skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sorry I could not respond to your offer sooner. I am a wrongthinker you see, and we are not allowed to post very often on HN. I will decline your gracious offer, because those sources are going to be no better than the wikipedia article based on them. Starting at the top of the references section, I see the first supporting link is from Washington Post, a well known publisher of biased false information. Let me illustrate with an example:

Washington Post recently admitted the sensational Trump Georgia call story was false. The entire story was based on hearsay from Jordan Fuchs and refuted by the recording of the call. The Post was forced to retract. Alone, presenting hearsay and rumors as fact is bad enough, but worse in the context where the sensational quotes were "independently confirmed" by several other "trusted" media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, etc.

In fact, on a locked Wikipedia page on this topic, we see that Wikipedia continues to spread this false information more than a week after the retraction,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...

I won't read a locked wikipedia page, not just because the page itself is locked and editorialized, but because the supporting links are going to be equally poor quality sources from their echo chamber. These biased false stories are "locked" in, pretty much permanently. Editors rush to add them, and conveniently forget they are still referenced when the story turns out to be untrue. No one else with an interest in seeing them removed can do so because the page is locked. Wikipedia therefore, persists false stories under the lock indefinitely.

The Washington Post publishes false rumors about the POTUS as confirmed facts. I have little hope that their coverage will be honest and thorough for someone much less significant like James O'Keefe.

The lock is the first thing I check before reading anything on wikipedia. If it is locked, I close the page, because the page is invariably full of wild conspiracy theories from tabloid quality sources.
You cannot have your hydro power plant generate panties.
> Although the GoF Abstract Factory pattern doesn't rule out having mutable state in your factory object, that is neither necessary for its purpose nor common practice when applying it in OO programming languages.

An object by definition encapsulates mutable state. Even if a particular object happens to not contain any mutable state, there's no way to observe that from outside, by design.

If your language forces you to use an object to represent an (immutable) function value, all I can say is don't use such a shitty language.
Musmula is this fruit. Mentioned in the article as well.
The US is doing quite well, but when you measure per capita it is not #1. Per capita, US is #9 in doses given, #6 in people vaccinated, and #6 in people fully vaccinated. Israel is #1.

There's a worldwide tracker here [1] that is good for comparing countries.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccina...
GPT-3 is pretty amazing. The story itself isn't all that compelling and doesn't really hang together, but each sentence is believable on its own.

That kicker, though, feels like it could be a premise on its own:

> The police take the narrator in, but they aren’t taken to a normal jail. They’re taken to a special prison — a prison for people who might die.

> He spends the remainder of his life in that jail cell.

I quite like it, and it even fits the original prompt quite well.
Native English speaker here. Never heard nude used that way. Always just as a synonym for naked. The existence of this now removed definition was a surprise to me.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the article, but it does exemplify the tight rope you sometimes have to walk as a man.

The issue is that women are, well, individuals. Who knew? Some like direct honest feedback. Others don't. The same applies to men. Perhaps on average women prefer the more gentle approach rather than the more direct one, but in the end it all comes down to the individual.

The problem with a lot of these debates, IMHO, is that they're framed as a group/gender debate ("men vs. women") centred around statistics and averages, rather than as an interpersonal conflict. I have definitely been the target of "mansplaining" by more than a few men, even though I am a man myself. I'll readily believe this happens more often to women, and this is an issue, but that's an average which doesn't necessarily say all that much about the social interaction you're having right now.

Interpersonal conflicts happen all the time. Between men and men, between women and women, and between men and women. There are loads of reasons for this; mismatched expectations, misunderstandings, lack of empathy, cultural differences, or just plain personality conflicts. It's part of the human condition.

But once you start framing all these things in a context of sexism it becomes tricky business to get it right. Being accused of assholery is one thing, but being accused of sexism is quite another. No matter what you do, sooner or later you will do something wrong because we're all just blundering through all social lives making tons of mistakes all the time.

A few years ago I attended a (local) programmer meetup; one women made a presentation I quite strongly disagreed with and we had a decent discussion about it. Afterwards I realized that perhaps I came off as a tad too strong (this was also quite recently after I moved to the UK from The Netherlands, which has quite a different culture). Live and learn. I don't think I did anything wrong as such and would have voiced things pretty much the same if it had been a man, but I was afraid that it was perceived as "mansplaining" by either the presenter or some of the attendants. I don't know if I was, but it's certainly possible.

