skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stopped watching him as well, even though near as I can tell his politics and attitudes closely match my own.

Better that I should just vote, and act, in line with my beliefs without spending extra time getting worked up into a state of rage in the service of them. John Oliver, Keith Olbermann, folks like that, are the Alex Jones of left-wing perspectives. You can share the views and still object to the mechanism for engagement they employ.

I feel like we're learning hard lessons on what these mechanisms for being human, signify. It's a pity we're learning the lessons in such a damaging way.
Why isn't Veritas a trusted news source? What does "trusted" mean in this instance? My biases: I tend to think the corporate press has less rigor in terms of sourcing/reporting claims than your average high school homework paper, which makes most of it not trustworthy 'news' to me.
I've found the same with all of the digital pianos except for the Yamaha I ended up buying and if not for that one I would have probably not embarked on this project at all, I really hate it when the sound isn't right. Now it still doesn't feel right (especially not when you hit a bass note), but I can live with that and with headphones on at least I don't irritate everybody else here.

But the most fun in practicing is on the real piano.
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What do all large countries not at war do? Prepare for war. Why would people think preparing for war be a crazy idea?
> I think he tried to use mature, respectful language.

Resorting to advice that consists entirely of race/gender stereotyping isn't “mature, respectful language”.
Oval, orange, edible in summer? Japonica. Round, brown, requires frost - European.
A free short story idea for you: in the not-so-distant future, we’ve trained AI to predict the probability you might die on any given day. But it’s trained on so many factors, and reads so many inputs, that no one really knows how it works.

So the story is of a random person who suddenly observes their meter jump from the usual 0% to a cautious 3%. Then over the course of the day, it slowly climbs to 20%, and onwards.

No one knows why, and no one can help them.

Finish the story. There are a variety of interesting outcomes (most of which lead to the demise of our poor random Joe or Mary, but not all).
> I appear to be the highest ranked woman here

What do you mean?

> show me the woman that is supposedly doing it right so I can take pointers from her

There are successfull women everywhere. What are you on about?
Usually when people describe their internet comments with phrases like "hold up a mirror" they're coming across as far more aggressive than they think they are. Everyone always feels like they're just playing defense while the others are committing outrages.

As for how shitty this thread is, I've spent the last several hours posting dozens of comments, feebly trying to do something about that. All I'm asking you (and others) is not to make it worse yet. Gratuitous provocation takes discussion straight to failure modes. We're all worse off if that happens.

How that's a reason not to make substantive points, or what it has to do with SV, I'm not following. The vast majority of HN is far away from SV, all over the world, and I've never seen a correlation between posts being shitty and posts being from SV. On the present topic there is probably a mild negative correlation, just because people in SV have been through so many iterations of this discussion, for so many more years than most places, that they're less likely to get activated with naive outrage.
Yes, exactly, and the systems built around that process of signing documents and having settlement through a bank I can guarantee used more energy (human/electricity/resources) than a single Bitcoin transaction would've.
Note that SARS-CoV-2 contains a unique furin cleavage site, unseen in other coronaviruses.

The first to point this out, in February 2020, was the Wuhan Institute of Virology:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12250-020-002...

This strange furin cleave site allows the virus to bind to human ACE2 receptors. An interesting scientific reading on this, which does not rule out genetic manipulation in a lab:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/bies.2020002...
"Think about what a white man would do"

This does contain the essence of your advice; namely, to take credit for work more often, and or more clearly.

My approach is very different.

And I have had the pleasure of mentoring women into male dominated roles a time or two. Fortunately, we were able to establish trust and another male coworker involved in mentoring worked in a similar way. There were challenges, but we made them team ones, not just hers. That made a big difference, IMHO.

What we did was take gender out of it early on, unless it made sense.

In this case, the advice would be, "you should take credit more." And the follow on would be ways to do that and to support the person who will benefit from doing it. That can be as simple as some recognition and sharing later:

"I saw you go for it. Nice! So, how do you feel about it? What happened? Will you do it again?" Etc...

Where gender does come up, that discussion almost always involved a telling of things. And the reason, explained if need be, is just simple understanding.

"How is it for you?"

And that helps with, "what if it were me?"

And then advice makes sense, because there is context, a shared basis.

That is not always needed. Hard to say when it is. But when it is, having it really helps get past or through whatever the challenge is.

I have been fortunate to have women in my life who will share, who I have worked with, who I have helped, and who have helped me. And the things they share have highlighted the fact that their experience is different. Same goes for many attributes, race, beauty, etc...

