skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to first take an aside and apologize for a previous error. I divided incidents by population and came to 0.0006. This is off by an order of magnitude. But that is not the worst of it. This number belongs in the context of crime rates. Gallup [1] tells me that 1-3% of people are victims of violent crimes. So I must further multiply by 100 and conclude that hate crimes represent 0.6% of the total violent crimes experienced by Asian-Americans. And once again, I have to add that I did find numbers that suggested Asian-Americans may be victimized much less than the general population, although these numbers were from 2006. 0.6-6% is the final answer. This is a massive misrepresentation, and I want to be clear that this was not intentionally manipulative. It was quick thinking and poor judgment.

I agree that the US response to the threat of terrorism was also very much an overreaction, so at least you can say I'm consistent.

From what I understand, the total number of hate crimes decreased in 2020. I haven't been able to find the data and if, for example, this is because the number of hate crimes against whites dropped, the following is false. But in my mind this fits a model where X people are going to attack minorities in a given year, and this year, for obvious and insane reasons, they typically targeted Asians.

I understand the frustration and pain and cause for pushback. I say this because the next part will come across as cold. From a utilitarian perspective, there is not any material difference between worlds where different minorities are victimized. Changing the targets doesn't solve anything.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/285644/percentage-americans-rec...
In your place (I would first talk to a lawyer to verify whether I can do the following):

I would comply. I would stop helping them by providing the service, as soon as humanly possible.

On its place, I'd show the scary letter, verbatim, and an explanation that, due to the scary letter, I am no longer willing to help Skill Capped by providing the service.

While at it, if at all possible, I'd suggest people just unsubscribe from Skill Capped.

I would also link some resources on the evils of recurring payments in general, for added damage.

In short, fuck them. You've wasted enough of your time and effort already. They don't deserve your help.
> On the other hand the UK still has a fully nationalised health service which means that it was in a much better position to be able to scale the vaccinations. That's probably the real reason that they're ahead.

EU doesn't have problems with vaccination but with supply of vaccines, we use up all we can get (at least until AZ issues, now people are afraid to vaccinate with it).

There are many (all?) countries in EU that have health service nationalised in EU. The only country I know that doesn't is US.
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What do you call a cabal of American newspapers, tech companies (policing social media), and politicians (attacking Trump/conservatives) simultaneously conflating the two theories (malicious artificial virus versus leak of natural virus), attacking anyone suggesting an accidental lab leak aggressively, and censoring discussion of the same? It isn’t just “China influenced corporate press”. It’s the entirety of the left and left-leaning institutions (news, tech) that voluntarily participated in this mass gaslighting.

People often stir up fears of foreign influence but in the last few years it really has seemed like the biggest sources of inorganic influence and “propaganda” has been domestic.
You just eliminated the two most popular smartphone platforms. What choice do they have?
ROUSes?
> If you're concerned about the current state of privacy at Discord, open the Chrome dev tools and look at network requests.

If you're concerned about the current state of privacy at Discord, open the browser dev tools and look at network requests.
It doesn't even, as far as I can tell, show when I'm not logged in in the taskbar. I've worked a few hours before and had to ask a question and then realised I wasn't even signed in. At least Lync and Skype for Business made this obvious.

Plus full screen isn't. I have to ask people to zoom in when they screen share.
>Every BSL-certified lab should be doing gain of function research.

Its far from settled that the benefits of gain of function research outweigh the benefits. This is a debate that has raged among the scientific community for years (a debate which would over if it was discovered that COVID came from a lab involved in gain of function research).
This AI would be the ancestor of Asimov psychohistory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional) . I am convinced that google is working on it. In trading, predictive models stop working when they are disclosed. If these AI are used, governments will keep it secret. Like massive surveillance, it will be confirmed in many years.
Emails aren't encrypted because they have to be interoperable.
All of this isn't particularly relevant if the function is abysmally terrible at filling the correct fields with the correct data, which in the case of 1Password certainly seems to be the case.

In the example posted here, it happily completed fields for the credit card expiration year TWICE on the same form, one of which was pre-populated with a value that could not possibly have been a year. The apparent cause is because the substring 'year' appeared in the field name. Levenshtein distance of 12 for a 4 letter word? Yep, looks good! I mean, it's a result so certain there's no need to prompt the user, highlight changed fields or anything, right?
> Is that a good idea in terms of risk mitigation?

It is definitely not. Snapshots + replication is a great 99.9% "hot data" backup, but they don't guard against administrative error or massive pwnage (think ransomware). At least three copies, at least two locations, at least two different systems (media/backup device vendors/operating systems/etc.) is the full package, so to speak.

