skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why is that automatically the case and how would the user know that?

Of course it is automatically the case. If a post can have emotional valence, but emotional valence isn't controlled for, then occasionally some sequence of posts will be more negative than average just by chance. This is accidental emotional manipulation.

>Giving consent for one specific form of emotional manipulation does not give blanket consent to all forms - especially not to deliberate acts.

But it's not all forms, its a specific type of maniupation: posts in your feed with more or less than average positive or negative emotional valence. This is just a consequence of having a feed at all.

>One is accidental, the other is deliberate.

You have a knack for restating the facts of the case and then (figuratively) going QED. It's a little frustrating. Again, why does intentional manipulation require more consent than accidental manipulation when the process by which it happens (alterations to the feed) already has blanket consent?

>Also, that's not just my opinion. Just read the other guardian article linked from this one and the statements linked there:

I'm not interested in more opinions, I'm interested in arguments.

EDIT:
One of your own links references a post that details the circumstances in which the "informed consent" requirement can be waived:

"According to Prof. Fiske’s now-uncertain report of her conversation with the authors, by contrast, the local IRB approved the study “on the grounds that Facebook apparently manipulates people’s News Feeds all the time.” This fact actually is relevant to a proper application of the Common Rule to the study.

Here’s how. Section 46.116(d) of the regulations provides:

An IRB may approve a consent procedure which does not include, or which alters, some or all of the elements of informed consent set forth in this section, or waive the requirements to obtain informed consent provided the IRB finds and documents that:

The research involves no more than minimal risk to the subjects;

The waiver or alteration will not adversely affect the rights and welfare of the subjects;

The research could not practicably be carried out without the waiver or alteration; and

Whenever appropriate, the subjects will be provided with additional pertinent information after participation.

The Common Rule defines “minimal risk” to mean “that the probability and magnitude of harm or discomfort anticipated in the research are not greater in and of themselves than those ordinarily encountered in daily life . . . .” The IRB might plausibly have decided that since the subjects’ environments, like those of all Facebook users, are constantly being manipulated by Facebook, the study’s risks were no greater than what the subjects experience in daily life as regular Facebook users, and so the study posed no more than “minimal risk” to them."

More discussion on: https://www.thefacultylounge.org/2014/06/how-an-irb-could-ha...
Climate change from burning fossil fuels is also a road to hell laid with good intentions. Have you done the cost-benefit analysis on which is worse?
If you don't have a target project of your own in mind, but are interested in exploring a given domain open source contributions are one way to go. It let's you exploit the fact that someone already has built something cool and you're just adding to it or otherwise modifying it.

Programming is like other hobbies/crafts in that observing what others do and how they've done something will teach you about how you can better approach problems. There certainly is a barrier to entry, but if you've already taken some university level classes you likely have the basics down. There's social conventions to collaborating, but that shouldn't be a huge blocker. In my opinion, contributing to different organization should let you sample different project domains and either help you decide where to stick around or what types of personal projects might interest you.
Thanks for the correction! Apologies, I thought the website was the product :)
We know what the weapon is.

That "Breakthrough Starshot" would have a 1 megaton yield if it hit a planet in another solar system. Funny thing is that meteors explode with that kind of yield in our atmosphere all the time and often only astronomers notice.

Bigger projectiles and more of them would be deadly traveling at 0.1c.

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I think though really life sucks inside the "frost line"; the Earth is actually a dry place that is rich in Silicon and Magnesium and poor in Carbon. Most of the "places with liquid water" are some combination of underground, tidally heated, geothermal, etc. Be it Europa or Pluto, the generic "large" outer solar system body has liquid water inside because water is 50% or so of the mass of the body.
Except then people come out of the woodwork to say that government shouldn't be legislating morals, and that if it's really an issue investors would avoid investing in funds they find immoral. Which is exactly what's happening here.
It doesn’t seem to exist anymore, but I had a variant (literally same graphics) on my iPhone a decade ago. No fancy headgear and the effect was just as good—but instead of moving your head, you held still and tilted your iPhone.

Apple later added the effect to the homescreen in iOS 7, but much more subtle.
39% of college students show symptoms of major depression amid pandemic
The issues you mention sound like bad usages of Msg. I recommend asking questions on the Elm Slack to try and figure out what the problems are!
Simpler solutions are better. Private funding for new housing stock obviates the need for complex government-run bureaucracies that create their own set of problems with rent-seeking behavior like cronyism.

So if there were a good way to overcome the political power of homeowners in maintaining regulatory restrictions that prevent the expansion of housing supply, so that the private sector could respond to market forces and expand housing supply, that would be preferrable.

