skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If true, that raises two interesting questions relative to the socialcooling.com content:

1) It begs the question of whether social cooling should be considered a universal ill. After all, white supremacy is bad, and consequences for publicly embracing it are useful.

2) It begs the question of whether the impact of digitally-originated social cooling is particularly relevant if one thought-leader can upend it.
The government didn't wake-up overnight to freeze NGO's assets.

Many NGOs were NOT filing annual reports that they were supposed to be filing, and their compliance(even pre-2014 norms) were not ensured by the govt.

UPA have used these NGOs to instigate protests in various state governments as Congress lacked strong real regional political activities and lack grass-root touch with people.

It was visible with the strong presence of NGO activists in the unconstitutional body of National Advisory Council.

Even after modification of norms, these NGOs were given sufficient notice and warning to file their reports.

On failure to which govt took drastic measure.
Even worse, different brands can be the opposite of what you are use to.

I had one where the big button was for more water. Now I have one that the little button is for less frequent use.
Maybe it is a criticism of the presentation indeed. But also of the consequences of policies grounded in conclusions in those views, because these are used to justify discrimination by skin color, the "common" understanding of racism I am referring to. Two wrongs don't make a right is a pretty straight forward type of criticism in my opinion.

If you propose discrimination by skin color and that is obviously the goal here that even made its way into policy, I don't need to engage in good faith with you. It is intellectually dishonest and a plump divide and conquer spiel. There is no scientific background that warrants criticism, it is pure politics and racism. That would be my primary criticism of the content.
Higher education is seen as a means of both economic AND social mobility. I think most economic models fail to capture the latter. This explains why so many people get into debt to attend a “prestigious “ university for little apparent financial gain.
> some ISPs might want to block highly illegal content

There is no way - not even a theoretical way - to allow blocking of illegal content (for any definition of illegal) that won't allow for blocking of any other arbitrary content. Censorship is binary. You can accept either none of it, or all of it.
I am spending way more energy on this thread than is healthy :D

But I can understand where you're coming from, I am just very frustrated that this user-interface-design-genius trillion dollar company can not change the input mechanism of one of their most used product from the:

a b c d e [f] g h i j k etc... Backspace

model with only <-> movement and no way to make an input correction other than backspace, to something like:

a b c d Backspace
e f [g] h forward
i j k l backward
m n o p

Which is the way almost all other TV-centered apps I use function and works much better.
Yeah, he has no adversaries that would use this against him. No one stands up to Trump. I've never seen the news media and an opposition party roll over like this.

/s
This is exactly why I had to get off of Facebook (again).

I deactivated my first account 8 years ago, but got back on to re-connect with my old pals and acquaintances from back in the day. For that reason, it was fantastic.

After another year, I realized that I can't actually say ANYTHING interesting on this platform without offending someone. There's a lot of variety in my crowd. I have the sense IRL to know that not everything is for everybody, but that doesn't matter much on Facebook unless you want to spend hours and hours hand-crafting subsets of your friends for different topics (I don't). And I have zero interest in posting selfies or status updates of what's going on in my life, so that made the platform exceedingly boring and a waste of time for me. It's a shame, because it does work really well for "connecting" with people (in the shallowest sense of the word).
This is a personal rant, but here it goes. Living in a country with very hard water and after changing the plunger it takes a few months but inevitably it starts to leak. Doesn't matter whether it's single or dual flush. It's like the germans make these to leak so you have to replace the tank valve every so often. Of course, you have to buy one specific to your model and of course you can't just buy the small sealing gasket because that would actually save the environment. Sometimes cleaning the damn thing to remove dirt and limescale or rotating the gasket helps.
I agree that lack of clear pricing is a huge red flag.

Sometimes it's not even because of budget: if an employee can't experiment with the service using some free tier (not time limited, because other projects can urgently get in the way), they can't request whoever has the company credit card to subscribe even to the lowest paid tier, so they'll just try one of your competitors because blindly recommending a service that might be a bad fit is too high a risk for the employee's career.
On the contrary, I've been traveling across the US quite a bit over the last several months, from New England, the PNW, and the South. While I've seen plenty of signs and a few rallies supporting BLM and other progressive causes, I've yet to see, in person, a single sign or rally or any supportive material for white supremacy. I hear about it a lot on the internet but from my travels anyway I haven't seen it yet.

Edit: I did see some confederate flags being flown in middle of nowhere Mississippi, but I honestly believe they're not flown as a symbol of hatred (at least not always) as some people had banners next to their flags saying things like "Pride not hate", or the rainbow flag, or other phrases trying to distance themselves from the negative connotations of the flag.
>For instance, sales people live and die in their email clients. One really useful feature for them is read tracking. You send an email to a prospect, that person quickly follows up saying they are not interested, but 3 months later, they reopen that same email, you get a live read notification, you instantly take your phone and follow up. You win.

