skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just systemic things that end up, on large scale, hurting minorities more. For example, the judicial and prison system. Black people aren't incarcerated at such a high rate [1] because the judicial system and the police are full of KKK members or anything. It's due to a bunch of systemic problems and America's history of racism and slavery. It's a result of when America was clearly straight-forwardly racist. Like when black people couldn't buy houses in white neighborhoods. Now they have on average 10x less wealth than the average white family [2] and have access to worse schools, etc. This of course will lead more black people to turn to crime, because they have less good options, because they are on average, poorer and less educated. All the old laws and our history going back to slavery still has effects today that are compounding and allow the problem to continue to exist.

[1] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/raceinc.html

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/racial-wealth-gap-costs-economy...

[3] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/unequal-opportunity-race-...
> I would consider an illness "eradicated" if the vaccine is no longer regularly given

Fair enough. I would consider a virus eradicated when the general population gives zero thought to it, and effectively no one dies from it. Doesn't meet the strict medical definition, but I thought the description of "If we get to a point where there's a stable number of daily deaths then we're good" was overly pessimistic.
CNN, NYT etc are most certainly not telling the truth about them. Things are far less, to use a pun, black and white but their name is getting dragged through the mud by various outlets, journalists and politicians as if they were the incarnation of the next reich.
Oh? My mistake for skimming the article.

That is indeed a dumb move on their part.
I was thinking more Comcast and other ISPs. I could easily see Twitter mobs pressuring Comcast to knock a self-hosted server offline if the server is hosting something the Twitter mob doesn't like.
imgui: bloat-free immediate mode GUI for C++ with minimal dependencies
A decade ago Facebook had 500 million users. Not sure that's actually that small. It took them 2 years to double, and 5 years to double again (in 2017 they hit 2 billion).
Wikipedia might be good for small, factual articles. But for anything remotely controversial, it leans hard-left. Larry Sanger's blog post gets it head on:

https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/

The Prod Boys are too new, but whenever you look at an older controversial topic, ALWAYS read the Talk page first, and also, go back 10 years in the history and read that version of the article and the first version.
Did the airs ever change their keyboards to the bad style? In either case, yes the 2020. My main beef with airs before was the speed but the new ones, while not blazing, are perfectly fine for daily use. Hardly any waits foe the cpu whereas with previous airs, was a bit skimpy there. Also only talking about the best processor they’ve offered as that’s the only one I’ve bought because uhhh work was paying for it. :)
Clearly discussing propulsion methods of going to another planet is less important that percieved sexism of vocabulary. So what of it? Does it help us get to Mars faster?
And neither does America. This man was arrested for calling his mayor corrupt: https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/internet-speech/new-ha...

To be honest, I know where most people stand on free speech when I see them saying that we shouldn't allow anyone to call for anyone else to be fired. I think freedom of speech is so important that I will defend to the death your right to ask for me to be fired.
Thanks for sharing this. What I see on page 14 is a map of the same data I shared. It shows that there's a small number of net producer states, and a larger number of net takers. If you look at page 17, you'll see that most states actually fall into the low tax and low spending quadrant. So while they may need to raise taxes by some amount, they're hardly being hypocritical the way it seems you want to paint them.
Just don't try to do a trade while you're garbage collecting!
Well until you need mixed scaling and then it completely falls down.
This post is all over the place. It starts with some "let bygones be bygones" even though the cost of environmental outcome are still being paid today. Then it passes through the "something something Socialism!!!!" phase and ends with a comment about TNR committees in a bid to promote the idea that certain types of people and acts should never be punished.
From the article's title: "Home to Proud Boys domain, Gab, and other right-wing sites posts unhinged letters after PayPal cuts ties"

Unhinged is a very editorial stance, signaling how the author wants us to perceive the events of the story before even word 1

Does no one else feel resistant to this kind of nudging?
> Antifa isn't an organization.

They have spokes people, a uniform, unified political beliefs, and meet through organised events.

I suspect the only reason they claim not to be an organisation is because they don't want to be label a terror organisation. Either way, how they choose to organise should be completely irrelevant here. If Antifa decided they were an organisation tomorrow and The Proud Boys put out a statement saying they're no longer an organisation should PayPal reverse their stance?
I used X on SGI and have yet to have as robust an experience on any of the OSes.

When the thinking it through gets done, the result is powerful.
>Is there any real proof that these diversity sessions actually help people work in diverse environments?

I read a study a while back, which I can't find right now, that concluded that these sessions do more harm than good in the workplace.

One study I could find, which might be of relevant interest, is that diverse workplaces are far less likely to come together and organize in terms of unions or worker rights[0], which might go some way to back up the suspicion this whole shitshow we've been submerged into is merely a big-money attempt to turn normal people against one another by provoking racial tensions to prevent them from becoming class conscious and instigating a movement like Occupy Wall Street again.

