skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a magical, shifting definition that means whatever the high priests need it to mean at the moment.

Making people confess to being 'racist', at institutions where being Racist gets you fired, is a power-move.

Those of us who can see that aren't objecting to the idea of unconscious bias, we're objecting to the power move.
I think your image of Republican Party messaging is wildly out of sync with how Republican voters see it. It’s closer to where religious faction of the party has been in early 2000s, but it hardly resembles their position today. I do not find it particularly surprising, given that one simply cannot get an accurate view of it without explicitly looking for it: you won’t get it in CNN or MSNBC, and most non-Republicans would never stoop so low to actually watch the “partisan hacks” on Fox.
It is relevant for the same reason we still have BLM protests in pretty much every big city and every state.
I don't want Twitter to curate what ideas and speakers
I'm exposed to, in the same way that I don't want my
local library to ban certain books or Google to
delist websites that it decides are bad

Those analogies are flawed, so I'll just address the issue directly.

I do want Twitter to curate things, by filtering out news from biased sources with questionable alliances and borderline journalistic practices. I want them to be transparent about it, and if I don't like the way they do it I'll go elsewhere. To me, that is the free market -- not forcing Twitter to amplify all voices indiscriminately. If Twitter was the only game in town I'd feel differently, but that is far from the case.

I think most really do want some level of curation. Do you want child porn on your feed? Endless ads for fake Viagra? Animal abuse?

I cannot imagine a platform like Twitter being useful without some kind of curation. I realize that blocking the NYPost is an opinionated move in some ways.

They were transparent about the reason, and I agreed with their move. That's all I ask. There are plenty of other places with more relaxed standards, and they're still available to me when I really want to drink from the firehose.

They can do it, but it's a silly, foolish way to run
a social network.

Should HN stop being "silly" and moderating submissions?
Numbers mean nothing. I give you a million road sweepers and you won't end up with any product at all.

Talent is gravitating towards US - that's an undeniable fact.
I had a situation recently where I needed to talk to some people to get their footage when a crime was committed against a neighbor nearby. Of the 8 I talked to around the neighborhood and explained the situation and said "between X and Y time", only 1 showed any hesitancy at all.

I suspect most saw it as a way to help their neighbor and since I was specific, it was easy for them to check quickly and share the video if they found what I described.
In the first appoximation you can use org-mode the same way you'd use markdown -- merely for the syntax. But indeed, it shines when you use it within Emacs because you can extend it. Even the 'vanilla' setup is very powerful -- you get the markup, datetimes, todos, scheduling, agenda, clocking, literate programming, etc.

Spreadsheets.. personally, never had the need to use formulas, but they are very nice when you need.. well, to organize information in tables. For example, I'm using it with org-capture to track sleep data straight into the table, which results in a table row for each day (with an auto-generated timestamp).
I think it's fair to characterize tone and intent as part of the message. And when the tone of the message is, BREAKING NEWS THERE HAS BEEN A CORRUPTION, having no evidence of it seems worthy of the phrase misinformation.

As has been said about Trump so many times this cycle, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". Except nobody's saying that this time. Maybe because there is no actual claim being made? Just the appearance of one?
From a global viewpoint America is also massive. India and China are just outliers. There are entire nations with smaller populations than some neighborhoods in New York or Los Angeles.
Ann Arbor is a pleasant bubble, that is burst as soon as you cross I94
It seems like Google starts having a pattern of working with scammers. First they disabled phone call recordings in Android or made it super difficult to enable, now you can't use ytdl to download evidence.
There's a story about a dragon that was posted on here on HN that deals with the issue of solving death and answers your question quite elegantly. Anyone else read that who can find the link?

Found it:https://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
If this list rounds up the most-used Haskell programs, I can safely conclude that I don't use any Haskell program besides Pandoc.