[...]

>Now, if the love letter author inserted a pixel tracker, they can know every single time you did go back to that email, and read it again and again. Not cool.

How is the first example any less creepy than the second example?
The smaller button is for a smaller amount of water, the larger button empties the whole tank. It's pretty simple to get used to them, once you use one.
That argument is self-defeating.

The argument that there is some other platform where software is distributed for free relies on that platform being comparable iOS.

If it is comparable to iOS, then consumers can just choose it instead.
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I laughed so hard I almost spit out my coffee when I read this. Well done.
Are you really comparing using a phone vs mail, to using iOS vs Android, or any other phone out on the market?
A lot of this seems like a policy issue though- Why do trains only top out around 60mph? There is no technical limitation that I know of that would prevent them from going faster in most places. Giving them a leg up on cars would induce demand dramatically IMHO.

Its such a better ride as well- I mean I love getting a nice stretch of open road where you can go 60-80mph and such, but the reality of most travel in the northeast is just traffic and congestion and a lot of paying attention to that dude in the SUV who seems like he wants to jump in your lane without so much as a blinker of warning.

We have massively funded our highways, claim that Amtrak is a suck of taxpayer funds and do the bare minimum for it, and then complain about traffic, it's quite irrational.
Let them be unhappy about it. With everything I've heard about their moves to stifle internal dissent, it's going to take every voice possible to push back against them.
At least in the states. Most airlines I fly have an option for a premium seat that costs more and has more leg room.
...So, again, they can't be 'futile games of whack-a-mole', if they work, then?
Create and normalize. "What's one more site to denylist?"
I don't think we can assume white supremacy doesn't threaten business interests. Particularly not in the US, where approximately 2 out of 5 Americans aren't white. How many companies are willing to put on the table as their business model "We'll be actively hostile to 40% of our potential customers?"
It'd be nice if we could address some things like BCP38 (anti spoofing), RPKI, route filtering and folks who knowingly support infrastructure that's used for outbound ddos (c2s and regular hosts), spam and malware phishing. Plenty of hosting shops in US and Canada have these problems. That seems a bit more within our reach whereas an ISP in India is more than happy to pay a vendor to implement middlebox packet molesters.
The social part of social media and culture have a much bigger impact on social cooling than anything else, including mass personal data collection.
You have it completely backwards. Mobile phones rarely had 3rd party downloads until Apple created that market through the App Store.

It’s a retail markup with retailer restrictions for a captive market, which isn’t exactly new. It is a very well known and practiced economic model for 40+ years.

You’re free to try to declare it illegal (I think this would be a disaster) but thankfully I think the congress and EU might have bigger fish to fry.
At this point I don't think any Samsung TVs have cellular connections built in. So just stay away from the 'smart' features. I recently bought a 70" Samsung "smart" TV but the only interaction we have with it is to switch to the Apple TV input. The TV has no network configuration, and it never will.
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Depending on how you define "a little bit of everything", you'd lose that bet. Colleges have always leaned left politically, but the viewpoint imbalance has been getting larger in recent years. The last study I read said that in social sciences, colleges average 17:1 liberal to conservative professors, whereas in previous decades it was around 4:1. My wife got out of teaching at college because the schools were more interested in pushing a far left ideology that appeals to college students than actually giving them a good education.
Apparently yes [1]:

> Until 1 January 2001, the use of siphon-type cisterns was mandatory in the UK[12] to avoid the potential waste of water by millions of leaking toilets with flapper valves, but due to EU harmonisation the regulations have changed.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flush_toilet#Siphon-flush_me...
Windows 10X.
The belief that everyone who doesn’t believe exactly what you do is a fascist might not be as widespread as your echo-chamber confirms...
Seems like a good speedup relative to the Titan, especially for the money. I’d be interested to see the performance relative to the 3080 though. There are obviously vram limitations with the 3080 but it would still be interesting to see the difference in raw compute performance.

In games the 3090 only gives a 15% performance bump relative to the 3080. If that pattern holds for machine learning tasks there is probably a scenario where it makes sense to buy two 3080s rather than one 3090.

If you are vram constrained then obviously the 3090 the way to go.
This isn't exactly pointer arithmetic as in C (or in unsafe Zig, as with @intToPtr, or using the "unknown size" pointer type, [*]). This is talking about preserving size information, and only when the arithmetic is compile-time-known; so it's more "array arithmetic".
I'm using AFP. I'll switch. Thanks for the idea!
> Rather than just bulk up, European and Asian trains instead are designed to absorb impacts and avoid collisions in the first place. And they have better safety records.

