're working on ways to build meaningful connections for kids online during this time of social distancing. I'm wondering if any parents here have found good ways for their children to socialize online? Or if anyone's teacher has taken a good approach to this? Would love any examples of how you've made this work that I can share with other families who are really struggling with this right now.
That will be the legal argument in court: is Apple's iOS like a specifically grocery chain that controls 20% of stores, and customers can easily go to another? That will be Apple's position.

It seems clear that it's not, since I can easily bounce from store to store, and it's much more complicated (though by no means impossible) to switch mobile platforms.

The other position also seems extreme: defining the scope of the market as "iOS users" would result in forcing Apple to make room in their store for everyone and everything, as if it weren't possible to seek alternatives at all.

It's not an easy issue, but both starting positions seem extreme.
There's a world of difference between accepting someone's claims of their experience at face value and accepting that these claims justify the demanded changes.

There's no conflict in acknowledging that someone does hear a high-pitched noise in the presence of a particular device and at the same time do not accept that this would be a sufficient reason to prohibit such devices or turn off a particular device; and at the same time one can acknowledge that the term 'blacklist' is offensive or triggering to some people and at the same time not accept that a term being offensive or triggering to some people is sufficient justification to require the world to change that term.
I’m sad that the people like you arrogantly assume they are smarter than other people (including those for whom this is literally their job), and if something doesn’t fall into their narrow concept of “what makes sense” they default to malice or incompetence as the only explanation and deny the possibility that complexity or nuance could exist.
... except for their views on abortion, welfare, affirmative action, gay marriage, etc.

Current public policy reflects the left’s view on these matters, and a new one joins the list every few years.
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It's a nice site, and she does seem to be quite qualified. I applaud her drive to "give back."

That said, I have found that I don't really need this, myself. That's mostly because I'm a bit "on the spectrum," and tend to drop into what I call my "fugue state." When I am in this state, I can churn out a vast amount of really good code, with almost no working documentation, as I can keep a fairly complex system in my head, applying adjustments as I meet friction. In fact, the most common reaction I get from people is "You didn't write that!". It's very draining. I usually come out of the state feeling exhausted and, sometimes, sick (I once puked my guts out, after spending about 10 hours, working on a painting). I used to have an employee that was a lot more "spectrumish" than I am, and he easily knocked my best efforts into a cocked hat. His work was stunning. I suspect that it still is.

But that kind of thing is very individual, and can't be taught. I have written a great deal about my personal process, but I feel it is more expository, as opposed to educational (https://medium.com/chrismarshallny). I am quite aware that I am nowhere near the "top of the heap," and that there are prodigies out there that, on a bad day, can blow away my best.
>Apple has Ios in an iron grip

iOS is their own product. Every company has its own products on an "iron grip", as well as controlling who gets to partner with them (and e.g. sell something on their platform).
The funny thing is that in iPhone OS 1, Apple only supported web apps, which could be (and still can be) saved to the home screen. The App Store didn't exist. The full desktop class web browser was a major feature of the iPhone. That was clearly the company's vision for the platform.

Developers clamored for a native API, which they got the next year.
People usually call this salami slicing when a group does it to their ideological opponents. But sometimes it is a wholly internal, self-driven dynamic where the least committed members of a group tend to quit first, and the group ends up with more and more radicalized members over time.
If we took the raw complexity of reality into consideration, we'd never be able to move forward because we'd be stuck in an endless debate over categorization.

Yeah, why let reality get in the way of a made up dichotomy?
As an aside, if you want to make a genuinely warm smile but are not feeling it, this trick usually works for me. I think about my partner, or a beloved childhood memory, or something else along those lines. I just close my eyes for a second and focus on that, then let my face smile while I think about the happy memory.
In the near future it's just constantly going to be countries launching cyber-attacks on each other, stealing private citizens' data, taking public utilities down, engaging in disinformation campaigns, etc.

And the ones who'll be affected worst by the whole ordeal will be innocent people around the world who aren't very tech-savvy and are just trying to get through the day.
Thanks for explaining that to me. It is all just so alien to me due to my experience so far. But I am really excited to learn it properly.
Has Reddit Changed?
Basically I've noticed recently posting anything unpopular you will get banned 9/10 times. You literally have to think 5 times if you are wording your comment/post in a way that it fits current trending narrative. And when it comes to posting your post gets auto deleted.

It's starting to remind me of Stackoverflow.

I'm up to point where I find myself not visiting site as often.

I thought it was clear to us that censorship is a slippery slope and leads to some bad outcomes. Yet it seems there it's practiced as righteous tool.

