skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An Israeli had build a tool to detect anti-semitism in videos and comments. Not being able to sell to YouTube, they pivoted to targeting advertisers ("make sure your advertisements do not appear next to racist content"). Part of this was a PR campaign, where they would mail journalists "scoops" with videos with lots of views, anti-semetic content, and no moderation of YouTube.

With every such news article, YouTube stepped up its game. It culminated with PewdiePie making an "anti-semetic" joke, and this resulted in the Adpocalypse.

So I'd say it was more commercial interests than activism interests, but at times these align.
If you talk to Australians they attribute it to their lockdowns.
Your points apply to industry, too. I heretically push flatter code all the time. I'm not against abstraction, but it is easy to fall into the trap of building a solution machine, but missing the solution you need.
I’m 50/50 on this assessment. Best managers I have worked with are IC turned managers that have real good empathy for their team members.

They know how people worked (how to intrinsically motivate them, keep an eye on moral, really good listeners, power of being in the zone) and at the same time understanding how tech works (where will things likely fall apart, an eye for unknown unknowns, value of good tests, power of primitives, focus on minimizing scope and saying no to things).

It comes down to “wow! This person understands how software is built, that it’s expensive and an iterative endeavor. That I am a human being with feelings, ambitions and passions that will make mistakes along the way”
Every remake disappoints some fans, and the biggest reason Mulan lost so much money was COVID, not the quality of the film.
Coping with inflation creates extra taxes. There is no perfect mitigation.

Use your existing dollars to buy non-volatile assets like real estate or gold requires you to pay long term capital gains. Gold mostly keeps a constant value, but the dollar value goes down, and the gold price goes up. That looks like a "profit" and you need to pay 15%, soon to be 20%. Effectively, the effect of inflation decreases by 4/5.

For example. suppose you have $100. Holding it over two years of 2% inflation effectively makes the money worth 96$ = 100/(1.02^2). Instead, if you bought $100 of gold, hold for two years, and sell it for $104, you are taxes on 20% of $4. Your loss is $0.8 instead of $4.

Your need to ask for a raise proportional to inflation, but that puts you in higher tax brackets. Your new dollars over 85k are taxes at 24% instead of 10%. Asking for a raise is very difficult for some people...
As a Canadian, I will provide some context around our application for passport process. I went through it a year ago (got my passport 2 days before lockdown), so it's still fresh in my head.

To get a passport, you have to go to the post office, get the paper forms (and a spare or two in case you mess up), and fill them out. They need info about where you were born, the doctor who delivered you, your current address and previous addresses, your employer, and your family.

Then, you need to go get your photo taken. With a (provincial) drivers license, you just go to the license office and they take your picture. For (federal) passports, you're kind of on your own. You have to go to _a guy_ and get the photo taken that conforms to their specs. If it's not correct, they make you do the whole process again. Most pharmacies and photo stores have gear on hand to make these, but not all do it correctly.

Finally, you need a public servant of some sort who has known you for at least two years to sign the back of one of the photos and fill out the back page of the application. They also need to be available to be interviewed about you to verify your identity during the approval process.

All in all, it took us about two weeks to get the details together, than another six weeks to get the paperwork processed. It's not a very easy process, and it's a huge bar against people who have never applied before. Having the system more user-friendly would be a massive help to the under-serviced in our country, so something like this is greatly needed. Of course, this solution is awful, but it's certainly worth the effort in my opinion.
It's an honest question. I just don't see that question ever being asked by anyone, to me they don't make too much sense. I understand there'd be a period where things would get messy but won't we eventually reach an equilibrium where everyone is where they want to be, no resources wasted on borders and immigration and everyone just travels and works freely everywhere?
Quite a few professional programmers evaluate the quality of code by "look": presence of tests, variable length, function length etc. However, what makes great code is really the code structure and logical flows behind. In my experience, good industrial programmers are as rare as good academic programmers. Many industrial programmers make a fuss about coding styles but are not really good at organizing structured code for a medium sized project.
Seems like once again we are stuck with an overly complex and un-ergonomic design that is going to burden every single C++ programmer for a decade, until someone gets fed up and fixes it. Just like chrono, just like random, just like std::string, all of std::algorithm, etc. God damn it.
At the moment you can buy intel and apple macbooks. They run the same system etc so that's how you can compare the two machines.
I wondered when the GraphQL "ORMs" would start appearing!
Hyper-inflation has been just around the corner since at least 2008, and yet looking back we've been falling toward zero, and in parts of the world interest rates have gone negative.

It's possible that applying a 1970s filter to the 2020s isn't helpful. Starting conditions are radically different.

That doesn't mean inflation is no longer a thing, but there is evidence that we're a very, very long way away from hitting any kind of inflection point. Many trillions of USD away still.
> It seems to add a lot of complexity, and offers no real world usecases.

