skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true skin color is a feature of an ethnic group. But it's not a unique feature. Most of the middle east is white (a bit darker than the average white American but still white). In the US they are classified as white even though they have very little in common with the majority group of white Americans. Basically what I really want to say is that environment is the main thing that defines people, not skin color. The environment someone is raised in is far more important than skin color. African Americans for example makes much more sense to me as a classification than blacks.
"You wouldn't download a Mona Lisa" :D
> I have difficulty placing it in the leftist circles I run in, which generally view politics in the US as consisting of a center/far right party (democrats) and reactionary fascists (republicans).

The same view shared by myself and my fellow 'intersectional-ists'. I haven't heard of anyone aside from 'centrists' and fascists that adopt a different viewpoint? Perhaps there is a subset of fools on breadtube or facebook, sure, but they are vastly outnumbered.

> Almost as if her terrible politics simply didn't matter because of her identity.

Well then your lenses are vastly, vastly different to mine, and do not match up with both those in modern academic circles (Like, literally just read any new literature covering intersectionality and the introduction of it to communism), those on the ground in protests, and those present in progressive/queer groups (like me). It's worth noting that at the moment there is a huge divide between "progressive" communists, and, well, "regressive" communists (For want of better terms). From what I observed from stalking facebook commie groups, most of the latter are still stuck with 100 year old debates -- and while they have a huge amount of theoretical knowledge, they have no practical contributions to any revolutionary movements thusfar. For example, most of the discussion I observed was focused on rehabilitating Stalin's image, whereas most of the 'on the ground' antifacist-aligned folks are of the mind that that isn't really something modern communism should waste it's time on.

I would suggest at least reading some modern intersectional writing, if only to better understand the thing you're arguing against. The basic focus of intersectionality and how the systemic abuse created by late-stage capitalism impacts specific groups differently (The 'intersection' of those groups and the oppression they face), and how movements (even revolutionary) to improve conditions have backfired have been around for at least 60 years if Tony Cliff's 1978 writing "Why Socialists Should Support Gays" (https://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1978/08/gays.ht...) is anything to go by -- at least if you will give me the small leeway of temporarily ignoring how controversial Tony Cliff is as a figure in Communism.

If you are in search of one of the progressive communities I talk of, Something Awful has recently (last 5ish years) turned into a very leftist-heavy place, with frequent debate about neoliberalism, capitalism, etc. You will be able to ask questions there and receive answers and engage in productive discussion.

'Disease and Disaster' (Debate and Discussion): https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=4...

And 'C-SPAM' (The politics subforum): https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=2...

Are both good places to talk about this with progressive, mostly-intersectional communists. Just take note a lot of the thread titles are in jest, you should navigate to the last five pages and pick up context as you go (A lot of the threads have been running since 2016!) and espousing neoliberalism in an annoying way is a swift path to a probation :)
Ironic that all these platforms that have democratised global communication mean only the deranged or the righteous say anything.
Banning opinions for “things that are illegal” would ban everything from discussion about drug legalization to same sex marriage. The current legal status of a topic has no bearing on whether someone can make a cogent argument for or against it. Things that are illegal likely deserve more public forum for thought and discussion.
It was soon impossible to install software except by those "that was developed specifically for them". Even compiling new qt versions, which made the Fuel become very hot, was troublesome to build more modern software.
There's a small cottage industry of Youtubers making up "fake" news about how Star Wars movies and Star Trek shows are all getting cancelled and going out of business for "being too woke" and losing the audience. These Youtubers invent secret inside scoops about how the executives at Disney and other companies are constantly in turmoil and losing money.

My guess is the person you replied to doesn't realize these shows are fiction and doesn't' realize he or she is in a information bubble. However I know nothing about that poster so could easily be mistaken.
> It appeared to me as a low quality response that did not actually have anything to do with my comment.

I didn't think it was; it seemed to me a succinct summation of what calling the behavior in TFA "sexism" leads to: Ultimately, regardless of what he does, a man will be considered sexist by someone.

Or, to put it another way, calling the cautiousness we're discussing here "sexist" can itself be considered a bad faith position.

> But I honestly believe people making such claims are a minority, albeit with high visibility because of the sensational nature of their bad faith responses.

