skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In America today, the dangerous fantasy is that voting is not safe, the election was stolen, and that we need an armed uprising to manage that.

So, do you think those ideas deserve to be held up next things like suffrage or the abolishing of slavery? Please, no.
Unless we get to demonstrable herd immunity, with asymptotically decreasing deaths and cases, and effective treatment, I might never stop wearing one, vaccinated or not.

If for no other reason than to trigger the Freedom Fighters.
Regarding humans surprising Minds: if memory serves, modelling human minds, while obviously trivial for Minds, is not a Done Thing, as The Culture, of which the the Minds are the premiere manifestation, holds a high ethical standard in which software simulations of sufficient high fidelity have rights. If you model a human mind, you have created a human, and you then have responsibilities for that human, tiny as it may be. Similarly, it would be trivial for a Mind to scan or manipulate an organic brain, yet the only known Mind to do so (Grey Area aka Meatfucker) was held in contempt by its peers.

While the human level characters do not have any material worries to contend with, they do worry quite a bit about their social standing. You can choose to do nothing in The Culture, but then you are probably not going to be invited to the interesting parties.
I get mine from http://louie.world/wallpapers/

A bunch of wallpapers related to specific movies or Disney, with various variations or themes per movie/series.
Over the last weeks I have watched hours and hours of historical TV from The Netherlands ( NL ). In the 70s and 80s people were protesting left and right, against nuclear reactors, nuclear weapons, against polution, against (child) traffic deaths, to preserve nature, womens rights, for better wages etc.

There was no public internet at the time. I remember parts of these times.

Nowadays engagement is pretty effortless. One only needs to feel enraged.
I don’t buy it.
> I use social media for information

Oh boy.
The hell? Any decisions that involve more than one person involve tyranny?
RFC 5735 and TEST-NET-1 and TEST-NET-2, the example.com of IP addresses
Or. As I prefer to put it, and will probably die on the hill of popularising this phrase:

“Enragement is engagement.”
Tweaks to Accelerating Windows 10 for Gaming
I come away really disappointed with efforts for "meta search engines". There's so much more that should be possible. There should be a way to surface information regarding the results to that they can be combined (e.g. provide raw tf/idf scores, or expose the difference/bias between the results from different engines). I don't just want an API over triggering queries, I want an API that helps interpret/debias/rerank results.
Descriptions of being restored from a backup are also ambiguous. Don't remember the exact phrasing, but a character in imminent fear of death in one of the books thinks to themselves along the lines of "I am backed up and will be restored, but it's not the same as surviving, of course".
You can export the chaindata at any time and run geth on another OS, AWS is just a convenience because it's easy to spin up and easy to devops. It costs $300/month to run, I'm using it in production and it works great so far. I'm still glad to take your $1,000 if you'd like a full tutorial.
Putting cost aside, I think it's, first, because people don't want a separate device just for newspapers. That's just clutter. I want to read my news on the same device I read magazine articles and novels and blogs.

And second, while e-ink devices are really great at sequential reading -- page after page of a novel -- they're not that great at browsing lots of articles, picking the ones you're interested in, just because the refresh rate and scrolling is awfully slow.

Most people aren't bothered about reading news on their phone at all. It really is an ideal screen size for accessing bite-sized pieces of news throughout the day when we have short breaks, which honestly is how most people do it these days.

If you want leisurely long-form journalism over breakfast, you're really only looking at the Sunday paper, or certain weekly magazines. And so you can splurge to get those on actual paper, or else curl up with your iPad or Kindle.
Nowadays, it's hard to make money by simply telling readers the truth.
I would speculate law and medicine made conscious and considered effort to increase diversity, and tech did not.
I would appreciate it if someone could explain to me why this comment was downvoted.

It takes a stance based on the parent comment and gives an example where they believe looks had considerable differences in the behavior of society towards somebody. The example is not perhaps the best, but the fact that society actually shows favouritism towards attractive people should not be controversial.
I disagree with your view (= that languages are objectively incomparable w.r.t. difficulty of learning them, and instead only depends on your native language), but I'm not going to try and argue about this.

However I am curious to know whether you have the same view on Esperanto?
> Warp drives change the geometry of causality.

Those are all words, and that's about all there is to say about your comment.
They're not going to wind up homeless or in prison, but they still care about their reputation. If that's harmed, it's going to affect their ability to get richer.
Mere Christianity I believe.
Funny you mention this, Freud wrote a whole essay about how people how people who suffer neurotic disorders are in serious risk of being convincingly misinterpreted when being drilled under pressure in legal settings, and that legal officials need to rethink what they think true speech is, as a neurotic will indict themselves even if they're innocent
Investors only make money when people accept their money... like any other business. It's especially a risk now with VC money basically easier to get than a drink at 7-11
Please don't break the site guidelines like that. Getting downvoted sucks, but it happens to everyone and one condition of participating in threads here is not to make them go haywire when it happens.