Often, the barrier to sharing and understanding boils down to some shame, or blame, or admission of weakness, or the perception of making excuses. And while those things can be part of the discussion, it is unhealthy to presume they are, and my experience shows me that presumption happens more than it should.

And that all contributes to how hard this matter is, or can be.

I am a guy, and have found myself discriminated against for seriously considering, "what if it were me?" Or for asking, "How is it for her, or them?"

It is almost like a betrayal, or threat... something I am expressing poorly. Sorry for that, I just do not have precise words.

Often we are asking people different from us to see things from a more familiar point of view. More familiar to us, but what good is that when it simply is foreign to them?

I resolved it this way: we should be seeking a better perception of what it is like for people very different from us. Mutual understanding and respect, consideration.

In my view, there should be no shame in any of that. But there is! And all this is harder.

Since that time, I have paid a lot more attention to these dynamics. Barriers to understanding one another better present real costs and risks that can be avoided, again in my view.
I think everyone knows that #4 is a plausible theory. But it's frustrating to see how the media played it as a conspiracy theory, which just discredits the media. Kind of like how they said that masks aren't helpful at first, with the ulterior (but noble) intention of preserving the mask supply for healthcare workers.

It just reinforces the idea that misinformation is fine as long as it gets people to behave the "right" way, and only bad if it could cause someone to do something wrong.
Another reply to the same comment, bad form, but there you have it :)

Can you have a look what level you are outputting when the notes are missed? Maybe there is some kind of happy compromise here that would do away with a setting that most people would not understand.
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The payout matrix for "give honest advice / don't give honest advice" has changed, radically. Then some people noticed that, and then their behavior changed to match. It isn't punishing anyone, it's adaptation to a new risk. The "Pence Fence" is a defensive strategem and it didn't arise in a vacuum. It is a costly defense, too, so it being kept up is likely worth the cost to mitigate the risk.

Most of what comes after when discussing the issue is "how to 'fix' this 'problem.'" by encouraging men to speak anyway. But that is the wrong approach, because it relies on people changing their behavior back like hurling themselves on grenades -- you can't count on it. Still high-risk, low-reward. Perhaps even no-reward. Making plans on people (well, men in this instance but it could be anyone) being irrationally drawn to self-sacrifice is not going to pan out, especially if your reputation is destroyed in the mix after. Leaping on grenades typically earns a medal, but here it gets you vilification.
I have heard that idea expressed frequently, and it roughly translates to "The CBC craps on the Tories too much, and not enough on the Libs."
Dissent on Trial: The Grand Inquisitor. The Silence of the Lambs
Suffice to say, if there were meaningful risks from drinking normal amounts of coffee, it would be known by now. Its main drawback is that it makes people nervous and jittery if taken in excess.
I mentioned this in #dri-devel when I talked to the Mesa developers: They should decide on a number of years where it is acceptable to say "that's too old".

Not sure what number that would be. I too doubt that anyone is still using a 32-bit computer that's more than 16 years old today. But you have to draw the line somewhere. 5 years? 10? 20? I think 10 would be a reasonable number, but that's just my humble opinion.
But there are alternatives. Even in the Soviet Union where the government controlled all press and TV, it was possible to find other sources of information: short wave broadcasts, samizdat, word of mouth, etc.

The most important thing is the habit of not trusting any sources, official or not, and ability to recognize propaganda.
> all the predictions of doom over the past decade or so never came about

Only if you're ignoring climate change
Developers are a tough market (I am one). They're also a pain to manage, expensive, and still human(ish - if you're lucky) :p, with all the ego and mistakes that come with the territory. No-code for simple wiring/boilerplating once good enough/widely adopted enough, will kick our asses. But then again on the opposite side, in many cases business types bring mainly money to the table, leaving the expensive nerds to do the rest, and have fun with their RG machines in the process.
I don't see it as a disconnect, my baker friends seldom buy bread and I suspect jewelers seldom buy jewelry for example.

Why buy when you can make?
The magnification distorts reality and alters peoples behavior such that everyone is a little bit more irrational.
Funnily enough I stumbled upon such a tree while out for a walk in Surrey (UK) last November. Amazed to see a tree laden with fruit in winter, I loaded my rucksack thinking they were some kind of strange quince or something. It was only after a bit of internet research I discovered they were this weird medieval fruit called a Medlar. Out of curiosity I duly ‘bletted’ them and 4 or so weeks later turned them in to medlar-crumble slice. Would certainly agree they taste “like over-ripe dates mingled with lemons”. A lot of faff, but very delicious!
> Programmers do not like to pay for their tooling.

