skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much anyone who works for more than 1hr a day at home and doesn't do so on a big beautiful desktop has been making a mistake. (Presuming no limitations like affordability, literally can't fit a desk in their bedsit, etc.)

Anyone who consciously thought desktops were a good idea to move away from in the above case made an initial, much bigger mistake. (Again presuming it was a general lifestyle choice and not some necessity.)

It's as simple as answering the following question:

Would you rather have a) a tiny monitor with a bunch of expensive fragile dying-to-have-coffee-spilled-on-it shit jutting way out at you in the horizontal, always at a weird angle or too low or b) a couple of big beautiful monitors and loads of desk space? If you think you can have both, you're probably wrong. Even a nice dock setup requires you to do things like install brackets under the desk to shove your laptop in to, and disable its monitor lest it become a weird bastard screen full of junk you have no intention of looking at.

All the docks and laptop stands and extra monitors in the world can't solve the problem that laptops are broadly speaking, unpleasant to use. I think the only times I've actually been grateful to have my expensive and pretty laptop, are during power outs - watching netflix in bed. Though the whole setup is reliant on a well practiced construction of pillows and an external bluetooth speaker because no laptop has ever been made with speakers worth the power they draw.

If you can even remotely get away with not using one, don't use one.
People move to Austin because it's trendy.

I really think most of our society actually operates on the level of a 14-year-old, with a ton of rationalization on top for why it makes perfect sense.

Maybe they have favorable taxes or something, but so so a lot of other cities that are ghost towns.
I bet they taste good
If the sales tax has been sold to investors, won't that be good for the city? It would mean the investors would lose out, not the city.
I'm not sure. What is the exact contradiction that you see?

Viewing moderation as another form as speech seems reasonable to me, or at least as reasonable as viewing a campaign contribution as a form of speech. Perhaps the actual issue is that "free speech" cannot be a guaranteed right shared by all, but is inherently a rivalrous good.
My money is on censorship being a form of free speech. Not a concept that I've heard before, or that (at a glance) makes any kind of sense to me. Can you walk me through that equality?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informatio...

>All x86-based Certified For Windows 10 PCs must meet several requirements related to Secure Boot:

> - They must have Secure Boot enabled by default.

> - They must trust Microsoft’s certificate (and thus any bootloader Microsoft has signed).

> - They must allow the user to configure Secure Boot to trust other bootloaders.

> - They must allow the user to completely disable Secure Boot.

The last two points in particular. It's been this way since SB was introduced.

Note that this requirement does not apply to non-x86 devices. In particular, ARM devices (Windows RT) are explicitly required to disallow SB from being disabled, to meet the certification requirement.
> will now normalize all kinds of behavior by platforms of all kinds big and small

Slippery slope is a falacy, just like "correlation proves causation", to pick one HN somehow likes.

Was there any doubt of their technical ability to delete and otherwise change content on their network in every which way? No, of course not. Was there any doubt that it would be legal? None whatsoever...

Nothing has changed, except one lie got a little less play than its equivalent four years ago. Because some institutions learn.
Simple templates are not that hard to read. They can be tricky to write if you have things like templates using templates and specialization. But once you get the compiler to understand what you want, reading the code is usually not a problem.

Hell breaks loose when you start doing "metaprogramming". I did a bit of it and it felt like I was exploited the compiler in clever ways not intended by the original authors, SFINAE checks in particular. And to be honest, I think it is the case, or some people should have their head checked.

From the look of it, some modern C++ features attempt to fix that mess, notably concepts in C++20.
>We’ve reach[ed] a contradiction […]

No, it’s only that people are using differing definitions of “censorship” and talking past each other.

Content moderation is, in fact, a form of free speech. Twitter (for example) is allowed to choose what they want to host on their website, and what they want not to host on their website. This is free speech – it’s their site, one can’t make them host what one writes. If choosing what to remove from their website is deemed “censorship”, then there’s no contradiction.
I think they were specifically asking about the "firing out something very quickly" part.
We're not going to be truly free until we start building our own chips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrEC2LGGXn0
Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for.
"effective technological measures"

That's the grey area.
That's why the custom backgrounds is important. It normalises it. People can just think you're using one for fun.
Six lessons from six months at Shopify
But concretely, what is the reaction mass made of and what is the most reasonable mechanism for propelling that mass with the energy of the nuclear reaction?
Yes, and we are seeing it, but there are many leases continuing until Q2 2021 (and beyond). The past few months have seen a slow and gradual decline, but a fair number of leases are still being paid and are locked in. Q2 2021 is when that decline accelerates and drops off a cliff.
There's a strange incentive for cities.

On the one hand, they could be doing this kind of work themselves to save their citizens, who they theoretically are there to represent, money. On the other hand, these parking tickets are clearly a huge source of money if one bad corner can generate $100,000 per year in tickets (based on a 50% reduction being a $60,000 reduction).