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

Edit: you've unfortunately been posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments repeatedly elsewhere as well. Can you please not? We're trying for something different here.
“Yet another man who thinks all women are hysteric. What next, are you going to ask me if it’s my ‘period’?”

Once one moves from a position of effective prejudice (“he will criticise me because I’m a woman”), any critical statement can be read from that perspective. It’s a bit like with conspiracy theories, where every debunking attempt can be turned into “of course THEY would say that!”.
This is a great thing to do. I've found some old chat logs from 20 years ago, and I don't want to be the person who said some of those things. Why didn't I realize at the time that what I said was wrong to say? Life in an echo chamber warps us, and it's good to step away sometimes and see it from the outside.
I sometimes browse r/EarthPorn[1]. One in 30-40 photos satisfies me enough to be a desktop background candidate.

[1]: <https://old.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/>
That's not the point. The point is that you can stand up for yourself without throwing a fit, because genuine power doesn't come from how angry you can get.
Remember that you are on an American website with a heavy, American audience. You have to learn to dissociate European (in your case German) discussions and experiences from American ones. Don't "import" their problems, ideologies, opinions, etc.

It seems like many non-Americans simply do not make the context switch and once they leave the Ameri-sphere (e.g talk to fellow non-Americans), they talk about American topics as if they were happening locally - and is if they were directly impacted with a major stake in the issue.

Remember where you are, who you're talking to, and the context. Since non-Americans seem so eager to copy Americans however, it can be prudent to be aware of what's going on across the pond without being heavily invested. The USA is now acting like a looking glass into the future of what successes and mistakes are going to be imported wholesale by other countries and their citizens.
"Plenty of people do just answer "No comment" to every question, even after consulting a solicitor."

precisely because that's the best advice that you will get from a solicitor in the circumstances!

I rather belaboured my earlier responses to this same question, because I wanted to make it understood how rarely there's any justification to arrest someone. UK LEO arrest people by default and they absolutely do not have a automatic right to arrest anyone and certainly not only to bring you in to interview.
There's no such thing as overcorrection when _any_ correction in the direction we're seeing on display in this article is a net negative for literally everyone involved. Women get worse advice, men tip-toe around women, and society loses out on potentially valuable investments.
I have no idea. Possibly not.

The issue is this: Would a man have gotten a $10 billion valuation based on hot air and zero results for years and years? Or would someone have called him on his shit a lot earlier?

She was literally sleeping with and living with a much older male investor* while publicly claiming to be celibate in her twenties due to her extreme devotion to her career and business. I always figured that was bullshit and she was probably sleeping with someone and "I'm celibate" was probably a cover story.

And no one went looking for that because of fear of being called sexist, I guess. I hesitated to give that opinion on HN for fear of back lash.

But as a woman with six year of college and yadda, when I meet accomplished men in positions to open doors for me, a lot of them find me attractive and this actively closes doors in my face. I'm not willing to sleep with a man to open doors, not because I have some kind of moral objection to that but because I don't believe it actually works.

It didn't actually work for Elizabeth Holmes. Sleeping with an investor did not, in fact, help her succeed in the world of business. It merely helped her cover up fraud while her problems grew larger until it resulted in both criminal and civil suits and her name is mud. She will never really recover from this debacle.

So I don't think sleeping with men to open doors works. I think sleeping with rich and powerful men would get me sex and maybe would let me be a "kept woman" but it wouldn't get me taken seriously as a business woman and it wouldn't teach me how business is done and it wouldn't have some men giving me meaty, constructive feedback.

* Edit: To be crystal clear here, I mean someone who invested in Theranos, I don't mean "Someone whose job title was investor." This was a clear conflict of interest.
Biased towards factual information would be unbiased.

Do you really need examples of NYT's bias?
It would be pointless for the scanners to ping on copper, ABS, or batteries because every single flyer would have to open their bags and buttholes. It's the C4 and other pyro that they want to know about.
I’d say it really depends on WHY you want feedback. And perhaps who you are / what the code is doing for you (fun side project to build your skills vs MVP of your new funded startup).

If it’s just to improve your craft, I’d say there are lots of ways to learn without peer review. Studying other code based, open source, etc.

But if you’re a founder building your first project, the quality of your code is like concern #999 in the list. As long as it works and the clients are happy, you have better problems to focus on (like how to grow users). Much of HN doesn’t want to hear that, but many (most?) $100m startups were stitched together with duct tape for the first n years. And you know what? It works out fine. You deal with the technical debt later as you need to.
I am male, and I would say so.

