skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your sentiment is in the right direction but I don’t think it’s as explicit as you’re proposing.

Landlords don’t “prefer” homelessness to exist. Their position, as capitalists, ends with their interests.

Many (not all!) landlord are quite simple: “Pay rent or I will evict you and find someone else”. That’s it.

After an eviction, they don’t care whether the person moves elsewhere or is homeless. In fact I’d argue that most people are probably on the gooder side of good and would prefer their former tenant move elsewhere and live a nice comfortable life and someone else can deal with their poorness.

What they do absolutely want is the ability to enforce that eviction. That’s key. But I doubt they care so much about the looming threat of homelessness.
>while those of us who worked on crypto without any specific feelings are early retirees

I'm sure all the Enron investors said something similar before they went bust
Quality comment.
Are you github.com/stiray? I wanted chat about this without being buried about the HN censor, which I'm surely already.
How long until we end this myth that hospitals will be overcrowded?

That's been propaganda for the better part of a year and it hasn't happened yet, even in places with basically no Covid restrictions like Sweden and Utah.
yes because it's heavily moderated. and most of the removed content is .. unsurprisingly politics
> For half the people in the US racism is not a dealbreaker for the highest office it has to offer!

For the other half, sexism isn’t. (Biden selected his vice-president on the basis of sex.)
What about the 50 million people in poverty in America.

What about the small businesses and young people trying to get a start in life.

They need to eat too.
Look into how the Linux Kernel and other projects do development. I think a larger issue is why do we need a platform like GitHub when SCM can be done through email?
> I have seen, and I am seeing every day, the dangers of completely unrestricted speech, and I don’t want to be the one enabling that.

No thanks, I like choosing my own information, I don’t need an expert to filter “safe” information for me.
At this point you could as well open it up and disconnect the antennas.
I know. I've set up websites before; I am aware that it doesn't take that much money to get it running.

But what about advertising? Branding? Anything that a $5 droplet can do, someone else's product can probably do too -- you don't have the tech advantage. Do you stand out with UX? By doing the legwork yourself? All of these take manpower, and that means capital.

It's not the website that costs money to make; it's making that website profitable.
One way to define politics is "difference of opinion over ethics".
ISPs will also enforce other things using DNS. For example when Spectrum was fighting with Netflix, they sent traffic to some overloaded peering connection.

DNS over HTTPS is an abomination sold as snake oil security.
Agreed.

There's 50 million people in poverty and their children who would benefit from Covid restrictions being lifted.
HN not liking something doesn't make it a bad choice.

Kodi running on a Pi or some other low power computer is probably HN-friendly, although the usability isn't even close to as good as the Apple TV.
From where I am, free speech is with a few exceptions (Germany: Holocaust denial) implemented.

> I have seen, and I am seeing every day, the dangers of completely unrestricted speech

IMO, it's important to point out that from a simple definitions standpoint, speech can only be free when it's unrestricted. And also I believe that free speech isn't dangerous when speech is free.
Speech starts to become dangerous when it gets constraint e.g. by force or power.

And then another comment as a software dev that worked since 2014 in crypto: Just because we have decentralized technology that can be used by the badys and the goodies, doesn't mean we'll have to consume both their content.

Centralized/controlled views are always possible and work well today already (e.g. what Google displays vs what is the actual content of the web).
The 14.5 million are cases that have been identified with a positive test. There are certainly more people that have been infected than that, the only question is how many.

Distributed, probably so. I don't see any reason to doubt the manufacturers statements yet, and I'm not including the potential/likely J&J vaccine.

And while we don't know how long acquired immunity lasts, it's pretty clear that it lasts a good while (it's still a freak occurrence when someone tests positive after recovering from a first infection).
It's not a "farmers market" but the local small farm stand and other local farm store type places have been open all summer where I live in the Northeast. Why wouldn't they be if grocery stores are open?
That's not "starting a business," that's just finding work.
Me too. But your comment surprised me as I remember hearing about this new thing "JavaScript" waaaaay earlier than about CSS. I didn't actually know they came out this close together.
> I think anyone who takes that kind of role has to understand they'll be a lightning rod, feel passionate about it anyway, and understand they may well eventually set off a tripwire and be fired in a very public and humiliating way.

Oh, absolutely—that’s practically a part of their job description!
If you would fire someone for doing what they were hired to do then maybe you should reflect on whether you are in fact a manager.
Keep in mind that in this space, "security patch" might come in the form of rewriting the architecture specific virtual memory implementation... https://lwn.net/Articles/741878/
It’s not a joke. It’s a question of trust and authority. “Google DNS has been running for 10 years” does not negate Google’s management behavior or change the inherent risk of a free running for-profit entity being considered a DNS authority.