Parking tickets aren't meant to be an income stream, they're meant to be a disincentive program to ensure certain goals are met.

Imagine if each major city had a small department consisting of a couple of data engineers, a UX designer, and a sociologist, all working together on programs like preventing parking tickets. I wonder what other avenues such a team could attack to help citizens.
Are they really deserted though? Did the homeless people also move to Texas?
This sounds like survivorship bias.

Theranos tried to make something hard, burned through money, and it didn't work out.
I lost wifi like 4 minutes in. Think I got a more authentic experience doing that.
- Pressurize gas (typically hydrogen)

- Send gas through nuclear reactor to make it hot

- Send hot gas through nozzle

This is essentially the what you are doing. Like if you sat on a chair and aimed a fire extinguisher you'd go flying (cold gas thruster, typically used in RCS). You'd go faster if you super heated the gas before it exited the nozzle.
Or change the text itself to [flagged by users]?
The NY Post doesn't own the copyright to the photos it is publishing. Imagine if someone stole your laptop and published all your photos.

I hope someone can step in and do to the Post what Peter Thiel did to Gawker.
More to the point, while you could build a theoretical HareMQ atop of ZMQ, you can also build a hundred different products/services that aren’t a RabbitMQ alternative out of it, too. Apples and oranges.
You must have a big pocket if you can fit a 4.6” x 4.4” x 1.55” box in there.
I think delaying the story until it could be somewhat verified is reasonable. I actually read it minutes after it was posted on the NY Post and my first thought was that it sounded like it shouldn’t have been published. I literally thought they’d retract it.

I think the internet is breaking into various niche groups. I fully expect there soon to be completely partisan social networks. That’s probably the best way to deal with this.
Intro to Image processing in Python with pillow
Should be an uptick in co-working businesses that would have offices.
Thankfully you can do sound isolation without concrete. If they do that or want to save money is a different topic I guess.
"Platforms" and "publishers" are not actually legal categories, not mutually exclusive, and any sorting of Twitter into one of those categories happened entirely in your head. Twitter also doesn't specifically call itself "neutral" (some "publisher" comes to mind doing that far more).
Microsoft has always required (on x86, ARM is different) that for Windows logo certification Secure Boot must be able to be disabled, you must trust Microsoft’s CA and the third-party CA that they run (and that Red Hat/Ubuntu/Debian use to sign their builds) and that the user must be able to load their own keys. This means that any x86 device sold with UEFI Secure Boot can still boot Linux (or if it can’t, it’s not Secure Boot’s fault).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informatio...
True, but the new buildings are also less likely to stay vacant because it's easier for them to attract tenants.
That is a really loose definition of censorship. Most dictionaries say it is the "prohibition or suppression" of content, which I don't think a content moderation is. It requires trying to stop the spread of the content itself, not just the content on a particular medium.
I doubt the RIAA cares either way, it's ultimately just a bunch of suits that try to justify their position and keep the money flowing.
The wayland protocol (with the very few standard common extensions) does far less than the X11 protocol. There are extensions to Wayland that add missing functionality, but those are compositor-specific. Meaning effectively that each compositor has its own incompatible variant of the Wayland protocol. In that sense, it is not one Wayland protocol but a whole cesspool of them...

It will also get worse, because the architecture of wayland forces an implementer of a compositor (which replaces an X11 window manager) to implement a lot of the display functionality all over again. Wayland itself is just a lib that helps a little with it. In X11 terms, just imagine every window manager developer doing development against their own fork of X.org or a reimplementation of it. Wayland is designed in such a way that it causes incompatibility and fragmentation.
> maybe you could get sympathy for low-IQ black people and that makes it a little easier for people like Stephen J. Gould to get funding to drop what they are doing and write on the topic of "racial bias in IQ testing".

Well, I found The Mismeasure of Man persuasive. I guess you didn’t.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man
I think part of it is that there is clearly a much larger theoretical space of possibilities in hardware & OS software than what we currently see with the Linux/Microsoft/Apple triopoly. There really were some compelling ideas in old systems, such as AmigaOS, BeOS, LispMachineOS, Altos, etc etc that still need to be fully realized at some point in the future.

Some day, a startup might finally figure out a new hardware/software combination that really proves this.
Google Cloud supports UEFI via secure boot, unfortunately you need to reinstall your VM from scratch to enable it if VM was not created with an OS image which didn't support this feature.
> This is very unusual among western peoples

Yes, I've noticed.

The primary nuance with China is the contradiction created in their constitution. Their need - and historical rationale from various civil wars and stalemates - to "uphold territorial unity" is an element that undermines all the other articles in their constitution.

