skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sure the Youtube app won't be banned even if illegal stuff might be posted there.
You have a point there... but even so - Google has been censoring non-mainstream political views, and artificially promoting mainstream news media (the big networks anyway). Isn't that enough to curry favor?
That’s crazy that there is no verification system in place allowing the user to approve the forwarding.

Years ago I asked my carrier to not port or forward without me being physically present at a store. Maybe I should test them out to see if that’s still the case.

Regardless, I don’t use SMS MFA for anything important and even when I do, I have a 32 character password to go along with it.
And I have an Android and I guess we probably spend all our time in the same apps
The ACA is window dressing? Dodd-Frank and the CPA? DADT Repeal? The Paris Agreement?
Agreed, such a brilliant game
The problem isn't with the not tolerating, it's with the pushing for others not to tolerate. Freedom requires choice.

Our problem is that we've built almost our entire ecosystem on systems where a single actor's intolerance can deny millions of people access to a product. This seemed like a good idea at the time. Apparently what it comes down to is the entire economy needs to be duplicated? Banks, payment providers, app stores, content delivery networks, web hosting, all the way to operating systems. I didn't realize that it would take that much to get the right to access any app or social network I want to? But apparently that's where the so-called paradox of tolerance has led us.

Seems we should have seen this coming. A certain xkcd about infrastructures comes to mind. Oh well. Since true decentralization is possible, it's just a matter of time in the end.
Same with collecting birth dates. It’s just a convenient way to target ads.

I’ve been trying to get Google to stop giving out my birthday for years when I had to enter it for wallet or something. I get birthdays on my calendar from people I emailed once and never knew, or wanted to know their birthday.

Similarly, my contacts have gotten peoples phone numbers changed based on changes made in various subsystems that overwrote the number that I manually entered.
Or on mobile, tap the image. TBH I was also wondering for a good while where the other images are.
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You did not read what I wrote.
Point 1: Over a hundred million human beings have died because of communism.
Point 2: More die every day in China.

There was a "period" between.

Why the hostility? Stalin Mao killed many many millions. This is not in dispute.

The W Stalin page is better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Death_toll_and_a...

Referring to point 2: I am of course referring to the Uighurs.
Ref: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037

Their treatment is very sad.

But really...why so hostile?
It's a strange thing, I've been having to do training sessions explaining that instead of saying "blind people" you have to say "people who are blind" because the former apparently projects more about their identity when it's important to underline that this attribute does not define them

Basically there's a movement to shift from inheritance to entity component, wanting to implement people with has-a descriptions instead of is-a descriptions. This enables data oriented optimizations so that society executes more efficiently & can be more easily extended as new requirements are submitted by the mob

https://www.acedisability.org.au/information-for-providers/l...
Bitcoin is only useful if you can turn it into fiat relatively easily.

Government can very easily control almost all of those channels.
>It's the "proof of ownership" for this item.

Does the "proof of ownership" actually map onto anything in the real world? It sounds like people are paying out the nose for a notion of "this is mine" instead of "this is mine, and the courts will back me up." Who's actually respecting these ownership claims to justify the cost?

How is this any different from those "name a star after your sweetie" scams?
BGP hijacking, you can send a fake LOA to almost any ISP and have them announce whatever IPs you’d like.
Depends how you define useless. They're pretty good at demonstrating what happens when the immature, privileged assholes of this world run amok with shitty ideas, devoid of any true foresight or reflection.
Yes, definitely.

Most government bidding processes would be improved by simplifying them drastically. Eg highest bidder wins. Instead of the beauty contests with lots of different factors that need evaluation by politicians.
I learned at 27 and it was difficult, even without children. Working all day and then spending 5 hours after work debugging and writing code is very taxing. I have sympathy for this viewpoint but it doesn't seem any different to learning any skill after a certain age. Unfortunately you either can or you can't find a way around the time constraints. I know there's lots of hobbies I've abandoned for the same reason.
There are some real gems here:

“Gary V sees that you've created a new place to yell, and immediately starts a room telling 24 year olds if they really want to make money, just move back in with their parents & sell their parents furniture on craigslist.”
Mostly agree, but that logic breaks down when investments are not just liquid entries on a spreadsheet.

One example: I recommended real estate rentals through the 2008-2015 range to several friends despite having none myself. Why? Because it was possible for them to generate significant leverage otherwise unavailable to them and they were in a much better position than me to work the second job of being a landlord.
Another "radical" take that basically boils down to saying "stop trying to do good, white people, what we really need is to replace you with more positive discrimination".

