skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've seen an employee send out an email to colleagues instructing people of color to stop their efforts to improve the company, claiming the internal review process was an act of racist discrimination and dehumanization, and essentially calling their work a lost cause?

You've seen this followed up by threats to resign from the company if the anonymous reviewers' identities aren't revealed? And all this following prior threats of litigation against the company within the past year?

And you saw this from men or non-persons of color who were not fired? Obviously not, but if you do have examples that are sufficiently comparable in your mind, feel free to describe them and make a case. As it is, you're again falling back on unfalsifiable claims.

And I'm still curious to know why you'd expect a company not to fire someone in this scenario?
Where is the line? In the past I’ve been contacted a few times randomly by journalists who - by the tone of the conversation - are trying to get me to tell them something confidential that they can form a story around. I am not a lawyer but leaking confidential information or breaking an agreement with your employer can be a criminal act you can be taken to court for, and I would think someone (like the press) aiding in the dissemination of confidential information is also engaging in a criminal act. Why should the press get special protection above any other citizen in this regard?
Considering that textbooks now ship with software licenses, I'm not surprised. The education vendors are all-too-quick to find reason to soak up any available gubmint cheddar.

For the expense, where is the value? My kids' online curriculums are a nightmare. They're expected to keep track of arbitrary assignments across a litany of broken "apps" without any sort of cohesion. One of them is taking chemistry-- online!

And naturally, we need to redefine the way we teach things like basic math for every generation. Forced obsolescence rears its ugly head here too. My parents could never figure out my math homework. I can't figure out my own kids'. Thankfully we have Pearson's successive suites of books and erratic ActiveX plugins to show us what the ancients haven't.

Government spending should not be considered an indicator of progress.
I dislike invoking the idea of the "dark ages" as it's usually a misrepresentation of events. That said, Fibonacci is credited with spreading the Hindu-Arabic numeral system to Western Europe, showing that at least in the area of mathematics they were in a relative darkness.

I hadn't heard of Gouguenheim but his ideas seem rather absurd. He seems to believe the Islamic golden age never occurred, and I can't find how he tries to explain where something like Liber Abbaci came from. His objectivity seems far more suspect than this piece.
Mathematics in the Arab/Islamic was mainly built from Ancient Greece. Although there definitely seems to be an Indian influence.
"this happens to be news because it's ICE"

Exactly. I don't see why that justifies the dismissiveness.
HDR output is just a bright display with the appropriate tone mapping. If Apple has bright displays and appropriate tone mapping... is that not HDR?
Completely agree with you. Government-Corporate marriage does wonders to democracy and freedom.
It's a business in every way (be sure to register it with the government as a business). You can turn it into leverage by finding gigs for your programming friends, handling the negotiation, billing, and payment and thereby collecting a percentage. In fact, you can become quite wealthy doing this.
I developed a language learning Web app for Chinese (desktop Chrome only)
480 deaths in a year in a country of 350M isn't a lot, and doesn't make a place "a violent country".

Being killed in a mass shooting in the US is only approximately one order of magnitude more likely than getting struck and killed by lighting in the US.
> Imagine not reporting on the fact that a federal institution is trying to test their limits.

Subpoenaing sources is standard operating procedure for all law enforcement agencies (from the FBI, to ICE, to your local PD). As mentioned in a different post, it's a low-risk, high-reward legal strategy, even though it won't work 99.9% of the time.

It's making a mountain out of a molehill.
Eat What You Kill Without Starvation
* I've found scaling in Wayland based environments to be unbelievably good and sharp, but I'm also not using very user-friendly tablet-friendly desktop environments.

* High battery usage comes as a shock to me. I get better life on Linux, by far. Are you aware of the powertop tools & the tuning it can do? tlp? These tweaks buy me less than 20% more life, but that might change. Newer kernel versions are much better, and they also have far more aggressive defaults. If you were running an 18.04 Ubuntu that 4.15 kernel is not doing you any favors.