I'm not sure what to say to this: I agree, of course, but I don't think that's the point. That minority can and has killed people's careers and thus, we have the cautious behavior mentioned in TFA.
Faster-than-light communication doesn't necessarily break causation, if there is an absolute reference frame (blog post plug: http://forwardscattering.org/post/36)

Quantum 'spooky action at a distance' is something else though, as you can't communicate info with it (see 'no communication theorem').
The big issue undermining TFA argument is that the Culture-Idiran war wasn't started by Culture, and for a time Culture simply gave space (this is, btw, the original tenet of Culture - that with habitats in space, they can simply move them).

Unfortunately Idirans considered Culture anathema and accepted no other option than total destruction in name of religion.
There are different degrees of tracking. If my transmitter only transmits completely random data you can triangulate me at any one time, but you can't tell me apart from others[1]. This is what I would like to have. People may be able to tell where a specific signal is coming from but they can't reliably track a single device around the city as the only connection between my signal now and 1min ago is that the source moved continuously between those two locations. In practice it will never be perfect (patterns in traffic volume could give a specific user away) but it would be nice to strive towards this.

[1] (Well if you have perfect reception of my signal following me around constantly you may be able to track my specific signal, but once you lose me for a second in a group of people you don't know which one I am coming out)
I think opinion devalues the brand of news. People will share opinion columns from a newspaper on social media, people will begin to associate that source with propaganda (especially if they disagree with the opinion), and then when that source publishes hard news they disagree with, they'll brand it fake news. While newspapers go on and on about how they separate the editorial desk from the news desk, it doesn't matter when they both have the same company's name up at the top.

To some extent, this devalues the brand of all news. I'm sure that the Trump supporters who think The New York Times is fake news also don't read The Wall Street Journal. Even though the Journal has pretty conservative slate opinion columnists (and editorial board), people won't even consider it because they think all mainstream media is fake. (It never tells them what they want to hear; the real world without spin is VERY BORING.)
Just came out from diamond league
> Sounds like a permanent mid-life crisis.

I mean... uh, not really. A mid-life crisis is about impending old age and death. This is the exact opposite. And how many people undergoing a mid-life crisis devote their time to architecture or mathematics?

If you wanted to make a snide quip you should have said it's like being an eternal trust fund kid who parties and vaguely dabbles in art and travels and slums it at Burning Man. Except it isn't really that either, because those people frequently get messed up by private wealth and privilege and expectations that they make something of themselves, and in The Culture private wealth does not exist and expectations and values are totally different.

As another poster asked, how would you live if you were able to choose?
This article is really only the tip of the iceberg. If you're a man in a position of authority, and you're worried about the consequences of you or anybody in your team accidentally stepping on a "diversity" land mine, what's the best way to avoid the problem? Don't hire any women in the first place. You may get some shit from HR for not meeting your diversity targets, but the calculus is increasingly starting to tilt towards this being the lesser evil -- unless you're a talented woman who doesn't get hired because of it, that is.
I think it'd be neat to take an old text only terminal game, and just auto generate the pictures based off responses.
That is indeed very disappointing. I suppose a lot of these works have been digitised a long time ago, maybe the technology wasn't up to it yet?

Or perhaps they are just worried about forgeries or unauthorised replicas?
Is this a bug or a feature?

Go and read the peer reviewed publications about 5G/6G. Localization, identification and "sensing" are what the whole project is about. There's no requirement that someone have a phone for the antenna arrays to be able to perform those functions either. I saw one industry whitepaper that mentioned collecting "physiological data" as an explicit goal. The mm-wave and sub mm-wave frequencies used in these projects are specifically good for this purpose, for relatively high resolution sensing. Electromagnetic waves in these spectra have nearly optical properties, and definitely resolve enough information to be highly invasive. So who's getting access to this information?

