skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's the only kind of approach that
> generalizes across different cultures.

I agree that the "rational" approache’s mobility is very interesting and powerful.

The general point from science and technology studies would be that, to move research results around and get this agreement, there needs to be a vast infrastructure that standardizes what rationality depends on – and even then, scientific replication, e.g., can be quite difficult (Collins story of the attempt to replicate building an early TEA-Laser is an interesting example).

The point specific to the paper is that determining what you assume to be bias and what you assume to be unbiased is already a political and ethical decision that can not be 'rationally' decided from within the research.
I use Emacs at work, so I should give that a try (maybe even at work!). I've been using Mudlet at home, it has a buffer, but I just feel like I'm constantly scrolling to look for what I just 'looked' at. I started CoffeeMUD again last night and got through the training level, so I'm making progress based on other tips from this thread.
In all honesty, this issue was well known before the “Big Tech” existed. Anyone who worked with Indian call centres and outsourced devs/qa knew about it
How did someone else cash the cheque, this blows my mind.
The only purpose of wealth these days is to create more wealth. These accumulated assets are not serving any productive purpose, directly or indirectly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization#Roots

>In the United States, probably more money has been made through the appreciation of real estate than in any other way. What are the long-term consequences if an increasing percentage of savings and wealth, as it now seems, is used to inflate the prices of already existing assets - real estate and stocks - instead of to create new production and innovation?
>This comment is a great example of something produced by an online bubble. I'm sure if you talked like this in real life most people on your street would have no idea what you're talking about, because you're referencing niche ideas from niche internet subcommunities.

Im in an online bubble because im talking about a niche idea?

What if I start talking about Django ModelAdmin templates? That would be quite niche. I bet there's only 5 other people in my city who could have that conversation with me.

Point Im making is that yes it's quite niche and quite the bubble. I never denied the bubbles exist. I explicitly said everyone lives in a bubble and there's nothing wrong with it.

The important reality is the rest of the subject. We aren't in culture wars anymore. We are in crisis akin to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution 77 years later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution 78 years later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War 78 years later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

2021 - 1945 = 76

>It's a problem because it alienates you from your irl community

what IRL community? nobody is allowed to see anyone else. It's also not like this is only subject I know about. Im not getting alienated.
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It is already in US and is being defended by Hindu organizations with reason like - ‘Caste discrimination is a Hindu right that should go unchallenged’

https://twitter.com/YashicaDutt/status/1369314943061856261
Yes. "ships for" would obviously be more correct than "ships on".
Fine, given it's outside, on the street, a couple of meters from the front of my house, as I live somewhere where garages are a luxury.
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If someone sells an nft claiming ownership of someone else's intellectual property, damages can certainly be collected through the courts.

The biggest issue I see is that many wallets don't allow users to sign messages, which is required to prove ownership of an nft.
I've been using Mudlet, it seems to have a lot of features but I'm still trying to figure them out. Maybe I'll try something more polished.
Opinions are biased and specific people and programs are biased on Fox News and many other channels, but to be a journalist you literally have to correct false statements you make. This makes Fox News as reliable as all other stations. People often post memes about Fox News or CNN saying something wildly stupid but don’t realize they are posting a literal opinion from an opinion show not news from a news show.
So you are saying:

* A company is holding PII in a system they don't have the resources to manage .

* The software is insufficiently secure to hold that data.

* The company appears to be even be holding data on people that didn't even do business with the company.

* This is in-part caused by the (sub)hiring of companies that also were not scrupulous with PII in the past.

You say that this hurts said company, and they are going to stop doing that.

I'd say this is the exact intended effect of the law. Not so stupid after all!

Meanwhile, for people who scrupulously and ethically avoided collecting extraneous PII in the first place; I think the GDPR provides no great additional burden.
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364,000 people would be alive today if US had SF's Covid numbers, expert says
I've been using Mudlet, it still seems like I spend a lot of time scrolling to read what I just looked at. I got through training on CoffeeMUD last night, so that's progress. I'll try MUSHclient as a sibling comment also mentioned it, thanks!
Clicking through on the link under that section explains that they're compliant with GDPR, Privacy Shield, CCPA, and HIPAA on the privacy side. In addition, they've completed SOC 2 Type 2 and SOC 3 compliance, have a link to security assessments/penetration tests/cryptographic analysis done in 2020 and 2018 by third party pentesting firms. For each of their claims, they've got links explaining details, and if none of that is enough, it's completely open source, so you can go code spelunking yourself to verify their claims.
My bet is Ryzen will be slightly competitive this time around (at maybe double the power usage), but Apple will increase performance by 10-20% per year and eventually AMD will start lagging behind.
Yup. Try saying, with genuine honest neutrality, “all lives matter”, “it’s ok to be white”, or “capitalism doesn’t care about race/gender” and see what happens.
In late 2020 I left the US (San Francisco) and relocated to Italy. Given the Covid-19 situation, it's a bit hard to determine whether this will be my final destination; however, I'm quite happy with the move so far.

