skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How's showing a certain group of people in a ridiculous way helping blacks and showing positivity?

I agree that Zwarte Piet is portrayed as a great person/character. Despite that, the way it's shown is nowadays outdated and is actually harmful. So despite everything being done in a way that is NOT racist at all, in practice it does cause some harm.

IMO the easy way out would still be to paint people, but to paint them in some weird colour.

Note: it took me a long time to get to this, this as "Kick Out Zwarte Piet" is one of the most stupid advocacy groups that I've seen. It almost seems like a hidden advocacy group IMO.
At least in Western Europe yes, noticing some patterns is forbidden by the law.

I have personally ancestors that died during the Shoah so I am especially sensible to the damage antisemitism can do but it’s getting downright absurd at this point

Edit: more precisely I do not believe that censoring such speeches can do any good. If the content of the speech is false there will be reactance and a Streisand like effect and if’s true it will only lead to more comptent and resentment.
As a Belgian born in the late ’80s, this is both very understandable and slightly bewildering.

I can perfectly understand Facebook’s decision in the context of blackface being racist.

On the other hand, I have fond memories of watching a show for kids (on the public TV station) called “Dag Sinterklaasje”, which featured “Zwarte Piet” (Black Pete) in each of its episodes. This show invariably had a warm, charming and cosy atmosphere.

I completely agree with the decision, it’s just bewildering to realise that progress in social justice (if only symbolic progress) can catch you off-guard and forces you to reconsider parts of your youth.
I have no idea how it would work out in practise given the requirement of physical distribution, but I've always thought of plain pencil and paper among the most democratic of media. It could work for organising people, but maybe not as well for casual banter (which – now that I think about it – might be the more important part.)
The husband was the original candidate, who was arrested and his wife ran in his place.
I will probably get more downvoted than answers, but I'll try anyway: could anybody explain why "blackface" is seen as "racist"?

Especially in the context of an event where everybody is wearing a costume.

I lived (among some other continents) in Africa for some years, and you have tribes where people use a "whiteface" in some celebrations. Are we supposed to get upset about their "racism" as well?

Also, how will this in any way help socially disadvantages people, regardless their skin tone, anywhere in the world?

To me, this seems like just another made-up topic, so that people can yell and hate each other.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Fo...

This is the kind of representation of this man you have in my place. So yeah while this one is probably okay for Facebook, I understand the point of view of the Dutch and the German ones which are basically the exact same concept but with different visual choices.
That's interesting, the word is very taboo in Germany, essentially only used by very old people, relatively far right-wing folks and some Africans (though much, much less so than in the US).
I fully agree that blank keycaps are the way to go! I learned touch typing only very late in my (software engineering) career (almost 20 years into it). I decidedto directly start using COLEMAK using custom keyboards (Ergodox, Iris). Blank caps just make more sense on this setup, because you do not need custom COLEMAK keycaps and also because you are not looking all the time at the keyboard to find the right key.
Pretending that people in the nederlands are familiar with a cultural thing from the american continent (in that case, the "coon" caricatures, that have 0 history in northern europe), is an offensive form of cultural imposition.
It seems like typing "beginning" is still quite hard.
V8 is an incredible piece of machinery, and I really wish other JIT's and languages got access to half the engineering and monetary effort that went into it.

> often running faster than WASM

This seems pretty counter to everything I've read about WASM - V8 is some black magic, but WASM should run far faster.
What language was the WASM blob compiled from?
Mozilla has also demonstrated that they can send the DOM to a WASM blob, have it perform the necessary transformations and return it, faster than JS could perform the same transformations itself.
I simply don't believe that this is fundamentally the work of an ai. Its in a different league to anything else I've read. It's structured, coherant and on topic constantly. It would be really interesting to see the original text before human editing.
I'm reading it at the moment too, loving it! Maybe halfway through he hasn't mentioned her once I believe.

Edit: See below how she is mentioned.
Thanks!

Strange decision not to link them from the download page.
It seems to me that Facebook instead of battling racism and other problems in the information bubbles that it has created, is doing some kind of straw man.

"Look here we are banning black face!" Don't get me wrong, symbols matter. But this is not even remotely the most consequential thing that Facebook can do to fight disinformation and racism.

They should make a fix for their echo chambers.
Could you suggest something specific to read please? Thank you.
What? Manefist v3 is not even out yet...
I totally agree with you, but you have also to agree then (to stay coherent) that the fact some structures of powers are predominantly held by white men does not necessary mean there is a systemic racism and a white privilege. Otherwise the same reasoning could be applied to say that “the J00s control the media and Hollywood”
When I learned in school, we used normal non-electric typewriters. When starting out we got a paper to look at. This was only to learn the character for the first time since the keyboard was under a plastic hood so you could not see your hands. After that you are expected not to look at the paper. It did not take very long to learn the basics and then it was just to keep at it.

