skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The propaganda is what's being peddled on traditional media. Had the media been responsible in their reporting of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and how it predominantly affects those with multiple underlying health conditions, instead of inciting panic over a re-branded seasonal flu (influenza is a corona-type virus... look at a picture of it), the pandemic might never have occurred. Imagine if the news gave us accurate and actionable information:

"I am a native Brazilian studying in Norway. I better supplement with 200 mcg cholecalciferol."

"I am a teacher who is 5'4" and weighs 190 lbs. I will look to lose 15% of my poundage in three months so that I am less at risk when me state Department of Education makes me return to the classroom of 25 children three months from now."

"I gained weight from stress eating and being cooped up indoors from a lockdown. I'm concentrating on a protein-heavy calorie-restricted diet until my adipose tissue offers a smaller attack surface and fewer ACE2 receptors for the virus which is surely waiting for me the moment I walk outside the confines of my abode."
Speech to text?
"Modern Slavery" is a term of art. It has legal definitions in many countries including the US[1].

1. https://www.state.gov/what-is-modern-slavery/
> I don't believe is worth fighting police during a demonstration.

As many protesters will tell you, in a lot of cases the police start the fight. Are you saying you're okay with them being able to just silence you? What do you propose doing when they use violence to shut down your protest?
Rising educational standards mean that for a lot of jobs a high school degree is not good enough anymore. An increase in the work force, from one family earner to two, is a sign of progress. Its also a sign that both parents might have to work to achieve the lifestyle one parent could achieve previously.

Its easy to look at one side of the coin and ignore the other. You can’t have your cake and eat it, too.
I think you're thinking of "slavery" as a term applying exclusively to chattel slavery, but it's far from exclusive to that form. Bonded labour and forced labour are commonly recognized forms of slavery, as people are obligated to serve another under threat of violence.
You're conflating slavery and chattel slavery.

As others have mentioned, the 13th Amendment explicitly carves out forced labor as a legal form of slavery under a course of punishment. Referring to it as slavery does nothing to diminish the atrocities of chattel slavery.
Honestly, I set up webmentions to use brid.gy, not just for the sake of using webmentions. I wanted a two-way integration between my static blog and Twitter, and this solution has done the job nicely.

That I ended up with direct webmention support was just a bonus as far as I'm concerned.
pulling out your wallet without thinking is as bad as pulling out a pitchfork. Perhaps worse, since you are holding the global poor to a higher burden of proof than the billionaire elites.
Well, having a political goal and actively pursuing that goal counts as political ambition in my book, regardless if the motivation is personal gain or not.

Regardless, I didn't mean that experts shouldn't get involved in politics. It's just that experts care and don't care about politics to the same extent everyone else does. There's no reason why an expert within a given field should be expected to care more than anyone else.
I'm a senior member of a small industry R&D team that's adjacent to a product development department. New engineering recruits have typically been exposed to Matlab. But they cover a pretty wide range in terms of their actual aptitude and interest in it. Only a fraction of people can really learn to program, and I don't think we understand why.

What I've noticed is that the ones who have gained some proficiency in programming can switch to Python in a jiffy. So I don't think it's a life or death choice.
I can't help but think that we'll need a few more ten-year studies before this notion goes away.

By which I mean enough time will have passed that the primary proponents of the theory have died or no longer have the limelight.
Could be a mistake but it could also be in line with their already stated policy of removing hacking information.

I don't care about the distinction you are about to make nor do I care to post an opinion on the matter. Just information for anyone passing by.
As an iOS user, I care. Tim Cook needs to investigate and respond publicly to this immediately
I can think of quite a few manga/anime/videogames where a machine translation would've been acceptable because I just needed a bare minimum understanding of what was going on. Think of any number of 8-bit games where the game is 95% hack-and-slash, but a random villager tells you before the last boss fight, "You must make sure to wear the enchanted amulet in order to pierce the dragon's scales!"

It's one throwaway line, but if the line is in Japanese, an American playing an imported ROM might spend an hour of frustration wondering why his sword does zero damage to the final boss.
AstraZeneca vaccine not ready for quick European approval
I sadly do not remember who came up with this quip (c.2000), but it went something like this -

"If video games influenced behaviour, those who grew up in the eighties would run around in dark rooms, listening to monotone music while popping brightly coloured pills."
Hopefully that's not all you do. That'd be a long beating with average police response being around 5 minutes.
It definitively does. The plasticity of the mind decreases with age, so if we're able to rejuvenate the brain, we would also increase it's plasticity, and we won't stagnate.

If everyone has been rejuvenated, then age would no longer matter. Someone who is 100 can have just as valid opinion as someone who is 25. Better yet, someone who is 100 will still able to contribute intellectually rather than needing to be taken care of by someone younger.

