skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the people "being cancelled" on twitter are only freaking out because for the first time in forever, they get the direct opinion of people reading their texts unfiltered, and they find out that they are prey to criticism.

For example, Kelly Loeffler, claims to have been "cancelled" while being a sitting US senator.

Cancel culture by popular action is not new (see letter-writing to TV stations, Frank Zappa having to testify in front of congress about censorship for his music albums). The only thing freaking people out is that people who have traditionally been structurally shielded from criticism and direct action (and often behind the cancelling itself) are just now on the receiving end of it.
People can comment on Paul's Twitter or this thread.
Kinda like trying to debug an issue in a large JS SPA on IE11's F12 tools, bad, inaccurate test data is a 10X slowdown.
I recently learned that the rate of rotation of the earth depends on how much water vapor is in the atmosphere. I suggest we use this information to turn the earth into a precision time keeping instrument. Instead of regularly adding/removing leap seconds every so often, we geoengineer the atmosphere to increase/decrease the rate of rotation of the earth, so that it on average rotates exactly 86400 SI-Seconds per day.
Not quite. It was during feudalism, and what it established was the power of the guilds and a large rise in wages. To use the Marxist term, there was no "reserve army of the unemployed" so workers found it much easier to negotiate wages.

British democracy generally came much later, as a divide and rule proposition. The divide was between the feudalism descended aristocrats on one hand, and the merchant capitalists on the other. The franchise was extended to property owners, then poorer property owners, then all men and property owning women, then all women, then they removed multiple votes in the 60s and limited the number of hereditary peers in the 90s. The start of the process was the 19th century, whereas the plague was the 14th and then 15th.
You are clearly right on the topic of intentionally addictive click bait.

> that long-sought serenity

But i don't think changing your input is related to gaining that long-sought serenity - in a sense of being immune to those inputs if required.

I my opinion it boils down to being human and being to some degree a puppet of your brain chemistry, meaning we can search for said serenity but are propably doomed to never find it.
I read this and thought, "oh, the author is calling out formal verification as overhyped? Hillel Wayne (https://hillelwayne.com/) is going to be angry! Wait, who wrote this..."
And yet it has been, really, quite successful.

There are definitely serious issues, and I would expect it to in the long term either trend towards greater cohesion generally or a two-tier solution, but it works... better than it would necessarily be expected to.

These sorts of massive divisions aren't that unusual in other cohesive state-like things, of course; compare the economies of New York and Mississippi, say. And the EU has tended to reduce the differences somewhat over time.
If it's a gap between two parts that they're measuring, that's as simple as a feeler gauge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeler_gauge. The set pictured there looks like it goes down to 0.05mm.
Should there be citizenship requirements for access to customer data at that scale? Background checks? Security clearances?[1] When you have so much private data and the ability to put words into people’s mouths, aren’t you a national security asset at that point? Today it’s some bitcoin scammers, tomorrow it’s Russian or Chinese intelligence. If I was in charge of Russian or Chinese intelligence, I’d make sure that my citizens working inside these companies are using that data to my advantage, or are at least positioned to should an opportunity arise.

There is already tons of evidence of Chinese nationals coming to the US to work at these companies with the express purpose of stealing trade secrets and sending them back to China. Why would the Chinese government stop there? How about your personal emails, your Twitter DMs, etc.?

Citizenship is loyalty. That is what it means legally and what it has meant in practice. Especially if your family is still in your country of citizenship.

Yes, this would mean the international segmenting of the internet, at least in terms of which websites you plug your personal data into vs. “just browse”. This strikes us nerds as awful. But perhaps anything else was just a naive fantasy. The last decade should have shattered our innocence. What happens online matters for great power politics, and great power politics matters a lot for ordinary people.

[1] The current security clearance process is at least partly a jobs programs for people with boring, unadventurous youths. I’m not advocating for that, just the principle of a security clearance.
> We live in a world where people with power over others (even people with pretty small amounts of power like professors) have historically been allowed shielded from the consequences of espousing hate. It is not “conformist” to advocate that people should be held accountable for what they say.

The conformity is in the process which defines what “hate” is.
FYI: the last commit was in Dec of 2019

https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/mail-for-good/commits/master

there is an issue open still about the status of the project:

https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/mail-for-good/issues/329
I would say both.

A subset of the EU needs to go federal, with the remainder staying in a toned down version of the EU.
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I can't real imagine how you can say that you "cancel someone" on Twitter and not shudder inside.
Why Poland though? There was no hostile takeovers of press here. The only beef we have with EU is about judicial reforms which are much needed, but really hard to get it right.

