skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a few things that vary from editorialization to simple inaccuracy.

> This came up recently because NeurIPS (an AI conference) is going to require an "impact statement" for all submitted research papers, which has raised concerns about political bias at the conference

Is sort of true. It already did require these statements this year. And while there was some "concern", I'd say that most of it was from, like, Domingos and random HN commenters. I don't think there was any serious concern about this. But that's mostly semantic I admit.

I also think that

> Director of AI at nvidia, posted a list of people she blocked on Twitter, encouraging her followers to "cancel" them.

Is a mischaracterization. See the long thread here[0] in reply to this user, where I ask for the specific actions Anandkumar took that were problematic. Despite a long conversation with multiple people, the only concrete thing anyone brought up that was "problematic" appears to have been HN editorialization, and not actually a thing Anandkumar herself said.

The context about this being related to Domingos and Anandkumar's disagreement is all almost certainly true. But for example, I don't know what in particular GP means when they say "Anandkumar (who tried to cancel him)". I doubt you do either, and if pressed, I'm not sure that GP could give a definition that should elicit concern. They had a disagreement on twitter. She's since apologized for making anyone feel uncomfortable. He has not, despite calling people "deranged", accusing Anandkumar of watching too much internet porn, and various other things.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25576053
Nobody seems to mention an important aspect: megacorps like Microsoft, Amazon, Google or Oracle hire thousands of engineers each year. It's not particularly hard for a bad actor to get an agent hired into their target and gain access, for nefarious purposes, in the legit way.
The word "cancel culture" is really a red herring - what this letter is talking about is how academics get frozen out if they get in trouble for saying things they shouldn't.
Technically true as far as it goes, the important bit about the piece is what it doesn't say; no modifications or builds. To understand how important that is, and why Microsoft included it in big letters in their post, just see how many people here are asking/worrying about that possibility. Read isn't cool, nefariously wrote is cool.

Technically true but highly misleading is a dangerous route to go, and it makes me sad how often stories tread that path in the name of clicks.
Ask HN: Is it possible to lose all my photos stored in the cloud?
I have all my photos taken on iPhone and stored in iCloud. I'm a bit worried that one day all those photos will just be lost.

I know cloud storage is generally considered a better alternative than on device storage, with good fault tolerance, but is it fault tolerant enough in the long run ? Is it possible that one day all photos will just be gone ?

Are there any other better solutions to store photos safely ?
> You come just short of saying MSM == Democrats, other news == Republicans.

Not really, that’s using the rights definition of it, not my opinion.

From their perspective, there’s the “MSM” (everyone you’ve ever heard of except...) Fox, Breitbart and Sinclair.

Fox got hucked into the MSM pile, so there’s everyone you’ve ever heard of (“MSM”), Breitbart and Sinclair.
Thanks, will do (FYI this is where I'll use it: https://uwm.edu/business/event/intrapreneurship/)

I'd say either a one off ($5 for an idea, some amount of time like 30 or 90 days max) pricing, or if you do subscription then consider an annual (that way you don't pay the $0.30 credit card processing fee every month, just the 2.7%) but very cheap plan like $20/year, or maybe even a lifetime option (I don't know, $80?)

I just think that the monthly subscription is not necessarily aligned with the lumpy usage pattern most users will have and therefore you risk a lot of churn when people haven't had a new idea in 3 months and wonder why they're still paying every month
Not sure why the down votes.

I've been joking for a while I'd like to see a sitcom where the main characters are an Islamic and domestic terrorist living together in New York while they execute their plots. A terrorist "odd couple" if you will.

I think the characters could bond over a lot of shared ideals, despite their superficial differences.

(And of course they'd have to be incompetent or it wouldn't be a funny.)
New Species of Flower Found in Amber Is 100M Years Old
I refuse to read something from authors that don't have track records of finishing series after reading Rothfuss and Martin. The way GoT was handled should be a good indicator for TV studios that authors who can't deliver a complete story can't deliver a complete TV series. I already lost clout from my friends for recommending anything written by them when expected sequels haven't materialized in almost a decade.

