skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Yes, I did use the word, in this context: A student asked me if I thought her high school’s administration was right to suspend a classmate of hers for using the word in a video she’d made in eighth grade. I said “Did she actually call someone a (offending word)? Or was she singing a rap song or quoting a book title or something?” When the student explained that it was the student, who was white and Jewish, sitting with a black friend and the two were jokingly insulting each other by calling each other offensive names for a black person and a Jew, I said “She was suspended for that? Two years later? No, I don’t think suspension was warranted. Somebody should have talked to her, but any school administrator should know that 12-year-olds say dumb things. It’s part of growing up.”

> 2. I was never asked if I believed in white privilege. As someone who lived in South Africa in the 1990’s and has reported in Africa almost every year since, I have a clearer idea than most Americans of white privilege. I was asked if I believed in systemic racism. I answered words to the effect of: “Yeah, of course, but tell me which system we’re talking about. The U.S. military? The L.A.P.D.? The New York Times? They’re all different.”

> 3. The question about blackface was part of a discussion of cultural appropriation. The students felt that it was never, ever appropriate for any white person to adopt anything from another culture — not clothes, not music, not anything. I counter-argued that all cultures grow by adopting from others. I gave examples — gunpowder and paper. I said I was a San Franciscan, and we invented blue jeans. Did that mean they — East Coast private school students — couldn’t wear blue jeans? I said we were in Peru, and the tomato came from Peru. Did that mean that Italians had to stop using tomatoes? That they had to stop eating pizza? Then one of the students said: “Does that mean that blackface is OK?” I said “No, not normally — but is it OK for black people to wear blackface?” “The student, sounding outraged, said “Black people don’t wear blackface!” I said “In South Africa, they absolutely do. The so-called colored people in Cape Town have a festival every year called the Coon Carnival where they wear blackface, play Dixieland music and wear striped jackets. It started when a minstrel show came to South Africa in the early 1900’s. Americans who visit South Africa tell them they’re offended they shouldn’t do it, and they answer ‘Buzz off. This is our culture now. Don’t come here from America and tell us what to do.’ So what do you say to them? Is it up to you, a white American, to tell black South Africans what is and isn’t their culture?”

I fundamentally don't understand why the Times didn't explain this early on. Not necessarily release these statements verbatim, but certainly provide some of this context.
If you're a journalist, you should know better than anyone that:

There is no such thing as off-the-record
and
It is wise to consider everything one says and writes to be saved for eternity and immediately sent to one's worst enemy

It's interesting that we humans just can't stop talking.
Can you explain your motivation behind this?

If you're looking to evaluate if a thread is worth your time would it not be better to skim the article and comments? What benifit is there in making a decision with restricted information?
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And the volumes are tiny compared the waste from oil production and combustion. There are a lot of efforts to get away from cobalt and some of the other problematic materials so their impact will probably not grow linearly with EV adoption.
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There's also a grassroots problem: the reason it took desperate acts in the endgame to try to overturn the election was that election officials around the country refused to bow to pressure to change the results at the local and state level.

That layer of defense can't be taken for granted, especially given how aggressively hostile towards reality itself many local GOP officials are becoming.
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Does this fall under the category of a recursive descent parser?
They're definitely both spyware at this point. Shoutout to Firefox, which makes a conscious effort to block tracking cookies and not collect data.
There are plenty of jobs where passion is necessary because some practical aspect of the job sucks -- low base pay, crunch times and long hours in startups and the video game and movie/special effects industries, for example. Some folks make a career of this; others will switch specializations and have fun war stories to share with their coworkers at their new 9-to-5.

Passion also matters if you don't demonstrate the skills required for the role but get hired anyway. Being hired as a PFY, or unpaid high school/college internships, or "boss's son/daughter cleans the office" type jobs, especially since some of these roles aren't standing hires, but are "created" for the right candidate.

I think that the value a "paychecks are ok" sort of piece is two-fold. (1) For people who think that they have to pretend to be passionate because their employer cares, we want you to know that other kinds of jobs exist. There are trade-offs; maybe you'll be working in ad-tech, or some other boring cog of business logic, but they exist. (2) For young people (especially minorities) who think that "programming is not for them" because they're not thinking about it 24/7, we say, "there are places here where you can belong".

