skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it’s exaggerated at all. Many urban dwellers in the US have never overnighted outside city limits. Camping trips and boy/girl scouts and such aren’t even on the radar. I would say that a significant number of people don’t even understand what the night sky looks like—to them, it’s always been a gray/orange fog with a few dozen faint stars. So there’s not even a concept of what they’re missing.
I'm not sure that page shows what you want it to. It doesn't seem to account for the demographic distribution of people being caught committing crimes to begin with.

Here's a thread with numbers from 2019 claiming blacks are actually killed less:

https://mobile.twitter.com/LeonydusJohnson/status/1267466345...

Here's a famous (now notorious) article from nytimes claiming there is no racial disparity when it comes to police shootings:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/upshot/police-killings-of...
Of course it does, unless you were replying to the wrong comment in the first place.

What was it you did not see any evidence of?
Fidelity, and every index fund Fidelity has to offer, yep. The QDIA is an automatically selected target date fund-of-index-funds, but I'm manually allocated.
I'm so glad Super Dimensional Fortress is still around. I learned how to use Unix thanks to them back in the 1990s. They're in a different league than the goofballs selling unlimited web hosting cheaper than arizona iced tea.
Shooting 4 dudes in your apartment is considered a mass shooting by almost nobody.

You are welcome to argue for the authority of those who have classified it this way.

I’d love it if more people realized that what they are being told are ‘mass shootings’ are not what they have been led to believe.
Can you provide a few McWhorter quotes to that effect? Thanks!
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> Also, the Rust Foundation just looks to me like a corporate mouthpiece, not unlike the Linux Foundation, which will do little to nothing to make Rust better for anyone. 10 directors and 1 developer, what a recipe for success!

The Rust foundation isn't supposed to have any control over the project, rather it is meant to serve as a liason between companies that want to fund Rust development and operational costs and the developers that work on it full time. It also serves as a holding ground for various trademarks that used to be owned by Mozilla. You are also wrong on your numbers, only 5 of the directors are from companies, the rest are members of already existing Rust leadership.
> But perhaps someone focussed on 401(k) matching isn't a great fit at every workplace.

With the right accent you can play a number of fictional villains.
It doesn't really affect your point, but the term was "enhanced", not "extended". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniq...
> I fully agree with this sentiment, but I think it misdiagnoses the biggest problem facing speech on the right. As I see it, the main problem is not ring wing views being drummed out of centrist publications (though this undoubtedly does happen and is a problem). Rather, it is instead 'respectable' conservative ideas being driven out of rightwing circles in favor of anti-intellectualism and conspiratorial nonsense.

I think we're saying something very similar here? This is what I meant when I said "you should want conservatives to rally around the best, most respectable conservative ideas rather around the worst ideas".

To be clear, I think the "conservatives being driven out of epistemological institutions" (not "centrist spaces") and "the rise of anti-intellectualism in rightwing spaces" are two symptoms of the same phenomena (so while I might agree that one symptom is worse than the other, the cure is the same). Notably, when we regard everything right of far-left as "uniformly evil" then you erase any incentive that would otherwise cause respectable rightwing ideas to rise above unsavory rightwing ideas.

> I'd moderate this statement slightly. We never had objectivity -- that's just an impossible yardstick for humans in human institutions.

Objectivity and neutrality were ideals that we held much like equality, but to your point we never perfected them (I never meant to imply otherwise).

> I don't think people are wrong to point out that the old standards of objectivity were X which is problematic (where X might be white, or male or cis, or christian, or upper middle class, etc.) I agree that, granting this failing, explicitly turning to subjectivity is a bad response. But I think that needs to be explicitly argued to our friends on the left who might be tempted into the left's censorship spiral, and to just sweep it under the rug as an assumption will make them distrust your argument.

Yes, to be quite clear, we have failed at various points in history to perfectly uphold our ideals. The whole deal with "progress" is that we want to advance toward our ideals, and if we're really progressing, the past ought to be less moral than the present. There's merit in pointing out failures to prioritize identity over objectivity, but the left errs on the remedy: in response to prioritizing a white identity politics over objectivity they respond by prioritizing an anti-white identity politics over objectivity. The correct response is to prioritize objectivity over identity politics altogether, at least assuming we want to live in a world that is prosperous, just, harmonious, etc.
Yes, I read the whole article. And yes, I agree that "Actual progress on racism [is] orthogonal to what the author was talking about." But that's not what I'm critiquing. I'm critiquing his premise, that this thing he calls "third wave anti-racism" and whose characteristics he describes in his ten-point characterization is actually representative of the views of people who are concerned about racism today. I don't believe they are. They are certainly not representative of my views or of anyone I know. And he doesn't actually cite any sources. He just states it as if all this were common knowledge and beyond reasonable dispute.

