skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re right, I was confusing the two issues. But this article from the cbc with commentary from two legal experts isn’t completely reassuring:

> Does the bill legislate the use of certain language? And could someone go to jail for using the wrong pronoun?

>In the Criminal Code, which does not reference pronouns, Cossman says misusing pronouns alone would not constitute a criminal act.
>“The misuse of gender pronouns, without more, cannot rise to the level of a crime,” she says. “It cannot rise to the level of advocating genocide, inciting hatred, hate speech or hate crimes … (it) simply cannot meet the threshold.”

>The Canadian Human Rights Act does not mention pronouns either. The act protects certain groups from discrimination.

>“Would it cover the accidental misuse of a pronoun? I would say it’s very unlikely,” Cossman says. “Would it cover a situation where an individual repeatedly, consistently refuses to use a person’s chosen pronoun? It might.”

>If someone refused to use a preferred pronoun — and it was determined to constitute discrimination or harassment — could that potentially result in jail time?

>It is possible, Brown says, through a process that would start with a complaint and progress to a proceeding before a human rights tribunal. If the tribunal rules that harassment or discrimination took place, there would typically be an order for monetary and non-monetary remedies. A non-monetary remedy may include sensitivity training, issuing an apology, or even a publication ban, he says.

>If the person refused to comply with the tribunal's order, this would result in a contempt proceeding being sent to the Divisional or Federal Court, Brown says. The court could then potentially send a person to jail “until they purge the contempt,” he says.

>“It could happen,” Brown says. “Is it likely to happen? I don’t think so. But, my opinion on whether or not that's likely has a lot to do with the particular case that you're looking at.”

>“The path to prison is not straightforward. It’s not easy. But, it’s there. It’s been used before in breach of tribunal orders.”

https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/canadas-gender-identi...

[EDIT: added link]
This is a topic as old as time. I never get why people “complain” about what other people pay for things at a price they themself seem silly. It doesn’t impact you. It’s their money. If they feel they can have an advantage in the long term investing in companies at a high valuation, then sure

Everything thinks what they’re building is worth a lot of money but get jealous when they see high valuations from others :)
Shift+Right-Click will add a "Open powershell window here" option to the right click window as well. I think this has been around since win2k.
I don't have a cite, but I remember reading an article that looked at UFO sightings going back a couple hundred years. People have long (always?) been seeing things in the sky that they could not explain.

What they tend to think they are seeing matches pretty well with what the science fiction of their day uses in stories of the near future (or whatever is the equivalent of science fiction in pre-science fiction times).

So when the first tentative manned balloon flights were starting, and futurists were predicting an upcoming age of airships, people were reporting seeing large dirigibles.

When futurists were saying widespread heavier than air flight was going to be solved and would be widespread in the next couple of decades, people were seeing airplanes.
I’d definitely second this. I’m no NLP expert by any means but SpaCy makes it so easy to hit the ground running and start doing interesting things with NLP.

I was very surprised to see how small the team was but it looks like they have some great talent. A little bit off topic but the FastAPI creator works at explosion. Using FastAPI has been the most enjoyable Python web development experiences for me.
I like that openland is more casual and easier to jump in and out. It would open up the opportunity for non-tech folks to have their own place online.

Slack feels too structured if I just want to have some casual conversations with people with mutual interest. Telegram is a general chat app and it’s too light.

Openland fits in-between and I think that’s what most people need when it comes to starting / participating in communities.
A different take on this question: Is there a whitebox/ODM/shanzai print engine that could be combined with an open controller board or RPi? What companies actually make the hard parts of printers?
Very interesting! We actually use the system fonts. I.e. Openland is set in San Francisco on Mac/iOS, Roboto on Android, and Calibri on Windows. We do this to minimize distraction of an unusual font.

On column width, I am curious, what device and browser size have you used? Many of our users use the desktop version and resize it to the proportions they like.
Arch if you don't mind or enjoy tinkering, otherwise I believe manjaro has an i3 spin configured and ready to go.
> Your kid will be corrupted by society anyway. What's this whole thing about protecting children from the reality of the real world anyway?

> A bit off topic but a serious question. What's your logical reasoning for blocking the content now. It's just slowing down what he will be able to see (by deliberately going around you) within a couple years. I never understood this with parents.

