skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Reverse racism or reverse discrimination is the concept that affirmative action and similar color-conscious programs for redressing racial inequality are a form of anti-white racism. The concept is often associated with conservative social movements and the belief that social and economic gains by black people in the United States and elsewhere cause disadvantages for white people.

> Belief in reverse racism is widespread in the United States; however, there is little to no empirical evidence that white Americans suffer systemic discrimination. Racial and ethnic minorities generally lack the power to damage the interests of whites, who remain the dominant group in the U.S. Claims of reverse racism tend to ignore such disparities in the exercise of power and authority, which scholars argue constitute an essential component of racism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_racism
You're right, and I was wrong.

I dislike the rule, and I strongly think that "0xfor" should require whitespace between "0xf" and "or" (I'm sure that influenced my reading), but you're right about what the rule says.

(Apparently I can't edit my previous comment.)
They claim to have 46 billion dollars but are very shady about which bank it's supposed to be in. That's quite a large amount of money to hide, it's like claiming I have the Ever Given in my bathtub. Someone would notice.
I put it crudely to be dramatic, but it is the core function of a government to choose between competing harms and benefits for different segments of the population (including populations outside their borders when it comes to foreign policy.)

> There aren't a lot of humans who would support harvesting the organs of a healthy patient to save 5 sick ones, for example.

That's a strawman. I'm not taking the position that the right decision is always choosing the least number of bodies. Maybe that is true, there are debates to be had there, but I'm not arguing that, and that's not comparable to the decision here with the AstraZenica vaccine.
This may be starting to shift as companies are getting much higher valuations on the public markets than they are from VCs.

Coinbase is getting a 10x valuation from public markets compared to what they got from private markets just two years ago. In theory, they've left a lot of money on the table by waiting so long to go public and raising from VCs instead.

(The price is dropping, so who knows if this will be true for very long.)
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I think is good people try new approaches to physics. Who this person is doesn't matter to me.

But the top down approach I don't think has ever worked. Revolutions usually start when a small experimental problem is solved in a novel way. And from that a new model is built.

I don't see that here, only delusions.
Justice has more than one aim. Deterrence and rehabilitation are two of them, so is the preservation of social order. But justice is also retributive. Retribution isn't about hate, whatever modern confusion tells you. That's why we aim to have qualified impartial third-parties (judges) who are supposed to adjudicate such things instead of leaving things up to a hate-filled lynch mob, one that often confuses envy with anger at injustice.

And Norwegian society operate just fine with Breivik playing xbox in prison.

In the end, retribution still doesn't fix anything. We're machines. We should act like this is true, not surrender to our monkey brain.
That is lovely, thanks for ‘ze laf’. One minor note, it reads much more like Dutch to me :)
In German e is a, and i is e. It really is striking.
I don't think it is. It's fundamentally taking the code out of your control. With my services all the code is there, we can tweak it if necessary, we're not tied to a framework, it's just a barebones foundation of a Go application.

Nothing is hidden away from you with code generation. There's no in-between steps from what you write to what you execute other than Go compilation.

I think it's the wrong mentality to require a whole new set of third-party tools to maintain a Go application. It then starts feeling like you're writing Javascript, and does anyone really want that?
This is needlessly pedantic, but private prisons are absolutely a thing in America.
What an odd comment. FLoC is about as far from curing cancer as one could possibly get, even as a metaphor for online privacy.

Thank goodness someone is taking a stand against the continuous creep of online privacy invasions, even if they're likely just a bolder in the middle of a large river.
Eh, maybe a month ago I found a Coinbase account from 2013 that I had forgotten about, and it still had everything in it. Your story makes no sense. Coinbase support has always been pretty good for every problem I've ever had. Why talk to someone on the phone when you can click a button and have a live chat with a support agent instantly?

https://help.coinbase.com/en/contact-us
We also don't have to make the same decision for all use of AI.

For example, we should be much more cautious about using AI to decide "who should get pulled over for a traffic stop" or "how long a sentence should someone get after a conviction". Many government uses of AI are deeply concerning and absolutely should move more slowly. And government uses of AI should absolutely be a society-level decision.

For uses of AI that select between people (e.g. hiring mechanisms), even outside of government applications, we already have regulations in that area, regarding discrimination. We don't need anything new there, we just need to make it explicitly clear that using an opaque AI does not absolve you from non-discrimination regulations.

To pick a random example, if you used AI to determine "which service phonecalls should we answer quicker", and the net effect of that AI results in systematically longer/shorter hold times that correlate with a protected class, that's absolutely a problem that should be handled by existing non-discrimination regulations, just as if you had an in-person queue and systematically waved members of one group to the front.

