skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most common marginalization/discrimination patterns can't be addressed by simply saying "there's a discrimination happening here!"

For example, one of the canonical inclusion problems for women is that many people perceive their aggressive behavior more negatively. Hiring more women won't help, because women are equally susceptible to the bias. And calling it out on the spot won't help, because how can you know when other people are improperly forming negative opinions?
I think the internet is more dangerous, because it makes it easier for those with really harmful intentions to radicalize a person. If your kid starts to hang out with Islamic state terrorists in their local hangout, that is far easier to notice than if they do it online.
Decentralized microcommunities are just places to communicate with others, nothing about them is dangerous unless there is dangerous people in them. You can find all kinds of people in places like these, from left to right or even some pretty centrist folk. There are some pretty specific places on the internet where awful people live but I would say people are pretty capable of being radicalized on any platform including good old fashioned Facebook, Twitter or Reddit...
> The touch screen is appalling and has no place on an E-ink device.

It's okay, but it's also obvious they didn't put any buttons
into the Paperwhite to have a reason for the more expensive
model which does have buttons to turn the page(and nothing else
of value it seems).

I find my Paperwhite to be quite usable, but I agree that almost
everything could have been done better. I still don't get why
some ebooks I buy land on the Kindle immediately but some will
only download once I try to read them(which is super annoying on
vacation), I don't know why the library seems to be randomly
shuffled every time I look at it, and I don't know why it's not
possible to completely shut off the Paperwhite's backlighting.

A lot of little strange decision were made with that thing.
I don't think you understood that user's post. It's not an equivalency between BLM and Gamergate, it's about the behavior of businesses that seek to make money, and how those businesses' actions in both cases have been similar.
That is a fascinating project. I will look at it.

What I wonder is -- there are some very nice third-party libraries for python, and I wonder why they don't make it into the standard library. It would be nice if there were ways of "a tide that raises all ships"
It's amazing that the only danger you see is that it is fuel to anti-vaxxers. What if it is actually harmful at scale?
if you special case a high level skill, does it stop being a high level skill?
Open source has a specific common meaning. Other ideas have other common names like source available.
But, NASA has a global audience. At least have UTC as a secondary time.
Some people hate CNN. Some hate Fox News. Neither website can be removed from the Internet. Of course, both set of individuals can petition Facebook to ban those links.
You forgot to say that you have basically the same deaths/M as Italy, and these increased drastically in the last part of the outbreak, not in the early part.
The difference is that Italy was completely unprepared while you had all the information needed to mitigate the impact, as your Nordic neighbours did very well.
The minimum standards for a portable AC should be a dual-hose one. Single hose ACs make no sense; it is like throwing a lot of efficiency away, just to look a bit sleeker and a very slight increase in installability and mobility.

Also who in their right minds in Europe decided to rate single hose AC at A+, or A efficiency levels; the same as a good split AC?
Single hose portables should all start with an F to educate a potential customer as to how dumb this device design is.

https://www.galaxus.ch/en/s2/producttype/air-conditioners-28...
For me the ability to get the free cellular anywhere in the world was the sizzle. I remember downloading a book in Tunisia in 2010!
Multiple Input, Multiple Output.
> By that definition, a GPS module with an SSD is an "I".

No it's not. I didn't explain what I meant by "knowing your place in space and time", sorry about that, but this needs elaboration.

I think we'll agree that consciousness (self-awareness) is not binary: it can be present in varying degrees in computer systems, animals and humans. The degree of self-awareness though I think is a function of how rich the model of the world is in your mind. A GPS module can have its own coordinates and a precise UTC clock, but its model of the world is the most primitive.

Thus knowing your place in space means some model of the world and your relative place within it. Domestic cats and dogs have their own models - of the house and possibly some surroundings, but they are very limited. Humans typically have the most elaborate and the highest level abstract model of the world, therefore our self-awareness is the highest among the creatures.

Time is a trickier one though. Our sense of time seems to be the function of the chain of here-and-now moments. You sense your place now, but you also have a memory of the previous moments as one seemingly uninterrupted flow. This I think is what creates an illusion of being, though obviously "I" doesn't exist in the same sense as a physical object does.

Then there's a whole part of how the model of the world that we build in our minds should also be practical, i.e. help us achieve our goals efficiently, but I'll skip it for now as it gets too far from the original question.
I skated street in the nineties (still do, shout-out to /r/OldSkaters) and have made that connection too. But I am chaotic good aligned so I was more into the building/tinkering side. So more "how can I repurpose this piece of trash to something skatable" rather than "how/when can I arrange stuff so I can skate this unexpected sculpture". I think this is more like hacking in the modern sense of coding/scripting just to create stuff for your own use.
I find people have a very hard time reasoning about the effect of dynamic systems with strong homeostasis.

