skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless a 'Karen' can be an elderly aging Asian man, it's sexist, ageish and racist. Here's a few other such terms:

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

A lot of these terms link specific behaviour, to specific ethnic/sex/cultural groups. I guess they're OK too?

I find it utterly disgusting, that some people think some things are 'one way'. That racism is OK, but only "one way". Sexism is OK, but only against men. The list goes on.

Let's see how long you last, if you see a lazy black person (they exist, like lazy people exist everywhere)... and you spout out "Bluegum!" Is that OK?

No?

Then why is it OK with 'Karen'?

You'd don't cure social ills by creating more of them.

"An eye for an eye, leaves the whole world blind." is highly accurate, I think.
Ah come on thats still bullshit.

I have and had plenty of full days of coding smart solutions where, when i was in the flow, would even forget that i hit 8h work.

If i really hit my head against a wall because i literaly have an issue i can't figure out right now, i will still try to find different angles or take a walk but i will not just close my laptop after 2-4h of work oO?!
Almost all news and social media site structure is derived from research using the Skinner box[1, scroll down to A Man, a Plan, and a Rat in a Box]. Researching operant conditioning, they found that introducing randomness to some sort of dopamine release would cause habitual behavior of the action that caused dopamine release. This reaction to novelty was then successfully transferred to humans. This is most obvious on Reddit IMO, with "gems" interspersed between vapid, uninteresting posts.

I'm actually making an alternative to Facebook that shows posts chronologically in the feed instead of using machine learning algorithms to make them addictive. I also plan to not include a share button on posts. I think these two changes would make it far less addictive and better for users.

[1] https://www.skyword.com/contentstandard/conditioned-social-m...
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Good grief man, if you can only detect new ideas when they erupt from the mouths of startup CEOs, and you can't credit things like social justice and equality as anything but conformist (despite having been denied millions if not billions of people), then you're not 'independent', you're just incredibly narrow minded.
Supercollider has been around for many a year. Has there been a big update recently? Or has OP just discovered it?
Let me leave you in the projects at age 10 with a poor family. Let's see how far your mindset takes you.
HN has a 'hide' button. You're free to make use of it.
> There is no reason to assume they stayed at one place on a coast that had shellfish everywhere along it.

Food is important but so is shelter from the elements. Prior to the development of textiles, an ample supply of animal skins and furs for clothing was important, I think.

> If there is an Atlantis...

I've tried to address the misconception about what the delta-O-18 data represents with respect to ancient civilization pseudo-science in a separate comment [1]. Delta-temperature Equivalents are misleading.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23821726
As somebody who likes nature, please don't make fire on a cliff. It leads to the rock cracking and degrading faster. The next one coming along wants to enjoy the place as much as you do.
Of course it's not 1:1 but having money can certainly make it much more easier for you to say no aka "fuck you money"
I love that sqlite article. It seems like "everyone" is certain that sqlite can only be used for up to a single query per second, anything more and you need to spin up a triple sharded postgres or Hadoop cluster because it 'needs to scale'.

I love being able to show that study, if you properly architect your sqlite system and am willing to purchase hardware, you can go a long long way, much further than almost all companies go, with your data access code needing nothing more than the equivalent of System.Data.Sqlite
It reminds me of the early episodes of “Silicon Valley” where an endless parade of would be entrepreneurs proudly declares how they want to “change the world!” (to the point where it becomes comically tedious).

“Aggressive independence” for its own sake (at scale) can simply degrade into its own form of ironic groupthink.
No he’s right on the Asian women dating more White than Asian. It’s pretty well documented in the Asian American community.

That being said, a lot of that is probably due to attitude of the guys. I live in Japan and even here I hear things like "it’s easy for you to get a girlfriend because your are white". This is dumb for a lot a reasons, including the fact the sheer majority of Japanese girl wants to have local boyfriend, not a foreigner they can’t even communicate properly with. Now, when I ask them about the last time they did nanpa (street pickup), or set a date with a girl they like or any action whatsoever towards the opposite sex the answer is zilch. I asked my own girlfriend when she was once teasing me about the important number of guys who would like to have a relationship with her why did she chose me over the others... answer was something akin to "oh, I know they like me, but noone told it nor invited me to a date". I suspect a lot of angry Asian guys who are alone are also in the low side of taking action.
It says "Your account is suspended and is not permitted to send Tweets". Why would they need to verify a phone number? I did not give them one.
I've checked wikipedia and it seems that affirmative action that was designed to remove all those inequalities was introduced something like 30 years ago, so one generation lives in the environment without discrimination. Has this affirmative action failed?

