skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Spreading voter misinformation

2. Delegitimizing mail-in ballots

3. Delegitimizing election officials

4. Calling up state election officials to change votes in favor of Trump

5. Filing 200+ BS lawsuits questioning the authenticity of ballots

6. Disenfranchising minorities by gerrymandering

7. 250+ bills have been introduced in various states restricting voter rights

Do you seriously want me to go on?
You could just work with the analogy, if you wanted.

"Food science" is all about engineering food to be addictive. Which, sure, it's what 'consumers want', but it isn't what people need.

The line between sprinkling MSG on corn chips fried in cheap seed oils, and sprinkling crack on cookies, is a fine one.

When I hear "baker" I picture a millennia-old activity carried out on a human scale. I don't picture an enormous factory churning out least-common-denominator starches, jacked up with sugar, seed oils, and dough conditioners.

Sure, they don't bake most of the bread. But that is clearly what OP was referring to, and you don't have to refuse to get their point.
Denaturalization of 2 million citizens is not a joke that can be brushed away lightly. The denaturalized will either be locked up in concentration camps for life or lose their ability to vote, own property and work. Either way they will become slave laborers for the rest of their lives, incarcerated or otherwise.

Large scale denaturalization has only been carried out recently in apartheid south Africa, nazi Germany and Burmese militia.

Denaturalization of Hindus does not make the system "fair". They do however have a way back via CAA. The hindu victims are typically lower caste Dalits, for whom the upper caste middle class Hindus typically have very little sympathy.

Stories from Indias largest concentration camp for denaturalized citizens.

https://thewire.in/rights/assam-goalpara-detention-centre-nr...
So, "cancel" means "evaluate someone based on their entire person rather than just the things that person is most famous for"?

Because I can't seriously think that woke people are saying that MLK's work must be banned, censored, and otherwise removed from history courses, national discourse, etc., which is how anti-cancel-culture people usually seem to characterize the matter.
Sure. And if you buy a smartphone, similar issues exist in theory. "This includes […] if Apple sends an apple instead of an iphone or made errors during manufacturing." You'd take offense if it happened, too, but that possibility isn't one that makes smartphone manufacturers worry about liability and ask for indemnity.
The email mentions that normal testing didn't catch it as it's not a typical use-case for the devs apparently.
The app can read the visual information from my passport just fine, but when the app wants to read the information via NFC, the UBIC app¹ is brought up instead.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=network.ubic.u...
Ah, yes, "freedom of speech", the concept invented in the USA that only has one authoritative definition in the US Constitution. /s

I don't know how often I've had to point this out, but the US constitution is irrelevant here. You might as well refer to your favourite monty python sketch for all I care.
let me also ask you about timesheets...
I have to admit I am convinced.

It hits the big issues of talking to your users and probably acting as a good filter for finding contributors.

I am slowly reawakening some projects from deep freeze, and when / if they garner any users I will try this ... which of course is the downside of the idea. You need users :-)
Classic "strawman". Miss the point and discuss some detail. From any independent point of view - CAA is simply "discrimination on the basis of religion". Also it can lead to creating a country where the government can render people "stateless" on their whim.

Anyways, speaking of topics, what about "demonetisation" which was largely a failure, "freedom of press" etc.

Finally, I want to live in a society where we can agree to disagree. Like with you, you have a valid opinion and I respect that, I hope you can too.
It can be beneficial if done right - but most places just don't do it right at all.

I've even seen officially certified scrum masters using it in ways that go completely against the ideas that are behind it.

The main idea of Scrum is, to empower the entire team to decide on their own processes through finding consensus, and to get rid of annoyances that slow things down.

If Scrum itself becomes that annoyance that slows you down - then according to Scrum you absolutely need to get rid of it.

All the different parts of scrum should be considered an all-you-can-eat buffet. You are not supposed to eat all of it - you are supposed to just pick out the things you like the most.

The only core principle is to regularly meet up and discuss how to improve things. That cycle between two such discussions is typically called "sprint" - and that meetup where you discuss improvements is typically called "retrospective". Nothing else about scrum is a requirement. It's just a list of things that worked for some other teams - doesn't mean it will work for you.
http://archive.is/QhK9f
Those are random quora posts. How is anything evident from that? Even all of the data from the 2nd Quora post is false. It is neither verified nor those posts link to any source.
So you're fine allowing inflammatory, garbage reports on HackerNews but anything critical of the said garbage is not allowed?
What do medical students have to do with anything? Stay on topic
I have played (and won even!) Diplomacy and I agree about what makes the game fun.

