skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”

I'm having a hard time seeing this as 'anti-racism', even if the 'punchline' hinges on the uncomfortable truth that black africans are disproportionately the victims of HIV, it is very much punching down.

Is it in very bad taste? absolutely yes. Is it something that needed to be #1 trending on twitter? no. Is it something that should noticeably alter the path of someone's life? Not in any world I would choose to live in.

I do agree with your premise, a single joke in very bad taste by a non-public entity is a non-event. I think that we all have something somewhere in our closet that could be twisted against us by cancel culture.

The scariest part is that there is no redemption. A picture or recording of you doing something reprehensible when you were 17 will be used against you years later. Cancel culture needs to recognize that people grow and change. We need to recognize that young people say and do stupid shit without understanding the full context of what they are doing, or the potential consequences.
Multiple incidents were pointed out, and I legitimately don't know if it's more damaging today than it was before. This is a country that burned black wall street to the ground over an accusation. I actually, seriously don't know if the problem is more widespread or more damaging given the history in the USA.

I will say it is most certainly a problem, and I think it likely has much deeper roots than "social media exists, only now are people being hurt by mob mentality". It may be that social media only makes mob mentality more obvious to people, so now everyone is aware of it. But then the problem is why did we ever develop mob mentality in the first place....
It’s in poor taste. Should not have been tweeted. It was an anti-racist commentary, but you know the mob, throw them some fresh meat.

In firing her the company is complicit in casting her as racist when her sarcasm was pointed at low brow racism. But that escaped the shamers and cancellors. They were too busy frothing at the mouth.
> Whether you like it or not, it got every male in the workplace to not even breathe in the direction of women you work with.

Jesus Christ. No it didn't.
> The sustained overtones are only half the battle.

Actually probably like 10% at most of the battle. My understanding is attack is overwhelmingly dominant in our perception of timbre.
This thread started as a discussion about Liberty discriminating against boring rank and file faculty/gay students, and ended with “the world is ending because being president of an elite university is a GASP political job!” (Newsflash: uni prez is a deeply political job in every sense of the word and has been since the birth of the university many hundreds of years ago)

The idiocy of that conversational arc is basically the point I’m trying to make.
There are a lot of binaries other than Android that run on Smartphones that you cannot possibly control from within Android even with fully-privileged apps (let alone restricted user-space apps). And, even within Android, because Blokada doesn't support "Block connection without VPN", there's no guarantee that apps don't bypass the VPN it sets up. Besides, Blokada leaks DNS requests over TCP (only handles the UDP ones) [0]. All of this is discounting the fact that Blokada has a hard-coded list of applications it blanket allows by-default [1].

Also, these fingerprinting bits in their code-base doesn't inspire confidence either [2][3].

I'd not consider Blokada a serious security app at this point, though it does have the potential to be one.

disclosure: I co-develop a similar foss app.

[0] https://github.com/blokadaorg/blokada/blob/65992cdc/android5...

[1] https://github.com/blokadaorg/blokada/blob/8702350602b/andro...

[2] one identifier too many for a user-agent: https://github.com/blokadaorg/blokada/blob/8702350602b/andro...

[3] unique identifier per installation: https://github.com/blokadaorg/blokada/blob/04efb84e06e1/andr...
This is my favorite read on HN, ever. So cool!
great bloom filter use case, thanks a lot for building and sharing this!
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This is so amazingly cool. Wow. You can even see 3D models (probably from a list of standard ones) and how they tumble (I wonder how accurate that is?)

Thanks vortex_ape. I love the way random cool stuff pops up on HN like this.

PS: It does look a lot more crowded in space in this view than it actually is, because the objects are shown at like a million times their actual size :) And it doesn't show vertical separation graphically.
Donald Trump freak effigy in gold trolls CPAC
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You aren't worried about page 6 that puts a number of innocuous points of math education philosophy and practice under the heading of "white supremacy?"

