skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is easy you get to figure out what they know without their mistakes. My brother taught me to dribble, pass, shoot, tackle, and throw. I'm much better at them but he had to teach himself. He learn how to dribble left and right cause he saw how it hampered him to he forced me to learn. Its pretty standard to do that
Pei-Yuan Wei created the ViolaWWW browser in 1991.

His browser had many features, including:

- Stylesheets, similar to CSS

- Scripting support, using a scripting language (like JavaScript).

- The equivalent of Iframes

Pei-Yuan Wei is the man.
Only if it is based on proof of work. Many cryptocurrencies are now based on proof of stake which does not generally require large amounts of energy. See Eth2 for an example.
Interesting. The analogy I reach for is the invention of the printing press. It saw an explosion of pamphlets in Germany, around the Reformation. Luther was one of the great authors. But by the 1520s the ideological opening had led to the Peasants War, and the disaster of Münster (think Waco on a larger scale). Luther himself became disillusioned, and turned more towards the power of the civil authorities and away from unrestricted Bible reading.

Yet, in the long run, societies that embraced this chaotic power did better than those that tried to repress it.

Will the same be true this time?
I agree, this practical view makes more sense. However, the Kotlin compiler can be invoked either explicitly like Java or implicitly like Python. Is Kotlin a scripting language?
Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
Tipsli
https://tipsli.com/ref/Rizwanimmortal
mypy is great but I've become enamoured with pyright[1] of late. It's super fast and catches way more problems than mypy does. It also catches syntax and semantic errors as a nice aside.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/pyright
When I was in university a few years ago, laptops were very common, but most still used paper.

Yeah, it was distracting. I spent more time writing my own note-taking tool than I did listening in class. It went poorly.
In San Francisco I believe we've been housing some homeless people in hotels (which have been otherwise empty due to COVID). From what I understand, the funding for that is drying up very soon, which is really unfortunate. Supposedly the plan is to get people into more permanent housing, but I can't see how that's going to happen on such a short time scale, so I expect that sadly many of the people in hotels now will end up back on the street.

Since you mention that some people in your area have managed to get themselves into a better situation just because they'd been housed for a bit, I wonder if that's true for any number of people here. But I'm also afraid that any gains will be quickly erased with our new lockdown that's going into effect Sunday night (which essentially winds us back to March with most businesses closed0, which could take away any newly-found jobs.
Try i.reddit.com

You can fallback to old.reddit.com for subs for which don't load with it.
"...socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

(paraphrasing Steinbeck)
The Dec 21, 2020 Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn
I never met him, so take this with a grain of salt, but I always got a bit of a weird vibe from Tony’s obsession with “happiness”, like he was faking it or overcompensating or something.
Planting trees does. Indirectly by combatting climate change, which has proportionally negative impacts on poorer countries.
> - no emojis please, ever

Why not? Do you also don't want to see icons in GUIs?
That's interesting ... I've had vision problems (been partially blind out of one eye for years, and my vision often wants to go double), and no one's been able to pin point a cause. Keep getting hand-wavey responses like "it's just your migraines".

How did you discover you had increased cranial pressure?
> She didn’t “refuse to fix it when asked”. She agreed with the proviso that she could have a meeting to figure out what she was and was not permitted to publish.

I think that is in dispute. Jeff Dean claims she did refuse to fix it.

> It’s entirely plausible that the paper is bunk; however, when someone is willing to come down that hard to prevent an idea being published, I tend to err on the side of “worth finding out what”

But they weren't trying to prevent the idea from being published. They certainly knew by firing her they'd give it far more attention than it would otherwise get. What they wanted was not to put their name on this idea.
I have a relative that went blind due to double corneal tear. Every time one of these articles comes up, they forward me the link and ask whether that's something they could use. Of course, I always have to be the one giving the bad news.

I rarely see any of those articles materialize in a way where I could say "yes, this is something I can get right now". The only one I remember actually making it is the Argus II, and even then there is no way I could afford the $150K price.
Code coverage works best when you have a strongly typed language. Otherwise it is a misleading metric.
That's not really true, change is incredibly _easy_ without static types. I've worked an a few large projects now all in Python or JS where the test time has never really been an issue, nor has the ability to make changes.

I'd say it's not really the language, but rather the abuse of it. The same goes for any project in any programming language.
> Another large impact is mental illness, in particular presenting in suicide

At least one study didn't find an uptick in suicides as a result of the lockdowns. Situation may differ in America because it's run by idiots that cut off state income support and didn't commit to locking down till the situation was under control.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...
That's an interesting theory. I think there are competing interests, though. Landlords and businesses generally won't want homeless people in their areas, though, because their presence alone will decrease property values and rent (landlords), and drive away customers (businesses). But for what you suggest to work, homeless people need to be visible.

