skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also: our individual opinions become vanishingly insignificant relative to the aggregate opinion of the market, one that continues to pay for MS Equation Editor.

Actually they don't.

People preferred paying for products like https://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/ which allowed people to type TeX into Microsoft documents than they did Equation Editor. Therefore Microsoft gave up on Equation Editor. They then created an XML-based markup language for math, and MathBuilder around that. Which they then put a TeX translation layer into so that you can type simple TeX in Word, Outlook, and so on, then get a math equation out.

Sadly for Microsoft, they didn't actually remove Equation Editor. I say sadly because they eventually had to. Per https://securityboulevard.com/2018/01/microsoft-kills-old-of... it was found to have a serious security hole, and removing it was easier than fixing it.

Incidentally, despite having both TeX and MathML available to look at, Microsoft failed to turn out something as good as TeX for serious use. As a result most journals will not accept documents produced using Math Builder.

So the aggregate opinion of the market is in. TeX was better than MS Equation Editor. (Which is why TeX outlived MS Equation Editor.)
Didn't downvote so can't be 100% certain, but it may be related to the fact that this isn't Reddit.
How would you comprehensively test for stuff like this?
I thought discrimination based on sex and gender is illegal. You are now condoning an illegal practice?
Yes, it's wonderful that there's somewhere we're allowed to do that.
I think risc-v might work best as a server

For phone/desktop/laptop a rough spot would be the GPU. And possibly perf/watt.

The M1 meanwhile most likely has billions of dollars of development behind it.
Chicken periods -> eggs
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> gross sexual fetishization of Asians in western culture

No need to pass so much judgement.
Then they will have to leave entire subcontinent and middle east.
So they're just not going to fix the /opt /usr/local split? Real dick move.
Obvious how? Can you give examples?
Covid didn’t give us personal robots, it gave us Woebot
Why would you search for 'asian' food? You'd search for japanese, chinese, korean, vietnamese...
It reads like something you read in the airplane magazines in the pocket infront of you. I didn't know Reuters wrote these kind of articles. I wonder if it just is an add for Careerstone what ever that company does. I guess recruiting.
My girls, then aged 10 and 12, made it through the Coursera ECS first course. They are not geniuses, but the material is stellar. I helped them in a couple of assignments. They enjoyed it, even tough not one of them went the STEM route. They became the smart artsy young women that make art and music with computers.
I don’t know about other people, but I only ever used AHK as a text expander. I used it religiously when I worked as a law firm associate and had to use a PC.
Their leadership has sold their soul to Google already. Checkout the executive pay issues, and how 95% of the money comes from Google. Moz is just a lightning rod for Google these days. Change has to come from the top, and if Firefox became a serious competitor by fixing their usability issues then Google would kneecap them, subtly and privately at first by exerting pressure on the executives about whether the money spigot would dry up ..
Hams are pretty uptight about self-policing what goes on in their RF spectrum, mostly because they realize that if they don't a) other people will step in and police it for them and b) it would make it much easier for commercial interests to make the case for their spectrum allocations to be taken away (they're recently losing this fight in the 3.3-3.5 GHz band to 5G cellular networks and increasingly high-frequency traders are eyeing their traditional shortwave allocations to shave those next few microseconds off compared to microwave networks).

If you did start transmitting encrypted stuff on the ham bands someone would probably foxhunt you (even if you were doing it for "civil disobedience") and ask you politely to stop before reporting you to the FCC. You could of course work outside of the ham bands but then what you're doing would be illegal for other reasons.
>How is this not racism against Asians?

That same filter also blocks the word "redhead", among others.
It's not ... possible/viable at this time.

Every common X means thousands of complex things. There are over 9000 RFCs (insert Vegita meme). Even more popular APIs, libs, algorithms, whatevers.

Even basic support would be near impossible. A constant race between what constitutes basic and releasing it. (Plus upkeep/maintenance, as things continue to evolve at a rather fast pace.) And if the language enjoys at least a minimal level of successful then a lot of non-stdlib packages are likely to become standard by convention.

It's no wonder that new languages nowadays start with minimal stdlibs.

(I just noticed that there's an SMTP server in Python3! It's ... great, I guess. But there's no DNS resolver library. So either the SMTP client (and now server) packages do not handle anything related to DNSSEC / DANE / TLSA / MTA-STS / DKIM / DMARC and others, or they bundle it. Sure, maybe it's enough to outsource these to the upstream SMTP server and the SMTPd package is just for "testing" ... but, this just shows how arbitrary "commonness" is.)
I've switched to Nix and never looked back, thanks to Homebrew embedding spyware into the package manager. I keep my non-system apps in ~/Applications and back them up with the rest of my files.
This is legitimately terrifying.

>In a way, Trump was right. There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans.