A prime example of this would be "ESG funds" that promise to divest from eg, oil companies. The oil company is still making the same amount of revenues and profits independent of whether you own shares, you selling your shares just means some hedge fund would buy more of them than they ordinarily would and the share price stays mostly the same.

In this case, Facebook's business is monetizing eyeballs. The number of eyeballs is independent of whether advertisers are boycotting, it just means the non-boycott companies see larger inventory, adjust their ad spend up and the total revenue to Facebook remains largely the same.
maybe the humans are parasites on the dogs, although seeing the humans throw out the poop later would certainly complicate the graph of life the aliens were developing for our planet.
Read the link, they give an example of a vaccine (pandemrix) that was harmful at scale. 1 in about 50,000 people given pandemrix developed narcolepsy.
the virus is killing tens of thousands a day. You want a vaccine as fast as possible? This is it. BUT...

Take it or leave. The, say $2 Billion in, profits that AstraZeneca can make from the vaccine don't justify being sued by 3 billion people for every headache or miscarriage. Or for real problems it may cause. By the way, in USA vaccine suits are settled by a special fund https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html otherwise no one would make them.
> ...but Jews are... definitely not white

To be fair, I don't think this is a common view anymore, least of all in polite society. "White" was extended from indicating strictly WASP settlers (excluding even the Irish) to Europeans in general as early as the late-19th to early-20th c. - and then further extended to include Middle-Eastern folks and the like sometime later. It's definitely weird though how these ethnical and even overtly race-based characterizations are used in the U.S.
Isn't it possible to install a mast with a pair of directional antennas on the house to get this 4G signal? Plug the antennas in an all-in-one modem/router/access point and enjoy great Internet in the house.

4G is amazing these days, I recently moved from a big city (coax 500 Mbps) to a house that only gets 4G and I barely feel the difference.
They have done extremely poorly with 10 times the deaths/M of Finland, 12 times the ones of Norway and the same deaths/M as Italy.
> It’s also possible that people who read on these devices aren’t tech savvy enough to care about how awful of an experience it is.

Absolutely.

Some people who don't quite "get" computers seem to find it
really difficult what they should expect from a device. They can
have a laptop that needs 5 minutes to boot and a broken mouse
that jumps to a random location on the screen once every minute,
and the only thing they'll complain about is that Windows
doesn't let them select a lot of files properly(because the
mouse jumps around like crazy).

The skit in IT Crowd with the "laptop from the exorcist" is
sometimes more accurate than one might like.
This might be of interest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woZH85EiHNY
China can do whatever it wants, US can do whatever it wants. Whatever a country wants to do has nothing to do with how it governed, law or not. Law is a set of communally mutually agreed upon rules, so a society can function. However, the key is the word "communal", as in - which community is agreeing upon this law. China can complain that the new laws in the US is illegitimate, but the laws are made by Americans for Americans. Of course the law is not going to extend outside US, for example, they do not dictate what some Canadian company operating in Canada can do. But, in the US, these laws are there for Americans, for American soil, under the territory that the US government formally rules over. Of course, the US makes these rules, because it is its sovereign right to do so. China has no authority over how or why this law is made. Just like the US has no authority to say how Chinese government creates laws.

But then again, China likes to say “Do not interfere in our internal matters”; the US can say the same thing.
It seems that Visa is having FOMO moment here.
(at least in my opinion)

They do not want to be left out in case all those nerds start scaling Bitcoin or any other altcoin to something that can be used globally and legally.
The difference is for some sectors this topic appears frequently on the mainstream media while what you suggest requires checking dedicated specialists publications or active intention of search. That is precisely the problem, what determines the difference in which sectors’ diversity problems deserve most public attention and why.
It's the 'redundant' thing I argue against.

I don't agree it's a distraction, it's just more data for the model. More data should be good! There's enough money in this field to invest in everything* , and it's probably easier to add this in advance than to retrofit this in (Surely the retrofitted result would be inferior compared to just having LIDAR from the beginning so that the model can properly account for it).

As for dense fog, I am sure that even if LIDAR doesn't work, there's some other kind of no-human-equivalent sensor which does work.

[EDIT:
A LIDAR-based system to see through fog:
https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/system-helps-s...
]

* ok, not everything, but most companies seem to do fine with LIDAR.
Puts a whole new emphasis on the sum part of cogito ergo sum
Do you put the rice directly into the pressure cooker? Using a separate vessel inside the cooker, with some additional water in the cooker works much better.
It's important not to forget there's alot of self-selection going on too.
CFA Level 1 official prep material is very good. IIRC, these are set of 6 books. You can get second hand older prep material from eBay/Craigslist/FB for cheap.
Trying to read this on iOS, but the site is completely obscured by an expanded menu that I can't seem to close in any way. Could anyone give a TL;DR of what this is?
I would argue consciousness comes, not from cognitieve processing skills, but from empathetic skills.

