skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As the methodology states, they compiled a list of 2,039 terms, and did the manual and automated preprocessing work to dedupe that list (the result of which seems to be here [0]). They subsequently vetted the final list in collaboration with Harvard's Shorenstein Center.

So... they started with a massive list manually picked from a series of organizations with clear political leanings (no filter criteria given), manually filtered that list from there (no filter criteria given), then vetted it with an unnamed group of people whose only credibility given is an association with a research center at Harvard (still no filter criteria given). I see plenty of opportunity for cherry picking here, and the resulting list should speak for itself.

> You don't recognize the phrases "kkk", "holocaust denial", "white power", "ethnic cleansing", or "daily stormer"?

I did not recognize "daily stormer". But of course the rest of your picks are among the most recognizable from the list. No good faith here, I guess.

Here's a sample of some terms I did not recognize: "2083: a european declaration of independence", "black sun", "blood and soil", "identity evropa", "red ice tv", or "white sharia" just to name a few.

> there's nothing stopping you from cloning the repo and running your own automated check and analysis.

There isn't enough time in 100 lives to dedicate to discrediting nonsense like this. Even if I put the time and effort into doing this better with no compensation, I don't have a sliver of the publicity they do. HN comments are much more cost effective.
Sometimes people think you need to be the best to succeed.

Sony likely made millions off MiniDisc even if it didn't win in the end.
Zoom has a history of nasty security issues, does shady business with China and bought and killed Keybase. It's a shitty company not even considering their software.
I think people give Hypercard (and Flash) too much credit. Its easy to make UIs if you use absolute resolution and position. You can make apps with about the same effort today using a lot of modern WYSIWYG tools but its the scaling layouts that are so tedious.
Late-80/early-90s Apple marketing: "The computer for the rest of us" and "User friendly." (doesn't work well because people don't want to pay extra for something that feels like it's for "beginners" and also don't want to think of themselves as "newbies" or "amateurs")

Mid-90s marketing: "Think Different" (fine, but many people don't like to think of themselves as "weird") and "It just works"

late 2000s, 2010s marketing: Straight up luxury branding. Aspirational, like a BMW, Mercedes, or a high end appliance.
Don’t build things for yourself.

Don’t build things by yourself.

Build for specific people, and feel responsible to those people.

Tie your social status into it.

Humans are incredibly social animals, take full advantage of that fact and make sure you’re sailing with the wind on the ocean, not tinkering with model boats in a poorly ventilated bedroom.
If you live in a cold climate turn it into heat and store it in a thermal battery. The engineer behind the ElectroDacus has an incredible open source resistive heating controller!

https://electrodacus.com/
It's definitely not naivete or stupidity, but projects from large companies inherit all the complexity of the organization that created them. This is sometimes because they're very broadly scoped, and sometimes because large groups of people build complex things by default.

Simplicity is important for people who are in smaller groups. This is why many people who dislike kubernetes like Fly.io, and people who love kubernetes think we're building a toy.
> poverty-line workers

This vote wasn’t by poverty-line workers.

The poverty line in Alabama for a family of 4 is $26k. [0] So even if the worker in Bessemer is a single parent they are above the line. And if they are part of a two income household then they are above the median income of $51k. [1]

It’s interesting to me how people generalize incorrectly without considering the local situation of people impacted. Clearly incorrect statements like yours should be adjusted to have greater impact.

The whole country doesn’t have the income and expense characteristics of where I live.

[0] https://talkpoverty.org/state-year-report/alabama-2020-repor...
[1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/AL/BZA210218
Also I wouldn't want my reading habits to be tracked by anyone, or at least for it to be minimized. Lets say that I want to read the communist manifesto then that shouldn't go into the hands of people creating targeted political propaganda campaigns or whatever people keeping track of credit score.
Yes but localized and rarely digitized
Maybe so, but this was indeed just their experience on voting not to unionize in their job. Maybe some of the workers in this particular case will share why they voted 'no'.
I have a question about this - does Sketch/Figma support creating designs that fall outside the current flat design trends?

Can it do things like this?

https://image.freepik.com/free-vector/hud-ui-gui-futuristic-...

Or this?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7b/09/c0/7b09c038e0c644338a9a...

Genuinely asking, because these are the sorts of things that I have long used Photoshop for, but if there's a new, better tool, I would like to take a look.
They're different data sets.

The data I shared is calculated from random population surveillance testing, and is the gold standard on measure of true spread.

The data you linked to is reported cases. Children often have very mild or asymptomatic cases so they are not tested nearly as much and thus many more cases are undetected in children compared to other age groups.
> We don't necessarily have to understand everything about the brain to communicate with it. And we'll learn a lot in the process.

