skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grouping any speech or behaviour against certain governments and regimes under the umbrella of racism is unfortunately something I've been noticing a lot lately, and I think this is really problematic for at least two major reasons.

First, this clouds the arguments being made against real racism (or at least what I think most people would have agreed on what this term meant in past years), and this weakens the voices of victims of that racism. Second, this gives governments and regimes a powerful mechanism to silence any dissent, by using the cover of racism to shut down cricitism far more effectively by potentially painting anyone who criticizes them as a racist.

The first point risks the word "racist" becoming a blunt label that ultimately reduces its effectiveness. Consider that when just about anyone could be considered a "racist" for discussion or behaviour that arguably has nothing to do with racism, then the term itself really starts to lose its meaning and risks devolving into just another derogatory term again any person with thoughts/behaviours one disagrees with. The second point has the insidious effect of shutting down any honest discussion about the statements and actions of governments and regimes around the world, arguably to the detriment of the vast majority of people in the world.

To me it seems more and more like the label "racist" is being thrown around with far too wide a net. As a result, the real victims of racism get their voices drowned out, while other interests get to co-opt the term as a powerful label to use for pushing their own agendas.
When the right wanted to ban media, a quire reasonable counter argument was "you don't have to buy, or read, the things you don't like".

Where's that argument today? Why is anything "problematic" an assault against society as a whole, automatically, as well as whatever underprivileged group its offensive to?

Have humans lost the ability to tolerate the knowledge that someone, somewhere, may disagree with them? Or is it just the attention elite that think this way?
When you put it like this it sounds like Brasilia doesn't have any life or non-government people living there. Over the last few decades Brasilia has changed a lot and it is considered by many a good place to live. It also has developed suburbs (satellite cities) in its vicinity, just like any other major metropolitan area in the country.
It's 2021, africans can abolish slavery if they want to
And even today you can see NH users in south America facing eyewatering taxes on computer hardware.
Spot on.

According to family who worked in finance: the reformatting has to do with any errors.

If there is one small error, somewhere, then how do you know there aren't more? These banks are making million or billion dollar transactions, so a small rounding error can cost fantastic amounts of money. So start from square one and do it over, and make sure it's right.

Additionally, they need a lot of collateral. Appendices of research, citations, crunching other numbers -- most of which will never be looked it. But if the customer does want to see them, they have them, they know they're right, and they're able to answer any questions johnny-on-the-spot style. Again, with billion-dollar deals at stake, you'll do the due diligence, even if it means no one will ever read that info -- the "just in case they ask" risk is high enough to justify it.

That all translates into long, grinding hours for documents that no one may ever read.
I was genuinely disturbed to discover that some publishers are asking agents about the sexuality of the writers they represent.

Right and left seem to have turned the culture wars into different flavours of tribal lifestyle branding - engaging and marketable, but also superficial and substance-free.
(edit, typing into the box where the pictures happen is easy enough, it's just typing in the bottom box that is very awkward because of constantly scrolling back up to see tiny changes.) Sadly this is very difficult to play on mobile.
Doesn't really fit, but still interesting especially if you have read what Moses Farrow has to say about it
http://mosesfarrow.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-son-speaks-out-by-...
This has a very early internet vibe. Like bash quotes or declaration of freedom of cyberspace (of course much less eloquent and elegant).
For anyone interested in learning more about the ANSI art scene and BBS history in general, I highly recommend Jason Scott's documentary series "BBS The Documentary"[0]. There is a part specifically dedicated to the art scene [1]. Watching this series in my early teen years really opened my eyes to the fact that the internet subcultures I was then a part of had been around for much longer than I was aware.

[0]http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t74FlFL_M0
Okay, so everybody knows they are pushing an ideology. Next question: Why? What do they hope to achieve? Does it really help them to be so hateful? Is it actually just larping a violent ideological war for clicks?
So I guess you think OJ Simpson is a swell guy then?
I can see how it might be different with io_uring; I've not observed short writes with O_APPEND and regular buffered I/O.
I'm less convinced it's a failure of the system, but more an expectation of the system.

Just look at the replies on the twitter post. They amount to "shouldn't have done the crime then". Get raped/attacked in prison? Whoops, shouldn't have done the crime then. Released unprepared and institutionalized after 3 decades in prison? Whoops, shouldn't have done the crime then.

I strongly suspect there's a lot less interest in rehabilitation than we like to think. Being let down by a profit-driven incarceration system is only one facet of this.
The people of some countries are already enslaved by poverty and corruption. The pragmatic question is: will attracting outside capital improve the situation of the populace or not?
Because of a lot of existing internal tools that directly call and manage VBox to set up local testing environments and stacks.

It's a planned initiative for the future, but it means a fundamental change in a number of tools and would require a rather large set of rewrites.