I see to possible ways. The first is: one forms a model of 'others' (for interacting better) and then applies that model to themselves. The second is: one wants to communicate thoughts, and thus needs to create a model for thoughts. Which includes conceptualizing 'self'.
China can do whatever it wants, US can do whatever it wants. Whatever a country wants to do has nothing to do with how it governed, law or not. Law is a set of communally mutually agreed upon rules, so a society can function. However, the key is the word "communal", as in - which community is agreeing upon this law. China can complain that the new laws in the US is illegitimate, but the laws are made by Americans for Americans. Of course the law is not going to extend outside US, for example, they do not dictate what some Canadian company operating in Canada can do. But, in the US, these laws are there for Americans, for American soil, under the territory that the US government formally rules over. Of course, the US makes these rules, because it is its sovereign right to do so. China has no authority over how or why this law is made. Just like the US has no authority to say how Chinese government creates laws.

But then again, China likes to say “Do not interfere in our internal matters”; the US can say the same thing.

I am not American by the way, so have no beef in this.

So hey, I am all popcorns on this at the moment. The next few years are going to be interesting.
I learned Python entirely on a Raspberry Pi. Granted, I wasn’t restricted to the shell environment, but the low power of the device making the GUI run rather slowly was motivation enough to use the shell mode after fumbling through my first few Python scripts.

I’d highly recommend it as a learning experience for anyone looking to get into coding. It requires that you learn as you go, and as you do more you can streamline your workflows and inquire about how to do things faster.
I think the article is right to raise the point about diversity in tech media. However, posting it here and some of the comments just feels like whataboutism.
W3C give up on preventing PWAs from tracking users
The legislation will probably originate somewhere there. At some point world should realize that software sales are not different from hardware sales.
Faze4: Open-source 3D Printed 6-Axis Robotic Arm
There just isn't any good competition. As with anything else, lack of competition stifles innovation. Why should they spend engineer time on this when it sells just as well?
They are fairly common in urban South India.
When I read this quote, I think that either - we have lost a great deal of literary education - or we have lost a lot of hogwash.

"So vast improbability is practically an impossibility.
Such evanescent shadows of probability cannot belong to
actual life. They are unimaginably less than those least
things which the law cares not for. ... The coincidence
which has occurred here must have had its origin in an
intention to produce it. It is utterly repugnant to sound
reason to attribute this coincidence to any cause but
design."
Plus, the ISS' timezone is also UTC.
Chemo is given to you after you have a super deadly disease, cancer. Unless you take chemo you are dead in a very short time so you very little to lose and a lot to gain . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_Mary_pass
What I think is driving this is the lack of competition. No-one is going to take on the Kindle. Not because they don’t think they couldn’t make a better device, but because the don’t think they could create a digital bookstore with enough titles to be useful.
This is a really cool, valuable, important project. It's a little bit of a bummer that they went down the USRP Route (https://powderwireless.net/equipment), as USRPs are really not accessible to many people (price point). Something like a Lime Microsystems radio, or the BladeRF 2.0 Micro (https://www.nuand.com/bladerf-2-0-micro/), would have been really nice.
And to think I‘m used to make fun of RMS for complaining about how he wanted to run his own software on his microwave.
I think the more important word there is "swarming" and, no, the word "swarm" does not automatically imply animals as the word is used in other contexts, too.
I didn’t realize Alacrity supported Windows. That’s great to know! Finding useable console on Windows was always a pain for me.
This assumes that there is a solution 'if you just throw enough money at it'.

I'm not familiar enough with how large scale moderation works, so is this solvable, with near unlimited funds?
Somehow this is not surprising for me, I have heard about experiments related to free-will wherein the brain already made a decision even before the conscious mind became aware of it. Thus putting doubts on our conscious experience of free-will.

Also, in terms of problem solving, there are experiments which show that the brain calculates the answers and "presents" the answers later on to the consciousness. It's not like the problems were solved within the scope of consciousness, which is of course contradictory to what we experience. We feel the contradictions because we experience everything through consciousness, i.e. we can't experience things which happen outside realm of consciousness. The brain scans prove in a sense that there is a disconnect (For instance in this article the brain scans showed signals related to seeing faces in the numbers, but the conscious experience was not seeing them).

The link between what the brain does, and what we experience (consciousness) is indeed the hard problem of consciousness.
I was really impressed by this project, and I really love the design! I think it looks really professional.

Original post on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/i1apwl/3d_print...