I do not live in the Anglo Saxon world; know this well.

I would say so, and the thought that anyone would level some of these weird gender arguments I've primarily seen from Anglo-Saxon news sources wouldn't cross my mind, for it has never happened to me in my life. — and I am not entirely sure as to how much I should believe such stories I read on the internet that speak of how seemingly every single issue in Anglo-Saxon culture is phrased in terms of an imaginary gender war.

I have never in such professional disputes in my life felt as though gender were used as an excuse, or reason, I have never in my life been accused of sexism when I criticized female staffmembers, and I have never seen it happen to anyone else either, I have never seen anyone go that route as a matter of defence.

Perhaps, a difference is that Dutch professional analyses ten to be more numerical, and that the Anglo-Saxon more often wings it based on feeling rather than numbers. It is o course far harder to argue with numbers.
The other alternative is that it was happening, but happening outside the places (virtual and physical) that you inhabit. A lot of things happen in this world that we aren’t aware of.

Sometimes, our bubbles pop and we are shown something that has been happening, it wasn’t in our view. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t a bid deal or that it isn’t real, just that we don’t see most of the world at any given time.
Consider that it's common for anyone who suggests the impoverished of any race are more susceptible to police violence to be quickly and roundly piled on for trying to erase race or for supposedly engaging in “pity poor whites” rhetoric. It doesn’t even matter if “and impoverished black people even more so” is included. The fact that one isn’t solely focused on the racial minority in this context is grounds enough for social scorn and ridicule.

There is a very real problem with “oppression olympics” centered on racial identity, in this country.
Also, a system failure on an airplane has a much higher risk of a catastrophic event compared to a ship.

If an airplane lose both of it's engine, it's gonna glide but you're still at risk of crashing if you're far from a viable landing zone. If a ship lose its engine, it's still floating.
What I'm saying is that the correct response to those mobs is to ignore them or discuss their points on their merits. What often happens (particularly on HN) is a counter-mob forms that rails against the general idea of cancellation, despite the fact that often there are actually underlying reasons for being aggreived. If someone said something stupid 10 years ago the correct answer isn't for them to be fired, it's for them to apologise. But instead we see one group proclaim "Off with his head" and another group simply counter-mobilize. You see it even in the most extreme scenarios, today on HN we've literally got an article about Harvard closing down something because of it's links to Epstein, and people talking about "cancel culture". There actually are degrees of badness that we need to talk about beyond tagging everything as "cancel culture".
The fact that so many large corporations are eager to throw money at BLM, change their corporate logos to black, etc. while doing nothing tangible to address the real issues, proves to me that the current identity politics narrative is serving the elite very well.
> the other 99% is repetition, opinion, speculation, propaganda, etc.

I'd respectfully amend this to: the other 99% is repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, sportball, sportball, sportball, sportball, celebs, celebs, opinion, speculation, propaganda, etc.
The world a hundred years ago was better than it was a hundred years before that.
In other words, the world might not be improving fast enough for you, but it’s improving every day.

What a gross overgeneralization. What are we talking about exactly? Technological advancements? Yes, that's a lot better now. What technology is being used for? No, that's worse than 100 years ago. Climate? Worse than 100 years ago. And we could go on...

This piece is a prime example of being very selective in what you're willing to consider, in order to build a narrative around something the person thinks is bad, and then everything perceived to be part of that lands in the negative.

This then allows the writer to put themselves up as a voice of reason. Which is exactly what the author complains about, in a general sense. The idea of others that they are smarter than you, which the author tries to defeat by... throwing himself up as smarter than the people he's complaining about...

He doesn't literally say it. Instead, he shits on everything these people do and goes "here's what you can do instead". Let's not split hairs: that's something you do when you believe you're smarter than someone. Anyone can take their time to write something in a fashion that seems calm and eloquent and when people call you out go "I didn't say that". We can still notice you worked your way around it.

And no, not all opinions are equal. If someone's opinion is that the color of your skin, or the country you live in, or your sexual orientation, or your gender, etc... means it's okay for you to be attacked, that's not an opinion I have respect for.

It firmly stands out that the "all opinions are equal" crowd seem to have always forgotten about opinions that involve discrimination.

The problem here is the classic idea of "the democratic process is perfect and cannot be subverted in any way" while it clearly can.

It's partly a hero fantasy, where your view of the world makes you oh-so-much smarter than people who don't hold it (ironically, what the author is complaining about).

And partly a "perfect world" fantasy, in which people cannot bring themselves to consider that the world holds great injustices. Instead, only small inconveniences exist, and people who complain are exaggerating.

Both come from a lack of experience and an unwillingness to believe others.

Dr. King already said it in his letter from a Birmingham jail: "wait" almost always means "never".

