skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It shouldn't be, but it surely helps to not be eaten by piranhas immediately. Somebody without this kind of shield - especially somebody, say, having a misfortune of being a male and of European descent - might be. I personally have been told many times that I do not get to have opinion about cancel culture and ideology because of my identity. Having credentials that even PC zealots can't deny surely helps to make it harder to dismiss her.
I'm not confused. It's possible to do the right thing in the large and in the small at the same time.

Using cross-cultural fluency to defend Richard Stallman, who doesn't care one iota about cross-cultural fluency, and constantly embarrasses people inside and outside his own culture, is weird.
The stakes are completely different, which is the main problem.

When being interviewed, an entire career is resting on your 45 min - 3 hr performance. And at certain places, that could potentially mean the difference between $50k/year, and $250k/year.

On the other hand, you're not risking your job every time you discuss something with your co-workers.

There will always be absolute edge cases (like the person you described, which by all means sound like an extreme case) - and I think it's fine that some tests manage to exclude these, but the problem is that it's also potentially removing candidates far away from the edge.
Would you agree then that participating in the 'anti-anti' mobs is also a possible form of feigned 'empathy'?
Damnit...I guess there had to be a reason they are so much cheaper. Account deleted.
> Now it's great, but if you're going to copy features like this, please make sure to document them so that people trying to learn how to use your tool without the requisite historical perspective don't get frustrated.

Interesting. I started with AutoCAD version 1.1. This is pre-PC days. It ran on an S-100 8086 system with an 8087 math coprocessor card, a specialized graphics card, a VT-100 terminal (the real thing, not a terminal emulator running as software one a computer), 640K of RAM disk and the CP/M operating system.

The right-to-left and left-to-right selection idioms have been part of my design "DNA" for decades. I can see how this could be confusing, yet, to be frank, I don't think it is that hard to discover.

That said, yes, absolutely positively I do agree with you in that complex tools have been doing a substandard job of communicating state, commands, options, features and commands to users. On the electronics design front I use Altium Designer. Altium have done a horrible job with the latest version (21.x.x). It is hard to list the bugs the program has, the UI/UX mess they have created, the lack of discoverability and, in general, the tangled rats-nest the software has become. Much like AutoCAD, I have been using Altium for a long time. It is hard to want to support a company through annual license renewals when they clearly don't seem to care about users.

For me, by far, the best user experiences have come from Solidworks and Fusion 360. I have far more experience with SW. The program has improved with time and the UI experience is great.
Yeah, I'd steer far clear of anything labelled as a "computer" speaker. Studio monitors have long existed for that exact configuration. Plenty of inexpensive audio interfaces out there to connect the speakers to your computer.

My "computer" speakers are my Paradigm tower speakers attached to my A/V receiver.
I use Linode Object Storage (a S3-like service) with rclone to manage my backups. (my backups are only a few dozens of gb, I don't need something like duplicity at the moment)

So far I'm happy with it, pricing is $5/month per 250gb + 1To egress. And, most importantly, none of the AWS complexity overhead. I have enough of that at work.
I think its because the point is not understanding - the point is gaining power, in this case - power over who leads the OSS movement. If you want to use one's words against them, you do not look for understanding, you look for maximally uncharitable and hurtful meaning possible, and declare this is the only meaning that matters. That's why political activists do it - because it gives them power.
> If you don't understand those power imbalances, you are bound to do harm.

That's not a bad point. But then it turns out that it's not really connected to the statements about Minsky, is it?

> Somebody who doesn't understand that is not fit to be a leader.

This is stretching it way too far, since this assumes that understanding of power in hypothetical scenario that doesn't connect to yourself somehow translates to ones ability to assess their own power. This may be true for some, but doesn't have to be. I won't be convinced that someone is unfit to be a leader because they didn't recognize the issues of power in a hypothetical scenario they have never been in. Heck, I myself constantly learn and start to see them in cases I never considered before. Different perspective changes everything, and there are perspectives I simply never witnessed until someone told me about them!
I'm fairly certain that the "only" 6 digit death rate we've currently had has had a negative impact on the families and friends of the affected.

If you have been left untouched by it, then good for you, but you shouldn't be assuming that that applies to everyone.

The mortality rate in the US is 1.8%. That is 542k dead out of 29.8 million cases.

That's nearly 30 million cases with all the lockdowns, mask rules, etc.

Even with that minor amount of 9% infected, LA hospitals ran out of capacity, morgues overflowed, etc. Try to imagine if we didn't try to limit the spread - by among other things closing schools.