You calling it a tired joke doesn’t change these things.
I have a Samsung but use an Apple TV, I'd recommend disconnecting it and going this route. I was paranoid to give this TV any access to a network, and actually kind of freaked out on my poor wife when she connected it one time when I wasn't home.
> Why does it matter that that norm belongs to a dominant majority?

It matters

a. if the norm is actually universally applied - I find that this norm of respectful argumentation is not universally applied.

Remember: this is a twitter argument entirely unrelated to what Timnit is under discussion for now. Elon Musk and Linus have had unrelated arguments where they engaged in very offensive argumentation (calling their opponents pedophiles, telling them to kill themselves) without any evidence, yet I rarely see these issues brought up on unrelated issues about them. But for Timnit, it's a scarlet letter she has to bear.

b. I think we substantially underestimate how frustrating it might be to be a scientist of color where people are constantly discounting your expertise (because, yes, Timnit is an expert.) I'm sure seeing that same sentiment for the ith+1 time can evoke strong emotions and we are not necessarily seeing the context.

Regardless, maybe not an incredible look for Timnit but not super huge in the context of a large body of work.
You might appeal to Alexandra, patron saint of the paywalled scientist?
The rebuttal from someone more knowledgeable in the field than I am: https://youtu.be/YglT09Korr0?t=1115
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.sci-hub.st/doi/10.1111/peps....
The Window of New Movie Releases Finally Shatters
Thanks for sharing, this was an extremely interesting read. I am somewhat confused regarding casing. In particular, the equivalence example is all lowercase, while other examples seem to indicate that variables should be uppercase. Is souffle case-sensitive, or not?
Or because a German law firm (ab)uses a US copyright directive that Github, a US company has to follow?
Friend of OP. He said his link to the Center for Disease Control age data was shadowbanned for some reason.

Heres actual recent CDC data showing that only 20k people have died of Covid in the almost year so far.

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-...
My #1 problem with man pages is when I want to search for a command flag in a long man page.

If I search for "-f" then I get results for eg, --enable-feces, maybe a bunch of other flags with embedded fs, and a bunch of embedded example commands using those flags before actually getting to the section for -f. I wish there was a special query type that said "this is a flag I'm searching for".
The piece's latter stage thesis is that Citizen Kane is no longer considered the G(film)OAT, because in the more recent Sight & Sound polls it's been demoted from the its longstanding top spot position down to somewhere in the top five.

This seems to me an unimportant and un-insightful observation. To suggest it's indicative of an 'inevitable fall' in the film's standing and legacy is tenuous in the extreme, so much so that it's more likely the author's conclusion is tongue in cheek... I'd hope.
This.

It was literally her job to conduct such research. It's not politics, it's ethics (tethics)
I wouldn't be surprised if such a thing already exists
Rwandan hate radio is not simply a story of unbridled free speech.

"One of the most virulent voice of hate, the newspaper Kangura, began spewing forth attacks on the RPF and on Tutsi immediately after the October 1990 invasion. It was joined soon after by other newspapers and journals that received support from officials and businessmen linked to the regime. "

"Until 1992, Radio Rwanda was very much the voice of the government and of the president himself.... Before the daily news programs, Radio Rwanda broadcast excerpts of Habyarimana’s political speeches. This national radio sometimes broadcast false information, particularly about the progress of the war, but most people did not have access to independent sources of information to verify its claims.

In March 1992, Radio Rwanda warned that Hutu leaders in Bugesera were going to be murdered by Tutsi, false information meant to spur the Hutu massacres of Tutsi."

[later Radio Rwanda becomes less partisan:]

"With the new direction at Radio Rwanda and the voice of the RPF increasingly strong, Hutu hard-liners decided to create their own station. They began planning their radio in 1992, incorporated it as Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) in April 1993, and began broadcasting in August 1993...."

"Although nominally private and opposed to Radio Rwanda, RTLM in fact was linked in a number of ways with the national radio, with other state agencies and with the MRND. RTLM was allowed to broadcast on the same frequencies as the national radio between 8am and 11am, when Radio Rwanda was not transmitting, an arrangement that encouraged listeners to see the two as linked, if not as identical. The new station also drew personnel from Radio Rwanda, including Nahimana, who played a leading role at RTLM after having been dismissed from ORINFOR, and announcer Noel Hitimana."

Source: https://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda/Geno1-3-10.htm
Epidemiologists are also MDs. And epidemiology also is a hybrid of the kind you mention. Dogmas exist in every science, and although it is true that clinical medicine is far behind other disciplines regarding getting rid of dogmas, things are improving steadily.

Epidemiologists don't always understand better regarding what to do in practice. They understand things in their own manner shaped by their profession and that's exactly what we ask of them.
> Bill Gates has openly admitted how much his environment helped. Being genetically gifted as he is is only part of the equation. He also grew up in an affluent enough area to have early to computers as well as the time and supportive environment to pursue it.