* No face recognition login is not something I'm interested in. It is nice to get back in the game fast, but worrying about 5s to throw in a password, to me, is small fries. And I don't really like or trust these systems in the first place.

But in general, what is notable about your post to me is that it's a weird laundry list of concerns that doesn't talk to the overarching experience. I've had detachable 2-in-1 computers for near to a decade, before that a Fujitsu P-series touchscreen+pen, all running Linux, but so far I've only ever used any of them in a more conventional computing mode. I have yet to break out Gnome or other mainstream multi-paradigm computing environments, but I am so interested to know, what is the workflow like, how would I use these things in tablet mode? As it is, if I want something portable, I reach for my Android phone. I'd like, some day to change that. These specific concerns you've listed seem low on my priority list, far below knowing & thinking about the overall general experience.
You want to ban everything that leads to deaths? What about the bible and koran? I'm sure the stats on those just dwarf those from 8chan.
Very cool video! Crazy what they accomplished decades ago, you'd think we'd have high fidelity holograms everywhere by now...
> Perhaps companies should hire more talented customer service representatives who have a technical background instead of continuing to make their products shittier.

Most people with technical skills would not settle for being customer service representatives when they can make far more money by putting those skills to work in technical roles.
What makes you say that the MacBook Air with M1 can't play HDR content on external displays?

The MacBook Air with M1 has two USB 4 ports. USB 4 is Thunderbolt 3 + some extra bits.

See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201736 for information.
It would be interesting to see how that measures up in a different test where the accesses are all from a cold cache.
I’ve seen many syllabi that include this book. I haven’t read it myself but have met some smart/thoughtful students of philosophy who did and value it highly.
Well the first step would be to decide which router software you would like to use. There are a number of feature rich and secure opensource router software to choose from DDWRT/VyOS/pfsense etc.

I would recommend pfsense. Once you choose your preferred OS, search online for some tutorials on stackoverflow.

Alternatively, you can always stick a firewall in between your home network and your netgear, and do your filtering on that.
There is no "official" Bitcoin forum, what a asinine thing to even say. The fact that you'd make up such a dumb thing is proof you have now idea what you are talking about. But hey, haters gonna hate I guess.
Right. But there are many games, many experiments to draw from.

|Further, much of the database is joypad controlled UIs

Scientific software requires exploring data, one could imagine many interfaces where joypads, VRs controllers, etc. could be useful and more intuitive ways to do this exploration.
Some indirect systems use the first 10km driven after changing tires as a reference. Those systems can detect all four tires deflating at the same time, however, they need to be explicitly told via a special key combo or a diagnostic interface that you changed the tires just now. Maybe that is what they are trying to charge for.
Arabic numbers are actually Hindu numbers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral...
Well, I mean, because the supreme court said that they get special treatment. [0]

The rationale is that it's too easy for politicians/officials to hide things from the public by arbitrarily declaring things as "secret", and that the public has the right to know about this stuff.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_S...
You can use it to reverse engineer specifications for arbitrary binary data.
The warmongering driven by the New York Times regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, in particular, has led to a large number of people being blown up. Dead.

There are dead people, because the New York Times was allowed to exist.

That is not something that you should be fighting for. You are not fighting for any greater good there. You are promoting something that leads to actual, real people dying.
The challenge with IPFS and DAT is that you have no guarantees around the data reliability. The DHT style of p2p sharing pretty much only works for popular content. Incentivized storage networks can onboard any type of data and guarantee high uptime.

It's also been my experience that IPFS has significant performance issues. If you use a professional gateway like ipfs.io or cloudflare it runs at good speeds but as soon as you switch to being fully peer-to-peer it's almost unusable.

I don't have much experience with DAT, it may not have the same performance issues.

disclaimer: I work on an incentivized storage network called Skynet
Plato’s dialogues are mostly accessible and deal with basic philosophical questions. He was not the first philosopher, but his works are a great starting point to understanding the foundations of western philosophy. I forget the names of each one, but the series of dialogues involving Socrates’s trial and imprisonment are quick to read and thought-provoking. The best part of Plato is that he doesn’t just tell you what he thinks, he teaches you how to think critically and philosophically.