We don't need to be nearly as cautious about AIs doing more innocuous things, where consequences and stakes are much lower, and where a protected class isn't involved. And in particular, non-government uses of AI shouldn't necessarily be society-level decisions. If you don't like how one product or service uses AI, you can use a different one. You don't have that choice when it comes to hiring mechanisms, or interactions with government services or officials.

Reading the article, it sounds like many of the proposals under consideration are consistent with that: they're looking closely at potentially problematic uses of AI, not restricting usage of AI in general.
This comment above does a better job than I did at explaining why the staking incentive is somewhat flawed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26810686
I which french academy was this tolerant.
Banking? Raw materials? Shipping?

How do people think that all corporations/companies are discretionary?
BNB is an ERC-20
I appreciate how meta this comment is. I've given a lot of bad advise before, and I plan to give a lot more in the future!
There was a webinar on TwinCat/FreeBSD: https://www.beckhoff.com/en-en/support/webinars/webinar-deta...

The Embedded Windows version didn't have that web console. Also, ZFS copy-on-write snapshots could be quite useful for quick backup/restorement when working on-site.
That could be part of it for sure. I think the first do no harm mentality is a very strong bias in the medical community in general. And as pointed out elsewhere, it was the Danish medical authorities that made this call. They're the wrong people to do that.
As someone who doesn't care about the language, my question is if the goal is to reduce the entry barrier, what is the benefit of this language versus investing the same amount of time in Spanish documentation and a Spanish transpiler for Python? Multi language documentation is definitely lacking, but making a new language adds to the complexity of the space, it doesn't reduce it.
Its not like we get rid of the old equations. We still have the Newtonian equations, in addition to special/general relativity. We still have Maxwell's equations in addition to quantum mechanics. They are useful in different situations, but they are still useful.
> start taxing natural resource usage

I'd go with taxing fossil fuel extraction. Every barrel of oil, liter of nat gas, or ton of coal is taxed. The revenue from these taxes should go towards either a) carbon capture or b) tax credits for lower-income households or c) UBI. The costs of these taxes will propagate throughout the economy and everyone will adjust their consumption accordingly.
Maybe if certain percentage of ownership can be proven, by any route. Let's say 1%. So you own 1% of company and it does some criminal. You will suffer 1% of penalty.
Not 100% sure what the parent is talking about, but my first thought is the predictive policing algorithms used in some jurisdictions to set bail and make parole decisions. My hazy understanding of the controversy is that these algorithms have "correctly" deduced that people of color are more likely to reoffend, thus they set bail higher or refuse release on parole disproportionately. At one fairly low level this algorithm has noticed something "true but politically inconvenient", but at a higher level, it is completely blind to the larger societal context and the structural racism that contributes to the racial makeup of convicted criminals. I'd argue that calling this simply "true" is neglecting a lot of important discussion.

Of course, perhaps the parent is referring to something else. I'd also like to see some examples.
Proof of stake still requires cryptographic validation of each block by each node, so it uses much less energy than PoW, but not none.

I think "no miners, still (distributed) datacenters" would be more accurate.
It's incredible how little attention is paid to data modeling and querying in the education of people entering the software engineering workforce.

Getting your database model right, on the logical and physical level, will make developing and deploying any data-driven app simpler and easier. Getting it wrong? No modern programming language or architectural pattern will save you from the worst kinds of bugs, workarounds and bad performance.

Do yourself a favor and read this or any other legendary DB book.
Second Google Chrome 0day exploit dropped on Twitter this week
You can't be serious. EU leadership has always been a bit weak, with a lot of compromises, and not a hard stance on foreign policy, but to prefer an unknown oracle? The current state of AI would even have it overfitted on a small relevant corpus padded with arbitrary other material. How can you expect that to produce better government?
The link to all the information is here: https://odin.tradoc.army.mil/DATEWORLD . Basically the US military, for training exercises, has created a bunch of fictional countries. It's actually really in depth: whole descriptions of fictional politics, force structures, geography, etc. For example, here's an article on the "Amari National Defense Force": https://odin.tradoc.army.mil/DATE/Africa/Amari/Amari%20Natio...
I follow Suhail, and he was the founder of a competitor of mine, the stuff he's working on now is really interesting and a lot of the technical challenges the team are working on are fun and interesting.

He's not someone I consider to be full of bullshit, but his thoughts on startups are as valuable as anyone else's with a few extra grains of salt that are worth considering.
Indeed, we are there already. You can lose your job/wellbeing/life for wrongthink, the power unbalance between the haves and have nots gets worse by the day.
Strange, I've never seen mini USB on any audio gear. (Nor on anything else I've owned since my T-Mobile G1 ten years ago.) I've found "standard" connectors [1] to be much more common (and welcome, due to their better sturdiness over micro).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Standard_connecto...
Try reading the paper: https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/gilad-algorand-...

