skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one is trying to cancel Dr Seuss. No one is suggesting that he was a bad or hateful person.

This is factually false, as we have people in this comment thread who claim that Dr Seuss was always a clear, known racist:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26360503

I'm sure some people who support the cancellation of 6 of his books see it, like you, as just these 6 books being cancelled, and not as a complete destruction and cancellation of Dr. Seuss as a person.

However, as we've all seen in past cancellations, once you start labeling any specific act of a person as "cancelable", the mob will typically proceed to label the entire person cancelable.

This really is the normal progression, and we already see it in comments like the one I linked. If Dr. Seuss somehow escapes this fate, and isn't labeled overall "objectionable" and canceled wholesale - then it would be an exception, likely made precisely because he is such a mainstream figure, because he was in fact highly liberal even in his time, and in order to make this argument that you just made: that we are merely cancelling 6 of his books, and not all his books and everything about him.

In other words, parts of the mob decided that at this point, it will be a little too shocking to cancel such a mainstream, beloved, liberal figure, so unlike practically every other instance of Cancel Culture, in which the entire person and everything pertaining to them was canceled as soon as any "sin" was found, in this case only these specific books will be canceled.

Normally Dr. Seuss and his entire legacy would labeled "objectionable" and canceled, and parts of the mob are certainly eager to do that, as in the comment I've linked.

As someone who read Dr. Seuss as a child, I disagree that there are any "hurtful" representations in his books. There are cartoonish representations, which also exist in many, many other mediums, notably caricatures, cartoons, and animated shorts.

Incidentally, I am a member of one of these minorities who were supposed to be "offended" by these depictions. I am not.

This is all an instance of Cancel Culture, par excellence. To pretend otherwise is dishonest, and to pretend that nobody is trying to cancel Dr. Seuss is demonstrably false.
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"Latter-day Saint" is not that much of a mouthful. Neither is "Church of Jesus Christ", both of which are acceptable.

No worse than "I know I was called Fred in the past, but please call me Fredericka from now on"
Privateer! I absolutely loved that game - I must have racked hundreds of hours on it as a kid!

I liked WC:Prophecy a lot too, but the trade aspect of Privateer was what really got me hooked. Also, the sheer size of the Privateer universe was mind boggling at the time. That and the graphics almost seemed like witchcraft given PC capabilities of the day.
Yeah, it depends. I've taken some LinkedIn (formerly Lynda) courses on video editing and the like and it works far better than text with photos would. But video for something that could simply be explained with some bullet points is awful.
Good for her - honestly the way we treat porn stars (all sex workers really) as a society is so awful. I would bet most, including the pious and self-righteous, what have you, are at once consumers but then have no qualms shaming them.
My understanding is that pareto improvements are positive sum by definition.

>> Given an initial situation, a Pareto improvement is a new situation where some agents will gain, and no agents will lose. [0]

Neonological seems to believe that pareto improvements are not possible because of negative externalities. Maybe they are right but positive externalities also need to be accounted for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
This is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night.
In my opinion, daily (or close to daily) practice is the most important thing.

Other commenters already cover which topics to go for, so I am just going to say this: If you do daily deliberate practice for a year, and whenever you are motivated research something with more depth from time to time...well, you will be somewhat good after doing this 365 times.

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Oh wow! Thanks for sharing. I thought the original looked super weird, but seeing your "distorted" version instantly brought back flashbacks to when I saw this in South Dennis, MA, a few years ago. I took photos and couldn't figure out what the heck was out there, but it was this. Thanks!
So no then? As you say, epsilon should be used in this case.
We don't know the circumstances of someone working three jobs with three children - maybe they had a good job, maybe they were married to someone who also had a good job, maybe life was going swimmingly until someone in their family got cancer and bankrupted them or their spouse died or their employer closed and down and because it's Baltimore it was tough to find another decent job.

Better to figure out how we can support these people so that their lives aren't filled with such abject suffering than to say "they (retroactively) shouldn't have kids."
This is one of the best responses I've seen when this topic arises and people wonder who's failing whom. I'm tempted to copy/paste it into every other post about how the kid is a lazy bum.
Doesn't this kind of law violate the Constitution in some way? This seems more like censorship hidden behind "think of the children".
any debt? i wonder what do they do with that much of cash in hand
I don't see a compelling story for their product. There's great educational content all over the web, much of it freely available. Their credentials are worthless, and in some industries may actually have negative value.