On the other hand, Sanderson's Stormlight Archives made me actually like the genre again.
Even better: do it in kilometers like Interstate 19:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_19#Signage

Of course, this doesn't come without some controversy.
Affirmative action programs have a specific constitutional carve out up here:

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-15.html#:~:te....
I usually read fiction. It feels like the difference between a photograph and a painting.

My biggest complaint with non-fiction is that it often starts with a person with a story, who may not be the best writer. Thus, despite the content of the material, the prose can be rather drab. Additionally, no - fiction also falls into the trappings of 'why not just read the synopsis?'.

The non-fiction I love tends to often just be compellingly written textbooks. Eg: DesignOfDesign or Indian after Gandhi OR Blogs (Derek Lowe, Sinocism, SSC)

Fiction simply has a LOT more freedom to experiment with ideas and lets the author disto ideas in a way that non-fiction never can, due to its constraints.

I am good at suspending disbelief, so the emotional attachment for both mediums is pretty equal for me. I know many friends who can't read fiction, because they simply can't get invested in a 'not-real' story.
Why is this a problem? Was it difficult to create a Jira ticket? When last i used Jira, it took a few seconds to create one. Less time than it takes to write a commit message.
> I don't talk to my parents through the contexts of lies and misinformation. I'm not that stupid.

You might not say it directly, but if you're trying to convince them, for example, not to celebrate New Year's or not to go to Disney World, you're going to have to say things that amount to telling them that their beliefs are lies. If they were open to any gentler kind of persuasion, you would already have succeeded in talking them out of it. Even if they don't consciously realize that you're telling them their beliefs are lies, subconsciously they will. At least, that's been my experience in situations of this kind.
My problems with microsoft really aren't around their security practices (these days).

It's more around the ads in the start menu, the telemetry they send, and their tendency to reset my telemetry settings around updates.

I don't feel like I'm in full control when I'm using a computer running windows. Which, y'know, is probably fine for 95% of computer users, they want more of an appliance than a general computing experience.
One very, very noteworthy signatory:

Scott Aaronson
David J. Bruton Centennial Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin

That's the guy who writes the quantum computing posts that regularly show up on the HN front page.
That's the Ring from The Expanse, nothing more :p
What Happened to Duty? Well when the enthusiasm and obsession ("the fashion") wore away from the horrors and tragedies around that time, the shiny polish of "duty" became nothing but human excrement.
It seems impossible that anybody could really have both thoughts at once: That some of the things these victims do are not bad enough to be worthy of the social consequences, and also, the people amplifying those social consequences are bad enough to be victims of those same consequences.
I am on LTS.

When it pops up two (count 'em, 2) dialog boxes announcing it has crashed and would you like to have it re-started, that seems pretty unambiguous. It happens about every day, lately, often when I click the "new tab" button.
Welcome to the club! The 20’s started a year ago, but the third decade of the 20th century starts now[1]. To quote Itchy Boots: Lets go!

[1] Give or take a few hours, depending.
Considering how long bugs can go unfixed and undetected even in large open source projects, I think it can totally happen. Just create a backdoor that looks like an honest mistake, submit it in a PR that adds some feature or fix, and exploit it at will as people update. Heartbleed took over 2 years to find and fix.
This method has worked wonders for me in the past. I picked up the Three Body Problem when I heard George RR Martin praise it in an interview - "It’s a strong book, an AMBITIOUS book, a worthy winner [of the Hugo award].". The series was nothing short of extraordinary. If anything, he undersold it.
I starting way of kings. Mist born was great.