Apparently I use a few Go programs--Docker, maybe others?--but no Java programs at all, because I delete all the JVMs from my machines without noticeable effect. Likewise, no C# programs, because I have no Mono runtime. Probably no Lisp, Smalltalk, Julia, or OCaml. Some things I run almost certainly are or use Lua, and of course Python, Perl, and even Tcl. I don't know of any in Rust, but it would be hard to tell because of static linking.
Why is DC uptight? I'm moving in 1.5 weeks and would love any context I can get
> I have friends in law enforcement who use youtube-dl to save copies of videos involving crimes or criminal allegations, from quite a few different social media and video sites.

I'm so sick of hearing this "investigations want to be free" nonsense from law enforcement. Just because they want to pirate their investigations without paying they think it's ok for content creators to go hungry?

Get a job hippies.
Nothing like pushing through a Supreme Court pick 52-48 during a presidential election.
LA is 12MM people (LA county).
Indeed. On top of that, not everyone is on social media or is an 'active user' on there: [0] [1] [2] So it doesn't reflect reality and has become another distortion field. Especially when the opposing viewpoint is banned.

As long as the advertiser income keeps coming in, these social media companies and some of its famed users will do everything they can to silence or disable dissenting accounts.

As mentioned in one of the comments made by another HN user, the real question is how will this end and when will it happen?

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/10/15/differences-...

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/01/je...

[2] https://news.yahoo.com/turns-progressive-twitter-isn-t-18053...
They don't preclude repair but definitely make it harder to make modular, user serviceable devices.

Software repair is a different story of course, but it's another double-edged sword- you wouldn't like your phone's memory to be fully accessible with just a USB cable.

I can't imagine a mechanism that would only allow USB tampering only if the phone is malfunctioning.
As someone who's never been to India, when someone says "Bangalore" I think "tech hub" and when someone says "New Delhi" I think "Bollywood". Do people feel a pull toward New Delhi the way people feel a pull toward NYC here in the US?
Linktree raises $10.7M for its lightweight, link-centric user profiles
I'm sure you had a harrowing travel experience and just wanted to share your story. I'm just not sure I understand the relevance of most of your points with regard to the transportation between the two cities.

The easiest way to get from Chicago O'Hare to Detroit is flying (ORD-DTW is a straight-shot with Delta). The second easiest way is driving.

If you want to take the train, you have to plan ahead just a little. Know that the Amtrak from Chicago to Detroit departs from Union Station. The CTA will get you from O'Hare to Clinton, and then you just have to walk north 2 blocks. That's it.

(Mind you, I visited Chicago pre-Google Maps and as a poor student. It can be done. I've also done Greyhound and yes I stopped in Chicago -- this was in 2002. Bus service in America is certainly very different from in most European countries, where it is used by students.)
Gobekli Tepe: The world’s first astronomical observatory?
It’s difficult to compete on latency and remain anonymous.
Herd Immunity and Implications for SARS-CoV-2 Control
Spitting the plot of altered carbon doesn't make what you're saying true. Here on HN some tech luminaries get this bad rap that they are purposefully trying to bring the destruction of society and morals - I don't buy it. But imagine what elon could do if he lived forever.
And it's not very good data - as I mentioned in another post. The methodology for gathering it is second-hand, and wildly different across the different surveyed cities.
Reading two hours gives you 22 hours to "mull"

(Not disagreeing at all, btw)
No, use of public space (spectrum, running wires to homes) drives the regulation. If the wireless spectrum was unlimited, and power, tv, internet and phone lines didnt need to be run on public land to get to private homes, they wouldn't face anything like the regulation (nor be granted monopolies) like they are now.
I don't see how that link is relevant. Essential in that link simply indicates, as I read it, that the specific way the text of an image logo is rendered is essential to it's function. In other words that you can't simply replace the WASI in the image with the text "WASI." Essential does not mean that is must meet some requirements or be readable. In fact the contrast requirement your presentation cites is explicit in that it doesn't:

https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-cont...