>How exactly does this help?

It doesn't. The entire purpose of it is ritual humiliation.

[0]https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0019793915602253
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Admittedly Content Security Policy is not enough. It's not site's assets being protected here.

We are protecting users from sites coordinating their actions via the presence of resources. If I visit store.example they might cache a /big-spender resource. Then if I visit other.example, they can check to see if I have /big-spender cached.

As a user, I ought to be protected against coordinated tracking mechanisms like this. Content Security Policy might be able to let store.example protect it's asset, but in this case, the problem is that store.example might be deliberately exposing the cached/not-cached state of that resource to others; it is the user, not the site's content, that needs to be secured.

Thusfar the only safe we've found to do it is to have every site have it's own naive, isolated, alone view of the world. This is, alas, in my perspective, extremely unfortunate. I picture the spider web of information being cut into pieces, broken apart. But I also recognize the necessity of this. I can't stand it, but I see no alternatives. And makes me so sad that we will never ever see modules work on the web. That ~2011 was the last & will forever be the last good year for CDNs, before CommonJS & bundling took over, before we made CDNs no longer places of sharing.
Not yet, but these are still pretty new to corporate environments. I've been in "harassment prevention" training sessions for years, but only within the last year sat through my first "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) training. (It was not an inquisition; quite helpful in the opinion of this middle aged white guy.)

There is research that shows that companies with diverse leadership and staff financially outperform the average. See for example:

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inc...

The problem is, no one knows for sure how to take an existing corporate culture with low diversity, and transform it to one with higher diversity and higher performance. Cultures can be extremely resistant to change.

DEI trainings are just the latest attempt to find something that works. It will take a few years to see if they do.
One bit of useful background knowledge: The technical demands for high frequency trading can vary wildly depending on both what kind of trading strategies you're using, and what market you're in. This translates into real-time needs that vary considerably, depending on context.

At one firm I used to work at, the spread was several orders of magnitude. On one end, people were counting nanoseconds, and even C++ wasn't fast or predictable enough. At the other extreme, some teams didn't care about anything finer than a millisecond, and a big chunk of the stack was written in managed languages. It all counted as high frequency trading.
more importantly, don't use 1920x1080 images for thumbnails
(1) I started with a hodgepodge of editors and IDEs, all of which were more hassle than they were worth. When I discovered vim that became my dominant editor for almost everything.

(2) For students I never hesitate to recommend a notebook environment if there's one suitable for the language at hand (e.g. jupyter for python and a few others). Beginners seem to get a handle on things better that way, and it's not hard for them to also learn an editor later if they develop far enough to need it.
GYOFP - Get Your Own F'ing Platform. That's what so-called non-mainstream ideas have used for decades/centuries. Used to be pamphlets. Recently it was local weeklys. Now it's social media. That's what the First Amendment is all about. Amazing how this is getting twisted inside-out.

This is all just so much whining by folks whose ox happened to be gored. GYOFP for cripe's sake.
PayPal isn’t cutting them off because of who they host, they’re cutting them off because they’re selling a cryptocurrency and couldn’t meet AML regulations.

It’s very frustrating how many people here are falling into the trap of fighting out this culture war issue when it doesn’t seem to be supported by the facts in the article.
A Scientist Who Delights in the Mundane
Another one just popped up in my mind: Condoleezza Rice @ Dropbox
Choosing to encode the representation of pi as a base-10 decimal number to get the source data is pretty arbitrary, too.
Non-Ethereum Systems Race to Develop DeFi-Friendly Capabilities
Genuine question here - what's the difference between them selling this 'currency' and buying in game currency on a video game? Or would those kind of things also have to comply with these kind of regulations?
> Microsoft is working toward Windows being freely available (zero cost).

I don't see that happening anytime soon, other than the usual "hidden in the price of the machine" way it's usually handled. Not to mention, it would inevitably be tied to a cloud account at the price of your privacy, and your risk of being "deplatformed" from your own machines for doing something that Microsoft (or Hollywood, or one of their AIs) doesn't like.

I'd love for ReactOS to succeed, but they're up against a constantly-moving target.
I'm also Canadian, white, straight, male and can afford to piss off potential future and my current employers with my posts and just retire if I wanted to. But I don't let that illusion cloud the fact that there are many people who don't have my luck who find the world we live in incredibly unjust.

You need to tap your empathy and look at the life experiences of others in different circumstances. Would they consider society just?
What if something goes horribly wrong and the vaccine trial causes unwanted side effects? Why risk it, what are they paying you?
> is that if an experience is at least mildly pleasant or rewarding each time I do it, it'll turn into a habit

Would you mind to elaborate more and give some recent examples?
The Enlightenment was also a "culture war" fought by a tiny minority.
Tor onion services are very underrated! They provide resilient access to any service and with built-in encryption and certificate!