I am a huge Rothfuss fan, but dudes taking his sweet time with book 3 of king killer.
For those who didn't know this off-hand, as I didn't, "VCSE" in this context appears to stand for "voluntary community social enterprise," which appears to be UK-speak for, roughly, the non-profit sector.
That opinion even if true changes nothing about the OP or my reply.
Oh, we have trouble in the USA?? After really thinking about it very hard, our conclusion is that it must be the evil work of corrupt foreign powers. CoMmUniSm!!!
For every example you gave, the parent's dogma is feasible. In fact I'd say it's easier to do and has fewer social downsides than Richard Stallman's refusal to carry around a cell phone. (And he seems to get around without one.)

In fact, I'd say it's instructive to go back through your examples and apply the parent's dogma. For example, if the dogma is heartfelt, then parent is going around signalling this trait to any potential love interest. That narrows the field, but it's narrowing it to those who find that trait desirable.

I'm not endorsing the dogma-- e.g., it filters out those who would find it desirable if only OP could break the ice first. But that's no reason to find it social unfeasible.
Until that officer is in the jungle. All the sudden the Sergeant runs things real fast.
Using PyCharm with docker-compose as the interpreter works like a dream (relative to Python development). No more dependency problems and then you can also have a full setup with postgres, Celery, redis, etc. all available on the local machine.

My mac is a couple years old and I don't have the fan of death problem everyone seems to complain about. The best thing is allowing my team to know with confidence we're developing against the exact same environment.
Small Rust projects are... urgh. I spend more time downloading packages, and cleaning up the sometimes hundreds of megabytes of random crap, than I do developing. Easily finished small python projects in less time than the download-compile-cycle of Rust.

My python projects usually rely almost entirely on the same 3 or 4 already downloaded libraries, plus the large stdlib. They run 3.8. That experience is not comparable, and not in favour of Rust. Maybe it's because I don't use whatever Tox is, but I don't. So no. Not beginner friendly.
That's exactly the message I intended to get across.
Interest is not a component of every financial system on earth; it is silly to presume that it will be an essential component of extraterrestrial economic systems.
Oh, let me be clear, I was a teenager when that thing was around. I'm not remembering it fondly...I just remember it and thought it was funny that it was being renovated into an office at the time.

If I'm going to remember something fondly it will be the smaller music venues like Liberty Lunch and old Emo's.

Honestly...most of the changes are good. More smart people is always good. More VC attention is (mostly) good. Some of the new buildings are good.

What I don't appreciate:

People that can't stop talking about how awesome SF or NYC is.

Cookie cutter condos.

People that don't appreciate what they're moving to and trying to get the best parts shut down -- i.e. Don't move to a condo next to a well known live music venue and try to get it shut down or at least quiet after 9 pm. Not cool.

Cheap places to live are disappearing for people who don't make a lot of cash.

Straining already struggling infrastructure (traffic and water, in particular).

Lame cookie-cutter architecture in general being thrown up as quickly as possible.

And, generally, bringing bad attitudes into what has been a very chill, very accepting culture.

But those are small things, all things considered. Most of the people moving here are smart, cool people that acclimate quickly. To them, I say Welcome! To the others I say...maybe Dallas or Houston would be a better fit.
This is quite the coincidence, I was just reading this essay about MMT and degrowth by that author:

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-09-23/degrowth-and-m...

And while I agree with his numbered policy prescriptions (perhaps quibbling about a jobs guarantee versus universal income), the rhetoric and diction is so objectionable and wrong that it's like we are speaking different language. What he calls degrowth is actually massive growth and consumption in my view. Public services for all? FANTASTIC and exactly what we need. But that's not "degrowth," that's massive growth. Switch to renewables? That requires absolutely huge economic growth and change.