I understand the fear of a geneontocracy, but I think it's unfounded. New people will still be born, older people will get tired of living and opt to end their lives. If age no longer matters, the range of people in ones social group would only expand. The only advantage longer lives people would have is wealth and influence. We can solve the former with taxation and the latter is more dependent on the individual.
I think it's partially a function of how common and brutal is the deed. You can rip people into pieces in game for a family entertainment because it almost never happens anymore. Sexual violence still happens way too often so its nastiness is more real for people.

Also sex is generally taboo way more than just murder. Soldier killin people - good. Even innocent women if it's indirect enough like bombing. Soldier raping people? Oh, no, we can't have that!

Also not all murder is equally safe for entertainment. Chopping enemies on the battlefield - great. Stalking innocent people in the city to murder them... Way more on the edge of what's acceptable. Even gunning down civilians in the airport raised some eyebrows.

As I'm getting older I'm getting softer. Recently I was sad because I unintentionally squashed Jeff in Half-Life Alyx, blind mutant that was pretty much helpless if you were careful about the sounds you make. Game characters cheering totally didn't sit well with me.
The $1000 iPhone is made with slave labor. There are Korean and Taiwanese phones that are not made with slave labor.
> What we see now (compared to say 1980s): almost no major corps offering pension, inflation to the point where both Husband and Wife need to work in order to just afford a property and perhaps a kid, creeping fees/charges (cellphones, internet, netflix, disney+, etc.).

For the US (and this generally holds true in other western countries to varying degrees), the rise of female workforce participation was (as you imply) a counterbalance to stagnating real wage growth.

But this isn't due to inflation. It's due to changes in income distribution.

While it's true that labor productivity growth has slowed over the last few decades, GDP per capita has continued to grow (https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/gdp-...). What's changed is that those gains have been overwhelmingly distributed to the rich.

The middle and lower classes have compensated for this by, as you note, increasing workforce participation, increasing reliance on consumer debt, and increasing personal bankruptcy (https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/publications/revie...).
There is no inconsistency. Natural gas is most certainly flammable once it's vaporized (it would be a very poor fuel if it wasn't), but there's a big difference between something being flammable and something being explosive. If you have a big leaking tank, it is very likely that it will catch fire, and no one really wants a big raging fire in a residential area, but that fire will only burn at the leak where fuel and air are mixing. It's very difficult out in the open to form cloud of natural gas and air with a uniform mixture such that it can all burn at the same time, and even then the flame front is too slow to cause a damaging explosion.

I would also note that the engineer's use of informal language here is clearly alarmist.
You're absolutely right, it doesn't seem difficult at all.

That said, have you ever had stage fright? It's pretty common. Practice often seems to melt away when an actual performance is at hand. With that in mind, it's perhaps not unreasonable to think that this particular bar - quite low as you rightly and wisely point out it seems to be - will trip up no few liars at scale.
uhh. if someone is in your house with intent to harm you, the police will not arrive in time to prevent it. Police response times are measured in minutes. You're much better off running away or defending yourself with a weapon, the ultimate equalizer being a firearm.
> I'm fairly certain the author is not implying they are better than anyone because of their love for 'the best pasta'

That’s the thing - I am sure they (and the readers) do feel superior for their choice of pasta - or something equally pedestrian, it is what makes the whole “hyperbolic lampooning” work - it wouldn’t be funny if didn’t have a vein of truth.

That’s off-putting, maybe because we cant identify with that attitude anymore. Different life stages (I’d be surprised if the author is over 26).
Congratulations, you just invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Talisman

This is also how Trespasser dealt with far geometry in 1998 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trespasser_(video_game)#Develo...

Started top be used again with introduction of directx 9.0 under a name Impostors
http://www.tommironty.fi/screenshots/Imposters/dynamic_2d_im... https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/article... https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems3/part-iv-image-...

here at work in COD warzone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=691&v=mvdTtl27TpM
I'd say yes, albeit only if it's "available" and not something you could accidentally enable, or could be enabled through sabotage.

Having an unencrypted device could make it easier to reverse-engineer, improving consumer control and ownership of the device. Obviously not really Apple's shtick, but I think the choice is good, so long as you have to very specifically ask to disable encryption.
Why is it so fast to edit tables with org-table? inside Emacs
Probably worth the effort. A while ago I was exploring the Nest APIs (https://github.com/dend/foggycam) - should probably get back to that and see how I can automate some of the Nest capture ideas.
Eh, nobody, including yourself, maybe except the Jainists, are willing to do without the creature comforts of their lifestyle, not just Apple users. Look at all the things you own and use, some of them built in the same Foxconn factory no doubt.

We can look the squalor of factory-farmed animals right in the eye while biting into our ham sandwich and say "damn, someone should really do something about that." Or, perhaps more commonly, "I'm entitled to this, actually."