With the usual scarecrows, like algorithms being racist, "white boys" being used as a slur, etc.

The conclusion? Stop being racist, and make black-only employment programs, you bigots!
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Often it will be documentation + stack overflow results. It can be handy to just leave that stuff open, because then you can find it easily. I do purge all tabs every now and again, but when there's no downside to leaving them open, they can build up for a month or so.
It should be clear by now that Google being the internet is not a net positive.
Not true. The idea that an IC is going to out contribute a top manager who oversees dozens of lower tier ICs doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

A good manager is a productivity multiplier which is why the top companies spend an arm and leg training up their managers.

The real issue is that is much easier to manage a group of top engineers than it is to manage a group of engineers who think that they are top engineers.
The hardest part I think is knowing that you should ignore all of the noise around different practices paradigms, and frameworks and focus on fundamentals. The best way is to look through and try to understand some very well written open source projects.

I feel like I stumbled on doing this but for many, I think they probably just bumble along building web apps and taking much longer than necessary to understand fundamentals. You have to expose yourself to high level professional code and absorb as much as you can from it otherwise you’re in danger of plateauing.
There are two possible causes.

The first is hidden trauma.

The second is something that comes strings attached. You have to accept the Buddhist conceptual framework which says that the entire world is a fabrication.

During meditation you can experience this and, if you don't accept that you are more than just matter, then experiencing the fact that your body is empty of existence will mean that you are empty of existence. Which will be very frightening, as you can imagine.
ah, yes, for a company that people want to work for that makes sense. i misread your post and thought you meant for the government to motivate the building of housing in cheaper areas.

unfortunately it's often either one or the other, but not both. most places i have seen are satellite cities where people live but commute into the actual city center, or they are industrial parks without any living quarters nearby.

it takes a lot more to make such areas attractive.
Is there any discussion about price?
Are there records of any US public schools that were underperforming, were given notably more funding, and saw a corresponding increase in test scores or other objective metrics?

EDIT: I guess I'm looking for the success stories. "Here's an inner-city school and the outcomes were bad. Then we increased funding and now their outcomes are comparable to good schools."
Well, they should focus on reducing barriers to entry.

> The article claims it isn't economic to transport salt >150 miles over land.

The higher the excess profits, the bigger that radius gets.
When can I downvote posts?
> All this because I fit a description. What was this description? I don’t know, black male between 4’11 and 7’4 probably.

I have been stopped, searched, and detained in handcuffs for over an hour because I "fit a description." (I was fired for being late.)

I have missed international flights because I was "randomly selected," again, to be subjected to additional screening and interrogation.

I was held at gunpoint in middle school while officers tore apart my backpack looking for a stolen pen.

I am a cis white male, the paragon of privilege, and I'd be standing right there with you if you would only stop excluding me based on the color of my skin.

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Only weird nerds actually sign their emails (beyond DKIM), people conducting meaningful transactions do not.
> It's a fact that the various vaccines were released without any information about their effectiveness on transmission. It's not impossible to prove, it's just not been done (nor, if the tests were done, do we know what the results would be).

So do you withdraw the claim that "what we got" are vaccines that do not provide sterilizing immunity?

> Why does that matter, if the vulnerable are already vaccinated? That was the whole point of vaccinating them in the first place.

Not everyone can be vaccinated and supplies have been limited.

And less people getting sick is good even if it's milder.
And electric heat pumps can be 350% efficient.

However, the USP of this product is that it's a drop-in replacement for existing gas boilers which are prevalent in some parts of the world. The article says the unit costs around £3,500 and installation of a replacement gas boiler costs around £500, so maybe ~£4,000 to switch from gas to electric. An equivalent air-source heat pump installation could easily cost £12,000, and often gas boilers are located in areas which are space-constrained.
Tusky is still installed on my phone, though, so I guess Google hasn't decided to yank it off existing devices yet.

Do they even have the capacity to do that? It would be quite irksome here, but I'd see it being useful in the case of apps that are found to contain malware.
Well to answer your question just look at crime statistics by race.
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People are just going to set your house on fire unless you have a 24-hour patrol. A bit of a fantasy to imagine you can just escape the total collapse of society.
Dikes are cheap 12th century technology.
Consumer electronics are pretty much all bad. Usually the software devices are shipped with is poorly designed at best (it needs to look nice to sell, ergonomics don't matter) and pathologically user hostile at worst (smartphones and PCs.)
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Actually once the politicians speeches are being deepfaked they will BEG the public to make sure there is a digital watermark on the video before trusting it.

