skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>He said he believes that certain voguish positions are substantively wrong—for instance, abolishing or defunding police—and that such arguments, as well as rhetorical fights over terms like Latinx, alienate many people from progressive politics and the Democratic Party.

“There’s been endless talk since the election about House Democrats being mad at the ‘Squad,’ and others saying, ‘What do you want, for activists to just not exist? For there to be no left-wing members of Congress?’” Yglesias told me. “But there’s a dynamic where there’s media people who really elevated the profile of [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and a couple of other members way above their actual numerical standing.”

Many outlets, he argued, are missing something important. “The people making the media are young college graduates in big cities, and that kind of politics makes a lot of sense to them,” he said. “And we keep seeing that older people, and working-class people of all races and ethnicities, just don’t share that entire worldview.

This just hits the nail right on the head.
If that’s all you’ve got then you don’t have much of a case.
I don't think you're describing authorianism so much as centralized power. Private property does the same thing, it just chooses who has power using a different metric. Somebody with a lot of property can do the same stuff, except where laws prevent them, but it's the laws doing the protecting, not your own property

What you really need to avoid these issues is ways to distribute power. Anti trust, democracy, checks and balances, etc where lots of people to agree
I found a pretty good free Computer Vision (in python) email course by pyimagesearch.com (https://www.pyimagesearch.com/free-opencv-computer-vision-de...)
It's just a compilation of tutorial articles from the blog (which is why it's free), but in a curated order to make some more sense.
This would have been so useful when learning ASN.1..
The only resistance to power corrupting is the belief that you don’t deserve the power (humility).
Nonsense, comrade! You will be fine with one standard unit of food per day like everyone else. Candy is for weak capitalists.
For confused people clicking the article like myself: This is not about hair colour. Title means “hairstyle commonly worn in Black communities.”
This relies on libraries too.

I reckon a D implementation would be a little bit shorter, I might try and write one tomorrow.
Here's a fresh comment got those who need to put down what others say to feel better about themselves. I have lots of points, i can help you.
IRS Announces Move to Protect Businesses from Identity Theft
fair call, I know how that applies to collaborators from within targeted communities,

but I've also seen it wrongfully directed towards oppressors who never knew good relations with their subjects: we can't 'reconcile' if we never were friends.
Since names are often assumed to be not case-sensitive.

Although every once in a while you still see a system that renders names in all uppercase, with the lone exception of a lowercase c in Scottish surnames starting with Mc-.
That is an absolutely disingenuous reading of what the article was trying to say. It's more like "this will not be available to regular people in our lifetimes." It's neither "Rich people having things I can't have is bad!" nor "it's better for everyone to stay the same than everyone get better, if some people get better by a bigger amount."

Can you rephrase your critique using what the article actually said, rather than what you're reading into it?
Well, if you want to go to that extreme, probably also ditch any data service hosted by any company that hires an Australian. The law passed was not restricted to Australian corporations, but Australian citizens regardless of where in the world they reside. Since E3 visas (basically an Australian-only H1b) are so easy to get, that's probably just about any US-based company with more than a few hundred employees.

In practice though I don't think anyone actually cares. I certainly haven't been asked about it by any prospective employers and I work in areas of finance where companies are famously protective of their IP.
>because it's the job of journos to determine the truth

You got that wrong, that absolutely not their job.
I was talking about the majority of Southern Democrats.
There is plenty of data. We've known this day was coming since the 1970's. Economic interests be damned, we need to do something now to avoid the collapse of civilization.
> "What is HN doing right that it's gotten better over the years given how rampant sexism is generally in the world?"

I'd say pinning stories and then pinning comments at the top urging civil discussion seems to work fairly well for a broad set of controversial topics, including gender-related hot-button issues.

However, there is still so much hostility and such a strong gender skew that you even if the comments obviously violating HN guidelines get flagged, the residual of borderline commentary is still overwhelming in the aggregate.

It's possible to do more. Consider the moderation strategies used by Jezebel and TheRoot, where comments either have to be posted by someone on a whitelist maintained by staff, approved by someone on the whitelist, or approved by the person being replied to if their comment was approved. That moderation system allows those sites to keep the hostility just barely at bay, and you will read perspectives playing out in long threads on those sites which would be instantly shouted down on HN.

The cost of the system used at Jezebel/TheRoot is that it reduces the scope for debate, since only approved commenters can disagree at will — an unapproved commenter replying in disagreement will usually be ignored. Still, I wonder whether some sort of whitelisting mechanism isn't the only way to allow to allow underrepresented perspectives to develop fully.

(For what it's worth, this would also apply to certain socially conservative perspectives which tend to have a short life on HN.)
Correct, the politics and power dynamics are the primary barrier, not because the theories fail (they tend to go untested).

