skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its time to make a choice between more profits or taking a stand against a regime that uses slave labour, forcible sterlization of women, mass surveilance, "re-education".

We'll see how many companies chose the former option and the type of reaction they get in the rest of the world for it. It will color the actions of other repressive regimes.

When they post a rainbow flag to support Pride or make a statement of support for MeToo or BLM, you feel they're doing something they think will have no effect on them except score them virtue points, but when it come to doing something that has a tangible impact on profits, well...the inaction is noticable.
Is anyone claiming to have definitive answers?

I've stopped believing in Christianity because the things I learned about physics and sociology far better explain the evidence that I've seen. Others appear to have done the same. Whether their is some untest-able higher power is irrelevant to my life. And if it can be tested and falsified then given enough time and effort it will be proven. Yet centuries of human effort have been wasted exploring what may simply be a side effect of overzealous agent detection.
Sure, but in a legal regulatory context, "scientific evidence" means different things than your "reasonable definition".
We should definitely do both, and we'll almost certainly have people on the Moon again before sending them to Mars, if for no other reason than to test some of the necessary technology. I hope that a permanent human presence on the Moon becomes a reality soon.

But there are lots of reasons to go to Mars, too. For one, it's much harder, which means a lot more innovation will be required to get there and set up a colony. Unlike Venus, though, these are one-time costs - the long-term economics of Mars are likely to be more sustainable. Mars is also richer in natural resources, not the least of which is gravity - we're not sure how much gravity humans need, but we do know that spending a lot of time in zero G is bad for our health. The Moon's gravity may not be sufficient for long-term individual habitation, or for rearing children. Mars also has an atmosphere, from which we can source useful gasses, and which provides (some) protection from radiation, and which gives it weather, making it a more dynamic and interesting place.

In any case, if we can colonize Mars, the same technology is applicable to the Moon, and we'll almost certainly apply it as such around the same time.
Is it? The data in the original comment indicates that Chinese H1B applications are substantially more female heavy than most countries. So unless you're prepared to argue that Canada and the UK are "suppressing female H1B applicants in systemic ways" even more than China, or you have some other source of data indicating a bias, there has to be another explanation.

The story could plausibly be true if restricted to just India, although even then I think you've gotta confront the fact that the UK's gender balance is only marginally closer to 50/50.
The US does not have a long term storage for nuclear waste either. at least not civilian.

They are now stored in the "yard" at the different nuclear powerplant

Decades of fighting has eventually killed every attempt because people do not want it.

I am always curious about people who say not to mind the waste, if it would be ok to store them in their yard?
Not being an RF engineer, maybe I’m being naive. But surely any radio transmitter is trackable with some form of triangulation. Although the vulnerability maybe a little easier and the beam forming in 5G make triangulation a little harder.
Grammatical complexity, in my opinion is overhyped as a barrier to language learning. In my own experience, after enough time and pratice you eventually internalize grammar structures without a problem. The real issue is learning enough vocabularly to express yourself not simply fluently, but eloquently, and to be able to make it through any text you find.

Also, a few problems in your argument against Mandarin: tone really isn't a barrier. The writing system, which is not an alphabet, would actually present difficulties, but I wouldn't consider it an intrinsic part of the language - it could be changed. Writing English isn't much better, but similar complaints could be made for French.

(It should be noted that Manadarin morphology, on the otherhand, seems to discourage borrowing words, and most things are imported as calques. This could be viewed as a either good thing or a bad thing.)

Languages, in general, are around the same level of complexity. We can make comparisons and say that English inflection is massively simpler than Hungarian's , but we shouldn't concluded based on that assessment that English is simpler than Hungarian, but that this complexity is simply distributed differently.

English has a lot of relative benefits: it's closely related to a lot of widely spoken languages. And a lot of people speak it. It's not even close, even as a speaker of Spanish, which has more native speakers than English, it feels like a Sisphysian effort to find content that's just as high quality as I have been accostumed to in English, and inn any type of quantity. But none of these advantages are intrinsic to English.

My central thesis, after all, isn't that Mandarin or Hungarian, or even as easy to learn for most of the (IE speaking) world. It's that the supposed advantages of English aren't its grammar, and that English isn't a superior language by any means. History, not lingusitics, has allowed English to enjoy as much widespread diffusion and prestige as it does today.
To amplify this, a significant use case could be: Associates (e.g. family members) hanging out in the same room.

You certainly don't want to share all of your windows, but you [both/all] want to act immediately on "Look what I found."

