skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And if you aren't one of "us", then you're probably one of "them". And therefore maybe even just mentioning the word becomes morally akin to actually using it.

I've lost my once closest friend to this. I'm not current on the rapidly changing landscape of acceptable left expression, and apparently the far-right is able to taint any word they choose. The moment they use it, they own it.

We may agree on 70% of issues, but they've become so accustomed to their echo chamber that anyone with who speaks differently, let alone has a few different ideas, causes them emotional distress. They must be from the other side. They must be arguing in bad faith. Our beliefs are the best and everyone else is ignorant.

It's a cancer. As destructive as the attempted insurrection was, these types of people cause far more damage by alienating vast swaths of voter population with their petulance. They then turn their lenses against their elected representatives, offices teetering on the edge of a knife, demanding more and criticizing inaction.

These are destructive extremists with no end of people to blame, chastise, and criticize - except themselves.
> In the 1950's and 1960's, you kind-of had to tow the line in what you said, how you dressed, etc... The cancelling wasn't quite as broad as it can be now simply because it wasn't technically feasible back then.

If you were not white, it was much more extreme. Up to and including being murdered.

EDIT: The irony of this comment being "canceled". Does one of the down-voters care to comment on this? Is it not a known fact?
I agree with your take on intent mattering and I'm of a similar age. I suppose some of the backlash is to remove plausible deniability of dog whistling, but it's gone further than I think is reasonable. Besides, an honest person will apologise unreservedly when called out on accidental usage, whereas a dog whistling racist will tend to backtrack and mumble excuses.

Anyway, you can still say a lot of harmful stuff without using a specific word if you want. I don't see the point.

> I recall hearing about a young popular YouTuber about a year or so ago who was accused of being racist simply for singing along to the lyrics of a popular rap song.

Oh it gets sillier than that.

"The rapper invited the woman, who identified herself only as "Delaney", to sing M.A.A.D City during his set at the Hangout Festival in Alabama.

But Kendrick stopped her after she repeatedly used the N-word - which is heard multiple times in his song.

As the crowd reacted angrily, Kendrick told her: "You gotta bleep one single word."

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-44209141
No, you're missing the point. Why is valuing "precision and accuracy" inherently supporting systems of white supremacy?

You don't land a rocket on Mars by valuing anything other than precision and accuracy.
His macbook catching on fire is pretty darn important
I went to a school with similar demographics and had a similar experience hearing the N-word. I'm not sure if the culture there has changed but it definitely seems to be more taboo nationwide now.

That school still had integrating to do. The black kids and the white kids didn't mix, and most of the AP classes were nearly entirely white. I wish more effort were focused towards solving the structural issues of racial equality.
Yes, yes there is. And that is your own prerogative to decide how much you want to self censor.
GooseChase | REMOTE (NA / Europe timezones) | Full-time | https://www.goosechase.com
Interested in working at a fast-growing, fully bootstrapped startup with the opportunity to directly influence product direction and lead your team? If you love solving hard problems and building products and systems from the ground up while maintaining work life balance, then we encourage you to apply.

GooseChase was founded 10 years ago with two goals - to connect people and teams through fun, interactive experiences (scavenger hunts!), and to grow organically on our own terms by building the team and product without any investor funding. We’ve been fully remote from the very start, and have built our culture around it. With customers like NASA, Salesforce, Harvard, Microsoft, and the Smithsonian Museum we’ve moved beyond simple scavenger hunts, but we haven’t forgotten our roots. We’re looking for smart people like you to help build the next evolution of our product.

Our open roles include Senior Android Engineer and Senior Full Stack Engineer. More information about each role and our tech stack available on the specific role pages. Check out our careers page here: https://apply.workable.com/goosechase/

Please make sure to mention HN in your application. We look forward to hearing from you!

Logan Fuller | CTO
>For the first time in my life, I've stopped listening to music. I want to go back to managing my own highly curated playlists, but it's too much work to set up.

I'm sorry, I'm sympathetic to your main point but this reads to me as... silly, to put it lightly. Google made you give up on music? You could do nothing but play CDs and still have absurdly more access to music than anyone in history. Music has literally never been more abundant, discoverable, and obtainable than it is today. The technology to replay it has never sounded better for a given price, and never been more ubiquitous. Neither has the tech to create it - there is an incredible Cambrian explosion of musical styles happening right now, as more people than ever before have access to studios and are using the internet to borrow and remix each other's work in interesting ways. This is an incredible golden age for music. And you can't be bothered because Google axed a product? Can't even be bothered to do it the old way?
Thank you for this comment. I had never come across fzf Fish plugin until now: https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