Compared to the same post from 2018, the main difference is of course the Covid-19 situation.

It would be interesting to hear from other HNers what their experience has been, in light of that.
I don’t think it should be very high priority for them.

They’re a startup, they need to focus on the fastest and most effective way to create value for their users, today. No point optimising the product if the company dies before it starts slowing down.
Hmm, I am not sure if that is even legal here in Europe, there are lots of rights in commercial contracts that I can't sign away. How I use a subscription may well be among them.

Not that it greatly matters. I don't share my Netflix account with anybody.
I also found out how to mute some chat channels, especially NPC ones, which helped.
LLs are often used to manage fixed sized object pools. So yes, statically sized arrays, but with pointers between the elements acting as linked lists.
I had the same reaction. Has he not noticed goalies playing at the top of the crease (still)? Goalies play from the standing position for as long as the can to leverage their quickness, only dropping to the butterfly when the shot is on its way or a defensive breakdown demands it. I was really surprised to see who wrote it.
chrisseaton is talking about the bump-pointer allocator in a modern GC, not an implementation of malloc/free. The performance characteristics are quite different.

In a generational copying system an object that is bump allocated and then is dead before being copied out of the young generation is indeed cheap - dead objects in the young generation don't need to be freed or even looked at in any way because the space for the young generation can simply be reused after everything is copied out of it. The slow part is elsewhere.
I think both can be true.

Take melanin content, any other arbitrary physical attribute, or tribal identity: we know that leads to real -ists and -isms.

Independently, give kids more than others, like the rigged Monopoly game and watch as they take more shared food.

Combine these two patterns together, and it's easy to develop truly repugnant, entitled, greedy, mean people with permanent insouciance and shit-eating grins.
... and Tesla started out selling small-batch sports cars to rich people. Long-term strategy often involves stepping stones.
This is a highly inaccurate comment. Caste lines are more alive than ever especially with the advent of social media.
Your fear assures your fate.

Accept that is the case and let yourself code anyways. Then you may end up being surprised by what you can accomplish.
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Many flipped to the "winning" side.

My MP still has posts on her blog about how ardently pro EU she was and how she believed staying in the EU was the best idea. Not long after the referendum and May coming in, she was fully behind Brexit and ready to do whatever it takes. A lot of Tory MPs will just go with the prevailing wind on everything and this is also how they stay in power because being progressive is not a vote winner in a broadly (small c) conservative country.
Not sure why people treat GDPR as dogmatic ultimate privacy law. This is a bit laughable. The giants violate it as they please and people are now taught to click boxes without reading its contents and agreeing to who knows what. I think the result is quite the opposite of what was intended as it also added few more vectors of attack that didn't exist before.
Only advantage I can see is that some services now offer data download.
I hope UK will come up with something much better.
mnm author here, AMA. Related links:

home page: https://mnmnotmail.org/

on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail

client demo: https://mnmnotmail.org/demo.html

TMTP protocol: https://github.com/networkimprov/mnm/blob/master/Protocol.md
I wrote this a while ago and full disclosure I am the maintainer of this repo and I run the service, but I wanted a way to do full end to end encryption that was easy for me to use

https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg

The downsides are it's command line only, the upsides are you can audit the source and the encryption happens before it leaves your machine.
Just wanted to share it with you in case you were interested. I'm a Signal user as well and I like what they are doing too. I have some friends who only exchange messages with me on Signal.
Actually, there's plenty of people with white teeth.

Meanwhile, the intent is to avoid the people with purple teeth until they learn to brush responsibly. ;-)

(Or if you truly must interact with them: use a lot of ad blockers and privacy tools; because you know what you're getting into)
I see that futuure is a tag. What I would do is predict that futuure will still be around in 5 years, and seal it for that long. I might look really smart with no potential downside!
This is not true. For example sensitive data for German company must be stored in Germany, not Ireland.
Nepali dalits in Australia couldn't find a priest in her own hometown to do last rites of their parent -

"We thought the Brahmin priests could perform the ritual, without coming into our house but they refused," he says. "All they offered was a very short naming ceremony."