So why would we budge over a little forced labor on the other side of the world? Or pollution? Or anything else?

We care about things right up to the point where we have to lift a finger. Though, aside, for this reason I think legislation is one of the only solutions short of waiting for a cultural awakening that probably won't ever come.
UK is increasingly drinking cheap stuff at home.

Even as teenagers we drink a pretty large amount before actually going out and really getting going.
But Apple is in the US. What surprises me is that the US media isn’t pounding on Apple for using suppliers with force labor.

Sorry about the acquisition, if it had been a movie it would have been almost funny: This is great for job, btw you’re fired.
Probably the thinly veiles "all it takes is a little hard work and grit, don't know why all these peasants complain about being poor" attitude.
Scoop tries to swim upstream and change the default install location. In my experience, this ultimately leads to problems and system fragility. Sure, it should work, but that's no comfort when it doesn't work right when you need it. Instead, you should install software to the default place and install it as admin. That's how it's tested by its developers and that's how it's tested for regression and compatibility within Microsoft.
Like, incarcerating people for long years, making them unemployable after release and destroying families of people involved in it? I really hope not.

I mean, i am fine with heroin being illegal. But I don't think the way it is done should be done more and more.
... and consequently took notes for when she is leading others in a company so that she can use the pawns under her similarly.
Some kids, yes.

That your children do this I think speaks more to your aptitude as a parent and nurturer than human nature in general.
If you only use autoconfiguration perhaps, but for manually assigned addresses it's really not too bad since one can structure them in a logical way (which would be extremely expensive to do in the IPv4 case).

If you are a company you can get your own IPv6 space and can structure things hierarchically: <company prefix>:<site>:<vlan>::<hostnumber>.

And in fact I can remember more IPv6 addresses for hosts than IPv4 addresses for the same hosts right now.. so there is that.
>Dani Alexis Ryskamp is a freelance writer.
It's worse than I thought. They measure "aggressive behavior" based on a questionnaire.

They look for a correlation between the "class" of gamer; literally "people who play a lot at younger ages, drop, and then increase", "people who play a moderate amount at younger ages, drop and then slightly increase", and "people who play only a little bit at a young age but increase" and report no correlation between those classes and the aggression assessment based on the questionnaire.

I admire the fact that they didn't do more work to p-hack their way into a correlation; they went with one methodology and showed that it didn't produce a correlation, and reported that. But even though I agree with the article's conclusion, I don't think the data support it in any meaningful way.
Wood is a very good heat shield and was used by China at the start of their space program when composite material was beyond their manufacture abilities. What they will likely achieve is to preserve what is inside the wooden box during re-entry and rise the chances of hitting something and cause damage.
Sure it is, it's just not a cryptocurrency you happen to like. Some people liked it some people didn't. It's just a religious thing.

Re: cheeses regulators would only stop the sale if it was harmful. They may say you can't call it cheese anymore, though. Not really the same thing. A real life example is Velveeta.
One of the biggest problem facing the US today is that the regions that offer the most economic opportunity have moved to increase restrictions on building new housing the most:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images...

Contrast that with Chongqing, China, where construction has kept rent to $75 a month:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200713034719/https://www.nytim...

Or Houston, Texas, where housing costs less, adjusted for inflation, than it did in 1980:

https://www.sightline.org/2017/09/21/yes-you-can-build-your-...
I am sad to say this does not shock, or even surprise me. What is also failing to shock me is how much the world absolves Apple of their responsibility, and near-total government inaction against China. Has any major western nation penalized China for it's barbarism?
I think this relates to the concept of viscosity for a gas.
You made me realize, I think of the brackets as saying "where". vec[2] is vec where the index is 2. vec[vec > 5] is vec where the entries of vec are greater than 5, etc.
> Go and write a (slow) tensor library yourself in pure Python.

Paraphrasing Alexander Stepanov, "complexity is part of of the specification" [0]. If your data is not contiguous (as the third figure in the article shows), it is not the same data structure. Thus you cannot implement this data structure in pure Python, period. The "array" module is just a wrapper to C data just like numpy is, it is not a pure Python construction.

[0] Here's the full quote, from http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html

In 1976, still back in the USSR, I got a very serious case of food poisoning from eating raw fish. While in the hospital, in the state of delirium, I suddenly realized that the ability to add numbers in parallel depends on the fact that addition is associative. (So, putting it simply, STL is the result of a bacterial infection.) In other words, I realized that a parallel reduction algorithm is associated with a semigroup structure type. That is the fundamental point: algorithms are defined on algebraic structures. It took me another couple of years to realize that you have to extend the notion of structure by adding complexity requirements to regular axioms.
I think we all very clearly know that there are exceptions where you do need to ask for external help.
If they're already in your house and beating you to death, what makes you think you'll manage to make that phone call?
I'm no necessarily disagreeing with you, as far as saying "it would be weird to refer to the people in Auschwitz-II as slaves", but may I ask why? I can't come up with a reason, really. They were dehumanized, worked to death, treated as property and less. Would calling them slaves be giving the Nazis too much credit, at that point?
I like Here We Go, except for the name. It isn’t as polished as others but I find it good enough to trust it. It has great support for offline as well.
But we're actually buying $1000 slave iPhones with Apple shareholders getting the workers' wages.
There's some truth here, but it's important not to use anecdotes too much to guide intuition because the sample size is often too small and too biased.