Very true! However, we're still learning a lot about the brain. For instance, astrocytes/glia are still quite understudied despite being ~1/2 of the cells in your brain (maybe). Mostly, this is because they are not very electrically reactive. But they are known to be a pathway for NMDAr recycling as well as surrounding the synapse in certain parts of the brain. This issue of astrocytes is one of thousands that we're still trying to get a grip on. Essentially, we have okay-ish knowledge of large-scale phenomena (~1cm3) and small-scale (synapse, nucleus) behavior, but the middle ground (10's of neurons) is quite hard. Unfortunately, that seems to be were all the magic happens.

> A lot depends on how well the brain can adapt to a new form of I/O.

Typically, it does this via scarring. Making sure the leads are engineered to deal with scarring is the first hurdle. Then you'd need to stimulate only a select few neurons, a feat that is quite difficult (dynamic positioning, heartbeat, discharges, feedback, etc). Not necessarily insurmountable problems, but we're not really sure how to do that compactly with wires. One way is just use light and optogenetics and CLARITY, but then you have to genetically modify a brain and wash it out in situ, which is downright crazy hard.
You are right. There are lots of more operations in addition to comparisons. Just done a microbenchmark. The difference between macro- and function-based comparisons is largely indistinguishable.
It is ad hominem but not ad hominem fallacy. Wikipedia gives a good summary [1] of when ad hominem is not a fallacy:

> Valid ad hominem arguments occur in informal logic, where the person making the argument relies on arguments from authority such as testimony, expertise, or on a selective presentation of information supporting the position they are advocating. In this case, counter-arguments may be made that the target is dishonest, lacks the claimed expertise, or has a conflict of interest.

For example, if someone tells you that hydroxychloroquinea will cure COVID and cites a doctor, it is an ad hominem not but not a fallacy to counter that the same doctor also says that infertility, impotence, cysts, and various other reproductive medical problems are caused by witches and demons that have sex with people in the dreamworld, where they also gather sperm from people and use it on other people to produce more demons. (And yes, there really is a doctor who says all that).

It's not a fallacy because it is not offered to refute the claim that hydroxychloroquine cures COVID--it is offered to show that the person making the claim is not competent to make the claim.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
hey, keep that shit on 4chan.
Mostly correct, although Alabama is a “right to work” state which means you cannot be forced to join a union in order to take a job. You may be compelled to pay “agency fees” which are generally lower than full membership dues, though.
Here's an example: one of your local health department's jobs is to scrutinize private businesses sanitation practices so you don't get sick from contaminated food. Ditto the water systems, so you don't get sick from contaminated water. The idea is to prevent complacency.

Prior to that, people did get sick, and public investigations were mounted to pinpoint the problem. Nobody wanted to admit to themselves that they were to blame, that they had hurt or killed someone, but the society benefited from the momentary discomfort and those hard truths.
What is interesting is that the article left out Adobe XD, which is their product that should be competing with Figma or Sketch. I've tried to use it a few times, and well, honestly, it doesn't measure up (it could be that I'm stuck on the bottom of the learning curve, but that's a problem, too).

Tools like Figma, Canva and Sketch are enabling workflows where all that integration doesn't matter. For example, I'm not going to take a bunch of UI prototypes and polish the audio with Audition or bitmap edit with Photoshop.

Finally, tools like Affinity, Da Vinci and so on are showing that smaller budgets focused on specific workflows can deliver a competitive product. I have a Creative Cloud subscription. I also bought Affinity. Why? Because Designer and Publisher save my team time vs. Adobe. And that includes import and export. We're not a print design house, so all the print specific tooling doesn't really matter in our all-digital, made for the screen, RGB world.
For whatever it's worth, I did effectively benchmark the illumos AVL implementation against Rust's B-tree implementation[0], though that was certainly not the intent! Benchmarking the relative BSTs would be interesting, but (absent some small cycle count differences in degenerate cases like a single node) one very much expects BST performance to be dominated by memory behavior -- and the memory footprint (and cache behavior) of the relative implementations is much more likely to affect relative performance than other factors. Of course, systems can surprise, so hopefully someone does the experiment!

[0] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/28/the-relative-performa...
I agree.

> Not everyone continued to say these "regrettable" things well into the 21st century.

Just a short sampling, mostly from before 2000 although more can be found in other articles: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/04/prince-phili...
Here's the text without having to execute arbitrary code from twitter.

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Update: according to #EUSST's latest estimates using data from its surveillance radars, the close approach between #space objects SL-8 R/B & OPS 6182 expected by tomorrow will have a miss distance under 10m and a Scaled Probability of Collision over 20%! +updates to follow soon

See the below plot for the conjunction plane at Time of Close Approach (TCA) #EUSST #spacedebris #space

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EycvaPZWQAMXjV2?format=png&name=...

Update: #EUSST simulations indicate that the potential collision between the two #space objects would generate more than 4 million fragments. This plot shows the Delta-V distribution of the whole cloud of fragments #spacedebris

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyhGxpjXMAE-pmM?format=jpg&name=...