EDIT: I don't want to crap on this project as it serves a great use case. But any filesystem-based replication should be backed up by a logical copy, e.g. a tar or a zip file or just an "aws s3 cp -r". I have seen even checksummed file systems replicate data incorrectly due to bugs, unlucky bit-flips, ECC errors, CPUs literally taking the wrong branch. And remember, at the base of everything, this stuff is written in C!
I use Firefox's own password manager (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/lockwise/) inbuilt into the browser. I think it's a better compromise than having to expose sensitive credentials into my clipboard. IT works across devices too, so there's no copy pasting on my Android device which god forbid is probably reading my clipboard too (I know Facebook used to do that).

I do not see a reason to copy paste in any use case at all.
I've been using RoundCube and managesieve for 10 years. Filters perfectly. Definitely recommended.
The focus on less opinion in the US media is misguided. This focus on purity is not leading to better reporting but has lead to honest writers hide their point of view and manipulative writers twisting facts under the presumed cover of neutrality. And it has led to ‚pure’ opinion which can be disconnected from facts and that is tolerated as acceptable.

Imho. US media needs an injection of more common sense through properly contextualized facts - and the human experience of the writer is a big part of this.
This is partly true. But you might still want to avoid g-forces, not because of who or what controls your airborne unit but rather because maneuvering sheds kinetic energy, which is undesirable in combat and you might want to perform drastic maneuvers sparingly purely for kinematic reasons.
> for companies to sue employees for refusing to work for them

Especially ex-employees who've been gone 6 months already.

Shouldn't be hard to find a no win no fee ambulance chaser to happily take them on and get costs awarded and damages as well...
Google's zero-click answers are really good, especially if I search for a fact.

While it's true that this is possibly killing sites by preventing traffic flow, it's one way to battle content padding for the sake of grabbing traffic.

It might be an interesting move if Google were to pay a small fee to sites whose information was useful for a particular search, like those I chose to expand.
Just yesterday I finally found out why Word on the Mac kept selecting text while I was typing! After weeks of thinking the touchpad was ultra sensitive, I figured out that my finger hovers over F8 when I type the letter 'y'. F8 activates Extend Mode in Word, so my typing got captured to expand my selection to the next occurrence of each letter. I never felt myself touch the key at all.
Which is why email is an absolute nightmare and missing so many features and takes so long to implement the most basic security and privacy. Outside of business use, email has become the newsletter and password reset center because it doesn't work well enough and hasn't kept up.

The IMAP protocol is a known dumpster fire but getting jmap implemented over every email client and server is basically impossible. Gmail avoids this by just implementing their own proprietary protocol which only works with gmail and the web ui/apps.
You're right! Sorry about that, wanted to delete the original one and post this one but couldnt find a delete button, so I hid the last one...now I realize the 'hide' button only hides it for me. Sorry a noob here.
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Teams isn't that bad haha, it works fine.
I wonder if making a game out of it would help? Suppose you intentionally introduce a specification error and challenge them to find it?
I have 2017 MacBook retina, and... it is just way too slow. Can open 2 or 3 electron apps at the same time at max. Trying to run 3 electron apps and an IDE, it becomes unusable.

And nowadays everything is an electron app. So... I am considering updating.

I love the form factor though and I don’t really care about the ports or the keyboard. (it broke once, I fixed it)
It's All Just Displacement
> "It's less ok (to say the least) to publish the bad writing in the Internet and decrease it's mean quality level in result"

This presumes that the "mean quality level" of the internet is actually important. With the scale of the internet now, it literally doesn't matter how many bad articles are uploaded, as search engines filter what is good/bad for you (whether or not search engines are good is another story). 1,000 results or 10 billion results you'll only look at the top 15 anyway...

> "In terms of quality and curation it's basically the digital equivalent of a wall in a public restroom"

This analogy assumes that there is limited physical space and people will be subjected to reading it, the internet is much different and a lot of content will never get advertised or even read.

So my question for anyone with this line of thinking is, how would you know when your writing has improved and ready to be published? I think the best way is to write and publish often and look for feedback.
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People have tried to indoctrinate children with equal distribution. It doesn't work. It doesn't work no matter what the person believes.

A simple gedanken experiment will illustrate. You and Bob are stranded on an island. You and Bob agree to form a commune, and share equally in all the food gathered.

Bob figures, why work, when TFYS is working hard and will split what he gathers with Bob.