So easy to use.
There is a huge quantity of research opposing your statements. The ITU considers 300ms round-trip latency to be catastrophic.
I don't think Facebook is likely to release a Linux based app. If they did it would likely be electron style. There also lots of Facebook apps that wrap the mobile website inside of a stand-alone "app" available on F-Droid. I also wonder what type of permissions API even exist that would allow you to view contacts as an app inside of Purism. Maybe Gnome has something kind of API already for apps to access built-in contents but this far there hasnt been a lot of proprietary software released for Linux that embeds spyware because of the low # of users and increased difficulty and general lack of distribution platform. But Purism is also really far away from being a viable platform for non-techies at this point.
It won't, as with everything in DL the models are becoming much better at training on a large amount of data and fine-tuning on very little. I am pretty sure in 1-2 years we will have semi-convincing one-shot learning deepfakes models with 5-10 pictures you could get on the person's Facebook profile.
Location: Poland, Europe

Remote: Yes, preferred (4+ years of experience working remotely)

Willing to relocate: Location and project dependent

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/tradziej/resume/blob/master/tomasz_radzie...

GitHub: https://github.com/tradziej

Email: See resume

Software Engineer (with 8+ years of experience) looking for a part-time or full-time job.
This reminds me of a technology in Vernor Vinge's "zone of thought" series. I think they called it "evocations", where at the beginning of a call, a model is transmitted that allows the other end to re-construct what the sender would look/sound like from severely abridged data. It sure sounds plausible - the semantically meaningful parts of a conversation (video or audio) would appear to have significantly less entropy that all of the details captured by a mic/webcam. The fact that things like JPEG and MP3 exist are proof enough, and those (to my knowledge) aren't even feature-based.

Maybe N years from now, your {Skype,FaceTime,Zoom,Jitsi} call starts by transmitting a pre-trained auto-encoder that can reproduce your speech and visual appears with a "good enough" margin of error from a few kbps worth of data.
> And sadly rust is fairly user-hostile language

Could you elaborate on that? I started using Rust at the end of last year, and have found it to be one of the most user-friendly languages I've learned. There is clear documentation that is easy to generate with the standard toolchain, along with a very good language guide.

The compiler error messages are an absolute joy as somebody coming from C++. Pointing out exactly where the borrow checker found errors, or exactly what the type signature should be for a trait, is really useful.
Nice, so it periodically retrieves a list of HN posts and queries that list locally, so you're not telling algolia any specific site details.

There are millions of posts on HN, how many submissions does it retrieve? Surely if you find an obscure site, it might not be in the local list.

Maybe you could just always query many urls together, with only 1 of them being the real url you want. That would make it hard to track too.

Also I made a similar extension, but it queries sources on every page load.

(extension) https://newsit.benwinding.com/

(source) https://github.com/benwinding/newsit
Part 2: https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/nytimes-peru-n-word-p...

Part 3: https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/nytimes-peru-n-word-p...

Part 4: https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/nytimes-peru-n-word-p...

The referenced story: https://www.thedailybeast.com/star-new-york-times-reporter-d...

(Thanks djoldman and qnsi.)
Is this sarcasm or a window into a different side of American culture?

In my circles the Dixie Chicks rebounded from the Bush backlash and had their biggest pop hit ever in response to it ("Not Ready to Make Nice"); they became more respected in the wake of it than they ever had been.
Unfortunately, ubsan is not implemented on all targets, as I just found out a few seconds ago trying to enable it on my arm-none-eabi project. (I suppose technically I just need to implement all of the stubs to hard fault or something... why doesn't gcc do that for me?).
In a similar vein, does anybody know of a browser extension that lets me throttle bandwidth for a defined list of domains? Or some piece of software I could run on a Mac that would accomplish the same thing?

For the longest time I've wanted to make Twitter load at a snail's pace. Make it so everything takes just long enough that I don't mindlessly scroll for long periods of time. In my mind, it's a nice middle ground between blocking entirely and allowing full access.

I can mimic it via "Throttling" in DevTools > Network with a custom profile (or one of the 3G profiles), but I'm looking for something that doesn't need DevTools open all the time to work.
Why complain about the complainers? Because some complainers will never be happy no matter what the state of the world is. Ironically your solution (build more things) is the exact thing the complainers complain about with regard to the frontend world. They complain too many things have been built. You can’t ever satisfy everyone.
That's fair. I would go work for a competitor and not feel less honorable because I know that company would hire someone from the very same company I now work at and not feel they have done anything wrong.

When you are fighting a power inbalance guile is a very effective tool and nobel trait.
I have been waiting for this since the moment I first read about Materialize a year or two ago. I think there's still a lot of work to be done, but at heart, if you can pair technology like Materialize with an orchestration system like dbt, you can use dbt to keep your business logic extremely well organized, yet have all of your dependent views up to date all of the time, and use dbt even to use the same analytical layered views both for analytical AND operational purposes.