It improved the typing of game listings from magazines immensely, much less debugging needed to find that character that was wrong :-)
I dunno about the US, but in Poland the spouse inherits (takes over) the social security pension of the deceased husband/wife, which is a biggie.
At least in Germany they are definitely paying less than other logistics companies. Do you have an example country where amazon pays more than the competitors?
I bought it eons ago, never played it.

The newsletter gets annoying sometimes ha, hope they finish it someday
> In 1924, this man Boris Mikhaylovich Kozo-Polyansky wrote a book called Symbiogenesis: A New Principle of Evolution, in which he reconciled Darwin’s natural selection as the eliminator and symbiogenesis as the innovator.

TIL that evolution is a GAN.
That's some first class cherry picking you did on the Wikipedia article. Here is the full relevant paragraph:

"Like her brother, Joan was an inquisitive child, and she exhibited an interest in understanding the natural world from an early age. However, her mother and grandmother both dissuaded her from pursuing science, since they believed that women's brains were not physically capable of understanding complex scientific concepts in the way that men's brains could. Despite this, her brother Richard always encouraged her to be curious about the universe. It was he who originally introduced young Joan to auroras when, one night, he coaxed her out of bed to witness the northern lights flickering above an empty golf course near their home. Later, Feynman would find comfort in an astronomy book given to her by her brother. She became convinced that she could, in fact, study science, when she came across a graph based on research by noted astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Feynman
How do the other characters look like? Do they wear modern clothing and carry books?

Or are they portrayed as well as they where when the tradition started?

Also, what's is bad about big lips? Or earrings?
Last month I set out to learn proper touch-typing (after 25+ years on computers).

And though I type more accurate now, which brings a certain kind of satisfaction, I'm also slower (I seem to plateau). According to Typing Trainer I was "Fast" (self-taught, many errors) and now "Average" (proper, less errors).

However nice this is for my backspace key I still would like to improve. Maybe I need to practice more, but I don't think a keyboard like this will help because I already never look at my keyboard.

I have thought about becoming better by using a device that would attach wires to your fingers (or a glove) that correspond with keys, and the keys will only register when hit with the right finger (I find myself cheating now/falling back to old ways when I want to go fast). Something like this should exist, right?
During China's Xinjiang crackdown people use old fashioned dialup modems and 56kbps is better than 0kbps.

I think if you can still make cross border International phone calls you can setup modem on both sides and create a end-to-end network.
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-raises-minimum-wage-15-...

A lot of people think they forced amazon take this action, but strategically its great for amazon if they can raise the minimum wage. It will force other people out of business before causes them issues. It's calculated. They deliver more items per unit of labour then anyone else.

Collective bargain agreements are more difficult because its not national law. You can pay more but your competitors won't. But unions being unions will always ask for more if they think they can, even if they already pay well compared to other companies.

Do you have information on how well they are paid in Germany? I can't find any information on it other than amazon stating they pay well.

Companies are a lot smarter than people given them credit for. They use regulation to their own advantage, they're not against it. They will lobby for nice sounding regulation for PR reasons if they've calculated it harm others more then themselves. They just position themselves to take advantage of the regulation.

Most of the time companies with large amounts of capital are best place to do this. It's the small companies that get screwed.
I had the pleasure of meeting Gerv once at a UK Linux conference in the mid 2000s. He was a really nice person, and an asset as a public face of Mozilla. I can't help but feel that his critics are genuine "illiberals" who can't tolerate any point of view but their own. And unfortunately, it's those people who are part of its current management problems.

I did disagree with him about the Mozilla position upon trademarks, which was unusually aggressive for an open source project at the time, and for the most part still is. As a Debian developer at the time, that may have influenced my views somewhat.
If you really care about entering large amounts of text into a computer quickly, dictation is the way to go. If you care more about quality rather than quantity (e.g. when coding), speed doesn't matter that much.
You have the same character in Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland and eastern France, it's just part of a cross-european culture.
When I switched to using Dvorak a decade ago, I did so using a keyboard that came with two skins; one printed, one blank.

I used the printed skin at first but then decided I wasn’t learning the layout fast enough. So I switched to the blank skin “cold turkey”.

It was impossible to type anything at first, because I didn’t really know where any of the keys were. So for absolutely every character I’d press each and every button until I found the correct one. But it only took a couple of days of this before my muscle memory began to learn where the keys were. And then as I kept using it I got better and better at touch typing Dvorak and finally it became second nature.