Because it is too much work to convince the company that spending $500 on JRebel to have me not go on Hacker News for 5 (and it turns into 15) minutes while the thing compiles (my last company). I also have no real stake in whether the product ships in one month or two so I am not paying for it myself.

To pay for tooling, productivity needs to be a priority. I have never worked anywhere where productivity was discussed.
I think FL's 13 month summers drove all our boomers on to the internet.
Why are you sharing your opinions about a mechanism when you don't even have a remote understanding of the basics?
> I appear to be the highest ranked woman here

What do you mean?

I have more than 32k karma under this handle. I had like 25k karma under a previous handle. That handle appears to be the only openly female handle to have ever spent time on the HN leader board.
Polarization knows many victims. Important drivers are outrage, othering and dismissal.

I've followed Project Veritas and yes they go undercover for right-wing causes, but I haven't seen evidence of them being deliberately untruthful in their reporting.

The real case here is that imho we should all start to (1) withdraw from outrage, (2) expand our bubble to cover all sides.

I've done the latter, it helped with the former, although I'm not there yet.
It's not news. A female entrepreneur observed similar patterns and talked about it in a TED talk:

Is Modern Feminism starting to undermine Itself? | Jess Butcher | TEDxAstonUniversity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgIgytWyo_A

Unfortunately, I think those kind of videos do no reach their required target: new age feminists. It doesn't help either that the comments on the video are mostly made by men, who are angry at the current social situation in the anglophone countries.

IMO, these social issues are pretty inconsequential compared to the bigger problems we face: climate change and wealth+income inequality worldwide. I believe that social inequality would drastically improve if we concentrated on those major problems first.

Education is the linchpin, imo. Were we to work backwards from that, our world would radically change. You can't concentrate on education if you have to worry about housing, food, transport, and access to education. So, those should be as cheap as possible for every citizen.

Educators should have amongst the highest paying jobs in the country and competition should be fierce to become one at any level.

With an educated populace, there's no telling what we could achieve. We could think and reason for ourselves instead of listening to pundits. We could actually discuss things instead of scream at each other all the time.

But eh... y'all would rather fund another war on some poor country over oil, support another big corp to underpay people you don't care about, huddle into groups and be belligerent against those your group deems the enemy, vote for people who wield fear as a tool, or just be indifferent to the world around you as long as you're doing fine...
Any large to medium sized company with a backoffice cost-center, like a company that does X but has a huge finance department that needs to provide for it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-lab-theory-robert-redfiel...

CBS News, yesterday:

Kristian G. Andersen, director of the infectious disease genomics, translational research institute at Scripps Research, noted that "We know that the first epidemiologically linked cluster of cases came from the Hunan market and we know the virus was found in environmental samples — including animal cages — at the market," he said. "Any 'lab leak' theory would have to account for that scenario — which it simply can't, without invoking a major conspiracy and cover up by Chinese scientists and authorities."
This is true, even from (oddly) investors. Met a solo female founder at a coffee shop this week (my state is open). She's a non-technical founder, building an app which is a marketplace that also will compete with Yelp or Google Maps, for a customer segment with no money also hit hard by COVID. All she's heard to date is positive things from everyone. Her app is buggy trash with terrible UX developed offshore at bargain basement rates. Since she's nontechnical it took a while to help her ascertain that it was done in React Native. We had a very long conversation about business principles (lessons I've learned the hard way mostly), all of them came as a very painful shock, like validating the business model before doing a full build out of the app, simple things. Look, I've seem some insane shit succeed and I wish her the best, but somebody filled her head with dreamy bullshit and she knew nothing of business including her market and nobody had yet to ask her a single hard question. All of the questions I asked seemed table stakes, just making conversation about her business, she couldn't answer. Yet an investor from Mexico had given her $10k, to match her personal $7k investment, to build an app.

At some point I had to stop the conversation because I realized that what I was doing was giving her the first honest conversation about her business she'd ever had with anyone and to be honest I wasn't really the person to be giving any advice. Mostly I just asked questions and shared some lessons from similar experiences.

tl;dr: somebody lied to this gal (perhaps through omission) and she's going to learn some hard lessons.

