skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scaling what Denmark is doing for its population of ~5 million to the 300+ million people of the US is way harder than it looks at a first sight. To say nothing of the way more diverse human capital of the US.
Imposter syndrome is where you actually have the skills and/or knowledge but don’t believe you do (irrationally). Most people are simply incompetent. That is not imposter syndrome. Having a rational sense of your actual abilities is tough because beliefs affect confidence. So most people seem to be encouraged to over inflate their abilities. The syndrome is not imposter but over inflation.
So how does my grandmother, who has zero technology in her life, sign with her private key?

Voting needs to be available to all voters - we need to avoid putting in a barrier the would turn elections into "all voters who have smartphones".
Thanks, I've needed this for so long! I don't drink coffee, but now I can finally pretend that I do to avoid harasment from colleagues!
I've seen quite a lot of people from underrepresented groups claiming they have impostor syndrome but from the outside they seem to be closer to the Dunnunig-Kruger effect and just claiming it because it's hype.

Of course, I'm not in their minds and I'm absolutely biased.
Even for motor vehicles?
Most of the world doesn't know who Warren Buffett is today lol. And you have to be joking with "smartest investor of all time".
I wrote a comment on tildes addressing that exact question about where the harm lies: https://tildes.net/~comp/pra/replacing_potentially_insensiti...

In short there is no harm in the change itself, but rather in the perception by others of where people choose to waste their time rather than productively address root causes.

The harm is that changes like these don't actually help, and they are perceived negatively by people at large. This increases the divide and is a net negative.

And if you think I'm wrong you need only look at the comments here.
the current stock price is a bet on future "earnings" and surrounding fiscal environment (taxes, interest rates, alternate investments).

Only thing relating current price to future stock price is the hopes and dreams of speculators.
I find these "Billionaire X now richer than other billionaire Y" pieces a complete waste of time. I doubt the billionaires in question even care. So what's even the point?
> the only son of Leila (née Stahl) and Congressman Howard Buffett.

> In high school, he invested in a business owned by his father and bought a 40-acre farm worked by a tenant farmer.

> Buffett’s net worth dropped earlier this week when he donated $2.9 billion in Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa.N) stock to charity

Such a generous man and an entrepreneur. We need more like him.
It seems that reputable Scientists refute the main points as stated by this 'documentary'.
> nothing to do with it

It never has to do with race until il does.

The same way slave/master wasn’t about race in different contexts, being free or not would just a lineage or economic status.

But the moment it takes a specific cultural context, you can’t argue it’s wrong because it was different originally. Things change.
> like yeah, the only reason I don't commit to the Linux kernel is because of the presence of words such as master/slave...

I'm not certain about this but personally I don't think this is the intent.

I see two big benefits of these big language changes:

1. Much of anti-black racism in history has been accompanied by associations of skin colour to other unrelated elements based on their "illumination". Negative associations have been highlighted by virtue of the darkness and unilluminated things in general being traditionally considered negative.

So the original meaning or intent of blacklist/whitelist doesn't need to have been race-related for it to reinforce the idea of black=negative & white=positive. This is an association that's as natural as kids being afraid of the dark, but an association that is helpful for us to subvert and overcome as adults (for a plethora of reasons, one of those being to do with race)

Having discussions about language and naming things helps with that subversion.

2. In my case, as I work for a company that is bringing in these name changes internally, I've found this a curious and positive rare opportunity to discuss & hear team members' views on this issue. It's not the type of topic that would normally be easy to bring up in a corporate environment and this makes it natural and "safe" to do so in a not-combative way.
Camera covers most cost less than a dollar. Why doesn't Apple just build a physical one into their laptops? I wonder what they could come up with for microphones as well.
Aka "bleeding-heart libertarianism"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_liberalism
First things to learn: avoid 80m SSB, 2m FM and hamfest food :)
Seconded, also a great read if you're just casually interested
Let's say your project were written in Java. What if I asked you to rewrite the project in the C language because Java reminds me too much of the colonial period [1] and it is very painful for me because my ancestors suffered during this time.

Would you be open to that request? I mean, whatever, right? Who cares? Just do it. It might help me and perhaps others because to us Java is very painful. Oh, also, if you need an additional reason, Java is sexist because its file header starts with 0xCAFEBABE, another reason to switch to C.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java#Colonial_periods
> Again, I've flagged your post.

Ah, the revenge flag from the throwaway account of a throwaway account. That must carry a lot of weight around here. But your other statement muddles your argument.

> You chose not to answer that. It is key.