Mod system is flawed, because it allows itself to be taken over by people with personal agendas. System works if mods are unbiased and fair.
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Isn't there just a bit of condescension in that title? It always sounds to me like something invented by a manager to be dismissive of someone who doesn't manage anyone.
> Are you saying that non-minority, non-women don't suffer anxiety?

No, and I doubt anyone would have read it that way in good faith.
Have you ever thought about your code in terms of distance magnitudes?
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/us-coronavirus-update-05-27...

“I still think that we have a good chance, if all the things fall in the right place, that we might have a vaccine that would be deployable by the end of the year, by December and November,” said Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/15/mo...
Is this related to my original comment or a different one? I agree with this by the way, I think that it's definitely a part of the discussion.
Yeah, I didn't catch that, but I can also see the sense in it as well. I'm not sure how you avoid having at least a bit of gray area.

> apply an American sense of moral onto countries

This is an interesting comment because it could go both ways. You have the EU and Australia where there are somewhat more permissive morals (nudity isn't considered obscene for example), and on the other hand you have many other countries like the Middle East where the moral code is much more stringent (alcohol is not allowed, face coverings, etc).

Also, this isn't any worse than the current state, the App Store owners have complete control here already. It just doesn't fix this particular potential abuse.
Are there any old screenshots around; what the editor or backend interface for a Viaweb user looked like?
> I think there is a schism in people holding left-of-center (US context) views. I see liberals as placing a higher value on a consistent application of values and less emphasis on outcomes. I see progressives as more focused on outcomes than the means used to obtain them.

> Cynically phrased, a critique of liberals from progressives would be that liberals are okay dithering and letting injustices stand. A liberal criticism of progressives is that they have adopted an “ends justify the means” philosophy. Additionally liberals might question whether the “ends” are good and on what authority that determination was made.

I think this is a very clear and succinct summation. It shows that both sides aren't exactly wrong, but they aren't exactly right either. That's what makes politics hard.

I'm kinda reminded of something I was taught about English Common Law: hundreds of years ago, it was basically the law in England, but it became so focused on consistent application that it ossified and failed to provide legal relief for many clear injustices. When that happened, someone could directly appeal to the King for relief, and out of those appeals developed a Equity, a whole different body of law. There's nothing wrong with consistent application of a process, but I think sometimes some people get so focused on it that they loose sight of the actual goal the process was meant to achieve.
>If someone says they can hear a high-pitched noise that you can't

I guess this is an accidentally in-apt example...? It certainly detracts from the essay (mildly and in oh so many words) pushing against accusations of wrongthink - which includes accusations of dogwhistling.
I think the nice Volta cards (V100) does it "properly". But out of reach for most small scale setups (academic labs, prosumer, independent researcher, etc.).

Unfortunately the best case for high-mem use-cases is to just rent from GCP.
The problem with this is that to produce quality, you actually need iterative feedback from stakeholders and users/user representatives. If you don't show anyone anything until it's "done", you are doing work in a direction that would have been better informed by more feedback.

(Cause another lesson is that people have a lot of trouble giving worthwhile feedback on a verbal/written description of something, they gotta see a thing in front of them).
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Is there a high-pitched sound, or not? If the people in power say there's no high-pitched sound, and the people out of power are suffering from the high-pitched sound, what is "true"? There is "a truth," or "two truths," but not "the truth."

The ideal of polite conversion is that people who disagree can come to a conclusion, a "truth," that was previously inaccessible to either of them. Asserting "the truth," is a dominator paradigm privilege.
Great discussion there, thanks for linking!
> I wish they would just freeze the language and not add anything

> I think we should start putting weight on stable unchanging software

You would probably like CL then.
Note Moderna's vaccine is using newish technology in that rather than being injected with bits of the virus, dead virus or attenuated virus, so your body can mount an immune response, you are given RNA which encodes the bit of the virus - so your body makes the virus bit itself, which then leads to the immune response.

How this compares to the other approaches will be interesting.
Weapons system officer. F-15E is a two seat cockpit so you have someone dedicated to the weapons systems and someone dedicated to flying the aircraft at all times. I generally share the above commenter’s enthusiasm for the F-15 over the modern “replacements”.
I think there is a lot of yin and yang to that though.

1. Folks who shout they are being silenced, to some extent obviously aren't and usually follow that up with some direction to ... their ideas they're being silenced.

2. Anyone who is really silenced, who do we hear about it from? Group 1.

Outside of say a government straight up banning speech or outright removing it... I have real trouble weeding out who / what is truly being silenced and what the issue really is.