And then of course the keys to the watermarking will be leaked :)
They're also probably free to get sued
I thought you were saying that PoW is environmentally fine, as long as the currency it's securing is sensibly priced (which Bitcoin is not).
Maybe it's because I'm a sports official in my spare time, but I want the rules to be the same for everybody. It doesn't matter if they are written or not.

I just want there to be a clear standard in most cases and rule enforcement to be reasonably consistent, in all aspects of life.
>In Europe the notion of someone being a African Frenchmen or a African English is absurd. You are your nationality.

Tell that to the Balkans.
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I'm not sure any data regarding Biden specifically is worth much in terms of future assessment because such a huge amount of it would be tied to Obama's enduring massive popularity amongst all democrat demographics along with being the nostalgic "return to normal" option. There really isn't anywhere to go with that beyond Biden (unless they convince Michelle Obama to run?). Iirc a substantial number of Biden voters had Sanders as their 2nd preference too?

The new options they presented flopped pretty badly. It's hard to look at Harris on the basis of her performance in the 2020 primary as being an especially strong frontrunner but it's even harder to think up of any alternatives who will be in strong enough of a position to displace her.
If you're looking to put those experiences into a conceptual framework, I recommend Andrew Holecek's book Dreams of Light. Just be prepared to entertain the possibility that the "woo" is an accurate view of reality.
Mikrotik is doing better at offering home router solutions. They now have a quick-setup page and an Android application that makes it much easier to configure.

Just got a new Mikrotik RBwAPG-5HacD2HnD that has a quad core ARM CPU, dual chain, dual band wifi. Highly recommended.
I would - somehow... - integrate the URL bar (and a few buttons) into the Tabs themselves (not the tab strip, but into the tab itself) and get rid of yet another toolbar.

i would also move bookmarks bar above the tabs...
I agree with the first part. They have just created a new adversary to train on. (Not saying that it's not an interesting result, but not a solution.)

Regarding media literacy, while it's important in general I don't think it will help much in the short run. (Because it takes a long time and becuase it needs the cooperation of those who are actually sometimes willingly deceive themselves.)

I expect digital signature and timestamped fingerprinting to appear in videos that want to prove that they are legit and from that point on you just don't believe anything that's not treated that way. This will eliminate all deep fakes other than the ones that claim to be a leak/recorded without the consent of the faked person.

Deep fakes will in the end make (real) hidden camera and leaked recordings lose a lot of their credibility and power, which is sad.
More competition how?

MS-DOS cornered the desktop market around 1981. It remained the dominant desktop OS, despite being an utter piece of crap OS and technologically obsolete even at the moment it was introduced, until around 1990, when it was overtaken by products from the same company, Windows 3.1 and later Windows 95.

Windows 95 then took over in... 1995 :-) Windows is still the dominant desktop platform in 2021, and it will probably be for at least 1 more decade.

Linux took over server environments around 2005, I think, and its still dominating in 2021. It will probably dominate for many decades more.

Smartphone OSes are in the same place. Smartphones have matured, they're primarily slabs of glass/metal/plastic. You either get Android or you switch both hardware AND software and get iOS.

Android is almost free for manufacturers and customers, so it's even worse than Windows. How is it ever going to be displaced? Keep in mind that not even beauties such as Windows Me, Windows Vista, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 made much of a negative dent in the Windows marketshare.
As a self taught programmer, I struggled with this for years. I could do the work; understood it; but sometimes I would get terms mixed up. For example: Is it called a method or a function?

Conversely, I've known college taught programmers who struggle with basic CSS so... it's all relative IMO.
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Hi there,

Great stuff. I am building something very similar, based on Observable notebooks:

https://www.jigdev.com
It does suggest that

Also add this to your data collection efforts:

1) A lot of black people don't identify as black on government forms. Whether it is for the census, some voter form I might not be aware of, a vaccine enrollment, or on a standardized test in the private sector. Out of previously substantiated fear of worse treatment or discrimination, but an inability to tell which contexts and future contexts. There won’t be data on this.