WOW, WOW, WOW. So, the bulk of the private sector was leveraged against a free and fair election (all because "this time it's different"—whataboutism run amok) and it was all completely within the law? I don't know what the name for such a system is, but it is most definitely NOT a constitutional republic, let alone a democracy.

A few months ago, that was a right-wing conspiracy theory that could lose you your job. Now it's in black-and-white in Time Magazine.

>First they came for the fascists, and I did not speak out—

>Because I was not a fascist.

>Then they came for the neo-Nazis, and I did not speak out—

>Because I was not a neo-Nazi.

>Then they came for the Republicans, and I did not speak out—

>Because I was not a Republican.

>Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

...And now we all suddenly realize what they had really meant by "fascist" and "Nazi."

Welcome to the era of leftist vengeance politics.

After 4 years of every single screen breathlessly excusing the destruction of property because the wrong guy won the election, I'm sure those violent idiots at the capital just assumed that this is what one does when one's own team loses the election. If you excuse unethical treatment of your enemy, you've already excused the same unethical treatment being directed at yourself.

The entire apparatus of the American republic is now downstream from FAANG and friends, who have no allegiance or roots and are neither checked nor balanced, and they'll never risk another fair populist election. Welcome to the post-communist, post-capitalist global technocracy.
How is a new keyword a *major* breaking change? They can only be introduced at edition boundaries, which means they are opt in. And code can be automatically upgraded to a newer edition by replacing uses of `keyword` with `r#keyword`.

New keywords are a relatively minor inconvenience so long as there aren't too many.
>We studied mice, but the effect we observed is equivalent to kids having a Western diet, high in fat and sugar

Is there any evidence beyond correlation that high fat diets are unhealthy?

Also the researchers measured mice intestinal biome at 14 weeks, given that the lifespan of bacteria is probably similar whether in mice or in humans, I wonder if the comparison to human lifespan is valid, considering that a transition that takes x mice-years may only take y human-months, so to speak.
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>For all children 9-99
This isn’t much, but it’s a little: even a bad plan is better than no plan.
There was extensive discussion on the talk page about criteria for inclusion and one of those criteria is that only software that has a dedicated wikipedia page or with citations showing notability should be included on the list. It doesn't matter that you know something belongs on a list, you need to show that it belongs on the list.
Yup definitely will let you know
Let's go one step further:

Suppose there's an app which is openly racist and discriminates against POCs, and that is in accordance with the law in the US (as it was not too long ago).

Should Google allow that app, since it's in accordance with the law and it makes them money, or should they consider if the law is unethical according to their own moral compass?

Perhaps this hypothetical question is erroneous, as it assumes a trillion dollar corporation would be more concerned with ethics and morals than providing infinite growth for their shareholders.
You could consider using our new installers, if you're on Windows or macOS, to avoid that: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases/tag/v4.2.1

Then you can connect them to your conda envs, as described here: http://docs.spyder-ide.org/current/faq.html#using-existing-e...
Can you provide more information about how vaccines can cause damage?
We could have tested it in two weeks with paid volunteers.

The pay for brave vaccine testers could have literally been $1m and we’d have saved several trillion bucks and potentially over a million lives. Hell, make it $10m or $100m and you'd still save a ton of money.

We've done this for several other viruses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_challenge_study
No, it doesn't work like that. You pay for something and you complain. Even if you don't. And if the guy doesn't like criticism, he can quit at any time.
How? Do you just leave the game running 24/7 even when you're not actively playing?

What do you even do? I only have 50 hours in Factorio. After I launched my rocket, I didn't know what to do next and just kinda stopped playing.
I was a fat kid and I'm hit by the same regret every now and then (mice studies or not) when I compare myself with early-thin people. Two ideas cheer me up:

-Our starting point does not determine where we end up. An early lead is a big advantage but plenty of people have overcome the hand they were dealt through work and forming good habits. Being in the top quintile (at lots of things, fitness included) is not that hard once you get in the groove.

-We probably traded that early edge in fitness for some other capacity that we see ourselves as more "naturally" gifted in. Maybe you're better at abstract reasoning? Computers in general? So yeah, that negative might be balanced by a quality you developed in your early years by playing all the warcraft. Looking back I can see lots of good things in my life came from hours and hours of online gaming and forums - being fluent in English is probably one the largest (and easiest to acquire) edges I have over most Europeans and it came from umpteen late night CS sessions with Americans.
They are still used in VFX a lot.

Its a good way to move entire shows to and from online storage. Its effectily a one off cost, vs a continuous cost for power and cooling. Its also a fast way to move data from one company to another. a ten drive robot is many times faster than 10gig ethernet.

For other companies its attractive because tape is literally offline. Once its out of the robot, there is no automatic way to get it online again. This means that its far harder to tamper with.
> It's like you see a bully picking on a kid every day at the park and you just decide to go to a different park. Maybe you feel a little better about it yourself, but it doesn't help the kid.