Well, I dispute it.
You realize 3 would make 1 and 2 harder or less valuable? And 3 would have also prevented a gazillion 1s and 2s from being still with us?

I think breaking changes are highly underratted and people only shy away from them because the tooling expectations in all languages are so rock bottom.
"It, ironically, has the strong stink of a racial slur when it is flung at one's feet in this way."

That's because it is used as a slur, a powerful one which can end careers, almost exclusively against members of a single racial group. If that's not a racial slur, then what is?
So if I give you my phone number and you store it in Google Contacts, and I later decide I don't want you to have my phone number anymore, under GDPR can I request that Google delete my number from your contacts? After all, I never consented to you sharing my phone number with Google.
Thanks for the clarification -- I actually misread it and thought the defendant was making the claim. With it being the company, then I agree that the company has an obligation to make review simple enough that it can be done in a reasonable amount of time (from someone knowledgeable in the field -- I still don't think we need to allow someone 10 years to understand statistics and progreamming before even beginning the code review) or recuse the tool from use in a trial.
You can mention that it's base64 encoded, heck you can even link an online decoder for them.
If I tell you to go on Facebook and take screenshots of your friends’ profiles and send them to me and then I do dubious things using that information, whose fault is it? I’d split it between you and me. Facebook is not at fault at all.
I'm an Erlang enthusiast, but find myself writing C for (small) things where I need to interface with struct heavy library calls, and nobody else has built up an BEAMy interface. I could build it, but it would take about the same work to just build my project in C.

Of course, maybe there's a generalized BEAM to C call library I'm not aware of? (I didn't think to search for one until now)

Also, honestly, it's a little easier to have a C daemon than an erlang daemon. Just call daemon() before the service loop vs setting up an app file. Of course, you have to build hotload yourself from dlopen and friends, and you lose out on a lot of features.
A bunch of idiots (mostly seems to come from the alt-right side, see also some men's rights groups and "red pill" content) have determined that testosterone levels correspond to political views and the value of the male person. High T individuals, according to them, are near universally conservative, low T individuals are liberal. Part of the thought (and helps to exhibit the idiocy) is that women are liberal, women have lower testosterone than men, therefore low testosterone is the reason some men have betrayed the rest of men by being liberal. It's best to ignore these morons.
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It's not important to note. Kind of the POINT.
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I see 10 tenets that are extremely disagreeable posed as a mainstream ideology, and as far as I can tell, he just made them up. So he can fuck off, imo.

I don't especially like Kendi. Here's what he says about kendi in the article though.

> Ibram X. Kendi has written a book on how to raise antiracist children called Antiracist Baby.

...

That's it. He says he wrote a book called Antiracist Baby. That name drop does not do anything to strengthen his position. Unless I'm missing something there's not even a cherry picked quote out of context. It's just implied to self-evidently support his position.
API access or not is just a technicality. You grant your friend access to this data. Even if API access was restricted, malicious parties would just get your friend to install malware or give out their Facebook credentials directly (thus bypassing the API access restriction).

Either you trust your friend with that data or you don't. Anything else is just playing a game of whack-a-mole which may just give people a false sense of security.
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It's not important to note. Kind of the point.
Compare and contrast with https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/02/Anti-Wayland-horseshit.ht.... ISTM that Rust is way more deserving of an anti-FUD blog post than Wayland is.

"Maybe Rust doesn’t work for your precious use-case."
Heh,at least Remarkable gives you the root password and ssh access to the device. I don't know how that other one fares on that front? More and more, I can't stand being locked out of my devices.
How much of the windows churn over the past decade has been widely accepted as good by the users?

They only really need to get to a XP64/win7 level of win32 capability with the ability to run a recent graphics stack and they will win. They have been getting closer to the "just" works bit every year. At some point I suspect their market share will start to rise enough that application vendors start assuring their programs work properly.

At which point they could have a larger market impact than macos has had for the past 30 years.
> Of a hundred fundamentalist Christians, how many do you suppose could be convinced via argument to become atheists?

The word "fundamentalist" is unhelpful here, but if you ask adult Christians why they are Christian, I would be willing to bet most would give you a reasonably rational, well-articulated answer (that you may happen to disagree with). The same is true for adults of other religions.

