skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Double standard?

How many white men were strangled to death on camera, pleading "I can't breathe!"?[0]

How many white women were murdered in their bedrooms after their apartment was stormed on a dubious-at-best, no-knock warrant? [1]

Now, how many violent, white insurrectionists are getting slap-on-the-wrist misdemeanors for breaching our nation's sanctum sanctorum? [2][3][4]

Yeah, there's a double standard. It's white supremacy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Breonna_Taylor

[2] https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2021/01/syracuse-man-arrested...

[3] https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/jenny-cudd-fbi-arres...

[4] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/most-of-the-arrests-...
> (this equality only holds for expressions that are going straight into a Boolean operation

Right, though that's more commonly turned into just a cmp instruction (a subtraction).

However, if the result is assigned to a variable, on x86 "a != b" would be two or three instructions (possibly clearing a register because setne takes an 8-bit register operand only, and then a cmp/setne pair). Instead the xor would be one instruction, or two if a mov is needed.
Surely you mean beneficiary
> ... or you're not violating the terms of service which you accepted while joining to the service, they wouldn't remove your content or block you.

Note that tech companies can change the terms of service at arbitrary points in time after you joined the service. You're of course free to reject the updated terms of service, in which case they will - wait for it - block you.
Greenwald has completely lost the plot.
>If true, that is damning

it's not damning and not unethical, it's the definition of whistle-blowing.
It's an artifact of history, when 200 years ago it may have taken weeks for states to count votes, certify and send representatives with the results, assuming they made it to the capital and didn't die during travel when their horse fell into a river or something...

Plus, once confirmed (on the 6th), it does take some time to change cabinets etc.
Or stop taking them away at any point, including while they serve sentences.
> "when you have to adhere to the "Generic Verb-Generic Noun" pattern"

a) it's GenericVerb-SpecificNoun usually with a name at the front of the noun like Get-YakubinComments, and you don't /have/ to adhere to it.

b) there isn't a single namespace, you can use the full name style Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Get-Command if you want to disambiguate namespaces.

c) You can `import-module -prefix ZZ` and then all commands in that module will get your prefix at the start of the noun part, like Get-ZZYakubinComment to avoid clashes.

> "How would that play out in the Powershell world? List-Processes -> SuperDuperList-Processes?"

No because List- isn't a standard verb, nor is SuperDuperList. Get-EventLog had Get-WinEvent added. Get-WmiInstance became Get-CimInstance. The third party NTFSSecurity module added a Get-Item2 to cover for Get-Item, and a Get-NTFSAccess to cover for Get-ACL.

And because it's a shell and can run binaries, there's no problem with you having or running top and htop. or aliasing htop or calling your own thing htop, the Verb-Noun pattern isn't mandatory, it's recommended for companies developing modules so that administrators will have ideas how to list things, add things, remove things, without having to read the manual to find that it's mysterymgmtcli --auth-control -login-create instead of New-ToolUser.
Look, if you don't believe me, at least believe in Kishore Mahbubani, ex-Singapore diplomat and ex-UN Security Council head. He's spoken extensively about this in his book "Has China Won?" and can corroborate what I said.

In the past 40 years, the freedoms of Chinese people have exploded. People could not choose what to wear, where to work, what to eat, where to live. Now they can. Millions travel world-wide every year, and all of them return home. Why would they do that if China is as bad as you say?

As for "a revolution against Beijing": prof. Mahbubani says that there are actually hundreds of protests in China every year. But those people aren't protesting against the central government: they're trying to get the central government's attention, to help them with their grievances. The central government is very popular. According to a poll by Harvard, who collected data over a 15 year period through anonymous in-person interviews, support for the central government has increased in this 15 year period. In 2016 (last year of the study), it was at an all-time high: 96% of respondents said they're satisfied or very satisfied with the central government.

What makes you believe you are more right than prof. Mahbubani and Harvard?
Why Do Languages Have Gender?
To be generous to that person - it may have been that they were begging for money too eat - but to eat at a time and place of their choosing.
Those are not necessarily mutually exclusive
The US is pretty cemented in as a leader in the cloud world.

This might be step one to extending these regulations to all cloud providers worldwide, with the threat that anyone who provides IT services to others without strong identity verification gets blocked financially.
Sponsor's opinion is what actually matters.
Just for fun, I tried this :-)

https://alexbeals.com/projects/colorize/search.php?q=Trump (#4F4252)
https://alexbeals.com/projects/colorize/search.php?q=Biden (#433A4A)

Colors looks very similar O_o Could this be a sign?
You think that if the KMT had won, that China would have been better off? Do you have any idea how corrupt the KMT was? The CCP won for a reason.

