skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the irritating things about these CoC discussions is that the codes, really, are acting in a metonymic fashion. Codes of behaviour are, of course, common place all throughout the world. When people complain about Codes of Conduct in software, they’re broadly complaining about a particular movement that’s pushed codes of particular conduct, enforced with particular mechanisms (and they would often argue biases). The HN guidelines don’t fall under that umbrella.
> because it's illegal in the UK to even try to log in to these machines with the default credentials.

It's illegal in the US as well, just because you know a credential doesn't mean it's legal for you to use it.
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Well arguably, like it or not, capitalism has been the single largest economic force behind millions being lifted out of poverty and into the middle class world-wide. Globalism has only helped this. So one could say that capitalism is the current "greatest" ideology. Therefore I would amend my argument as claiming that Marxism will never be the greatest ideology in comparison to capitalism.

If you want "free" everything and a gulag for dissenters please leave our fine country.
Er, how is saying that someone is "_dramatically_ privileged" an attack? It's a judgment-neutral observation. When I say that sshd runs a privileged process, I don't mean to say that sshd is morally bad (or whatever), just that it needs to be more careful than less-privileged code and that it can do things more easily than less-privileged code can. It's the same meaning of "privileged" here.

(And yes, you could bring up to the moderators that this is an attack, but you could do that in the absence of any written rules, too, and if the moderators are the sort of people who would agree with that argument, then neither having nor not having written rules would save this forum.)
Details of how one worships and how one interacts with one's parents are rarely ever relevant in the context of a conference.

What I am saying is that even if all conference attendees agreed that the ten commandments were at the root of their ethical behavior (consider, for example, a conference among sects of Christianity that are focused on those commandments), Even then it would be useful for the conference to have specific statements about whether (for example) sexist language was permitted or not permitted during talks.
As this blog post [1] lays out, this seems like a case where the CoC was poorly authored exactly for this reason. But this isn't a reason to not have a CoC, it just means this particular one was not done well.

[1]: https://www.fast.ai/2020/10/28/code-of-conduct/
This was not historically true on its inception.

The problem is that states are allowed to determine how exactly they allocate their electoral college votes, and when one state became winner-takes-all EC it became more advantageous to campaign in their state to get many more electoral votes for the same amount of campaigning; which started a domino effect and now pretty much all states are winner-takes-all.
My major concern about IRV is that there's a lot of false promises made with it. It is shown (and we have real world examples) that it doesn't do a great job at removing spoilers, which I think is most peoples' number one draw to the system. It also doesn't scale very well and becomes less transparent as it does so. That's why I personally reject the push for ordinal systems and push for cardinal. This may seem absurd, but we've had IRV in the US in the past and we reverted back to plurality. So there's historical precedence for this position as well.
Bitwarden here. I recently switched from 1password and I couldn't be happier. Clean, simple, affordable.
I thought they were talking about the blogging engine.
Trying to establish a colony on Mars could be an effective way to develop systems that can support life on a less hospitable Earth. You would need self-sufficient food production systems, habitation systems that are resilient to extremely inhospitable climate, etc. Even if the tech never ends up being used or successful off-planet, it may end up being quite useful here on Earth.
Money existed before government began to interfere with it, and lots of people own gold and silver coins. Its probablt best to consider government fiat as a special case of pseudo-money.
Why would you have inner party run-offs in a public election anyway? Just have sort out their candidate far any given election internally beforehand. Then a Top-Two system is actually pretty nice, for direct mandates that is.
Thanks. I edited to clarify empathy includes caring about protecting them.
The 'overlapping person/people' (Andy Terrel in this case) should recuse themselves. Even then, it is no guarantee of impartial results, given that the committee reports to the board.
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Here is one opinion: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-new-atlantis/
That could be. It was the "because the database just doesn’t respect case search" part that struck me -- to say that MySQL doesn't respect case search is false, and the only scenario I can think of where it can even appear to be the case is if you're new to MySQL and you've made a big assumption without even googling it. Or maybe if you're new to string comparison (and therefore programming?) in general.
Winner-takes-all for states in the EC was not the original implementation. In fact the Constitution doesn't make any recommendation on how states should allocate EC votes at all.

https://electoralvotemap.com/winner-take-all-electoral-colle...
Similar topic discussed here 7 months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22702941 ('D, L-lysine acetylsalicylate and glycine Impairs Coronavirus Replication (2016) [pdf]')

from this topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22703132 summarizes:

> According to the Medcram youtube series, NSAIDs in general are known to impair virus replication, but also impair immune function. What is the net result? That is less clear. Many believe that aspirin had a negative effect during the 1918 flu epidemic though.