More than 400 of the fragments generated by the potential collision would be larger than 20cm. Gabbard diagram shows the extent of orbital regimes that these simulated fragments would reach. #EUSST continues monitoring the probability of collision. Stay tuned for more updates.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyhQ_InWYAI5V5a?format=jpg&name=...

Latest update: according to #EUSST the close approach between #space objects SL-8 R/B and OPS 6182 remains stable in geometry and in Scaled Probability of Collision. Miss distance would be ~21m and Scaled PoC over 20%. This should be the last estimate until TCA.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyiBCnsXEAAgrCu?format=jpg&name=...
That’s the fundamental problem with our culture generally.

The closer (figuratively speaking) to the big money and political power someone is the more comfortable they are.

And we all want to believe it’s a meritocracy. We’re just temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Is there anything preventing a competitor from funding union dues? Paying dues on half a million Amazon warehouse employees is not cost effective, but starting a snowball rolling in warehouse unionization may be possible. ~2k employees per warehouse x $100/month. Walmart could fund union dues for one warehouse for a year for about 1 million dollars.
Wow that's interesting! It might be a DosBox artifact and GoG didn't sanitize it. Wonder what the back story is: maybe a DosBox maintainer left it in when packaging?
> has poor wet market sanitation practices

Honest question: Is that a fair/accurate generalization to make? If Hell's kitchen episodes and accounts from food industry workers are any indication, sanitation practices in food handling establishments elsewhere are not necessarily always stellar either. And surely China has some equivalent of WholeFoods?

One ought to be careful not to attribute a characteristic differently depending on whether they belong to the class of people in question[0]. If it turns out that reality is that some chinese establishments have poor sanitation practices just like some US establishments do, and it just so happens that they got unlucky (perhaps partially due to not-so-directly-related aspects like zoning law differences or propensity for higher bat populations due to local fauna/flora ecosystems), the us-vs-them blaming game doesn't necessarily have as strong legs to stand on.

[0] https://xkcd.com/385/
While both RB and AVL trees grow at O(lg N) height, the constant for AVL trees is smaller. This means that for a large AVL tree it might be 1 or 2 layers shorter than the equivalent RB tree. This comes at the expense of a higher constant for insertion and deletion.

In certain contexts saving a node transversal will have a meaningful impact on performance.
I consider vim and Emacs to be the same thing with different shortcuts. I have no desire to learn either.
> namely in response of a demand for a quick fix of a performance problem

Caches are addictive. The first one is 'free' (easy) and people start wanting to use that solution for all their problems, especially social problems (we can't convince team A to get their average response time to match our SLA, so we'll just cache them to 'fix' it)

They defer thinking about architectural problems until later, when they are so opaque that "nobody could blame you" for having trouble sorting them out. But I do. Blame them, that is.
That sandboxing post is the best article I've read on isolation in a long time. It is an absolutely fantastic way to get caught up on the last decade of solutions.

Well done.
Grokking Applicatives
Well it's not meaningfully different from a vote in that it forces the employer to deal. But it does mean that there are no closed shops, so nobody is forced to join a union just to work in a certain place.
The 2018 US state department cables warning about this possibility can be read here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-state-depart...

Please note part (6) regarding WIV scientists studying human-disease causing SARS coronaviruses.

Also note this report with the science to back it ("The genetic structure of SARS-CoV-2 does not rule out a laboratory origin"):

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/bies.2020002...
IANAL but my understand is that it's the difference between the company being allowed to fire those individuals for not doing what is asked of them, and being legally required to negotiate with them.
It's about time that we did have (and celebrate) this kind of role; it'd be something like a maintainer position, except - depending on the organization - perhaps a bit more focused on cleanup.

A couple of thoughts:

- If you work on open source projects, you can create and tweak this role for yourself by finding needful tasks in upstream projects; just be careful to validate your approach to make sure your changes are likely to be accepted

- If this were a role within a salaried organization, you'd ideally want a way to show -- or a shared consensus -- that the work involved is worthwhile and producing value. How would we do that for software projects?
Ya I don't know how that will work out exactly. Changes so far haven't been bad for me but no experience with maintenance over time.

I will say that maintenance of hand rolled Sass has not been great overtime. It's really hard to tell what's in use and what's not.
Why would the dues be that high? I only pay $50 per month for my union, and that’s in Denmark with much higher costs.
Because Roslyn compiiler stack is only for C# and VB, F# has its own infrastructure.

Until now, all the F# related tooling tends to be done by a mix of the tiny MS team and FOSS community, it is not the full steam rolling engine that C# and VB get.
I learned how to build web pages by hand writing HTML and copy pasting it into Geocities when I was 9. It wasn’t real programming then and it isn’t now.