They lucked out with coronavirus, as that sent people scrambling for distance learning. That won't last.

edit: Apparently folks disagree. We don't all see the same things or interpret the future the same way. I think education as an industry is going to go into decline, but I don't see companies like Coursera as being able to thrive by feeding off the corpses.
This absolutely isn't true. Ask any parent whos children are doing common core math. It doesn't help much of the coursework and wording is nonsensical. A lot of it reminds of me communications we would get from our South Asian team at one of my old jobs.
I wonder how much DOGE Elon Musk holds, and how his, or anyones behavior towards these speculative coins is any different.

So you're speculating that the world's richest man (give or take) risked a felony conviction by running an illegal Dogecoin pump-and-dump scheme? Is that right?

I'd wager that Musk's Doge-pumping buffoonery is more of a hobby than a revenue-generating side gig. If he ends up in federal prison, It'll be for cooking Tesla's books.
Pete Dalgaard's Introductory Statistics with R is a good book, but not free online as far as I know.[1]

Or go to the source with An Introduction to R[2][3]

I also enjoyed Norm Matloff's fasteR tutorial.[4]

[1] https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387790534

[2] https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.pdf

[3] https://intro2r.com/the-aim-of-this-book.html

[4] https://github.com/matloff/fasteR
Related, my favourite thread to come out of the queer tech circles:

"Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983"
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/927593460642615296.html
The whole picture we're missing here is that everyone is failing, checked out, and has no goals other than shifting blame.
If curious, past threads:

Data-Transfer-Project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23887000 - July 2020 (27 comments)

An open source platform promoting universal data portability - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17596146 - July 2018 (10 comments)

The Data Transfer Project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17580502 - July 2018 (47 comments)

The Data Transfer Project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17574707 - July 2018 (50 comments)

Others?
First of all, I'm not making the decision by myself, but discuss it with my peers before doing so.
Second of all, the product owner does not command the product. We all do. At least that's how we see it here and it works out quite well. And we are not wasting time on childish stuff like giving story points to our micro tasks or sprint retros.
And of course we care about the business numbers. Or do you think developers are too stupid to realize that this is what counts in the end?
> he doesn't appear to have caught on the book is supposed to be funny

Miss Tsing Loh has a small advantage here by not having been in diapers in the period that probably offers context for Fussel's musings.
1/infinity is not 0, it's infinitesimal.
I'm not normally one to get pissy over a down-vote - but "Come on?"
They should ban leaf blowers outright. Even without the engine exhaust, they kick up particulates (allergens, car exhaust/tire dust, etc), and put them back in the atmosphere.

Also, most people that use them don’t actually put the result in a pile, and haul it away. They just push crap back and forth across property lines. Get a rake and a tarp already.

Back in my bike commuting days, it was obvious that one leaf blower was putting out more (non CO2) pollution than a long line of idling cars.

Still, this is a step in the right direction.
I have two different views on new battery technology press releases.

1) "Hey, that's great, I hope it works out for them!"

2) "Can I actually pull out my visa card right now, and buy some individual units online?"

Re: #2, most batteries have very little relevance to me as an end user until they're commercially available to buy. For instance the Panasonic NCR18650GA (245-250Wh/kg) li-ion, the Molicell P42A (21700 size li ion that's capable of being discharged at 45A rate with appropriate cooling), and other state of the art technology. I can go buy those right now from some reputable online stores.

Until whatever other new battery shows up to actually purchase, it exists in a liminal, theoretical state only.
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That's an excellent point.

Although to go down that road, schemaless databases preceded RDBMS by decades, and then were replaced for good reasons.
Saying “ This is the worst way to learn how to draw.” feels, to me at least, like a microinvalidation. If that’s not your intent then I’m happy to move past it.

That exercise I outlined was the first project that gave me the confidence I needed to pursue a fine art education up to an undergraduate level. I didn’t get to that point without learning anything more, but I honestly don’t feel I made a critical error here.

And with respect to the OP, it kind of does look like he aims to only be hobbyist levels of good.