>Logotypes: Text that is part of a logo or brand name has no minimum contrast requirement.
This is an example of the dichotomy between "the internet remembers everything" and the inherent ephemerality of electronic data (effort is required to ensure it remains un-destroyed).

I self-host some things because I like the technical challenge, and what I've found is that the effort required to maintain the online presence of the data is quite demanding. Less so if it's outsourced, but without actively 'tending the garden', it will inevitably disappear at least from the public-facing internet.

The ephemerality is also exacerbated by Google / Facebook account terminations.
Digital Self
That silly Constitution, you know, giving clear direction on the structure of government.
> driving customers faster earns the driver more.

I always knew this, but I always assumed it was because of the value of the $2.50 meter drop. I didn't realize how much of an incentive it was built into the meter fare.

This explains why they always drive so crazy.
9 might have been the last one I have used. I definitely have used 8. (And certainly 1.2, 1.3 etc, but those were different times...)

Is there a concept that the search machine would find, which has brought the radical change you mention?
As someone on the D side of things I'm generally in the same camp as you opinion-wise but not all republicans are pray-away-the-gay crazy - that may be Pence's particular brand but Romney ended up legalizing civil unions while governor of MA. Partisan politics like to paint things as black and white but they're a lot more grey than that.

Similarly R-side folks might believe that all D-folks are Trotskyists while that's a rather rare stance to have - certainly the D-side is more towards interventionalism - but nobody with serious power on the D end of things (not even bernie) is advocating for a planned economy.

I feel very strongly about moving towards proportional representation for the house over FPTP slotting. I think the extremism in the current political climate is largely fueled by this us vs. them choice - get us better representation so we can all see that Trotskyists pull one or two house reps nation-wide and slice off of the Dems at large... And watch the white-supremists and westboro baptist church folks get kicked out of the GOP at large and end up with a seat or two themselves. These are fringe groups[1]...

Our current voting system allows negative campaign ads to be just as effective as positive ones - knocking your opponent down 3 pts is the same as raising yourself 3 pts... but it's far easier to craft negative campaign ads so the electorate is constantly submerged in hateful vitriol. We need election reform so we can stop viewing each other as the enemy.

1. Please note, the current administration has actually started embracing these groups more, but this is a new development and should be a clear signal that the country is in trouble.
Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Reviewed by Ziauddin Sardar (2010)
If I might ask - which local university was it that let you audit their course? This is not a usual occurrence in India, which is why I ask -- I'm extremely happy to hear that things like this even happen as outliers, btw.

The fact that it was a graduate-level course in algebraic topology seems to imply that the university in question is not a run-of-the-mill university, which makes me all the more happy.
I wrote Java for last ten years and never had to tune anything but Xmx. It just works for me.
Hubbard and the Empress (2018)
> So it's not like I'm living in some remote backwater getting my news from obscure blogs. I'm up in the mix.

I have rarely met people more in a bubble than most folks in large US cities. You may have ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity and (very limited) racial diversity, but the diversity of thought is near zero.

I know you all desperately want to participate in another 1960s civil rights movement, but that battle was won in the...1960s. The vast majority of the remaining issues are socioeconomic. Sorry.
> "first amendment rights anymore on the web"

The First Amendment does not and never did apply to corporations; it is a subset of free speech that specifically only binds what the government may do.
The reason they missed it, is because their data is complete rubbish.

This is the source for their chart. [1] It claims that NYC has a mere 31,490 cameras. As anyone who's ever been in NYC will tell you, that is complete and utter nonsense.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I-WpH2KOiguKy9JTQ9zC...
In Moscow, you can track people if you have a good photo of them and a couple of hundred dollars in crypto

https://novayagazeta.ru/news/2020/09/17/164324-roskomsvoboda...
Using HN for political and ideological battle, and especially race wars. That's not what HN is for. HN is for intellectual curiosity, and nobody who repeatedly gets into arguments about these things is using the site that way—rather, it's all about defeating enemies, which is not the intended spirit.