Look at Venezuela. A country that has been dependent on an oil-based extraction economy for decades and subject to brutal imperialism elects a socialist government that nationalizes... just that one industry, and the entirety of Western powers turn against them along with local national business owners, sabotaging their own points of sale as a form of economic warfare, instead selling across the border to support a black market.

As a reminder, despite the socialist label of the party in power, Venezuela has a significantly lower level of nationalization than France. But because France is not a target of both imperial and capital interests, but is instead firmly established as an imperial country itself, we don't see sanctions or (inaccurate) dithering over election integrity.

Venezuela is what you get when you propose to move some of the power and profits away from capital and don't have the footing to withstand their counterattack.
It could also be that they're right and people have considered the alternatives.

Eg. The lack of opposition to the idea that water is wet does not imply that water is in fact dry and everyone is just brain washed
Viral Philosophy: A Conversation about the Virus
I don't think so. We're not talking about a week-long or even month-long surge that's starting to fade; it's been like this since the dine-in ban was lifted in early summer, and has only gotten worse now that the weather has turned. If this generalizes to the rest of the country (which is obviously not a given, but I think rather likely), we'll be back to pre-pandemic levels of dining as soon as restrictions are lifted.

Also, delivery is only a replacement for dining out if your reason for going out is the food/drink. If, on the other hand, you dine out for the social aspect, then delivery is never going to be a replacement for you. My hunch tells me that the latter is more common, but I'm not as confident in that prediction.
> you can yourself notice that majority of developers and creative professionals own Macs.

In the USA/UK/Canada startup land maybe? I very much doubt that most developers use a Mac. For one it is extremely expensive in "non first world" countries.
If that letter is transphobic, then what isn't transphobic? Does the bar have to be set so low?
I've created a few courses for career development/job seekers and the pushback I get from younger generations is they want video in 5 minute snippets. I was under the impression "one-lesson-a-day" of meaty content; roughly 30 minutes of reading for 1-2 weeks depending on the course, was the better value but...
From https://www.cbo.gov/publication/18196, the link above:

"The payload of 140 metric tons is derived from weight data pro-vided in Richard W. Orloff, Apollo by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference, NASA SP-2000-4029 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, updated September 27, 2005), available at http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/SP-4029.htm. In that reference, 140 mt is the weight of the Apollo 17 command-and-service modules, the lunar module, the spacecraft/lunar module adapter, the instrument unit, and the S-IVB stage (the third stage of the Saturn V), including the fuel remaining in that stage needed to propel the Apollo command-and-service modules and lunar module from low earth orbit to the moon."

So this number includes the S-IVB stage and unspent fuel. Which ought to raise the question of the definition of the payload - we don't usually consider launcher's parts among payload mass.

> Mass of the payload to LEO is just how much mass is brought to LEO.

No, it's usually not that simple - Space Shuttle here doesn't include Orbiter's mass (I think it's a mistake), Sputnik payload didn't include R-7 second stage (I think it's right), Energia doesn't have 0 LEO payload even though it releases the payload below LEO (I think this definition is also more meaningful).
Well, in the end I paid $36 for takeout sushi for two people... which is, I guess, not an unreasonable price in America. $77 is getting pretty high even for a big coastal city, although I'm sure there are people who happily pay that.

How much would it cost where you live?
Not related to but, as you can see a trend in the pings over time on the graph it reminds me that even in a very granular benchmark it can be very helpful to plot the results first before trying to process them.

For example, we sometimes blindly calculate the mean whereas the data may be such that we end up giving a value the benchmark will never reach.
> What happens when you have two people claiming stand your ground?

One of them initiated the violence or the reason for justified violence, and that person (the aggressor) is in the wrong, generally speaking.

> Dead men can’t speak. Stand your ground is an affirmative defense.

Its an affirmative defense to charges of assault, yes. This is why it applies to Martin even if everything Zimmerman said is true.

> Honest question, are you saying the prosecution should have ignored years of case law and argued on purely circumstantial evidence?

No, they should have relied on the facts not in dispute, which is that Zimmerman followed a person home, that person was unknown to him and had every right to be there, and Zimmerman acted contrary to the wishes of the 911 operator when he exited the safety of his vehicle to pursue a teenager down the path. For this reason, Martin's alleged reaction to attack Zimmerman was an act of self-defense by a cornered juvenile.

> Because Martin’s girlfriend was a baaaaaaaad witness. Like beyond bad. Like I would have been ashamed to have her as my star witness. Why would the one person who could hear the struggle of the fight have an attitude, on the stand, towards the prosecutor fighting for her bf?!?!!