You're implying I have the answer, the "key". This would make the very statement you flagged my previous comment for (that you are unprepared for this conversation) a matter of fact, rather than opinion. And I asked why you'd need to use a throwaway account if you trusted your opinions are decent and here we are with yet another throwaway who happened to stumble across an HN post that was already buried away very deep.

Asking for "the answer" is a typical method of bogging down any conversation. I'll answer nonetheless but know that needing answers from me is admitting your opinions lack this information.*

So what about the 3 million citizens who's vote was ignored in order for the current president to win? That "close to perfect" system is made in such a way that the many can vote but in the end it's the few that actually choose the winner. By this definition Russia is just as much a democracy, people got to vote. Even in China the leader was voted... just by a very, very small minority within the party. A democracy is more than the exercise of going to a voting booth, it's enacting the will of the majority. And it's enabling your citizens to exercise their right.

People lose their right to vote for the most minor of infractions (like being unable to pay a parking fine and the the avalanche of extra costs that pours on them)? Voter ID laws take away the possibility to vote from hundreds of thousands of people in almost each state. Obstacles are put in their path when trying to obtain voter ID cards (asking for more and more ridiculous documents with every visit, or having offices that are open 5 non-consecutive days per year!!). Black or latino will know this better. You can't say the US has to focus on bringing democratic values to China while its citizens still have to go in the street to shout BLM in 2020.

For a right so basic as voting you'd expect the country to do its best to enable the voters, not to deter them. But millions of people are taken that right away, millions more are deterred as much as possible from exercising it, and many, many more get to exercise it but it doesn't count.

What good is perfect theory if the practice is so deeply flawed? Theories are usually perfect, communism, planned economies, benevolent dictatorships, they're all perfect in theory. But we live in practice.

* You ask me for answers to questions that form the basis of this conversation. I think saying that you are unprepared for it is simply an objective confirmation of your admission that (in your words) I have the key and you do not.
If Tesla‘s share price volatility is any indication, these statements (net worth zooms past..) will be at peaks of rollercoaster ride.
they don't. It's other people who look on with envy that cares - after all, these articles gets clicks.
He used to be the savior of last resort, but lately fed has eliminated the need for him to step in (or raised the floor above where buffet would make a move).
cool, now show me race demographic of linux contributors
Hopefully this will not pass - The requirement of having GCC + LLVM + Rust installed in order to build kernel would be insane.
Very good, but they left out quenelles!
https://www.frenchcountryfood.com/recipes/fish-or-seafood/qu...
If I was voting on social justice lines, I don't think I'd be voting for the party behind the 1994 Crime Bill, massive surveillance expansions and the sale of military weapons and vehicles to police forces [1] [2] [3] [4].

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2020/06/12/police-departments-10...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_on_mass_surveilla...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Crime_Control_and_Law_...

[4] https://www.insidesources.com/joe-bidens-record-on-privacy-m...
> As in, let me easily & visually explore the world of the repl right now.

That sounds great! I’m envisioning something that for each loaded namespace would show:

- fns that match saved files
- fns that differ:
- newer in file / not in REPL
- newer in REPL / not in file

I guess that would have to be an IDE-level thing, since it needs to know about file changes and REPL contents.

A namespaced list of all public var names can be thrown together pretty quickly, but it seems less helpful:

(->> all-ns
(ns-name)
(map (juxt identity clojure.repl/dir))
(into {}))

(I’m on mobile so I haven’t checked that!)
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This is the most reasonable stance imo. If my language is upsetting you, and I can change that for basically zero-cost, I will try my best to do so. I might forget, and old habits die hard, but I'll make a sincere effort.

In the case where it requires effort from other people, such as making breaking changes to an API, I'm less keen, but when it comes to future APIs I'll keep it in mind.

It reminds me a lot of the outrage over trans people wanting to use different pronouns. Just trying to use the pronouns they want you to requires basically zero effort and has a measurable benefit.

I think a lot of the upset around this issue - and I agree here - is that it takes energy away from more important topic. When people are being murdered in the streets, is master vs main the thing we should spend our time on?

While it's a clear false dichotomy, and we can do both, there's a real risk that people will just swap from master to main and feel like they've done their part, ignoring the more serious issues.

Ironically, that becomes a bigger problem the more we debate this. If using main instead of master is just a little thing, you feel the need to do more. If it's a big political stance, you feel like you've done enough.
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The virus didn't come through the ac system in that case. The AC was just blowing air from the infected person to others. This solution would have been useless.
What I want to see is "Billionaire X now paying more tax than other billionaire Y" or "Billionaire X now raising minimum salary in his company by 50%".
Humans enjoy idolising the rich. I do wonder if there's an evolutionary reason for this. Perhaps we're primed to listen to the person in the tribe who is best at gathering resources.
> Ah, one case out of how many elections?