You have to own coins to produce blocks.
As someone who speaks both English and German natively, I can say Dutch makes my brain hurt whenever I hear it. It’s like my brain can’t pick which neural pathways to use and the dissonance is awful.
It is interesting to watch scrumm. I have seen it broken a few times now. Every single time it started off just fine. Then someone decides the process was more important instead of the intent. Then everyone just went along with it. Even worse someone knows they 'still dont like it' but keep tweaking it but making it worse instead of saying 'yeah that did not work at all'. Or my favorite is someone blows in and finds out you have been skipping one ritual (because it was low value to your team). Your team is then declared 'broken'. It is like there is some flaw in scrumm that allows for anti patterns.
Sounds more Kolgomorovian than Occamian to me...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

Edit: so the argument would be something along the lines of: the less we need to describe the universe, the more probable it is that it exists (due to the fact that, given that it does in fact exist, the more complex it is, the more different universes could exist in its place). That's of course assuming there is one universe! If we assume that there can be multiple universes then there is no easy way to posit that a simpler one is more probable.
My interpretation of the GP was that if companies are guilty of wrongdoing, boards and executives should be imprisoned without any additional burden of proof required to establish individual culpability. This sounds somewhat appealing, as how can these people _not_ be responsible in some way?

Otherwise, no need to single out the board.
This is the problem: they don't really understand what they're trying to regulate. A lot of it is (a) data-privacy issues or (b) using data to make automated decisions. The "AI" part is superfluous, as far as I can see.

Lawmakers appear as caught up in labeling stuff "AI" as investors. It's going to make them less effective by letting them avoid actually defining what they're trying to prevent.

Consider:

"those (AIs) designed or used in a manner that manipulates human behaviour, opinions or decisions ...causing a person to behave, form an opinion or take a decision to their detriment"

It's clearly about advertising and social media. If you want regulation to be effective, specifics are good. Platitudes don't make good regulations.
How often do you just Google the name of a programming language, anyway?

And you'd have the same problem if your language were named after a common word like Python or Java.

From about 2003 to 2012 or so I used LaTeX pretty frequently for typesetting and remember occasionally coming across some results that were about a different kind of latex. This doesn't seem to happen any more, from a quick test. But Google knows from my search history that I'm interested in math; a new user might have problems.
Isn't a consumer VR headset a way better solution to that desire?
Or more importantly, don't have your architect render your house with a 170 degree FOV. This wasn't an issue when my dad did this in early 2000s with his house. It was in 3D modelling software and you could look all around it and modify it.
It's meant to remind you of that quote :) because the rules are made by pigs in the book Animal farm. Your quote comes from the same book
Suhail seems to be spending a lot of time trying to establish himself as a thought leader. How does that square or not square with the goal of giving one's business the best chance of success?
Litestream author here. We have a friendly Slack if you need help getting started: https://join.slack.com/t/litestream/shared_invite/zt-n0j4s3c...
Works under Windows 10 command prompt too after changing the single quotes out for double quotes, very nice. Had been keeping a browser tab with the YouTube stream open, but this is undoubtedly going to be easier on battery.
Pretty similar to Palantir's public open, which started at $9, jumped to a high of $45 before the employee blackout ended, and then settled into a stable rut around $23 it's been in since February.
Even if DuckDuckGo is obviously doing some marketing here, I think it does not matter, we should collectively act against Google/Facebook/Amazon/Apple while we still can.
Old pre-Internet Mexican here: when personal computers (think CoCos and Atari 800s) started coming, BASIC ruled, and it was extremely easy to grasp for kids:

GOSUB, RETURN, FOR, DIM, PRINT, PEEK, POKE, etc. were just abstract words that we just accepted without fully understanding their English roots. They might as well have been CALLBACK, THROW, ITER, FOO, BAR, etc., and we would have used them just as well. We reasoned in Spanish, then coded our reasoning in the abstraction that was BASIC. When reading code, it was like reading math, not a story.

More so, with the meme culture nowadays, even kids know enough English words to understand the roots of many tokens in programming languages.

Maybe programming with tokens rooted in your native language actually provides something I wasn't able to enjoy, but programming for me feels very different from speaking English, I'd bet the two don't even use the same brain regions, unless you're forcing yourself to comment in English.

Let's see what comes out of Latino. Hopefully they'll add Unicode identifiers later, because writing "funcion" instead of "función" is still bad Spanish.
At least list posts are a step above pointless complaints.

If you think that HN needs better submissions, you can submit things yourself. Or spent time looking through new submissions and voting up the ones that you like. Then show up and leave thought-provoking comments on articles.