For at least 10 years all big companies have "equality & inclusivity" departments that are taking care of giving equal opportunities to "oppressed minorities" members. Is that just PR or something substantial?
Don't want to sound too negative but this article is basically:

- Build a landing page with analytics on it

- Early on, just do whatever automation manually
There's more money and opportunity for journalists to use tools like Twitter because that's where the public's attention is.

With media outlets incentivizing things like CTR, journalists are going to use whatever gets more eyeballs. And since people aren't directly paying for their news anymore, reporting using tools like Twitter is what makes them the most money.

If you're going to criticize "lazy journalists", you also have to acknowledge the system that makes it impossible to generate serious revenue without sites like Twitter and FB, because that's effectively what those companies have done.
Very interesting take. This reminds me of Bob Altemeyer's work. He summed up his decades of research on authoritarianism in a free ebook at https://www.theauthoritarians.org/ .

I invite everyone to read this, this is the single most important work of political science / social psychology I've ever read.

Two categories he identifies, "authoritarian" and "social dominant" map to Graham's "passively conventional" and "aggressively conventional." The latter also tends to correspond to what psychiatrists would describe as narcissist, anti-social and possibly psychopathic traits.

For example, he conducted experiments as role playing games, like a model United Nations. When he removed the few "social dominants" from the player pool, the game ran smoothly, there was peace and everyone went to Alpha Centauri or something.

But when he added a few social dominants, things went to hell quick, and nuclear war broke out. Note that social dominants / narcissists are typically at most a few percents of the population.

I'm sure many people have noticed the phenomenon in any organisation: when a narcissist gets a modicum of power, they can destroy an organisation from within.
> Russia

Russia has nuclear power plants built on permafrost. You don't need foundations and cooling is easy, but...

Permafrost that is no longer perma and soon not even frost is a massive problem.
> This is my point.

You have no point. My point is that I can literally put my 2014 and 2006 MacBook Pros next to each other and compare them, in the present, right in front of my eyes, not wearing any glasses, much less "rose-colored".
This dude has to get out more and hang out with people who aren't like Peter Thiel. (Thiel burns me up. I feel stupid because he fooled me into buying a Girard book.)

He's got an open invitation to stay in my treehouse but he seems to refuse to go anywhere that has weather. Maybe he melts like a witch when it rains or something.
Great news to hear!
So USA doesn't have anyone working and getting pay for something like a 4 day workweek? ...
I suspect you're glossing over the accept the penalty part of my previous comment, which is quite important.

Besides that, how many other Internet Archives do you think will follow the one we've been discussing by also flagrantly violating both the letter and the spirit of copyright law?
> Just wait for it, it's almost time for another term extension, or else Steamboat Willy is going to become public domain in a few years.

This is broadly a myth.

Most extensions of copyright globally have been about unification of duration, which tends to settle at the longest as any international treaties about anything do. Ultimately Germany and France were the biggest drivers of this globally, far more than works out of the US.

Now that process and unification has broadly happened (at least for newer works) it's unlikely there will be any meaningful term extensions. It's not impossible that some works that receive lower protections might be equalised, or that there might be some mandatory collective schemes for works of completely unknown provenance, but even they seem unlikely.

The truth is that a term extension for Steamboat doesn't really do much for Disney for the political capital required to obtain it. They still have the trademark effectively in perpetuity, Steamboat itself as a work generates no revenue, and there's no real risk to Mickey as a character as Disney likes to portray him nowadays anyway as it's materially different.

Steamboat Willy is a massive red herring in terms of discussion of copyright policy.
Any plans to add power control to tiny pilot?
https://ifconfig.co/
The best line for outdoor is still the GPSMAP-Series (the 62st for example), very robust but heavy.
Yes, I was just wondering if I was missing something about the kickboxing comparison, because presumably Tim Ferriss did actually fight more or less on his own merits?
If it's just to route to regional sites, that's fine. Letting the user select just makes sense.

However, there's a lot of use cases that semi-accurate geo-locations make sense. The first of which is analytics. If I'm a marketing person at a SaaS company, I want to know where my customers physically are if possible for a variety of useful reasons.

Good quality estimates for location also help with security and compliance use cases as well. If a user logs in from a new country on the opposite of the world, you can flag that and take whatever action you want whether it's to block them, fire off an email to the person who owns the account or whatever.
Relatively few companies have an ISA license; I doubt it's a significant income source for ARM versus licensing their core designs: only Apple and Qualcomm are left producing parts based on their own implementations in any real volume.
You're free to not care what he thinks about some topics, but he's also free to still write about them and has no obligation to write only about the things you care about.
Yikes, would you mind editing that so that it has half as many (ASCII) columns, and about one fifth as many rows? As it is it is taking up my entire screen.
Right there with you. Not saying I'm a bright shining star, but it is amazing the level of incompetence you sometimes run across. It is legitimately the first place where I've found people who actually cost time/resources for anything they touch or interact with.

