skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure you're right that the discussion here has more people on one side than the other, but if you react by lashing out in this way, you're creating the situation you're complaining about. Having skimmed this thread I'm mostly not seeing coherent arguments against the law, but rather comments like this one ("proponents of state killings"), invoking Hitler and so on—in other words, extraneous provocations that are more than enough to justify downvotes and flags.

It's pretty common for people to misattribute the reason why their comment was downvoted or flagged, and then draw wrong conclusions from that. The typical image is something like "I, the noble freethinker with principled thoughts, being suppressed by the slavish mob", when in reality the post included some tawdry swipe. The grandiose narrative always leaves out the tawdry swipe.

It makes sense that people do this—you're far from the only one—because it's extremely uncomfortable to be surrounded by hostility. Even in a rather silly place like an internet forum, it still activates survival systems in us. But since that only recharges the problem, we all need to learn how to bring more awareness to these interactions.

On issues where the community is lopsided, the person holding the contrarian position has a greater responsibility, if we're to avoid total flamewar [1]. That may not be fair, but the reasons are rooted in human nature and not going away, so we have to deal with it. If your minority view is right but you present it in a lashing-out way, the actual effect you're having is to discredit it further [2]. That helps no one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] I've written about this many times, some of which can be found here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Well, The UI, Logo etc., feels like my browser blocked me from going to sponsor.ajay.app url - insecure, evil site. I closed the browser window. But went there again to see what it says.
Weird. The trans people I know and speak to have no problem with the acknowledgement of biological femininity. Actually they mostly factor that fact of world into part of what defines their identity..
well youtube has a premium service without ads that presumably brings money to the creators. One of the music subscription services actually is about to change their system so that the money of every subscriber actually goes to the artists that THEY listen to (sorry, forgot which service it was, not spotify). So, there actually is movement in this direction. And with ads becoming ever more obnoxious (and privacy threatening) it becomes more interesting for users, too.
This doesn't seem significantly better than just having the organization providing a video sign it as "authentically theirs", in cases where that's possible; if you mean some sort of thing where editing software and cameras will sign things as "not tampered with", then this is effectively a DRM system and subject to the excitingly wide range of issues affecting that. This would not work for many situations, particularly the ones SamBam describes (not least due to the anonymity thing), as it is unlikely that there will conveniently be someone there with chain-of-trust-capable recording equipment and software.
>Except the details of being white or male - those are not intended to communicate anything?

Not typically. Being white and male (and straight, and Christian) is considered so normative in Western society and culture that it's basically a blank slate, "default human." How often is a white character's race specifically mentioned, unless it's to form a contrast with some other non-white character's race?

It almost never happens, because white male characters are often just there. Every deviation from that norm has to be specifically mentioned and pointed out, and unless the author is part of the group or culture being portrayed, is usually done through stereotype.
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Its specific to the kind of blockchain/DLT that it runs on.
If you use an DEX that doesn't rely on miners who can pick Tx then you dont have this problem.
For example the XRPL DEX does not allow any party to pick which order to execute. There is also no mempool where someone could look for bundles of Tx. A DEX order is, once submitted, added to the state of the ledger (added to the blockchain) and executed as soon as possible.
I've recently found about Protocol / structural subtyping in Python and found this sort of pattern really useful as duck typing is so common in py code.

Highly recommend reading:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0544/

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#nominal-vs-str...

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Protoco...

Cool example:

https://github.com/jordaneremieff/mangum/blob/main/mangum/ty...
> The majority of “influencers” are young women

Is this actually true, or just bias from your own interessts?
If we look at technical stuff and gaming, we see far more successful male influencers. Similar with entertainment-industry.

> and only a minority would want to follow a 50 year old

This more or less is true, because not many like to see unattractive people doing boring things. But the point here is, this in not because of gender or sex, it's about the quality of content and chemistry with the consumers. An old ugly guy without any real skill, would be usually as unsuccesful as an old ugly woman without any real skill. Though, for both there always is chance to find niche to sellout your content over something, the chance is pretty low.

With younger and more attractive people, the chances are significant higher, because they have more selling points besides the content itself, thus they sell better. But it also depends on the target-group and content.

> it’s human nature

No, it's human culture. People sell according to the crowds reception on what the gender is suposed to do. So woman sell better in female-stuff, men better with manly stuff. Woman do have a slight advantage, in that they are the gender which in most cultures is educated from early days to sellout. They dress up, use fancy cloths, catter to the people, etc. This works better for laymen when becoming influencers, because woman have more likely the skills to sell themself on a broader are, while most men need to learn it first.
He mentions getting pinged by multiple HN scraping bots, and he's unable to block his content from being uploaded to HN. It sounds like he's just kind of annoyed and prefers a different communication medium.