CCP is mainland China. According to a poll by Harvard, who collected data over a 15 year period through anonymous in-person interviews, support for the central government has increased in this 15 year period. In 2016 (last year of the study), it was at an all-time high: 96% of respondents said they're satisfied or very satisfied with the central government.

That doesn't mean I "love the CCP". But is there any other party out there who actually advances the interests of Chinese civilization?
Where does one draw the lines between personal politics and morality, though?

I'm sure if you consider a business' only purpose to be enriching the wallets of its shareholders then you might not be wrong, although I'm not so sure.
> I was disappointed to find out that AI ethicists at Google aren't LessWrong style AI ethicists. I've just read one Google AI ethics paper in it's entirety but it seemed pretty non-insightful and not actionable.

This seems like a contradictory criticism to make. The Less Wrong folk, in my perception, mostly dabble in thought experiments (such as Roko’s basilisk) that aren’t terribly relevant to real world AI work. Timnit’s work on identifying racial and gendered inaccuracies in facial recognition [1] seems much more actionable.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/12/1003482/amazon-s...
> So, all social media companies must have representative in all countries that allow local govs to remove any content? Or get all of their info such as IP address?

Maybe. How a global communication network should interact with local laws and customs is in many aspects still an open problem that we just have begun to tackle.

> If I live in US and Tweet in Turkish, if Turkish gov ask for removal of that content should it be removed? Or should companies be required to share information about this user?

Welcome in a globalized world. I hope this won't be the eventual outcome, but this is definitly not a trivial question to answer. This stuff is why we have international organisations like the UN etc.
The worry is that something in a link will cause the program to behave in unpredictable manner. At best it would crash, but it could do much more damage if given the chance.

I don't know Golang, so I can't definitely confirm or deny any intricacies it may or may not have. Though as mentioned by others, it seems to essentially be a wrapper for a webpage
Life is too short to read every book someone recommends to me. If you want to prove your point, go ahead and prove it. But shunting the work of making your point off to me, by telling me to go read an entire book just to be convinced by you, isn't super persuasive. I already know what I think - you want to change my mind, then change my mind. I'm listening, but I'm not credulous.

So far, my original interest in the book from your earlier mention has been reduced by your less-than-stellar use of statistics in making your point. If that's all the book offers, my time is better spent elsewhere.
Bill Gertz (the Author) is a very divisive figure in US politics, with a long history of anti China bias. His writings are much more polemic screeds and less balanced academic analysis. He sees the US-China situation very much as battle between good and evil (with the Democrats being complicit on the side of evil), has zero nuance and very little sourcing in his books. All of this makes his books rather controversial.

All that being said. None of this is evidence for his books actually being wrong.
The benefit of what doubt? No matter how much you distrust Google, we can’t really presume they’re guilty of hypothetical accusations that haven’t actually been made.
Isn't the modern serverless just a "load on demand"-concept?
There isn’t enough to tell based on the information provided. You are just viewing partial data with your biases. Haven’t we had enough of snap decisions based on personal biases?
I was thinking of making it possible for SQLite to be used with static pages.

My idea is to modify SQLite to use ajax with the HTTP Range header to fetch B+ pages from the server as they are needed. SQLite already has a VFS (virtual file system) so this shouldn't be too hard.

I am not sure how fast it would be and it would waste a lot of bandwidth. That's why I haven't made it yet.

This would only be useful for using it with Github pages.
Lol, gogglers think company rules don't apply to them regarding company information?
> "I tried to make a living with a native desktop app - FOSS or proprietary - for Linux, but nobody seems to care and fewer would pay"

And how is this different for AppStore? More and more abandonware, and more and more cheap/freemium clones and garbage - noise to signal ratio is much lower than on say Linux. From a dev perspective, unlike a decade ago, now there's very little room to make any significant money just by building and selling simple desktop apps as indy dev. Now you need a SaaS, or some freemium upsell scam and a lot more marketing skills, plus Apple takes their share of every possible income channel you have and gives very little in return. That's at least my experience.
As I mentioned in my comment above, if my brother-sister-friend-mate (today) claims a domain called "amaz0n" (with a zero) then I would also support Amazon to go and take it off their hands. No apologies here. Unless they lived under a rock for the past 20 years, they know what Amazon is and (unfortunately) many young people are thinking of theThey know what they would know that this is shady.

But if my surname is "Smithopapadoakarian" (assuming someone with UK-Greek-Armenian roots) or if my product/app/service is BakeAPizzaOnYourOverheatedLaptop.com then the Amazons of the world better be ready for a fight because there is no way in hell that they have a product like that (unless they made one before me).
External drives are your friend right, you can get them encrypted or a full NAS.

If you're worried about Google (i.e. closing your account) then get some redundancy and use another cloud as well?