I'd love to be able to lock my system in a trusted state and try some dangerous things, having another level of isolation between kernel and root, as long as I have the keys to revert/modify the state.

This irks the old timers (incl. me) as "It's already secure when process doesn't have root, eh?", but containers, cloud, virtualization and other stuff makes these further enhancements useful. I'm not adding high security installations to this set of scenarios.

Linux is already pretty secure by most counts, but more security won't hurt IMHO.
Well, I think the decision is a little more complicated.

If you are upgrading, OS inertia may prevent you from choosing a machine that doesn't run the OS you're currently on. So a lot of Windows users may not even consider a Mac, and vice versa.
No, I did not, at the moment. I trusted that my friends who know my track record regarding social issues will know that I'm not for either of the two things referenced via these slogans, quite the contrary.

Contrast can be a tool, and I could have written a long and boring essay on how sad and disgusting these phenomena are or just put them up against one another.

Do you think something like this would have worked better? I'm quite the RATM fan.

Some of those who said
Arbeit macht frei
Are the same who say
All lives matter

This is is what I meant.
Heads Down: A simple app for productivity enhancement
Heads Down is a Mac app that lives in your ribbon. With a click of the mouse, temporarily block distracting websites and applications to encourage "heads down" time.

Inspired by a tweet from Vicki Boykis, Heads Down is a free, easy solution to a common productivity problem: access to distracting websites and apps. https://twitter.com/vboykis/status/1357047574943924224?s=20
hoard what you care about in the long run: family, friends, your business / career, health, education, home, bitcoin, your favorite company stocks. In other words, carry on as usual, nothing to see here.
If they outsource it they can hire lots of mid and senior level engineers using my country's salaries as a reference. Paying 34K a year salary (which is a top 0.1% salary in the Dominican Republic) they can hire up to 35 senior engineers.
Note that with SubstrateVM/Graal native image, you get far lower memory usage and startup time equal to or even better than C.
A programming language is a tool. I don’t think it should really be optimized or designed around how easy it is to teach someone who is at step zero, basic programming concepts. I do think Go is a decent language to teach up and coming professional devs precisely because it doesn’t hide the real complexity of what’s going on, but I’d probably opt for something a bit higher level as the absolute intro to programming.
Pure Capitalism punishes wasteful spending.

Assume company A sells a widget for 10 silver

Then company B comes along and sells same widget for 3 silver.
Company A will either learn to be more efficient and sell at 2-3 silver, or go out of business.
> If inflation didn’t happen, everyone would hold back spending until the next year; this is what caused the great depression.

This is the Keynesian explanation for the Depression, and here "spending" includes government spending. In this view, the duration of the depression was exacerbated by FDR's unwillingness to run a deficit to inject cash into the economy.

The other mainstream view (Friedman and Schwartz) argues that the reason a recession became The Great Depression was the Fed allowing ~1/3 of extant banks to collapse (not bailing them out) via cascading failure. There was major asset deflation (35%) and interest rates remained high. The Fed could not issue credit because it was still restricted by the gold standard. (Amusingly: Fractionally limited: 40% of note value backed by gold. A run on redeeming notes for gold caused disproportionate impact on the Fed's ability to issue credit and lead to Executive Order 6102, criminalizing private gold ownership.)
Not really. It's a mechanism by which UBI could turn out to be futile, but it's only a qualitative mechanism. Whether UBI actually becomes self-defeating via inflation is a quantitative question which nobody can honestly answer today because (a) a lot hinges on what the tax regime is like and (b) nobody has ever done the experiment, and we need the experiment to gather quantitative data. (Yes, there have been UBI experiments. None of them were large enough for macroeconomic effects.)
And different populations have different endemic coronaviruses circulating in them.

In this age of widespread global travel, is that true anymore?
>Alright, let's say you get appointed at Twitter to clean up this mess.

Announce a sale of intellectual and physical assets and close down. I would realize the company is a negative drain on society.
Rejecting one aphorism is proclaiming the other
Which is what everybody is already doing, and a bunch of people in this thread are treating as a type of inflation.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Seems like trampolining would be useful to make it interruptible while still mostly preserving the ergonomics of viewing state transitions as procedure calls
Why Tech Moguls Are Obsessed with Building Utopian Cities
What would 'survival' look like if such an event would happen today. Large underground bunkers, with nuclear reactors for power, could be pretty self sufficient, but is there any less dystopian way we could survive?

UV wouldn't be much of an issue for concrete buildings, but anything plastic would be a no-no. How could we protect against other types of stellar particles?
Look at the surveys. Is that percentage high enough to achieve herd immunity?
The function call syntax is old and well-established. It is used in Ocaml and Haskell, for example, but comes from older languages that influenced them.