NZs recent outbreak started from a couple of kids in a school of only 13-1500 students, and with lockdowns that dwarf anything the US did they only just managed to control it, getting to something like 100 positive cases because they didn't want to lock down completely.
> Why is that a better question?

The average household income in the US is about $88,000. The average household size is about 2.5 people. So the average person in the US is maintained on about $35,000 per year. This doesn’t include the reduction due to taxes, but in principle on average the reduction in taxes is returned back in the form of the average government spending per person, so we can call that a wash.

The fact that it is more than 14 times more expensive to maintain a person in prison vs out of prison is immediately suspicious.
I live in Sikkim. Temi to be more accurate, it is a small village. It is just below a well-known tea estate. If you search for Temi Tea, Sikkim, you will get a good idea. The tea is one of the best export quality tea from India.
Individuals get canceled when their support dries up from those would previously have offered them funding and employment. How then does one go about avoiding cancel culture?

Simple. You just avoid cancel culture. Anyone who claims to support BLM or ActBlue or any liberal politician who has support cancel culture in the past should be avoided with extreme prejudice. These organizations actively fight free speech and routinely bully others into silence. If you want to avoid getting canceled, all you have to do is cancel them back. Stop listening and supporting anyone who would wantonly wield their influence to shut down others. Corporations exist to perform jobs. They should not have consciences or wield power - those roles are what we invented government for.
I was doing some genetic algorithm research at UO and I was approached by some kid who basically demanded that I do one of his electronics projects. I got some details, reported him to his academic advisor, and was then told that he was the son of one of the diplomats in town and that nothing could really be done.

So I agreed to help him do the project. He took that to mean that I would do it for him, he did no work and didn't show up on 2 of the 3 times that we had scheduled to work on it together.

And then he got mad at me when the project literally caught fire because of an absolutely obvious short that I put there on purpose to see if he'd catch it. I told him that if he couldn't be arsed to write the schematic he should at least have read it.

(This was between 10 and 15 years ago, and all this guy had to do was look at the breadboard for 2 minutes)
Facebook, like other GDPR compliant companies, deletes most data after 90 days by default. My guess is that this data was not intentionally stored, and any place where it was will be deleted manually within a few days as part of remediation for this issue. Even if that doesn't happen, it would automatically disappear after 90 days.
It's pretty incredible how easily hundreds of thousands of excess deaths, each of which is a full human life, becomes a statistic to some people let alone the millions. Don't we teach students in history classes about how easily people allow themselves to justify mass death when it is convenient?
Ms. Strossen's response is actually quite well argued and uses principles of mainstream American Liberalism that cannot be dropped without significant modification to the school of thought itself.

Anyway, no one is stupid enough to talk about lots of interesting problems in public anymore. The Internet isn't a safe place to do so. That's okay.

But I wonder if there is a safe way with a discovery medium built in. Maybe Reddit since the anonymity keeps you safe and you can discuss on each topic as a different identity.
Have you ever pondered if your 'shit posting' led to other people being harassed and led them to question their safety?
Sounds unrelated
Spark Capital severs all ties with Dobrik's app Dispo
Because lockdowns only work if you actually lockdown.

That and yes, FL clearly lied and has fired people for indicating correct numbers. This is not helped by many US states that try to record CV19 deaths as being due to "underlying conditions" instead of covid.

If you go to hospital due to covid, and then die, whatever other conditions you have aren't relevant, covid is what killed you.
I kinda feel like I'm giving the benefit of the doubt by disregarding that side of the argument. The linked article argues that everyone should avoid Stallman because he's smelly and rude and ate his toe jam one time - this is schoolyard bullying, not a serious argument.
> the second your ass enters the work world nobody will give a shit what percentile of your class you graduated in or what your SAT/GMAT/LSAT/MCAT scores were.

I guarantee you they do. I guarantee you I know people with PhDs in neuroscience who've been asked their SAT scores.

I guarantee you that Boeing or some other major defense contractor (it's hard to keep track with how many were on campus) has made it well known at my school that if you graduate with a 3.7, you automatically get a job.

I guarantee you that when a school like mine does grade deflation to the point where the average engineer gets a 2.7, the people who cheat make it such that the people who didn't cheat struggle to find a job. Then when they do find a job their success is delayed substantially.

I guarantee you that people who already study their ass off for tests also cheat so that they guarantee that A. They also guarantee what would have been an A ends up as a B. There are only so many spots at top universities, guess who those spots go to.

Guess what happens to a school's reputation when their "best and brightest" end up being idiots in the workplace. Guess how hard it is for the smart ones who didn't cheat to find a good job.