Children are not little adults. They're still developing and learning things that you and I would consider basic. It makes sense to delay their exposure to certain things until they have the maturity and knowledge to process them properly.
That's the ideal situation, but anybody that has worked in the public sector can tell you the outcome. You'd have an office full of incompetent people that are making $150k/yr just because they're a friend or relative of someone. That's a really big problem in government and there's no simple solution here. Even if you started doing background checks and not allowing partners/relatives of current employees to be hired, they would just get picked up as favors by other districts. A sort of friend hiring exchange program if you will.
If I could donate all my karma points to you for this single comment, I would.
Hi Mitchell,

Could you please elaborate further on how you see Waypoint integrating with CI systems?

It seems like you expect developers using Waypoint to deploy straight into production from their laptops, which is an anti-pattern, particularly for any company larger than a few people. Companies really need to make sure that code is checked into version control and that tests are run before code is deployed into production.

How do you see Waypoint being used in companies where there are more structured pipelines to build code?
On the other hand, the most recent Duolingo update reads:

"""Our mascot owl, Duo, is trading in his usual diet of mice for bugs this week. Yup, we’re squashing those pesky bugs to make the experience better for all of you.

For more Duolingo news, contests and product releases, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @duolingo."""

which doesn’t exactly scream “user-relevant information” to me, but does say “this is PR”.
Comparably, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest has extremely high trust among the German public.

Yes, every tech nerd is mocking their PC tests, because they are just like a vaccuum cleaner test: unbox, set-up, do mainstream stuff, like writing mails and Word documents. No discussion of GDDR5 vs. GDDR4 or such nonsense.

It's a fantastic resource when you don't know what to look for (until today you never had any use for the tool you now consider buying) and it's not tech (then I tend to look to Wirecutter, for all its faults and controversies).
people who are tech savvy and write the algorithms often believe in algorithmic neutrality too.
"Problematic". seriously?
>But it will likely just be on the employee to pay for all these things, and the companies will reap the benefits.

Not for long, surely. Workers' productivity has presumably not changed much and the companies remain in fierce competition for employees so why would a drop in de facto compensation be the new equilibrium?
The documentation is accessible and the examples are informative. Most approachable NLP toolset I have seen.
For sure - I am not saying it was your fault, and the fact that it wasn’t makes it especially galling.

What I’m saying is that Apple is contending with a lot of developers who are not as experienced or conscientious as you, and you are being impacted because their rules don’t distinguish this.
Yeah, not all of us are into the fantasy mythology stuff.
Huge discussion yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24780798
Yes, I know. I meant for some resources (the code for creating was added, but not for destroying those resources). I had to write a custom provider to temporarily fix it
Thank you for the kind words. I appreciate it. It's very challenging and I agree with you completely that the way we handle things in this country is simply horrific.
You don't need fair use for something that isn't copyright worthy like an API.
It's like claiming you copied a book if the chapter headlines are identical.
Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life – Talks at Google
I agree but ideally I do not want to log in to youtube.
> One of the problems is that most of what people call ‘bugs’ or relevant ‘information’ about Apple is actually false.

Is that actually a problem? Many other platforms have no such restrictions, and you don't see developers blaming bugs on the OS en masse.

It honestly just doesn't seem to matter at all. The only reason Apple seem to be doing it, is that they can, and simply aren't able to stop themselves from being excessively controlling.
> hands of regulators

I'm pretty sure it is to avoid legal problems. Being deposed on what you might have said in a meeting 8 years ago is a lot different than being deposed about the complete chat history of what you said 8 years ago.
then install ubuntun mint, and follow by apt install i3-wm

That's what I have been doing the past 7 years.
The funny part about a lot of the national security code at LLNL is that I bet there is approximately no one else on the planet with the computing resources to actually run it (HPC simulations of weapon effects) Except the few countries that possibility could are exactly the ones we wouldn't want to get their hands on it... funny how that works out.

Just remember, what was the actual reason ENIAC was created? It wasn't just for fun:

>its first program was a study of the feasibility of the thermonuclear weapon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
Like you said fair use applies to copyrights. The question in the google case is if the API can actually be copywritten.

Assuming google did a perfect cleanroom implementation of parts of Java and they lose this case then it can be assumed that cleanroom implementations offer no protection against copyright claims.

A lot of non-commercial projects get shot down by companies for copyright infringements. Being non-commercial won't protect you either.
Context: I was in the interview pipeline before/when this announced, so I've gotten some additional clarification on the logistics.

I think this is strictly worse than providing employees with the option of where to work (office/remote/some WFH). Something missing in this announcement is that you still need to live in one of the main cities with offices (SF, Seattle, Austin, Dublin) in order to receive full pay. Moving anywhere gets your pay adjusted to the "local market".