Not to mention the role his familial connections had in his landing that sweetheart deal with IBM.
In my opinion a bit better site covering the same topic: https://interfaceingame.com/
Scarr's original twin study was done in Philadelphia. Seems strange to discount the Scarr-Rowe effect as not existing in the US at all when it was originally found there in the first place.
A four-day weekend off for Thanksgiving won't make much difference when it's going to take months to scale up manufacturing no matter what.

But needing to mail in a CD along with your printed application is hilariously bad.
Very nice concept and design. One thing I partially dislike about hn/reddit/youtube/etc is that most of the discussion has already occurred once I have arrived at a post. Although I admit that I find reading others' online discussions addictive, having a more real-time chat attached to a post like on sqwok is appealing. It means anyone can jump in and steer the discussion at any time, and not just be forced to tack on a comment at the bottom that will likely never be seen, buried under the weight of the existing discussion.

I have some feedback:

1.

One part of the interface confused me. From the "trending" tab I clicked on a post in the list. Then, I clicked the left-facing chevron above the post, which to me looked like a "back" button. After clicking, I was taken to the page of the user that made the post I was on. I expected to be taken back to the main trending list. This applies to both the desktop layout and to the mobile layout.

2.

An aspect of the design that rubs me the wrong way is the amount of persistent screen space dedicated to the content of a post in the desktop layout. The content of the post is generally pretty small, yet it takes up over half of the screen, and it appears there is no way to collapse it (?).

Once I've viewed the content of the post, I no longer need to see it, and would probably just want to engage in discussion in the chat with full focus. However, I'm still stuck with the main post taking up over half of the screen, and the chat boxed into its smaller panel.

In the mobile layout of sqwok, the user can click onto the chat tab, and the chat is given the full screen. I like that for a text or image post. On the other hand, for a video post I may want to view the video and read the comments at the same time.
Nit: PDP-7, not PDP-8. Cost 4 times as much and sold only 120 units, according to Wikipedia. Looks like 12-bit PDPs were a lot more affordable than 18-bit ones.
Ok, fair enough, the more sophistication you add, the less explainable it gets.

That being said, you can look at magnitude and direction of various coefficients and conclude certain obvious things. Even the case where reversing the correlation by picking some features instead of others says something -- those features point different ways but one has a higher magnitude so it 'wins'. They're ultimately pretty simple statistical observations about the training set.

A deep net, in comparison, is a totally unexplainable black box between the cross-linking and the sigmoid functions.
I still have reservations about moving too heavily towards an SPA - we still mostly have server-side rendered pages that render with react components so we don't have to deal with things like client side routing. It's also still important for us we render most of the page server-side for performance reasons, but I'm not too informed about the specific trade-offs there in load times if we did push more rendering to the client.

I feel like there's some opportunity in the space to create a truly re-usable form library that can hook into your backend and be themed / customized to suite the look and feel of your app. There's some companies already in that space though, so I might take some time to check out some existing solutions and see if there's some kind of needs gap. What's challenging about this problem though (as I'm sure you're also aware) is that there are a ton of variability in requirements when it comes to forms - it's something I wish were more standardized but at times it feels like one of those bikeshedding topics where everyone has an opinion on how inputs show be displayed, how errors are shown, etc.
Cinnamon on Linux Mint or Manjaro are very 'batteries included' setups. Ditto Kubuntu (KDE) and Pop!_OS (Gnome).

Even Ubuntu is pretty good these days. As of April it also includes Nvidia drivers.
I tend to disable page fonts and use my own selection instead because I prefer to have anti-aliasing off. Fonts that were designed before cleartype look great with AA off but cleartype fonts usually look awful with AA off because of the lack of hinting.
Can you keep your highly politicol covid conspiracy theories off hackernews please?
You might also like "marp", which works as a VS Code plugin for markdown. Much simpler & less control than Beamer, but does allow equations (which it seems the linked presenta.cc does not, or not yet) and a bit more off-line focused perhaps?
She is an under-appreciated pioneer for human knowledge.
What about the 10's of millions of people in poverty in America. And the millions more that are entering poverty due to Covid shutting down their places of work.

It's not a fair tradeoff in my opionion.
A haircut exposes them to probably one person in close contact, with precautions like masks. A wedding or funeral has potentially a large number of close contacts and presents ethical issues of supporting the event even if the epidemiologist participating will take personal precautions.
Sony did the same thing with a Blu-Ray player for NTP, effectively DDoSed that particular box because they also didn’t think to stagger the polling so like clockwork millions of consumer devices would check in at the same time nightly. From what I gathered from the electronics guys a few floors down they eventually resolved that in later revisions, or so I was told.
If this is true then why do any of us pay taxes?