The other thing is the supreme deference to rank at the cost of initiative.

It was mind blowing coming from a more competitive corporate world.
Could you unpack this? The only social justice-related example in the piece was a positive one (antebellum abolitionism). It seems like you might be reading into the piece more than was intended.
Removed in April by, from their bio, "co-founder of the Viktor Frankl Institute of America. I was born in Vienna, Austria in 1974 and am the grandson of Viktor Frankl."
What is "platform portability"?
Ah, conventional minded people are those who insist that those who break the rules are bad, worthless in society, and should be punished.

Then Mr. Graham goes on to say that the rules of civilized, successful, wealthy societies are that everyone should be free to debate even the worst of ideas, and the people who prevent this or disagree with this are bad, never become entrepreneurs (a laughable thought), are not worth considering, and are in fact responsible for all bad things in the world (well, they and the leaders who appeal to them, only those two groups of people!)

It's laughably puerile... I mean how does he think this way? Has he any idea that one of the most valuable companies in the entire world is from a wealthy, civilized (in terms of lack of crime and lots of social etiquette only), successful country which has no concept of free expression (ARAMCO in Saudi Arabia)?

How do intelligent people end up reducing the world into such obviously untrue caricatures? How does he think that convention is the enemy of new ideas? Following convention is also the same thing as learning from the past or standing on the shoulders of giants. Without regard for convention at some level, the "geniuses" Mr. Graham praises would have been reinventing the wheel over and over and over again!
New. We are triggered by new information. Probably a really useful trait if you wandering around a savanna. Bit of a burden now to be honest.
>Is it true that walking on rural roads at night is horrendously dangerous?

No. It's not. You just can't expect drivers to see you so you have to take care and step more or less off the road if there isn't a wide shoulder available for your use at that spot. It's not a big deal because cars aren't that frequent.

It's really no different than any industrial workplace where it is expected that the lighter traffic will make way for the heavier traffic.
Use whatever you think you can be most productive in. There is tooling in most languages to support your API requirements.

if it were me, I'd do the front-end in React and the mobile apps in React native, because you can easily share code between the two. There is a learning curve to doing things the React way, but probably less of a learning curve than maintaining 3 codebases in 3 languages.
Hikvision Admits Minority Recognition, Now Claims Canceled
I got this:

"Application error
An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details. You can do this from the Heroku CLI with the command
heroku logs --tail"
Reminds me about one of my favorite HN comments of all time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8289007

Topic: The curious case of the cyclist’s unshaven legs

From a comment (this part clearly intended to be witty I think):
Really, I thought it was weird, and probably inappropriate, to mix in so much of an outsider's amateur and unsopported opinion about science into an otherwise interesting story about leg hair drag.
Exactly same. I try different fonts from time to time but always end up going back to Consolas.
> GREP-ABLE MESSAGES

seems to imply text-based logs parsed via regex variant. Even better is structured logs parsed by field explicitly.
Do you have to maintain codebases for your network card and SSD Controller?
This is a great example of why a "warrant" is nothing other than an abusive fishing expedition.

A "warrant" can be rubber stamped to exfil all of your internet data, phone records, credit card statements, to raid your home or business...

All gestapo techniques. I'm very glad we have encryption and other related technologies that can prevent this type of tyranny.

With all of the tech I design, privacy is the number one priority. That includes being warrant-proof.
ARM IPO'd in 1998; they were publicly held till acquired by SoftBank in 2016.
You've got an interesting take on it and one that's bound to be unpopular on HN. I think your discussion of the economics hints at Facebook's monopoly.
Thanks for the tip, honestly didn't know that. It's actually a sandstone cliff, my fire is about 15m from the edge (nearer my tent than the drop) and I'm using my own firepit. It's generally pretty hard to light fires (legally) in this part of the world without some serious precautions!
Although I think I get the underlying feeling you're trying to define, I'm not sure about the analogy of the experiment on mice. That feels more like it's about being in the presence of an unreliable food source, where it makes sense to stock up while food is available to get you through the lean times. There's obviously an overcompensation there, but evolutionarily-derived mechanisms aren't particularly precise. The food source in this experiment is "reliably unreliable", which probably doesn't mimic real-life food sources very well.
> use a rate limiting logger with expiring delay

Hmm, any examples of this?
> On the other hand, perhaps the decline in the spirit of free inquiry within universities is as much the symptom of the departure of the independent-minded as the cause. People who would have become professors 50 years ago have other options now. Now they can become quants or start startups. You have to be independent-minded to succeed at either of those.