The folks I've met who are most passionate about designing circuits for fun on the weekend are the 9-to-5, spend-time-with-the-kids types. You don't have time to design circuits on the weekend if you're doing 80-hour work weeks. Don't believe recruiting sites that say "we hire people with passion" when they really mean "we want unpaid overtime", ugh.
It does not even have to be worse to be a problem. Maybe the battery requires certain loads and capacity at certain times to work efficiently and not age as fast. There are too many unknowns.
Missourians are straight-shootin' plain-speakin' people as a group. The state is divided into regions and supply allocated by population. Dense population areas have medical infrastructure, rural areas don't - many served by helicopter from distant hospitals. The vaccination eligibility schedule does prioritize "equitable" groups over the general population. If you have a better plan, "Show Me." You can run the numbers yourself with the supply data here: https://covidvaccine.mo.gov/supply/
2017;
https://citizentruth.org/nyu-professor-interview-propaganda-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Crispin_Miller

2020:
"As of September 2020, Miller is under a behavioral review by New York University ...".

An 'educational moment' for NYU students and faculty ..

>> There's ample evidence that the current is the greatest opportunity for dissenting thought and opinion to have massive reach without much consequence or effort.

.. and possibly your GP.
I also find this trend on the left morally unfortunate, historically out-of-character, and strategically flawed.

My point here is not to defend cancel culture, but rather to point out that something like it has always existed and still exists on the right. IMO the only solution is everyone realizing this fact and explicitly agreeing to some form of detente.

I'm not holding my breath, but step zero is both sides realizing that the their side also does the thing they're complaining about.
Alternative designs could have worked, but the Shuttle used the OMS after main engine cutoff, so keeping the tank would have eaten a ton of delta-vee
I recently bought a Xiaomi phone (Poco m3) for development. I was shocked to learn that in order to enable USB debug mode in developer settings, I needed to BOTH:

1) make a Xiaomi account with

and

2) insert a SIM card to the device (!)

Is that not insane? Other people seem to think so too: https://android.stackexchange.com/a/186052

Apparently the only alternative to this is rooting the device, which may break it.
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Witches don't exist, whereas racists do exist.

I know that these threads on HN bring out the absolute dumbest comments, but yours really takes the prize.
Why is that?

I've understood that the US places restrictions on payloads that carry cameras, and from that alone, I could see that getting out from under those restrictions could be valuable.

But what else?
Not by my reading of the hit piece.

> After the excursion ended, according to multiple parents of students on the trip who spoke with The Daily Beast along with documents shared with the...
> because (as I learned that day) not having insurance is a criminal offense

> Can't afford the ticket I got for not being registered

so here is where you got lucky, not having prior outstanding non-payment or not having prior potentially or actual criminal offenses on your record.

non-payment of the ticket would have led to harsher punishment upon your next infraction, which is much more likely to happen when your neighbors and the police are looking specifically at you all the time, which may have been your experience but just food for thought for anyone browsing this thread.
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Google doing something bad is not an excuse for others doing the same thing.

Also Google isn't under the control of an authoritarian government who is committing genocide as we speak.

I'm no Google fan and I dislike what big tech have become but I rather let Google have my data than the CCP.
Me personally no, but I'm not so sure that I would risk saying it. On the other hand, I know I would be in no danger whatsoever stating that I favored racial admissions policies. I am sure that I would be in danger if I criticized my employer's hiring policies on that point. You set a high bar, though. The idea of getting called racist for advocating directly against racism should be no more than a bad joke.
And who is the judge of what is and isn't true? You seem to imply social network consensus is a safe ruler for what kind of speech should be allowed but to me it sounds absurd.
Could it be the same reason anyone outside of the US would voluntarily choose to run close-source software from a company that's subject to domestic laws and regulations in the US? The ECPA is no joke.
Yep, here's the link to the LineageOS device list with installation instructions.
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#xiaomi
so look at his past record. Clearly not a racist.
There are lots of batshit ideas that get that far. Let's pay attention to help make sure they don't get into law.
Relevant to recent discussions, even if it was published in 2017.

It is quite more elaborate than other publications I’ve seen mentioned in those discussions.

I’ll quote section 6.2, “What is Safety Anyway?”:

> I have learned to enjoy provoking indignant incredulity by claiming that C can be implemented safely. It usually transpires that the audience have so strongly associated “safe” with “not like C” that certain knots need careful unpicking.

> In fact, the very “unsafety” of C is based on an unfortunate conflation of the language itself with how it is implemented.