I commend your passion for the subject. I just can’t support the idea that there is a right and wrong way to learn how to draw.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If kids don’t show up 50% of the time and the mom doesn’t care, and the Dad is long gone. Kids friends think learning makes you into a sell out.

Money isn’t going to solve that.
I used the NWSL list and translated them to several languages. You can use them here: https://www.locserendipity.com
Difference is in talking as bouncing off ideas and sales pushing work on you or talking nicely and expecting you do things for him/her.
https://superpowered.com/latency has messy data, but it looks like typically single-digit latency.
Dell uses this exact technique on Windows to launch/interact with their driver installation tool from the web. That has decent UX because it comes pre-installed. But, generally, users aren't accustomed to this pattern and any user education requirement is often a non starter in many market segments.

It also has security implications if you are exposing OS functionality to websites. I remember Dell having a bad one a couple years ago.

There is also an antivirus browser extension that works in a similar way. It installs a native C++ executable that the extension interacts with. That has a huge security footprint. IIRC they rolled their own parser (HTML?, JSON?) and it went predictably bad.

There are lots of implications to consider. I'd like to see progressive web apps fill this niche on the desktop. They have various mechanisms for persistence of data and WASM will increase the practical use cases. Hopefully the APIs available to PWAs in the future will allow all sorts of new use cases.
> The point is that you're focusing on the worst-case scenario costs

It is quite literally today's current prices at major retailers. It isn't the worst case, Toro's battery overcharging is pretty in-line with other manufacturers, and I picked Toro because it is popular/mainstream for commercial work already.

> faster commercial chargers

You're saying that for a commercial lawn care company to switch to electric right now they have to buy chargers that don't exist for sale?

> vehicle as less-polluting power store for mains-power electrical tool,

And the cost of batteries? You're just completely ignoring the comment chain's topic entirely.

> manual tools that work better and faster in some contexts

Commercial lawn care and leaf blowers/trimmers is the context. It is literally what the thread and comment chain is about. In the context we're talking about: No, absolutely not. In other irrelevant contexts? Sure, I guess?
What's the valuation?
Unless you've got an HOA or a city or county law that requires you to water your lawn, or are in a place with very low rainfall, it should be safe to skip watering the lawn most of the time.

A lawn should be able to go 4 weeks with no water in the summer and not die. It will go dormant, and once the water starts again it will green up quickly. A dormant lawn will be brown and you shouldn't walk on it much, but if you don't need to do things on it and aren't bothered aesthetically by it, it's fine.

Once it goes brown, water it maybe every 3 weeks just to make sure it doesn't go from dormant to dead if you don't get enough rain.
This looks really cool. From the description is sounds a bit like DarkRP in Garry's Mod. I remember having a lot of fun with that mode.
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Security vulns are a profit center for Microsoft.

I have a client who was hit with ransomware that exploited holes in RDP. They paid Microsoft about 5% of their annual IT budget to upgrade.

How much more license revenue and 365 subscriptions will this latest fuckup generate?

And if vulns are this profitable, where's the incentive to prevent them in the first place?
Deplatforming anyone is foolish. Anyone who thinks otherwise will be deplatformed.
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I think we are doing pretty well with increasing the number of SSGs even without a meta SSGG. But I guess there are still more blogs around than SSGs, so there's still potential for incrementing that counter.
I read it as primarily saying that the thing which 'dark patterns' refers to is more plainly called "fraud and psychological manipulation, not so much that merely using 'dark patterns' as a euphemism is itself "fraud...etc." Suspicious perhaps, but as an indirect second-order thing.

It can be seen as ambiguous, but a lot of language relies on assumptions about what a reasonable person would be thinking. Which causes trouble if you're trying to express a contrary or startling opinion.
Ask HN: Why GitHub is not Open source?
It's almost like we shouldn't indiscriminately connect everything to the internet.
How do you deal with zero day vulnerabilities? To me the biggest concern using browser-as-a-desktop solution is that there will be quite a lag between when Chrome patches zero days vs when it gets released.

ex) nw.js, electron.
This is one of the few occasions where a common idiomatic metaphor - "the way I see the world" - is actually meant to be taken literally.

It didn't change their worldview; it changed the way they see the world.
> The Apple ][ ties for first place with an iPad Pro.