One prominent case that was _not_ caught by election officials and analytical measures. We have no way to tell how many others didn't get caught because nobody challenged them and our general systems failed.

I'm not arguing that it's a catastrophic failure of the election system. The point is that paper ballots aren't protecting you from manipulation. Had they not challenged the election, the fraud would've gone unnoticed.

And, importantly, it doesn't require coordination, there's no huge conspiracy required for this kind of fraud (and this specific instance also wasn't discovered because one of the perpetrators "spilled the beans"), so "large conspiracies are impossible to pull of" doesn't really apply.
billionaires have huge egos
Thorniest issue of the Libertarian Party, Libertarians, and libertarians is the issue of “BLM”.

They’ve yet to reconcile their ideology with the use of the acronym, “BLM”.

There is black lives matter. This is an unwavering fact and we hold these truth to be self-evident.

Then there is “BLM” as in the organization which stands for Black Lives Matter.

The real issue is that BLM is an avowed Marxist organization as evidenced by several cofounders touting Marxism on social media.

The libertarian ideology and Marxism ideology are not compatible.

Steps must be made to ensure that black lives matter is stressed while denouncing the cofounders’ ideology.

A classic disingenuous use of acronym.
I've always wondered about the logistics of 8+ figure donations. Does Buffett call his personal wealth manager and tell him to transfer X BRKa.N shares to Charity LLC? Does the wealth manager then call Charity LLC to ask them their routing numbers, types a few strokes on a keyboard, and that's it? How many layers of approval do operations of this magnitude go through? Also, what software do they use to (1) store these shares in the first place as Buffett's, (2) transfer them over the Internet?
Isn’t it kind of ridiculous when you have to make up such words ‘cause you insist describing people’s complex preference and belief system on a single damn dimension?!

I am both left and right, depending what issue we are talking about. And sometime I am center as well. Yet when it’s time to vote... I have exactly 2 real choices.
My relationship with politics and economics is complicated like it should be.

I "stay in the center of the circle" as Tao Te Ching advises, but I also cannot deny the superiority of the Free Market. (Not to be confused with whatever the United States does for healthcare).

We have countless examples of competitive markets performing best, and a handful of government controlled markets that are horrible (healthcare, education, real estate, banking)

Some people call this inevitable in capitalism, that government will be used to create inequality. But at least this is not intended, whereas other economic policies make this a feature.

Anyway, can't vote for Republicans, they like big government which seems like an obvious bad idea.
The Librem laptops and phones from Purism all have such hardware switches.
There you have it. The true face of the "Code of Conduct". These guidelines airbrush change rather than promote "inclusivity" which the CoC claims to do.

In fact, it shows the controlling infinite demands of the PC crowd in the Linux kernel and the wider ecosystem. Remember Outreachy anyone?

> At this stage these guidelines, which are part of the Linux kernel's coding style, are about avoiding new usage of the words "master" and "slave" within the kernel code as well as avoiding "blacklist" and "whitelist".

They will still say "it's not enough" and will demand to remove all master / slave references and terminology in the kernel, which the maintainers know it isn't practical. You can ask yourself if this is realistic. I think you know the answer.

This doesn't attack the problem and only airbrushes and ignores the root of it. There is no winning with moves like this.
I think that Buffett and other value investors will keep slipping in the net worth rankings. Value investing is out. Trend investing is in.
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And acceptable levels of currency risk.
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I'm not sure what you're talking about, unless you're saying truth is provability. (Classical logic would disagree.)

The Lean proof assistant, which has a pretty strong commitment to constructability, has the law of the excluded middle just fine: https://github.com/leanprover/lean/blob/master/library/init/...

The caveat is that it only exists in Prop, and it's a consequence of proof irrelevance and functional extensionality. Types outside Prop don't have it for the simple reason that there's no sensible way to construct an element of Either A (A -> Void) in general (this is quasi-Haskell notation, where Void is a type with no terms). I'm not sure there's any need to bring Godel into this....
sustainable customer acquisition is the hardest part of being an indie dev, it's a lot more difficult than building the product itself.

You got amazing press coverage though, should be able to leverage that for SEO and content marketing.
Few years back, I thought about this and came up with some sort of an interesting idea. Make a museum of sort for future generations (for our family) and hopefully for the small community I came from (I'm from a small town in India).

Inspired by a friend of mine who digs up and collects World War items, including buried soldiers, shells, guns, etc. He is funded by the Japanese, British, and a tad from the Indian government and have proudly donated the museum to the public.

I'm not very nostalgic, and so prior to this, I either gave it to someone or sell them off for cheap - stay minimal, and simpler.