Under a literal or charitable reading, it's not a problem. It's making the point that systemic racism can pop up in a number of places on a map of the educational landscape. That's fine. It's true. It's not saying that those places themselves inherently constitute white supremacy culture.

However, this all hinges entirely on the reading being charitable or at the very least literal -- and if there's one life lesson that my interactions with others keep hammering home, it's that people are not generally literal or charitable. People are fuzzy association machines. Literal meanings can sometimes protect you in a court of law or court of academics. Charitability can protect you among friends. Absent those two narrow, tenuous exceptions, that paper gives wokescolds permission to label any of a dozen core aspects of teaching as "white supremacy culture," insofar as school administration allows it to do so, which by my estimation they absolutely will.

I sincerely hope this fear is misplaced.
"Chunking" is an important concept here.

Think about learning to read in.a script you're unfamiliar with (eg Cyrillic if your native language uses Roman script). You need to learn the shape of the letters so you have to keep in mind multiple things just to process one letter.

At some point you're familiar enough with the script that each letter becomes one "chunk" that you can recall and process mentally. This stage is equivalent to sounding out a word by sounding out each letter.

At some point each word becomes a "chunk". Fun fact: they have done tests on reading and if you scramble the letters in text but anchor the first and last letter of each word, most fluent readers can still read the text. [1]

After that groups of words become "chunks" but the barrier here becomes more nebulous.

My point is that the number of chunks your brain can process at a time is relatively fixed (around 5 IIRC).

So I'm not sure that language learning is the counterexample you may believe.

[1]: https://www.treehugger.com/why-your-brain-can-read-jumbled-l...
I don't follow the space industry as closely as I used to so I don't know how true this is, but some folks have accused Leolabs of being a bit alarmist with their conjunction alerts. They have sent out alerts for collisions that the DoD said had essentially 0 chance of happening (and they didn't).

If you were cynical, you might say that those sorts of false alarms are a marketing/PR stunt. If that's the case, it's in their best interest to not offer to-scale visualizations, making LEO look as crowded as possible.
There’s a theory that harmony arose from this.

A percentage of monks heard a different fundamental pitch than their brethren, so they sang one of the harmonics. Leading to polyphonic hymns and then to formal western harmony.

(Shaped by equal temperament along the way)
> This is, I think, the first time in my life that I've seen a word in American culture become taboo.

I've known that the N-word is one I'm entirely not allowed to say since the mid nineties. I was raised in a conservative household. This isn't a new thing, is it?
I love Xiaomi phones, I've owned a couple. But I wouldn't dream of using them without first replacing MIUI with Lineage OS.
The article says "Now that we have a synced clock", but surely the clock synchronisation would also be unable to resolve any asymmetry in the ping and the synchronisation would inevitably be impacted by this. (Or, does NTP have a solution to this?)

[Edited to add: from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol: "Asymmetric routes... can cause errors of 100 ms or more."]
You can start championing for a resource-based economy?
I’ve seen autocomplete create plenty of problems. It can break some (admittedly poorly designed) forms outright. Or in others simply create a bad user experience. There are lots of forms that ask for an address but that should never be autocompleted to the user’s address.

In practice as a developer you have to resort to JavaScript hacks and obfuscating form field names to avoid it.
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Haha I'm now quite disappointed the estate agent didn't try to advertise it as a safety feature.

I did once see a house listed as having "conveniant access to the motorway for commuting". It was actually directly underneath a bridge of the motorway :|
Honestly, I think the role of stuff like this is exaggerated... if you look at real examples. Base level building cost per sqm at the low end is pretty low but..

1 - IRL, especially in urban markets... rental markets tend to have a pattern where not far below median prices, quality falls off a cliff. For every dollar you save, you lose a lot: sqm, finish, location, etc. By about 0.5X median prices, there is often nothing. Conversely, in suburban & rural markets, quality per dollar tends to explode somewhere not far above median.

2 - This is usually less true for owner-occupied or other types of housing.