And I'm highly skeptical about Group 1's ability to tell me honestly about Group 2.
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600K for a house in Munich sounds really cheap considering that that's how much a small apartment costs in the city center there.
What's an "active project"? OP says they discovered that their account had been renamed by having their workflow break. What kind of activity was OP regularly engaging in that depended on OP's account existing with the original name but did not flag OP's account as active?
None of the ML frameworks support memory pooling so unless you write cuda code yourself this point is moot.
Ah, you've found the solution. The military should go into the passenger business!
There isn't a single entity killing black people in the US (police forces are highly localised, and the original campaign was about a vigilante murder and not caused by the police per se, but the failure of the justice system to convict a murderer)
George Washington is a national hero, but I feel like arguably his greatest feat hasn't remained popular: Willfully giving up power.

Regardless of who happens to be sitting in the Oval, and if they're using their executive authority for "good" or "evil," one could very easily make the argument that congress has given up too much power to unilateral action by the executive (and or too little actionable oversight).

Going back to George Washington, the absolute hardest thing anyone can do is give up power. That's why I hope to one day see someone in the WH who is patriotic enough to call for their own political party for help in stripping their own office of unilateral powers.

Hand wringing when the "other side" is swinging the executive stick wildly isn't enough. You have to give up power, not just for you, but for who happens comes next. You also have to give up power early in your own term so it impacts you, and you cannot be accused of trying to sabotage.

The US shouldn't be a turn-key despot.

PS - I don't really expect to see this in my lifetime, but boy would it be a sight to see.
You problem used tabs rather than spaces ;-)

Seriously though - how long ago was that - not recently I hope?
If NVIDIA gave me a Titan RTX for free, I would use it too.
I think what is important is that everybody find community. And it shouldn't be a surprise that that is easiest in the smaller settings that most humans have lived their lives in before the modern era. But we can have both. The great cities of the world have vibrant local neighborhoods AND "scenes" based on common interests. And for the smaller towns and villages the internet enables both online communities, and more importantly, the coordination of regional communities of shared interests. More Meetup.com, less twitter.
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With Temporal/Cadence you write (mostly) plain code to implement your business logic rather than using code to define DAGs.

This discussion has more on Airflow vs Cadence:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19732447
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That study's from 2017; public opinion on transgender rights has progressed tremendously since then.

I think my statement still stands if we replace "most" with "44% and growing"
On the other hand I view a comment after down-vote with the reason, crucial for constructive criticism.
I lived in that area for a few months and I still miss it.
> Where was the campaign against white people getting killed by the police (or vigilantes! the original campaign was in re Trayvon Martin, who was killed by George Zimmerman) before 2013, or indeed in the present day?

Where was the campaign against sex abuse in Hollywood before metoo as well? Now imagine women in metoo telling men to shut up about sex assault because metoo is only for female victims?

This is the difference between a unifying movement and a divisive one. Especially when the latter is making a loud point about silencing anybody that attempts at broader reach. "Respect all lives", "End police brutality" doesn't make the case for black lives weaker at first place.
Here's an example from my own career:

I once had a colleague (who is a nice guy, and we got along) who said during lunch that there are some things that we all can agree on, like how rent control is a good thing. I offered one objection off the top of my head (that prices serve as a mechanism for aggregating data, and any price controls serve to throw out data, and we should use as much data as possible when making decisions about how to allocate scarce resources). Before I spoke up, this colleague couldn't imagine that there would be any counter arguments to his position. Another colleague later thanked me for speaking up and sharing that different take.

Maybe that's not a good reason to not have rent control, or maybe it is a good reason, but on balance it's not good enough. The problem isn't the debate, the push back, it's Graham's point "privilege makes you blind." The problem is when there are limits to your imagination that an issue you see as simple might be more complex or that the person you're sharing a meal with might have a different, but still legitimate, way of seeing the world.
>How does this happen? Is it just easier to leave a negative comment than to say something meaningful if you enjoyed the article?

For one, posts are often upvoted based on their title/subject, and only afterwards are read and evaluated for their content.
Yes, thats about $1000 savings. Also, the 80+ Gold power supply is an inefficient choice given then lack of a second GPU; without the second Titan that 1000W power supply will never see 50% load. If you're over-buying power supplies for future expansion then use an efficient titanium rated supply which will waste less power at low loads. The price difference is $80.
At the moment it seems that we have a "double-hung" overton window. The right sash and the left sash overlap less and less all the time.
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The opposite will happen. I doubt the call for preciseness wins out.