Note that the problem in Ruby does not come from the syntax "f x" for functions applications, but rather from "f" being syntax to call f rather than just evaluating to f. This Ruby is mistake is typically not present in functional languages that use "f x" syntax for calls. Typically in those languages a function cannot have zero arguments, and for functions with no useful arguments you pass a dummy argument called "()". So "f ()", commonly abbreviated to "f()" is the syntax for calling a function of "zero" arguments in those languages.
Thanks, and apologies it if came across overly critical.

I just think things like this can be impactful to perceptions of the work done on efforts such as Git-LFS, and describing things based on their own merits is often a better approach than pointing out lack elsewhere.

A VCS UI for design is something I've been looking for for a LONG time, so I signed up to the SnowTrack public beta immediately. I was just a little confused/concerned to learn it won't have a widely-supported backend to ease things such as synchronisation across devices, sharing resources via a hosted service, etc. Curious to see how this gets handled in the final product.
>How is that different from any other asset; stocks, land, property. It's all speculation nowadays. How is that different from any other asset; stocks, land, property. It's all speculation nowadays.

Just because other people are insane doesn't mean you should be insane too.

You can sanely invest into stocks, land and property. You can never sanely invest into cryptocurrencies, the same way nobody invests into dollars. No, buying dollars when your national currency is hyperinflating is not an investment since you merely expect your purchasing power to stay the same.
The bit I found most interesting:

They found that the total number of “all cause” deaths reported between May and August almost doubled in India compared with the same period in each of the past five years.

“Is that because the number of covid deaths in the country has been vastly underestimated?” I asked.

“It’s impossible to have a decisive answer,” Shah told me. “But the pattern of the excess deaths doesn’t really shout out covid as the cause. It just doesn’t... The telltale signatures of covid just aren’t there,” he said. He won’t venture any hypotheses about the cause of the excess deaths. But among the possible candidates are indirect consequences of the pandemic: wage loss, displacement, malnourishment, forced migration, and disruptions in health care...
I wake up and see the HackerNews downvote train has hit myself and you, when what you said is 100% correct; gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com is both IPv4 and IPv6.

The network I'm on right now (VPN to work) cannot service IPv6 and I cannot connect to the IPv6 IP for that MX host, but I can easily connect to the IPv4 endpoint.
You mean something like https://github.com/banjun/WSDL2Swift ?
I think there's not enough researchers that publish code.

For example, discrete optimization research (nurse rostering, travelling salesman, vehicle routing problem, etc.) is filled with papers where people are evaluating their methods on public benchmarks but code never sees the day. There's a lot of state-of-the-art methods that never have their code released.

I'm pretty sure it's like that elsewhere. Machine learning and deep learning for some reason has a lot of code in the open but that's not the norm.

I'd prefer the code to be open first. Once that's abundant then I might prefer the code to also be well designed.
Right, but actually deflation (the opposite of inflation) could be so much more worse than inflation. Inflation we know how to fix, the Fed increases the interest rates.

However, a Deflationary Spiral, is way worse in the sense that it makes everyone scared of spending money, prices next year will go down so why buy anything this year? Getting out of deflation is way harder from what I understand.

So yes, I agree with you that I just described a perfect storm (credit to people like Steven Van Metre, etc), but the argument here is that the storm might not be inflation but rather deflation.

What I can agree on is that the end is not pretty either way.
Like a Linked Data thesaurus with typed, reified edges between nodes/concepts/class_instances?

Here's the WordNet RDF Linked Data for "jargon"; like the "Jargon File":
http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/lemma/jargon

A Semantic MediaWiki Thesaurus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki :

> Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is an extension to MediaWiki that allows for annotating semantic data within wiki pages, thus turning a wiki that incorporates the extension into a semantic wiki. Data that has been encoded can be used in semantic searches, used for aggregation of pages, displayed in formats like maps, calendars and graphs, and exported to the outside world via formats like RDF and CSV.

Google Books NGram viewer has "word phrase" term occurrence data by year, from books: https://books.google.com/ngrams
I might buy it if it didn't depend on Google Calendar.

I would probably also replace the frame. I could go to any Michaels store and get them to make a more attractive frame for $20-$40.

Also, not sure how large e-paper screens can get, but I might like a huge one for my wall.
You’re right, of course, that if the UBI is giving any meaningful amount of money, then ceribus paribus, (massive) inflation is the result. It’s a basic argument too.

Of course you don’t have to keep the “ceribus paribus” condition, Although I’m skeptical any leader in the USA will break the ceribus paribus.
So, having been an avid watcher of both The Muppet Show and Fawlty Towers, it seems to me that you have drawn a selective analogy. Both shows were sometimes deliberately taking the piss. Other times, they were guilty of thoughtlessly repeating the same kinds of stereotypes. It happens. It happened a lot in the 70s. It still happens a lot. Comedy is a dangerous line of work.