I remember (can't find sources now) that paracetamol is considered as safe, but aspirin has to many different workings, factors or interactions to be considered - when it may help or quite the opposite.

BTW. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.26514
('Lowering the transmission and spread of human coronavirus'),
referenced once on HN, has a table with
'nasal rinse and mouthwash gargling product's ingredients'
- the best one working is Listerine Antiseptic
with active ingredients (one is salicylate):

Eucalyptol (0.092%)
Menthol (0.042%)
Methyl Salicylate (0.06%)
Thymol (0.064%)

Regarding salicylates (with inhalations as my personal point of view),
I found out mostly about their toxicity and higher doses, except the following (2011):

https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/38/Suppl_55/p825.abstrac...
('Aspirin inhalation treatment for COPD* patients: Preliminary studies on PK and inflammatory biomarkers')

- could it somehow be relevant ((anti-inflammatory, breath-helping and.. virus killing))?

(* Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, makes it harder to breathe, top reason Long-term exposure to chemical irritants as smoking)
What do you mean by "that"?
Another question is, how many less famous people have already encountered this issue?
Look into cardinal systems. If you want good voting systems you have to consider more factors than VSE. You'll find that cardinal systems can get to similar VSEs of condorcet with far less complexities and many other benefits.
The first four of them seem like fairly clear discrimination.
1. Who are "these" people?

2. Is this org of any significant importance?

3. Why should I care.

Or, am I being to mean and should someone here complain about my topics?

Meanwhile, is numfocus really on the map. Until yesterday, I never heard about them before.
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There's a kind of colourmap which is a luminance gradient in a single hue, repeated over and over again with different hues. See the various "ramps" colourmaps in ImageJ (where colourmaps are called "look-up tables", or LUTs):

http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt-city/imagej/index.h...

I've seen it with a single hue as well.

This kind of colourmap makes it really easy to see contours. The tradeoff is that it's hard to make comparisons between distant areas of the image.
I have always found this quote [0] from 'Abdu'l-Bahá very thought-provoking:

> During the last six thousand years nations have hated one another, it is now time to stop. War must cease. Let us be united and love one another and await the result. We know the effects of war are bad. So let us try, as an experiment, peace, and if the results of peace are bad, then we can choose if it would be better to go back to the old state of war! Let us in any case make the experiment.

We haven't managed yet, and I'm not saying it's easy, but there are ways to prevent wars, if we collectively decide so. Conflict is unavoidable but may be resolved in many other ways that don't involve violence.

[0] https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/ABL/abl-23.html
> if you had learned calculus by 8th grade

Joke's on you. I still haven't learned calculus.
I know it's shit on Medium day for some reason on HN. I admit that I just don't understand why people would be so up in arms about a $5 subscription. Like, just don't read it? But also, many of us are professional programmers and $5 to get the answer we're looking for is completely trivial. If you keep getting sent to Medium then that's a sign.

In any case, the reality of Medium is that it's a very big platform and some of what's on it is shit and some is great. And that's just the nature of platforms.

But as a publisher there, I do know that they are giving more money than they've ever announced publicly to authors and that every month their investment in quality goes up. Essentially, every new subscriber puts more money in their budget which draws in a higher caliber of author. And on top of that, there's more and more editorial work going on there which is what is necessary to bring articles up to the standard you might find in books.
Not yet! We are starting in beta with image classification. We are working on adding more project templates in the future, and Lobe is designed upon the idea that machine learning should be made easy — no matter the problem type you are facing.
True. But the library's share of local taxes is already so low it hardly matters. How much are you going to divide a couple dollars/month by?
Like many others I thought this was about Medium.com because I've been saying it wasn't well done for years. I didn't know my joke wasn't original!
My ATT router made by Nokia has one 5gbe and the fiber plugs in directly with SFP!
Not to me it doesn't.

I'm on the fence on this issue but it's sounds like you're willfully misreading that statement.
The FAQ page renders empty for me... Does this software come with an offline client? How does it compare to obsidian.md?
What it reveals when senators repeatedly mispronounce the name of Sundar Pichai
Is it normal to be acquired using stock? From a naive perspective, it seems like a conflation of 1: Getting paid, and 2: Gambling on a stock. Was there part of the agreement that stated the Williams' couldn't immediately liquidate upon deal completion?
>- There's also the REST verb that is often super arbitrary. PUT vs POST vs PATCH... so many ways to do the same thing.

These have clearly defined caching and indempotency differences. They are not the same. I don't believe gRPC handles this or it looks like its experimental.
Tech aside, this is what I see as Tesla's killer innovation.

Pretty much every non-Tesla mass production EV (or most dedicated hybrids not based on an existing ICE car) looked like a cheap ugly dwarf mutant hatchback economobile.