"Facts" is a red herring. There are infinitely many facts and they don't select themselves, nor do they interpret themselves or present themselves. Humans do all of that and we are driven by motives, not facts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You are supposed to “be better” by being an active part of a counterbalance force so that the white-benefiting system you happen to be a part of can become everyone-benefiting.

In terms of specific actions that can mean a lot of different things! The diversity session can probably suggest a few concrete steps towards this end (I am not a DEI professional etc)
That’s like 99% of software. Is people building software and selling it really that crazy?
Thanks for the tip. This does look promising.
If only there were some kind of, I dunno, training to help clarify and de-magic these words. ;)
Bollywood == Mumbai
> Linux has 16-bit support.

Does that work on 64-bit (ie any modern) linux? I remember there being some issue with switching back to 16-bit mode after entering (I think they were calling it) Long Mode, but I don't remember if that got fixed, and I don't have a 16-bit linux-userland-executable format handy to test it.
Maybe. I would say that for fiction, this is almost certainly true, but for non-fiction, a lot has been molecular biology, or nonlinear economics. Which are neither native to me. YMMV.
This is also based on SSB

https://radicle.xyz/
But most of the population is concentrated in a rather small area, which national-level population density statics don't capture.
Cory Doctorow: https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/24/1201-v-dl-youtube/#1201

EFF:

https://www.eff.org/issues/dmca

https://www.eff.org/search/site/1201
increase acceptance of it by not mandating it. mandate it you increase reluctance to it.
Unfortunately, pexpect does not do everything. I use this scheme to have keyboard shortcuts for devices on the other of serial ports.

spawn -open [open /dev/ttyUSB0 w+]
interact {
`u {send "uname\n"}
`v {send "show-version\n"}
`` exit
# lots more
}

I have looked into it a couple of times, but I haven't been able to figure out the pexpect equivalent.
Yes! Let's allow 100M immigrants to come over! Fear nothing folks! /s
Last gasp before they plunge over the cliff.

There are 13 federal circuit courts where the supreme court has to manage them, so get ready for 13 judges.

It's not going to be hard to argue this to the public after they get a taste of the rulings over the next few months.
"Two such procedures" refers to two hysterectomies. Not forced hysterectomies. Presumably medically necessary ones. It is conceivable that out of thousands of detainees over two years, there might be two who needed a hysterectomy for some reason, and ICE provided them with the necessary medical care, as determined by the doctors in their employ charged with looking after the welfare of the detainees.

> The report did not detail any detainees who said they had received a hysterectomy against their will;

Right there in the same article.

Even the whistleblower's statement implies that there is one doctor doing it (though again, this is unsubstantiated), not that it is an official policy of ICE as the comment above implies. ("the guys who forcibly castrate women")

I'm not trying to say ICE is great or never did anything wrong. I don't know. I'm saying we can't go around casually repeating unsubstantiated rumors as though they are gospel truths - even if they really, really seem like they would be true because they totally confirm all of our preconceived notions about the subject. Information is sloshing around the world faster than ever and this kind of sloppiness is literally destroying civilization.
I explicitly stated that geo-based compensation plans are normal. What I'm calling out is a baseless claim that companies will also adjust so that they can "steal" the one time $15k incentive. After all...if they take the incentive away, the incentive no longer exists and is useless.
Senate Confirms Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court
While I can't speak for Delhi, Mumbai is closer to the "NY of India" and attracts young people in the same way
For the same reason it is sometimes useful to put tables in Word.
Do you believe racists should be shamed and fired?
Not sure, but they've been on good terms since the Zune era at minimum.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061108/235014.shtml
Are you referring to ADHD or some other neurological problem?
If it's true and uncomfortable it's still true.
Human generated reviews are generally considered derivative. That's why fair use &c. doctrines have factors expressly to enable them.
I think attributing it to "having the right to be wrong" is overly simplistic and you're missing a big chunk of what the core problem is - when you walk into a voting booth you are allowed to[1] check either the D or the R box. If you've followed a few rounds of elections chances are you've held your nose at least one of the times you've voted. Can you be a member of the GOP that is pretty well convinced that while the conservative courts might overturn Roe vs. Wade that gay marriage is essentially set in stone at this point? I think that's reasonable, I actually think that's pretty correct... No matter how extreme of a Mike Pence we get in office gay marriage is here to stay - if you're taking that as a given then maybe you're concerned about gun rights or the economy of one of a plethora of issues.