There is a total lack of information why that route was taken in the 1920s, so I'm going to take a wild guess... in Europe, the train routes, especially for fast trains, are completely separated, often outright walled off, and level crossings with streets totally eliminated. In the US, you have a country that is many, many times bigger and widely un- or sparsely populated, which means that there is a lot more danger to trains from stuff that ends up on the tracks as it's infeasible to build a wall that long.

Herds of animals, heavy trucks/tractors ending up on the tracks of a crossing - that is something that I expect to be pretty much routine in the US, and it makes sense to build trains that can simply plow through such impediments.
Apple actually gives developers 1PB of free storage per app with CloudKit, and it even has some nice privacy features for users. Of course it has limitations, so most developers prefer rolling their own backend.
How does Hungary defunding gender studies fit into that worldview?
Men commit more violent offenses than women. Should I, a man, be turned down for a job because of this despite never having committed a violent offense? No woman has ever won the US presidency, should we therefore divert funds away from female candidates because they are provably less likely to win? If after doing that for a century and no woman has yet to win, should we still continue to divert funds away from them? I hope the answers to these questions are obviously "no, we shouldn't." If data-driven decisions are equally problematic but hide it behind layers of apparently justifiable (and often opaque) mathematics, then we have a problem.
Any form of communication can be helpful with norms and proper framing. I regularly use Slack for asynchronous decision-making where we’re explicitly not trying to fill each others’ calendars with more meetings, and we start with a specific question as a frame and what we want to get out of it. Threads can be long, but it also doesn’t pollute the rest of the channel, so it’s opt-in. It’s expected folks will bring the group back to the topic of discussion strays. And 80-90% of the time, we can get most or all decisions out of the way, such that if we have a meeting, we’re focusing that time just on the areas where a meeting is necessary.

Without some kind of guard rails through norms or framing, any communication, including a meeting, can get unproductive fast.
> Just don't connect it to the Internet.

Haha, just wait until 4g/5g will become so cheap that TVs will have them built in for doing software updates and sending telemetry when offline :)
That second table is aa good example of why always including units (or even just a "higher is better") is a good idea... I have no clue what I'm looking at.

Edit: It's been edited, thx Evolution :) (or I totally glossed over it the first time around... but I don't think so)
> I'm amazed that I visited a website that set no cookies [...] Such a rarity nowadays.

Be the change you expect from the world! Start building sites like this!
Maybe this will be the first real problem fixed by Brexit? /s
I read hundreds of pages of such writing a week and I can assure you that if this is a practice, it is not well observed by academics or engineers in the field.
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How "usually" is this, actually? I bought an LG TV about a year ago, and it did not force me to connect to the Internet. I just turned it on, skipped the crap, and it works fine over HDMI.
You have got to be kidding me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nTyCiZFztw
That would easily cause lawsuits as it is clear that the other party is doing that solely to cheat against law.
That resentment has less to do with anything inherent to rail than it does to a ruthlessly-run monopoly. In which light there are numerous analogous examples present in other examples.

Some decades back I spent some time listening to a denizen of flyover country speak with still-simmering anger of how the Interstate, already a couple of decades old, had bypassed his town, drying up local highway traffic and decimating local business.

Today, airlines are recalibrating expense-revenue models and determining what routes remain profitable. Telecoms monopolies try to provide the minimum viablequantum of service --- theoretical and net bandwidth, latency, and reliability --- for a given subscriber rate. Disruptions in live-work patterns tend to bugger this.

Any connections or network-based sector is subject to this, especially in private hands; transport, communications, trade (bulk cargo, wholesale, retail), energy distribution, utility services, information, broadcast, etc.
Most of you only really believe in free speech (or any other exercise of power) when it conforms to, or reinforces your worldview.
That's a common feature of car-carrying trains because of the infrastructure required, not to mention that loading and unloading cars takes so long that you really don't want to do it at an intermediate stop.

For instance, the Austrian Federal Railway operates a pair of overnight trains from Innsbruck and Vienna to Dusseldorf and Hamburg, which also transport cars. The only possible routes you can take your car on are Innsbruck-Dusseldorf and Vienna-Hamburg.

Meanwhile, as a foot passenger you can also get on or off at an intermediate stop like Cologne or Munich.