"Eventually we found a priest from Adelaide who directed me over the phone to perform the ritual. I felt it wasn't my father-in-law who died, it was me who was dying."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-11/caste-system-of-india...
I would expect the communication to be directly targeted to customers not the general public.
What are NFTs and why are they worth millions?
Based and based pilled.
Wasn't a unified place for communications, with connections and feeds from all the services you and your company used, the original goal of Slack?
The only closed (and staying closed) part of the PinePhone is the FCC regulated part of the modem.

If someone wanted to make a modem with no binary blobs we could have fully Open hardware in toto.

There's the opportunity to make Linux programs scalable to small screens right now; that's a big part of the dev time currently.
There's also the "ghost hotels."

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/airbnb-scam-london
It's the diplomatic synonym for "racist"/"classist"/"sexist"/etc. but it allows you to try to make the claim without having to do the work to specify the claim.

In this case, I think the commenter meant "xenophobic", based on the parallels to Trump's rhetoric.
Okay but the question is, about the flaw in the argument that Bitcoin will increasingly cause blackouts in third world countries and poor towns?
So you don't want to live with us, and you don't want to let us live separately.
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I've never understood why they don't just hire extremely obese goalie (or some former sumo warrior), if you dress him in all protective gear therw won't be space for puck to pass, is there any NHL regulation about it?
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Exactly. Racists will generally justify themselves as "not racist" by giving claiming something to the tune of "I'm not prejudiced, I just agree with the numbers!", while appealing to some out-of-context statistic to try and act like those disagreeing with them are "denying science" by acknowledging that there's more nuance to the issue.
It's a similar problem to the whole anti-fa thing. Both have groups organizing around a common idea. Opposition to fascism for anti-fascists and trying to bring about a second civil war for the Boogaloo Bois. Neither are a strict group that exists with a coherent ideology you can point to. Instead they are a name given to lots of groups.

With trying to incite a second civil war comes a lot of baggage associated with white supremacy and their dreams of the same thing along racial lines. So whilst not all groups are out and out racist a lot of them are just due to the people attracted to the idea. In particular when looking at people who are trying to incite a civil war upping the ante by shooting guns and setting buildings on fire we should be suspicious that the slogans they yell might not be in the interests of the cause but in inciting the government to respond and escalate things.
Tesla started selling electric cars, and its still selling electric cars.
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Everyone seems to be attacking the arguments from the same angle and I feel it is wrong:

There are a few arguments going on:

- Is the left and the right really the same 2 extremes?

- Should we enable radicals on the platforms because free speech?

- Should we treat everyone with respect?

The problem is that what we really have is a few crowds:

(1) "They took our guns" people. Single issue, at the expense of all others. This unfortunately includes "the climate crisis is a hoax" and "COVID is a hoax" and "Vaccines are evil" crowd.

(2) Ensure human rights to all people of the country crowd. This is more of a social argument that conflicts highly with people who scapegoat. This is effectively the anti-scapegoat crowd, usually considered the "left".

(3) Social equality crowd (usually is a subset of (2)). This is all about people who are looking at patterns in society that elevate one group at the expense of another. This isn't rich vs poor, but rather for example looking at how school funding is set up to make sure certain community have terrible school and thus a perpetuating cycle of crime and poverty.

The problem is that the (1) crowd is being used to elect politicians who basically give no shit about society, and only focus on making the rich richer at the expense of everything else. I mean fucking pandemic and corporate bailouts, while most businesses collapse. These politicians vote directly against the (1) crowd, and everyone else, but push division.

We're no longer actually debating economic policies. We're debating racism and voting based on that. I am not happy with the democratic party in the US. They are pretty terrible. But the other side is literal Nazis.

The problem with "embracing" and fixing the (1) crowd is that a large number of people opposing (1) are directly harmed by (1). Very hard to forgive when the causes of the deaths of your family are asking for hugs caz "sorry I realized I am wrong". Many are not willing to do that. How do you ask someone to give up their trauma and find it in their hearts to forgive the other side? It can happen, but it is not "simple".
They're listing that study you link among those showing a positive effect. (Because the effect they found, though small and statistically insignificant, was positive.)
If you think OSX is user hostile because of intentional vendor-specific keyboard keys, note that Windows computers have a “Windows” key. Is that an international standard?

I think most commercial keyboards (just about all laptops) are terrible and If there really are international keyboard standards, they’re not great design. I personally think all keyboard layouts are ultimately wrong because the underused caps lock is in prime real estate and should be replaced by the CTRL key (check out the ADM-3). As for Macs requiring a certified keyboard, that’s just plain wrong.