But it is interesting that they argue these AI are able to infer people's alliances and reliability based on their actual in-game behavior by modeling how they would act in that scenario and training against that.

That's pretty neat, there must be a lot more information encoded in who you choose to support than I'd have thought.

It makes me wonder whether the AI would do better or worse than the human attempting to manipulate it. I have this feeling that we will be shocked to discover that the human's inevitable betrayal was inferred based on behavioral changes that fit the betrayal scenario the best.

It's not especially hard to imagine even with communication in a fairly reliable way (no misunderstandings from NLP) that an AI might easily learn to guess when a human was acting in a way that didn't... quite... match the behavior of an actual ally.

But it would sure help =)
How can you ban memcpy effectively if it’s just a simple for loop everybody can implement in less than 20 seconds?
It should be noted that that site is run by a group of pseudonymous people who do not hide the fact that they have been shorting Tesla for years. They count every death involving a Tesla. If someone jumps in front of a manually piloted Tesla and is run over before the driver can react, it is added to the spreadsheet. They’re holding the company to an impossible standard. Moreover, they don't actually care about reducing deaths involving Tesla vehicles. They want Tesla to fail so that they can profit. It’s a purely selfish act.

The most prominent member of the TSLAQ people and (IIRC) the first to publicize a spreadsheet of Tesla deaths is Elon Bachman (a pseudonym). He has also been a charlatan on COVID. A year ago he said, “After 4 months of white hot Coronavirus panic, the disaster is visible everywhere except in the data. Total deaths, rounded to the nearest percent, remain 0% of annual flu deaths, and serious cases are falling”[1]

I tried to bet him up to $1,000 that US COVID deaths would exceed 25,000 by the end of 2020.[2] He ignored me and continued to deny the harm caused by the disease.

One simply cannot trust anything he’s involved in.

1. https://twitter.com/ElonBachman/status/1237030292340314112

2. https://twitter.com/ggreer/status/1237164317142736896
Slightly o/t but I think it's interesting that in the imagery for this supposedly futuristic car we see a user interface filled with 3d gradients etc which are design elements you might have expected several years ago in the era of the serif Google logo and iOS 6.

You'd think that in a car, with its limited display size/resolution and glanceability required the UI/UX designers would spring for a more flat, colorful option so you can simply touch the orange square for music or something along those lines.

Not that touch controls in a car are a great UX in the first place, but you'd think they would have moved past the "everything is the same colored 3d rect with a glyph in the middle" phase of UI development.
Because with support for M1 you can prototype your network on your local machine with „good“ performance. There are many cloud solutions etc. but for convenience nothing beats your local machine. You can use an IDE you like etc.
> but we do keep phrases with that ordering from Middle English (e.g. Surgeon General)

That's not from Middle English, it's from French.
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Gaming headsets are generally all low delay. HyperX stuff is all 50ms or less. The biggest thing is just don't use bluetooth which has terrible notorious delay.

Proprietary USB dongles for low delay headelsets is standard for foreseeable future.

Don't switch to wired, there's no point. Chances are, your HyperX headset has same latency as a wired connection.
For Jam (open source Clubhouse) we do a weekly “Jam Jam” which basically is an audio space that people can join (no video, no calendar slot negotiation, connecting with others who use the project).

We link to it in our readme

https://gitlab.com/jam-systems/jam

(can be improved)

I wonder if there is a better name for the concept that works for international audiences and people who don’t know the concept from academia.

For larger projects I can also imagine other formats like “show and tell” or “Q & A” where people submit questions (maybe even with donations or paid to create an income stream for the people working on the project)
>So is it also censorship that certain posts are flagged and moderated on HN?

Yes, it is a form of censorship. It is completely legal. people can still have an opinion if HN should engage in censorship, and if the criteria are appropriate.

>Should we force them to print more of these books?