I think this is a really good analogy if you flesh it out completely.

Eve is bullying Alice, and says that anybody who plays with Alice will be chased from the park. Alice asks to play with Bob, and now Bob has a choice to make.

Bob thinks, "If I play with Alice, it won't last long. Eve will force me from the park, and Alice won't get to play anyway. And I won't be able to play either! At least, not at this park."

So Bob decides the right thing to do is to continue playing with the other kids at the park, but never Alice.

I think Bob made the wrong call here. The alternative was not merely "deciding to go to a different park", it was standing up for Alice. The cause of his departure, and the fact that it was Eve that forced him, is important. It's not just Bob who "feels a little better about himself", it's Alice.
I'd love to read the memo asking employees to report back their porn viewing habits.
Well, that's depressing, especially since parents make most of the choices for children. "Your parents fed you bad food so I guess you're screwed." Yay.
Thanks a bunch, Der Fewer...
Because there is no quality check. It's a bad implementation not being reviewed by a human - it's not racist, it's just banning stuff related to porn, and inconsistently at that.
For early voting reports. Paper ballots are tallied for official results.

A vulnerability in the FTP software, which I don't believe you've provided any proof was actually exploited in the wild during the elections, makes 0 difference to official results.
I wonder if the Union square Apple store has this issue, or if PR keeps it hush.

I'd imagine it would be really bad for business if customers found out, and they print money at that location
Thank you for sharing your story. Involuntary commitment is a vastly underreported human rights abuse which needs to be seriously addressed.
I'm not sure how you solve this. They stock products that are smallish, and easily convertible to cash, so robberies are going to happen.

The Devialet speaker in the article is a good example. Retails for over $3k, and weighs 12kg.
> That nation states do things to advance their interests globally is not a conspiracy. Foreign policy 101.

This level of argumentation is so beyond sense and reason that I'm not even sure which nation you're talking about. Iran is not advancing anything and Signal is not part of the US government.

> Who is to say that the Western technocratic system of government replacing the current Iranian regime would not also be oppressive? I personally believe it would be vastly more oppressive.

Nobody is saying that because you can't but you don't have to if you want to help people out who are opressed under a dictatorship.
It more likely has to do with Apple's secrecy.
Apple is in a self imposed category of only legit legal way to install software on users devices and is thus morally keeping users from practicing their religion.

The logical thing is to make Apple decide between servicing the entire American and European market and caving to repressive regimes.
Perhaps, but my first negative reaction after the name was exactly that bug ugly white screen substituting for instrument console.
> What do you mean by the "free speech principle”

Good point, sorry, I said this like it was some simple concept that everyone understands in the same way.

I mean it in the terms of what the UN calls freedom of expression and I think is based on the Ancient Greek origin. [0]

That’s not absolute and there’s still debate, but, in my mind, it’s a philosophy that more communication on more topics is ultimately better for improving society and doing great things than less. An application that I think is relevant to this definition is Postel’s Law [1] to be liberal in what’s accepted and conservative in what’s said.

And I think part of this is to not try to have a rules based approach of specific banned topics because it ends up being circular, eternal, and nonproductive. So any efforts to get specific rules around this seem to harm groups.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
[1] https://devopedia.org/postel-s-law
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There is an actual rudix package that has install/uninstall, including for itself.

Otherwise you’re using the somewhat cumbersome process of backing out a package based on the receipt. It’s doable, but mostly requires some googling to find the correct incantation.
> Your starting point does not determine where you end up.

First sentence of the article: "Eating too much fat and sugar as a child can alter your microbiome for life, even if you later learn to eat healthier, a new study in mice suggests." So yes, eating bad as a kid means that you'll always be worse off and never get to where others are.
Not an expert, but I've read that the antigen presenting cells break down the antigen into short peptides too (8-20 amino acids) when creating antibodies.

One might however still ask if the body is better at selecting exactly which portions are cut and chosen than however these were selected.

Also, if the antigen is small from the start, that might have implications too (like being ignored).
Idk why this was downvoted, samstave just asked some follow-up questions that elicited an interesting response. Upvoted to attempt some counterbalance.
I wouldn’t dismiss a study just because it was done on mice. My understanding is that scientists have tested and respected ways of transferring findings in mice to insights for humans.
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Turns out if you don’t pay taxes or fines, at the extreme you can be shot to death. This is legal.

Lot of laws and rules are arbitrary, so a government official get a “fine”, sometimes massive fines, placed against you.

You pay it or lose everything, go to jail, or get shot for refusing.

Lots of struggling business owners are finding themselves in this situation lately.
They're both quantitative. "quantitative" doesn't necessarily mean "discrete".