For example, I have a group of 10 friends. All 10 of them (including myself) got covid, and we all agree it is no worse than the flu. I mean, yeah, we couldn't smell or taste for a few days, but we all recovered within a week. Therefore... I should reflexively question covid studies saying how dangerous it is because in my own experience it's not even worth making a fuss over?

Maybe to some degree, but the fallacy I committed by relying on my anecdote to guide my intuition is that me and all my friends are young, fit, healthy people. My group of friends didn't include the elderly or immunocompromised or morbidly obese, etc.
The update by Rick Hillier is complete [1]. For Ontario residents, the key new information:

- clinic holiday shutdown was a mistake; daily operation will now be the norm
- first Moderna shipment arrives within 24 hrs, will be distributed outside clinics
- the vaccination rate is currently limited by supply
- 80K Pfizer / 50K Moderna per week in January
- Phase 1 (vulnerable and health care workers): Jan-Mar (~1M)
- Phase 2 (expanded distribution): Apr-Jul (~8M vaccinated total)
- sentiment: over 80% of population willing to vaccinate as soon as possible
- Hillier requested that Health Canada consider a 1-dose Moderna regiment

[1] https://youtu.be/dy0ctRiU2IM?t=1008
The New York Times did reporting on the WikiLeaks disclosure of the Clinton emails that suggested the timing indicated political motivation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/us/politics/assange-timed...
Or, you know, they're trying to quickly forge an agreement that's as similar as possible to the previously-agreed legal, economic, and governmental frameworks under which they've been operating for decades ? An agreement that avoids rehashing settled issues of law that neither side cares to change?

Applying that razor, it seems a mite more likely to me than some octogenarians forgetfully bumbling their way into a thousand page agreement.
How does that square with title of the post?
I hope you'll get your diagnosis eventually.

> It also makes relationships difficult; I've been married four years and my wife is only now starting to actually understand and believe me when I say I didn't hear what she said (vs just not caring / not listening).

I feel for you. This reminded me of my recent discovery. You've probably seen this[0] image test circulating on social media the other day. Few days ago, when working with my wife through some issues between us, I showed this to her. To my utter disbelief, she scored 6. I score 2. 3 on a good day. Suddenly, both of us realized why we're getting annoyed with each other whenever talking about things like remodelling the kitchen, rearranging the living room, or planning the layout of a new flat. As it turns out, she truly can visualize everything in her head. And she now understands that I really do need to measure everything and drop it into CAD software before I'm ready to talk.

All because of a simple test that I only remembered because I've been obsessed with my aphantasia for over a year now. This makes me wonder: how many of such undiagnosed differences of perception are there between couples, that make living together difficult, because neither side can understand the other truly perceives the world differently?

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[0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/aioyga/simple_a...
Laptop design took over, and since key goals are strength, thinness, and lightness, and since the market is now global, and anything too weird would annoy at least some customers, there isn't much of an opportunity to do anything outstandingly creative.

For example - you could anodise unique swirly coloured patterns into the aluminium. You could coat parts with a mirror chrome finish. You could make and sell your own Apple rubber bumpers in a series of interesting textures, including nice renewable materials like bamboo. But at least as many people would hate those as love them, which is why Apple will always play safe, and the bumpers will be left to after-market.

Space Gray, Silver and Alu-Gold are timid design choices, and the muted blues/greens/etc on the new iPhones look pretty mediocre IMO. But they're cheap, practical, and relatively durable, so I doubt Tim Cook's Apple is going to move beyond them any time soon.
If they just made their computers in the US like they used to they could have both, but that would mean giving up the lucrative arrangement of only paying Chinese wages but charging US prices.
Houses are cheap and plenty of lower-middle income people live in houses much larger and newer and nicer than the average urbanite. It's the land that's expensive, not the extra bedrooms.
> how much clutter Google Maps has accumulated on the screen

I have to use Google Maps "Go" (the light-weight version) on my phone because of all the clutter in their mobile version. Granted I have an older phone - Galaxy S7 - but for something that worked just fine on even older devices, I don't think that's a valid excuse for it being nearly unusable on an S7 now. Thankfully Maps Go is pretty quick, but the biggest feature I miss out on with the Go version is offline maps.