Teslas actually look like premium, desirable, normal cars.
Why is the world so full of static generators which are annoyingly limited like this? Just let us drop down to something (python?) if we want.
True. But it also prevented LePen. And before it produced Holland, regardless hoe bad a president he was, he was definitely from the left of the political spectrum.
I got the stack reference from https://eprints.illc.uva.nl/383/1/PP-2010-04.text.pdf, which says:

“Dijkstra’s quest to generalize led him to use the well-known concept of a stack (i.e., a continuous portion of computer memory) as a run-time object, rather than a mere compile-time object as was the case in Samelson and Bauer’s ALCOR compiler.”

Digging deeper, I found https://www.illc.uva.nl/Research/Publications/Reports/MoL-20... (worth reading, IMHO) which indicates Samuelson and Baur used a stack to parse expressions and generate machine code for them, not for assigning memory locations.

So, I agree with you it can’t have been as simple als I implied.

I doubt they would have plonked anything on the heap, though, because languages of the time didn’t have a heap (FORTRAN certainly didn’t), and the language Samuelson and Baur wrote didn’t even allow functions to call other functions.
i hope they called Jeremy first to apologize before posting this.
It was a very effective response from Jeremy. He clearly describes his side of the story and convincingly explains why he thought he did nothing wrong.

What is a little more troubling is that he (A) describes codes of conduct in detail and repeatedly affirms his allegiance to the general idea behind CoCs, including describing "previous sexual assault allegations" as "behaviors" he "strongly agrees" should be stopped. (B) He goes some way towards portraying himself as a victim, describing in graphic detail his lack of "emotional resilience". I wonder if he realized what a thin line he was walking with (A), because he now has a "previous CoC violation allegation" on his permanent record, regardless of his acquittal.

In other words, he very strongly backs the spirit, letter, and zeitgeist of CoCs before describing why he thinks he did not violate them in this specific case. I think these were very wise tactical moves, although they leave a bad taste in my mouth, and I can't help but wonder if this approach affected the outcome. I don't recall seeing an apology ever given, let alone changes instituted, for CoC violation allegations.
For the US, it's kinda interesting. It seems that when the original constitution was written, people kinda thought of the states as different countries. Robert E Lee seemed to think he had to fight for Virginia, for instance.

Nowadays, that thinking seems wrong. Not sure what yall think over there, but I've always thought of Michael Jackson an American artist, rather than a person from Indiana. I just don't see that Americans see the states as a federation of countries, but I guess people there might.

Something like the UN might have similar votes per country, on the rationale that countries are equal regardless of relative size.
Fun fact, STAR came out of Oregon too. Lane county (where the University of Oregon) has been trying to pass it for awhile (very close last time).
This (https://scholar.harvard.edu/alesina/publications/what-do-we-...) is sort of a pre-print to Alberto Alesina's book "Austerity" (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172217/au...). The book has some additional differences of course, however if you wanted to save money the pdf is free. Either or, Alesina's argument is that to reduce debt the best path is cutting over that of just raising taxes. Even cutting over raising taxes and cutting. This is cause taxes just act as a form of a credit card level increase and continues to allow for governmences to kick the can down the road.

There is a lot that can be said here too, ecb working paper notes the size of government constraining the private economy (https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp1399.pdf). The best path forward is program cuts, without tax increases. Reduce the size of government and let the private economy grow us out of this hole.
Yes.

Anybody thinking otherwise is delusional.

Highly recommend reading https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35356384-how-democracies...

If nothing read chapters 7 and 8.
Well that raises the question why there were 3 Dems to begin with.
You might want to look at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-desirability_bias

(I think Brendan Eich's experience with suffering enormous professional consequences for having donated to the Proposition 8 campaign -- a fact which was public under California electoral laws -- is a concrete example. You could imagine the same kind of consequences for everyone who voted for the proposition, in which case many people would not only choose their political donations based on fear of public opinion and social and professional consequences, but would even choose their votes based on those same fears.)

These issues might not convince you, but they represent a sample of other people's answers to your question. Also, in many places, depending a lot on the culture and history, a powerful local figure such as a large employer, union leader, "patron", or religious leader will actively try to tell people how to vote, if given the opportunity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud#Vote_buying

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treating

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clientelism
Can we change the title to say NSA?
The CoC members should all be expelled from the NumFocus community. They have done far more to make NumFocus a a non-welcoming community than just about any CoC violation.
My first language was actually GWBASIC on an ancient hand-me-down computer, followed by QBASIC. When I saw that quote as a teenager I was terrified that I had killed my career before it had even started.