The daemon takes very little memory and CPU.
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They are not utilities in any way. They are private entities.

They can control speech however they want in their realm. If they want to censor, it's completely in their right.
Ask HN: Do you use a Raspberry Pi? What do you use it for?
Basically the title.

I'm trying to scratch an itch with the Raspberry Pi. Beyond trying to think of using it for some leisure browsing, I just cannot think of what I can use it for.

Can you folks let me know if you own a Raspberry Pi and what do you use it for?
> People are alarmed by these moves because they represent a wider trend in which the left increasingly does not recognise the right as politically legitimate, i.e. they do not believe non-leftists should be allowed to exist.

Those two things aren't remotely the same. The legitimacy of the right in the U.S. is an open question when they participate in direct voter suppression, gerrymandering, continually lose popular votes but still gain controlling power of the strongest apparatus of the government, have used that power to appoint (shortly) 16 of the last 20 SCOTUS Justices going back to 1969 using rules they are quite literally making up on the spot. "Consent of the governed" is a valid question under these scenarios.

But you need to provide some very strong evidence "they [the left] do not believe non-leftists should be allowed to exist." You're using some very strong language based on very weak arguments.

The fact you, presumably, pass off things such as Russian interference in fair and free elections as "conspiracy theories" should, god willing, be absolutely damning to your credibility. Or that "herd immunity strategies," as mentioned in the tweet you link, should be presented as a valid and equal alternative strategy to NOT LETTING PEOPLE DIE; you're arguing flat-earthers should be given equal footing in a debate with NASA.
True, but the "avoid multiple downloads" part is most likely more significant than the "avoid multiple copies on disk" part. Storage is comparatively plentiful while network bandwidth is often quite scarce, and 3 seconds longer loading time are going to be more visible than a 10 MiB larger disk usage.
So you're saying that telling people to shut up will not actually change their minds and make the world a better place?

I don't like that. I'll give you a downvote, that will set things right!
Considering all the excluded groups on the trial (page 3, kids, 55+, obese, weak immune system, a lot more), it's a lot of exclusions, how does one get from results on a study like this to declaring the vaccine safe for general use?
That's because the average VC investor wouldn't know a dingle arm from a spurving bearing. How can you analyze a pitch when the very ideas of magneto-reluctance and capacitave diractance are over your head? Please.

Learn how marzel-vanes and lunar wane shafts work before you try to judge someone's work on phosphorescent score motions.
You could also borrow money or work a double shift to hire out more people or to just donate the extra money to charity or the government. Why are you posting on HN instead of working harder for the people? Why aren't you earning more so you can spend more on hiring people?
I'm generally not a fan, but header-only libraries do make it easier to ensure that specific compiler/linker flags are consistent across your code and the library's code.

Some examples of when this is helpful:

- using gcc's / clang's sanitizer frameworks

- tweaking builds for deep-dive optimization and/or debugging

- letting the compiler target a specific hardware architecture, e.g. `-mavx512f`.

I guess this highlights a limitation in typical Linux systems: a given library can be built with many different configuration options, but there's no (widely known?) way to have all those variants installed at the same time.

I think fixing this would require more than just changing cmake, apt/dpkg, or the C++ standard. A clean solution might also require changes to the ELF standard and/or Linux's compilers, linkers, dynamic loaders, and debuggers.
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Of course it causes misunderstanding (and so is not useful after all), because "racism" simply means something else. Use the word "complicit" maybe, but redefining words at a whim is counterproductive. Dangerous even, in the case of highly charged words like this one.
Doesn't sound too far off from sending people to jail if they break the rules of their society. Difference being that holding certain beliefs isn't illegal, at least not yet in America, so society throws in what you might consider a "civil jail".

Also let's not pretend that these people's rights are getting unfairly stripped from them - they are not entitled to accessing any of these services. Further, it's not like they are banned from all these things, it's more like not letting them on stage during an open mic night - they can still browse all aspects of the internet.
I'm still amazed they're able to use that stuff
There is not enough material on earth to pollute outer space in any significant way. A greater source of pollution is radio signals.
It's hard to say whether you're commenting in good faith, but ... World leaders did work to do exactly that, on a global scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_Nuclear_Test_Ban_Treat...
Neil Postman's books influenced me tremendously.

I've been rereading McLuhan, Postman, Huxley, etc.

Manufacturing Consent is the most directly applicable to understanding social media. With at least two updates to the thesis.