The usual way to refer to this distinction is uncountable vs. countable nouns.
Wait, is redhead fetishization NOT a racist thing?
A company doing a quarter of a trillion in revenue might be able to figure it out.
Angel's Citadel, my TTRPG publishing company (https://angelscitadel.com). My wife and I do it together becuse we want to. No real other reason.
Video Data Systems- a small company in Hauppauge, NY. They made titlers "Chyrons", ad machines and community bulletin board things, oh and the NY Off Track Betting video stuff.

Oh, I bet you had this experience: 100s of monitors whining at near 15734 Hz, damaging your young ears..
According to the article, Pakistan (along with China, Vietnam, Germany, Nigeria, and Russia among others) requires physical presence and data localization in order to do business.
> We aren't seeing all PCs having hardware level censorship functionality inserted into it, as the behest of governments.

I mean, that literally did almost happen once, right here in the US of A. And sure, points to you, no country has yet attempted it since then, but also, China has locked onto a much more productive and efficient model; controlling the flow of information itself, rather than the client devices at hand.

And yeah, that's circumvent-able by users of sufficient tech literacy and bravery, but also, that fact has not presented an issue yet for China's Communist Party in their efforts to keep a stranglehold on the culture of their country, apart from perhaps Hong Kong.
The service itself will know how many users are where and can make its own boundaries. "Same city" would often be pretty useless for finding people to meet immediately in real life.
> But if they choose to stop doing business in Pakistan, what would become of all of their existing customers?

What happens to Pakistani users of Debian, if Debian doesn't do business in Pakistan? Nothing. Those users are fine. iOS users would be in a bind only because Apple chose to create a system where users are left high-and-dry if/when Apple decides to no longer do business in any country.
I wouldn't be surprised if they trained a model on text scraped from somewhere like pornhub and this was the result. It's only surprising they didn't accidentally catch more ethnic terms.
Seems silly to suggest "racism" rather than badly designed algorithm that nobody at apple is paying attention to.
these tapes are going to be fairly cheap (<$400) by 2035.

But more importantly, if its an LTO-style tape, it'll be fairly solid.

even without the case, you can drop them and not worry too much. Lord knows I've dropped loads in my time.
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How do you kill an idea? You remove the ability to communicate about that idea.

Social media is Newspeak.

The fucked up part is, we all assumed it would be the government who was doing it. In reality, Big Brother is firmly in the private sector.
I think apple products can be locked remotely if they are known to be stolen.
Hi Hacker News!

I've just launched the Web Serial App controller into Beta - a web app that uses the new Web Serial API that allows communication between browsers (Chrome and Edge) and serial devices such as Arduino or RaspberryPi.

The interface is inspired by Windows XP (using XP.css) - when working on the app, I was reminded of some of the software I used in the 00's when connecting to serial devices.

Currently there are no user features, but otherwise it's reasonably feature complete in being able to connect to devices and communicate with them.

I'm currently investigating some options to support user-based features such as saving device information and saving snippets for devices. I'm also investigating the gRCP API for the Arduino API which would allow for compiling of code to be sent to devices.

It's fully open source and feedback is welcome.
Ah, but they would also need to prove that he accessed it, wouldn’t they?
SF leads in all areas of innovation, including crime. In the Covid era, tourists are not present in the quantities required to sustain various career populations, including criminals.

Guns aren’t really necessary in SF, so there may be some gang initiation threshold.
Borrowchecker and lifetimes automatize a big chunk of verifying all the states my code can yield.

Rust has many zero cost abstractions that make writing things easier.

It’s super high level at the speed class of C - sometimes even faster given that libraries for common tasks are well programmed. With the high level abstractions the compiler may probably reason and optimize better?
http://www.redstrategygroup.com/insights/2016/2/26/why-zappo...
I worry about where this might go, but I want to see the data about where it does go, or is going, at the time that it happens. I want Google to share the data with academics for research while it is being gathered.
> it's not racist, it's just

Hanlon’s razor is no excuse for discrimination. In fact it’s the most common excuse, but it is never acceptable.
Regulators are aware of these effects. They have limited ability under the law to pursue things that only have 2nd order effects.

Blockchain won't help; you would have the same problems but with even fewer ways to address them.
Would you prefer to hide it forever? We could add an option for that, but scaling could fail in some circumstances.
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Also don't forget HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1 in your environment to keep it from silently phoning home a machine-specific unique identifier and your client IP (city-level geolocation) to Google every time you run it.

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/142
Chicken foot soup also tasty.

Burritos with an actual foot inside of, well coworkers say it’s good.
I think he was referring generically to any bad crafted vaccine. Not the one approved by authorities. Indeed any improvised drug can be harmful.
That could easily be `var (x, y, z) =`, which is similar to what many languages use.