skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your concern is more about this place being called a hellsite than the actual scientific racism at hand, then perhaps that says more about you than you might think.
I use fancy code display tools when making slide shows.

Though in my case I have a plugin for Notepad++ that lets me copy syntax highlighted code from NP++ and paste it into PowerPoint with all the highlighting and formatting maintained. Super cool plugin.

I can't just screenshot my editor (VSCode) because I use a theme that many people find violently irritating (DOS Edit).

Anyway, this looks like someone's fun little hacked together project to make something shiny. Making shiny things is fun. No one craps on shader toys for being inaccessible.

If someone tried to use the linked tool to make screenshots and used them in an actual MOOC or any other place for public consumption, yeah, wrong tool for the job. Don't do that. Use one of the dozens of existing tools that pretty print and embed code in an accessible way.
Yes, this is a good idea. However, if you decrease the signal-to-noise ratio, someone may still be able to extract the signal. So then the challenge becomes to make the noise look like a real signal, which may be quite a challenge.

For example, Google can figure out if you are a bot with its "I'm not a robot" checkbox. This means that they can probably also figure out that fake automated requests are indeed fake.
The problem is that it's easy to serve a company logo at example.com/images/${unique_tracking_id}.png that also logs the tracking ID.

How do you tell a unique tracking ID from PR-IMG20190312-023045-logo-MARKETING-COPY(5).png?

Yes, HTML e-mail is dumb. But even instant messaging assumes the ability to load/preview images from the web at this point, so probably no real options at this point.
I want both.

I would be completely happy if IOS by default did not allow all the things it doesn't allow, but you could add a setting to allow 3rd party app stores with a list that apple curated themselves (similar to search engine preferences in a browser).

Apple can make it all scary about how the apps on the 3rd party applications could be doing more nefarious things. I would even be ok with apple having the ability to simply refuse to install specific apps from these 3rd party app stores for things that are egregious violations of ethics.

but I've just read too many stories about Apple rejecting apps over very innocuous things, and apple rejecting smaller apps but allowing the same thing in larger apps (anti-competitive).

It's a legitimate problem.
Pretty sure it's due to voice chat apps only has a handful of centralized servers, resulting in more hops, higher latency and worse experience while your telcos has edge servers spread out allowing lower latency voice call between customers in the same geographical areas.
Without seeing your home I can't really answer, but I will add a few additional things you may need to consider. If you are putting Ethernet cables in the wall, they need to be plenum rated cables. If the drywall is already up and there are no conduits for signal cables phone, tv then you probably can't make new runs without tearing up a lot of the drywall. This gets progressively more expensive as you run into studs and beams that get in the way. Avoid drilling through load bearing beams. If there are conduits for signal cables, look to see if the contractor was experienced enough to leave a pull rope or pull string in the conduit. If not, you can use a flexible "fish" tool which is a flexible cable on a spool that is rigid enough to be pushed through a conduit. Your hardware or electrical supply store should have these. If utilizing a pull rope, its a good idea to have people at both ends and 2-way radios or intercoms.
It's really a shame the database is not at the base of what we're doing. We're inventing and re-inventing tons of file formats and ways to persist data without using the database, we have to eternally worry about race conditions in the file system and stuff, and all the while most of our concerns would be well served by an RDBMS. To be sure we still need file formats and persisting data to files so we can conceptually, read, understand, and pass around our data but when we work on it, when we deal with data, we should most of the time do that with a database. Except we don't. Just look at the mess that querying installation data from APT is. Startup time, functionality and search time of the synaptic GUI are abysmal.
In a week? In a year? Over their entire existences? And by how much? Economic theory suggests that over a long window nobody beats it by very much.
Is it really any different than being delisted from Google for political reasons?
Funny command line output dinosay -r
Update.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday electric bill was right at $600. I changed providers Sunday night, so Monday was a reasonable $0.15 a kWh
Buying electricity on the spot market is like betting on GameStop !
It's your choice whether to be an activist investor or not.

For most investors, the answer is no, so you're talking about a small minority.
How has this changed? Clicking unsubscribe stop spamming me remains some of the strongest signal a marketer can get that it's an email that's regularly read.
is restricting news on social media a bad thing? i think it’s a good thing.
Looks like our Aussie friends can / need to move to images.
That’s what I was telling a friend who’s against social media the other day. Without social media there would be no gay marriage. Social medias amplify minority issues.
Guide: Live-Streaming for Performance Makers
What to expect from the Mars Perseverance landing on Thursday
_Are_ cancels intended to be permanent? I posted about the only cancel I've intentionally been involved in elsewhere:

I like an artist named DojaKat.