I think it's funny.
To be honest implementing a mirror in a raycasting engine is not really that much of a technical feat - I bet the id guys thought "why didn't we think of that?!" when they saw it. But nice attention to detail though that walking through a mirror sent you back to where you came from instead of to the other side of the wall...
So, then the parent is right: it was rolling back a transaction (smartcontract with oversight) they didn't like. It wasn't like a bug with the reference implementation, it was one of a zillion contracts where the code diverged from author intent, on a platform that defines itself by "code is law, trust the code over any natural language description thereof".

And the only reason this transaction got rolled back -- rather than the numerous others that had such a problem -- is because it affected a lot of wealthy insiders.

A platform created to resist elite corruption of the contract law, has its elite corrupt its contract law.
I slept a few seconds when driving
It is kind of relieving to not have that thread talk about the latest stunt of cancel culture activists.

But I have to wonder: Why should I use a floating point number for something lika a micro benchmark. Admittedly, counting from 1970 wastes some bits, but I am usually interested in some discrete quantity (ns, us, ...), so why introduce numerical problems in the first place?
Remember Microsoft's anti-trust lawsuit came about in the 90's - so we have to go back in time and look at what Microsoft was doing back then to prompt this lawsuit.

For starters, Microsoft relied heavily on undocumented APIs in both DOS and Windows for their own applications, e.g. Office. When others such as Borland, Lotus, or Word Perfect attempted to reverse-engineer and utilize those APIs in their own applications they'd be broken in the next release. Microsoft would change the undocumented APIs so their competitors would no longer work and release a new release of Office concurrent with the next release of DOS/Windows. Guess what happened as a result? You don't hear of Borland, Lotus or Word Perfect anymore, do you?

There were still more dastardly deeds up Microsoft's sleeve. Ever wonder why OS/2 didn't leave Microsoft's Windows in the dust? Or why Linux never became a viable option? Read on. When Windows 3.0 was released in 1990 it took the world by storm. Everybody, and I mean everybody, wanted it. PC makers (HP, Dell, Gateway, Compaq, et. al.) wanted to provide PC's with Windows preinstalled. Microsoft used that to their advantage. They would provide Windows licensing to the PC makers at substantially reduced cost on ONE condition: they could not preinstall any other competitor's OS. Oh and one more thing - EVERY SINGLE machine shipped would have to include a license for Windows. What does that mean? If you wanted to run OS/2 on your Compaq then you will have paid Microsoft for the Windows license you're not going to use AND you're still going to have to pay IBM for OS/2 AND you're going to have to install it yourself - Compaq wasn't allowed to preinstall it for you and still be able to distribute Windows.

Pretty bad, no?

Get this - in federal court Microsoft argued these practices were legal because they were not a monopoly. They pointed to Apple as their viable competitor. At the time Apple had 2% of the PC market and was on the verge of bankruptcy. The judge noted that Apple wasn't really a healthy, viable competitor and ordered Microsoft to pay Apple several hundred million dollars (this seems to be confused in the press, apparently at the time the Microsoft anti-trust lawsuit was proceeding there was another case where Microsoft and Intel were caught red-handed stealing video codec IP from Apple and were ordered to pay a large infringement settlement). Either way, Microsoft was forced to pay Apple hundreds of millions of dollars.

So yes, Microsoft was more obnoxious in their anti-competitive practices and the courts allowed them to carry on with those practices for the price of a few hundred million dollars paid out to Apple. By comparison Apple looks like darling little Angels compared to the Microsoft of the Gates and Ballmer eras.
A good twist/betrayal certainly requires it catch you by surprise, but relatable villains can add a lot to a story.
You can't sign reality, but people can sign statements.

If you see a video at a date D1 where you say Statement1, and cryptographically sign it with your key K, then at a later date someone can verify that at least you said you've watched an backed your statement.

In a way all of security relies on the physical safety of some kind of secret data. So you have the deniability of key compromise in any case.

If everything a president states publicly is signed with his key Kp, then:

1) If something controversial is published without signature, the president can say it's not standard procedure and a plausible forgery;

2) If the president publishes officially without a signature, the public can demand one so there's no later equivocation;

3) Anything that has been said can be verified in the future by checking the presidential signature.

In this case, the worst case is really a compromised key (although key scheduling should mitigate it), but most forgery cases of statements (and potentially documents, mandates, etc.) are eliminated.

In practice, it would be difficult to get your public figures to sign everything they say (and difficult to get them to accept this kind of potential auto-incrimination for the public good).
I stand by what I said. The media reports are based on extensive first-hand evidence, coverage, social media.