The consolidation of control and single party exacerbates that, but there is primarily an inability of the courts to rule against this aspect of the constitution in support of other aspects of the constitution that would support free speech and other freedoms of association.

Outside of China, we have a caricature of what people there care about, and it is simply not accurate. Outside of China, we act like everyone is a victim, imagining they are all oppressed in their ability to speak about or learn more about a military massacre. But that's simply not the case. The government keeps everything "rated PG", it spends most of its paternal energy doing that, and its pretty successful at doing that, the outcome is pretty benign and people support that. This is the expectation people have from their government, this is the social contract there. Many corporate walled gardens are the same, and service providers work inside of those walled gardens, this doesn't make the service provider unethical. I think it is disingenuous to be automatically offended just because a public sector entity acts this way.
I have a family member who works at walgreens. The theft is incredible. In the bay area and particularly SF this is not one or two candy bars a week theft.

In SF, if you stop a shoplifter and they are hurt, if they are in a protected class etc, it's game over for you as an employee and possibly the store. Even if you stop someone, even if police come and arrest, DA is never going to prosecute. If they do prosecute, its a misdemeanor. It's pretty wild the first time you see it.

The clerks know who is coming in to steal. The stats above are from 2016. 2020 is worse, and much / most of the property crime goes unreported. If walgreens reported every shoplifting incident the numbers would be nuts.
My money is on content moderation being censorship.

If content moderation is censorship, then you are arguing that if I ask you to say something out loud and you don't say it, you are censoring me.
Yep. It's any tax refund setup to direct deposit from the IRS to your bank account. It doesn't matter if you have employer direct deposit. One other problem is that many people in the US are unbanked so they get prepaid debit cards or a check.
Effort and business utility are not necessarily linear. For argument's sake let's assume they are. A manager affects the productivity of all of his/her reports. Let's say a manager has 10 reports. If the manager stops working twice as hard, maybe all of the manager's reports would become 1/2 as productive. That means the manager's 2x work provides the same business utility as 5 ICs.
No, what Gelman says is that he suspects that to compensate for the fat tails in 538's state distributions, they had to reduce the between-state correlations, to get a desired overall level of uncertainty.

This implies that correlations increase, rather than decrease, the overall level of uncertainty.

This is also easy to see from a basic probability perspective, using the concept of variance. For example, if you have two coin flips, with outcomes {-1, +1} chosen uniformly at random, then the sum has variance 2 if the flips are independent, but variance 4 if the flips are perfectly dependent.
Perhaps Amethyst[1] or yabai[2]. You can also write your own with Hammerspoon[3].

[1] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
[2] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
[3] https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
I think that was the point. 12 months is atypically short.
> including weekends

I sometimes tout that even freaking Brazil has federally-mandated vacation time, and then I have to remind myself that it's kinda idiotic and includes weekends and any overlapping holidays (which is meaningless if your job doesn't encompass working weekends), and you can't use those vacation days as you please, but instead are limited to a handful of options. When I was still there it was either take all 30 days in a row, or two 15 day blocks, but AFAIK there was some kind of reform recently that made it a little bit more flexible.

> I love my country but there's no way in hell I'd go back to those working ways

Yeah. I'd only go back if I could work a remote job for an overseas company.
If this were applied across the entire US or even a large state, it would be very interesting and useful to track city responsiveness to the request to fix these issues. You might infer that those that address the problem against the incentive of filling their coffers are good places to live. Well, at least one more datapoint to consider.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24875516
House prices are being buoyed by insanely low rates, but if offices are downsizing CRE is toast.

As for tech hubs, they are now only economically rational if you are high up at a large FAANG or similar company that is able and willing to pay huge salaries.

Startups, bootstrappers, and labors of love are not going to happen there unless they are lavishly funded or only comprised of straight out of college folks willing to live on couches.
I would agree that "people who care" are a good thing; However, I dont agree term limits achieve that.

Better than term limits would be an informed electorate who would vote for a new person once the old one stopped caring or being effective. I think limits are a poor bandaid.
It took python community 10 years to migrate to python 3, and the migration process from python 2 to python 3, while tedious, is certainly a lot easier than porting a gui app from xorg to wayland. It could take some time until most app developers finally migrated their apps from xorg to wayland.
I think that was GP’s point. We have a few one-year leases on small spaces, but most of ours are 5 year leases, usually with renewal options, sometimes with break options (for $$) at 3 years.
All I can think of is 30 Rock, when they order takeout from a place called “American Sub Restaurant Very Clean Come In”
I like mini-pcs (NUC) for dev work, they run linux without much drama, are nice and cheap, and crucially, are not intended to be carried everywhere and stay at the office. I enjoy being physically removed from my work machine. Covid has altered this relationship in a way I'm not sure I like.
Iran would definitely be sanctioned no matter what. The goal of sanctioning Iran is to suppress the Iranian economy and prevent them from somehow achieving the kind of influence that they would naturally have over the Middle East.
The analogy fails to account for the captains investment in wings that makes the ship fly over land (remake offices into appartments with dirt cheap labour).
"Content moderation" is about the speech someone running a website is willing to participate in. Requiring them to publish everything their users post would be what's called "coerced speech", which happens to be single biggest no-no of the legal concept of freedom of speech.