If you're worried about your documents being leaked by Google then you probably need to rethink a few things.
It’s not like most people don’t do that either. Ha!
Wait, am I reading that right?

Is it literally making pleading ignorance an option?
I'm not sure how one excuses the other really (especially since the other is a corporation of 100k+ people). This tit-for-tat behaviour really spirals into destructive retaliations which are bad for everyone.

See US news for example.
In banks, I'd say half of the cases of insider dealing I have seen in the news the past 5 years came from the compliance department.
I'm guided by the principle for universal love and forgiveness, it is time to leave the past behind, who cares what a dead person would thinks about something he never experienced. You are afraid and grasping at an illusion to keep up the self image of the victim, a powerful image yes, wash the hate from your heart, open the chacra of fear to drain the pool of resentment and let the light enter your soul. I will pray for you my child and I want you to know that I love your for all that you are irregardless of what you did.
That is an insane amount of storage for so few links. Is your setup somehow very greedy?

Saving article only view (images + text) should probably do better

I suspect your numbers come from JavaScript and css, etc? Is there a way for archivebox to not download react 5000 times but share source files? Most likely custom bundles that sites compile will not make this possible most of the time. Just thinking out loud here.
I happen to both hate balloning frontends and work with React so I can say that it is debuggable. It is not as smooth as Java, .Net or even Python IMO, but absolutely debuggable.

I will however strongly recommend that one uses it with TypeScript; that way there will usually be a whole lot less to debug in the first place.
Sure, and I appreciate that. I think what makes this problem so hard is that we depart from that spirit without realizing that we've done so. This is why it feels like we're posting out of love and respect while the other party is being rude and is in denial, gaslighting, or worse. Meanwhile the other party feels exactly the same way. Each of us is casting our own shadow on the other.

That's unfortunately how human communication works, especially online, and it takes a conscious (and considerable) effort to learn to do otherwise. It's not easy! We're all working on it, including me. Unfortunately, when the topic is divisive and activating, the rapid-fire, low-information nature of internet comments causes threads like this to compound extremely quickly into an all-out war.
This is probably because this whole debate is pedantic and irrelevant. 0-base wins, at this point it's not about picking a fork in the road, just swimming up stream for the sake of standing out.
LUA is over 23 years old at this point, it made a arbitrary design decision and has had to die on that hill ever since.
Yes Jen
do you have any evidence for these? I googled and couldnt find any photos of Thiel
Should I remove the references? I'd be glad to if you think that's appropriate.
Regarding performance: "Note that current raw performance of Java on Truffle isn’t representative of what it will be capable of in the near future. The peak performance is several times lower than running the same code in the usual JIT mode. The warmup also hasn’t been optimized yet. We focused in this initial release entirely on the functionality, compatibility, and making Java on Truffle open source available for a broader community. ... Expect performance, both warmup and peak performance to increase rapidly in each of our upcoming 21.x releases."
Not necessarily. A game can be good on the first playthrough but not have much replay value. An example of this would be the Pheonix Wright games. Once you've solved the mysteries they aren't really that fun to play again.
Here is my advice, other professions pay for the tools they use for their job.

Actually outside of the webdev bubble most companies are willing to pay for software too. SolarWinds in the news for all the wrong reasons now but their bread-and-butter was selling things to big corporations that webdevs would demand for free.
"FUD" is a concerted effort to outsell a competitor or something like that... I'm just an individual with real questions about implications of the licenses involved. I bet others have similar questions.

Graal licensing seems pretty complicated to me, and if I get it right Truffle only makes sense when used together with Graal.

From what I could find in the FAQ [1]:

* "GraalVM Community is free to use for any purpose and comes with no strings attached, but also no guarantees or support."

* "GraalVM Enterprise includes Improved performance and security over GraalVM Community"

In general it seems pretty good, but I think it is a bit painful to have to pay for certain optimizations... again, imagine if projects had to pay to, say, "clang -O3". Also could be painful to get stuck in Graal/Truffle version N if version N+1 switches to different licensing terms.

In general commercial compilers are a bit of a drag to work with... I use Saxon from time to time and sometimes I need to check the matrix to see if a feature is available or not [2]. For instance, until version 10.0, higher order functions (!) was a feature one had to pay for, for whatever reason.

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1: https://www.graalvm.org/faq/#how-is-graalvm-licensed

2: https://www.saxonica.com/products/feature-matrix-10.xml
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I think there's a bit of a chasm between:

"I'm a newbie web developer and I've never heard of EXIF", and

"It didn't occur to me that I shouldn't have recorded video of myself committing crimes and then posted it on the internet."

> I'm just sick of being mean!