So to avoid a pay-cut you need to stay in an overpriced city, but you don't have a nice office with meals/snacks/nice desk setup that you can go to.
I'm not defending WHOs treatment of Taiwan. I think that incident was atrocious.

Your link says (about the Dec 31 email): "Public health professionals could discern from this wording that there was a real possibility of human-to-human transmission of the disease. However, because at the time there were as yet no cases of the disease in Taiwan, we could not state directly and conclusively that there had been human-to-human transmission."

That's no different to what China or the WHO were saying in this timeframe. The constant "no confirmed human transmission" were because everyone was watching for it.

Again, there is no evidence China hid anything here, and Taiwan doesn't say anything different.
Oh, they certainly do.

They moderate reviews that are inconvenient to the business that accept their extortion. Their business model is to sell protection to businesses, like an extortion racket.
Every organization that accepts reviews from "users" about goods/services/employment provided by organizations eventually seems to run into a conflict of interest between their stated purpose and their finances. This is true of Yelp, BBB, and now, I guess, Glassdoor.

This is why organizations like this are not a replacement for government enforced labor and consumer rights. Once an organization establishes a strong brand as a consumer review aggregator, the temptation to accept money for better ratings is extremely strong. When talking about a for-profit review aggregator, you might even say that accepting money for ratings is part of their responsibility to the shareholders because it can be so much more lucrative than serving accurate ratings to individuals.
To poke the bear that is the federal government in such a loud and aggressive way is a good way to bring the full weight of the federal government down on such a company. Air travel is vital to our modern economy. To weaken its perceived safety and security in the name of profit would not end well for them.
Glassdoor == Yelp == “top places to work” == every other business that revolves around curating a group of people to promote and extort in equal measures.
is this Otto 2.0 ;-)
https://www.ottoproject.io
You just don't read about it if small players are involved.
They don't have the media attention and the money, they just vanish.
That's why there's an intake age limit. They like the start ATCs off when they're young. Also the reason why, if you ever get to visit an ATC center, you'll see a lot of tattoos. Inking is very popular among ATCs.
I wonder if anyone is working on an open source version of this? I’ve seen a few Firefox and chrome docker containers, but as far as I can tell they stream through vnc.
What Cloudflare's announced is more than just DOM reconstruction, though. They sound very different to the likes of Opera Mini Turbo or Amazon Silk's Cloud Browser or Chrome's Fly Wheel...[0] In Cloudflare's case, the rendering happens on the server and only rasterization commands are sent to the clients similar to AWS NICE [1].

As a security product (if you trust Cloudflare), browser isolation sounds super tempting on-paper. As they mention in the blogspot, an ashtonishing 70% of the exploits are through various forms of Phishing and other attacks in the browser. DNS based blocklists (and Google SafeBrowsing) which form a viable defence against Phising can only protect you from so much [2].

So, my point is, regardless of the thin-client / thick-client cycle, there's a real value to this product. It isn't for everyone but there's no denying its utility, especially when you consider the fact that most SaaS tools are browser-friendly.

I have also been following MightyApp.com that is trying to do something similar but for consumers and with focus on productivity. It is interesting to see how this would play out. If there's a huge market for this, Google is sure to pounce on it too, and then things will get real interesting... as if AMP, WebComponents [2] and Privacy Sandbox [3] weren't already enough.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774768

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/dcv/

[2] https://blogs.akamai.com/2018/01/a-death-match-of-domain-gen...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24390324

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20767891
Oh man, I got excited and thought you guys were finally gonna start developing a CI product. As a Jenkins heavy user I like how extensible it is but it could be simpler and work better and easier with tools like Nomad.

I hope you guys hop into the CI server scene. A man can wish.
Thanks! Indeed, we strive for simplicity. It's still too hard for people and organizations to start a chat group or multi-chat community. More to be done here with community templates, organizer resources, and organizer onboarding.
Yelp is adamant that they don't affect reviews based on payment. That said the order and selection of reviews on preview pages in terms of positive vs. negative are based on how much a business pays.
I've been completely satisfied with every Brother printer I've purchased (which is ~2 because they last forever).
Yes I totally agree. In this case I was using the ios app so ad blockers do not apply and I was also using YT without being logged in. I need to find a better solution for this.
When you put your destination into your phone and press "navigate", do you stop each time to check (or even just wonder) whether the route it gives you is biased in some way? Or do you just trust it to get you to your destination by the optimal route?
Will there be integrations with Patreon, Youtube, and SoundCloud oriented towards community building?
It would be less dangerous if they had ADS-B so that other planes could actually see them. There are small units that are not so expensive, so no excuse to not have one in such a dense controlled air space.
There was no Covid in Jan 2019(??) I have no idea what you are arguing.
It is less of an issue. The pads give a false sense of security. They do a lot of stupid tackles in football, leading with the head, using it like a battering ram. Nobody would do that in rugby. You go for the legs and wrap them up. You don't get the constant stops in play you do with football, so you need to tackle efficiently and keep going.