I do not need MSM to tell me that an insurrection was happening. I see it for myself.

And here you are down-playing, ignoring facts, ignoring the other points I made that counter yours, and generally being mis-leading.

I think you should refresh your history. Often it can be opportunistic armed goons that topple governments.
Let’s imagine the video wasn’t ad-supported, but instead viewers had to pay some money a la carte (and YouTube gets a cut of that). Creators would still want to get more viewers to make more money, and YouTube would still have a recommendation algorithm that used signals such as likes, comments, and subscribes to decide what to recommend. So I think the ad business model isn’t really at fault here. Or rather, it’s only at fault to the extent that it’s the only viable business model for a video service as large as YouTube.
Yes but this is also like a full generation after the type of art from the OP.
What is Named Entity Recognition (NER) and why is it a useful NLP technique?
If you're into this sort of thing, you'll like Exploding the Phone[1] which details the history of phone phreaking and Counterculture to Cyberculture [2] which is a critical look at how the Whole Earth Catalog circle interacted with the tech scene.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Phil-Lapsley/dp/08021...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Counterculture-Cyberculture-Stewart-N...
Each company's analysis is a DAG of sorts with assumptions, each assumption based on other assumptions, and all of those based on tables of estimates and projections.

That makes it all somewhat unique, at least beyond the industry level. Further, it is not like there are numerous IPOs, its not really done enough times to automate.

Finally, there is a hazing and rite-of-passage component to all this. And it is paid very well, with even better prospects after the job, so people accept it.
I wish people use this trick to create dent in the universe. For eg. use face of pretty young girls to bring positive changes in the planet - assuming everyone wants to follow young girls & believe in what they say.
Right now the right to live and work of many EU citizens can only be applied for electronically and proven only through a webpage.

If that database field ever goes from 'true' to 'false' they will be fired, deported and never allowed into the country again.
> If I don't file required forms because I can't get to a government office who's accountable for that?

That is a big problem. But in my experience, we always manage somehow, if only by mandating someone else to do it for us. The level of unaccountability reached with online services here in France during COVID times is incredible. At least when we had physical places to go, i could always have someone face-to-face to have an argument about why the hell the system is broken. Now this is not an option anymore...
A world without trust is not better
Please read it as the decline of other heavily regulated/unionized industries relative to the booming online service sector within the US.
This pulled quote, in isolation, might not be, sure. The question about this particular complaint is whether its meant exclusively or inclusively. Does a woman who has stopped menstruating stop being a woman? Is a woman who has never menstruated and never will, in fact, not a woman? What if these people feel in their person like women? How one reads Rowling's comment in light of these questions informs one's sense of her intent.

If you read Rowling's comment inclusively then it's a clumsy, ambiguous complaint about shifting language norms that is harmless and warrants a clarification. If you read the comment exclusively -- which I think is fair given Rowling's other statements over the years -- then I find it hard to read in a charitable light. It is, I admit, entirely possible that Rowling doesn't hold trans-exclusionary views and has merely, accidentally chosen ambiguous wording over the years and is pig-headed enough to be unwilling to clarify but I do find this _unlikely_ considering that she's a famously clear author who is willing to clarify (and extend) her body of work for years after the fact.
For one, this is something multiple old people I know commented on. The change in how much males interact with their kids or generally do housework. Plus, there is less social pressure to spend time after work away from familly - men after work take kids outside instead of going to drink with buddies in bowling league.

Second, sociological studies are consistent with that - fathers and husbands are more involved, do more work at home.
You're not allowed to break the speed limit even if you pay the fine. You are allowed to live in your apartment if you pay the demanded rent.
I didn't realize Tony Chocolonely was intended to be a slave free brand, I had bought it in Europe thinking it had a hilarious name and large size - the background of traditional brands sold in the US sounds horrific if he decided to make his own company based on what he saw, which haven't even penetrated our domestic market.
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The above was in a response saying they could take 20 years to invest in cocoa elsewhere - the shortage is very temporary in comparison
I found it hard to get into without knowing all of the key commands to navigate BBSs.
My cynical take on this is that eventually ageism in tech won't be a thing with the combination of wfh and everyone being a young 20 something tech person online.
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I miss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Carrington 's show, which was basically that on BBC radio. Him, his cat, and a huge collection of old records.

(BBC radio is at the very opposite end from begging for likes; once someone establishes a show, if it's not in a highly contended timeslot it can basically run forever no matter how obscure or unfashionable it is, until the presenter dies)
I simply do not understand the furor over the JK Rowling affair. I read what she wrote, and I did not see "hate", or "transphobia", and many other very extreme adjectives. When she seeked to clarify her statements she was accused of "doubling down". Fans of Life of Brian will remember the Roman amphitheatre scene when Stan wants to become Loretta:

https://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/ayshames/Python/LORETT...