Is TFYS going to be dissatisfied that he does all the work and Bob does nothing?
> This idea is nothing new. In one of the star-trek episodes this was the theme, the only difference there was a real human was sacrificed for each virtual human lost!

Surface Detail by Iain M Banks also explores this idea. That novel also goes through the obvious problems -- you have to trust that the virtual outcome will actually be accepted, and that the conflict won't bleed out into the real. And at the point at which you have that trust in your opponent would you really be having a war in the first place?

It is a nice idea though, shame it's unlikely to ever become a reality.
It survived, per a UK news interview with the pilot: https://youtu.be/dFUa8yAnD6s?t=77
Microsoft's strategy with GitHub is very likely to replace their old Azure DevOps (Server) offerings within the next 2-3 years. Then they can cash in on the Windows and mac/Linux crowd at the same time with a single product.

The same will probably happen with Discord inside the Xbox ecosystem where they want to rival Steam with their Xbox game pass. Discord is the perfect community to do it with.
I mean this in the kindest way possible. I read more closely through this thread, and I’m glad I did.

First, I relate to your feelings of minimizing your own experiences, and your impulse to minimize others’. That’s not just how I felt before I was ready to get help, it’s something so ingrained in me that it’s a repetitive conversation with my family and loved ones since I have.

Second and more importantly, if you do have those symptoms I sincerely hope you’ll consider talking to a professional. The worst thing that happens is you’ll waste a couple hours. The next worst thing that can happen is you might make some sense of why your brain is the way it is, and it might lead to some peace. It’s all up from there.
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My best wild guess is that the GP is referring to univariate pay gap studies, but I'd like to do better than a wild guess.

My wife is in finance and accounting, and has a good friend who is a serial entrepreneur with several small businesses, employing a few more women than men. After one of these univariate statistics was quoted on the news, my wife (who professionally thinks about cost savings all day) asked me a question that boiled down to "Hey... it would be wrong and sexist of course... but could my friend save 5-10% on salaries by hiring nearly exclusively top-notch women?" That's when I explained univariate and multivariate regression, and why she should always be skeptical about any study that doesn't assign weights to multiple plausible factors.

There are still plenty of smart people out there who haven't heard about the flaws in some of these studies. Unfortunately, it's much easier to fit a narrative to an oversimplified problem with a simplistic solution. If only mean income were a good proxy for how effectively society helps people achieve fulfillment and life goals, fair governance would be much easier. Don't get me wrong. I believe governments should do more to help reduce constraints on women that impede their life goals and fulfillment, but it looks like mean hourly income isn't a great proxy for measuring progress in fulfillment.
Zero trust removes the concept of a “perimeter” or “boundary” with hardened entrypoints (vpns, bastions) and replaces it with a variety of different means of ensuring secure communications between users/services (think 2fa, mtls, tokens, endpoint security scoring, etc). They’re basically saying they do Zero Trust but in kind of in a weird way because if you’re doing it “right” it’s irrelevant if a connection traverses a corporate network or not since all connections more or less have to establish their legitimacy using a combination of the aforementioned methods.
There are non-browser-extension password managers that still emulate you typing on your keyboard, rather than going through clipboard.

Personally I use rofi-pass to access GNU pass passwords (so just a hotkey and search for password name)

I'd warmly recommend it (or whatever other client you use for GNU pass) but I'm sure you can find similar functionality for any other decent password manager.
This is an amazing interactive learning tool. Kudos! I vaguely remember from a "computer science modelling" course at uni, learning how to do this process by hand, from the textbook "Introduction To Automata Theory Languages , and Computation". Wish we had had this tool back then.
I really loved using Borland C++ Builder 4 (on Windows), around 2000-2010. I've haven't found anything so easy to use since.
So a company created a product (videos) and now charges access to them.

You created a website that clearly utilizes the company's name and offers their product, which you acquired in a devious manner, for free.

What is ethically unclear about this situation?

The fact that it's publicly-accessible is irrelevant. If I leave my front door unlocked, does that give you a right to rob my house?
I lived in a country where housing (at the time) was provided by the government. It's not as great as it might sound. Want to move? Do the paper work and wait for a few years. Want a bigger place? too bad. Not to mention single room for the whole family, shared kitchen and washrooms.
Wifi, HEVC, and to some extent JS have a single owner or group which is able to make authoritative decisions which improves things.