According to one analysis, it would only take de-regulating three US cities' housing markets: New York, San Francisco and San Jose, to boost US economic growth on the order of over one third over a span of 45 years:

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20170388

So here's one potential solution: federalize control over these three cities' zoning rules, in order to remove all of their zoning restrictions on building density, while investing resources into speeding up their permit approval process.

This is similar to Japan's housing laws, where the national government decides zoning rules in all cities, including in major economic clusters / key job markets like Tokyo.
Is that how it would be? So, like AMD and ATi? Damn, that's kind of sad.
People's hands are round. Why is it we always make rectangles to hold in these hands?
That's one small pepperoni for a man, one giant tip for mankind.
IIRC Tim Berners-Lee also rather amusingly called himself a "Web Developer" at a conference.
The claim was that "the US and the UK have the most open immigration policies". If you have any statistics to support this claim, please provide a reference. The statistics I referred to (proportion of foreign born residents) seem to clearly indicate that this claim is untrue.

And "within 2%" is a disingenuous response: why not say "below"? And why compare the percentages by absolute difference? A 2% difference when we're talking about proportions around the 15% level is significant.
Not to mention all the French-Canadians of Azeri stock.
Just because a word is widely understood doesn't make it inoffensive. I'm sure we can all think of many historical examples of words that were once common but are now almost never used because they are understood to be offensive.
Elm fanboy here. Although always "hobby projects", I have worked in both ClojureScript and Elm. I finished a project in Elm that I would not dare to start in ClojureScript.

I learned way more from Elm in terms of frontend architecture ( I am employed as frontender) then from any other framework/ language.
I agree it shouldn’t have been downvoted, but the point OP is making is different from your point.

In the US, the most famous police trainer is a guy that basically tells police that they are justified in shooting almost anyone in any circumstance and even developed his own pseudoscience around it. That’s what the podcast is about.
What word or symbol really is future proof?
They already are: Banks fund certain things and don't fund others. There's no 'neutral' choice on offer here.

I'd much rather banks and investors were explicit and public about the values driving their choices.

If your hypothesis is right that the big banks are leaving money on the table, I'm sure somebody will start a tobacco/child labour/fossil fuels ETF investors can buy if they can stomach it.
I had never realized that the original Sony Jumbotrons were CRT (one CRT per pixel) https://youtu.be/AclwH64eAkU
Find what you want to build first, then ask again on how to build it best.

Pick an easier language , I suggest Python or Javascript.
Women are taking a 'rain check' on babies, and it could shape the economy
What does "political" mean in this context?
Beginning of the summer months.
Your statement was "Currency is not digital." - digital, full stop. Which is a nonsense. The word "digital" is well-defined.

It seems that you're now saying that "BoE Currency is not digital currency." with a specific meaning of "digital currency" separate from the definition of "digital" or "currency".
Brexit only fully happened a few months ago, so it is hardly related to this. Any considerations w.r.t. looking 'open for business' would certainly still apply. But sure, make everything about Brexit, why not.
I just tried it in Safari and it worked, so that's nice at least. Thanks for the tip!
> e-ink displays and 3d printing have both convinced me that patents do more harm than good these days.

I work in the display industry. Not for E Ink. But I have no idea what you're talking about. I see this claim about patents on e-ink repeated again and again. I don't know much about 3d printing so I can't confirm. But each time I've seen this patent claim about e-ink, I ask the poster/commenter what specific patent or patents or data they're talking about and thus far every single time they either go silent or get defensive or in rare occasions acknowledge they didn't know about it and just "felt" it was the case. So could you help me out and explain what data convinced you? You can see my comment history to see all my attempts to try to get at what is the actual truth.

FYI, in my experience in the display industry, the main driver of price at scale is the asymptotic cost of components and materials like TFT backplanes, glue, passive layers, coatings, Indium Tin Oxide. Low volumes are what all of E Inks displays except the ones made for Amazon. That matches up with what I see in the prices.
I'm not sure there will be any meaningful change without making police accountable for their crimes. That's part of what fuels the rage against the system—not only are the police killing people, but everybody knows they probably won't be held accountable. Until we start doing that, nothing will improve.
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I hadn't thought of screen readers, I wonder how "screen readers for sighted people" would work like, for instance it would be fun if you could turn a HN thread into a Zoom-like call grid with emphasis on the people most active / important the discussion and assigned voices etc.
I've seen software that uses the "single decimal number" representation in order to store IP address in a database integer type column
It appears that at the moment all this means is there will be an investigation and a report. Presumably, any action taken to block the sale will have to wait until after that.
Somehow, tokyojoe, I find it hard to picture you, as a former semiconductor executive, making two new accounts on HN to post the same thing twice. It's just not the kind of thing I imagine former semiconductor executives spend their days at.
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What’s Happening in the USA
Even Obama didn't like it:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/02/barack-obama...