In defence of my chosen place in a university: being a quant or CEO implies a different kind of confirmity, namely, to the strong requirement of generating revenue (or at least investment) in the short term. Though we're all pushed to get academic funding as well, I don't think we have it as bad as either of those two roles, and that itself allows a certain diversity of thought.
If you want to learn about the various types of people and how they relate to the world around them, study the French Revolution (in depth, not just a snippet). You will find every kind of person (in much more complex combinations than presented here), and how they participate/change/destroy/terrorize/etc. People today are no different we just have more technology.
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What's ironic about it is that Y Combinator has been accused of becoming yet another badge of being the right kind of person.

There are so many people out there who want to say they were part of "Y Co" but aren't really interested in making or doing anything. Bossing people around and having status has some appeal to them, but taking some actual stand is just too dangerous. Some rich dude like like Paul Graham might reject them, they wouldn't want people to think they were S1W's or anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHyCIDu6dSY

I think Mr. Graham needs some diversity in his life. Maybe he should spend a night in a hotel in Marin County or Gilroy would open up his vistas.

(Oh, but you know Y Co wouldn't be effective at all if it was moved across the street from where it is -- if Altman and Graham had any self conciousness or thought where their arguments lead they'd realize they are arguing for 100% local taxation on themselves because the only value behind Y Co is the holy land which is the only place where rich people will let you have an exit... Except for China)
that two per second if you don't have a calculator handy.
This is true. The most important discovery in human psychology is that our behaviour is extremely context dependent. This is why it's so hard to draw any conclusions or make experiments that discover something universal. People have different roles and behaviours in different context, they can change their behaviour radically in the same context when they get different responses.

Psychology researchers know this, but in the folk psychology there is this assumption that you can observe people in context and that's how they are.
and you can define obscenity? or is it "I know it when i see it" again. There is no neutral.
The ideas of social justice and equality spring from the independent quadrant. These ideas have become the rules that conventional quadrant follow and expose.

This doesn't seem to contradict itself.
imagine if temperature was a function of geo-locale only.
Well yes, being able to give priority to at-risk patients would fall under necessary use. I doubt the receptionist has your actual medical history, but they would certainly see an indicator of your risk category.
Seems an appropriate time to post my favourite piece on news addiction by Charles Simic in the NYRB.

"I’m having trouble deciding whether I understand the world better now that I’m in my seventies than I did when I was younger, or whether I’m becoming more and more clueless every day. The truth is somewhere in between, I suspect, but that doesn’t make me rest any easier at night. Like others growing old, I had expected that after everything I had lived through and learned in my life, I would attain a state of Olympian calm and would regard the news of the day with amusement, like a clip from a bad old movie I had seen far too many times. It hasn’t happened to me yet. My late father, in the final year of his life, claimed that he finally found that long-sought serenity by no longer reading the papers and watching television. Even then, and I was thirty years younger than he, I knew what he meant. What devotees of sadomasochism do to their bodies is nothing compared to the torments that those addicted to the news and political commentary inflict on their minds almost every hour of the day."

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2011/12/05/goodbye-serenity/

Edit: Charles Simic is a Serbian-American poet who lived through WWII and saw some really grisly things, some described briefly in the article, hence "after everything I had lived through and learned in my life..."
You think that Pfizer doesn’t have a whole team dedicated to managing what gets reported on them by TV news and major papers?
The frequency with which Kevin Murphy's ML book gets left out of these lists in almost bewildering.

If I had to choose 1 book as the ML bible, then it would be Murphy's (contrasted against Bishop and ESL) for the following reasons:

1. It uses CS jargon. (Bishop's book while great, uses Math/physics notation/jargon which add a barrier to entry)

2. It is more up to date and comprehensive (It covers everything from probabilistic models, traditional models, to neural networks all the way up to 2015 or so, unlike say ESL which is more introductory)

3. Everything in deep learning past 2015, is better learnt through papers/video lectures than any book. (A lot of it is intuition and not truths. There is a certain authority to books that belies our lack of understanding of NNs. Opinions on popular operations such as Dropout, Batch Norm, saliency maps have changed drastically over the last few years)

4. My ML professor used it for our upper grad level ML course and I came out very satisfied. (nothing quite like personal validation). I have read ESL and found it to be better as reading for an intro to ML course. I tried reading Bishop, and didn't like it :| )
OK - I didn't spend that much time constructing my caricature but I still feel my point is valid if you want to modify them somewhat.

I myself remember feeling the strong pull of both "types" and I'd struggle to define myself clearly as either. (although I suspect I'm more frequently conformist than my overly flattering self-image depicts)
Kudos to the crew for going big on a virtual event of this stature. It’s not easy.

Welcome message from the President of the company:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK-EjZhezFs