Reuters and other media will fetch deepfake to mean more things, and it will become a category of related frauds.

I have to wonder when the meaning change occurred. It's hard to tell if they got it from an interview, or a misunderstanding introduced it into the article.

>A generative adversarial network is the name given to dueling computer programs that run through a process of trial and error, according to Hao Li, chief executive and cofounder of Pinscreen, a startup that builds AI avatars.

>One program, the generator, sequentially fires out millions of attempts at a face; the second program, the discriminator, tries to sniff out whether the first program’s face is a fake. If the discriminator can’t tell, Li said, a deepfake is produced.

https://graphics.reuters.com/CYBER-DEEPFAKE/ACTIVIST/nmovajg...
Using the word "alien" in context of a language often described as "made with alien technology" sounds peculiarly fitting.

The image-based Lisp is just very very different when compared to mainstream batch languages like C, Rust, or Java.
I've read the letter again and if its goal was to make me think it succeeded. Although I'm generally weary of labeling everything "privileged", I get the authors' point.

Having thought about it I do live in a culture that is considered extremely blunt, honest or even just rude depending on who you ask. That might change my perspective as well.
Can you please explain the last bullet or post a link?

"~ long-term immunity is questionable for covid and you can get only two shoots of this type of vaccine in lifetime while maintaining it efficiency"

This suggests some fundamental misunderstanding in how I think about the immune system (which is unsurprising given I have no formal background there), and I think I'd learn a lot of important things from understanding why or how this works.

If it's hard or deep, I'm glad to do long-form reading if you have a link.
Yeah you're not wrong, but it's a bit misleading. This allows you to run faster, but it does it by allowing you to use a larger batch size (arguably not best practice but your mileage will vary). Memory pooling is a bit different in that you can treat the combined cards as a single card from TF/pytorch.
Here's a historical tip. The bad guys never believe they are the bad guys. Maybe everyone should use that nugget to keep yourselves in check before you get some Taco Bell worker fired for saying something that offended your delicate sensibilities.

Current cancel culture is nothing but infant stage fascism. People with power hate to lose it, so they will sacrifice whomever they need to in order to keep it.

If you don't think cancel culture rhymes with McCarthyism, maybe you're the bad guy.
That makes even less sense then. Are you trying to protect users from attacking themselves? What specific threat do you think you'd mitigate by doing that?
I'm honestly wondering why those planes are so expensive. If it's mostly human work, 1.2 billion is (very) roughly 1000 highly-skilled people employed for two full years. This feels out of proportion, even for bleeding-edge technology.

Does someone here know a bit more about the breakdown of costs?
I don't know about Ubuntu, but while installing Debian it makes it very clear what popularity-contest does and asks the user for explicit consent.

The default option is "I do not wish to participate", so if someone isn't paying attention during the install process and just hits 'Enter', their privacy remains intact.

This, IMO, is the perfect way to do telemetry.
This is a popular myth. There is simply no evidence to back to this claim. On the other hand there is a lot of evidence that preserving/increasing lean mass (non fat mass) depends only on protein and not fats/carbs. Check this article which summarizes multiple studies in this area - https://www.menshealth.com/health/a25924744/keto-diet-carbs-...
If you cross your eyes a little the second one shows a schooner
many of today's liberals in the US are, in the parlance, neo-liberals, those who fled the obvious negative connotations of conservatism and its association with racism, sexism, etc. in the guise of conserving "values", but still sympathetic to those beliefs in private.

progressives eschew that subtle hypocrisy.
Thanks for posting this. It's timely for me.

I'm stuck in a loop with my father for a while now where he forwards me a certain sort of propaganda. I feel like I've struggled to break through on a key point: when I say something smells like propaganda, it doesn't mean I think it is false--it means I think it's part of an organized campaign to build narratives and consensus.

In my case, the topic is highly charged. Reapproaching it with something low-stakes like this is at least worth a try.
> "we are seeing (at least in America) the emergence of two orthodoxies/conventions"

We have two loud extremes but, no, it's not a dichotomy. In particular, we need to distinguish between progressivism and old school liberalism since they have different core principles.
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That particular thing is nothing a couple tats, a scruffy beard, and a move to West Virginia can't change for you
Famous visual examples of two truths: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23843723
I agree. It's good to know a name of an algorithm/data structure, and rough characteristics (like bloom filter: O(1) lookup, super memory compact, statistical, can have false positives, no false negatives; perfect for caching lookups in "forbidden" lists).

There's not much point though in knowning the minutiae to the level that you can code one on the whiteboard without prior preparation -- which is probably the main point that the article relates to.