skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So IMHO the focus should be on dropping racial connotations from colors.

Color identifies are generally bullshit. For example, what the heck is a white person? Are the Irish white? A 19th century WASP wouldn't think so. In fact, most Europeans who lived in their own ethnic communities in the US weren't white until about the mid-20th century. Incidentally, this is when the Great Migration began and these communities began to disintegrate. The WASPs began to feel threatened (though this is hardly unique to WASPs; cf. the Soviets, the Nazis, the CCP, etc), and so they engaged in bit of social engineering, identity theft, and deracinization. You were no longer Irish or German or Polish or Swedish or Lithuanian or whatever. You were now bland old generic "white". But wait a second. What is "white identity" and "white culture"? Do the Whites speak White? Of course not. This is what identity theft and imposed artificial identities are about. You are robbed of your identity and then told what your identity is by a ruling class that controls that identity. So you need to look to the ruling class to "know" who you are because they're no way to know or determine what whiteness is beyond what they make it mean. If you want to know what "whiteness" means, look no further than the organs and estates of power in this country. This is social engineering and control.

> Imagine if we couldn't have yellow and red traffic lights, because it'd be offensive to a race.

Exactly. Frankly, I don't think people associate "whitelist" with whiteness and "blacklist" with blackness. I don't, and people aren't monomaniacally stupid like that and that's not how we work. We can speak of the gorgeous black ebony of a piano or a raven-haired or a doe-eyed/black eyed beauty, or how handsome a shiny black tuxedo looks or how sleek a black Ferrari might look. Black tie formals appreciate the elegance that stark contrasts can have. We can also speak of someone looking pale as a ghost and sickly, whitewashing the truth, and so on. So it is patent nonsense that people think in these term. Maybe those people who believe this is the case are guilty of some kind of truly bizarre obsession where everything is racialized. Poor them. We judge things according to some normative understanding of what something ought or can be, not in abstraction.

(Some may allude to the historical use of dark colors to depict evil and white to depict good. This is, again, a highly selective reading and betrays the same inability to contextualize. The night is dark, darkness means inability to see, obscurity, concealment. Light reveals, makes things known. Is nature therefore racist? Should we accuse the sun, or light itself, of being racist? How parochial. Again, nobody of sound mind thinks this way and it is nothing less than the paranoia of insane academic bubble chamber ideologues.)
But the local papers have always had ads in them to supplement revenue, so I imagine you could still reach $100K or more. In a lot of small towns that’s still enough to cover an editor-in-chief and an additional reporter.
But if the work becomes smaller, and they pay bigger, doesn't that mean you now have more time on your hands and more financial security to do something that piques your interest? I understand that one would like to switch from a boring but well paid job, in order to grow their career, but I feel this is for people who need to be told what to do. If you're not that type of person, you have so many opportunities for growth: study a new technology, join an open source project, identify a way to optimize/improve a process at your current boring job and convince management to do it... If you have the initiative, you can create the opportunities that you seek. But if you truly are bored of your current job, the people you work with, etc etc then yeah, there's no point staying even if the pay is great (reminds me of Tony Hsieh's Vesting in Peace moment he described in his book, or his job at Oracle)

[Disclaimer: by using "you" I am not addressing you personally]
I sometimes think about how we read newspapers before the internet. For those old enough, how many of you remember someone who subscribed to the NYT? On the other hand, how many of you saw someone reading it on a bus? Remember how you could walk into any McDonalds or similar restaurant and find a stack of the daily papers there for anyone to read?

Makes me wonder how much money used to be raised from subscriptions to individuals compared to daily edition sales.
Thanks! It appears that the new restrictions no longer apply to me. I’ll be off to give blood later this month.
> creates the impression that Facebook is a normal, legitimate business rather than a monopolistic rogue corporation

Incendiary claims.
What does HMG stand for?
No, we downvote things that are crap.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/31/fac...
ARM is a strategic company and unique in europe. it is UK crown jewel. Selling it to Nvidia is like USA selling Google to Huawei.
If anything screams first-world privilege, it's cryptocurrencies. Guess who owns 99.9999% of all crypto? The West.
Disclaimer: I do not have a music degree.

I thought (read) that the distribution of black and white keys came to be like that to provide a visual pattern which allows you to easily distinguish the different octaves.
Without a need for money, I need to rely on this person's ability to be a professional out of the goodness of their heart. Nothing in that post or their previous work says I can rely on that. Frankly nothing in the post or their history shows they have the ability to deliver value that outweights the headache of planning, managing, and integrating them into an existing team knowing how fickle the relationship can be.