The only person to decide if things are changing fast enough, is the person who is being disadvantaged, when they are not feeling defeatist.
One kind of magic kind of tool that I have never tested is time travel/omniscient debugging
E.g https://undo.io/solutions/products/java/
Sounds a bit like Orwell's Two Minutes Hate.
The lab accident isn't crazy. Happens in the West too, it's just something that will be politically weaponized against China if it were to admit it, although we just got lucky in the US and Europe before.

Typical Western hypocrisy would be at play and China has no motivation whatsoever to subject itself to that.

Also, SARS-1 escaped twice, in Singapore and Beijing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
What we call “engagement metrics” on the internet is called “ratings” in the TV world. One network in particular discovered the way to maximize their ratings decades ago and has been at the top of the ratings ever since.

The problems we have with social media are the same we’ve had with Fox News and AM talk radio for decades, but now people want to fight it because the social media companies started banning their worst offenders.
At $899 for a 13" display, the price doesn't seem to scale down well to the smaller area. The 32" display is more than 5 times the area, but less than 3 times the price.
yes, i have been perceiving same as he sayed. my thinking is that this is a bad thing for persons who are having less advantages: if white manager can give forthright feedback to only white persons this is actual bad for black one and maybe will harm the black one more than it help. this is likewise if most in office are feeling less cameraderie with a black for that they are not able speaking so openly and believe they are having to guard tongues. i wonder about these un-intended consecuences.
It’s more that they believe woke culture is the core impediment to said meritocracy.
I make coffee at home every day. I rarely go to places like Starbucks. I just measured my cup and it's 8 oz. I have one cup every morning.
The title kinda implies it.
If you enjoyed this style also check out [1], a weekly short story based on contemporary AI. Scroll down to "Tech Tales" for the stories.

[1] https://jack-clark.net/
"""I am not an animal brain, I am not even some attempt to produce an AI through software running on a computer. I am a Culture Mind. We are close to gods, and on the far side.
We are quicker; we live faster and more completely than you do, with so many more senses, such a greater store of memories and at such a fine level of detail. We die more slowly, and we die more completely, too.""" — Look to Windward, chapter 13

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks
It's interesting that Twitter doesn't get more attention here as a center of activity. Apparently, taking down Harvey Weinstein means you can do no wrong. The problem with Twitter isn't just that they get people fired because people say mean things on the Internet. The problem is also that they incite and organize illegal activities like targeted harassment, threatening phone calls and vandalism, as well as the questionably legal tactic of disrupting businesses' operations so they will comply with a mobs' demands.

When 4chan did this, they were investigated by the FBI. Reddit received a lot of flack for its own vigilante brigades after a mistargeted attempt to "catch the Boston bomber", and had to take action (still incomplete) against raiding.

Facebook and Twitter with their multi-billion market caps have just barely begun to wake up to what their platforms are capable of producing. The effects observed with these investors are not exactly unique to tech finance.

I think something like Wikipedia's protected article policy could help. When something becomes problematic, discussion can be limited to confirmed users, who in turn have more to lose by being banned. This allows Twitter to respond before "censorship" is justified.
I think of subliming as the civilisational equivalent of staying in your bedroom for the rest of eternity playing video games. It’s giving up on the concept of stakes or consequences or achievement. But then perhaps those are ultimately illusory.
The proposed warp drive requires Jupiter-sized masses organized very precisely.

Can you predict how long it will be before humanity can move that much mass around?
As a bisexual male, I think a good part of disdain about connecting HIV and gay goes to the older naming of the disease: GRID. gay-related immune deficiency

It also dates me, but I had a blood transfusion in 1982. At that time, it was a Russian Roulette if I ended up with HIV blood or not. I didn't. Had I been innfected, I would have ended up like Ryan White.
In the early 90s I had a professor who passed around a sheet of paper for us the first day of class to write down our names and our SSN.

I had to point out to him after class that was a rather boneheaded idea (I'm sure I was a bit more polite than that).
"The main takeaway from your comment is that whatever you do with music should be fun, to make sure you don't destroy your motivation.”

Absolutely. As a child, I encountered both music and maths in a way that destroyed any idea that they could be fun. I took piano lessons for eight years and got to a fairly advanced amateur level, but the emphasis on theory and having to play exactly what was written on the page led to me eventually hating it, and I haven’t touched a piano since.

I later took up guitar, and discovered that I just like making stuff up, and seldom play anything exactly the same way twice. I think that now a little more understanding of the underpinnings might give me more to play with, but I still have a rather visceral reaction when I see written music...
>Those kanjis are the easy ones

One thing to note is that the order they are learned is not from easiest to hard. The order is more based off the complexity of the meaning of the kanji.