Once you’ve finished Plato, you can move onto Aristotle, particularly his Ethics.

As for “how to deal with bad things,” the Stoics are very popular now. Also check out the Epicureans. I think you should balance out these views with alternate approaches, maybe from Laozi.

After that, you may be interested in the rationalist-empiricist debate. (I’m skipping over a lot of medieval work that laid the foundations for this.) Descartes and Hume are the most readable of each group, respectively, in my experience.

If you are interested, you can move onto questions of “the meaning of life” or however you want to phrase it. A lot of this work rests on the very difficult works of Hegel and Kant, which would take a ton of time and effort to read and are probably not worth it for a non-academic. Kierkegaard is wonderful but also difficult to read. Fortunately at this stage, there are novelists who have read this stuff and put it into novels. Dostoyevsky and Camus provide a good synthesis of existential thought, coming to very different conclusions.

Everything I’ve mentioned in this comment can be read in a year or less, assuming you read at least the major one or two works from each author I’ve mentioned. At that point you won’t have an academic understanding of the field, but you’ll have a solid practical philosophical foundation for your daily life.
Islam isn't a race, and mathematics isn't a religious achievement.
It's the perfect metaphor. Your brain is not a single cell. It's a couple billion. Every day in a healthy body a few million cells die, without any repercussions whatsoever.
> In my opinion, we need a statically typed contender to R, Python and Julia.

Nim is getting there.
> One reason for the recent huge price drops on TVs is the ability to subsidize the price by selling viewing data. It’s the new normal in the CE world.

That's good though! If you are one of the people who wants a dumb TV, congratulations! You get to benefit from lower TV prices, subsidized by all the other people who are buying smart TVs for the smart features. Just don't connect your new TV to your network, don't try to use the smart features, and pretend it's a dumb TV. It works fine.
No, this is a stupid point. You should always prefer a factored product, no pun intended. All of these "problems" are easily solved by buying a dumb tv and hooking a computer up to it. That way, if you ever need a TV without a computer hooked up to it, you can just separate them.
> > Long ago "modern" C++ crossed into a territory that I will never understand or use.

> Do you know where the line is? C++11? Later versions?

It's funny to read this, because I purposely avoided C++ for the better part of twenty years after dabbling with it in college--not worth it to deal with so much complexity. I've started using it in the last couple of years for work, and the modern part is what makes it bearable.

C++ is a big beast, so there is a cost to each new standard simply by virtue of adding features. However, the types of things I want to use in C++14 are pretty simple and worthwhile; e.g., better constexpr functions, and the _t aliases (like std::enable_if_t<>, rather than typename std::enable_if<>::type). Similarly, C++17 has a few new templates, like std::optional and yes, std::variant, along with ergonomic improvements like the _v aliases (like std::is_floating_point_v<>, rather than std::is_floating_point<>::value).

Now that the glacial pace of standardization has been replaced with a three-year cycle, I almost want something like LTS releases. I use C++11, and a bit of C++14, but when is it safe to use C++17 or C++20?
This is awesome. Wonder if they picked up on that specific syntactic operator from Elixir or from another world.
There is no "official" site or forum. It's hilarious and sad you people continue to fail to understand this.

I think this is where the hate comes from, you guys simply can't grasp that no one is in charge.
It seems the original sin was having an intmax type in the first place, instead of only fixed-size types. And then of course the stupidity in using it: just because a high-end CPU can do math on 512 bit integers within some 10-20 cycles shouldn't mean that after a recompile all the chrono code is suddenly a huge register stomping inefficient mess, for no good fucking reason at all.

And on the other end of the spectrum, someone might well decide 16 bit is the intmax for an AVR8. Now your chrono code doesn't work at all.
> I would still argue that for (Java)doc-style comments that one useful one outweighs the cost of the repetition.