Maybe this specific vulnerability wasn't intentional, but somebody is meant to get this data. That's the whole point of this project.
I wish there was a way to add touch such screens a touch panel. I've search long time how to do it but I only could find prebuilt panels for ratios different than the eink screen I was interested. If anyone knows how to build one it will be very helpful to me as I want to build my custom reader/notetaker from scratch.
As a serial entrepreneur, I think the value of "advice" is overstated. Just go out there and build and fail and listen to customers and iterate. Most people don't know what they're talking about, it's just men are more self-confident in sharing. Elon is not where he is today because he listened to advice. If we want to improve the situation the article addresses, we need more women in executive and VC roles.
Start with Player of Games.
Why this over react, vue, or angular?
I got carried away there, but at the very least they don't explain why [1] is transphobic and are generally setting the bar for transphobia quite low. There are even transgender persons that came out in support of Stallman. I find several of the personal accounts criticizing Stallman's conduct to be compelling evidence against him, and I think those accounts can stand on their own without throwing in transphobia.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210325014959/https://www.gnu.o...
When western countries had 4-6 weeks of warning they were running “hug a Chinese” campaigns instead of being advised to keep social distance with everyone.
This would be more compelling if there was a way to turn a cryptocurrency back into energy.

And indeed, energy-backed currency seems to be a staple of science fiction - things like "energy credits". Cryptocurrency gets us halfway there, in the sense that you can transform energy into it, but the reverse ain't really feasible.

Perhaps as (actual) batteries and supercapacitors and such continue to miniaturize we'll see something closer to a true energy credit, with financial transactions taking place through the transfer of stored energy - be it directly (people maintaining batteries as wallets) or indirectly (people exchanging currency entitling the holder to some amount of energy).
I generally don't hear it acknowledged in the conversatioms about these figures by people who criticize them. Anecdotally I don't hear it from some younger reltives of mine. It's just a feeling I get.

I don't know that it's not being taught but the attitude seems to be that a person who owned slaves shouldn't have their accomplishments and contributions acknowledged or that those contributions are taken for granted.
I feel courts ought not to have their own power to punish people for contempt — certainly not in the US, anyway, where we go to great lengths to avoid giving power to tyrants. It's an unfortunate oversight in our Constitution.

Consider, for instance, the unrelated case of Judge William H Coward, who ordered a man in contempt to write an apology to the court, post it on social media, and delete negative comments — running roughshod over what ought to have been his First Amendment rights: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/a...
But the original benchmarks weren't multithreaded, which should make that a nonissue?

(Is it possible to generate code assuming a weaker memory model, and then invalidate that upon creation of a thread? Might get dicey with shared memory, though...)
Something I've said before: believing that you are a good person is dangerous, because it makes you likely to assume that what you're doing is also good just because you have good intent.

It's better to focus on trying to do good, to keep learning and adjusting.

"who would willingly attack themselves to prevent their own abuse of the power they've newly gained? Only a rare few, I doubt that will change."

Of relevance - the "least privilege principle" in computer security involves designing the system to prevent itself from doing anything which it isn't outright required to do. It involves the host of a service to even lock themselves out of as much potential access as possible (for example via end-to-end encryption).
I would imagine that essentially all of the people in charge who've delayed/limited information to the investigation have absolutely no clue whether there's even anything to hide. Just consider how much the downsides they'd face of discovering incriminating evidence of a lab accident outweigh any upsides if they actually weren't to blame.
It seems that it's common understanding in US that car dealer is BS. Is it cultural? because I don't see such common understanding outside US.
The details are here.[1] A third party HOWTO is here.[2]

Calibre has a bunch of "recipes" for some popular news sites. I know I added some of my own. It was not particularly hard, but of course, it breaks when the source makes changes to their site.

You specify the recipes you want and it downloads them periodically.

This link[3] has examples of how it would look on an ereader (it's quite old so it may look different now):

[1] https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/news.html

[2] https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/get-news-updates-kindle-calibr...

[3] https://michaeltalbotuk.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/how-to-use-...
5g is unblockable corporate wifi, relaying unconnected 5g devices to connected ones. by accident.
There's a weird inversion of the Thermocline happening in the past few years, with "activists." Social Media can so amplify the voices of "activists," that they gain power which people are afraid to speak out against. Especially if the power is based on mob mentality. Especially if power is given over to accusation without evidence. (This is borne out by history. McCarthy, for example.) So when certain people go too far -- and given how power corrupts, it's inevitable that sudden onsets of power will corrupt -- people who should be saying "wait a minute" are saying nothing.

All power is fleeting.

All power is contextual.

Any one who tries to deny these truths, is attempting some manner of deception to further their own power at someone else's expense.
No, men are (correctly, IMO), assessing the general public's level of sexism.