Also: Helping with homework.
So do you judge non-abrahamic religions as faiths or religions or paganism or ....
Taiwan introduces more water restrictions, potentially worsening chip shortages
The general idea is obvious: a (literal) litmus test.

The details are what make it work, including availability of cheap test materials.
Leslie Lamport: Thinking Above the Code (2014) [video]
I've found HN to be the closest to reality of the three you cited.
Those with wealth and power will never be on cctv camera, only their minions will be.
"Support" implies that the it's a good idea to be be pursued, contrasted with "once thought outlandish" (it's still outlandish, but possibly less worse than the alternative) in the clickbait headline. The content of the article suggests that scientists have concerns about the long-term effects and that we need more research so we better know our options, and that it's no substitute for reducing carbon in the atmosphere, not that it's a good idea that just needs development of a solution.
A massive number of people believe that the configuration of the stars or other celestial bodies will influence the outcome of their lives. They also believe that humans have achieved mastery of this celestial language. Millions of people believe very strongly that a divine force keeps track of the bad and good things that each person does, and will make each balance the other through happenstance. People really believe that. And the most shocking thing is that there are people who know about this and dont appreciate the fact that the world is an ocean of insanity that dashes all good things against the rocks. I know this for a fact because there was considerable surprise at the sudden popularity of “flat earthers.” Anyone who has any sense would not be surprised because this is tame stuff compared to religion, karma, horoscopes and all the other nonsense that preoccupies a terrifying number of people. Flat earth has echos of logic or at least the superficial appearance of sanity. I almost welcome it. But anyway I have been saying for many years that the dogma that has infected the liberal camp is very similar to the dogma that made Christianity so infamous. They are very similar: kernels of truth that deflect criticism of moral dogma that fuels a race to the bottom which ultimately results in hilarious contortions of the human condition and mental gymnastics that resist enlightenment no matter how blinding. The mistake is that people associate dogma with religion. The only true association is with stupid people. Soon wokeness and it’s dogma will be uncool and abandoned just like religion but the dogma will not die with wokeness.

And what scenario do you imagine when you imagine confronting dogma? You probably imagine painstaking effort being put into conveying reason to the afflicted. It’s always the same pensive expression on the face of that person. And that effort is always met by bulging veins up the neck and forehead. For all of history it has been pensive wincing at bulging veins and slamming fists. And the epiphany that I have had is that it is completely a fools errand to engage in that exchange. No matter how perfectly you do it, they won’t understand.
Just shooting from the hip here, but isn't that expected because their CVs would be worse due to the current climate putting them at a disadvantage? My gut feeling is that you need to have that system in place for many years to even the playing field first. Starting with fresh graduates getting equal chances, and then slowly letting that effect build up year after year.
I actually pay for few substacks. I do not see anything wrong with paying for independent content and none of the people I subscribe to had ever over advertised. To me it is about the value these people provide.
How to inhabit a space with another person
You can measure inflammatory if you have a big enough crowd, even though whether or not something offends is up to each individual.
I would argue that Airbnb is not illegal in 'most places', and even if it were, it does not take away the demand. Similar to cannabis, it's illegality did not take away the demand.

Whether there is demand is not up for debate, as there clearly is. The question lies in how it is handled. Making short-term rentals illegal will almost certainly not work. Allowing short-term rentals, and allowing enough housing to be built to accommodate them, along with those who wish to own is the only solution likely to work.
There are many independent individuals who share interesting information and opinions on Twitter. But they're stuck in a sea of... everything else everyone associates with Twitter.

I strongly doubt they meant following a corporation's Twitter, or something like that.
I also took a peak at your code and saw the manifest. This would be a pretty awesome PWA :)

I hope you keep at it!
It's true. When I worked at IBM long ago, the guys (Systems Engineers) who worked with the mainframes (on the "raised floor") told me that they wore only clip-on ties, so that if it did get caught it would just detach.
I've found the same thing with most of my friends that own homes. Everyone goes with a fixed mortgage banking on the fear that interest rates would go up. I assumed this was just a lack of financial knowledge on how to calculate and guesstimate projected costs, even with some rate increases over the period.

However, I've since had 2 cases that make the fixed rates more understandable.
1. In order to lower mortgage payments and provide longer stability in monthly payments that I could pass on to tenants, I got a 10yr fixed rate (around 3.4%) amortized over 30 years for an investment property 2+ years ago

2. I recently had to renew my own variable mortgage and I tried to go with variable again, however my mortgage provider wouldn't give me the variable rates advertised on ratehub.ca cause they were only for new customers. It resulted in me having to go with a 5yr fixed rate with another provider cause that was the next lowest that would work for me. I wasn't happy.
I once implemented a part of RFC1006, a way to use ISO protocols on the internet. It contains gems like:

In migrating from the use of TCP/IP to the ISO protocols

Whoever wrote that RFC seemed to think of the internet as some temporary stopgap measure until responsible adults found the time to implement a real network protocol.