All are more productive than complaining about someone creating yet another list that was interesting enough for thousands of people to star.
100% agree. They lost me with the opening premise by displaying a fundamentally bad understanding of user stories and describing them as "obsolete".
Currencies definitely have total supplies which can be measured in USD. Let's not be finicky with definitions. https://fiatmarketcap.com/
I've half-jokingly, proposed a similar change to Spanish, basically:

z, c (as in "ce", "ci"): use "s" (non european spanish speakers do not distinguish these sounds anyway)

v: always use "b"

c (as in "ca", "co", "cu"), q(u) (as in "que", "quiso"): replaced with "k"

w: why do we have this letter?! use "u"

y (as vowel): use "i" (basically only used as "and" in Spanish)

y (as consonant): stays like it is now (important in some variants where it sounds pretty much as "sh" in English)

ll as in "lluvia": replaced with "y"

h (mute as in "hueso", "humano"): Just remove it (ueso, umano)

ch (as in "chorizo"): replaced with "c"

r, rr: Couldn't yet find a good replacement that's not ambiguous for the soft and vibrant sounds in all the use-cases...

ñ: this stays. it gives the language personality!

I've got not much traction with my friend, though!!!!!
It's one thing not to get training on standard technologies that are publicly documented; it's another thing not to get training on internal systems that you can only hope to decipher through reverse-engineering. I've seen both, but the former is much more common. I don't think you can get away from that version.

If the latter is your main problem - i.e. you're willing to self-teach where material (like Udemy courses) is actually available - then one option is to look for a gig where you're the one creating the systems from scratch. That removes a big part of the problem, because you're the expert from day one. Getting into a startup at the ground level is one way to do this; working for a company that's always creating demos for other parties, like a design agency, would be another. (I also have a pet theory that enabling this kind of thing is a main motivator behind the microservices push)
Ok, let’s clarify then: what do those shadow profile contain? Let’s assume that you have a friend who has an active profile, uploaded a list of contacts through one of the importer (email or phone numbers). They have a FBID, posting activity, etc.

What do you think is stored about you on their profile, what do you think is stored on your "shadow profile"?
AstraZeneca vaccine elicits stronger T-cell response in elderly than Pfizer jab
Open membership is arguably a worse problem than stake requirements, as PoW participants do not have a vested interest in preserving the integrity of the chain. Ethereum 2 actually throttles validator entries and exits for exactly this reason.

As an example, any sufficiently powerful entity can temporarily and affordably commandeer computational resources with the intention of disrupting the chain.

Under PoS doing so would devalue your (presumably enormous) stake, so participants are at least incentivized to act in the interest of the chain.
Wow only one developer working on PeerTube and not even full time. No way will that level of effort be able to challenge any of the incumbents.
Apex Legends now has more than 100M players
I read the rules incorrectly. It appears that "0xfor" is a valid way to represent the two tokens "0xf" and "or".

The rule, which I initially misinterpreted, is:

> Whitespace is needed between two tokens only if their concatenation could otherwise be interpreted as a different token (e.g., ab is one token, but a b is two tokens).

Since "0xfor" cannot be interpreted as a different (single) token, whitespace is not needed.

(I'm not a fan of this particular consequence of that rule, and I suspect it was not intended, but it says what it says.)
Maybe you don't know they nerfed the hunter laptop story on the platform? Perhaps you are unaware of the limiting of right-wing political stuff before the election? (in fairness I think they limited some of the 'also see this page engagement for left stuff at the time too(?) ) -

But they have had all sorts of half-truths, hate-the-other, posting and sharing of all sorts of outfits that promote left, center left and just look-down-upon people on the right - all flowing on the daily.

Certainly to drive engagement in several ways.

Conflict of interest? I feel yes and no - surely they get a seat at the we-can-bribe for attention table like all the other large companies, regardless of which side wins. They can spin it different ways depending on the outcome just fine.

As far as individual or groups of fbook employees conflict of interest aside from the company itself as an entity - I would assume a chunk of folks there were in tears for Hillary some years ago and likely did or tried to do some things to exact revenge for such.
- now did they hire an ex obama admin person to have their finger on the 'nerf-this-story button' like twitter did? or something similar that would skew at that kind of level? I don't know yet.
So what should they do?
A new twist on using ‘personalized’ stem cells for studying dementia
Paper in comic form explores ethics of treating torturer with PTSD (2020)
Stating the obivious (with quote from the areticle):

"As an alternative to changing your number, you could try switching from WhatsApp to Signal, a popular, privacy-focussed instant messaging app. It’s very similar to WhatsApp but built with greater concern for privacy and security. It does not have the same online or last seen statuses as WhatsApp and can’t be tracked in the same way."
You re right. they do the trades for robinhood users. What do you think they do between the time they receive the order and execute it? don't forget that the default trade on robinhood has no limit to it. you buying market value. now try doing that on millions of users just like madoff did playing with the cents.
The decade in review – technological advancements (2019)
What do you mean "first AZ" shot? The AZ vaccine is "one and done" is it not?
It's incredible they were allowed to go public with risk being at such an all time high. Kudos to the company though, it's really ideal for the investors so c'est la vie.