You have to actually notice it for it to matter. A missed comment is no better than an unwritten comment.

> When I'm looking at a `setWiz` call site, my IDE can pop up just that one docstring and save me a bunch of aggravation.

Didn't know about that. My IDE never did that (I used Visual Studio at some point, and now QtCreator).
The lifetime output of 5 cars is nothing in a nation of over 300,000,000.

If AI can manage peak energy usage efficiently and improve the grid by 1% it will have made a positive impact over 100 fold.
I think I partly agree, reading anything is probably better than the alternatives if you want to do something to improve yourself.

However, you could also try, yourself, to make an educated guess or research what you might read to decide, for yourself, whether you consider it 'worthwhile' to spend your time on. You are setting up a false choice between 'read whatever you feel like without thinking about it at all' and 'only read what they tell you is worth reading', which aren't even choices among the same set of alternatives!
I have a coworker who is angry that Nissin Original Cup of Noodles eliminated the dried pea that was in the ramen. I think that happened a decade ago.

Very tragic, but things change. The nerd rage over Google Reader, etc is similar.
The desktop and most windowed apps definitely do use the systemwide color management. The main issue in the past has been whether apps correctly remap image colors based on the image’s tagged (or lack of) profile. It was broken on Macs too but these days isn’t that much of an issue.

(see the edited preface to https://cameratico.com/guides/web-browser-color-management-g... )
> I wonder if it the same flaw applies to HDR.. apps would look extra bright.

No, apps on Windows HDR look normal unless they are HDR-aware and use the "extra brightness".
Windows color management is pretty much just a folder where ICC files go to die. Everything needs to be done by the application. Nothing is color managed by default. This alone makes HDR displays (which aren't sRGB in HDR mode) less than worthless on Windows. The situation is identical on Linux, which copied the Windows approach.
The roots of "House of Wisdom" were really laid during the time of the Alid (as the Shi'a Islam's founder Ali al-Murtada's progeny were known), Zayn al-Abedin (who was also Muhammad's grandson's son).

Zayn al-Abedin's son, al-Bakir, and al-Bakir's son, Jafar al-Sadiq taught at a university (in Medina and elsewhere) believed to be 25000 students strong at its peak.

Indeed a majority of Islamic theological offshoots, including the largest one in Hanafi Islam, take root in this university.

Jabir (latin: Geber) is perhaps amongst al-Sadiq's famous students. He invented modern Chemistry. al-Sadiq's students believed to have written cryptic books on al-Kimia (Alchemy), and in a way, writing such esoteric books in a cryptic manner gave rise to cryptography as a medium of securing text and thought.

The Ummayids, who ruled from al-Shaam (Syria), disliked these Alids and their universities and everything they stood for (especially in terms of religious authority) and heavily persecuted them. The Abbasids, who pretty much came to power after a bloody rebellion in support of the Alids turned out to be worser in their treatment of Alids than the Ummayids.

In the face of Abbasid cruelty, the Alids retreated to al-Misr (Egypt) and ruled from there for around 300 years over the Magbreb (Northern Africa), parts of Italy, the Levant, Hejaz (Western Saudi Arabia), and Yemen whilst the Abbasids ruled the rest of the Middle-Eastern Islamic world from Iraq.

al-Rashid's House of Wisdom (Dar al-Hikma) was allegedly setup as a counter to the one run by the Alids of Egypt (who were now known as the Fatimids). It was alleged the Fatimids amassed a lot of wealth due to their knowledge of Alchemy.

A rebellious offshoot of the Fatimids under Hasan al-Sabah, a student of the Fatimid House of Wisdom (Dar al-Ilm), would later fight in the Crusades and come to be notoriously known as the Hash-Hashins (or the Assassins).

With the rise of the Turks and the Mongols sealing the decline of Abbasids of Iraq, Safavids of Iran, and Fatimids of Egypt; the Islamic Golden Age would rather come to a swift end.