A while ago a video surfaced of her singing a song with a racial slur in it.

I saw the video and said to myself "Oh man, I don't want to support a racist artist, this sucks, but I don't think I should stream her on Spotify anymore (In my mind, that was the cancel).

Some weeks later, DojaKat released a video in which she apologized, talked about how much she's grown as a person, and promised to do better. It seemed sincere to me, so I added her work back to my Spotify playlists.

Am I correctly interpreting that as a cancel?
Daily Jokes for a Dollar
telegram bot sending you daily jokes for two months for a dollar
What happened at the Capitol was way past the point of simple protesting. It's unfortunately people who have been sucked into a cult. They reject reality and got violent because of it.
Once we start doing space mining, our resources will become significantly less limited...
Records merged into Java – JEP 395
When did the shift happen and why?
He sat down for an interview with the WSJ where in he publicly outed himself. I wasn't talking about whether or not he deliberately became popular.
Push those feelings and emotions deep down inside and don't think about them? Drink and use drugs often? See therapists? Probably the same way most people deal with/don't deal with shitty situations.
Politicians should absolutely be held accountable for what they say in a semi-public ("pseudo-private") forum. In this context, the journalist is right.

Making Clubhouse record the calls is, of course, the wrong solution.
See also: The Music Industry.

It's hard to avoid this situation when the supply so greatly exceeds the demand and a small number of people control who gets to win; corruption is almost inevitable.
The Crisis of Journalism
A database of gun owners, and their guns, would be helpful for organizing or calling the militia into service.

But nobody advocating for registration has that idea in mind. They all want to use it against gun owners, somehow or another.
> They could probably get away with applying size limits to images too, and simply have placeholder/broken images if the images are unreasonably large.

Or only allow inline images.
Wei Dai: “PipeNet 1.1 and b-money“ (1998)
"[...] Also available there is a description of b-money, a new protocol for
monetary exchange and contract enforcement for pseudonyms."
you miss the important aspect here - her opinion of the situation is formed after having been traumatized and as such may be the direct result of the trauma. I'm not a psychologist, and it is just my layman understanding that treating a traumatic event as less serious than it really was is one of the coping machinery of our brain. Basically the perpetrator, among everything else, may have damaged the victim's ability to evaluate such crimes and situations in the way that untraumatized people would evaluate it. There is a reason why "the people" prosecute such crimes without much regard for the victim's opinion.
Foucault, Satre, Derrida, Barthes literally went on record supporting sexual relations with children (see link below). The idea that something can be so valuable (like art) that it's worth the ethical costs elicited by their purveyors is ridiculous. Ethical behavior doesn't counter creativity (neither should the opposite be true).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_of...
Like so much else in PC gaming, they do so because customers don't have a choice. If I want to play The Division with my friends, I have to put up with an extra launcher.
So, what can be done.. mandate pricing and contract transparency for everyone?

Your comment says more about the fucked-up state of industry than anything else (and the backwards regime that enables it).
> negatives of bigger hips scale with the radius of the head

Implying linearity here is ridiculous. The increase in force applied to the hip joint scales with the radius of the head; cartilage gets damaged if you apply too much force but will last a lifetime if you don't.

> the benefits of intelligence scale with the volume

That's completely unsupported. Firstly because the number of brain cells scales with the volume, but there's no evidence that larger brains in humans are associated with higher intelligence (then again, most mutations are negative), and secondly because it implies a linear relationship between 'amount of intelligence' and 'amount of benefit'.

> given how much food production has been increased through ingenuity this seems unlikely to be the case

This has not happened on evolution-relevant timescales. There was famine in eastern Europe only 50 years ago. People died of hunger because their calorific needs were not met - selection pressure towards surviving famine has not stopped.
I'd reverse the argument here quite entirely. I think it is very obvious that few people benefit from the food supply being controlled by large-scale ag and chemical companies -- yet many of the same people who would bemoan that reality seem to be champions/at least passive defenders of the very technology that these companies abuse most: which, to me, is GMO.

Issues like over-usage of Roundup and the contamination of world water supply with glyphosate are inextricable from the fact that companies like Monsanto use GMO technology to ensure crops only grow/express certain traits after being exposed to these chemicals. So why the inherent trust of this technology?
It will certainly encourage them to get a jumpstart on their substack competitor.
Most people want images in their email to work
When HL&P owned the power plants, distribution infrastructure, and customer accounts there was concentrated incentive for better reliability and that's what we had.