Don’t mistake the explosion of JavaScript land for being the same thing as the World Wide Web. Static websites are as easy to build now as they were in 1995, and in some ways easier.
Sure, but ultimately what's relevant here are the number of deaths. The other two killed orders of magnitude fewer people worldwide given the amount of time, no?
> I should just quit trying. Dude is a machine.

Maybe, but certainly dude doesn't have the same direction as you. Don't compare yourself to others. Well, unless you're trying to do exactly the same thing.
You can't win the game, work the ref.
Some of these things can be achieved with lower-tech sensors.

Outdoor lights with light or motion sensors are common.

Garage lights typically turn on automatically when the garage door opens. If you mean the human-sized door to the garage, light bulbs with built-in motion sensors are available; I have used those in entryways and in closets. I don't have a garage, but if I did it would be nice to be able to close it remotely if I forgot to.

I have also installed timer switches to make sure things like vent fans for the shower do not stay on longer than necessary.

Switching all lights at once is nifty if you live in a large home. I have a small home, so it's quite trivial to turn off all of the lights.

For myself, I just don't think it's worth it to setup more sophisticated automation at this time. For one, I rent. Second, of all of the inconveniences in my life, these are at the bottom of the list.

One of the best minor conveniences I addressed recently was getting a larger-volume soap dispenser so that I have to refill it less often.
All else aside, the attempt to squelch these inquiries as off-limits justifies resistance. The more scientific consensus is about social power, the worse for science.
Extract audio from all my downloaded YT .webm videos to .opus:

for i in *.webm ; do echo "$i";ffmpeg -i "$i" -acodec copy -vn "${i%.*}.opus" ; done

Nothing fancy.
> Simply buy a fleet of bikes, fit trackers and motion alarms to each

Do that - and you'll be accused in "using the police to disproportionally punish the poor instead of working on the crimes that actually matter and helping the communities to get out of the vicious poverty cycle"

Sarcasm aside, this has some rationale: say you caught a bike thief. What you gonna do next? Fine him? He likely has no money. Put him into prison? Will cause more problems down the road.

Whipping his ass in Trafalgar Square would be a good option, but is highly unlikely to ever happen...
DosBox is GPL. Shipping the source code isn't required, but an easy way to immediately comply with the license.
Holy crap, the dues were really that high? No wonder no one voted for it.

EDIT: $500/year, apparently
It doesn't, but it's worth noting that the general populace doesn't feel that way.
No idea, but the figure is in many news stories, and I don't see the union disputing it.

The $500 figure seems to have come from the now defunct "doitwithoutdues.com" website that Amazon made. Strangely, it just says $500[1], and not "$500/month". But, "$500/month" is indeed in a lot of news stories[2].

Pretty sad for the union if the true figure is lower, and they failed to get that message out.

Edit: Apparently it is $500/year, though many news stories are saying $500/month.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210223103728/https://www.doitw...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+union+vote+%22%24500%...
I thought you have the new Storage Access API for sharing (third-party) cookies between domains? Why can't they use that?
I have too much of latin character to stop.

We do not have creationists in France the same way as in the US - schools are teaching evolution and everyone is happy but even this is changing a bit. The recent events on critique of religions (and the death of a teacher - Samuel Paty) is a signal.
No, but that's not available to anybody but the govt.
I didn't get the impression that there is another union vote in the works at that particular facility.
$200k streaming rigs and millions of views: inside SpaceX cottage industry
I don't think your example is relevant nor is it a good analogy.

The situation is more like you're McDonalds and everyone at your store and your competitors stores are getting food poisoning.

Instead of properly understanding why contaminated food is arriving at your store and stopping the poisoning within your store, you're researching whether or not the contaminated food originated at Burger King.

It's not bad to research whether or not the contaminated food originated at Burger King, but regardless knowing that isn't going to stop the food poisoning from spreading within your store.

I like this analogy because there are already food safety laws just like how there are safety standards for working within a lab. Regardless, accidents happen, and people get poisoned. Kind of like the Chipotle outbreaks.
You likely already know this, but for the sake of those reading: XML itself is still alive and well, what's retired is the "Apache XML Project," a collection of XML-related software.
I agree, but there are other dimensions to public sector unions that makes them worth keeping around: deterrence of the spoils system in politics, and the legal monopsony the state has on the labor and monopoly on credentialing in many cases.
Indeed; the "don't ctrl+c/ctrl-v" copy files ignores the fact that you can copy to different windows - but they don't even need to be file browsers, you can copy files over RDP sessions or sometimes into/out of virtual machines, or sometimes into web browser pages for file upload, or in the middle of a standard Win32 "file open" or "file save as" browse dialog, or in a VMware thick-client datastore browser, or in a 7-Zip view on a compressed archive, or in a ton of different common GUI software like FTP clients and etc. etc.