The biggest issue I see is that it requires you to be all-in on Materialize, and as a warehouse (or as a database for that matter), it's surely not as mature as Snowflake or Postgres.
An origami-inspired medical patch for sealing internal injuries
RIP :( <3
Yeah, because dang wasn't a HN moderator before that.
Hey you should checkout mdbook it’s a great tool for writing technical documentation
Do you have a citation for that? I've heard 200ms as the key threshold and the ITU uses 100ms for their default delay sensitivity class[1]. One key concept is that this isn't fixed but situational: if you're watching a TV show, the threshold is higher than if you're trying to react to something which is higher than simply noticing a delay and speech is more forgiving than, say, music hitting a precise tempo (I believe musicians have been tested as noticing delays down into the 10-20ms range).

One other big factor is consistency: if the variability is due to compressor overhead which is constant, the effect will be noticeable but less distracting than if it's varying due to something like wireless conditions.

1. https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-G.107-201506-I/en
Your advice is good, I agree that the most important thing is to be prepared for these smaller events. I would like to add an entry to your list of armageddons though. The indigenous people of the Americas had a pretty bad century after first contact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indigeno...
No, other people who describe it were clear that McNeil used the word in reference not as a pejorative. Even the NY Times' own coverage said that he did not use the word as an insult.
Yes, this! Failing to mention timbre in an article on why the same note sounds differently on two instruments is missing the point, metaphorically being so focused on a detailed simulation of treestuff that one fails forestry.

(Yeah, OK, that was terribly said, sorry 'bout that.)

For timbre, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbre e.g.

FFTs, etc., give us visualization tools, but they miss the point. Different materials resonate differently across the auditory spectrum, emphasizing or diminishing various harmonics, resulting in complex sound profiles that make each instrument distinctive.

Or, to put it most simply: Different materials react to sound differently, and each instrument's materials and construction are what give it its distinctive timbre.

On an unrelated note, Daniel Levitin, former music producer and director of the Grammys, and current neuroscientist at McGill, was once asked what makes each musical era distinctive: timbre was, in his opinion, the single most important factor (source: one of his books, probably still in a moving box in my basement, otherwise I'd look it up).
> apparently the far-right is able to taint any word they choose

Oh yes I hate this. I saw a long argument either here or on Reddit where someone made the tired old "something #2: electric boogaloo" joke as has been done for many years but it set off an alarm because some cosplay commandos used that phrase themselves for an operation so it's forever off limits.

It's one of many similar cases. How weak it is to just give up ground like that.
It matters for everything on macOS, which achieves non-integer scaling by rendering to a larger frame buffer then scaling down the entire image to the panel resolution.

MacBooks for the last few years have shipped with a scaled mode enabled by default to give more screen space, I always bump it back down because I hate how fuzzy it makes everything look.
That's an astounding amount of processing power in a single processor. I can imagine the eye-watering price tag though.
Yes, thank you. An important element of my argument is to focus on what's in your control.

It's not exclusively about immigrants. In fact, immigrants are less likely to be caught up in notions of fairness because they probably thought to themselves before they came something like "this is going to suck and be unfair, but it will be worth it for my children and grandchildren". So they just make the best of it and compare with the country they came from, not some ideal utopia.

The ability to vote is some tiny amount of control, but democracy is a blunt instrument to actually affect your life in a positive way. Policies and their implementation rarely live up to expectations even when enacted, so people waiting for them just get more discouraged. And a lot of policies that might sound good have bad unintended consequences, which is why there are endless arguments.

I don't mean to give up on policy, just to recognize that it's not going to be the salvation you're waiting for. Sensibly spend some effort to understand issues and vote for good representatives, but don't hold your breath. Focus on ordinary good advice and encouragement that work regardless of the policies.

Most of the goodness in the world is not some well-crafted policy, but ordinary people doing ordinary good things. Be positive and encouraging and give credit when people do those good things, don't be dismissive because you think people will misinterpret the story and craft bad policy out of it.

The way we build on success as a society is when people share their success stories. If every time someone shares their success, the response is instantly about how privileged or lucky they are, then our culture is sick. We should listen to and support those stories.
I think if you are white, you can engage with this entirely as an intellectual debate, or think of it as not a big deal.

It's easier then to forget that it's a word still used regularly by people committing violent hate crimes against Black folks, and those cheering them on.
I had it at about 50/50 odds I would get this reply
If they don't release it as part of webrtc, they won't be able to use it in browser based videoconferencing. Google Meet/Hangouts on desktop rely on that.

While it is theoretically possible to process audio with something compiled with webassembly, data can't be marshalled into/out of a webassembly worker without the main browser threads help, and that tends to be too janky to use for realtime audio on most platforms.

That pretty much forces googles hand - if they want to use it in their web-based products, it must be opensource and available to all competitors.