Of course not!
"The Indian middle class has never been more prosperous under any other government." -> Do you have any proof for this? I have been for greater part of the 1st Modi regime. It was mostly a shitshow with Demonetisation.
Presumably anyone sneaking in a memcpy in the backdoor would also be thwarted on code review.
You can literally buy these books on Amazon right now.

https://www.amazon.com/If-Ran-Zoo-Classic-Seuss/dp/039480081...

This questionable book that Dr. Seuss Enterprises no longer wishes to publish can be at your front door tomorrow. Enjoy.
It is censorship. We give it a different name as we recognize its value from keeping low value posts at bay. Posts, however, are not books. Different rules apply.

They can stop printing. But it is hard for me to defend Amazon, Ebay, et al with 'they can do what they want on their platform'.
Y'know that would be a great point if the opposite wasn't steadily happening since 2007 at the very latest.
The article gives absolutely no context as to why exactly these books were deemed offensive.

> “books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”

And this is it.
I referred specifically to the title in my comment.

It is part of things personally irritating to me, and something what is biggest threat to small open source projects that I like.

People are mistaken in thinking that having an open source project implies any obligation beyond lack of malice.

And people tired by dealing with that are one of top reason why open source projects disappear or are never created.
Payments in Browser Extensions
What exactly is unexplainable about brain's reading comprehensible?
> Airplanes are highly standardized.

Not really. Every one coming off the line is different. They are constantly being improved. Every part on the airplane is carefully tracked, from manufacturing lot to which airplane each is installed on. Everything is designed by engineers, not custom made on the spot by a mechanic.
The article misses to highlight some of the important elements of the current state of the image synthesis.

It's quite important to emphasise the dichotomy between the 2 current approaches in the image synthesis today. 1. Implicit distribution learning - VAE or autoregressive based techniques 2. Explicit learning of the distribution - GAN based models. The way these two model the distribution is fundamentally different.

Fundamentally, GAN presents huge drawbacks when it comes to the actual inference during the synthesis. There have been dozens of models with workarounds but most of these present new challenges on their own especially instability and mode collapse being one of the primary.

VQVAE2 as the most advanced VAE based technique has eliminated major drawbacks of VAE and GAN and has produced phenomenal quality [1]

However the main challenge in the area is not synthesising just any kind of image. VQVAE2 is doing that already very well. Where none of the current techniques win today, is the multi-object image synthesis. That requires a new paradigm in the architecture and distribution learning.

[1](https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00446)
Thank you for the Gooten tip! Looks like the API means I can build it straight into my Vue code (no Shopify needed). I will investigate further.
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How about making a website selling banned, unpopular or borderline racist literature? And then payment providers cancel services to it. Can I then take orders using cash via letters? Seems like it can work. Hopefully the post office, Fedex and UPS and other mail carriers don't notice and cancel it for some obscure money-laundering law/regulation about mailing money! Must I maybe resort to selling that literature on the street corner, back alley maybe?
He can always blog his ... views
I'm want to make a slippery slope argument, that a year or two from now Dr. Seuss books will be banned all together. "He wrote some racist books before, don't you know?" It's really easy to imagine this, given other machinations in the broader cultural complex in the US.

I don't think this will actually happen. I'm optimistic that enough people here, who obviously work at the companies that would be in charge of the said delisting, would stand up and say that this kind of action is lame. It's anti-history, it's a total waste of resources.

It's also just really boring. We have a lot of other problems to work on. Can we focus on those please?
"The Indian middle class has never been more prosperous under any other government." - Based on what metrics?
>There is a tremendous difference between level 2 and 3, involving a question of who will be responsible at an accident: the system or the driver

Yes, exactly, so who"s responsible? The article didn't say. Liability is the most critical element separating L2 and practical L3.
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Complex systems should be assumed to run in a partially broken state. Accidents are more things getting broken quicker than failsafes and operators can react to.

That’s not to say I like nuclear power - IMHO opportunity cost is too high. I could build, operate and decommission a renewable solar or wind plant in the time it takes to plan a new nuclear plant.
I think HN readers are interested in understanding how the world works. The article is a bit of a tabloid but it does have some insight.
This is another way of saying that India does not have a negative GDP growth rate (covid19 excepted).

Independent India has actually never had a negative growth rate ever, until 2020.