Above article refers to this long interview:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/obama-urges-activist...

And I agree with him, if you have to add ", and by this phrase I mean a b c d e f" or "please search the Internet and click a good URL (not Breitbart, but also not Mariame Kaba) to see what we mean by this phrase", do you think people wouldn't just think you're an extremist after the snappy phrase and stop listening?

The self-sabotage (and then people like you defending the phrase) is so mind-boggingly dumb. Do you want change, or do you want to alienate people?

But eh, on the topic of alienating people, I've seen enough "online activists" snap at supporting voices that I thought "I wouldn't be surprised if that supporter stopped sympathizing with them.". Then you have supporters turn to quiet "Fuck it, I'll just shut my mouth" or worse, be opponents.
I don’t disagree but money is speech and corporations are people so why wouldn’t banks and their investors flex their enormous spending power to influence public policy? Banks aren’t victims “put” in this position - they’re largely the beneficiaries of it.
Kerala just had a major election [1] .

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Kerala_Legislative_Assemb...
Do brain implants change your identity?
Are they? Are the terms "whitelist" and "blacklist" used only in the context of "allowing" and "blocking"? Who or what is the subject that is implied to be "allowing" and "blocking" the elements of each list? Is the process involved in "allowing" and/or "blocking" passive or active?

"Whitelist" and "blacklist" are abstract terms which are useful because they have general and non-specific meanings which can be adapted to many contexts. Artificially prescribed alternatives, introduced only to satisfy the current American cultural Zeitgeist, are not.
> Yes it lets more people without money buy houses, which I can see why socialists don't like that

Or libertarians, because government subsidies distort the market and all that.

> Taylor Wimpy owns 6,000 heactares of land.

UK has 25 million hectares of land, ~2m in the south east. The problem isn't Taylor Wimpy owning all of the unbuilt ones. The London greenbelt is 500k hectares. That's a more plausible bottleneck. Considering 'London greenbelt' is just one dimension of regulation on housing construction and Taylor Wimpy presumably owns land outside south east.
Extending further into 2 dimentions creates some interesting possibilities. I have become a big fan of the wicki-hayden isomorphic layout (hex grid). It ends up grouping western scales into vertical bands. Moving horizontally changes by two semitones, moving another direction changes the note by fifths.

I built a keyboard with this layout because it's such a convenient way to conceptualize arrangement of notes, but there are certainly tradeoffs when it comes to actually playing. You end up with duplicate notes, so you can play in unison with yourself like on most string instruments. The isomorphic nature of it is one of the strongest points: you only need to train your muscle memory once for each chord (major, minor, etc), and you can use that exact shape anywhere on the keyboard. Its good for jamming and discovery, but i cant imagine being able to play as many notes/second as a normal piano.

See figure 11:
http://rainboard.shiverware.com/images/0/08/Isomorphic_Tesse...
FWIW, India has been doing a lot in generating power from solar and there is a push (or at least frequent public statements by those in power) for electric vehicles and getting rid of fossil fuel powered vehicles. This will take time, especially with the current pandemic that has crippled a lot of plans and the economy, but India is a power deficit nation and can do a lot more for its people with more energy production. Switching from fossil fuels to electric with the current state of affairs is a huge task.

If some developed countries have a problem with this draft policy, they could’ve done a lot more in making nuclear technology and fuel easier to access for a cleaner source. But no, even though a historic deal was signed between the U.S. and India by 2008, there have been a lot of impediments and delays in supplying uranium or getting into deals for supplying uranium. Unlike a couple of its neighbors who have a history of selling such technology and materials to hostile/rogue nations with impunity, India doesn’t do that.

With China dumping cheap solar panels and related materials, India has also made it a priority to manufacture these within the country. This will also take time to scale up.

Meanwhile, there’s a growing population with growing energy needs.
7.5.3 it's better as it's the minimum requiment for lots of software. For example, QuickTime VR based graphical adventures, and late publishing applications which ran on both 7.5.3 and 8.1

On speed, well. Today a machine based on System7 will run crazy fast as you can set max cycles on BasiliskII I think, as it shares the same core as UAE.
Hey. I am the maintainer of React Flow. Thanks for the kind words here :) We built it as a foundation for our node-based data wrangling tool datablocks https://datablocks.pro/
Might be cold by the time it gets there though
There’s a Korean food delivery commercial with just that theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQGtK41Wj3o
When did this change? It used to be that adding robots.txt would retroactively remove archives for a domain.
domain registrar, email host, VPS provider, etc.
all on the front page
> [...] temporary order barring the Minnesota State Patrol from using physical force or chemical agents against journalists