I've since become quite proficient in C, Ruby, Java, Kotlin, HTML, JS, shell scripting, and many many other languages and environments. So IMO there is very little modern merit to the idea that exposure to BASIC (or any other mocked language) is "mentally mutilat[ing]".
Here are the people responsible who are too cowardly to sign their real names:

Leah Silen, Executive Director
leah@numfocus.org
+1 (512) 831-2870 or +1 (972) 896-3688

Andy Terrel, President
andy@numfocus.org

Nicole Foster, Executive Operations Administrator
nicole@numfocus.org

Walker Chabbott, Communications & Marketing Manager
walker@numfocus.org

I find it disgraceful how mealy-mouthed their response was, how they conveniently spread the blame out across the committee, don't directly address where the ball was dropped (and by who), don't even address not letting him tell his side of the story, and then trying to excuse their actions with a distracting paragraph about why the video hadn't been posted.

I found Jeremy's post yesterday [0] very measured and clear, this on the other hand was a garbage "apology" that sidestepped any real responsibility or consequences.

[0] https://www.fast.ai/2020/10/28/code-of-conduct/ (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926214)
"rainbow color maps are bad"

I disagree with blanket statements like this. Rainbow color maps aren't ideal for showing relative difference in values. But they are great if you want to be able to tell what the value (range) in a given location is. This is almost impossible with a 10-shade grey-scale legend or a height map.

Disclaimer: I use rainbow color maps all the time because I'm often interested in critical value areas of my plots.
I strongly support you guys for the license you use, its sad that though the source is open people expect it to be licensed in a way, so that any mega corporate can just rip you off cough aws cough. I wish you guys get the attention you deserve.
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Did you, uh, read the article?
Yes, we have two larger systemic issues (arguably one) that prevent public voting.

Voters could be rewarded for voting a certain way.

Voters could be punished for voting a certain way.

You can't get rid of rewards without eliminating capitalism, and you can't get rid of retaliation without eliminating power structures.

Making voter information anonymous except via subpoena doesn't work for the same reason that backdoored encryption doesn't work.
why would you get downvoted for expressing the dominant opinion of HN on this matter? have you ever read a CoC thread on here?
(It took me a while to understand what was being said here: in case it helps anyone else, there is a line break inside of a hyperlink inside of a footnote that is spreading the hyperlink across an entire page of PDF content somehow, so very little is visually wrong--it isn't that page 27 is showing nothing but a link, which is how I initially interpreted this issue report--but the behavior is very wrong: all of the text on page 27 acts as the link.)
My new funtime activity: filing bogus claims against conference talks.
Guest here. The context is Uber was on MySQL which by default doesn't respect (or at least in their version and setup at the time) case sensitivity. To MySQL craig is the same as Craig when matching.

Their app for search relied on this. The solution for them was the citext data type to create a case insensitive string - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/citext.html

I'm fairly familiar with Postgres, but have not heard of a collation that tackles case insensitivity without tweaking the system itself? Postgres you can tweak this at the system level, but I've not seen it in the wild and as per the docs you're now non deterministic. For MySQL it appears you can change this, but seems a surprising default for them they expected case insensitivity.

Yes, another option could have been indexing and searching on lower or upper casing, but they wanted the minimal change to their app.

There was once a conference talk they gave about their migration process from MySQL->Postgres, but I'm not immediately able to find the video online so it may have been removed.
If the KKK comes in and asks for cake to celebrate their latest burning, they should be able to say no.

It can’t be black and white; the line has to be drawn somewhere. The grey is what makes things so complicated. Ask 1000 people about 100 different edge cases, no one will give the same answer to all of them.
I've read that gait recognition is even easier to implement and more accurate than facial recognition. People will find more and more innovative ways to invade our privacy.
https://github.com/dewmal/
And, indeed, the tech industry has had and continues to have a deeper problem.
You have to be careful with taking something from QI and believing it too much. They often stretch the truth, simplify connections, and obfuscate etymology.

I mean, it is a TV show, after all. /s
this research paper claims to describe a secret ballot blockchain but i don't have access to it

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01677...

notably, if the individual ballot verification process involves each voter knowing their own ballot, this still provides a proof mechanism enabling a voter to demonstrate to another what their actual recorded vote was.
Just curious, what would You suggest as a remedy to this situation?
This is an honest questions please don't get offended.
60-year-old limit to lasers overturned by quantum researchers
Definitely a bit off topic, so feel free to vote me into oblivion.

Does anyone else get an almost visceral feeling of disgust most applications (or even words) that use K instead of C, or add a K just to fit the KDE motif?

I really want to like KDE, but there is something stylistic about it that drives me up the wall. I'm asking not to insult anyone, but to see if anyone has an explanation of why I react this way. Maybe it will remain an unexplained idiosyncrasy.