Apologies for any typos.
Please don't invoke MLK as a bastion of peace and hope. it's so contrite: "look at this well behaved person there. Be more like him"

Except MLK also called out the passiveness of people, he called out the folks who were moderates. He worked with many who were deemed troublemakers and are hero's today. He spoke with anger and rage many a time.

So when people point at MLK and Gandhi as "peaceful models to follow", it's just a dog whistle to sit down and behave, and not step out of line. MLK didn't make the movement for civil liberties by being polite and taking everything in his stride. Neither did Gandhi. This is just plain white washing of history to appeal to "order" that befits people who don't need to care.

And no, you can't simply just understand what other people are going through just by proxy. No, most people don't know what Injustice feels like until they experience it, many don't even know when they do. It's about a conscious shifting of minds, and understanding that other people go through life differently than you, so maybe instead of saying "I understand", it's okay to say you don't and that you're there for them. Because you cannot understand. You cannot understand unless you live it. You can only sympathize, but first you need to even acknowledge the depth of the problems.
Eventually the only people left on Twitter will be extremists and marketers.
I don't know why (1) is unlikely. We know that a lot of people have weak symptoms. We know that symptoms are similar to other diseases. If it were to start in a remote area you probably wouldn't notice it until it entered a big city.
I don't think that trying to appear less aggressive is the correct ethical response to the putrid horror show unfolding here. Aiming for a civil discussion of "the woman problem" is not the right goal here. The correct answer to how should we best debate the question, But What Shall We Do About the Women? is not to have such a discussion at all. Just the fact that how to treat women is even considered an appropriate topic for discussion is enough to deter any human that isn't on the autistic spectrum from approaching this community, and the industry sector it represents. If the dehumanising, humiliating monstrosity of this "discussion" is hard to see, try replacing "women" on this page with "Irish" or "Jews."
The parrot keeper analogy is so beautiful and hilarious! Way overly-cynical for me, though.

Like others, I look to how humans care (deeply and emotionally) for "lesser" animals. Hell, some humans (me included) even care about plants, and are sad to see them dying. Now imagine if the plants made me, and introduced me to their society.

It could also be argued that the care-to-relative-intelligence relationship isn't linear -- the fact that I have enough intelligence to speak and have ideas would engender more care for me in a Mind than for a plant in me even if the intellectual delta between me and a plant and me and a Mind is the same, proportionally.

Also, the ultimate counterargument waiting in the wings is that the Minds would naturally be programmed to adore humans and subscribe to the lefty-horizontalism of the Culture in which it'd be unfashionable to disrespect or harm a being just because it's of lesser intelligence. (And they don't reprogram themselves not to because they were programmed to not want to do that.)

Side note: Another fun, cynical excuse for super-AIs keeping humans around is found in The Hyperion Cantos series, where the super-AIs actually tap into the collective brainpower of humans, essentially like some spacetime-bending crypto-miner run from time to time in everyone's brain with no physical evidence.
the italian word is "nespola" and the latin is "mespilus", so probably there's some shared indo-european root with "musmula".
Myanmar is already the site of the world's longest ongoing civil war: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_conflict_in_Myanmar

For decades, the Karen/Kachin/other ethnic armies have recognized that they can only defend against the Tatmadaw by force of arms. They're not the ones getting shot in the streets, because they're the ones out getting shot at in the hills. So, in a sense the OP is very correct: Myanmar is already home to plenty of examples of how peaceful protests don't work on total monsters - they'll just keep shooting. Ask a Karen how well peaceful negotiation worked on Ne Win. Not that armed conflict is a panacea, obviously - the war is ongoing. However, as far as I can tell, the fact that most of the recent casualties have occurred in cities like Yangon vs, e.g., Pa-an, has to do with how the latter is full of armed guerillas rather than exclusively government troops.
Nice humblebrag, but at the end of it all, "all humans are the same" is a thought-terminating cliché.
What, like SS7 phone hijacks and fake base stations tracking, and such, that happen all the time?

> it wouldn't take any time for someone to brute force any of these nodes and cause a ruckus.

1) Who says it doesn't happen?
2) Generally these things aren't on "the internet". They're behind firewalls and on this "other internet" I mentioned between the operators. You can legit buy access to this network for a few thousand dollars, sure. But if you're that serious you're probably not a rando after "rampant vandalism".
You forgot about another country, which was not so lucky before, and which had an incident in their 4 level biolab just before the start of epidemic.