skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Black people make you uncomfortable" is literally traditional racism, and action taken based on that motive is racist.

Good, you caught what I was saying.

> Doing something like that without thinking through your intentions too hard doesn't make the act unintentional, because the intent is there whether you consciously evaluate it or not, and it doesn't change the motive.

This seems to require a tortured interpretation of "intentional". Especially as it can be subtle and difficult to tease out the reasons we do things and make snap judgments. When your mind tells you "he just didn't seem like 'an engineer'" or "I don't think he was a culture-fit" or "I got a bad vibe about how he'd treat the rental property" --- we don't necessarily see the chain to [because he's black and not able in this instant to look 3x more professional than would be required of an equivalent white candidate for a positive impression]. There's no intention there, even if the outcome is racist. And in this scenario, it's not impossible for the black person to get hired, but the bar is unconsciously higher. That's one reason why this is all so insidious and so hard.

> Someone who buys a chicken sandwich only because they want a chicken sandwich has no such motive or intent.

Someone might have a hell of a lot more idea why they want a chicken sandwich than why they are making subtly biased decisions against disadvantaged people.
The general perception of the incompetence or disingenuousness in the present system lays the groundwork for people to start saying that, at some point in the future, unless things improve.
Apple’s model is better for Apple users; Android’s model is better for Android users. That’s, presumably, (part of) the reason they use what they use.
Indeed, individually your preferences can lead you to make choices that are different from the aggregate, and in so doing your choices marginally contribute to what emerges. Sort of like considering a market price too high, thus not buying.

To be clear, that's distinct from actively attempting to broadly change what emerges, e.g., trying to "fix" the education system to no longer be structured for "signaling". To do that requires affecting the trillions of choices made by billions of people, and one way or another, that often requires violence or threats thereof.
WebAR demo: Open link on mobile and point the camera at your laptop screen
> I resent a boss who isn't working as hard as me

In a modern economy most "business owners" are passive shareholders who literally do nothing for that money. I am a partial business owner of many enormous corporations via my retirement account. I don't do any work for any of them, and yet, they continually send me money. Strange!
This is really cool! I'd really like to visit the Faroe Islands when the pandemic is over.
"I often wonder if it's possible to encourage lawmakers to pass laws in the opposite direction"

How can you encourage them to do anything when people "vote #color no matter who"?

Our First Past the Post electoral system [1] encourages this blind tribalism. Attempting to vote outside of the two party system puts #otherside in power.

Representatives have no incentive to be anything other than not the other political party.

People are forced to vote against someone they don't want in office, rather than for someone they do want in office.

(1) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
Also remember that U.S. has finally become fully and truly energy independent this year. And, return of U.S. human spaceflight and final, completely American victory over any real competition in space launch technology, which will result and already resulting in many other positive developments.
Gentlemen, we have come full circle.
Dark matter doesn't clump together though, that's part of what makes it different to light matter.
Yes, the whiteboard app is terrible. If you are in that ecosystem though, you can draw directly in OneNote more effectively, and you can also embed diagrams there from any other place you are drawing - works ok.
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To be honest I always thought it was illegal anyway. That's why none of those websites are based in the USA.

I'm curious what companies/websites they are targeting with this?
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Math is also a bit of an outlier in that, to a greater degree than most STEM majors, what's relatively easy for some is "I could just as soon flap my arms and fly as graduate with a math degree" for others. My math was OK enough to graduate with an engineering degree. I could never have contemplated getting a math degree. (Probably uniquely among degrees where I went. Well, maybe physics, but same thing.)
This level of thinking only serves to lend credibility to Tillis et al.
Well we indeed are speaking from coexisting realities. Neither is weirder than the other. It's tautologically the case that if you have good working conditions you relationship will be different. That said, if you still have to work for a living and not for your own capital, it's still the case that much of your life blood goes into making someone else wealthier independently of whether or not you enjoy the work. Therefore, it's still necessary to some extent to keep the power relation in mind, even though it can be less obvious in good working conditions and even if you do receive capital in addition to your salary.

For me HN is an invaluable resource since it has allowed me to take a peek into some realities that were hitherto unimaginable.