On top of that, out of the large pool of users, only a small handful would actually need to run Docker side-by-side with these tools, meaning that it's a huge rewrite to allow a small number of people to use Docker on their desktops. That ultimately means it's getting very little traction and keeps getting pushed down the backlog.
Exactly. Whoever wrote this is a minimalist. I want a hot pink animated focus indicator. I feel like I'm a sensible person, but after reading this script... I just don't know anymore.
Silicon Valley – Gilfoyle vs. HR [Part 1]
Thinking about individual cases I’ve heard of during my time in NL (one being relatively close, a young depressed student) is what has lead me to the opinion that the floodgates have indeed been opened - which is what people have been warning about.

I’m otherwise not sure how you perceive me right now, but you might be attacking your straw man.

The goal of palliative care is increasing the quality of a dying person’s life with dignity and as little pain as possible, and allow them to make the best of the time that is left to them. Instead of opening euthanasia floodgates that just lead to difficult individual situations (such as not wanting to be a burden to one’s family, a very common feeling) I do believe we need more research in this direction.
The Mystery of ‘Harriet Cole’
> But basically it calls for chains of evidence that are cryptographically tamper proof

JusticeCoin ICO when??
How can it be fraud, when you can read the contract? It's a clear if/then statement.
Culture brush-ups are really interesting.

When I went to Hong Kong in January 2020, I was surprised to find out that they were making "Mexican Custard Buns", apparently migrants from Mexico left a legacy of making buns filled with custard, which are quite delicious.
Part 2 is here:

Silicon Valley - Gilfoyle vs HR [Part 2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItFi_08B4wc
im sure the rest of it is all true
Hans is simultaneously trying to destroy the older sister, woo the younger sister, while also making the people think he's a good person who should lead them. That's a very tough line to walk on so I don't think he had better opportunities.
It's worth noting that crypto-signed images have been around for a long time, just in specific professional cameras: https://www.dpreview.com/articles/3146736527/canondvke2

I imagine, as this sort of thing becomes more common, we'll see image "verification"/signing being a feature on all cameras, and eventually extend to mobile phone cameras for photos/videos as well.
> On June 6, 2020, Rowling retweeted an op-ed piece that discussed “people who menstruate,” apparently taking issue with the fact that the story did not use the word women. “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?

I'm still not convinced this is anti-trans. I mean it's reality so for people to want to cancel her over this is ridiculous (which sums up the woke-ideology pretty much).
Its not like those countries would have had higher labour standards in the first place.
Lots of other peoples voices go into writing a book. You are in essence saying that they should all be forced to lend their voices and help someone they feel has merely dogged responsibility. Laws are not the same as justice and never will be
Yeah, I remember a lot of shareware games I used to play would show a big ANSI art thing to promote their BBS and how to buy the game.

I googled and found a lot of ZZT screenshots as well, not really the same but it could be used to create ANSI art.
Oh My Git the Game
It's a good project, but years ago when I tried it out it didn't seem to be a match with the original MoO2.
"all of those strongly identify as leftists" is telling. They are not leftists. Greenwald, in particular, who shows up on Fox News on a regular basis to attack leftists, is by far the most anti-leftist of any of the 6 names you've mentioned, but none of them will give you actual progressive views.

None of these people will espouse things like raising the minimum wage, reducing our out of control military budget, or god forbid, universal healthcare for Americans. This is what modern progressives want and where the Democratic party is heading, eventually. No one cares about "cancel culture" or "SJWs" like you'll constantly read about with this list.
this is what people unironically believe should replace our current legal system
Multiple-Byte Units (MB, TB vs. MiB, TiB)
I have not found a way to script the `Keyboard Preferences -> Input Sources` settings. I even versioned (in git) a ton of the `.plist` (property list) files in `~/Library/Preferences/` (they are binary files, but one can use `plutil` to get a textual XML representation). I think I arrived at the conclusion that these settings are persisted on a global / system level, and that there was basically no solution. I would be happy to be proven wrong!

When I was starting from scratch with macOS a few months ago, I had that sense of fresh new beginning. I wanted to have all of the configuration scriptable and versioned.
Unfortunately those preferences files also include a bunch of timestamps and dates and window locations, so it ends up being not a great idea.
It really does go back to the 1960s phone phreak subculture as well as technophile aspects of the hippie subculture. Look for old issues of the Whole Earth Catalog.