* When used with an Apple Pencil (30ms). When used with touch it drops to 70ms.

Also, it's worth noting that there's a very limited list of devices tested there and it heavily skews Apple.
Or there are just multiple stakeholders with differing needs.

The benefit of having a single PO is that they reconcile the competing priorities and the developers don't have to do it themselves.
The submitter posted the title that the article had at the time. Then the BBC changed it there. Then a moderator changed it here. And then a moderator (this one!) marked this subthread—which was stuck to the top of the page, gathering mass and choking out anything interesting—off topic.

I don't fault the comment for that so much as the upvotes, but downweighting top subthreads that are off-topic and/or generic in uninteresting ways is probably the highest-leverage intervention that moderators do here. Unfortunately it requires human intervention, and we don't see all the threads, so if anyone notices an off-topic or generic top subthread before we do, letting us know at hn@ycombinator.com is super helpful.
> I doubt the bill will pass, but if it does, I doubt many manufacturers would comply.

They'd probably comply. Most could strike a deal with an existing company to provide software for this. Hell, more than likely a company who makes such software is probably a campaign contributor to many of the supporters of this bill.

AFAIK, the law doesn't define how effective the filter must be. So any good-faith attempt is probably more than enough.
Even if the software is just a skin of Chrome with a add-on installed that blocks a list of websites.

I won't lie though, I would find it hilarious if foxnews.com was put into this obscenity filter.
I mean in this case it was email, so I don't know how you usefully disconnect that from the internet
If a representation is factually true, can it still be algorithmically unfair?
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> However, (also FYI), adherents prefer if you refer to the church as "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" and members of said church "Latter-day Saints" or simply "Christians".

I have a hard time referring to them as Christians when they think that the non-Latter-Day Christians are someone that needs converted. They sure send a lot of missionaries to go after (other) Christians. They sure seem to teach that you have to be part of their church. In short, they sure seem to act like they regard other Christians as "other".

So, no, I have a hard time calling them "Christians".

(And if you're going to say that they self-identify as Christians, well, Jesus said something about "Not everyone who calls me 'Lord, Lord'...")
Both are church driven societies
Wing Commander II was just amazing. Had a long, fairly well thought out story with meaningful twists, emotional moments, tension and accompanies by a great soundtrack.

I will see you in heaven.

Some remastered bits of soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJD6YpHD5O0&list=PLFB7GcAB-z...
Don't mess around with Markdown and LaTeX for documentation. AsciiDoc is what you want.
I wish the title was a bit more clear from the original post. This feels a little bit vague on purpose.

Microsoft Exchange server software , not to be confused with MS Outlook email software or the lesser Windows Mail software.
Oh man you're going to LOVE this:

https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
I agree that changing funding models can’t address broader social issues. But at least the school can reach out to the parent(s) and say "your child is skipping school and failing", which this mother claims they did not. Either the mother is being untruthful, or else the school really did fail here in a way which is independent of the social issues of the child and their friends and family. And if the later is the case, changing administrative and funding structures might actually make some difference. Not to the ultimate problem of the child's social deprivation, but at least to the parent(s) saying "we had no idea".
Microsoft is for-profit company who paid good money for GitHub. Why would they open source it?

There are alternatives, https://gitlab.com/ for example.
> However, (also FYI), adherents prefer if you refer to the church as "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" and members of said church "Latter-day Saints" or simply "Christians".

The first for members is problematic (especially in speech, where there is no equivalent to capitalization to distinguish the proper nouns from a combination of common words; and plenty of people discussing “Latter-Day Saints” would very much not want to endorse the idea that the people referenced are “latter day saints”.

The latter of those is even more problematic for somewhat similar reasons, since there are lots of other people who identify as and are commonly known as Christians, so it's not particularly good to distinguish Latter-Day Saints. Especially given that the boundary large groups of Christians who disagree on, well, nearly everything else draw around the boundary of “Christian” excluded Latter-Day Saints.

> Calling Latter-day Saints "Mormons" is like nicknaming Muslims "Mohammeds" or "Qurans" or nicknaming Islam "the Mohammed Church" or "the Quran Church".

Or, to use a less hypothetical example, it's like calling Muslims and Islam “Mohammedans” and “Mohammedanism”, respectively.