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye37Mpj5qCQ

I've always wanted to explore robotics and 3D printing, so now I'm planning to order a Prusa i3 MK3S and build one of these.

---

The Niryo One is another open source robotic arm: https://github.com/NiryoRobotics/niryo_one

You can buy a kit or assembled arm, or 3D print all the plastic parts yourself.
Unfriendly satellite can blow up or cause fire inside of shuttle, so it's bad idea to capture enemy satellites. It's like sending billion-worth mine capturer behind enemy lines, which can be destroyed with AK.
Rust would be a significantly more invasive change, of course ;)
I do worry about overstating the degree of orthodoxy, though. Journalists regularly write things which aren't widely agreed on or report the news in unconventional ways; they may be reclassified as "writer" or "blogger" or "political commentator", but in most cases they won't get shunned or anything.
> They made a fairly useful gadget that sold well.

Perhaps a little bit breathless, but it was an amazing thing at the time. I remember buying one (a DX) from Malyasia, (because they weren't available in Australia), through a reseller (some company who bought stacks of them and resold them around the world). It was a talking point for a long time - people would ask me about it on the train etc. I still have it and still marvel at its amazingness occasionally.

Edit: remembered some more - laptops at the time had awful battery life, this thing could carry thousands of books and last weeks from one charge. I could download any book (mostly) instantly, before that I'd order books from the states, they'd take weeks to arrive and cost a fortune. It was an amazing thing.
I'm gonna disagree with you. I have a previous-gen Paperwhite and I absolutely love it. I love that it's a simple piece of technology. The touchscreen rarely causes me problems, and I even dropped it into a pool and after 2 weeks of drying it's still working fine.

I consider it a well-made piece of technology that Just Works. (actually, a recent software update changed something that required changing my muscle memory... wish I could disable updates!)
Multiplication is certainly possible (thats why ML works with it)
Libraries can provide validation of key:value options. For example in python-land ‘click’ provides ‘nargs’ and ‘type’ parameters for the common case, and if those don’t suffice a custom coerce/validate callback.
Protests worked pretty well in the baltic states (and other former soviet places) for changing entire economic systems, peacefully.
In my case we are talking the second half of the 2000's. Mind you, I was significantly more interested in the skating from the late 90's and what was "modern" back then didn't have much appeal to me. I mean even the photo on that deck is from 1999 iirc and I can still hear the music from the video in my head every time I look at it. I really can't express how happy I was to get my hands on a limited edition deck, signed by both my favorite skater and the photographer.

Pretty impressive you are still doing it 20+ years later. I didn't want to stop but certain life events came into play and eventually it just became one of those things I used to do. For multiple reasons I have no intention of getting back into it but I will admit, I am somewhat curious to give it a try once and see if there is anything left in me.
I think AmericanChopper meant that in the sense that when someone complains about whites, they don't have Jews in mind.
Fascinating! I wished I could do this years ago.

Funny thing is I once had a dream exactly like this where I copied on one computer and pasted on a different computer. And now it's real. Wow.

I might actually use this. Well maybe. The truth is I don't use multiple workstations as often as I used to since remote access is so much easier now than it was.
Some sage said to me early on in my career that you can't sell your product if you don't have any competition. I've found that potential customers often develop comfort with you once they can position you with regard to someone else.

"We're like X, but cheaper"

"We're like Y, but designed for mobile"
ARM China CEO Gone Rogue?
I agree. The original Kindle was revolutionary. But it's been completely stagnant since then.

The level of innovation to drive forward doesn't have to be that large. After a lot of time thinking about the problem, the sweet spot for me would be an e-reader that combines:

* CBR/CBZ/EPUB support

* MicroSD slot for expandable storage (or 32 GB+)

* Yellow backlight

* Robust enough software

* No Android or web browser to speak of (I want a focused device without distractions) (but maybe Pocket Casts built in, with a 3.5mm port or Bluetooth)

* 300 dpi

* 7.8 inch display

And a price point of US$150. Which seems to be impossible with a 7.8 inch e-ink display. If someone comes out with this device I will buy it instantly. The Kobo Clara HD comes seriously close and I love mine but it is on the verge of no longer being on sale.

I think I will just have to wait for the Android e-ink tablets to come down in price and deal with an absolutely ancient version of Android, which they all seem to have.
GDPR wouldn't block Tik Tok's data extraction practices, nor is it effective legislation at all.

GDPR is simply EU tech protectionism, nothing more. All it gave consumers was infuriating cookie nag screens.

GDPR utterly failed to prevent data brokers from operating with impunity in Germany and other EU nations. Your cell phone location data is still openly sold when you live in the EU. It's useless.
Operation Sunrise (World War II)
that is $182,000 per person.
Apologies on the capitalization of "Arm". It seems they like to change things up a bunch.