A lot of those people from the 1990s grew up and created the tech startup scene, which sometimes reminds me of hacker/warez groups in some ways.
I crashed my bicycle just yesterday going 25mph. It started raining in the East Bay so I took the fast route home, down a winding hill with no room for cars to pass cyclists. The SUV behind me was honking and passed me, barely side swiping me. I reacted by jumping to the decaying road shoulder where there dead branches and a large crack which engulfed my front wheel. I went flying (according to my Garmin) at 24mph and probably got 15 feet of distance. No broken bones though - just bruises, rashes, and cuts.
I think it's also fair to note that "Africa" is a huge place with huge income distributions. I can see South Africa and North Africa aligning more with the West, and East Africa going more to China.
Shawshank Redemption did a great job showing a lot of this.
shellcheck-repl: Validation of Shell Commands Before Evaluation

https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/shellcheck-repl

This tool validates your commands at the Bash prompt using ShellCheck and refuses to evaluate them if there's a mistake. It ignores a set of rules that doesn't play well with oneliners.

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors)
The "virulent" media these days is 280 chr tweets, videos of guys talking into their phone in their car, and Facebook groups. The idea that anyone today is radicalized by long-form prose is pretty out there. Instead, banning problematic books creates the perfect rallying cry for our generation's ideologues to recruit more followers on social media platforms and Youtube. Of the people talking about the recently discontinued Seuss books, how many have ever even read them? I know I haven't.
> In layman's terms, you see that someone will buy an asset, so you buy it first to artificially inflate the price, before selling afterwards at a profit.

This sounds familiar. Isn't this a tactic used on the stock market as well? Something something microtransactions.
Haha, this is excellent sarcasm. Bravo!
Agreed. They even animated him to noticeably look up at the chandelier before he pushes the crossbow away from Elsa (https://youtu.be/afnhCvicqdI?t=141), clearly intending to drop it on her and arrange the accident. They drop other hints. I mean, the whole "you can't fall in love with someone you just met" is a bit of self-referential subversiveness to more traditional Disney plots, and implies a separate motive. It's a bit subtle for kids, but I didn't think it was unsurprising.
There is "The Last Ringbearer" [1] for an alternative view.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
Why? The contract is public, anyone trading this token can read it. This seems like "don't trade tokens you haven't audited".
> This article is ridiculous. The current wave of book burning, censorship and denunciation is completely different from previous ones, because I support the positions of the mob. I know that this wave of book burnings, censorship and denunciation will lead to a brighter tomorrow.
> I should point out that I don't support 100% of the positions of the mob, but I won't say which ones I disagree with because I don't want to be next. The differences I have are minor, and I'm willing to change them immediately if necessary.

My tired brain can't figure out if this is a joke or not?
This is actually really cool. I've thought about building a BBS like service on the modern web but still having the old feeling. Your design might work for something like this. It has a bit of the feel, at least.

I love the fading as you scroll, it gives that nostalgic feeling of a modem drawing the screen.

Anyway, nice work, I enjoyed scrolling through it.
>Nobody is telling you you shouldn’t archive them.

while technically true this is also essentially wrong, if someone stops selling something for moral reasons then they are strongly implying you are immoral for acquiring the thing they have stopped selling; and it is a necessary component of the immoral that one should not have the immoral, transmit the immoral, commit the immoral or otherwise partake of the immoral.
> This take sounds like Rowling had written Harry Potter to fulfill her dream of one day being famous and crushing transsexuals beneath her expensive heels.

First, my response was denying that the description was of a phenomenon which was in any way novel as the upthread poster claimed, it wasn’t my description.

Second, I don’t read it that way: it was simply describing that, Rowling achieved fame and then, having achieved it, used it to sell certain ideas. There was no suggestion that it was planned in advance as a strategy, or even that that use was especially prominent among her uses of the fame.
Absolutely. But I'm also a realist that realizes that States have de-prioritized Covid vaccines purely because of optics placed above public health.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/andr...

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...

Because of that, any plans that try to to help everyone MUST have no exceptions for offenders. In that way, it would have a better chance to pass since it doesn't directly call out offenders.
Wait till we have real-time deep fake video and audio. That will twist the world, especially the remote work/schooling/presence one.
IANA physicist or neuroscientist but I think one open question is whether mechanistic causality is sufficient to describe/model living beings, or even non-life.

See Wheeler and Feynman's interpretation of electrodynamics for instance, which rejects time-reversal symmetry breaking and proposes that both solutions of Maxwell's equations are metaphysically meaningful. I am not aware of any consensus on how causality actually works.

Any physicists reading this, yell at me if I'm wrong.
Russian pleads guilty to Tesla hacking and extortion attempt
On my case I've added first(), last() and a few other ones I was using with rails to MyApp.Schema, this way it's a bit more usable in the console.
It seems to me the basic definition of a firewall is:

"A firewall is a network security device that monitors incoming and outgoing network traffic and decides whether to allow or block specific traffic based on a defined set of security rules."

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/firewalls/wh...