Things like this are never cut-and-dried. There is room for both celebrating the good stuff and criticizing the less-good stuff, even within a single creative work.
Upstart airlines frequently lease used aircraft because they're cheaper.
There’s plenty of counterexamples one who might wish to dismiss the idea that technology can reasonably manage things, but all things considered, given the number of _potential_ instance of mishap that do not regularly occur any the relatively minor consequences of the mishaps that do occur, I’d conclude that on the whole arguing the original poster’s position is not inherently ‘_silly_’.
Poor countries don’t have half of their country suffering from obesity.
Relevant: The rant of David Mitchell about the Phrase 'Rape and Pillage'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJqEKYbh-LU
Here are some ideas: Pickleball, sail the great loop, backpacking, 3d printing, gardening, kayaking, disc golf, build a backyard pond.
Burry's premise is unproven. The US government's policies are not "MMT-tinged" (i.e. unchecked money printing, in the financial shorthand) unless there's a serious question about the Fed's lack of independence or lack of commitment to its inflation target.

Hyperinflation, which Burry warns about through imagery of interwar Germany, doesn't just happen. It requires that the money-printing authority keep the presses rolling despite extant and increasing inflation. We have neither of those today.
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Dashboards? (2018)
SwiftGraphQL was actually inspired by Elm GraphQL! Dillon - the creator of Elm GraphQL - even helped me understand a couple of concepts he used in that library that we also use in SwiftGraphQL.
Yeah we'd have to live underground like mars people.
Link or GTFO
Agreed! Check out pythons move with walrus operators inside list comprehensions - I think u can do that now - starts to be line noise
I had a friend call me–practically in tears–because YouTube removed his highest viewed video game montage for violating their hate speech policy. Context: WWII tank game playing as the Germans, usually with some old german language folk song in the background. It's algorithmically removed and most likely algorithmically reviewed upon appeal, and there's basically no recourse for him. Meanwhile, similar videos by other creators have their content left up.

I have to remind him that, unfortunately, YouTube has no shortage of content and absolutely nothing to lose from false flagging a subset of it, compared to the pushback they get for letting something truly horrible slip through the cracks.
Not sure if this is true about the past era.

I don't know much about TV, but in newspapers print and online, where to put ads has at least for a long time included considerations beyond of just what space is available.

At the news site I worked, the CMS had an per article option to white/blacklist ads from categories or disable them entirely. E.g. so to not show an car advertisement boasting their reliability under an article of an car accident where a child has died.

Or in print news papers (especially weekly ones) you often see that it is structured in a way that the realities about the harsh world and negative stories in general are in the first parts and the paper becomes more and more fluffy and feel-good as you turn the pages. It is in those later sections where most big brands want their ads to be placed.

Also, a lot of things that are pretty normal these days would have caused outrage and protests against the publishers not too long ago.

In my view, people were always easily offended/outraged. Just what causes it, and which views have significant followings and voice changes over time.
Decomp modding is the next unexplored frontier in SM64 modding. Kaze (the figurehead of the community) uses decomp ever since SM64 Splitscreen, and with brand new features being added by more technical users, there's a ton of cool mods being developed, such as:

-Golden Sun 64, complete with a random encounter battle system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdHEwTVCoo0

-SM64DS minigame Wanted in SM64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqjISz_wW7E

-Princess Peach Sex Hack (All I can say here is, don't be fooled by the name): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dMn3LgYF4c
The KKK were part of the system, and the system in many states supported them, either tacitly or even openly in some cases. Members of the KKK rose to the highest positions in local and federal politics and influenced police and lawmaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_members_in_United...

The rise of the different incarnations of the Klan can be directly tied to politics of segregation, Jim Crow laws and other factors that in some form continue to hobble black Americans in particular, to this day.

It is a systemic problem, perpetuated by a system that needs an underclass of disposable labor to oppress.
Hmm. Obviously I don't have a perfect solution, but I've often thought that a "tagging" system would work better than a "moderation" system.

It would work like this: by default, nothing is moderated. Instead, every post/tweet/etc. has to be labeled by the user. There can be an auto-suggestion feature to make it a quick process.

Then, other users can choose which tags they want to view or hide. If you don't want to see content tagged with X, no problem. If you do, you can.

In my mind, this would solve a few problems:

1. Justifiably ban people that try to circumvent the tagging system. You aren't determining whether their speech is allowed or not, merely ensuring that they follow the very basic rules of the site. This is much simpler than relying on an AI to interpret a nuanced comment and then moderate it.

2. Allow everyone to say whatever they want. No one will feel silenced.

Again, I'm sure there are holes in this idea, but I think it might be a better approach.
And the single core performance benchmarks are exactly identical which would mean there would have not been any optimization compared to last gen. Not very realistic.