Now many deregulated retail providers hold the customer accounts, and depend on Centerpoint (now sole owner of power & gas lines only) to deliver from their third-party wholesale provider, who contracts with one or more generators for ultimate supply. Plus of course ERCOT is involved and has been intentionally configured to take blame for things like this so there's another entity to participate in the finger-pointing.
Sure, I understand that you can reduce you taxable income by actually spending money maintaining the property or paying down the loan, but I was responding to the parent suggesting you could label "money you didn't earn" an expense.
I want this app so bad but it's so broken XD. Spent 30 minutes putting together a track list and it just dumped the whole thing.
Why is it hard to understand that a goddamn hidden “enable side loading apps” button for those who want it will not cause any sort of regression in your use of the phone.
This is a bit muddied when talking about securing access to something you also have.

That is, you aren't securing your vpn with two factors. You are securing access to your vpn. It is different.

Similarly, for your computer, it is already something you have. Such that the password to login to the machine can already be seen as a second factor. My home password, as an example, is worthless to you without me home computer.

I'm not sure on the argument regarding moving to a physical key to get in the machine. By and large, it seems to be a more transferable method of accessing something. Not more secure, per se. But not less, either. (Right?)
Yes. True and fair. But how can we test the page rank algorithm “ourselves"? Who is "we" in the "we do test them"? Is the public even asking for 3rd party examinations by transparent/public organizations (or at least, publicly funded)? Seems like we only get to "test" against the live system, and third party examination seems relatively impossible. It seems like something with such far reaching and invasive results should be more accessible, at the very least.
I can offer you this that I quickly lashed up in iFontMaker - https://2ttf.com/94ekn36bAWs

Tempted to have a go at it with MetaFont, actually, since I've been meaning to get around to that since about 1993.
I can't see how you could possibly take Facebook's self-serving claims at face value. How does it compare to the revenue that has shifted away from news organizations to Facebook? How can you verify Facebook's claims when Facebook controls the platform and the data?

The market dominance of a couple platforms is exactly the problem here. No organization is in a good bargaining position against them and so soon there will be regulation.

It's already working. Google is busy making deals. Facebook will do the same eventually.
> My gaming computer is already filled with like 8 different app stores

I got around this by simply refusing to install any other stores. If its not on Steam, GoG or Playstation store, I'm simply not buying that game. There are so many games I've still not played and my time is limited, I can live without playing a game that forces me to install another "app store".
That's true, but we can still say humans invented animal husbandry; humans descend from species that didn't practice it.

In contrast, humans have a continuous tradition of war that goes back long before the differentiation of the species.
Virtually any investment, other than cash or a money market account.

Assets, stocks, real estate, all of the things that inflate with inflation. Crypto gets a lot of undue attention as a way to escape inflation, but investors have been investing in assets to losing buying power long before crypto came along.
Assets are not a good protection mechanism if you buy them at the height of a bubble in asset prices!
This is a subscriber-only link. You should generate a free link to share, which is fine to post to sites like HN.
I don't accept that - it's leaning into having too much faith in the free market that alternative options must emerge to suit the actual consumer desire. The issue is that we're dealing with an oligopoly where consumers have very little freedom of choice and refusing to use the iStore leaves you with precisely one option.

There is a common argument that having such a locked down store is what allowed the device to thrive but I don't believe that is usually made in good faith due to the easy counter example of Android being able to unseat the initial monopoly without using the same tactic and the fact that very little marketing or praise for the device has been specifically focused on the iStore being so locked down.

Consumer choice only really counts when there is an open field with healthy competition.
It is unfortunate that journalists of 2021 see an accountability issue with individuals who can speak privately - but devote zero characters to Gov officials who use private email to dodge accountability via FOIA.
idk man, 4chan.org still exists
There is nothing stopping you from rooting your iPhone and installing android on it. Problem solved. Now you can add all the spammerware you like.
> Maybe this was unclear, but the point wasn't that there is a good singular notion of free will, and that that is a commonsense one.

How could this be when we can be demonstrably discussing different objects when we say "free will"? Just because people will generally, kind of, vaguely think they agree when they say "free will" does not mean they are truly in sync.

And yes, the objects they mean will mostly overlap in a significant way so if you do not look too hard, it could seem to them they are discussing the same thing. I find this to be a common type of situation in everyday life.

But when you want to discuss something more deeply and in greater detail, there arises a need to wrestle out a more precise meaning and then you can notice discrepancies arise between the subtly different things that could all be reasonably given the name "free will".