Fair point. And regardless, "these people are idiots" doesn't really help us make sense of what happened, or figure out how to stop people from even wanting to do things like this in the future.
True, but it's only Google/Alphabet saying she sent data to external accounts and I don't think they're especially trustworthy. If she sent secret info to outsiders she deserves to be fired, but if Google is investigating her because they think she's looking for evidence of discrimination then Google deserves whatever civil and legal penalties apply.
Mmm, the only use case I can see is equivalent to an in-memory database, which would be faster than embedding sqlite.
Had it been an independent or much less related third party I'd tend to agree. However, with Mitchell's relation to and defense of Gebru, I'm not terribly sure I'd call this ethical, unless one is completely able to suspend their own biases. Getting caught doing this is bad judgement either way.
I am re-posting this as a few months ago, all of my websites went down and I am slowly retrieving or recreating everything. A little over a year ago, I was asked by my company to come up with a project that could help us out internally. If there is anything that can help a company be more valuable and resourceful that cost everything and nothing at all: it's the ability to track time, particularly productivity and time and measure it. There is, of course, some good faith effort here that you and/or the team you work with does try to track your time consistently or to the best of your abilities.

So I built a web app that tracks time and with it, I added the ability to add teams, so that you can track your time and your team members times and you can share time logs and even prevent your team from seeing your time logs if you prefer. It is free to use. I hope it helps someone or a company out. As with all my products, the data is encrypted behind the scenes, as I do take yours -- and my privacy -- very seriously. You may do with your data what you will including exporting it as a CSV file or deleting it.

Please report any bugs or suggest any new features you'd like to see.
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According to your link:

> Recently, folks have begun to use the word "serverless" to mean something subtly different from its intended meaning in this document. Here are two possible definitions of "serverless":
Classic Serverless: [...]
Neo-Serverless: [...]

SQLite was already "Classic Serverless". Now it's "Neo Serverless" as well.
Its actually an actually of having a healthy perspective on your obligations and others rights. Taking upon yourself the impossible obligation of knowing all possible ends puts you in a position to put upon them an unreasonable demand insofar as insisting that someone tell you how they plan to spend that buck.

Even if they are going to spend it on drugs they wont tell you so you are forcing them to degrade themselves either way by lying or by proving they aren't going to spend it on drugs.

Just say no if you think they are going to blow it on drugs or say yes without pretending their drug habit is the result of you giving a buck on a particular corner.
> Leaking sensitive material is not unethical by definition, some situations might impose a moral imperative to act in this manner.

Doesn't apply in this case. Snowden acted for the country, not for his dear friend who was fired in a scandal. Their supporters on Twitter raised hell and even made a cancel list of twitter users (AI researchers) who dared oppose their comments (Anima A.).
The bikeshedding in this thread is astonishing. Everybody in the world seems to have a strong opinion about how threads are shown in htop, about the shortcut for them, the default for showing them and their color.

Seems like that's easier to do than a thought about the actual substance of the blog post. Or being grateful that there is such a fantastic tool around, that there is a profound philosophy behind it, or that the original author shared it with us with some pretty good arguments.

But sure, let's keep discussing why shift-H needs to be made into a more prominent entry in the htop option screen.
Using AI to investigate a firm with 60M documents
Why would it make life hard for game devs. If you buy a game you own it and can do whatever you like. If you create a mmo game then you cant blindly trust client data and no malice is implied in this post.
This is really a non issue and a great way for people to get into programming and hacking.
I wouldn't worry about it. The main thing is not to repeat the pattern.
W3C launches the MiniApps Working Group to ensure MiniApps cohesiveness
I’m just saying that we should take their version of the story with a massive grain of salt.
How's this for a double standard: a group of mostly-white "protestors" can storm the US federal government with minimal opposition from law enforcement, resulting in essentially one death. Meanwhile, black men and women live with an entirely reasonable fear that any interaction with law enforcement, no matter how benign the circumstances might be, could easily end in their death.
The 'misuse' of literally has been part of the English language for almost 300 years at this point [1]. It is older than the USA.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...
When China gets through sterilizing half of Xinjiang we’ll see what bears out in the population growth statistics
Its really simple: people dont like being treated unfair. It’s not deflecting to point out hypocrisy
Not sure, but I suspect a google coral might be able to do this?
Using SQLite compiled to Wasm in order to push computation closer to the user is a powerful idea. I'm partial to the method of serving up the SQLite files directly and building applications around the SQL.js library [1], which includes math extensions and the ability to embed Javascript udfs. I wrote a data visualization using SQLite as the data store [2] and can attest that it's refreshing to use SQL inside of a static website.

[1] https://github.com/sql-js/sql.js
[2] https://ml-ranking.geospiza.me