Foot passengers can also travel Innsbruck-Hamburg or Vienna-Dusseldorf (as sleeping cars are switched between the two trains in Nuremberg, but car carrying wagons aren't).
Siphon cisterns don't have this problem, because there's no valve - or rather, there is a valve in the form of a flap of plastic, but it's to lift the initial bit of water over the siphon and not block the rest when it follows.
That's true, but that's true for any and all issues of that kind, isn't it? Had everyone under Stalin stood up to him, nobody would've been murdered in the Gulags.
Yes, but a human body is not a bomb calorimeter. It doesn't perfectly combust everything that goes into the mouth.
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They're probably a native speaker of gramatically gendered language (like German, most Slavic languages etc).
>Why not make freight fast, too?
Physics.
Running a freight train at 150 mph requires serious engineering to make sure it can go around the curves well, and wear and tear is immense.
This is such a garbage response filled with stereotypes and misinformation. I am on employment right now and it is $275 a week, our safety nets are garbage.

The assumption that people below the poverty line would spend it on alcohol and drugs has been proven wrong, even in this article.

We can afford whatever we want, we choose to only bring up cost and debt when it involves something we dislike. Helping people = what about debt? Military budget = let’s do it.

Studies have proven that giving poor people money flows back into the economy and multiplies more than elsewhere tax cuts for the rich.

Our taxes are higher than socialist European countries when factoring in what they get for their money.
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Financial transactions have better tracking like credit scores and credit history, or things like your income/debt ratio.

> but it may stop you from getting a job or being elected to office.

This is more of the problem - the social impact eventually leads to financial impact.
An iPhone isn’t a general purpose computer.
I just bit the bullet and use NixOS as my Desktop. There's a bit of work after initial install, to setup your config files the way you want, but after that you're all set. I've had no problems transferring my configs when I change hardware, and end up with an identical environment that I had on my previous computer.
Needing to clean out a toilet cistern is a failure of design. The downstairs toilet in the house I grew up in is over 30 years old and has never been cleaned.
Deprecate WebSockets: GraphQL Subscriptions Using SSE
If you want reliable data on the state of the world, go to "Our World in Data". They have plenty of information on a wide variety of topics and use reputable sources.

https://ourworldindata.org/
Yeah, I was mixed up on which was which :)
> It's the same thing in the airline industry - people will complain all day long about legroom and being treated as cattle, but the next time they buy a ticket they vote with their wallets when they sort the flight list by price and choose the cheapest option.

Do any of the airfare search sites allow you to sort/filter by legroom? I would love that feature.
While that might sound deep, that's more a measure of others' unwillingness to do things for you for free.

The charity of others isn't enough to fly you around the world and give you beachfront property and iPhone. They'll want something in return so long as they have other aspirations beyond serving you.
Seconding Samsung. I've only had good experiences with them in the past few years.
If you have a company phone you have a different type of walled garden than even what the iPhone provides through some MDM layer. Apple could offer such a separate MDM-based consumer product and also allow side loading.

Microsoft was forced to open up browsing/programming/AV APIs, on which future innovation was built. What Epic is asking for is no different IMO. I just don't think the benefits of multiple open platforms can be understated similar to Windows vs. Linux over the last twenty years.
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I think everyone is eager to escape poverty. But to your point, poverty and homelessness are the visible symptoms of a whole web of problems. There are those who were temporarily nudged into poverty by misfortune, and those that are bound to it by addiction and mental illness and much more.

All that to say, I think we as a society should offer the most compassionate programs that we can to anyone experiencing homelessness or poverty. I started supporting my local chapter of pathways to housing, which provides condition-free housing, stipend, and medical care to homeless people. That large upfront investment - giving people space to sort out their underlying issues - leads to 85% of participants having homes 5 years after entry. It's a cool program that I'm still learning a lot about.
Maybe your attention is circular, when you can't even think outside of a single comments.

The discussion is about smartphones, not consoles. And I explained that the technical base is irrelevant for whether it's a walled garden or not, because the purpose and usecase are different. Smartphones and Consoles are both universal computing platforms, but only consoles are also used as a universal device, while consoles are walled by design/purpose. So consoles being walled gardens has no relation to whether smartphones should or should not be walled gardens.
Hi! I'm the lead author of Spritely here. Totally understand that sentiment, and you're not wrong that it's hugely ambitious.

So, Spritely's approach to vaporware avoidance is to break things into subprojects and show how we're making progress with demos. If some of the subprojects fail, but the others still exist and are useful independently, that's a big win.

Spritely Goblins is already quite usable, and does quite some interesting things: https://docs.racket-lang.org/goblins/index.html

Even if that's all that succeeds from Spritely (and I don't think it will), I think that's a useful contribution.

But seeing is believing, and skepticism is well warranted. All I can say is, I hope that in two years we can come back to this post and re-evaluate it and see how far Spritely is along. I hope we can prove ourselves. I'm working very hard to do so.
Do you have any examples? My university education, at a state university, was paid for by my state government. I have no idea what 'indoctrination' you're talking about. The only requirements that the state government gave my university were the requirements under their land-grant status.