The other problem with this particular statement is that statistics show that lots of Christians stop being Christians. Some were devout Christians who become devout Atheists. Some were lukewarm Christians who stopped going to church. Some never really went to Church, so just stopped calling themselves Christian. On the other hand, there are plenty of biographies of atheists who became Christian.
Publishing books on analytical philosophy, logical philosophy, and philosophy of language generally doesn't get you a bestseller that makes you rich and famous.
Pinning is specifying the exact version, so that wouldn't have failed.
>> To me, the most promising alternative to C are actually alternatives to GCC and Clang, which don't use "undefined behavior" as a wanton license to rewrite your program to do whatever they feel like at the time.

That's one of the biggest issues with C and C++: Undefined behavior is in the standards, so compilers can do whatever they want which can be problematic.

>> The other most promising alternative to C is just doing it more conservatively.

There are other programming languages besides C, C++, and Rust which target low-level and embedded targets. Ada or SPARK might be options depending on your needs and targets.

>> Aside: I'm working on a new programming language which I hope will be interesting with respect to these ideas. It's being kept private while it's under development, but anyone who is interested in this problem space should shoot me an email if they want to hear more.

That sounds very interesting. I look forward to seeing your ideas in the future.
> If it happens to you, just file for bankruptcy and get it sorted rapidly. You need a few hundred pounds for bankruptcy proceedings, so don't spend them on lawyers!

This makes it almost impossible for you to get a credit/lease a house/work with the banks in the future.

Do I feel like he over-stepped by openly calling the business scammers? Yes.

Do I feel like the firm/judge was stupid to ask 6000 pounds upfront, because someone just sued you and make a ruling for 25000 afterwards? Totally.

Nobody should be asked to pay that much amount before showing up to the court, just to be able to excersize their legal rights and to be able to presented , I feel like the judge made a huge mistake as well.
While I agree with you, you have to remember who the HN audience is. There's a reason why the top voted comment in any thread about math is someone asking for solutions.
As a user I much prefer old style sites like HN, Wikipedia and the old Reddit to the javascripted up ones for most stuff. And I've got a readability extension to turn monstrosities like bloomberg.com into something like a relaxing page of text.
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Pretty disappointing to see it using XLA. Anything Tensorflow is notoriously difficult to build on a local machine and generally considered a dependency nightmare. I would've thought libtorch bindings would be much easier.
When Linux the kernel will eventually be completely absorbed into systemd, and the Mac will turn into one giant Touch Bar, there will remain only two contenders for the reasoned user: Windows and ReactOS. (Unless Apple buys Microsoft by then, that is.)
I definitely agree with it being a useful model, after all that is the the way GPUs are presented to programmers. But when getting into detailed performance comparisons, especially with CPUs, that simplified model breaks down quickly and becomes a hindrance. Which is why I think it's unfortunate that NVidia (deliberately) uses the term "core" that leads people to believe they can make a direct comparison to CPUs. Comparisons that coincidentally lead people to believe GPUs are much more special than they actually are.
I see. I’m on a college campus in the United States right now, and I can confirm what he describes exists here exactly as he describes it. There may be a generational or geographical gap between our experiences.
Yeah, this is a fair point. My larger point was mostly that HN misses out on some valuable comments by insiders because those people are disincentives by some of the rhetoric and tone when an article on big tech is popular. I didn’t think the comment I replied to was particularly aggressive - it was just something that came to mind when I read it. OP was actually very kind and constructive in their response - a good ending and constructive discussion for us all!
Agree to disagree on this point. I cannot imagine a reality where governments (democratic or undemocratic) will allow tax evasion, money laundering, and terrorism funding to just happen because "they can monitor and run all sorts of analytics on the Bitcoin blockchain".
I'm not right-wing. More like neo-nazi. I believe non-whites should be deported from my country (France), and those that refuse should be gassed.
A brief explanation of the threat model (i.e. what it aims to protect against and what it doesn't) would probably be more useful. "Do not trust people that tell you Signal is perfectly secure" is true but probably doesn't lead to the right user behavior. I'm not claiming communicating these things well is easy.

(and obviously a bunch of the blame lies with people that do uncritically push Signal, if you are journalist not misleading your "sources" is important, but again they need to be educated too and it's not surprising that's not happening perfectly - efforts in that would also have been a reasonable response IMHO. And of course this is based on the assumption that the events have been presented somewhat accurately)
It turns out many properties of the Milky Way are still poorly known. We can take what we do know and find galaxies that may match, though.