I think the end of tenement-type housing has as much to do with culture as it has to do with pure economics or building norms. Most of those, originally, had live in owner-operators. It was a way to make housewifing into a business. Apartments didn't really exist yet.
Building an open access fiber network to make Internet for all a reality
> they were leaving out the difficulty of manufacturing mRNA vaccines in volume

Article is about adenovirus vaccine, not mRNA vaccine.
Not remote in the US at all, but this looks like a great product! ;)
"Camera Type: Built-in camera" does not give me a lot of confidence about that webcam ;)
Wow 2cm is still huge if it rams into the ISS at 10km/s. It's like a 20mm bullet with at least 5 times the speed of a gun round (not sure how fast guns are actually :) What are those 'whipple shields'? Are those the foil sheets that basically vaporise the object (and part of the shield) so it won't penetrate the inner hull?

I assume they have better tracking than 2cm for the orbit the ISS is in? Does the ISS have its own radar warning? Though I guess if it sees it coming it's already too late for avoidance.
The paradox of oppressing in the name of opposing oppression is that it is already something much worse.
Experiment (Horse-Powered Boat)
I found the issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6189
The other comment is evidence for what he said.
According to the author's version of events his colleagues were offended by a description that was inaccurate to point of falsified (again, according to the author), and their outrage was conveyed by someone who may have been looking for excuses to get rid of him for years.

Perhaps they would have been offended by his actual words, but it seems at least plausible that if they read and believed his version of events they would no longer be offended. It also seems potentially plausible that their outrage was exaggerated by the NYTimes lawyer.
I wish I didn’t have to disable clipboard events because of sites that think they know better to disable paste.
Yeah, when we spoke over the phone there was no mention of a revenue share time period. It was only after I received the written offer that they stipulated revenue share is granted for the first 365 days. I did ask them if there are opportunities to extend the revenue share beyond 1 year but no response yet.
Defo waiting for 32GB Ram. 8GB always looked unnatural!
The French revolution was effected by a relatively small mob of Parisians, not at all representative of the rural France that was the majority. Still, minority or not, the heads rolled.
I do still prefer Lyra overall, though not as much as some others (see sibling comment). To me, Lyra is cleaner and easier to understand, but the artifacts it introduces are more annoying and fatiguing than those introduced by Opus. Some people in this thread have reported trouble understanding Lyra, which I attribute to the strange artifacts it introduces.
"Back"?

(Sorry about the cheap comment - I couldn't resist)
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I started using Dropbox paper for these. JIC I need to collaborate on one.
You are being downvoted and yet it's still happening today.

https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-c...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-raytheon-engineer-sent...
I am not sure there is a universally better solution. If a function takes both string and its length (e.g. strncmp), there is no guarantee that the length is correct. Or like C++, you always represent a string by a (len,max,ptr) 3-tuple, but 1) this is not a primitive type and 2) len and max waste memory when you have millions of short strings.
Try reading about the ridiculous fallout conservatives triggered in 2004, following a one second exposure of a female nipple on TV.
I’ve always been relatively libertarian, and the libertarians I know have consistently opposed cancel culture before it was a meme. There are plenty of folks who are consistent on this one, and I hope that we’re finally at a turning point (though I doubt it).
People currently describe cancel culture as an all-powerful, all-encompassing, all-devouring tyranny that can topple governments and ruin lives at will. An evil on par with that of Nazi Germany (at least according to white Conservatives who will unironically declare themselves victims of a modern Holocaust by cancel culture) which threatens the very foundation of human civilization and liberty itself.

Almost every realistic description of cancel culture and its actual effects will undermine the narrative, because the need to spread fear and hatred of the left by overstating it and its scope has caused the dialogue around it to spiral out beyond hyperbole into batshit insanity.