Now, I collect/archive interesting items which our family have used. I still sell and/or give off many working devices. I'm preserving the iPhone 3G (first iPhone released in India), iPhone 4, iPhone 6 (but not the 7, 8 which are same as 6). I've analog wired phones, the white MacBook, first MacBook Air, the old 16-inch MacBook Pro (I think, from around 2006) Megabyte capacity HDD, Floppy Disk, etc.

This also extends to some toys, apparels for the kids but they are more of personal interest.

I'm not expecting too much out of this, and will start small but I'm hoping that I should be able to kickstart something in the next few years.
Stock is mainly long term storage for pensions.
Without worrying about malware, several times I've clicked on some Skype like program while trying to make a voice call only to find it trying to transmit ugly video of me.
==To say nothing of the way more diverse human capital of the US.==

It actually sounds like there is something you want to say about human capital diversity. Why not say it?
Yep, there is indeed such a thing as left-libertarianism. Last time I checked, its proponents were trying pretty hard to argue that it's not an outright contradiction.
I think shame is the actual reason why so many oppose these changes and why they are adopted in the end.

The change itself is often interpreted as finger waggling, implying something was done wrong. In technical fields, one expects technical answers for why changes should be adopted, and engineers are largely not equipped to have this intently non technical discussion. And many feel that the Linux kernel is not the right place for these discussions, but it's hard to argue that because... shame.
I imagine the process is quite involved for tax optimization reasons.
this, but with a lot of lawyers more :)

it's also kinda cute the idea that shares are stored like computer files. But it's not a stupid question at all. Their existence is regulated by a complicated regulatory complex.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on this AI fund?
This fund has made 55% returns in the last 3 months, I do hold it already and am pondering whether I should start exiting or stay for the long term. https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/ALGAATU:LX
The VM can only do most of its magic for fields where it can prove that they won’t get shared. That often is doable for local variables, but not for objects passed to or escaping a function.

Value types help (potentially a lot) in that they can make such objects more efficient. They also make it easier for the VM to prove fields won’t be shared (Rule: if it’s a value type, the value won’t be shared, because it can’t)
I don't think I've ever seen anything resembling a free market in labour, and I doubt that it would be tolerated. It would be a market where wage rates could go up or down depending on economic conditions. In reality, people get very unhappy if wages go down and companies are more likely to cut costs by sacking staff. It would be a market where if you were unemployed, but qualified, you could approach a company and offer to do a job a bit cheaper than an existing employee, and expect that the employer would sack that employee and take you on instead. Further, why do the most unpleasant, and not necessarily easy, jobs often pay the worst wages? Why do chief executives and other managers get paid so much, often without showing any particular competence? Society has a whole set of expectations about how much certain professions "deserve" to be paid, which can't be explained by any kind of market.
I would love Musk an especially SpaceX to pay as least tax as possible. I sincerely hope SpaceX pays none. I would love other entrepreneurs to be as motivated as possible to do things like Musk does, and have them have as much funds for it as possible.
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The GDPR says that you only have consent if it is as easy to opt out as to opt in. So if it's one click to opt in and 140+ to opt out, then the opt ins don't count. So you're processing personal data without consent.

That's the way we prosecute them.
opaque web? obscure web? cloaked web?

There is a rationale for different terminology here, other than race-related. Tor is encouraging more 'regular folks' to become users, rather than mostly usual suspects such as journalists, activists, opsec etc. But the connotation of dark web is too much related to sinister / criminal / illegal / dangerous (and yes there is a lot of that too).
I don't know how generous they are but apparently most employees get stick grants and options.

> Unlike most automotive companies, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) offers stock options and grants to all of its employees.

> Regardless of rank or position, all Tesla employees are offered this benefit.

https://m.benzinga.com/article/16542751
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Pretty much agree with all that. There are two places where I do fight against it is where someone references external established standards/documents. For example if you're using SPI, the devices are master and slave. Until SPIv2 changes the naming, software using it should match it. Same for changing public API without leaving backwards compatibility names.

The second one is if the name is already massively spread and a known brand which just can't be "renamed". Like in Rubocop case - you can't rewrite every mention on the internet. If you're going to kill the brand... it's just not worth it.

Otherwise, either do a quick change, or ask "if you care enough, please submit a PR" and just be done with it.
This is never the best solution for notebooks though, is it?
If people _cannot_ opt out, then the opt in is legally meaningless. i.e. people cannot legally opt in.
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What I find ever more insane is how much energy people spend fighting it, writing paragraphs and paragraphs of argumentation.

"That sounds far-fetched to me but I can vaguely imagine that these terminologies aren't helpful in these times, lemme search-and-replace, done"
What a destructive attitude.