My main takeway was: Thank god the internet won, OSI was some badly specified eldritch horror. RFC1006 was the only spec that seemed more or less readable by a human being.
Headlines like this are what keep the average person so far away from understanding money and economics. It's so absurd for so many reasons.
“You must believe in a Supreme Being” killed it for me.
Which is not necessarily untrue.
At least the cloud people would be able to see the Sun at the sky (and, for comparison, meteor people would be able to see it under the floor). I dread to imagine what a Mars colony would look like.
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This is actually one area where a lot of the “mega churches” seem to be a better fit. They are less oriented on church community and specific denominational biases, which is designed to create a less intimidating environment for curious people to attend and learn.

I have been in different churches for most of my life outside of about 6 years where I decided I knew better. I’ve never heard anything close to what angry Reddit culture seems to think is preached.

The issue is more that the Republican Party tries to paint itself as Christian to appeal to voters. Somehow this has created a lot of Democratic policy and talking points among their base which seem to take aim at hurting churches or labeling churches as a threat somehow...which naturally causes people to become more defensive.

The issue is that so many policies being pushed by Democrats over the last decade exist around the idea of controlling what people are allowed to do or say, going to far as to target all things Christian as something that should be disallowed.

It’s scary not just from a religious perspective but from the idea that people support such controlling policies at all.

The mindset it takes to believe that you know what’s best for other people is terrifying.
I meant that you can hardly call Russia an “aggressor” when the locals have been dreaming of becoming part of Russia since 1991. Also aggressor doesn’t invest into education, healthcare and overall quality of life.
A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name
Are you perhaps thinking of TiN, which has a nice golden hue and properties that are excellent for certain applications? It’s even marketed as “gold”, especially on pans.

Titanium is quite literally dirt cheap (if you don’t need it refined anyway), and nitrogen is the majority component of air.
In case any case any readers don’t know who “Fabrice” is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
> The point is that there isn't enough renewable energy for population centers right now.

Even when it will be enough when renewables work at 100% it won't be enough if they give 8% of their max output because it's not that windy today.

We should have at least 10 times the capacity in renewables than we actually need to have plenty on bad days (and nights).

> The only way that btc mining can truly claim to have no impact on global emissions is if it uses zero-emission energy that otherwise couldn't be used in some other productive way.

I agree, and that won't happen until we go 100% renewables, but we can't do that without a storage, and we don't have storage, but we can go 1000% renewables instead because that's the technology we have and already it is the cheapest way of making energy. And I think next crypto boom could put us on trajectory to achieve that by utilizing every bit of energy we'll overproduce and by being a mechanism to funnel money from the pockets of Wallstreet into renewable energy production investments.
That was the point I was trying to get at, that liguistically there's nothing "special" about English, as many people, as you can see in this thread, would claim. That's not to say there isn't a huge disparity between English and pretty much ever other language on the face of this earth, but we can ascribe it all to factors of history rather than any lingusitic factor. Once you establish a lingua franca, it tends to self-reinforce its position.
Then there are companies like Parler which didn’t even bother to remove the meta data. Unbelievably noob, they deserved to be shutdown even if I am generally pro free speech. Made it easy to find the white supremacists though.
It it applicable to the "practical" (or practiced?) software development?
I think it's more complicated than that. He really inspired a lot of people with his passion, drawing us into the movement. But then the same passion pushed us out of his corner, but his previous adherents didn't lose sight of what was actually important to us. I kinda think his attitudes promoted a diversity of ideas in a way that he never intended to.

He's currently at the center of conflict between several organizations that are considered keystones of our community. What will become of it? I don't know, but I have faith that we'll route around the damage.
Well, that's a interesting coincidence. The prizewinner in the OP also has a skin color that can't show infection by color.