It's not similar to a contractor relationship, since there there's at least contracts and deliverables that give some clarity to planning.
Because businesses don’t want to bear the loss (financial and likely reputational) of finding out that their beef contains prions.
How about “Facebook is paying off the New York Times for protection articles”
From what I understand, the company that owns ARM (Softbank) is having financial problems,and is selling one of its successful assets to try and recover.
I don't find it particularly noble. When it comes to human communication I believe in Postels law: Be strict in what you send, be lenient in what you accept.

You suggest there is no point in changing your own communication if you cant force the whole to change in the same way. I disagree.
> Ah yes, HN: we downvote science we don’t like.

Calling something science doesn't make it so.
close the world, open the next
Oracle Cloud is awful too.
Adobe co-founder Charles Geschke dies at 81
From your source:

"Judging from exonerations, innocent black people are about seven times more likely
to be convicted of murder than innocent white people. A major cause of the high number of
black murder exonerations is the high homicide rate in the black community—a tragedy that
kills many African Americans and sends many others to prison. Innocent defendants who
are falsely convicted and exonerated do not contribute to this high homicide rate. They—
like the families of victims who are killed—are deeply harmed by murders committed by
others."

7x more murders per capita, 7x higher rates of false conviction. It's simple scaling. That means the system is being perfectly equitable.
Is Evan still working for NoRedInk? It looks like he vanished sometime around May last year.
Persist: OK: To make the token persist ...

Doesn’t that verb supposed to be in a singular form like in “To make the token persists ...”?
a16z had such a big win with Coinbase that maybe they can afford to take a flyer on Clubhouse? Doesn't make sense to me, but I'm sure the partners at a16z are much smarter and more tuned in than I am.
IIRC, BSE (Mad Cow) was spreading among cattle because the industry was using meat-and-bone feed from infected cattle. It was tainting the meat supply because captive-bolt guns spray more brain around than more traditional hammer-oriented methods of slaughtering beeves.

So yeah, cannibalism and brain spray. Stupid behaviors.
> The Economist is a weekly news magazine

Exactly. They report news and what reputable economists have to say. With sources and quotes. A lot of their articles would be considered a review article in Nature magazine.

> young journalists with no special expertise

That's literally a logical fallacy. Instead of reading about the sources for the particular article, you're dismissing The Economist like it's a tabloid. Tells me more about your integrity, more than you wish to expose.
> Taylor Lorenz is an American culture and technology reporter for The New York Times Styles section, covering topics related to internet culture.

I think you need to calibrate your meaning of "elite"
Maybe I'm missing something.

What do you understand by federated protocol?

As I understand it, Matrix seems to be an open protocol that supports federation.

The open protocol part is evident by the extense documentation of the protocol specification that I linked in my previous message and by the fact that anyone can propose a change in the spec: https://spec.matrix.org/unstable/proposals/

You can see how the protocol supports federation here: https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/r0.1.4

As for the organization governing the protocol, there is The Matrix.org Foundation: https://matrix.org/foundation/

In the foundation page it states it is "a non-profit UK Community Interest Company, incorporated to act as the neutral guardian of the standard on behalf of the whole Matrix community"
It doesn't have named types on which methods get dispatched?
It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of infected cattle entered the food chain in the 1980s. The total number of cases of vCJD is at less than 250 as of 2018.

Feeding practices that led to BSE have changed, the USDA is still testing for BSE, and if the disease was spreading, we'd probably notice it at some point.

Personally, I'd be far more worried about cattle farming practices spawning some sort of super-resistant flesh-eating bacteria than anything related to BSE.
There are other high paying jobs out there, and I'd like to know where this "change from the inside" thing comes from. I've not seen anything that indicates that that's true for Facebook, and have seen a few things that show the opposite[1][2].

Working at a company that does these things is no lesser evil in my book.

1: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-employ...

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mqw86u/i_am_sophie_zh...
I read the Wikipedia article linked above. They go over the studies there.
Its still a level of stupid that makes me think less of Discord and Apple. I can honestly see blocking sites for minors or giving warnings to adults, but this isn't a Disney world and Apple needs to get over itself.
Brought some hats from a friend. It's important to support your friends if their trying to build.
I think the de-facto ARM desktop is already here. It's the M1 Mac.
To Tome’s law?
The article suggests it's transmissible through plants and even air. You can't even sterilize surgical equipment under normal protocol to kill them.

It is basically a juggernaut.
My phone isn't as smart as yours
A lot of those ads were things like classifieds. That market is solidly eaten by the internet.
Tech blogs are regularly bribed for good coverage, and tech companies are known for doing it. Nobody bloody cares about integrity of journalism.