It's hard... Unfortunately a lot of the more, ehm, engaged people on this issue seem quite unwilling to listen to men about this and learn from their experiences. This entire thing is really hard and if we're ever going to fully resolve this everyone needs to listen to everyone else. Men need to listen to women, but women also need to listen to men.
I see no such thing in the article you linked to. All that ruling says is that a defendant is not liable for defamation against a public official strictly the basis that what was published was false and caused injury to a person.

However, the ruling explicitly states that if the publication knew that the information was false or disregarded whether it was true, then a defendant would be liable for damages.

That seems completely reasonable and in no way suggests that anyone has a license to lie.
Oh wow exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
Obama once said something like "if you like your health care plan, you can keep your plan". That did not turn out to be true. People said he lied.

Was he lying? Did it matter whether he believed it at the time or not? Or maybe lying or not lying is the wrong lens to view that through, it seems to me to be more like a broken promise, since the person stating that had a high degree of control over the outcome.
Yeah I find American exaggeration (over-positivity) quite tiring. Good things become "amazing" and "literally the best ever". Even "great" is just around median in actual meaning. Everyone is "excited" to meet you and "thrilled" about whatever you say, wide smiles etc. Complaining about anything is a huge no-no, your life narrative must always be carefully crafted and anything slightly negative rephrased as a positive challenge and learning opportunity. Everyone is a hero sitting on a great exponential upward curve ahead of them. You are considered negative and a downer for just not buzzing all the time. Seems like people care even more about "saving face" than in East Asia.
>the court system

You're assuming the existence of a functioning court system where you can hope to get justice in a reasonable time frame. Given that this happened in India, that is a very bold assumption indeed.
> money laundering is taken fairly seriously

There are a lot of loopholes to exploit, especially in regards to real estate.
Last year I bought an office licence through work and bought a laptop which came with a trial of office preinstalled. I tried activating the trial with my bought license but no dice. I tried uninstalling the trial, didn’t work. I ended up calling MS support and they remotes into the laptop, with my authorisation, cleaned up the trial with a special removal tool and got me up and running.

Now ok the problem was caused by them in the first place, but support was easy up contact, I didn’t wait long and they fixed the problem.

Corporations use a lot of fancy tech like Citrix, VDIs, remote application management software, securuty software, etc. They can often end up with weird problems with software compatibility and need vendor support.
Ryan Murdock/advadnoun here: Glad to see some interest in the project!

I've written a few follow-ups to this, with some public notebooks as well that produce qualitatively different results. If anyone is interested, it should be pretty easy to find the BigSleep method, which steers BigGAN in a very similar way to this, as well as the Aleph notebooks, which use the DALL-E decoder or Taming Transformers VQGAN to generate images with CLIP, depending on the version of the notebook.
I'm fairly confident none of them were million-person multi-year meta-analysis, although I'm always happy to be proven wrong. Do you have any broad, high-confidence studies you have in mind?
And if you’re actually kind, fair and decent to women you will have people who rebut the rumors.

This is very naïve. For this to work, either people would have to be omniscient, or some karmic mechanism is ensuring that "justice always prevails." Let me assure you that neither is the case. I know this, because being different and being a minority, in various times and places, was enough pretext to let people attach falsehoods to you, and have it widely believed. We know this from false accusations in the Jim Crow US south. I know such things from my personal experience.

However, those mechanisms aren't the only ones. No-one is completely immune from such accusations, except for fleeting periods of extreme popularity and societal goodwill. A lie will get seven times around the world, before the truth laces its boots. This, too, I know from personal experience.

The question is this: Do we want mob mentality to be the arbiter of justice? Nearly a millennium of jurisprudence would firmly tell us: NO!

What's more, the mob mentality is clearly sexist! And it's the mob's sexism which is the root of the problem. On average, isn't there a much stronger mob reaction from a woman's accusation of sexism over a man's? It's this difference that gender-skews the cost/benefit calculation. This difference is itself sexist.

Justice doesn't come reliably from the mob. Instead, what we get is bias that results in more sexism. Funny that.
Ever Given Everywhere
> Untrue: I hope the Ecuadorean government will one day compensate them for the awful pollution it has caused

This is the part that does it for me. If Chevron participated in the destruction of their environment then Chevron should have to compensate them. Even if the law says they were allowed to it should be the type of thing that’s not tolerated. You can’t give someone permission to murder you and I think it should be the same for the environment. A government or land owner shouldn’t be able to give the ok for environmental destruction and everyone who’s involved should be liable.
> Literally any method of getting from A to B faster than light would, has a causality paradox.

Pretty much every explanation I've seen as to why this would ostensibly be so would - when applied consistently - consider the average thunderstorm to be full of causality violations because you can see the lightning before you can hear it.