Cheating does a lot more damage than you give it credit for.

(I've also met a lot of brilliant people that didn't cheat but there are far more smart people who do than don't)
Diving deeper into Mayan lore – and a den of human sacrifice (2015)
Careful now, the world missed out on all of her genius open source in the 90s, and are obviously much worse off.
That's not actually true, it's possible to wait and see if FB publishes a statement. If they do, you'll know.
Who are the "many" that consider file name PII?
It can at the adapter board end, but not at the screen end as it has components mounted to it (!).
Sounds like you didn't understand the piece.
I was a friend of a friend of Jessica, and your impression of Zach is the same as I had of Jessica. I am shocked. I wasn't close enough to feel like it made sense to reach out.
They clearly meant your comment
I think the return you get from saving the elderly is the example that is shown to the young. The example shows the young that life when you're elderly isn't miserable and people WILL care for you. Society doesn't take care of the elderly solely for the elderly's sake. The bigger benefit is the example it makes to the younger generations who will be elderly themselves in due time. I can imagine in a society where I see the elderly treated badly, I probably won't have much hope for when id get to that state.

It's like saying "when you're older, we will treat you like shit" and people going back to society and saying "if you're gonna treat me like shit, I'm not going to be a productive member of society like you want me to"
> And, I think, some of those focusing themselves on careful parsing of RMS’s words are falling into the same pitfall as he. His intentions do not matter nearly as much as his actions and their predictable effects. ... I was around for most of the 90s, and I can confirm the unfortunate reality that RMS’s behavior was a concern at the time ... To my shame I didn’t recognize the dynamic myself when I was around it.

So it doesn't matter what he said, or what his intentions were, all that matters to the author is what they now believe, 30 years later, some people were feeling around RMS in the 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFIYKmos3-s
Just anecdotally, since I am close with a doctor, they stopped rushing to vent and now they treat with Remdesivir and steroids. Looking at the graphs for my state, we have about half the critical care rate at similar or greater detected cases than the spring, so better treatment seems to be a 2xish improvement for hospitalized patients?
Apps Prevent Black Market Attacks on a Fundamental Level-Huawei Developers
Having worked closely but briefly as a technical contractor for a firm that later turned out to be a scam, I figured this is it.

A combination of compartmentalization and churn can keep the charade up for quite a while, and if executed well you can have a pretty big operation with only one or two people being in on it.

I figured something was off but there's a whole gradial spectrum of Schroedinger's Accomplices where most people can seem to be conners or conned.

For this reason, I found the documentaries on NXIVM (Seduced, The Vow) quite interesting - the way the protagonists are framed and how everyone seems to have plausible deniability even with all the video material.

I disagree with your moral conclusion - we all have responsibility as individuals with regards to what our work contributes to. This goes for anything from military personnel to software engineers. That you don't have legal risk doesn't mean you don't have ethical responsibility.
It's not. The url param that contains the data is set by client javascript code.
If you just want to reuse the screen, you can get boards on Ebay or AliExpress that have HDMI inputs and can drive original iPad screens. Search for "LVDS HDMI" and you'll find a bunch, mostly based around the RTD2660 chip from Realtek.
This is some McCarthy level witch-hunting:

> The fourth @fsf board member is Benjamin Mako Hill - @makoshark - seems super involved with Wikipedia, which is also known as an extremely hostile community towards women.

What a leap! Just make crazy allegations and move on to the next name on the list!

I always post online knowing someone might come digging, but I didn’t realize the bar for extortion-worthy material was this low.
> You just avoid cancel culture. Anyone who claims to support BLM or ActBlue or any liberal politician [...] should be avoided with extreme prejudice.

So, to avoid cancel culture, you should cancel others?
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> The Soviets had blocking battalions ordered to shoot any of their own comrades who did not advance.

Well, yes, but also not that straightforward.

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/3igu17/on_the_c...
That was written by Richard Stallman, and is right on the GNU website:

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html
F9 can't fly crew dragon into a lunar orbit though, can it? I thought you need a FH class booster for that.
Mfaang: Dating for FAANG Employees
PDS: Also, some of my own random thoughts:

Compare the idea of a laser (a resonating cavity, mirrors) at whatever scale -- with the idea of phase cancellation in sound...

See, in the most generic description of a laser possible, there are two mirrors, one fully silvered, one half silvered, and as a result of continuing to add light energy into this cavity, by bouncing back and forth between both mirrors enough times, the light, which is "chaotically ordered" (for lack of a better term) on input, now becomes ordered (in a straight line) and coherent on output...