After the unification Germany was able to do a clean cut judicial reform of East Germany. Poland did not.
> doubting that invention of a cart could cause harm

I think this is where we missed each other. I was trying to address "there is always a corresponding disadvantage", and I think mentally I was interpreting this as "an approximately proportionate downside or externality".

I don't disagree at all that nearly any technological improvement can cause harm.
But I rarely use classes in TypeScript. I do think of things as data transformations but the types certainly help a lot.
In my opinion, with few exceptions, the kind of programs advocates of dynamic typing want to write that static typing would have trouble dealing with, are artificial and not the common case. (Not "map" though, I need to review that case, but "map" is definitely a common and useful function!)

> Another example of many people's experience with static typing is the Go style of language

Remember that a lot of backlash against Go's type system comes from static typing advocates used to more expressive static type systems :) It'd be a shame if, after all we complained about Go's limitations, newcomers held Go as an example of why static typing is a roadblock...
Somewhat naive question: can they/will they move to a different country that respects press freedom better? Perhaps working in Hungary is essential for them to carry out their job properly.
Great quote I feel that way too.

2 ways that I've found some refuge in the chaos that is the hyper-modern world:

1) More news. Flood your brain. Find all the news sources you can in your chosen language. Most big-time newspapers have an English-language resource. Look at those. Once, I put the online English version of the top 100 newspapers in the world (by circulation and if they had an English version) in my morning readings. I'd have to open them all at once and then go through each of the 100 tabs and skim them and close each one. You get really good skimming the world's news that way and really seeing what is important internationally: US politics, cyclones/hurricanes/weather, sports, etc.

2) Read a book. Books tend to draw you in much better than the news. At least the better-ish books. Though it's not as easy as chewing the candy that is Twitter, the 'classics' are a great jumping in point. Struggling to read and grok a few pages of Dante's Inferno does become preferable after a time. Lists of classic literature abound and nearly any of them are top-notch.
They framed their argument like enjoying those perks was a symbol of immaturity, which is what sets the condescending tone.

I love having a good cafeteria for breakfast and lunch. Going out to eat is such a massive time sink and you really should eat with your coworkers where possible. On-site gyms are the same, if I'm already going to the gym after work, why make a special trip?

It doesn't mean that you're stuck at work the entire time. In fact, I'd argue that it can reduce your time at the office, if used right. Use your breaks to run some errands that you'd normally do after work. Schedule your workout for 3:00-4:00 if you have a meeting that runs a little later. Etc.

You can be a fully functioning adult and still enjoy those benefits.
For my use case, it is still much cheaper than having a dedicated VM.
Ah, don't know why I didn't think of that.
Not to mention Mars' lack of protective magnetic fields....
The Polish political/media approach seems very, very similar to the British; anything good, Poland did, anything bad is the EU's fault. I think most member states do this to an extent, but a few really lean into it, causing a lot of public confusion.
I'd say the software engineering side of things are a bit different, the interview process and testing "is the gatekeeping". It might impact your ability to climb the ladder when you're competing for Sr Manager positions with a bunch of MIT/Standford/Harvard/etc type of graduates, depending on where you live....

...but by then, you'd have crushed your early career and gone off and gotten a prestigious Master's Degree, or founded your own company and sold it to one of the bigger fish, earning your way into Sr Leadership...
You are explicitly mischaracterizing his arguments. Peterson has spent more time than you or I arguing about the pros and cons of patriarchal hierarchies. The fact that he is willing to admit to their merits and demerits is evidence that he is more open-minded, and arguing at a higher level of abstraction, than most people in the political debate.

Peterson opposed C-16 on genuine and extremely reasonable free-speech grounds. He was speaking as an individual that endorses the value of free speech. Hate speech laws obviously limit free speech, have a chilling effect on genuine debates, and can even hurt our ability to think straight.
The question forced to me ask myself if my values and convictions remain strong in the absence of knowledge. Do I know that slavery is terrible or do I believe in equality of humans? In the first case it's memorization, which is very specific to context. If I believe in the equality of humans, I can apply that belief across contexts and still reach unconventional conclusions.

Personally, I know I would not have been much different because I'm not much different today.
There's usually a relationship between being funded by and being critical of something. That may not be true in all cases, but it's true often enough that we ask everyone to disclose it when they speak on something/someone they get money from.