> Working from first principles, it is not hard to imagine a safe C. As Krishnamurthi and Felleisen [1999] elaborated, safety is about catching errors immediately and cleanly rather than gradually and corruptingly. Ungar et al. [2005] echoed this by defining a safety property as “the behavior of any program, correct or not, can be easily understood in terms of the source-level language semantics”—that is, with a clean error report, not the arbitrary continuation of execution after the point of the error.
5G is fast shaping up to be the next 3D TVs. Nobody wants it, companies push it, most either can't use it or don't and just continue using their devices as before.
How would the compiler be able to use any fast, floating point specific instructions if you parsed it as a hexadecimal string?
Would this ever be possible in say - the US?
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This paragraph stood out to me:

> The intention here seems to be that aigt is the timestamp when the ID was generated. So if that timestamp deviates from current time by more than 7776000000 milliseconds (90 days) a new ID is going to be generated. However, this implementation is buggy, it will update aigt on every call rather than only when a new ID is generated. So the only scenario where a new ID will be generated is: this method wasn’t called for 90 days, meaning that the browser wasn’t started for 90 days. And that’s rather unlikely, so one has to consider this ID permanent.

If we assume that Xiaomi aren't literally trying to spy for a government and are in fact just poorly calibrated on what's legitimate to collect for product analytics purposes, this paragraph highlights why that's still incredibly dangerous despite "good intentions".

I remember the UK government investigation into Huawei concluding that not only was their security posture insufficient for critical infrastructure, but their engineering practices were likely a decade away from being at a point where they could start to claim good security practice.

This paragraph seems to suggest a similar problem at Xiaomi. This should have been caught at a security review stage during design, it should have been caught at the code review stage, it should have been caught by automated tests, it should have been caught by QA, it should have been caught once live by data tests, it should have been seen once live by analysts, it should have been fixed at so many different points. The fact it wasn't suggests that these stages either don't exist or are insufficient.
> it's mutating at a breakneck pace

I agree that it's changing faster than a century ago, but I don't think "breakneck pace" is a fair qualifier. Lots of people comfortably adapt to new norms and change how they behave without significant effort.

> the two minutes hate outrage machine.

This phenomenon existed long before the internet. Heck, I'd bet long before writing was invented. Gossip in large social groups doesn't seem like something particularly new.

I still think this has nothing to do with "self-censoring out of fear" being a Bad new thing. You _should_ self-censor if you think you're being offensive. If the author of the article really wanted to harp on the fact that predicting what is offensive is hard, then perhaps that should be the focus of the article. I don't think pushing the "fear" narrative is useful nor healthy.
Yes, I returned it and got a Samsung instead for this exact reason.
I think it comes down to which companies and governments are on the other end. I'm far from trusting the US government, but I trust the Chinese government even less.
Normally if you open that iPhone Storage Screen for longer, let it run in those background checks, those "Others" should unfold into something else.

You could also try to leave that screen on for a few min, close that screen and reopen it again. They are most likely Apps, or Apps cache that wasn't calculated when you first use that screen.
there are now several services that will collect payments but also handle sales tax/VAT compliance transparently

An interesting case of privatizing the enforcement of government regulation! But yes it does sound like a compelling value-add; note that this value is required by any world-wide marketplace, even the small ones, if they don't want to be at risk. It kind of sucks that VAT is like 20% but that's still not enough to pay for a public version of one of those VAT compliance services.
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Yes, it does matter that it's outside of US laws. Just like the inverse matters too. ( an American company collecting Chinese user data should matter to Chinese users ).

This "whataboutism" is getting tiring. What Xiaomi does here is really bad. if google does/did the same thing it would ALSO be bad.

There is no "but they do it too!". It's bad, period.
I have been playing with "Flat Habits" application and it is very promising. I discovered it from twitter and couldn't believe someone is working on it. I am looking forward to having it in the Apple Store
Yeah, that's what I was thinking: swapping out a third stage is a much easier prospect; it's just a bulky payload for a 2-stage rocket. But they're saying second stage, so...
> In 2021 AD, if you are excommunicated from an industry on the internet, there's nowhere else you can physically go. The entire intellectual globe is connected online. Excommunication is now worse than it used to be -- it's global.

When has this ever happened? There's lots of claims that people have been cancelled and can never work in their field again, but actual examples never seem to materialize.