I wonder how many other medical techniques are predicated on assumptions like the color of skin that don't work for everyone, and conversely how many medical challenges are literally invisible to most doctors.
That attitude seems extraordinary to me. People need to make a living, and if you don't pay them to produce the stuff you like, either they will stop doing it, or turn to shady crap like whatever this BitClout thing is, NFTs, or just spyware advertising.
There's definitely a real reason there, which is the same one that people from my parents' generation had when waving around the phrase "political correctness gone mad". I guess you'd rather ironically call it "virtue signalling". But I agree there's not likely to be much chance of having a constructive discussion with someone taking that approach.
Can you cite any instance where a union representing blue collar workers who already have stock options or similar stock based compensation as part of their member's pay package has lost them in negotiation?
I beg to differ. Music theory is essential regardless of whether you're playing off lead sheets, playing by ear, improvising, or reading scores.

You can't get good at any of them beyond a certain point without having your theory nailed down.
Ok content - yes, monetisation - no, distribution/reach - no.
The true value of it is not on earth but in space itself.

If it is used to build mega city sized space station then its value would be multi fold of that on earth.
Indeed, not every solution works in every possible case. Fortunately the person in the OP and many others still have time to perform research on these problems.
Fellow pianist here who also feels like sometimes too much emphasis is placed on score reading!

One interesting counterpoint that was brought up to me by my teacher in uni was that for certain pieces, mainly old old ones (think way before recording), is that sometimes the score is the _only_ thing that we have left from the composer to base our interpretation on!

I hadn't really considered this before, and it did make me appreciate score reading more (altho I still mostly improvise these days :D)
Others profiting at the expense of the authors is not a desired feature. A necessary consequence of the current OSS regime perhaps, but not desired. The definitions written down decades ago don't have to be the final say.

I chose the example of stealing from a restaurant precisely because if that were happening, people would call for legal changes to prevent it. Which proves it is sometimes worthwhile to make legal changes to protect value creating enterprises. The only question is whether or how the same should be done for OSS.
>But the right solution is still alternatives, not the government micromanaging and second guessing every single decision they make.

Agreed! Perhaps a publicly funded (not advertising funded) digital public square which protects lawful speech could be a potential solution?

>The difference is that slavery is inherently wrong, whereas deciding on your own internal membership policies for some club, or internet forum, or what have you, is not inherently wrong.

What is and is not "inherently wrong" is subjective and always changing.

Anyone who pretends that they do not believe in things which will be considered "inherently wrong" 10, 50, or 100 years from now has a god complex and is deeply ignorant of human psychology and history.
Fascinating, thanks to you both for the links. I’m wondering why companies like Yelp and the realtor association have been so effective at maintaining data ownership if this is the case.
But they have the right to do so. Blaming people for being uncautious makes no sense when there's no reason they should have to be.
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."

Barry Goldwater, 1994
I took classical lessons on cello and played in a community orchestra while also learning to play jazz on the bass. Today I'm mostly a jazz bassist but I also play with folk musicians due to my family's musical interests. Among folk musicians, the one thing more offensive than playing the bass is playing the bass and not actually bringing it. So I bring my bass. ;-)

So I live in both the "reading" and "ear" worlds, and in fact my jazz band requires both, since we're a 19 piece "big band" and play from written charts. The bass parts in those arrangements range from being written note-for-note, to being fully improvised.

In my view the main reason for learning to read is if you're interested in one or more of the musical genres that revolve around written repertoire. That's going to be "classical" (which extends beyond the classical era in both directions) and some jazz. You can get lost in that repertoire, and it's a blast to play, by yourself or with friends. There's so much of it that you will never run out of "new" material. Even with "ear" music such as much of jazz, reading helps you function in a band if you happen to know some but not all of the tunes being called.

And you're never completely removed from playing by ear. If anything, written material forces you to improve your ear because in most cases the notes are coming at you too fast to play without some mental processing that involves hearing it in your head.

There are two secondary reasons:

1. Access to material that stretches your physical technique and ear by design (etudes etc) or just due to being difficult. It's hard for improvisers and ear players to get beyond the plateau of playing what their hands and ears are already accustomed to.

2. Commercial work. But even there, reading puts you into a category of employable musicians, that is already overcrowded with musicians.

But if it doesn't interest you, or is an insurmountable obstacle, then leave it behind and don't look back.
"A good ear" and grasp of music theory go hand in hand. Strongly disagree that the latter is limited to classical music. The best musicians in jazz and pop music absolutely know how to incorporate the circle of fifths, types of cadences, Roman numeral harmony, etc., in their playing. That's... music theory! While there are musicians who can make it without that, they are the exception, not the rule.
I’m not sure this is true. New ideas/movements/inventions frequently come from people working together.
Slandering other commenters like this is not acceptable behavior.
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What are HNs favourite accounts/blogs in this genre? I’d be extra interested in string players :)
Shitty Infrastructure kills people eventually.
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