The ultimate gripes come down to key placement and window manager shortcuts, both of which can be modified on either OS.
The obstack api in glibc is exactly this https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Obstacks....
I have never observed a non-techie do anything other than blindly click the call to action (i.e. agree to everything). The entire scheme seems sneakily designed to actually encourage users to give more and explicit consent, avoiding the situation where consent was a grey area. It seems to have been spun to a great extent.
Eh, even we think it's a reach to connect antikythera to George H W Bush like that.
Go is all nice and fine for some local tool, but when you have to spawn an entire enterprise application with all the bells and whistles, you'll find yourself pushing boulders uphill.

It seems to me that everyone is coming up with new languages which become sects with devoted followers who prophesise them at the IT airports.
Apologies in advance for the nitpick, but if you're just dropping your product and doing something else that's not really a pivot. Pivoting is more like changing your plan than throwing it out - targeting a different audience, changing your product plan based on feedback, that sort of thing.
It's how I call the computer I use in situations when I can't use my primary computer. E.g. on the bus, in the bed, while going for a trip. My primary computer is a powerful desktop machine, and I pick the supporting computer to be light and mobile, but preferably powerful enough to handle sophisticated tasks on its own.

(This is through analogy to a soldier, who carries a primary weapon - perhaps one that's heavy and unwieldy, like an anti-materiel sniper rifle, or one that they can't move by themselves, like in artillery teams - but is also issued with a pistol as sidearm. While having limited range and lethal power, a sidearm can also be grabbed, aimed and discharged quickly, and can be carried and used in situations where the primary weapon cannot.)

My current sidearm is a Dell 5290 2-in-1, with a stylus. Basically a cheaper version of Microsoft Surface. I use a vector drawing app called Concepts[0], which offers an infinite canvas, and is streamlined for use on tablets with pens. This is as close to a good whiteboard experience as you can get on a computer - you draw as if on paper, and then freely pan/rotate/zoom the canvas (or your drawings).

I don't really manage my canvas, I just keep the app open, make drawings and notes and diagrams, and occasionally sort them into "galleries" when the main screen gets too crowded.

--

[0] - https://concepts.app/en/, has versions for Windows UWP, Android and iOS.
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Hacker news both advocates for nuclear while targeting bitcoin because of energy consumption, that's quite a dichotomy right there.
> It shouldn’t take cycling through ten different apps and Chrome tabs to stay on top of everything.

Whilst I agree, that's an organizational problem as much as a technology one. Why is the business built upon so many apps?
Oh and they were Brahmin with servants.
As others have said, investments in startups are based a lot more on the potential of the team behind them than their existing products.
Also note that in the US, there are a couple major brands of Kosher salt; Morton is noticeably coarser than Diamond Crystal.
> with types you need way less unit tests

It's a misconception that developers who use dynamically typed programming languages write tests that perform tasks of a static type system. They do not write tests like this:

assertException(() => upcase(12));
assertException(() => upcase(true));
assertException(() => upcase(null));
assertException(() => upcase(new Object()));
...

They write tests like

assertEquals("TEST", upcase("test"));
assertEquals("HELLO, WORLD", upcase("hElLo, wOrLd"));
assertEquals("BLA123", upcase("bla123"));
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You realise that salad in the UK is already chlorinated, right? I don't see that being an issue. It's just protectionism.
Not surprised my folks are from the same region and they behave exactly like that. I have heard enough relatives mention SC/ST as a term of derision and simultaneously discussing with other people talk as if the system is dead.
Wouldn't it be more honest to actually put that in your message and make it a "Show HN"? "I have a book on DoD and am looking for critical feedback from FP experts".

p.s. given that I strongly disagree with your definitions of DO and FP.

DOD/P: Data oriented design and programming is structuring code in light of form, size, access patterns of data. Efficient access and ops on domain specific data is the name of the game. Strictly speaking, this is an optimization approach and not a genuine general programming paradigm. In sum: organize your data layout to maximize efficient processing suited to your application. (DB analog: 1st normal form is DoD. 5th normal form is anti-DOD.)

FP: true to its mathematical origins, FP is mainly about transformation of data via a methematical treatment. Arguably, algorithms are far more central to FP than data. A significant manifestation of this fact is the existence of "lazy" and "strict" evaluation in FP runtimes which flies in the face of the primary concerns of Data Oriented Programming (which came from gaming). FP in no way addresses memory layout as a primary concern. FP is a conceptual general purpose paradigm.
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Yes, but how much depends.

If you are part of a tiny sect it matters not at all, the others in your new group are happy to have anyone. If you are part of a very large sect then there is a need to divide into smaller groups because a person can only have so many friends and caste is an the fallback to divide on.

Most people have family of other religion, and so they often do something about family. Sometimes that means other-cast friends in the religion are kept apart from family, sometimes it means they are thrown in the face of family as a way to show how different they are.

I know more about Christian practice than Muslims. I suspect the same logic applies but I'm not sure.