But yes, Monica Lewinsky would definitely be considered "cancelled" by today's standards. Any form of public backlash is considered cancel culture, now.
This might be a pretty basic question, but what do the large red areas denote?
Digitization Wars, Redux
> Spectograms of each note will also make it strikingly clear that there is a dominant frequency invoked and overtones (harmonics)

It's not even about which frequency is dominant. I'm not an expert on psychoacoustics from the "sciency" side, but basically our brains can figure out the fundamental note based on the harmonics alone, even if we don't hear the fundamental frequency itself. De-emphasizing the fundamental frequency is sometimes used in synthesis just to create an interesting sound, but most notably this phenomenon is heavily relied on in modern heavy bass electronic music and down-tuned metal. A really common trick is to distort the bass track, so it can be still heard even if speakers can't reproduce that frequency, as distortion generates more harmonics. I don't mean distortion in literal sense, but in audio effect sense, so effects like saturation, overdrive, fuzz, clipping, etc.
You print new money by letting banks lend to companies. Just tweak credit law so that companies that do carbon reducing tech have more/chesper credit available.

You want to buy poorly insulated house with new mortgage? Sure but mortgage will cost you more because of the new rules.

Just add assesing of carbon cost of investment to credit decission process and make rules about how much investor can borrow and how cheaply.
Been using Fish for many years now, I love the abbreviations feature the most, as it auto expands and doesn't hide the magic!
Not necessarily, professional news organizations, including blogs and tweeters are increasingly owned by fewer and fewer parent companies. At least compared to say 70 years ago. If you go back farther it will be a different story.
Only, he quit the circuit explicitly because he didn't like the critical response, so your hypothetical invincible ur-comedian doesn't match with reality. So Dave Chappelle is also blaming the audience because they don't think his jokes are funny. So what? No, entertainer, make funny jokes or get off the damned stage. The moment where you start trying to correct the audience and explain that your jokes are actually funny, you objectively aren't funny any more. Why not find a new audience, and make jokes about cancel culture? Sounds like there's a market for it.

Side note: was Seinfeld ever funny or were we just laughing at him the whole time?
This is a fun exploration, though there's a lot of fuzzy usage of terms and missing stuff. Eg. the first 5 paragraphs are apparently trying to define timbre, yet the word appears nowhere. Same with harmonics, etc.

I think one of the most interesting things about pitch is that it's not well defined, it's a psychological phenomenon. If you could extract it from people's brains, you would likely get different values from different people. This is compounded by the fact that harmonics produced by real instruments are not exact ratios of each other, yet they affect the perceived pitch.
You're right, it didn't really get to the point until midway through the third part. If you get through all of it, the message is that NYT leadership opportunistically used a tabloid's hit piece on a cold story about an issue the NYT themselves claims they had already internally addressed as an excuse to oust a labor organizer.
https://twitter.com/BenTheElder/status/1366478663571529728

"This should not be taken terribly deeply as a judgement of bazel. Our other build (make) is full of issues, it's just impractical for us to continue to maintain both & for our usage & as voiced by our contributors we opted to stick to the build we've been releasing with for ages"
> Remember how the compilation time of Nokia's Symbian OS was two weeks?

I feel there's an interesting story right here.
I'm torn between whether I should distrust this site because it's pretending to be associated with Bloomberg ... or if I should distrust this website because it may actually be associated with Bloomberg.
I’m not accusing you of anything.

There is clearly reason to doubt what Dcurtis said, as you have agreed.

I’m referring to this overall conversation which is a discussion of a statement by Dcurtis, which we already know is not what it originally sounded like, and may turn out to be false.
Cool. Do paste blockers next.
FINALLY!!!!!!

A new "fish_add_path" helper function to add paths to $PATH without producing duplicates, to be used interactively or in config.fish (#6960, #7028). For example:

fish_add_path /opt/mycoolthing/bin

will add /opt/mycoolthing/bin to the beginning of $fish_user_path without creating duplicates, so it can be called safely from config.fish or interactively, and the path will just be there, once.
I'm not sure if you're aware, but Dicaprio was initially unwilling to use the n-word in the movie. It was only at the behest of his (black) costars that he did[0].

There's similar conversations about racially charged plays and the white actors who play racists that come up pretty often.

[0]: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/how-samuel-l-jackso...