#1

The outrage machine is fueled by advertising, right? What's new is the motivating control (choice) moved from the advertiser's intent to the algorithmic recommenders.

#2

Third parties learned to effectively manipulate the algorithmic recommenders. So whereas before the gatekeepers acted as a great filter, third parties are now able to command attention and drive narratives.

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Forgive me for stumbling over my descriptions. I'm just now trying to write out my notions. And I don't think any of this is "new". Just that with the new medium upsetting the old constraints and balances, different parts of the ecosystem are more impactful.
I would be interested in reading one of the studies in which the default was set to an inferior product and people stayed with the default despite there being a superior competitor and nearly zero effort required to switch.
Religion is irrelevant here. California was not ever a confessional state. It has 29 sections of law, one of which (over-)regulated marriage for reasons unrelated to religious precepts. You are still assuming too much, and overwriting.
As others have noted, this is not the opposite of what I think, or what I argued. I'm saying at the end of the day (without making any comment on neoliberal policies) poor people were dumped into, and importantly, concentrated into this building. There is no 'free market' involved here when the residents had no choice. This is very different from converting office space to apartments and putting those out to rent for individuals.
My TLC TV starts to bootloop after a few weeks of being unable to connect. I contact warranty, they tell me to try support first. I contact support, they tell me to connect it to the internet to download updates.

If they want to force you to connect it, they will find a way.
That's not particularly surprising. The core of the US Revolutionary movement was very small relative to the total population
> It's amazing how little some people have cared, this was not that they didn't know, they certainly knew, otherwise, it'd not have resorted to hiding the stuff by dumping it into the sea.

> Common sense should be the first law

They weren't hiding anything, the bulk went to government designated dumping sites. Shortcuts were taken, but it was known and accepted that these were being dumped into the ocean. Common sense at the time was "dilution is the solution to pollution".
Zero Cost with "Zero Privacy and Control"
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So General Relativity is a theoretical framework that has been proven to match observation[0], while MOND's details have been chosen to match observation, without any theoretical basis? Is that right? Or is there some mechanism proposed as to why gravity's cutoff point is where it is?

[0]up to a certain point, and if you include Dark Matter, which we still don't understand (the original assumption was that it was WIMPs, but as we still haven't found a WIMP that would do this, then we don't know what it is).
That pretty well matches the 90-9-1 rule:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/
I don’t understand your argument. No one is saying that recording a performance isn’t subject to copyright law. They are saying that youtube-dl is the camera, or the camera manufacturer. Canon or Nikon are not subject to copyright law because I use one of their cameras to illegally record a concert, I am. I am the one that did the illegal act and the fact that manufacturers make cameras, that gave me the ability to do it, is not the problem. The argument is youtube-dl shouldn’t be subject either, that it is the individuals using it to download copyrighted material that are breaking the law and a program having the ability to be used illegally is not the fault or responsibility of the program.
This is why it's impossible to have a nuance discussion online.

The vast majority of people who heavily use social media, are much more likely to have much stronger beliefs one way or another than people who don't.

I even have a theory much of this is driven by social isolation, mostly young men with nothing better to do. So these young men go on tirades about how the Last of Us Two is a feminist plot to destroy masculinity or something stupid like that.

Normally if you have stuff going on you won't waste your time being angry about a piece of media. Society is going to need to find a path for these left over men, self worth shouldn't be tied into your income after all.
Measuring human lives saved might not be the best metric? Of course it knowable - we knew how many people died of malaria each year. Tens of millions of lives were saved.
In a info session, IMC mentioned they use Java for some of their systems.
Through voting and protests. If those don't work then there's also other avenues.
Let's talk about three myths about why Ruby isn't faster than it is
Can it, though? I think a key argument being made is that Paypal is essentially without alternative. People may have convulsions on social media and write angry messages to support hotlines, but hardly anybody is in a position to actually reduce their usage of it in order to make a point. This precludes the second-order effect; no first-order effect exists to begin with, because Paypal has no meaningfully limited physical resources that are occupied or rendered unusable by political poop.
> The police ultimately dropped the charges — after the ACLU of New Hampshire spoke out against Frese’s prosecution.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/internet-speech/new-ha...

nobody was prosecuted in that story. The police did abuse their power.
I recall when movies were condemned by the Catholic Anti-defamation League, it was one rich old woman and her priest. And they didn't watch the movies.
> No fancy beekeeper suit necessary

Professionals wear PPE because if you incur a low-probability risk every time you do X, and you do X often enough (because it's your profession), X will happen to you.

For example, if you have a 99% chance of nothing going wrong, and you do that thing 500 times, it's essentially guaranteed to happen (0.99^500 = 0.0066).

The stinging insect removal guys will be stung if they are in the profession for decades without PPE.