This sort of reality clash will only become more poignant in the future as the gap between highly skilled workers and the rest deepens to become a canyon. It's already the case that you find my perspective weird, so imagine how weird it will be to future HN posters when the inequality has reached even higher levels and they can't even conceive of someone having to apply for jobs to get one.
If the outcome is racist, it's a problem that needs to be confronted and that the people involved need to be educated about in that context.

Without the systematically bad outcome for a group of disadvantaged people, there is no big problem, after all.

So call it what it is. If the intentions look good, go about it in a gentle way.
Only if they had diamonds and oil and other important resources.

"Sparta, the new Angola!"
Unless if they will.

There was little action by the UK during the annexation of Crimea (they even went on to participate in a major sporting event hosted by the invading nation; so little did the UK care about another European nation being attacked).

The UK has also walked the line of invading another NATO member because they wanted to fish in another sovereign nations waters.
> It's absurd that everyone is forced to evaluate and have a single opinion/vote on all these completely separate issues as a unit.

They aren't forced to, except by their own (collective) consent. They could vote to split the bill, propose smaller bills and vote down the bigger ones in preference, etc.

Conglomerate bills are a tool to reach mutually tolerable compromise.
Well, most of the tech media and people commenting on this site are "those guys" who always publicly and loudly criticize Android for being different from iOS. Repeatedly.
Hum...

Organizing democratic nation-states first came by creating nation-states, what could only be done (and was only done) by the king or people supported by him.

Only after that people started thinking about democratizing anything.
I’d second this. Camo is fantastic and with an armature mounted above my monitor I can get a much more flattering angle with a great picture even on an old 6+ front facing camera.
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I'm on a personal mission to reduce the average American working week
On iOS is the real question/problem and it's unclear if it would be workable outside a custom app to talk to it.

From a security perspective it'd be nicer to use FIDO2 normally and approve from a device where the secure password could be entered.
You must be in your 70s then. What do you think about working hard?
The next time you watch something on Netflix go ahead and watch the credits and you'll see the names of the hundreds of mostly regular people who made that thing. In addition, it's worth nothing, that most actors are not remotely rich, they're barely making it if that.

Netflix and the Studios profit margins are similar to other distributors, and after all is said and done, most of them are not 'rolling in it', at least not any more than the local pharmacy chain corporation operators are - those are regular jobs as well.

FYI: Even studio heads are not rolling in it, they make less than the biggest talent/starts, and there are only literally 5-10 of them, one layer below, and those people are earning the same as senior devs at Google with a small amount of stock options. The rest of the distribution machine are not paid so well.

This 'yacht populism' is ridiculous unless, maybe, you're referring to 'Jim Carrey' or 'Tom Cruise', but even then ...

The content is made by people, just like physical things are, if they don't get paid, it doesn't get made, it's that simple.
I can see your point, but it sounds like you believe in character as of something inborn, not acquired. To give no second chances means to filter people selecting for a proper character. From the other hand second chances might nurture a character.

> Once you start taking shortcuts, you tend to keep taking them until it results in a colossal screw-up.

So maybe for educational purposes academy needs to provoke cadets to take shortcuts and to make them into a colossal screw-ups?

Educational environment is not a "real life". Their goal was to pass exam on calculus. They did everything they were able to do, including the cheating. It is the cheating in educational environment, in real life it would not be the cheating, it would be a healthy cooperation. Or maybe not so healthy, because they screwed it up, by sharing not right answers, but mistakes. It is hard to judge, because there is such thing as a psychological narrative, there is a psychological context for all this. Each cheated cadet had his own context, his own story that came to a cheating.

In a high school I was ready to share my homework with my friends, and sometimes I got unacceptable marks because a teacher was able to see cheating and marked all with low grades. I got low marks not because I cheated, because I helped others to cheat. Was I demonstrating a lack of character, or a high morale character, who was ready to take additional risks to help his friends? It depends on my own narrative. From the one hand, it might be a lack of character, due to inability to say "no" to my friends. From the other hand, my friends might be more important for me than my grades. (Really I don't know what it was, because I know that I have troubles with saying "no", and at the same time I never bothered with grades, I knew that I would manage something acceptable, especially in math, I was good at it).