The Verge has historically been very favorable to Apple and Google. Why? They get exclusive interviews with Google and Apple executives. An interview with Sundar Pichai is worth millions in ad revenue, and if a blog is too critical of a company, they won't get interviews. Offering an interview to a news outlet is really not significantly different from cutting them a check.

Apple has been known for pretty much cutting out any site that dares to step out of line. I think whatever is left of Gizmodo is still banned from Apple events after Gizmodo reported about getting hands on a prototype iPhone.
Kinda true. The Soviet children knew there was no communism in the SU. But the book could give a clue on how it's supposed to look like.
Why not discuss the actual coverage rather than attack the journalist?
There has to be some Apple engineers reading this wondering which feature she’ll find next, and hopefully with a big smile when she get something right.
Information density of English text is 1ish bit per letter. There was some research about it, and also it's the compression rate you get from state-of-the-art algorithms.
User kube-system delivered concrete examples from reputable sources further down the thread. Could you now please post concrete proof of having sent your paypal gift?
> ‘...that we can lower the tax on other "more wholesome" things (like income from labor and housing)’

we don’t necessarily need lower income taxes across the board, but rather a sharp, smooth sigmoidal tax rate curve with the inflection point at the median income. and an end to deductions and carveouts like the lower capital gains tax. that one change would fix a lot of incentive problems in the fiscal system.

edit: i should add that we likely don’t need to lower taxes on housing either, as it won’t make a dent in getting more people housed where they want. what we need to lower are the barriers to development, like restrictive zoning, overly specified building codes, and arduous permitting and review processes.
The Julia join function works on any iterable whose members are or can be converted into strings.
He could exercise and then sell his options, most of which are probably vested. It’s absolutely logical to count the unexercised vested options, and extraordinarily misleading not to.

The CFO exercised 20% of her options and then sold those shares, which the chart then spins as her selling 100%.
I agree - it is a dangerous precedent to set. I do think that with large infrastructure purchases and installations you really have to go in with open eyes -- it's very difficult to undo those kind of purchases. Probably make sense to use trusted providers.
A couple years ago there was a clear shift in how the highest profile people in go core interact with the community. In the past it felt a bit one way. I have no idea what triggered the change, but it's definitely visible, and hugely positive imo.
Let us be real, folks:

- You are reading this comment.

- You are likely highly or fairly paid.

- You don’t pay for your news (to a partisan substack doesn’t count)

Edit: Added likely to comment. Icing on the cake is if you consume almost all your news through Twitter / social media.

Maybe stop clicking and reacting and instead stop and reflect your role in all this?

Cold hard truth? We caused this problem, Facebook is a great scapegoat, and most here likely contributed to bigger issues with information distribution in one way or another through their employment.
I'm going to go in a slightly different direction and recommend starting with a book on music history. There will probably be enough theory in there, as it's needed to explain many developments. And then, don't try to study it, but start out by just reading it as a narrative.

Modern college textbook writers are doing a decent enough job of not focusing strictly on classical music. You could find out what your local university uses.
Your contact list seems like a pretty unique fingerprint with high entropy. It also persists across devices and accounts through common synchronization mechanisms.

How many people in the world share the same contact list as you?
It's only not recommended (not "don't use"), so presumably can be used if it's the clearest way to describe something:

> Not recommended: To denylist an IP address, add it to the dos.yaml file.
Thereby combining all of the potential isolated, individually bad disasters into one enormous fully-correlated watershed moment when all companies are simultaneously found to be selling prion-containing beef...
I see the scams are out in force selling "gold (plated) sovereign".
./py2many.py --julia=1 list_py_annotations.py

produces

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/vwxYkppRCw/
It's a malapropism for "fobbed off", which means to trick someone into buying something of inferior quality or value.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elitist

one who is an adherent of elitism : one whose attitudes and beliefs are biased in favor of a socially elite class of people

I don't care much for her coverage but she's attacking a company whose CEO is worth a lot of money. Hard to say any of the people being criticized isn't part of the elite
I think the performance of Display Postscript in OpenStep / NeXTSTEP was a indicator that NeWS didn't have to be slow. It would be interesting to have a version of it today to test.
Consumers don't have much choice besides a recycling bin and a trash bin. Landfills are actually a decent option for plastics because the plastic stays in tact (no shredding - creating more microplastics) and in one place - stopping it from escaping into the local ecosystem. Most will use the recycling bin for plastics because they see that as the best option while not knowing the implications of recycling plastic in the United States.