It shouldn't matter how long it takes me to go from Point A to Point B. As long as I arrive at Point B after I departed from Point A, then causality should be preserved. Doesn't matter if n=1s or 100s or 10000s or 0.0000000000000000000000001s. As long as n is positive, then where, pray tell, was causality violated?

And it shouldn't matter if someone else sees me arrive before one sees me depart, for the same reason why it shouldn't matter if the light from a flash of lightning arrives before the sound does. That is: just because you perceive something out-of-order does not mean it was actually out-of-order.
In Turkish, "Musmula suratli" = "Medlar faced" is a common and funny expression to describe someone with an ugly / grumpy /sour face.
Superficial analysis by the CBC. The only reason why the citizenry is heavily invested in the US media is because they are ANGRY. Americans have been laid off by the corporations, led to bankruptcy by a callous medical insurance system, told them they are dumb and untrainable by programs like H1b, and lied to repeatedly by politicians.

Americans are looking for a savior. The politicians and the mainstream media are pandering to this groundswell of voter anger.

For years now, the only remaining public institution that Americans "trust" is the military. If a junta of generals promise jobs and stability, I do not doubt that many Americans will acquiesce.

For those who like to draw parallels with the Romans, this is how Rome became a monarchy. The average Roman was being exploited or enslaved by the wealthy optimates led by Pompey and they looked for salvation in Caesar and his nephew Augustus.

https://www.pewresearch.org/ft_19-03-21_scienceconfidence_am...
Chummy – The missing browser extension for GitHub
Adding to this, another alternative is Deluge
A lot of people get emotionally tied up with being "in charge" and can't take any criticism from a subordinate or outsider.

I've met people who treat any investor as a part owner and will listen to them as best they can. Then there are those who treat any investor as someone who is graciously being tolerated.
adversity as an opportunity for growth is a mindset some find themselves lucky enough to consider. others must rely on external persuasion from trusted mentors. every journey is different
Sure, because the call center was your workplace. Now your home is your work place and the rules have changed.

And to be clear I don't particularly believe this methodology is ultimately good for anyone; either the consumer, call center staff, or the company who's call support has been outsourced.
It may not be productive but understanding the extensibility of our systems gives us a more wholistic view of them.

It could be useful in unexpected ways in the future. Or not.
Bloomberg sensationalizes to move markets. They aren't any more trustworthy.
Try https://quilljs.com/ It's open source, sleek and has a really simple plugin system, which makes modifying the editor, very easy.

> and what’s a good intermediary format to store rich text soo we can switch editors for the future. Raw HTML might take too much space possibly.

Unfortunately, HTML is probably the best solution, as it's portable to almost any WSIWYG editor and self contained. The space issue usually comes up with storing images, (shameless plug) that's why I made a quill plugin to shrink images.

https://github.com/benwinding/quill-image-compress
Misconstruing someone's motives isn't a sign of weakness.
I have heard a lot of people say that is what it is like to be a minority. You are always worried that what you say or do will fall into some negative stereotype. You don't speak the way you naturally do in public for fear of being branded "uneducated". And you completely avoid certain situations because you are simply tired of keeping your guard up.

So if anything, maybe having to be on your guard all the time will help people learn what it is like to be a minority and can then understand why it is helpful to at least be somewhat thoughtful in how you treat people of diverse race/gender/cultural background.
"I have said before that I believe that teaching modern students the OSI model as an approach to networking is a fundamental mistake that makes the concepts less clear rather than more."
Oh my Jesus, this, so much this.

This was a great, well written article. Even as a network engineer, I learned some things. Never hurts to study the fundamentals.
> If it was a man, and they got offended, could we say it's also because he was insecure about not finishing in time?

Yes, absolutely. Men do that all the time.
I think a big difference simply comes down to relative living standards. If you grew up poor, held back by disastrous policies the American 20th century standard of living sounded amazing: supermarkets full of food, factory workers can buy new cars and TVs (not just elites), the space race and other feats seem amazing if you’re in a country which is struggling to maintain a basic standard of living for everyone.

In the present era, things look a bit different. Most people are living better[1] and there are plenty of people doing quite well domestically to look up to, not to mention that the other side of the comparison has come down a lot as you have e.g. better high speed rail at home and while Americans are still buying tons of cars they’re buying 4WDs to sit in traffic on roads which are years overdue for maintenance so that’s not looking like such a great deal, not to mention that real wages have come down enough to cause problems which are prominently reported. Recognition of the problems poor/non-white Americans face is similarly going to be well reported. The expensive, pointless debacle in the Middle East gave a lot of ammunition to anyone saying our government wasn’t as good as claimed and 4 years of Trump poured gasoline on that particular fire, especially with the pandemic spotlighting basic failures of the government to protect its citizens.