Yes, she was a bad witness because she lacked the signs of class and education that would have made her likely to arise sympathy in the hearts of the audience. and Martin was a bad victim because he was a young, healthy, skinny black kid.

None of that changes the part where an adult male followed a kid home and provoked an assault.
They forgot to mention the part where the goal posts get moved and you have to keep apologizing each time this happens. You may find yourself running out of rope as you are pushed further and further out until you don't have much left to give.

Modesty and realizing you've made a mistake are good qualities, no doubt. But those traits will be used against you if you foolishly think others will be also acting in good faith when they publicly point out your mistake. If you wish to publicly apologize that's fine, but don't for a second fall for the notion that this will appease the mob. They want blood when they smell it in the water and each apology just squirts more blood into the water for them to feed off of.
Statically typed languages typically have better performance.

In C, i++ is one or two machine instuctions. In javascript, we don’t know if i is an int, or something that overrode ++ to download wikipedia. So, it ends up being a function call in naive JavaScript. Fast forward a decade, and dozens of PhD theses mean that ++ is usually a machine instruction in JavaScript, but it is not guaranteed.
The correct title is "The Oculus Go Wasn’t Designed for Black Hair". The HN title is the problem.
Or alternatively, memory and storage was hideously expensive and the programmers were limited to what they could support.
Look at this chart https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16226/perf-trajectory_575p... from page 4 of the article above.

It shows the A9-A14 chips compared vs the K-series processors by Intel.
It is closed source, but the templating language is amazingly useful, and nothing in the open source comes close to what it offers.

If you need a hex editor for RE purposes, I'd highly recommend at least trying it out.
Well, you do have something of a point here: if you have done something that is illegal or widely regarded as reprehensible, then it is usually in your best interests to deny it - but it is quite obvious that the article we're all nominally discussing here is not about such situations.

I also find it interesting how the issue of admitting to making mistakes is being conflated with apologizing. While they are related, there is an important difference: a person who will never apologize is merely immature, while one who never admits to making mistakes might be a dangerous liability to himself and others, and is unfit for positions of responsibility.
On other hex editors: HxD[1] recently received some updates after years of being dormant

HxD is a bit sentimental to me as it's the hex editor I used over a decade ago when figuring out that you could flip one bit at a deterministic position in Game Maker executables to enable the debugger for release builds. A small find, since soon after someone else figured out how to extract the whole source from release builds

1: https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
Arab Spring has been a disaster.
Strong disagree. I want to follow someone who knows when not to apologize: when it’s _not_ their/our mistake, when assigning blame doesn’t help, and when they’re fighting for us.
To be fair, I suspect they'll take anyone's money without regard for gender, race or religion. If you ignore the company, I think the lesson we can all learn is that there are obvious ways to make products more universal. In this case, there was a maker willing to adapt the units so it also would have been cool to make the point where the straps attach more amenable to alternate straps being used.

Not to take away from the problem caused by having more hair (I now have the opposite problem) but I think the other issue with a one-size-fits-all design is going to be the gasket against the face.
Mind-blowing work! Is there any kind of tools for "reverse engineering" or otherwise unrolling/prettifying dweets so I can study them better? It's really cool but I barely know where to begin.
You can if the chemistry mistake causes problems if you charge too fast or charge to too high a voltage. Both can be avoided (fixed?) if the OTA update allows you to control the charging.
Sure, but a Model S costs around twice as much as a Bolt so you’d expect something for that money.
Loss of metabolic plasticity underlies metformin toxicity
Can we change the title to be less clickbait-y? "Hyperventilation Is Proven to Accelerate Elimination of Alcohol from the Body"
IMHO, I need both text streams and metaformat. YMMV.

Just like GUIs should but usually are not gracefully, responsively scaled to user expertise, the developer experience should but usually are not gracefully, responsively scaled to the appropriate level of scaffolding to fit for purpose to the requirements defining the problem space at hand. I need more representations and abstractions, not less.

Metaformats drag in their own logistical long tail that in many use cases are wildly heavyweight for small problems. Demanding metaformats or APIs everywhere and The Only Option trades off against the REPL-like accessibility of lesser scaffolding. API-first comes with its own non-trivial balls of string; version control between caller and callee, argument parsing between versions, impedance mismatch to the kind of generative CLI's you envision, and against other API interfaces, etc.

The current unstructured primitives on the CLI, composable into structured primitives presenting as microservices or similar functions landing into a more DevOps-style landscape, etc. represents a pretty flexible toolbox that helps mitigate some of the risks in Big Design Up Front efforts that structure tends to emerge in my experience. I think of it as REPL-in-the-large.