Forcing someone to say something against their will is considered far worse than preventing someone from saying something they want to say. That's how "warrant canaries" work: the government can stop you from disclosing the court order you received. But they cannot force you to continue saying that you never received such an order.
Le Guin is all about the slow burn. I recommend giving her another chance -- her short stories IMO are better for getting your feet wet than her novels particularly the anthology "The Wind's Twelve Corners"[1] which introduces many of her universes, including the Hainish Cycle (the universe of The Dispossessed) and Earthsea. The first story in TWTC in particular, Semley's Necklace, is wonderful -- I remember being frustrated 3/4 of the way through it because it felt very "high fantasy" which is not generally my preference, only to be dealt a bucket of ice water in the face by the end. Much of her work is that way.

Her parents were anthropologists and she herself was politically engaged, so much of her work deals with themes of culture, the relationship between culture and technology, cultural supremacy, gender, and power in general. Much of her work inverts the racial and gender order of traditional scifi.

"The Rule of Names" is another short story in that anthology that I loved -- this one was less political in nature, and introduces her Earthsea universe. It's fairly easy to find a PDF copy of this one on the internet.

As far as her novels go, "A Wizard of Earthsea" might be the best starter novel if you're interested in giving her novels another shot.

IMO this quote from it captures the essence of her writing (and the experience of reading it) pretty well:

“You want to work spells,' Ogion said presently, striding along. 'You've drawn too much water from that well. Wait. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience. What is that herb by the path?'

'Strawflower.'

'And that?'

'I don't know.'

'Fourfoil, they call it.' Ogion had halted, the coppershod foot of his staff near the little weed, so Ged looked closely at the plant, and plucked a dry seedpod from it, and finally asked, since Ogion said nothing more, 'What is its use, Master?'

'None I know of.'

Ged kept the seedpod a while as they went on, then tossed it away.

'When you know the fourfoil in all its seasons root and leaf and flower, by sight and scent and seed, then you may learn its true name, knowing its being: which is more than its use. What, after all, is the use of you? or of myself? Is Gont Mountain useful, or the Open Sea?' Ogion went on a half mile or so, and said at last, 'To hear, one must be silent.”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind%27s_Twelve_Quarters
Believe it or not, I appreciate and relate to that sentiment.

But after spending roughly one year acquiring knowledge related to this work, I feel I can say with a fairly high degree of certainty that this dataset alone is enough to train a model that will achieve "world class" status in some area. Writing books, perhaps.

Which part of my logic do you feel is mistaken, and why? I am actually quite interested to hear thoughts from someone who is very pedantic about such things.
"They must trust Microsoft’s certificate (and thus any bootloader Microsoft has signed)."

This one in particular always pissed me off, and I'm glad it only applies to pre-built machines that come with Windows 10 preinstalled. If the individual motherboard makers ever decide they need to be "certified for Windows 10" and start auto-trusting a certificate for closed-source commercial software, I'm left with no choice but to either stick with my "old" (not really that old) hardware or switch to another platform like POWER9.
There's nothing scientific about any of this trash. It's a weird conflation of the degree of the incompetence of pollsters and the degree to which opinions can be changed within a span of time. And it's completely unfalsifiable. When Trump wins, the true believers will say "We gave him a 9.684% chance of winning! It's only your ignorance that makes you think we were wrong" and they go back to poring over their race tables.

It's an orgy of false precision.

edit: the entire debate is based on the weird assumption that if a prediction about a particular state is wrong, then pollsters must have systematically gotten middle-class Hispanic women over 40 wrong, therefore the odds of other states will change. It's all based in the reification of particular categories that are axiomatically significant for their profession.
I'd bet at least one person who helped come up with the name "Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies" "UNSC" name had played Halo before.
One year leases on commercial office real estate?!? That's unheard of around here (Boston). You'll be lucky if you find a commercial landlord who will rent to you for 5 years instead of the more usual 7, 10 or 20.

Subleases are a different story, of course.
I'm definitely not one closed off to this story, I think it's important. That said I think "we" tend to forget that platforms like Twitter are private companies, we don't really have a "right" to post anything to them.

Now if the government had ordered this moderation, that's where the idea of rights and first amendment comes into play.

If we're not happy about the moderation we don't have to use the moderating platform.