China’s government hasn’t exactly forgone the opportunity to tell everyone how much better their system works. If you’re growing up in that world, a lot of the old luster is gone and the inertial weight of basic things like English fluency are going to accelerate that process, too. If it seems like things are getting better it’s pretty easy to put your hopes there.

1. not the Uighyurs but how easy is it to learn about that?
Because I didn't understand it?
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

- Joshua/WOPR

edit: clarified provenance to the best of my ability.
A mattress in his office is the least of what is said about RMS on HN and elsewhere. The point stands that a lot of people are harassing him for being neuroatypical.
But then I'd have to learn how monads work, and I've been putting that off for good reason.
Did you consider FatFire?

https://www.reddit.com/r/fatFIRE/
IMHO, I don't think the Chinese gen z, or Chinese of any gens, are leading the nation away from American culture. In a more YC-ish term, the American culture is merely diluted.

2 facts: American blockbusters are still very successful in china, at least the good ones; there are a lot more decent options other than American ones, which was not the case a decade ago. The same can be said with HongKong culture, which used to be the only game in town.
Pretty much everything humans do to live involve environmental destruction. You’d end up outlawing being human.
Just because you say it means something to those people, doesn’t mean it means that to them. You don’t get to choose the hidden meaning behind other peoples words, and you’re clearly giving them the least charitable interpretation
So I recently got around to writing some code around a similar idea — enabling people to build websites using only components by treating data (the remaining bastion) as web components:

Demo page: https://mrman.gitlab.io/services-as-dom-elements/

Blog post describing the idea: https://vadosware.io/post/sade-pattern-services-as-dom-eleme...
Don't know why you're down voted because this is so true that it's partly one of the reasons teens (and former teens) ditched Facebook or scrubbed it well enough. I don't know anyone who posts pictures of themselves having fun on social media now. It's all just sanitized and carefully curated bits.
This is the first time I've seen new tech and felt a twinge of fear instead of thinking "oh cool".
Maybe they thought, oh, she is much more qualified than this other guy. But there is just something my gut is telling me about this guy... Or for some reason, I just feel more comfortable around this guy... Or, I'm going to invest in this guy because he reminds me of myself when I was starting out.

In other words, unconscious bias.
As a guy this would only put me at ease in a one-on-one conversation with the woman in question. I am just as wary of others' opinions as hers.
this might get bipartisan support given how often poor republican counties are the equivelent of welfare queens
I'm guessing you haven't bought much makeup or women's underwear.
Those Cosmic Wings You Had Delivered? They’re from Applebee’s
But how much is 5G faster than LTE in same frequency usage? Higher QAM would improve throughput but only on great place near the station.
This is a good point, though there are many common patterns, some start at 1 and others do not.
That's really fascinating. Did you ever learn more about that "He said..." behavior and what it's connotations are?
> That the United States is essentially a slave state, and that all of the wealth was created on the backs of slavery

I mean, all of that is true.

Nobody thinks that the founding fathers were B movie villains, only that they were overwhelmingly a set of people looking to maintain and increase their power leveraging their ability to own people like cattle, and steal land from the people who were already here as an economic concentrate and multiplier.

Treating them as infallible gods who were uncompromisingly dedicated to the public good holds our country back from what it could be.

I'd recommend An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States by Charles A. Beard as a introduction into how the constitution was designed to reinforce the power structures holding up the people who wrote it.
> Let's pay women an equal wage but please let's not pretend that women in power are any better than men.

Indeed; I couldn't agree more. Although I'd like to add a note to this which complicates things a tad, namely that almost all men are stronger than almost all women.

I have met exactly one woman in my life that's physically stronger than me. I'm not especially strong, about average, and I'm already stronger than >98% of all women out there.

The sexual harassment you experienced was, mostly, without actual physical danger. While certainly inappropriate, frustrating, and wrong if things really escalated in a way you didn't want you always had the option to just stop them from doing whatever they were doing. A lot of women on the other hand don't really have this option.
Feedback is usually an explicit and non optional step of the development process so this isn't ideal.
How amateur astronomers do that? I've looked up for this kind of project back in ~2008 but now that I live in a big city I stopping caring. Now I might move away due to remote work, any good projects to work on?
At a professional level not directly, but I believe (opinion statement) starting with the abstractions and the abstractions being the focus of all the coursework you typically take contributes to the problem over the long haul.