2) A lot (maybe most?) of black people don't live in states where their vote really matters for the Presidency or the Senate. Population centers, California, New York. While there is also a cultural pride in leveraging the earned ability to vote (and sustained ability at the individual level, as felons have their rights removed in many states). So there are additional deterrents in wasting it on non-consensus views of that state.

3) The way I saw the data collected about % of black people voting seemed to be based surveys, and not really cross referencing all voter data with the census. Feel free to correct my understanding and I would like to read more about that.
There's an interplay between the two insofar as a model built to handle a specific dataset will involve design decisions informed by the data. E.g. you might pick a certain level of L1 regularization because it maximizes performance on the data you have, which can lead to bias against data you don't have.

But if you take "model" to mean the pure mathematical description without parameters or hyperparameters that need to be determined by experimentation, then I agree that optimizing the model on a dataset will not lead to bias against specific groups of humans unless the data used contains such a bias.
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Yes, this is situational. As mentioned it was a recurring pattern so a dysfunction peculiar to that particular org.

What happens is that many non-coding architects (sorry folks, not all of you but plenty enough) are essentially junior developers with little experience who negotiated themselves into these positions. Which is not that a big deal if they feel themselves part of the team and are grounded in the situation and open minded about debate. But unrestrained they build Daedalus wings and in the end it's you who get to do the falling.

You as a manager with engineering background have better comprehension of your team, with its strengths and weaknesses. You navigate the project leveraging the former and avoiding the latter, and if third party (neither the customer requirements nor your team) starts meddling it's not going to end well.
A bold statement is expected to have an argument. A trustless, censorship-resistant ledger is fundamentally useless? Come on.
Keep wearing masks and social distance.
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I don't understand it either. Looking from across the pond at what they do, the Democrat party would be considered highly conservative in Europe.
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The first step in fostering a healthy competitive market is breaking down the monopoly, which is prob what the prev comment was suggesting.
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I learned about 8 years ago and I think the first, hardest part is grasping the fundamentals - firstly data structures and algorithms. Things like visualizing the storage of data types in variables and using them later. Things like when you create a variable you create an empty box and assigning something to that variable is like putting the variable in the box. A tool to be able to visualize what an array of tuples looks like as you write code to store values would be pretty neat for instance.

I think that first hurdle is the most important by far because once I crossed that it felt like I knew I was actually capable of being a software engineer. The next difficult jumps for me were grasping OO concepts like polymorphism and inheritance and learning functional programming. I also struggled with async style programming (first callbacks, then promises) as well as understanding contextual values such as Javascript’s this.
I'm inclined to agree - there's a lot of cargo-cult practices in software development and it's hard to know that it's often over-generalised until you deeply understand the core of programming, which is essentially just breaking down big problems into small forward steps.
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That was a clarification, not a refutation.
Providing an RSS feed would be nice.
And I was never able to make it actually work. Like the whole system became much more unstable if you did uninstall IE.

That being said, I didn't know much about computers back then, so I probably messed up somewhere.
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> I’m not pissed off because I expected tech companies to do more, no, I didn’t expect them to do anything. I’m pissed off because they pretended to be doing good and wanted me to congratulate them for it.
Free speech is the only civil right left to win? Fear not, then, when the state legislatures get around to the Equal Rights Amendment maybe they can spare a thought for ratifying the First Amendment. It has waited long enough.

The right does not exist in the institutional level? Has anyone told Mitch McConnell about this, or Justice Thomas?
Maybe people are confused about the animation as well - the images are animated but these minor things like doors moving around aren't the changes they're talking about.
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I tried to learn to self code for a few years, but kept hitting wall of what to learn next.

After realizing I really wanted a chance to change careers, I decided to just do a second bachelor’s, basically to have a curriculum.

So far, I’ve learned more math than programming. The actual coding we do is greatly benefited by the self learning I did before, but my understanding of what’s going on in code is much higher.
The other place I got stuck seems very natural for other people to move past with ease, but it was how to really solve problems with code. For me, I think the much deeper understanding from a school setting will set me up to better understand how to solve problems with code. (At least, I seem to be pretty good solving problems with accounting, my first degree, so I don’t think I lack inherent problem solving ability. This whole second bachelors is a bet that I am just missing deep enough understanding of the subject area to apply it to problem solving yet.)
It was 13% according to the 2011 Census.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London#Ethnic...

We are still waiting for the results of the current census. Where did you get the 44% figure from?