Do you have any data on this? This doesn't really pass the smell test for me, even though it potentially sounds like a satisfying explanation of part of the problem.
Yep, it feels very disingenuous....

It is like someone complaining that google map uses x, amount of energy, yet the old alternative (printing maps, and getting lost) was much worse CO2 wise.
So freedom of speech is the problem? What the world has become...
Oh, look, another omniscient person protecting all the lesser human beings from the crime of wrongthink. So virtuous, moraly superior. What would we all do without them.
You should read some other ethical AI research. This is par for the course. We're still suffering talks about killer robots.
At this stage, is there any political action Google could take, for or against any topic, which 1,200 Google workers would not immediately condemn in public?
Wealthiest nation could easily be true depending on your chosen measure. The US is number one in total wealth. Almost double the next wealthiest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_w...
As per those links - the workarounds found in 2018 allow you to submit to Windows Store.

But even still - my app is sideloaded and never needed to care about .NET Native at all.
Ethics is inherently "PR, ideology, and politics" since the ethicist has to select a set of foundational moral principles to work off of but that set won't be universally shared by everyone.
Yes, Please, no emojis.
The printing press still required costs to operate - and these costs were huge compared to the costs of required to post on the Internet nowadays. This post mentions that it is the posts done by usual people that do the most harm, usually due to their sheer amount first and foremost: this is equivalent to giving everyone on the planet the power of having a printing press of their own and multiple free places to hang their pamphlets for other people to see.

The scale of the Internet's "printing power" is already millions of times bigger than that of the renaissance printing press.
Looks nice but on mobile I find the interstitial ads a bit off-putting. It might be better to go easy on the advertising, build usage and then go for sponsorship.
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Seriously, since when making choices with your private life (and describing the reasons for that choice) is a sign of omniscience and superiority?
I haven't read Carr, but the article makes it sound as if only reading attention span is addressed. I am astounded at my inability to watch films I enjoyed as a young adult because the scenes are too long and the story unfolds too slowly.
We’re still talking about two rather different things: you’re talking about the ability to find a particular collision; I’m talking about the probability of any collision occurring, which is the birthday problem. An 80-bit hash has collision resistance of only 2⁴⁰, a mere trillion. This is ample for many applications, but nowhere near enough for many other applications if you consider collisions a bad thing.

2¹²⁸ is indeed overkill for most situations, but it’s about trying to make sure choosing IDs randomly is safe. (I was probably playing it a little too safe in saying “most fields”.)
Do you think the employer weren't aware they were hiring an activist?
People should be able to go out on their own terms, instead of deteriorating in an aged care centre. It should be completely legal for those aged 80 and over, for example, to seek to end their life - if they decide they have lived all they want, and don't want to suffer the problems associated with old age. This also allows them to choose their time of death, and for their family to remember them in a state of relatively good health.
The fact that they assume that decentralized web equals immutable and global by default shows ignorance. You should take a look at SSB and Radicle, if you want a different dweb than IPFS.
You couldn't disagree that "not enough people use man pages"? Do you have a source for that belief?

It's really weird to me that a few people here seem to really like their man page... when you can just do `cmd --help` and it works in pretty much any program, and you can visit the website for in-depth information.
I thought Arc was only for backend? Or does it render HTML as well?
The rhetoric coming from Big Tech ("we can't let people even think these bad ideas") is extremely similar to the rhetoric that came from the Catholic Church during the Reformation and subsequent Wars of Religion. The universalist ethic is also the same; i.e. letting other parts of the world have differing ethical views on certain issues is unacceptable and must be eliminated. There cannot be more than one opinion on X social issue, just as there could not be more than one interpretation of Christianity.

I think we are still in the power-building stages. There is no real alternative to Facebook/YouTube/etc. yet. But say, 30 years from now, there probably will be. Combined with increasing governmental hostility, we'll probably see a deeply fractured internet, undercut by a (semi-illegal) totally open one.
> But for nine months we reduced homelessness and structural health problems to single digit or less and it almost certainly saved money.

> That's the truly amazing thing: the net budget effect on federal and state funded interventions was probably better, and they STILL unwound the programmes.

According to the treasurer of Victoria, they allocated $150 million budget to provide this accommodation for 2000 people. That comes out to $75,000 per person. According to the University of Queensland, taking a homeless person off the street saves about $13,000 in additional medical and policing costs. So the covid measures certainly didn't save money. Normal state provided housing comes a lot closer to the $13,000 mark if you take a look at how much those programs costs, but they tend to be at 100% capacity all of the time. It's also worth noting that while Victoria reports providing 2000 homeless people with housing during the pandemic, the state is reported to have somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 homeless.
She threatened resignation in fairly obnoxious and toxic way. google called her bluff and accepted.