Norway has a good system where plastic bottles are made with more plastic to make them thicker/durable, and when the bottles are recycled they are cleaned and reused [0].

[0]: https://www.sciencealert.com/norway-s-recycling-scheme-is-so...
Firefox 88.0
Yes, but those are not classes, in the sense of Python or other OOP language classes.
No, he doesn't. The car doesn't let you do this either.
Given he seems to have a pretty low tolerance for boredom, I'd expect any potential employer to worry about this: What if he starts working for me, and a few months later (after having started some big refactor job for example) he decides it's no longer interesting, and leaves for someone else paying 1$ an hour
Probably using the issue as an aggregation landing page. Bots can post to it, details can be manually added too, in-built support for media, integration with version control and ability to leverage in-built Github workflow. Looks like a smart way to use existing infrastructure.
I'm not familiar with Illiad but King County Library System[0] in Washington state has excellent interlibrary loans. I have received books from libraries all over the US, Canada, prisons, museums, and even the Library of Congress.

Another option is that some university libraries have a membership program; you can borrow books and place interlibrary loans for an annual fee.

[0] https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/
The first promising blood test for mad cow (vCJD) was developed in 2016. Prior to that, "The only current method to diagnose vCJD is to perform a biopsy or a postmortem analysis of brain tissue." (NIH 2017).

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/new-met...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5538786/

Scientists have since developed a promising method that relies on analyzing the retina.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/scientists-ide...
I’d really like to see a transcript of this interview with Thompson. My media literacy alarm is going off - why does the article splice together “far, far more” and “very much so” rather than quoting exactly what he said in context?
Why would an app developer ever think their own app should use the method reserved for untrustworthy apps?

All incentives suggest the developer should prevent using the app without full permissions being given (basically force the user into giving permission) and only implement the first method.
I guess the big news is the support for 64-bit. Good that it didn't take them that long - the first Windows version on a 64 bit architecture is not even 20 years old yet. Windows XP for IA-64 was released in October 2001 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_editions#Windows_XP...
The sound it makes lets you know when something has changed, you don't need to keep looking up from whatever else you are doing.
Visual Studio 2022 is 64-bit
Is there? Institutions are just organized groups of individuals. Is the difference that one is more effective than the other?

Also, why does THIS count as an activist policy, and not literally everything else banks have ever done?

There's no such thing as a neutral way to invest money. Every investment sends money towards one group and away from another. We give control of our money to banks with the trust that they are being intentional about how to use it.

Why is this an "activist policy" more than anything else?
Looks like you're a decent enough coder, you're still young, and you want something interesting to do. Why not start one of the many startups that people here on this site tend to start?
In maths, you usually write "where x is ..., y is ... etc." after equations where what the symbols represent isn't abundantly obvious anyway.

Likewise, when programming, if I reuse some variable very often in a short space, I will temporarily rename it to something single-lettered, e.g. "s = volumeScalingFactor; x = s; y = s; z *= s".

I think maths style vs. programming style is only one factor here, with the other simply being this application of DRY: describe one-off things well, but shorten their names if they're oft-repeated within a given context.

Maths tends to reuse the same variable for a lot of different operations in a single context whereas programming doesn't as much, which naturally leads to this single-letter name vs. long name difference in styles.
I've had an iPhone 11 for about 1.5 years now and I've yet to have an unsuccessful update on it. I think I'd had the OnePlus 5 for about half a year when I got the softbrick. So far Apple is leading the reliability race by far for me.
I was thinking more about the original sale. It's looking like it was just the board seeing dollar signs, coupled with a promise of a huge workforce expansion.

[1] https://www.borntoengineer.com/britains-successful-technolog...
It's perhaps worth noting here that the tagline is actually stylised as:

"Close the world, open the nExt."[0]

with the capitalisation presumably being a reference to the company NeXT, founded by Steve Jobs.[1]

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500092/taglines

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT
> A $4B valuation with 'speculation / risk built in' means they really think it's worth $20-50B.

I may be out of the loop, but that's not* how I learned to valuate startups. On the contrary, the VC valuation I learned to calculate was usually a bit higher than expected market value.
> It doesn't (have to) invalidate the pointer though. When resized the map's content get copied to a new backing buffer, the pointer can keep pointing to the old buffer.

That's true, but I don't think it's very comparable to slices. With slices, you have to explicitly reallocate either by creating a whole new slice or using append. Reslicing, indexing, or other operations do not reallocate. On the other hand, maps may end up resizing on any operation that involves them, or even theoretically in the background without any operations (during GC, for example). It would be unfortunate to lose that implementation flexibility, and keeping it means that you're essentially picking the "make a copy" option.