As I gained experience I've come to appreciate and tolerate the ragged edge uncouthness of real world solutions, and lose a lot of my fanatical puritanism that veered into astronaut architecture.
Serious question, is it really worth it for $130?
It would be much nicer if I can just backup my iPhone to my nas (which I use for my Mac's Time Machine target) which is always online and available over a vpn rather than have to pull out my mbp to do a backup.
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1439

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer
Someone could or probably had made an external site to provide this. It could even be done as RSS so then you plug in your favourite reader. Would that be sufficient. Why does it need to be part of HN?
Sorry, Google, but the greatest threat to my account is Google itself.
Start researching uranium purification.
I, like Palmer Luckey himself, find my Oculus Go subpar-to-unusable because of the fixed IPD. It's been a little better since I bought prescription lenses, but still not great. It's a device designed very much for the average human with little thought given to others.
There's no difference there as that is just title-cased.

Also, only in a few niches like Twitter is "Black" capitalized and then used as an adjective to describe something to do with black people (e.g. "Black success"), so to everyone else it just sounds like the color since most people don't automatically assume everything is racial.

Though the racial fixation of the article is already belabored as anyone with their hair worn a certain way, like my girlfriend right now, can't even wear hats much less a $1000 VR headset. But the success and popularity of racial essentialism in 2020 is another topic.
Good to know. As a Godzilla fan, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.
I don’t understand why it’s “bad for economics growth” to regulate Ant as if it is a bank.

In what world subprime lending is innovative and good for economy?
The failure of rockets launches is about 1%. (For example the space shuttle has 135 launces and 2 failures.) It's much much much safer to dig a giant hole in a stable zone and put the nuclear waste there.

Launching a rocket to the Sun is very difficult, it's much easier to launch it to deep space.

The idea of using a canon is also impractical. There is just too much friction. Have you calculated the speed that the "bullet" need to reach orbit?
macOS 11 (Big Sur) Compatibility News
> If you generally live by your own values, and act according to them

Maybe you're different than the rest of us, but I imagine that most people do things from time to time that don't align with their values, either because of an honest accident, or because of a "moment of weakness". Obviously we don't need to publicly apologize for everything though.
What do you mean by in power?

If somebody has the wealth to buy this company, they already have considerable power
It’s fairly hard to force someone that doesn’t want to to sell in any democracy.
Unless it changed since it incorporated Ghidra, SANS FOR610 has a very shallow look into actual static reversing of native code.

It's a good introduction but does not venture far.
It’s better late than never.
What in the article do you disagree with? Nowhere does she say that it affects only black women or that it doesn't affect non-black women.

Considering all of the participants in her study were black women and how the headstrap broke with such regularity, I think she can make a valid claim that "the Oculus Go wasn't designed for black hair" without making claims about others.

I agree with you though. It probably affects many non-black women as well.
Author here. I started it as a side project to have a local-first, org-mode outliner web app to use on my phone. I chose Clojure/Clojurescript because I'm more familiar with both compared to Javascript/Typescript. Several things I like a lot about Clojure/Clojurescript:
Data-Oriented Programming, all three (logseq, roam, athens) use Datascript, which is an in-memory database and Datalog query engine.
REPL (as other lisp languages)
Clojure is very stable, I can run all my old projects without any issues.
Also, I don't reverse engineering the Roam code(it'll cost more time for us), Logseq is hugely inspired by Roam Research, Org Mode, TiddlyWiki, Workflow.

- Datascript: https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
Only if like twitter you know the number of followers and have likes for comments etc. But what if you didn’t? I think that would be more like an RSS feed. People don’t blog more because they have one.
are there any OSS hex editors that support binary templates?
Show HN: Write a software patent in under 20 hours with no experience
> > This is not like the AIDS crisis; the medical system was not at risk of collapsing.

> Neither is it now?

https://www.grandforksherald.com/newsmd/coronavirus/6753876-...

https://dcist.com/story/20/11/13/dc-hospitals-covid19-metric...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-midwest/...

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/11/13/across-alaska-as-the...

https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2020/11/13/covid-updates-neva...

https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2020/11/13/coronavi...

https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/oregon-gov-kate-brown-annou...

https://m.startribune.com/twin-cities-icu-space-at-red-alert...

> Even at the peak in NYC, the Javits center was never filled, nor the hospital ships

Yeah, whatever, that was months ago, and, leaving aside the debates about how meaningful that observation was at the time (which was argued quite a bit here on HN), that's not, and not relevant to, the current situation or forward risks. Right now medical systems in a lot of the country are exceeding capacity and turning away patients who would normally be hospitalized or treated due to the impact COVID-19 is happening.
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> every tech nerd's first reaction

Every true tech nerd knows this is fucking impressive ever since iPhones started being benchmarked against Intel and every true tech nerd can tell that this is only going to get better. :)