Well, it might be that that could be done to any wavefront in classical physics -- but the thing is, for any type of wavefront in classical physics, you need a resonating cavity (the equivalent of the two mirrors), some way to pump energy into that cavity, and enough energy to get it past a certain threshold necessary to create coherency in the output... (Side thought: There may be some relationship wtih the discrete, non-contiguous energy levels of electrons in an atom's shells here, but that's a side discussion...)

And then of course there are the thermal management issues that might arise when doing that...

But that's not the point!

Point is, in theory, it should be doable to any wave type in classical physics, be it sound, light, air, waves in the electromagnetic spectrum, etc., etc.

And, it should also be doable at any level of the nano scale too, and that spacers/the use of surface plasmons exist and work -- could be thought of as a hint -- that this might be possible on all levels of matter someday (since matter/atoms/subparticles/substructures contain waves/energy at many levels...)

What's one possible future application of all of this, if you can get all of that to work?

Well, if you can

A) Put a nano laser beam generator on a substrate;

B) Create the substrate such that parts of it are made out of CD/DVD/Blu-Ray material;

Then, in theory, the material can "write" to itself, that is, change its own state at the nanoscale.

Now, if transistors could be made out of that CD/DVD/Blu-Ray material (or whatever other substrate future scientists would invent), then, if it could all be carefully orchestrated, what the end result would be is a "chip foundry" on a single chip...

Basically, the chip (or crystal, or other substrate) basically "knows enough" about the relationships between matter, energy, space, chemistry and transistors -- to "write" a new transistorized (electrical or light) entity, to "create" a new microchip or "intelligent crystal", or what-have-you (describe it as you will...)

But anyway, that would be one future application...

We'll call it an "Atlantean Crystal" (for lack of a better term!) -- and leave it at that...
On this note, can anyone recommend a good tutorial that introduces SOLD with Typescript?
I agree with this delineation, and if necessary, it lets the sales/marketing people go absolutely wild with the tracking, analytics and CRM-system integration on the public facing marketing website, should the C-level people decide to allow them to do so.
I would generally consider a filename to be the kind of field that could easily contain PII.

Names or identifiers are the kinds of things that very often end up in file names.
From 2019.

The comments are all saying how awful the documentation is for beginners. Has it gotten better since?
Does anyone know if there's a hosted version of this kind of GPT model somewhere? All I want to do is just call a GPT-2 API and get a response back, I'm not interested in setting up the entire infrastructure by myself.
The dude absentmindedly eats toe jam. He's um... touched. It really shouldn't be a surprising he lacks social cues, and probably has no idea how to interact with women besides blurting out the first dumb thought that comes to his head. If he isn't sexually or physically assaulting people, cut the guy some slack, and realize some of our genius are kinda nuts.
Good thing no one knows who to behead if you pay the $50k with ETH.
"An insidious aspect of FB's Pixel is that it automatically attaches listeners to a bunch of stuff on the page such as buttons and sends back interactions and associated metadata[1]. "

Um. Holy crap. Is this common knowledge? I don't get shocked easily these days but... wow
I had one of these blogs years ago and I found the questions I had to look up were great subjects for blog posts. Many of them wound up being pretty basic: thread safe singleton in java, sort a list, etc. This isn't a PhD thesis, it doesn't have to be profound, you're just trying to demonstrate you can write some code and communicate.
I'm always curious about this line of thinking. What exactly do you think people are gaining by - say - denouncing sexism or other kinds of awful behavior? What's so wolfish about that?
URLs, of which file names could be considered a subset, are definitely considered PII.[0]

[0] https://cphs.berkeley.edu/hipaa/hipaa18.html
Yeah, this is geeky and technically pleasing, but destined to live only as long as the guy has enthusiasm or the will to keep doing this as a small business. As soon as it comes time to have someone take ownership or manage the system, the model breaks. What retail bakery employee is he going to find to maintain the SELECT * FROM statements and look at the Github repo for release notes?

There was a post a few years ago with the message "don't get too clever or special when designing a system if you want it to be maintainable for any reasonable cost by an average programmer". I think this is related...

Edit: the bakery website is gone or down, 2 years after the story.
Then blame the clown politicians who failed to adequately handle the virus in 2020.
It's also worth noting that technically JPL contracts to NASA... It's actually part of Caltech under contract to NASA rather than a direct NASA organization.
Thinking back to other periods of world history I learned about in school, I can easily see how people managed to rationalize away hundreds of thousands or millions of deaths in the name of convenience.