A physical embodiment of Baghdad's Dar al-Hikma hasn't survived but that of Cairo's Dar al-Ilm lives on in al-Azhar, which is considered to be one of the most (if not the most) important Islamic universities even today.
https://astronomy.com/news/2017/02/muslim-contributions-to-a...
ABIs are important even in the absence of proprietary binary blobs.

They allow different compiler chains to interoperate, they're the basis of FFIs, there are so many situations where I have the source to both sides of some pipe-fitting operation and having a common ABI is what makes my job possible.
The difference between censorship and moderation is entirely subjective. Censors always think they're moderators — that they're protecting the quality of the discourse rather than stifling ideas they dislike — because part of how they rationalize their dislike of those ideas is by believing that they harm the discussion.
The first telling is not usually when you get caught in a lie. It’s subsequent references to it that are just different enough that people catch the lie and silently judge you for it. With someone you seldom meet you’ll probably get away with it but behavior like that tends to also bleed into your long term relationships where it actually matters. You have to be very, very smart to be able to maintain many lies and is out of the reach of most people, at least anecdotally.
Penalty? $125,000. Not even a slap on the wrist, more like a tickle.
Since I can't edit this anymore, I'm going to clarify that I know there is no "official" forum, but I am referencing the largest one that used to be on the bitcoin.org domain, but is now bitcointalk.
Breaking an agreement with your employer is a civil act, at least in the US. "Confidential" information is a pretty broad designation as well, so things like insider trading and trade secrets can be a criminal act but other "confidential information" your company deems so might only be a civil violation or perhaps not even that if it's not covered by signed contracts.
It's unconstitutional for the government to close down businesses without due process, even if it's done with good intentions. It's unconstitutional for the executive branch to make arbitrary decisions without representative input, such as deciding which businesses will be killed and which will be allowed to stay open.

It's legal to quarantine people for a fixed period of time, if they have been diagnosed with a transmissible disease. It's not legal to confine the majority of people in a state to their homes, whether they've been diagnosed with a transmissible disease or not.

This is indeed simple enough for laypeople such as yourself to grok.
I run my blog behind Cloudflare purely so that if I get a surprise burst of traffic from something like Hacker News I can survive the spike. Worth considering!
Somebody is going to complain this is not reddit, but I think this is appropriate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv0fIC-iPAA
>The glibc maintainers decide they’re going to change from long long as their intmax_t and move to __int256_t for most platforms, because most platforms support it and they have a lot of customers asking for it.

Is this a practical concern? That seems like such a strong calling convention change that it wouldn't really bother me if you had to recompile all your software in this situation.

I mean, let's even imagine that there would be a way to make this change somewhat transparent and automated. You still end up with some types magically now taking 256 bits instead of (probably) 64bits before that. If you use this type a lot the performance implications are pretty huge, both in terms of actually doing maths with a 256 bit integer, but also for RAM and cache usage.

If you suddenly changed int to be 64 instead of 32bits you'd have a similar problem for instance. I don't think anybody would expect such a change not to require a full recompile. So what's the difference here?
There is no such thing as an "official" Bitcoin forum. What an absolute meaningless and stupid thing to say.
> They’re more expensive because they need to make up the lost revenue from advertising

If that is the case, shouldn't the product then be labeled that part of the price is subsidized by advertisement so that in a free market customers can make informed decisions about what products they buy and under what conditions? Otherwise there is a huge risk that manufacturers that add such hidden drawbacks can unfairly out compete others who do not, we get a lemon market.
here's a good introduction to fascist operating systems: https://vastabrupt.com/2018/10/31/gender-acceleration/
So does that mean anyone can leak confidential information from any company or government agency without accountability and without recourse for those harmed?
The Construct library for Python can do it:

https://construct.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html#exampl...

I’ve long searched for something better than Construct, but so far I have yet to find even an equal.
GP has a point. Removing it would be better than having a way
outdated browser in the repos.