I'm sorry, I'm not from USA, can somebody explain why it has _just_ been _temporarily_ banned to use "force or chemical agents" against journalists? I was under the impression that using such things against journalists was banned a long time ago in most of the developed countries, what with the freedom of the press and so on... Is Minesotta an exception here? Or USA?
To be honest, your homepage doesn't exactly give the impression you're a "saving the environment" company but rather you seem to be targeting businesses who wants to save costs. Here are some excerpts from your landing page (https://andium.com/):

- "At Andium, we’re saving companies millions of dollars annually, while increasing safety"

- "we offer an ecosystem of automated products and services that provide the next generation of remote monitoring capabilities"

- "Increasing site visibility while reducing onsite time, manual labor, and human error equates to major cost savings, and saving our clients’ time and money is in our DNA"

- "We've spent countless hours developing our technology and created the first-ever thermal imaging solution for safe, cost-effective tank-level management that has saved our clients millions at scale"

If you're truly in the same bucket as "problems like climate change and food insecurity" problems, you probably want to update your core messaging across your website
I was surprised that you can't apply & to any value. I thought it was gut an ordinary operator and it would ensure that the value it was applied to would be put onto the heap.

s := S{}
sp := &s // Works
_ = sp

_ = &S{} // Works

i := int32(1)
ip := &i // Works!
_ = ip

_ = &int32(1) // Doesn't work!

https://play.golang.org/p/fdgvbEwJWgh

It seems odd that you can't apply & to a function's return value. I think the best approach would be making & work in basically any scenario. For example the following also doesn't currently work.

&(int32(1) + int32(1))

It seems like it should be possible to "desugar" &X to `_tmp = X; &_tmp` and solve this weirdness.
I missed the “i” and read it as “ProjectFi”, which is Google’s cell service. Might want to consider a name change or at least a case change for some letters.
Impressively lovely. What's the battery life like while running this? I'm guessing better than my old PowerBook 160, but curious to know.
It sounds a bit like a generational garbage collector.
In case anyone isn’t aware, on Apple Silicon macOS (and recent iOS I believe), OpenGL is implemented on top of Metal.
All the more reason to dump funding into RISC-V and drop ARM. CPU architectures and instruction sets shouldn't be in the private hands.
Everyone who's tried to fight a war against language change has lost.
Worth noting that the executive get paid at least a comfortable base salary for as long as the cash-burning business keeps its doors open, and if hype creates a pop in the equity price their stock options can be worth a lot, even if the business doesn't turn out.

Regardless of whether MoviePass really had a chance at being profitable, or whether the people running it believed it could be profitable, there was money to be made in making it look viable and getting investors. That's a pretty important point that the author needs to understand before calling the execs "clueless."
Thanks for the reply!

Honest question, but doesn't enabling the Oil & Gas industries to reach peak effectiveness have the opposite effect?

What I mean by this, O&G right now is highly ineffective and to fit into regulatory limit they need to downscale operations just to have a "reserve". By allowing them, for example, to monitor the Flare and other things, don't you actually allow them to increase the production because now they have the data and means how to squeeze effectively into the limits?
Is it possible that Apple is calling their chips Apple Silicon for reasons other than marketing? Since Apple now plans to design and manufacture chips for all their products it’s also possible Apple comes up with an ARM compatible instruction set rather than ARM instruction set to avoid any issues with ARM being part of such takeovers. Just a wild theory since no one has yet (probably legal reasons) done a deep dive into the M1 processor.
But won't other investors step in and replace them? If a coal power plant can't raise capital from these guys, they'll get it from someone else instead. Failing that, they could offer slightly higher interest rates which will surely attract amoral investors.

edit: Fossil fuel divestment has ‘zero’ climate impact, says Bill Gates (ft.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20998948
I watched that last night. Alec's a tremendous educator and come a long way since his early videos (which are also still good). I really enjoyed his deep dive into how dishwashers work :)
What would be an advantage of that?
It's not really ambiguous. 127.X does not equal 127.0.0.X. 127.X means, the first octet is described by the first number, and the last three octets is described by the second number, and X is not limited to 0-255. Thus 127.256 is equivalent to 127.0.1.0, something that would not be possible to express with your alternative interpretations.

It doesn't just mean "fill in zeros".
Such a cool and creative way to plan out and explore financial goals. It allows you to create different plans taking into account your salary, retirement assets, large purchases (cars, house, other assets), a wedding, kids (529s), and more. Great job!
Yeah, this is an underrated comment. I mean the origin of some of this stuff is to be inclusive and diverse, but ironically it has the effect of making people walk on eggshells all the time and not feel like they can act normally.

It's like that scene in x-men (x-people now?) first class when magneto tells mystique that if she's using half her energy to be someone else all the time, she'll never be at her full potential. If you're constantly screening your code, writing, and speech for increasingly obscure ways that people could get offended, you're not working at your full potential.
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