I thought and still think it's funny, "Where's the fetus going to gestate Stan, are you going to keep it in a box?" But now I'm afraid to laugh or reference it in public. The movie is probably going to end up on a list, and its fans made to feel bad for being horrible people. I think I can both laugh at Stan, who's not real, and accept and support misgendered people, who are.
I think Twitter fails to realize that cyber space will ultimately supersede real world in its importance as a common space to interact, transact, communicate and live. We’re already close to that point.

This: “Generally, we want to hear from the public on whether or not they believe world leaders should be subject to the same rules as others on Twitter. And, should a world leader violate a rule, what type of enforcement action is appropriate.” is interesting.

The trouble is that, from Twitters perspective, they are the arbiter of how these interactions happen. Same for other major platforms.

It fails to address the question of whether private for profit corporations should be sole arbiters of the very substrate upon which we live and its rules.

Once the public and world governments think this through and fully game it out, I don’t think they’ll settle for the current status quo.

We’re already seeing internet shutdowns during elections in certain countries as a course and crude enforcement or regulatory action. I’d expect this to become more granular over time and to expand.
I'd say a hack is a technique with caveats that let's you work around a limitation. Ray tracing is still too computationally expensive so the current raster pipeline is all a hack to work around that fact. It's also an incredibly well established and close to ground truth hack but there are lots of caveats where things go astray. Off the top of my head transparency is still largely problematic.
It's a tedious game though: but, but, you your Casio is still vulnerable to EMP and you have to be awake to read it.
You sound like a complete idiot, you transparent wannabe politico.
> Are there type checks on the iron?

Yes there are, it's called physics haha. The iron foundry analogy is not great imo. Programming is more akin to building an engine, but also building the tools that are used to make that engine. Because of the physical nature of these tools, you get a simple static type system by default: you cannot put a screw into a hole not meant for the screw with that thread. Now imagine you didn't have this guarantee. Any tool could technically be put anywhere, and you wouldn't know you had it wrong until you ran it and it killed you. Or even worse, it seems to run fine until you go over a bump, then it kills you. That's duck typing without a type system.

And god forbid you need to add more engineers to your engine project. Nothing is documented, and they have to infer the properties of the tools based on how they are used today.
Virginia wanted to grow its exurbs, and Maryland didn't. Virginia created a lot of large houses on former farmland, where Maryland preserved more of it.

Maryland also did a better job of spreading out its employers. A lot of those Virginia exurbs still commute into DC, or at least Northern Virginia, making traffic a nightmare, at least during rush hour.

Another thing that slightly confuses that map: Virginia has much better arteries into DC. You get into DC from the south on I-395 and I-66, and they take you all the way downtown. Maryland has only surface streets. (It was supposed to have I-95 connecting straight through the city to join up with I-395, and I-595 where New York Avenue is, but that would have destroyed a lot of neighborhoods in exactly the way they were destroyed in building 66 and 395.)

That means that there's a fair bit of Virginia that is technically 45 minutes away from the center of the city, but not during rush hour. The 45 minute line in Maryland is pretty close in, but the 1 hour line turns out to be quite broad, because you can reach it on Maryland's interstates that flow pretty freely (parts of it, even during rush hour).

Of course you really should be taking public transport, except during a pandemic. The driving and parking are both horrible.
> Why is anything classifiable as "wokism" automatically morally and intellectually bankrupt junk?

Because any one with minimum education in history can recognize wokism as the new cultural revolution being adapted for americans. It is not only junk it is also a vile ideology.
Yes, but, the blockchain is forever.
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I didn’t write “only”.
This meaning of "uncle" should make it into mainstream english.
I love oblique strategies. For programmers and team leads, there's a similar set called "The Primes" that works wonders with my technical teams, because it has the brainstorming ideas plus effective guidance: https://theprimes.com/book
AFAIU, neither wages nor investments count as profits - those are paid to owners / shareholders.

As far as returning the earnings to workers and local economy via taxes - yes there are expenses, you can't take 100% of income as profits, but there is a lot of leeway to direct the funds pretty much wherever the company chooses. Corporate headquarters in tax friendly countries are popular for a reason.
I don't understand how rearranging operations, like suggested later in the thread, would avoid the large relative error in "how much older is the earth than the oceans" given that our estimates for the age of the earth and oceans are only so precise?
Bash-LSP: A language server for Bash
So? Then people have to get phones they can afford.
Why should content creators (or anyone else) have to earn money to live?