My original keyboard that I did this with was the TypeMatrix 2030 USB. I’ve stuck with Dvorak ever since. In 2017 I switched to a programable mechanical keyboard and made my own TypeMatrix-inspired Dvorak keyboard layout for it. I bought the one with blank key caps, naturally ;)

Said custom layout for my programable ErgoDox EZ Shine can be found here: https://github.com/ctsrc/ergodox-ez-shine-dvorak
I like SwiftUI. Haven't done much with it yet, just a few small experimental apps, but I like the concept. Especially 2-way binding.

Not being able to create components is a problem. How else are you going to divide and conquer? So you will need components for any reasonably complex UI. So yeah, the challenge is how to do components in a good way, not how to avoid them.
Depends on how mobile app is defined. Are we only counting native apps or are web apps ok as well?
Oh damn I'm going to be one of those guys. Apologies in advance.

Burr grinders, especially manual ones, are fairly cheap. A $40 Hario Mini Mill does a fine job at a fine grind, and won't produce as much powder as the blade grinder.

Pre-heating the water before filling the base will reduce time on the stove, which will help prevent the grounds from cooking while they brew.
Agreed. They should only be low latency within a dense community, like say at a rally or in an urban neighborhood and even then, latency on the order of seconds is fine. As it is almost always more important to o communicate with those socially proximate to you than those further away.

I think the level of indirection and timelyness can be used as a filter, in that it ought to be modeled after the sneaker nets and human crowds/socialization. For example individual clients can ignore messages more than a configurable signed time/distance and configure their clients to only repeat at a certain rate. That way the network is robust to spam, because it relies on the movement and consensus of people to move messages long range.
Kubernetes would be my guess...
Especially k3s, which has a low footprint is suited for rbpis.
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For more on Joan Feynman, read this extract about her from the book, "A Passion For Science: Tales of Discovery and Invention". I especially liked this part:

> [A] thought crossed her mind. “Richard is pretty smart, and if I tell him about an interesting problem, he’ll find the answer before I do and take all the fun out of it for me.” So Joan decided to strike a deal with him. “I said, Look, I don’t want us to compete, so let’s divide up physics between us. I’ll take auroras and you take the rest of the Universe. And he said OK!”

[1] https://findingada.com/shop/a-passion-for-science-stories-of...
It doesn't make any sense when you actually think about it. The problem is people don't actually think about it. Blackface was actually one of the few avenues available to black comedians at a time when they were actually oppressed. None of this fits the post-modernist narrative though so it's ignored because blackface is obviously racist, rite?
Many managers should indeed not be in the position to make decisions about these sort of things. Yet they are.

As you mention, they don't respond well to telling them that. Their own managers also don't like the implication that they made a mistake in whom to promote. Since everyone wants to protect their own career, nobody will ever step down or revert such a decision, with predictable results for overall product quality.
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Then Poland is a great choice, nothing has change politically since 70s.

We have government that is built on anti-communist PR, whilst using Soviet guidebook on how to run a country. Including censorship, misinformation, erosion of democratic institution and processes.

Heck they even have an ex-communist prosecutor in government!

So you can bet Poland is political concrete block.

(this is attempt at slightly humorous post through gritted teeth)
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All the hand wringing here is kind of pointless without pointing out that it appears that Google has not renewed its contract, which accounts for almost 90% of Mozilla’s revenue.

It’s obvious and necessary for Mozilla to consequently focus on revenue earners and put infra dev on the back burner.
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Same. Sometimes I use Airbnb and it's a mixed bag. Same thing happened with me once a year ago: I left a bad review for the host, the host a bad review to me, both have been removed.

so much for trust. Why not completely remove reviews and manually inspect each property with some regularity? Might as well do that since they're completely fake.

Sure, there'll be less properties but the quality will go up so much which translates into higher retention and $.
Not being JS, and therefore not having to deal with all the traps that it contains is a pretty big point of difference.

It also provides a boost to other languages, which I think is good, there's no really good reason why JS should continue to be the only browser 'blessed' language.
And an example of how far back this goes (from the Wiki page decribing the origins of the custom):

"An event which took place in the autumn of 1450 illustrates well the way in which the often separate activities of poaching and protest could on occasion conflate. On October 1450 a large group of men entered the duke of Buckingham's park at Penshurst in Kent and carried off eighty-two deer. Thirty-two men, nineteen of them yeomen, were named in subsequent indictment which made clear that a good number had escaped by its claim that there had been a total of a hundred present (not a figure to be taken too literally). These armed men had charcoaled faces, wore long false beards and withheld their names, calling themselves servants of the Queen of the Fairies."
With layers as supported by https://docs.qmk.fm/#/ you won't need dedicated arrow keys (put them on the home row in a different layer), nor would you need to switch to vim necessarily. That is at least my experience.
I have a similar cluster at home that I mostly use as a media center! One change I made over your setup is using an external NAS for storage. I'm also using k3s for making the whole setup completely portable.