> Does a child who asks for chocolate not understand what she is saying if she cannot define that term?

A child has an understanding of what it is saying, not the one and only understanding. Another child asking for chocolate might have a different object in mind. The objects they are referring to will most likely significantly overlap and they might never notice the differences.

This is where definitions help. Definitions are a way of banging and cross-referencing a lot of different, mostly-shared objects together in the hope of arriving to a more precisely shared version of another mostly-shared object. Reaching towards better understanding via definitions is like applying the Whitworth Three Plates Method (https://ericweinhoffer.com/blog/2017/7/30/the-whitworth-thre...), but to concepts instead of physical objects.
> because they lack prefabrication-level standardization

It is not the only reason. Another reason is too many regulations and unpredictable government. As a private investor, you get lower ROI because you'd need spend several years fighting bureaucracy with no predictable outcome, and after the project started, it can be shut down in a couple years.
> Something you have can be stolen, and something you know can be tricked out of you.

Yep, it's generally been a useful combination. The "something you know" part could risk becoming a lower barrier the more that data breaches occur, and the more that people share and can infer about each other on public social media.

At the moment we tend to be very focused on securing individual identities and then assuring that what we say, do and write corresponds to those identities.

Perhaps a longer-term strategy is to care a bit less about the identity and be able to accept (and reject) content regardless of source.
"Finney was expanding on a proposal by still another cypherpunk developer, Wei Dai, who was in turn responding to an idea of May’s. Dai’s proposal was called “b-money,” and the premise was that a digital bank was not something that ran on top of a network; it was a network itself."

See:

- https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/brunton_finn_11_februa...
The article on vinyl production points at a market much larger than a "hipster niche"—it's the very source of the production issues they faced: the resurgent market was much larger than any company in the industry predicted.

It's not about "retro", it's about ephemera and ritual and appreciation.

Certainly, dedicated fans of music exist in all aspects of human culture and not just western ...hipsterdom.
The US still has MASSIVE amounts of un-developed land that our population can grow into and utilize in all sorts of ways. Have you ever driven across the midwest? Soooooo much land just being wasted...

Japan, on the other hand, is an island...
People buy digital cameras this way, have for years.
Sure, but the English dictionary is a bit longer than the Unicode spec :)

My point was that there is a lot of implied data that undermines this "compression" of information into "simply bytes" today: I am pointing out the implicit in OP's assumption.

Maybe I did not choose the right addendum, but a pretty comprehensive addendum is needed (in all likelihood, an "ancient English dictionary" is needed anyways).
Do people really think E-ink is environmentally friendly? I've never heard that angle before. The appeal of E-ink style displays always seemed to me to be the battery life and visibility in sunlight.
Surely being available for work meetings during working hours is part of "doing their job"
The fact is that many (hundreds) do beat benchmark - over years and decades - which is sufficient data to disprove the original assertion that I was contesting. "By how much?" - not relevant to the claim I was disputing.

The reasons there are many outperformers are few fold.

Firstly, failing funds often close up shop and start anew, which artificially inflates the N success metric. The average number of hedge funds that a current manager has run is 2, since they've closed one failure on average.

Second, economic theory is a limiting condition, it's still remarkably easy to be lucky over a 5 year period given the low frequency nature of trades that many of these funds perform. It's not like a chronic gambler where the law of large numbers kicks in after two weeks.

Third, professional fund managers still do have edge over all other parts of the market (this has been shown in academic research), it's just that this edge is less than their fees, but it tilts the small sample statistics towards showing a large N successes compared to what we'd expect if they were trading randomly.
Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world with an altitude of 8,586 m has been climbed several times but never to the actual summit. The British expedition that climbed the mountain in 1955 had made a promise to the local rulers to stop short of the summit. All climbers that have climbed the mountain since then have followed this tradition.
> sent to the landfill to rot.

What if we call it "carbon sequestration" instead? :)
Ghandi?
When could you speak freely without repercussions at any point in history?
Nitpick:

> It can be translated.

It needs to be translated. No such issue with photos.
It's a case study in why putting public utilities on a free market is self destructive. The company that neglects maintenance drives the costs down and wins, driving out the competition. Once they have an effective monopoly the utility collapses from a pileup of deferred maintenance and has to get bailed out by the taxpayers.

On the upside some very rich people got way richer than they would have under a traditional regulated utility situation.
My favorite use-case is a laptop that I can use to write/study/code in bright sunlight.
> I absolutely want to ban self-driving cars that behave in ways no human can explain or understand!

Can you explain or understand the algorithms humans use to drive cars?