This anecdote here is an attempt to demonstrate that it is hard sometimes to judge character by assessing behavior only. It is even more hard on artificial educational environment where rules could arbitrarily diverge from real life.
> Right, so your city should operate an emergency room funded mostly by taxpayers, and then just charge a fixed deductible (e.g. $1000) for emergency care, which isn't enough to induce bankruptcy in general but is enough to deter people from using it in place of primary care

This is just a public option that covers little and without the bargaining power on price a state has versus a city, right? Why wouldn't the same logic go for a larger entity taking up the mantle? And if we treat only emergencies with the plan, we incentize poor people to ignore cheaper preventative care in the market based system, and to wait until it becomes an emergency that costs many multiples to fix.

> Dental isn't generally a market that requires insurance.

Also from that link, in practice most uninsured americans just don't seek dental care. This matches my personal experience of being uninsured.
You know, this brings up an interesting point with respect to VirusTotal...

That is, I'm sure that as of today, probably all VirusTotal engines detect this DLL as being unsafe...

But... was that the case historically?

VirusTotal people, if you're listening, users of VirusTotal need the ability to audit the individual virus scanners and virus scanning companies historically -- that is, even though a virus scanner from security company X detects a given threat in a given DLL today,

Did that same virus scanner from company X detect that same threat at various points in time in the past?

In other words, VirusTotal, show me the damn history of which virus scanners flagged a given file as a threat and show me the first date that this threat was detected on.

Think of it this way... you have the Wayback Machine, the Internet Archive...

You give it the URL for a web page, and it shows you snapshots of what that URL looked like at various points in time.

Well, I want the same functionality for VirusTotal -- except that instead of an URL, it's a file, and you show me historically what various Virus Scanners, from various security companies, said about that file at various points in time.

Then we could answer questions like:

When did Virus Scanner X, from Company Y, first discover a threat (and what were those threats, exactly, please enumerate/describe them like you do today) in file Z?

When did that happen in TIME?

From this, we could compare the efficacy of different virus scanners and companies, and also see how quickly some companies react (or don't react) to address these threats.

Also, the same system should be in place for false positives.

If a false positive is identified by Virus Scanner X, from Company Y in file Z at a given date and that is later corrected moving into the future, THEN PLEASE PRESERVE ALL OF THAT HISTORY.

History is a lot like log files; You see, Elon Musk is a great fan of them, and so am I. (Remember Telsa's log files vs. what the New York Times reporter said?)

To investigators/debuggers/system fixers in the future, they help pinpoint the exact point in time where something unwanted may have occured, and while not the only tool, they aid greatly in getting to a root-cause analysis...
> The whole setup makes installing apps from other sources obtuse and 'scary' to the average user.

...yes? It's not a bug, it's a feature. For the average Android user, it SHOULD be obtuse and scary to install apps from a third party source. Power users can still use a third party app store.
That's just how the press release on the sponsoring senator's web page spins it. It's essentially a combination of "don't worry if you've got nothing to hide" and "we're only going after the big bad criminals not everyday people who watch GoT once or twice".

But look at the actual text; there is enough ambiguity and opportunity here to use this as the launching pad for very questionable prosecution. If you're in a P2P network and getting free media does it qualify as a commercial enterprise and material gain?
Whatever it is, it's not 'weird'. Socialism has been one of the defining ideologies of the last two-hundred years on the basis of that thought. The reality is that for the vast majority of humankind, work is something they exercise no control over, draw little enjoyment from, and see as something instrumental to surviving.
Is this a law targeting Kim Dotcom?
I wish more politicians would realize that this kind of nonsense will happen no matter how they vote or what they say and move on to voting and acting in a way that fits their values and what they represent.
Is this the "new magic" that DHH teased on Twitter, or are we still waiting to see what that is? Also, should we expect this to be included in a future version of Rails?

My first impression is that the API seems a little convoluted, but that might just be me. In an ideal world, I'd love to just build components (similar to React components) on the server side, and let the framework intelligently handle synchronizing state over the network (Phoenix LiveView seems closer to that), but this feels like it involves a lot more framework-specific logic (and markup) with special cases - stuff that's likely to change as the framework evolves, so I'm not sure how I feel about it.