Even if the gender of the accuser has no effect on the probability of the person accusing someone of sexism, it has a massive effect on the probability that such accusations are believed and weaponised by the public / mainstream media.
>I'm a bit sad about how eager everyone is jumping on the idea that "candid advice" will always be construed as possibly sexist.

It doesn't have to be always, it only needs to be once and then your career is ended.
But isn't the entire thing that it appears faster than c to an outside observer? Like, that's the definition? In which case an outside observer would have less than 200 years until the thing went 200ly.
> It’s gotten so bad that a the NYT apologized for letting a sitting US Senator (Tom Cotton)[1] publish an op-ed that diverged with the views of its subscribers.

I think The Times knows that their revenue comes from people "picking a side", not from people looking for unbiased news. That's because it's easier to cultivate a fanbase than it is to hope that there is interesting news. Most days are boring -- you only get a blockbuster exclusive story once a decade.
No, you must have missed the last 2 decades of "everything is sexist" narrative [1]. You can't expect for this to go on and have no counter-reaction. Men simply remove themselves from the conversations to not be labeled as sexists. Not because they are, but because there are so many women who interpret everything men do as sexist.

[1]: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anita_Sarkeesian
I completely get how hard it is to sell tools to developers, but I am not sure everyone gets the why.

I would pay $1000 tomorrow for an Emacs that doesn't flicker and is several times faster, and is easier to extend and modify -- and I'll give the money happily, convinced that I made a fantastic bargain.

I'd happily pay a monthly subscription for a compiler SaaS that makes my production binaries as small and fast as possible (and be integrated in a CI/CD system so the binary never touches my computer and just gets deployed to production).

But there are three problems.

1. The commercial entity developing the tool might fall on hard times and give up. What are the programmers relying on the tool to do? Most companies also never open-source their stuff once they go belly up either. You will be stuck with a non-updated tool whose value (and thus part of your value as well) will only be declining with time.

2. Nobody is interested in investing real money and professional programmers to make the open-source and free software better. You have stuff like `semgrep` and many others that are barely limping along -- and they deserve A LOT OF LOVE! We will all benefit from them! But the incentives just aren't there for the players who can make the true difference.

3. Our employers are unwilling to absorb the costs for better tooling. The minute you ask for a commercial license for something you are met with "why are all other 20 million Python programmers doing just fine without it?" and the discussion immediately falls apart.

In order to never suffer from #1 we all stick to the lowest common denominator which is both logical and sad.

To solve #2, charity funds should be given to professional teams that specifically tackle tooling.

Not sure #3 can be solved. Culture changes are extremely hard and even when they happen they are as slow as a glacier moving. On the other hand, I've paid for commercial tools in the past when I was convinced they'll increase my productivity. So sometimes we should view this as an investment.
> They know when what they’re seeing is sexism vs critical feedback.

One can't possibly guarantee that every founder (female or not) knows that, and in fact, TFA implies that many don't. So the possibility that at least one of them will think the investor sexist for giving feedback is unfortunately not zero. And, of course, this option doesn't seem to consider the possibility that even if the founder takes the criticism at face value, someone else might not.

In light of that, the third choice you present seems to be GP's second choice after all.
It seems the main problem is modern (woke) society and by that I mean indoctrination.

It's really the fault of the media, school and everyone else who pushes the unnuanced narrative that everything must be judged thru sexist or racist lenses. In that climate where our shortcomings are someone else's fault because they are by default inherently sexist or racist, this is what you will end up with. And so those who could help avoid at all costs any possibility of being viewed though that lens. Ergo the clamming up.

So we end up with people who don't practice critical skills, though they have them, and believe the narrative unreservedly because they have been taught this way. It's lose-lose for us all. Men lose, women lose and American society loses.
It's genuinely difficult to find the right balance, though. (Even as an individual, let alone as a society.) I don't think there's a clean solution; the only easily-applied heuristics are the stupid extreme ones, either assuming that everything that could possibly be Xism is Xism, or that nothing is Xism unless the perpetrator conveniently says something like 'women can't do maths' or 'I don't want you to work here because you are black'. I'm not really sure what to do about this; maybe we just have to wait, make our own judgments as best we can, and hope that our society finds a non-terrible equilibrium.