"usually firewall \ ˈfī(- ə)r- ˌwȯl
\ : computer hardware or software that prevents unauthorized access to private data (as on a company's local area network or intranet) by outside computer users (as of the Internet)"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/firewall

This and other "web application firewalls" seem to meet these kinds of definitions. Add to the fact more and more "traditional" firewall appliances are adding behavioral filtering and have had application tracking for decades and we're far from firewall being limited to only a layer 3 device.
I see other's have answered my question!
The term for this is public markets is "front running".
One thing that makes cryptocurrency trading special is that you get access to L2 trading data, for free. At least that's how it was when I was playing with it, when gdax existed. I'm not in this industry but, I suspect this level of access has a financial barrier to entry on the stock exchanges.
>the post I responded to is saying "let's treat humans more like dogs". So, from my perspective, you aren't quite grasping what this debate is about.

The OP was saying that we give dogs more rights than people, not that dogs are worth less than humans. OP was saying we treat animals more dignified and with more compassion at the end of life than we treat ourselves, which is true ironically enough.

And sorry but what are you on about exactly? What has end of life euthanasia to do with cannibalism? Who is advocating we allow cannibalism or comparing it to euthanasia?
1. Both the growth in population and the current rate of decline are 'unprecedented' in velocity. They are 'spikes' like the spike we see in climate change graphs.

2. 'Growth' to the extent there are resources to grow is a positive state, 'shrinkage' even given positive conditions in which growth is possible is a much worse state, because it's never happened and implies something might be wrong - like the possibility of a social or some other kind of disease.

3. 'More' population, given resources to sustain it is at least on 1st order basis 'better' - for obvious reasons. Clearly 'more' (or even present amount) may not be ideal but you'd have to do a second order assessment there (i.e. possibility of long term exhaustion of resources etc.) - and determine ways in which it would be worse, but I don't see any really any reason to believe that 7B is 'less safe' than 500M.

In the event of a major nuclear war, it would probably be better to have more people, of more variety, in more places, in more variety of living conditions.

4. 'Safety Factors' If we could magically calculate some kind of ideal population size, we'd have to assess for all sorts of black swan events (war, famine, disease) and have ample extra population to account for those possibilities. You carry more fuel than you need to cross the Atlantic if you really want to make sure that you get all the way.

4. "What does it matter if there are only 100 million people?"

Ok - so this should have been question #1 because this is they key understanding.

Civilization is a pyramid that generates disproportionate wealth from those operating at higher levels of sophistication. Those people require the support of others doing basic work.

If there were only 1000 people on planet earth, civilization would collapse entirely, everyone would be working on the farm. Only at a certain scale would basic foodstuffs be available such that others could start working on 2cnd order things, like carpentry and basic metallurgy. Significantly more people would be required to have enough slack labour to provide for basic literacy and education. The economy would have to be even larger to start to support the most basic technological advancements.

Etc. Etc. Etc..

Given that we now have a lot of knowledge and have harnessed fossil fuels which provide at least tremendous energy, it would be possible to maintain our state of civility with less people surely, but still quite a lot, definitely more than 100M.

Our economy, which sustains our lives to very high material standards, depends upon an huge amount of sophistication and knowledge. I don't think the number for maintaining that is less than 1B and realistically, given that social systems develop at different paces, and some collapse etc. it's probably more around 2B.
Just because Facebook puts things in their T's & C's doesn't mean they get away with it.

That said, crypto is intentionally the wild west, because the Big Banks are bad. Libertarian economics, no oversight, no fraud protection, but freedom. Whether you want that is another matter. Personally I think it's a really really bad idea, and billions of monies have been lost, generated, stolen, etc because of it.
Hi, clicked on your link and read it but wasn't able to infer the deeper meaning of your statement that McCarthy was right. Can you elaborate (being genuine here, it sounds interesting).
If only Crystal has full windows support, then I can confidently recommend it to you.

Building cli tools in crystal is fairly easy thank to the standard OptionParser library. `colorize` is almost perfect, too, in case you want to print some ascii colors.
And just like ruby, invoking some shell command is simply wrapping the command with backticks. and FileUtils has ton of features.

Too bad Crystal now only works in POSIX.
The author noticed that:
1/ Prices move after large trades are confirmed
2/ An variety of sandwich bots have sprung up to take advantage of this behavior by detecting the trade in the mempool (before confirmation), front running the trade with a buy order of their own, and posting a sell order for a profit after the large trade landed.

To profit from this exploitive behavior, he created a token that would trick sandwich traders into thinking a large trade was coming, but would keep their money when they tried to exit their position after the front run.
What does volunteer even mean? Does it just mean not-slavery?
It's possible to commit fraud while being entirely open and forthright. The key is whether it can be argued that there was an intent to deceive, despite being forthright.

A famous example would be the Toy Yoda/Toyota fraud:

https://apnews.com/article/6f88d96871f3292f506e2679cf012597
Hololive seemed to have completely bypassed the problem by creating completely fictional characters voiced by... someone.