I see a ton of high-risk tackles in football that just aren't done in rugby. But I'm not sure if that is enough of a difference.

This is just my opinion, I'm no expert. I just played some rugby in high school and briefly in an adult league. I don't keep up with any sports, really.
> technically, a drone has some capability for autonomous flight, at the very least something like the ability to travel from waypoint A to B without human control

I dispute that. Radio controlled target drones predate the [semi] autonomous drones seen today.

The first drone was a radio controlled de Havilland Tiger Moth called Queen Bee. The term 'drone' is a play on that name. Drone bees fly once then die, just as radio controlled airplanes being used as targets for anti-aircraft guns only fly once.
I'm not a business person so I'm mostly using my extrecatory organ for vocalization here, but...

One way to interpret this is that people are betting that losing companies are spending that money acquiring a resource that they can use to generate profit later. The obvious example is growing a giant userbase that will then stick with your product over time. Or it could be building up a bunch of infrastructure to reach a neccesary economy of scale. Hell, it could just be straight up paying lobbyists to buy politicians and do regulatory capture.

The implication from all of this, then, is that these businesses are directly aiming for and/or creating inefficient markets. In an efficient market, it's easy for participants to enter and exit, startup costs are low, and consumers can easily switch products. That means there should be nothing a losing company can buy today that would prevent a future competitor from eating their lunch a few years from now.

The fact that the market rewards losing company shows that there are things companies can buy now that stifle competition and reduce market efficiency in the future. These companies are spending money today to produce a worse market for consumers a few years from now.

That doesn't sound like something we should be thrilled about.
what a striking account of apple waging all out war on the infosphere.

making rules, and then preventing people from explaining what is happening, that they have been subject to the rules. incredibly bold policy. incredibly bad acts. perpetrating ignorance upon the world.
Is Otto going away?
Everyone is using a restricted subset of language. 90% of the communication ATC uses is with the same 200 words or so, and most of the people involved (ATCs, pilots) know what is expected next.
Consumer's Reports is the canonical example of a review site where the incentives line up correctly. The only way they make money is by selling memberships, so the consumer and the customer are the same people.
Showing in the 1800s that Newtonian Gravity fails to account for the precession of Mercury, with no idea on how to construct the General Theory of Relativity, doesn't make the critique of Newtonian Gravity any less valid.

Not to mention they provide 3 proposals of improving things.
> Such a world never existed, does not exist, and will never exist. Politics are a center of power. You can ban money all you want, but all you'll accomplish is create a 'black market'. I posit that you do not want to live in such a world.

The same is true of many areas of society. Medical doctors, company executives, the police, etc. all have power and there's good money involved. Still we have laws against fraud, insider trading, bribery, abuse of power, and so forth. While there are transgressions, by and large things seem to work, and when we find new kinds of transgressions, the reaction is not to throw our hands up and say "it'll always be like this!" but to fix the laws.

Which is to say: I don't get the defeatism about regulation here. Laws work. Making actions illegal and threatening a hefty prison term is an effective way of reducing their occurrence.

Now it may be hard to get such laws passed, but that's another story.
Correct but actually any depiction of any living thing was banned (I know this was true historically) that why you see amazing pattern designs over muslim architecture and not paintings.

Better info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam
I'm sure there are wonderful people and things and places but those are everywhere. Those are not the things that are different in USA. USA is exceptional in other ways. A lot of them very bad.
So the company that makes browsing the web with a VPN a constant annoyance wants me to use a web browser that's completely on their server because it's "more secure"?

No thanks.
YouTube Bans QAnon After Helping Mainstream QAnon
My suggestion would be to download the build environment[1], read how to build it[2], try it out in a virtual machine (eg virtualbox) and then work with their jira[3].

[1]https://reactos.org/wiki/Build_Environment

[2]https://reactos.org/wiki/Building_ReactOS

[3]https://reactos.org/wiki/File_Bugs