This also ignores 3 fundamental facts

1. The middle class of India is a minority. The majority of India is lower class.

2. The growth rate has been declining ever since Modi has assumed power.

3. The current discussion is about fascism, suspension of habeas corpud, human rights violations and the usurpation of power from independent branches like the judiciary, election commission, enforcement directorate etc. -
not the middle class income profile.

Germany was also prosperous under Hitler.
Assembly Language Misconceptions
Among other characteristics, I'm finding DDG works when searched via a Tor proxy, and even offers an Onion URL (https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/).

Google 1) fails to work without JS for me much of the time and 2) throws up endless ReCAPTCHAs, so I generally don't bother (not just for GWS, but Scholar, Ngram viewer, and other actually-useful tools). My preferred response (https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/104371588129861216) produces very faded joy over Tor.
> people using Waterfall for software development.

Is anyone really doing Waterfall now? Maybe earlier some industries used a Waterfall like process. But actual descriptions of Waterfall seem to go back 50 years to Royce's paper, Managing the Development of Large Software Systems. That model was explicitly described as bad. I don't fully agree with that paper, but his suggested improvements are more iterative. Personally it seems like now Waterfall is mostly used as a strawman.

> but not usually for software where you learn more from users about what should be done and tweaked as you go along

I agree with that. I wonder if Agile is highly influenced by it's leaders being closely involved with consulting.
This isn't how statistics work. Teslas are only about .1% of all cars in the US, and only a fraction of those have autopilot on. If autopilot is as safe as a human driver, we'd expect to see about 10000 cases of human stupidity for every case of autopilot stupidity.
problem is not with BJP, its with opposition party who are using violence to put their point... India have too many many many many people who dont pay taxes at all and bjp is hurting them.
I still don't understand why HN is turning into propaganda forum
Working fine for me presently over Tor.

There's also an onion site you can access directly: https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/
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I admit I often don’t pay attention during standup. But I definitely do save non-urgent questions for standup vs. interrupting team members (and myself) from whatever they are working on.
Which Middle English was heavily influenced by.

Middle English was closer to French than modern English in many ways-English monarchs still spent time in Normandy and claimed the French crown for generations after William the Conqueror.
> that only the taxpayer knows about or has documentation of?

Therein lies the rub, I suspect; other countries do know about what you're doing with the deductions and credits which means the tax office can handle all that for you - and, indeed, they are much more suited to be handling this - rather than pushing it onto each individual to try and scrabble together once a year.

I suppose we can add "incoherent fear of the government" to "corporate bogeyman" to the list of reasons the US has a messed up tax situation.

> (nor should they - we don’t want the government to be collecting data on everyone’s charity giving)

You do if there's specific tax breaks for doing that.
IT also gives an enormous power to the word itself, and those who want to use it to hurt people.
V8 documents these changes very well[1].

You can write very fast JS code. When carefully written it can have Java like performance[2]. It is just very hard in practice where most ecosystem is optimized for developer productivity.

When performance matter, write your own code and carefully benchmark everything. You can see this working for Typescript and VSCode[3]

[1] https://v8.dev/blog
[2] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
[3] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/43035#issuecomm...
I am assuming good faith question and I will respond that way.

In US, the entire market is divvied up between various oligopolies. You can name an industry and you can usually find 3-4 dominant companies that drive the market. Ebay and Amazon have ridiculous market power and reach ( reinforced by Covid ), which effectively means that if book is not available on their virtual shelves, that book does not exist for the general population. Ergo, removal from Ebay equals removing of an idea from the 'marketplace of ideas'.

I am oversimplifying, but not by a lot.
My Chinese wife thinks this is hilarious - so yes, it is very subjective.
So asking for specifics is a "strawman" argument? CAA is large and complex legislation. Pointing out flaws is a constructive process. I can agree to disagree with people but I would like to better understand your point of view. That was my inquiry. If you're unable to provide specifics, thats fine.
We have everything from published papers to anecdotal accounts/lived experiences about people who chose not to have children. Completely denying that such people exist seems borderline delusional. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0192513X2094990...

It really does not sound like you are even trying to make any kind of legitimate argument and are just trolling at this point, I'm convinced this is a case of willful ignorance. So I'll leave this comment thread here; have a nice day.