We're all complicated rainbows of opinions and when voting day comes around we're forced to either be red or blue and that's a problem.

1. Effectively, obviously you can vote third party by FPTP single slot elections make this incredibly ineffective - sorry... I really really wish this weren't the case.
Does this difference in pay for remote workers based on city actually exist yet? I feel like a bunch of people are e.g. just telling Google they’re going to work out of Mountain View or New York and counting on never being asked to actually go to the office.
> The Kentucky senator said: "We don't have any doubt, do we, that if the shoe was on the other foot, they'd be confirming. You can't win them all, and elections have consequences."
If that’s what you need to call it to be able to justify censorship to yourself, sure.
You have it the wrong way around. It's $2.50/mile, but not less than $0.50/minute. Pricing is normally by distance not time, but to protect the driver in the event that heavy traffic prevents them from covering much distance, there is floor on the charge per minute. Nothing special happens when you accelerate past 12 mph.
Org-mode tables are super convenient for organising information. You just press | and tab and you have a new table in your text file! You can insert lines with |- tab and the columns auto expand to fill your text.

The formula functionality is pretty useful too, although I rarely use it and working it out is a bit of a puzzle still.
Between the open-world assumption the classloader uses, and the lack of a performant, general purpose garbage collector, you can’t seriously consider deploying Java at scale without having experts on hand.

I’ve deployed things written in many languages at extremely large scale. They’ve been written in Java, C, C++, python, go, sh, perl, and other languages I’ve forgotten. Java is, by far, the least operable of those languages.

I’m an expert Java developer, along with most of those other languages (where expert is defined by me as “over 10 years experience”).

In fairness to java, it’s not my least favorite language on the list.
Many white collar workers who aren't programmers. I am a mechanical engineer doing math modelling so I can theoretically work remotely. I make about 100k/year, 15k is a years worth of savings or a years worth of overtime (post tax). With that being said, it wouldn't cover the cost of a move and so would only be tempting if I already had family living in the area.
Native apps are nice, but they have to be accompanied with support for other OS's if you want to collaborate with others.

Every company I've worked at switched from Sketch to Figma because it makes working with other so much easier.
Personally I've switched to XD since they've designed components better and I can between windows and osx, but if you're working 100% on osx, sketch is still fine.
Exploring Monster Taming Mechanics in Ffxiii-2: Dogfooding
I realize it's a bit off topic, but I just have to ask - where did you get so much ticker data?
I looked into it. There's literally only 5 zip codes this applies to. Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, Bridgman, Berrien Springs, Stevensville.

We do like the general area so my wife is now pushing for us to take advantage of this. I'm hesitant mainly because I don't want to move in the middle of a pandemic/get our house ready to be sold right away.

Where are the large dog runs at?
I tend to agree, the business climate in India holds back any serious startups with global aspirations. Eventually they come to find ground in the US.
That is correct and it is a pity other editors are so far behind in all things org. It means that for people, who have not tried it and gotten used to it, there is a double obstacle to take and most will miss out on it for that reason.
Ah sorry - to infer, the MMR vaccine had measles on a steady downward trend - the article is highlighting a 15% raise in cases. I think it's safe to attribute 15% of the 140k worldwide deaths to the anti-vax movement since we were actually approaching eliminating that disease (like we did smallpox)
I mean neither event will happen.