Its easy for the MPEG group to say, this is our new standard. Thats what it is, not debate. But imagine trying to come out with Email 2 and getting that to work on every email server and client.
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004109911

They have a switch to turn this off, but then they say this:

> The nitty gritty: when you turn the flag off, the events are sent, but we tell our servers to not store these events. They're dropped immediately — they're not stored or processed at all. The reason that we chose to do it this way is so that when you turn it off on your desktop app it also turns off automatically on your phone - and vice-versa. This allows us to keep things the same across all of our apps and clients, across upgrades.

Why not do it both on the client and server...
In the very short term, that can be true. If you intend to move in a year or two, sure.

Rents only ever go up, whereas a mortgage can only go down (in a refinance). A mortgage ends and so do the payments, but a renter will pay ever increasing rents forever. It gets particularly painful after retirement on a fixed income.

Things to consider!
Just wanted to follow up on fusors, since the technology seems to be less known that it deserves to be. As parent says, it is a completely solid, in-your-garage demonstration of fusion. Lot's of information at fusor.net [0].

[0]: https://fusor.net/
The EU paid AstraZeneca to stockpile vaccines as well. AstraZeneca exported those to the UK
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If you're concerned about the current state of privacy at Discord, take a peek at their API and the amount of access bots have to user data.
Then you should have restricted the downloads to only users that can prove they paid for the subscription.
Not an expert in this, but if I can access any website using HTTPS, so should be possible for email? Do we have any technical blocker or is it simply that biggest players don't want it?
They still have legal rights over something (whether tangible or intangible). NFTs don't actually confer any rights to anything by default, only ownership of the NFT itself. To have any actual rights recognised by law, you'd need some kind of physical legal contract conferring those rights on the owner of the NFT, in which case you may as well just have the contract and no NFT...
While on one hand I'm sort of OK to see Discord cash in, and Microsoft seems to have not destroyed github yet.....

I really hope Discord won't just be sucked into Teams or turned into an Xbox thing.

I also fear that MS Discord might destroy any remote chance of a Discord app on PS5 or Switch.
Americans build shoddy wooden shacks that barely last a generation, you have to remember.
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You can still use something like passmenu[0] bundled with GNU pass, bind it to a hotkey and it fills it in as if you were typing on your keyboard, no clipboard involved.

[0] https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/tree/contrib/dmenu/READ...
Right about USA. Wrong about UK.

USA has effectively banned export. UK signed a better deal (https://www.politico.eu/article/the-key-differences-between-...), three months earlier, and as a result all AZ vaccine produced domestically in the UK is going to UK Citizens, and they are higher up the queue for AZ product manufactured in the EU. This produces the same effect as an export ban (i.e. domestic production used entirely by country), but is really just the result of competent procurement.

https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/01/26/news/interview_...

EU shat the bed by penny pinching. Don't paint incompetence as "humanitarian efforts"
I think the product is the published guidance and the customers are different bureaus and branches of the federal government.
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Yes because all new discoveries obey the known equations right?

- Ultraviolet catastrophe

- Solar neutrino rate

- Precession of Mercury

etc
You assume most users are actually aware of the extent that these platforms abridge their freedoms and privacy.
Whenever I encounter someone trying to tell me that consciousness is ill-defined or not a real thing that actually exists (which happens surprisingly often), I feel like I’m taking crazy pills - or perhaps that philosophical zombies walk among us. Not only am I 100% sure that (my) consciousness exists, it’s literally the only thing I can be 100% sure exists.
You may enjoy core memory, where you can see each bit (although not its state) with the naked eye. Here's a very pretty 4096 bit (64x64) core plane I bought a few years ago. The board measures 5" square:

https://geary.smugmug.com/Computers/History/i-jb2rgF5/A

Core memory has the interesting property of destructive reads. You can write a bit directly, but you can't read one directly. Instead, you write the bit, and then a sense line tells you whether it changed or not. If your write-to-read changed the bit, then you issue another write to restore its original state.

Here are a few of Ken's articles on core memory that explain that and much more:

http://www.righto.com/2020/03/the-core-memory-inside-saturn-...

http://www.righto.com/2015/08/examining-core-memory-module-i...

https://www.righto.com/2019/04/a-look-at-ibm-s360-core-memor...
> The U.S. is stockpiling them because AstraZeneca might get approval and then they can use them. They are hedging their bets. It's a sensible policy.

Good example of "screw the world" that is quite common there.
US is hoarding vaccines it doesn't need right now and the rest of the world (except UK, which has so much common with US that it is almost funny) is vaccinating everyone right away with their vaccines.

I really hope it will be remembered after it is all over.