We could just print all the money we need.
The future is uncertain. Google has a history of canceling services and gives no signs of changing their behavior. Even if they made public acknowledgments hand waving “oh it’s these services not those other ones”, why would I fee any better? Google needs to spend a lot of time building trust. They don’t have it.
https://projecteuler.net has the same concept, but it's more oriented towards math problems.
I actually think the last version, using a single lambda with constexpr ifs inside, looks completely reasonable.

But yeah the first time I had to use boost::variant (which is what the version in the standard library is based on) I thought the visitor was too much boilerplate. Things have gotten better since then, but many people are not even on C++17 yet ):
> Weird and revealing double standard you got there, comparing "Chinese" as a collective to "many" Americans.

Chinese are collectively more or less in the same situation, they are ethnically mostly the same people and live under the same rules, Americans are not.

Few very reach Americans enjoy all the freedom power can buy, everyone else either comply or suffer the consequences

You really did not know?

> Chinese who are much, much, much less free than nearly all Americans

Nope.

I don't believe in the kind of freedom Americans believe to possess

It's simply a different kind of tyranny

Unless you mean the freedom to be shot in the streets.

For example: there are 700 people in jail every 100k citizens in USA, they are only 115 in China.

In 2008 USA had the 25% of the global World jail population

And you know why?

Because the private prison system in USA is highly profitable

USA has the lowest life expectancy of the whole west and it's only one year longer than China, despite being the country with the highest spending per capita in healthcare in the entire globe.

Is this the freedom you're talking about?

So no, USA is not a benchmark for anything good, including the exercise of free speech, which is only a lame excuse to not take action against extremists propaganda

> Indeed

So sometimes you experience moments of lucidity when you see yourself for what you really are?

That must hurt!
>The individual in the film would have to be registered with the gov't and have an existing agreement between themselves and the distributor.

I think you're underestimating how much of the internet is porn, and how much you're asking of the average content creator. Maybe you are from a country where porn is illegal? In America, the legal definition of porn is pretty much anything designed to cause sexual excitement. I could make a video of myself walking around in my high heels, and that would count as porn. Getting the government involved before I shared my sexy engineer legs to PornHub/YouTube/Telegram would kill that, and probably also kill the platforms that were made great by enabling that.
Well, if the ombudsman leaves the company amicably, they can say so.

But it should be understood going in that there's no way to "fire" a person like this (at least without raising a storm), regardless of the reason. I don't think that should be such a problem—it's like giving tenure to a professor, except unlike at some universities, an organization will only have a small number of this kind of employee.
why do you prefer to have anti-aliasing off? what sort of monitor do you use?
You make a lot of assertions here, but I don't see any data backing them.

Fueling stations already exist. The only "infrastructure" needed is an agreement with a couple truck stop chains than when a robot truck pulls in, somebody goes out fill it up. Full-service gas stations are not a radical innovation.

I think your security concerns are a fairy tale. I especially suspect you have never loaded or unloaded a semi. A mask might keep a person's face from being seen, but it can't keep the theft from being detected. Trucks generally drive on well-policed, limited-access roads. For this to work, time of trouble to time of police response has to be larger than the time to break into, unload, and load a semi's worth of goods. By the side of the road. At night. Plus you need more time to get a semi, which is not an inconspicuous, far enough away from the scene of the crime, that the cops won't find it.

Will people try it? Sure. But I don't see any reason to think it becomes a major issue. Certainly not a dealbreaker, because if I'm wrong and there's a crime wave like this, a bunch of well-funded, powerful groups will be immediately demanding better police response and new laws.
Typically this is not something you worry about too much. You work on a research project, you talk to people around you, your research manager and everyone around you pretty openly, and if something was going very wrong, you'd likely know because someone would have told you along the way. So by the time you are submitting for internal review, the expectation is that you will almost certainly pass, but typically the reviewers tale their job pretty seriously (and so did I when I served as one) and spent a week or two reading through your paper in their "spare" time and writing a comment on the science, the method, the conclusions etc. The not-leaking-secrets part is certainly there, but that's the lowest bar to pass, so one rarely worries about it practically if one works on public datasets and doing fundamental science.

My experience might be different from what Dr Gebru was going through since I never rubbed against anything that could have been considered company secret. My work was entirely academic and I never felt that I was restricted in any way in the questions that I could ask or the papers I could write. That is likely very different when you are criticizing a product, using internal data etc, which might have been the case with her. It also seems that she was in no way diplomatic about her actions.

When you do fundamental research there, it's as free or possibly even freer than standard academic institutions. As I said, I personally never felt any implicit let alone explicit forces telling what to work on / what to avoid.
Is the definition of datalog tied to the syntax?
... for now. Cell coverage isn’t shrinking.
There's a lot of stuff out there, but to begin, IMHO Hacking with Swift is really good.

If you want to dive in the deep end, check out the videos at http://objc.io