No, I haven’t lost respect.
Based on your comments, you probably never had a need for food and housing assistance. There's a huge chasm between "extreme poverty" and "stable base" and millions of people are stuck. At least one billionaire profits from keeping people in that limbo: https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/w...
That is absolutely true. But compared to what went before, the printing press was a huge advance too. Going from 0 to 1 can be a bigger deal for society than going from 1 to 100.
Honestly I think even junior developers know better, but we all make bad calls sometime and maybe worst of all, requirements can change and sabotage our best efforts.
Work clothes in general tend to be higher quality and last much longer than fast fashion. A pair of chinos or cotton twill pants from a respected workwear manufacturer is what I would recommend for daily wear.
I did; I mean that if the system crashes it's your application's fault, not DOS's.
What is the "monad-style behavior" they talk about relating to enums here? I really don't understand the connection, and nothing in the rest of the proposal makes any mention of it.
As someone who has moderated various irc channels, mostly about debating / philosophical issues for years, there is a lot of confusion about the dialectic between free speech and moderation.

That is to say, I like to compare a room/channel/sub a bit like a cafe where you never know who is going to walk in. It might be nice folks looking for a pleasant discussion, but it could be drunken brawlers high on their drug of choice, or anything in between and in every kind of mental state you can imagine.

Usually it is some mix in a wide spectrum, and depending on the appeal, the crowd culture varies. Philosophical channels tend to be more naturally selective for civil debaters, but more political ones can be a mixed bag.

And just as you don’t want your bar to end in a riot and with broken tables and a bad rep, you absolutely need moderation. The paradox is solved if you keep the possibility of civil discourse, of speech and to be heard, as high as a priority as a mod as you can.

Stop doing it, and it starts leaning towards one way or the other, inclusionary for one group, exclusionary towards others.

When I modded I often had to take away the misconception that you had a right to be there. You don’t. You have the privilege to debate in the channel, not a right. And as a guest of the establishment you need be mindful of others, and abide by the rules who are not there to curtail your freedom of speech, but to provide well thought out debates.
> Inside a method on a Case, The $this variable is defined and refers to the Case instance.

Say what? Where does this instance come from and what is its scope?

> By default, Enumerated Cases have no primitive equivalent. They are simply singleton objects.

So, singletons. That way you end up with more global state, with all its consequences.

> the following features of objects are not allowed on enumerations:

> Enum/Case properties

Ok, so these are objects without properties. That could solve the global state problem but at this point you may just as well skip the entire object part as I don't see why exactly it's needed for an identity check.

Also, enumerations may have static methods but the provided example says "public function" without the static modifier.
here is a nice case where alphafold did way better than others

https://twitter.com/TassosPerrakis/status/133353559400213299...

Tassos is also a professor in structural biology. Discovering structures the experimental way.

EDIT: on the other hand he also agrees that it's not the end of experimental structural biology

https://twitter.com/TassosPerrakis/status/133402467831107993...
Oh my, thank you for letting me know about nitter. It looks fantastic and even offers RSS!
The web makes it much easier to give a button a drop shadow than a keyboard shortcut; that's the sense in which it's hard. The web's origin is documents, not software.

"Users don't want websites to override their keyboard shortcuts" is so right and so telling! We've all been burned by copying a Google search link, or had 'automated link attribution' spam our clipboards. Keyboard shortcuts should not be a "power user" feature but that's where we find ourselves, as the web subverts all user interactions.
Yeah it seems like her paper was light in technical substance and high in social justice activism. Pointing out that google emits carbon is worth consideration in the appropriate venues but it doesn’t really advance the state of the art.
Or maybe alcohol isn't quite as addictive and destructive as heroine and other opiates?
Why backend of web development is narrow down to nodejs server? How about people who use Rust/Python/Ruby/Elixir/PHP?
Do you mean these:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt

- https://radicle.community/
Show HN: Secure way to share notes and files
Ardit, only a Simpleton would characterize social science as BS. Maybe take that naval podcast with a grain of salt and think for yourself.
To be fair, when the ideas include what’s on 8chan, you can see why they worry - like the article author.
I've worked for an organization helping homeless. We eg organized a worldwide soccer tournament https://homelessworldcup.org/
and are selling a news paper distributed by homeless people.