In practice, on the ground in communities using words like "degrowth" in their politics, degrowth is rich people continuing with what they have and nobody else getting access to it. "Degrowth" is the word and philosophy used to block projects that help working people because the wealthy are doing A-OK. The "degrowth" language allows the wealthy capitalists to hold onto everything, and will never enable the correction of wealth inequality and distribution problems of capitalism. I see it in my own small town, that is an outlier in the US. ~30% residents label themselves anti-capitalist, ~30% are working class non-landwoners without much political ideology except populism, ~30% are landlords trying to extract money. A significant chunk of the "anti-capitalist" segment are also landlords and influence the politics of the "degrowth" anti-capitalists to privilege the already privileged, this is really dangerous ways to think about things. The terrible language enables the reactionaries more than the revolutionaries. Make "capitalism" vague and unspecific enough to be a vague "bad" label, make "consumption" a vague and undefinable term, and it will be used by those in power as a tool to subvert any change.

For a school of thought that seems to abhor "contradictions," they seem to embrace them when it comes to using words.
Number 1 tip would be to save, number 2 would be to reducing housing expenses as early as possible. Something like https://55pl.us/what-is-manufactured-housing/ can work wonders, regardless of your age.
John Conway, Ron Graham, and Freeman Dyson.

We also lost Richard K Guy and Peter M. Neumann, although probably fewer HN'ers will know of them.
1. Unbearably slow.
2 -> n. Whatever.

None of the missing features matter in the slightest in the face of the completely unusable performance.
As an outsider, I hold the USDS in great regard. Probably too much because of Marianne Belotti's writings from her time there, but also from what I would like to think are more nuanced perspectives.

My country does not have anything like it, but what countries do?
Each to their own, I wouldn’t want to work at a place where we were just working on our own stuff and if you need something from someone you have to raise a jira ticket before you talk to them even though you are in the same room.

The best teams I have worked with tend to be more collaborative.
> When has JIRA actually been effective as the documentation for a bugfix?

We use JIRA specifically for this. Commit messages are JIRA ticket numbers and a short message to provide some context.

In JIRA we document what was requested/reported and which customer the issue affects/came from. We attach relevant documents and link it to possible related tickets. If a case is unclear we send it back to support and get additional info.

Once we commit we comment if needed to provide additional details. Our build pipeline then updates the ticket with build numbers after the issue is resolved so we know which versions has the build, which is pulled by our update distribution mechanism.

This way customers will get a notification when a new version is available that has a fix for one of their issues.

We then assign it to someone on support so they can follow up with the customer and verify that the issue is resolved, or we get the issue back with more details.

This way it's easy for both support, devs and management to see what's going on, and it has the needed context in case someone else has to take over.

Not saying JIRA is perfect by any means, but this works quite well for us. I should mention though that we use on-premise install so speed is not an issue for us. By the sound of things we'll be finding some alternative once that option is gone...
An Unlikely Business Partner
What exactly is the throat of a wormhole?
Oh man are you going to be disappointed when you get the vaccine and your "suffering" doesn't subside. You should probably talk to someone about it.
If you are using a mac, try using the web for a few minutes with the built in screen reader turned on. It is actually pretty fun, and definitely helps get a feel for what a non sighted user would be dealing with. Your example with alt is a good one, but they should still have an empty alt if it is not needed/applicable. Here is an intro to voiceover https://webaim.org/articles/voiceover/
> SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code

Are they OK? Ze googles, they do nothing
I swore off John Steinbeck when I was in high school, after having a visceral dislike for The Grapes of Wrath.

Then a few months ago, I read an interesting quote here on HN -- I traced it back to Steinbeck's East of Eden, so I decided to give it a try.

I really truly deeply enjoyed the book. I hesitate to add books to a "favorites of all time" list until at least several months after reading, but it's a definite contender.

As for the different experiences between GoW and EoE, I have to assume that the inconsistency of the reader has a lot to do with it.

So, +1 on the Steinbeck recommendation. And gratitude to the lost-attribution commenter who quoted him!

Hemingway waits patiently on my TODO list.
Easy, just move Stanford and Berkeley, as well as any SF Bay Area operations of Apple, Google, etc., to Austin.