This doesn't even have to be an explicit thing. You don't need to threaten people to cut their funding, they will like the system the way it is set up, because they profit from it being set up that way. You can't be independent from something if you depend on it to pay your bills.
I don't think you realize how much economic productivity is enabled by telecommunications satellites, GPS, earth-watching satellites, and more. Even just having a better grasp on the weather is worth many, many billions of dollars annually worldwide. Let alone GPS and knowing where you actually are (and how valuable that is to practically any business that operates in the real world; we're even talking things as far-flung as automated tractors in agriculture that are enabled by GPS).
Why Do Some People Add R to Words
I would also argue that the intersection of people who become quants / found successful startups and did so despite having a real shot at becoming a professor is pretty small.

My only real data points are my own graduate school experience, but I haven't heard of anyone who was on a path to success in academia who didn't continue on down that path, or at least give it their absolute best shot before moving in. By success I mean maybe a post-doc or two followed by a reasonable shot at a tenure-track position at a decent school. This restriction is made in the same way that (I am assuming) pg is only referring to quants at decent firms, and startup founders who at least have an idea they can get off the ground. I seriously doubt that any kind of conformism at say, an ivy league institution, is because people who would have become profs there chose not to.
In addition to that, I also feel calling ourselves engineers is a stretch.
Great article.
Ironically it gave me a lot of motivation to get out of the bed and get to the stuff I've been postponing.
Polymorphism with Functions in Go
Amazon hasn’t actually been a customer-centric company since they got big enough to run their own in-house delivery service.
If there is any test you should get is is a serum amino acid test.

I have done much of the foot work on ME/CFS. Start looking into aldehydes (malondialdehyde specifically) and the role they play. Also, if you can get your genetics from Ancestry it could help you understand yourself more.
.. or placed into indefinite detention in a prison widely regarded as one of the most heinous locations of brainwashing and torture in the western world, for the mere fact of having exposed massive war crimes and other crimes against humanity ..
No, as a US citizen, they are not anything like described above.

An American suburb is, basically by definition, never more than 15 minutes drive from a grocery store, a doctors office, a dental office, some sort of clothing store, at least one bar, at least one restaurant (usually 2+), at least one hair dresser, etc. It will usually all be ugly (strip malls are common), but it will be affordable and economically sustainable. You can walk or bike anywhere (sidewalks are usually nicer than in the UK), but usually only car-based public transit is actually convenient (mainly because suburbs prioritize saving cash, and car-based public transit is always the cheapest transit).

If you truly need to drive 40+ minutes to get to a grocery store, you don't live in a suburb. You are either in an exurb, or just plain rural area.
It is simply too soon to tell. ;)
It is a somewhat flawed democracy.
How has Covid-19 changed customer experience and its future?
If a customer has to physically punch a new hole in a product, I consider that a full refund without return :)
Tangentially related: in Poland, the so called "good change" (conservative party) fired or made resign dozens of journalists in public TV and radio over last 4 years, with the culmination two months ago, where hit-parade results were "censored" after an anti-gov song won the charts [1].

So many people were fired or left that basically a whole new crowdfounded internet radio has started broadcasting this month, featuring many of them.

The gov is thinking out loud about 'repolonization' of all private media, citing they are all pro-German, but they have a problem as the main one they dislike (TVN) is US-owned in fact, and Trump-led US is the only country that is not our political enemy yet.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52721152

The difference with Hungary though is that this month's political elections showed a huge divide in Poland (51:49), and this 49% of people are really sick of the ruling party.
Remote sensing is being used as a tool to help fight deforestation by a few startups and tech companies. There aren't many jobs yet as I think it is still mostly an academic area but it's something to look into.
Check out Tech Jobs for Good: https://techjobsforgood.com/?q=&impact_areas=Environment&imp...

Big NGOs also need technical people, too. Check out the Humane Society, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Compassion in World Farming, etc. They aren’t going to be the highest paying jobs and there are all sorts of downsides but it’s a way to use your skills to make a difference in the world.
> U.S. District Judge Michael Simon issued a restraining order Thursday preventing federal agents from "arresting, threatening to arrest, or using physical force" directed at anyone they know to be a journalist or legal observer, unless they have probable cause to believe they have committed a crime.

> The order also blocks the defendants from seizing any photographic, audio and video recording equipment and press passes from people in those two categories, as well as from ordering them to stop recording or observing a protest.

Why is this not within the already defined rights of all Americans? I fail to see why journalists would need a special use case.
This should not require a court order.
I have the impression we invented that Big Machine that drove the Krell to extinction in Forbidden Planet. It's just so that's far less spectacular than in the movie.
Are you asserting that all elitism is inherently racist, or just that it's an absolutely impossible explanation in this case?
You don't understand, and that's the problem.
Who cares? If your argument is that essays aren't concerned with facts, then that's a great argument for ignoring the entire genre of essays. Ideas without basis in reality aren't worth anything.