An early version of this work with a gallery of objects that might match what the Milky Way looks like (given all the observational uncertainties) is discussed at https://www.news.pitt.edu/milkywaycolor .

A couple of the resulting scientific papers are at https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ...809...96L/abstra... and https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...833..220L/abstra... and
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Keep in mind also that there's probably 2x to 5x overhead between what the customer pays and the paycheck of the person doing the actual work.
Honestly Nintendo would really fit better in there than Netflix, in terms of business practices.
Two passages jumped out at me as relevant not just generally, but potentially valuable to wokeists here at HN.

>Black people are a conglomeration of disparate individuals. “Black culture” is code for “pathological, primitive ghetto people.” But don’t expect black people to assimilate to “white” social norms because black people have a culture of their own.

>I write this viscerally driven by the fact that all of this supposed wisdom is founded in an ideology under which white people calling themselves our _saviors_ make black people look like the dumbest, weakest, most self-indulgent human beings in the history of our species, and teach black people to revel in that status and cherish it as making us special.

>And a message like this, aimed squarely at the woke left and requiring no compromise on the part of a conservative reader, is pure mana for that audience

Without knowing my identity, which compromises am I missing when I read this article?
when bottom is actually reached that point of evaluation, does haskell provide any indication on where it came from? stacktrace or something?
> My friend might technically send that information to Cambridge Analytica, but my friend can't give them permission to use it, CA would be required to acknowledge that they don't have the legal permission to use that data and discard it.

It's pretty well accepted that Cambridge Analytica acted unethically, and potentially even unlawfully.

> My friend can tell Facebook "I permit you to give that information to Cambridge Analytica" but Facebook is not allowed to act based on that "permission" since it's not something my friend can permit.

This seems like an unnecessary technicality - if CA wasn't allowed to access your data directly they would just proxy it through the original user's device via an app or something. The end result would be the same.
I haven't been to a college campus lately, but my professor and student friends tell me that there are very few extremists. I don't think that what the Intellectual Dark Web folks imply is mainstream really is.
How are you funded?

Also, thank you for doing something to hurt Intuit.
Then, with respect, you are not listening to and understanding the people to the left of you. They deny that there is a mere undercurrent of latent intentional bigotry by those in power (racism).

Rather, they affirm that America is a system of power and social relations that keep the underclass just as effectively subjugated as slavery, without the need for intentional bigotry. And they intend to undo it.

George Washington is not being removed from school names because there is a tail problem with bigotry that we’ve made progress on. They believe they must deny Washington any place of honor, so that BIPOC children feel safe enough to succeed.

Of course we have not “solved racism.” But it is not a straw man to point out the false religion of the iconoclasts claiming to have a solution.
I love going back and reading predictions. Wired: The Desktop is Dead (2006) caught my eye: operating systems and processors will become irrelevant, it's all about network services and network storage now (according to Eric Schmidt anyway).

The lesson from this type of articles is usually that you can make linear extrapolations and look cool as an author, but not everything is linearly extrapolatable in a positive way. Trends continue linearly for a while, but so do problems that eventually require a major shake up. It's seeing the growing problems that's difficult.

Who would have thought before 2006 that the world doesn't need any more powerful and bulkier computers in their homes but instead, we'd need lightweight pocket computers that would put new requirements on energy efficiency of software for example? That operating systems won't go away but instead will take a whole new direction towards managed environments and more performant programming languages. Etc. etc.
> adopt belief systems and act in ways that are nearly indistinguishable from American Protestantism, with the minor difference of the content of beliefs being different

Look, as an American Catholic it's not unusual for me to encounter people who drastically stereotype Protestants, but literally the only thing that unites the quite diverse group encompassed by the term “American Protestantism” is the content of their beliefs systems, and at that a fairly small subset of the content.

Pretty much any thing you could imagine is “nearly indistinguishable from American Protestantism” but for the content of belief systems.
If Facebook can't maintain a business model without selling their well-trained and dopamine-addicted userbase like a commodity, then their business model does not deserve to be maintained.
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Love it when these beta cucks with their dildos in the ass downvote me because they are butthurt. Keep downvoting cucks
I wonder if Rust can be stripped down (or C can be enhanced) to basically be C with a borrow checker and other safety features? I can live without Cargo or evangelism, but I'd also like to live without CVEs.