The combination of UT Austin, Tesla, SpaceX, Oracle and all of the above would definitely rival Silicon Valley, and tech talent would almost certainly follow.
Haha, maybe, although I would suggest that it's easier to be exposed to all the good fiction than to visit all the good places. I can scan through a lot of books with everything online.
Happy New Year! I am very thankful for this community!!
I don’t think anyone is confused either. But language matters and my suspicion is that referring to “Europe” as something else (meaning continental Europe, the rest of Europe etc) for decades has contributed to the feeling among britons of not actually being fundamentally European in the same way e.g the French or Swedish do. You wouldn’t hear anyone else in the EU “go to Europe” or conflate the EU or Europe. And we make a point of not doing it.
Athbhliain faoi mhaise :)
> It was so bad, that eventually the government itself asked for the case to be dismissed.

I'm sure that's why and not Flynn's relationship with the President...
On the other hand, Debian broke OpenSSL generation and didn't detect it for almost 2 years. That appears to have been a legitimate mistake, but it is quite conceivable that a malicious actor gets a change merged that contains a backdoor that looks like an innocent mistake and goes undetected for a long time.
Are there really safes in existence that would survive the fire that melted the building's steel infrastructure and the building collapse?
I don't understand. I've been using MacPorts for 16 years and I've never had to wait more than a few minutes for a Python install to complete. Most packages are pre-built. I can even get clang without having to compile. Plus one for MacPorts though. It rarely lets me down and unlike Homebrew stays in /opt/local instead of polluting /usr.
Being able to travel.
The source code is already out there, so any compromises have already been found and exploited. Leaking it further won't create more vulnerabilities, and more likely will cause existing vulnerabilities to be found by white hats
Users took care of the article by flagging it.

Your comment stood out in a bad way. When X is an inflammatory topic, entering with "$X is evil" is just exploding a bomb. That's not ok here.
Not very much. That is the point.
There is no magical one-size-fits-all project management setup. Having a tool that is customizable to match your team's workflow is a great win in my book. I've never encountered any organizations where there is endless bikeshedding regarding Jira. Would you care to give an example?
I come from the country that put Galileo's books on the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum".

I don't believe canceling culture is culture, even when the culture being canceled is bad.

It's much better to make them illegal, like we did in Italy with facism and nazism, than to "cancel" them.

They are still available as a subject of study, they haven't been cancelled, they have been found inappropriate and as such only a minority still believes that they've been made illegal in absence of good motivations, because anybody can check what are the reasons why it happened.

But the majority of people that were fascist before the war ended in Italy haven't suffered discrimination for being wrong, after it was obvious they were.
A health care worker with covid when they should not have it because of access to vaccines is a potential super spreader vector to others that are not yet vaccinated or for whatever reason can't be. So to me that goes against the hippocratic oath. At a minimum they should have to disclose they are not vaccinated so patients can choose not to be around them. Though as others have said it sends a bad message to others that need it more. E.g. if I am a 25 year old that doesn't want to risk the side effects, 70 year olds with a heart condition and asthma that also decide against it with a very different risk profile have made a decision based on the young health worker...

That being said certain people like the pregnant woman that feels we don't have enough data if there are any I'll effects on that particular group seems relatively valid.
I hit 50+ two years ago but have trended near 45 for the past few years. My basic strategy is to replace the time I spend watching tv or doom scrolling (Twitter, HN, etc.) with reading a book instead. And diversify sufficiently in book style to make this sustainable (i.e. interesting). But I can't give up watching tv or doom scrolling completely, so that's some "efficiency" lost.

There are people who read significantly more than 50 books a year and that's nuts to me. Even hitting 60 would require a lot more effort and slight discomfort than I'm willing to go for.

That said, it's incredible that I've already got a to-read list longer than I could possibly read in my life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Lions
This is very annoying when I am trying to call someone back that requested me to call them. You specifically asked me to call and now I have to talk to a robot first.