Most homeless in western european countries come either from losing their job and having drug problems, or losing their wifes and thereby homes. The many eastern homeless cross the borders because they can live much better by begging on the streets here than in the east. But there are plenty of homeless, squatters there also. Eg nost of the abandoned village houses in the east were subsequently squatted by gypsies. The city center in Bucuresti is also full of homeless. When writing a book about homeless over the world in the US and Russia, the problems were the same, just that in the USA there's a homeless shipping industry to get them out of the city, but they still prefer the warm south where it's easy to survive. Who wouldn't. Even the rich old folks prefer Florida over NY. Just politicians and police are more inhuman there.
"...is known for coauthoring a groundbreaking paper that showed facial recognition to be less accurate at identifying women and people of color, which means its use can end up discriminating against them"

Wait, isn't that the other way around? If it can't recognize people of some category then it can't be used to discriminate against them, e.g. the police can't use it to identify peaceful protesters with those characteristics. I wonder what would have happened if the these networks were much better at recognizing women and people of color, would the paper then be about Google designing technology to detect minorities?
I can empathize with not wanting to be involved with this anymore, which is fair enough, your choice, but there are solutions to the mentioned problems.

There are social or technical solutions to the problem of "too much free speech".

There can be decentralised filters set up that can be moderated by communities like democracy. You can have curators of content that can guarantee to bring safe and healthy content to you. You can have decentralised reputation, authority and reward systems for the content creators and the validators. And so on.
You're assuming that reCaptcha is training some Google algorithm. But in fact it has trained you -- to recognise US style dangly traffic lights, yellow school busses and cabs, pedestrian cross walks -- and this makes me wonder if reCaptcha does use the same image set for all different locations. Are people in Lagos, Pune and Tashkent routinely failing reCaptcha at higher rates because they don't watch US television? How fast do they learn what a school bus looks like?
yes https://radicle.xyz/ and https://scuttlebutt.nz/
I feel google was being open minded, but the other party was not, and actually being malicious...

basically: instead of reform, and fixing whats broken; to tear it down, as it is just another means of oppression.... (yes, that's the mindset of the movement).

Her research, looks to be mean spirited, and made to discredit google, so it can be blackmailed into whatever the ideology wants.

It is not meant to fix/improve the situation, but used as political amo. Hence it is just a political paper/propaganda, and not proper ai research.
I grew up in poverty under a single mother. My family’s yearly income was never more than $10K growing up. I have the income tax statements to prove it.

I went to the absolute worst schools. Literally F schools.
I very doubt that if any resistance is there, that it will ever beats reinforced concrete, or steel frame for safety.

Reinforced masonry, if properly designed, will certainly beat wood, and nails too.
One can work or not on something for whatever reason they want. Just spare us the long description of how other people are lesser human beings that should have their rights restricted for their own good, and how it's better this way.
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> Hint: good PMs won't just base it on gut feelings or anecdotal evidence.

Sure you want some structure, but people often get this wrong.

Intuition is surprisingly important and it's easy to get into some
pseudo-scientific approach and call it data-driven (eg. biased questions/scales in surveys are very common).

Ultimately to be approximately right is still better than to be precisely wrong.
The issue i find with viewpoints like this are these comments:

> In the last few years, completely unregulated online speech has given rise to fake news and conspiracy theories that have actually killed people. It’s offered a megaphone to those promoting dangerous ideas like white supremacy, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, homophobia and other anti-LGBTQ positions, and sometimes outright Nazism. It has tilted many democracies towards right-wing populism and fascism.

Perhaps that's what people actually think and would have thought regardless of the internet? Every thing listed is well below peak popularity, and anti LGBTQ sentiment for example is the lowest it has ever been with LGBTQ view enjoying widespread grassroots and estalbishment support.

Authors like this are simply yearning for the ecstasy of ideological conformity; the dream that they will one day open their web browser and find a world of people who suddenly share their enlightened world view. Instead of criticising others, perhaps they should question their own worldview and whether it would be even remotely normal for everyone to share it.

There is nothing more likely to grow those beliefs than to ban them outright. Goebbels was prosecuted for hate crimes in Weimar Germany in 1928[0], and to say such laws were ineffective is to put it mildly.

[0] Longerich, Peter (2015). Goebbels: A Biography. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1400067510.
I don't know, I think it just betrays a deep insecurity. Who cares what a bunch of teenagers say on the Internet? Even the real world consequences of fringe online groups are minuscule in comparison to their perceived threat.

Civil society, in theory, is supposed to be about keeping civil with people that you have fundamental disagreements with - so that society can function. That has morphed into one highly religious in tone, in which it's not merely enough to tolerate other people - you have to convert them, and if they refuse to comply, excommunicate (deplatform) them.