Luckily, some essayists are concerned with facts, so we don't have to throw out the whole genre. But we should absolutely ignore the essays that don't concern themselves with facts.
I was really surprised docker or kubernetes wasn't one of the items on here. While I use both, they definitely both could use cold showers to make sure they provide value.
> Personally, I think, they should have made the Brexit much smoother

_How_, though? It's hard to see how much more accommodating the EU could have been without fundamentally compromising itself.
No it just means those companies won't be banging down your door. You have to seek them out.
> A while ago various oligarchs have bought almost all of the Hungarian media

Let's not pretend this didn't already happen in the US, UK and all of Western Europe decades ago. Using derogatory terms like "oligarchs" doesn't change the story.
> the police appears to be able to arrest journalists without probable cause. Happened live

I haven't seen any stories/vids where they arrested journalists without probable cause in the US recently. Would you happen to have any links to share?
As a counterpoint, most of the people I know whom I would consider to follow a Stoic philosophy don't self-classify all that much.

I would also say that there's a pretty big difference between "stiff upper lip/no emotions" that people imagine when using the the adjective "stoic" and the Stoic writings of Marcus Aurelius and the like.
The Inventor of the 401(k) Thinks It Has Gone Awry (2018)
What does seed and scale really do? It feels like seed and scale are connected.
Set Artist=Unknown, Genre=Cityscape, Style=Abstract Expressionism, Truncation=1, Scale=0. No matter what the seed value is, it keep generating a portrait until scale is changed.

Edit: same settings, seed=75575, scale=4, trunc=1 it returns a face.
First chicken to ever cross the road was likely in Southeast Asia: scientists
Corruption Perceptions Index: https://images.transparencycdn.org/images/2019_CPI_Report_EN...
Hmmm, could I "retaliate" by getting a PO Box or mail-forwarding service based in SF or NYC while actually living in a cabin in WV?
My interpretation of that is both that we need more research and that this is a very hard problem to study. One of the big challenges is that the things which are easy to study aren't representative of real world conditions: if you have CS undergrads doing new development on toy problems, that isn't representative of what experienced developers at most businesses do. Having people pick less common languages can select for programmers who aren't representative of the general field[1] and are probably going to invest extra time making their favorite language look as good as possible. You can hire people, train them in various languages, and have them implement something generally applicable but that's now a really expensive study.

1. e.g. what percentage of the gains attributed to Lisp were more likely due to the candidate pool in the 90s/2000s skewing heavily towards people who learned it at elite CS programs, especially if you're doing a challenge competition which benefits from having studied various algorithms?
So Kuro5hin had meta-moderation, but it’s no longer online; so did GameFAQs, but they since stopped it? Slashdot seems to be the only large implementation remaining.

Do these meta-moderation concepts seem like they might be useful in other contexts? Kind of reminds me of oracles and multi-signature digital instruments. Maybe also analogous concepts in AI? I am not in that field. Like a decentralized distributed parity bit hash table? DHT for .sfv? Just spitballing.

> A meta-moderation system was implemented on September 7, 1999, to moderate the moderators [user mods with mod points, and maybe also the paid mods, with unlimited mod points, unclear in context if paid mod or admin actions were themselves subject to meta-mod] and help contain abuses in the moderation system. Meta-moderators are presented with a set of moderations that they may rate as either fair or unfair. For each moderation, the meta-moderator sees the original comment and the reason assigned by the moderator (e.g. troll, funny), and the meta-moderator can click to see the context of comments surrounding the one that was moderated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#Peer_moderation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-moderation_system
Micrometers are quite common tool in even hobbyist workshops.
Ask HN: Are new AI tools improving the accuracy of immensely complex systems?
The AI tools I read about now seem to work by processing unimaginably large amounts of data and emitting something useful information. Does that mean they can/are being applied to complex systems like the stock markets or weather forecasting and producing improved results?
There are no prohibition of independent journalism in Hungary, it is the opposite, it is broadcasted as essential.
The way the governing party is obstructing independent and critical voices is by manipulating financial background and adjacent concepts (taxes on advertisement coupled with gigantic marketing spending on friendly organizations avoiding critical medium, stigmatize and regulate foreign financial sources classifying as undue political influence and limiting by regulations, taking over and influencing the market players supporting friendly media only, etc.) ruining the livelihood of opponents.
They can theoretically start new Index but basically they must work for free or on charity of readers (who have very limited financial means).
The current story was started by changes in the ownership structure of the Index, escalating only (and precisely) after EU budget negotiations got closed - where news of endangered independent press could have put the prime minister into disadvantageous position.