I guess it makes sense in terms of making this easier to add to an existing rails app incrementally (since it's more-or-less "opt-in" for each model, view, and controller), but if I'm building a new project with this and want it on everything, it feels like it will necessitate a lot of code duplication. Either that, or I use it judiciously only when absolutely needed (and use traditional rails behavior for everything else), but that feels like a mess of two very different approaches bundled together in one codebase.
> If you hesitate to fix security bugs out of fear of introducing new security bugs

I never say that. But maybe you just don't need to rewrite the whole project to fix some bugs? Sometime it is maybe the right answer but it should not be the default answer.
The price for audio stuff seems truly out-of-this-world compared to everything else.

I get microphones have a lot of design/testing that might justify it. But all the interfacing gear seems ridiculous.
The problem is that language is not precise, pretty much by evolved design. I totally get the desire for a language with maximum precision and lack of ambiguity, but no one has ever been able to do that successfully.

I think it's reasonable to wonder if its even possible.

One thing that feeds into it, and is due to the poor way we teach language, is that people think that dictionaries prescribe how we should use language. But that's not what dictionaries are.

Dictionaries are descriptive, recording how people are using language.

This is a very important distinction.

Instead of trying to remove the possibility of ambiguity from language, we should instead focus on gaining the skills to reduce ambiguity through discourse, which we are extremely bad at.
>27 thousand excess deaths occurred already in Florida

Are the excess death is solely caused by covid ?

>Unemployment is being caused largely by the economic slowdown, and by significantly reduced footfall, driven by inability to control a pandemic.

I'm not saying I agree with all Florida government policies. The unemployment issue exist even without pandemic, but here I'm specifically taking about the unemployment that is caused by lockdown.

if you don't allow business to open, then some extra unemployment bound to happen. Assuming the lockdown do work, Is it worth it for a virus that have less than 1% death rate ? for me its very very not worth it. Furthermore unemployment is just one of the many of problem caused by lockdown.
How is it different than Turbolinks?

Never mind- Turbo Drive is the part of Turbo that enhances page-level navigation. It watches for link clicks and form submissions, performs them in the background, and udpates the page without doing a full reload. It’s the evolution of a library previously known as Turbolinks.
Tor is available in an F-Droid repository [1], but that only removes problems for F-Droid users. You want to reach Google Play users with security updates as well.

[1] https://support.torproject.org/tormobile/tormobile-7/
Why are these bills 5000 page turds with all kinds of legal garbage thrown in?
I wish Congress would pass a 1 paragraph bill that does one thing: say $1000 bucks to everyone making under $75k for 3 months and dare people to vote against or veto it.
You can set this up with `pass` and a Yubikey: https://www.palkeo.com/en/blog/perfect-password-manager.html
NIH Director receives shot, celebrates gift of Covid-19 vaccines
Awesome. To most people that would be a bad thing. To a guy like me, that's a badge of honor.

EDIT - my friend, what you pulled off was a f*cking masterpiece. Bravo. Not sarcasm, I am totally serious.
Setting aside whether it's a good idea to encourage this: in practice today, combining laws is a reliable way for different groups to compromise.

If group A wants a policy that B doesn't want, and B wants a policy that A doesn't want, then combining those policies into one law is an easy and reliable way to compromise. You know that the whole bill will either pass, or it won't -- Congress votes on entire bills rather than parts of it, and the president doesn't have line-item veto power.
I respectfully disagree. I see the widespread adoption of these cloud services as condensing the sysadmin skills to those cloud providers and reducing the number required through automation.
> Why does it seem like we can argue only about object level matters, and almost no one [1] can see that the framework we run politics on top of is fundamentally flawed?

> Would it maybe help if we were to consciously force ourselves to conceptualize society/humanity as a video game, that has parameters and behaviors, and the state of the system can be acted on, but our actions will only be effective if the game allows it?

For those interested in the first question, and the answer to why the second question is not the right way to go, check out Adam Curtis's most recent film, HyperNormalisation [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
In posts with embedded pictures, I have to remove the "old." in the URL in order to be able to see the pictures, switching to desktop mode doesn't solve the problem.
I disagree with this statement, and I'd argue that most people haven't actually experience "deep work" (which btw, the book with that title change the way I see and experience work deeply)

Deep work has nothing to do with over-engineering and everything to do with non-distracted focused time doing something that actually releases dopamine and feels good.

Deep != complex