When I need to access my movie library within a deployment, I just mount the folder as NFS volume. It's working quite well and performances are still decent! Maybe something to consider for Leviathan?
Did you police yourself? It seems you replaced a word you intended with the word “politics” to be PC.

Mozilla has always been political. It was born so. Why do you think Jamie Zawinski got Shepard Fairey to design its logo?
The Mozilla manifesto is full of political statements.
Do you remember the fight against DRM? Net neutrality? SOPA?

Often, people that speak like you mean “speech favoring equal treatment” instead of “politics”.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-hi...
Zwarte Piet / Black Pete is considered a great person (admirable). This despite the way that the person is shown. IMO it's always funny/humourus that people assume something else, especially it it's followed by various wild accusations. Suggest to read up on what's being celebrated.
It is the reiteration of an old mistake. Some say doing the same and expecting different results is madness.

There has been content like this since the inception of the net and it was always a side issue and got new prominence exactly as there were attempts to ban 'hateful' content.

True, there are some idiots actually trying to shoot up synagogues, religious Jews get the flak from thinks that are primarily associated with secular Jews, but that is to abstract for people insane enough to believe it.

It just makes you so indescribably mad if content is banned in an effort to allegedly protect you. It also will increase animosity.

Why not just ignore it? It worked extremely well... Jews were not oppressed because people had too much venues to utter their opinions, stupid as they may be. That is a complete inversion of conclusions that can be drawn from historical events.
"This build is for you if you:"

ahem, for 600 dollars I get a fine computer which can host all the kubernets and docker I ever want in a nice formfactor...

I mean, it's cool and all, but effectively utterly useless except for the blinking lights.
Aren’t amazon reviews one of the most gamed review system ever?

Also, stock co-mingling. That alone makes me buy as little from amazon and as much from elsewhere as I can.
Disagree, DataDog charges at least $0.10 / GB to forward your logs to your S3. For same price, Sumo Logic allows you to have data search on-demand with no rehydrate. Rehydrate will charge you a lot and take time, at Sumo you can query immediate right away.

I would argue Sumo on-demand search is the least expensive logging product on market, yet very feature rich.

Disclaimer: I work at Sumo. All opinions are mine.
Lots of revolutions come with "zines" or pamphlets, it's a very traditional technique, but it's also very risky when the police are in the streets to physically intercept your physical messages.
Thanks man.. I know. I've an old Asus laptop/netbook with an Atom processor. Quad-core I might add. The travesty! It's slow as hell. I bought it because it had an 11 inch screen and I wanted something small. I bought it for AUD $300 back in 2015. I haven't used it more than a month. It's just part of my electronics junk collection. Now a days I'm a lot more careful before buying these things. That's why I've been holding on to the idea of buying a bunch of RPi 4s or Jetson Nanos. It's probably a better idea to get a proper GPU for my Ryzen desktop.
Is network the bottleneck of distributed training?
Illegal child pornography, terrorism radicalisation and other modern issues have also been around forever, it doesn't mean that the scale and leverage of the internet haven't made it worse, at least in tooling.

The same applies to illegal taxis and housing, yes, they were problems before but you didn't have a centralised global network of rentals (many illegal) connecting to the market of people looking for accommodation. The scale is the problem here.
Well,that probably says a lot about her brother...
Video to remove Windows 10 is missing.
> Just because there are jews in media does not mean that “Jews control the media.”

It's a matter of how you define "control" and "Jews", I suppose. "Jews" as in "all jewish people"? Obviously not. "Control" as in "total control over all media companies" also obviously not.

Individual Jews in powerful positions of plenty of powerful companies at disproportionate rates? Probably yes, at least for the US, less so in Europe for obvious reasons.

In the end, I guess Facebook should simply outlaw all blanket statements. None of them are true, all of them are oversimplifying complex issues and are, if believed, harmful. But then again, what would remain if they did so?
Being beholden to your main competitor is a losing strategy. It's made them a lot of money in the short term to lose it all in the longer term. It's easy to comment on this in retrospect, but I personally think they should have considered this more seriously before making a deal with the devil.

Maybe settling for less cash, and working with partners you don't directly compete with, like DuckDuckGo and the like, would be a better long-term strategy even if it means less cashflow and a smaller company in the short term.
"more and more of a problem" is maybe a bit dramatic. It's a design constraint of composite structures exposed to lightning that you need to provide electrical pathways, which is what the designers do, and composite aircraft regularly get struck by lightning with no damage caused.
if you only want to play with software, VMs are a lot easier though (and you got to learn the basics of the VMs)
I feel like “proper” finger placement on the home row forces your wrist in an awkward position and aligns with everything I’ve been told gives you injuries from typing.
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