They might say this feature only works with their mobile apps though.
Think of it another way:

What advice would you offer a young poor student looking to get out of poverty

A) The cards are stacked against you, but your best chance is to work hard, get good grades, keep a clean criminal record, go to college, and get a good job.

B) You are the victim of a broken system and this system needs to be fixed.

Both are true, but only one of these messages is actionable and relevant for the student.

Yes, the system us unfair, but people can and do rise out of poverty every day. In fact, most children born into poverty make it out of poverty (66% according to this PEW paper [1])

https://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_a...
She's been cancelled? She has a million Twitter followers https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky and 150k on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MonicaLewinsky/

I've found articles about her speaking on college campuses with her anti-bullying campaign. I've not found anything about her being cut off from platforms yet. Can you post a link?
I'm not super familiar with any of those, but looking at BEAM at the cursory level, it has very little to do with "distribed-ness". It's a VM implementation with heavy focus on concurrency, which is only a small part of distributed systems and arguably not even in the same area of research.

You can make anything that is network-enabled a part of a distributed system, assuming you can express protocols within that 'thing'. If the VM supports bitwise operations, for example, you could support binary protocols to interface with anything else. The "VM" part of it, by itself, has very little impact on the entirety of the distributed system.
It didn't say that, though. I agree it could be clearer here, but it seems to be suggesting simply that other values should also be considered when thinking about math education. It never seems to say precision or accuracy are bad or racist.
I specifically ordered the VESA iMac model because of both the limitations of height, etc, and the space on your desk that is freed up by using a mounting arm.
This can backfire and you’ll just end up spending a lot more time waiting for the same amount of dopamine hits. Better to just quickly consume a lot of content until satiated and move on. If anything you should quickly speed up the rate you consume tweets so you get exhausted.
> Was that the purpose of that document? Or was it meant for people who all agreed (correctly or not) that this was a problem, and was exploring techniques to address that?

How are you saying anything different? The premise is that teachers perpetuate systems of white supremacy implicitly in the way they teach, and, as you say, the document seeks to provide means of addressing this.

These cross-cultural efforts pretty much fall under the umbrella category of "creating allies". What specifically do you take issue with?

EDIT Ok OP has edited their comment. I will leave mine with the original text.
Imperfect Foods | Remote except when specified otherwise | Full-time | https://www.imperfectfoods.com

At Imperfect Foods we are all about groceries on a mission. Since 2015, our services have saved over 100M lbs of food. Our product and technology team is responsible for building our ecommerce platform and internal tooling, as well as ensuring smooth daily operation of our rapidly growing business. We are swimming in interesting problems around customer-facing features, scale, and logistics. If all of this excites you, come join us!

We're hiring for roles across technology:

- Data Scientist (remote):
https://jobs.lever.co/imperfectfoods/4c198d6e-acc4-405a-996c...

- Senior Software Engineer - Mobile (remote): https://jobs.lever.co/imperfectfoods/4d1738e5-f89e-4a29-91b4...

- Senior Software Engineer - UX (remote): https://jobs.lever.co/imperfectfoods/20645ffc-f7d6-4630-a74d...

- Software Engineer - Data / Machine Learning (remote): https://jobs.lever.co/imperfectfoods/b61f21a9-62b2-4aed-9190...

- Software Engineer - Full Stack (remote): https://jobs.lever.co/imperfectfoods/ebdaba83-69b0-4e10-aeac...

- Engineering Manager (remote)
https://jobs.lever.co/imperfectfoods/3a7da3bc-462c-4fc0-936d...

- QA Engineer (remote):
https://jobs.lever.co/imperfectfoods/449fabca-4cf5-4e48-8ffa...

- Analytics Manager (remote)
https://jobs.lever.co/imperfectfoods/a06feab5-4ed9-4dc3-887d...

- Senior IT Support Engineer (Los Angeles, CA): https://jobs.lever.co/imperfectfoods/1e3f0ada-0eff-478d-962e...

- Senior IT Support Engineer (San Antonio, TX)
https://jobs.lever.co/imperfectfoods/23f911b7-2aef-42f0-b62e...
Clubs Poker | Senior Front-end Engineer, Senior Full Stack Engineer | Full-time, contract | Remote, US preferred (co-founders are based in NYC)

Website: https://clubspoker.com

One liner: Making it dead simple to play poker with your friends or colleagues

Stage: We're in beta with over 1,000 users, just closed a round of funding, and gearing up for a public launch in the next couple months. You'll be joining two co-founders as employee #1 and will have a significant impact on our direction and success.

Tech stack:

- React
- Ruby on Rails
- Postgres
- AWS

You can email me directly at taylor@clubspoker.com, mentioning Hacker News and why you'd be a good fit in the email.
Everything is the wrong size at 4K @ 27” though (on macOS at least).

Either you run at 1x scaling and everything is tiny, 2x scaling and everything is comically huge, or a non-integer scale and everything is fuzzy.