skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How exactly is mentioning that someone is Indian the same as disparaging Indian people and equating them to 'bad'. Why exactly does it matter if it matters if he's Indian. Why is race suddenly not okay as a descriptor in any scenario. Or would it have been totally fine if it had been an amazing experience and a "nice Indian man". Would that be equating Indian = good and thus also disingenuous and harmful because bad people exist?

If he was directly insinuating that Indians are bad then I'd agree with you. Being Indian is simply a supplementary detail to the story. It didn't have to be Indian, didn't have to be a sushi restaurant, didn't have to be Google for reviews. Does mentioning a sushi restaurant make it insinuating that sushi restaurant = bad and thus not okay. What details are okay and what are not. If it's just the race then what makes his race in a totally different category to all other descriptors used in the description. Please be specific
Agreed, soft wrap exists in editors and could be added here.
I’ve heard this cited by a couple ctos I’ve worked for. It’s a popular metaphor in the engineering department. I think it’s articulating an important message, but in an ineffective way. The name “XY Problem” is too vague and easy to forget. I prefer simpler messages like:

- What’s the root cause of the problem?

- Is this a solution looking for a problem?

As software engineers, part of our job is naming things well and the “XY Problem” isn’t a great name IMO.
The fact that they sent the designs to Canada, of all places, should suggest that their actions were unintentional - Canada is one of our closer military allies.
How do you see it that way?

What if it were mathematicians from all over armed with the same Calculus book hand waving that everyone should ignore the idiosyncrasies of their alma mater or their professor's flavor of finding derivatives? What if the founding documents they wrote all spoke highly of Calculus; Calculus books in every classroom. To me it sounds like people weren't hand waving away God, but setting aside their idiosyncrasies to worship the same Christ.
Okay, not Influenza, "flu", as in something that causes flu like symptoms. Quite a lot of virus can do that, as well as bacteria, allergies, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza-like_illness
Very interesting, and I have a lot of respect for Grace Hopper personally. I think tech that's meant to look 'correct' to the right people is often worse off for it, though. I've got no interest in appealing to the people that won't even bother trying to look at it if it reminds them of maths or uses something other than plain English, but it has a place I suppose. I just think the posted article overestimates its scope.
I think the problem here is that the products that aren't cheating on their reviews will get ranked lower. So although they're perfectly fine products, if they drop to the second page of search results you might never actually open them up to read their real human reviews.

You can still read the real detailed reviews on the products you do look at, so you'll avoid buying a lemon, but you will be preferentially buying from review cheaters.
There are also very debatable definitions of what a Covid death is when there are co-morbidities present.

For example, if one dies having both advanced cancer and Covid, which one gets tagged as the cause of death?
I don't think they offer more. Deconstructing patterns and "reconstructors" (generalised "withers") are on the way. And Java features are often designed as a complete whole: some of the feature is in the language, some in the core libraries, and some, even, in the VM. In the case of records, they're treated in a special way by the runtime (e.g. in serialisation).
To add, there's chrpath(1), but that can't grow the field in the ELF file, so you can only change the rpath to something shorter than it is now, and usually it's empty.
If the outcome of the game is peanuts it doesn't matter. But if not, and if national policy is based on that - it's very problematic.

And yes, the last time we made public policies based on imperfect anthropology (Nazi Germany, Apartheid SA or Rhodesia) it was a disaster.
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So do I. However, whenever I think of changes I would like to do to guile I end up with a language a lot closer to racket... Immutable pairs, immutable hash tables, immutable strings (which racket has not), user extensible pattern matching and a proper looping facility (preferrablymore powerful than rackets).

Add to that some better facilities for mixing languages and it is a very nice language that is very close to racket. Yet for some reason I find guile more fun.
Tu quoque arguments aren't very compelling. Currently there is only one world power throwing entire populations in internment camps, and that's China. And you're quite naive if you think military bases are required to use threats of military and economic violence to assert a country's desire.
Typically you use values and not objects for these kind of things so not that much gained.
Amazing, I've been long hoping for a popular messenger to adopt seamless mesh/p2p integration.

Being able to chat in a train/on an airplane without wifi, between a convoy of cars without cell signal etc. seems like a no-brainer, especially with medium-distance unlicensed spectrum radios becoming more widely available.

I was always expecting Apple to enable this for iMessage first, but maybe this is something that can help Matrix get more traction.
I agree with the last point and I don't think it's a bad thing. I'm against lockdowns period. I'm not against vaccines, not against masks, but I don't want this administration, the last administration, or any other to have the power to put us on indefinite house arrest. This IS a hill I wont budge from.

With China, we don't have enough information to make the claim that they under-reported deaths. If you CTRL-F China in the OP data on them is absent. I'm a bit surprised that the author could extrapolate a gap between reporting and actual deaths for every other country except that one.

As for comparing EU and the UK to Australia and New Zealand, that's more easily explained by the much higher air traffic volume between these countries and covid hotspots early on. In short, the combination of being "islands" with limited ports of entry and smaller passenger volume meant that early border closures could be much more feasible and effective.

Korea for all intents and purposes is an "island" in this comparison as well, in that on 3 sides it's surrounded by water and its northern border has no ports of entry.

A short, early response with entry closures and contact tracing does seem to be key, but I don't agree with the notion that we need to emulate their lockdowns. I'd rather wear a mask forever than be like them. The UK got the worst of both worlds since they got stricter lockdowns than the US without getting it under control. The decision to go for zero and stop all social life in order to get down to zero deaths from all covid is commendable but not our obligation. Our duty was to stop from overwhelming our medical system only, not to go for zero by giving up all social life and the economy.
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USA is an outlier on this. You can compare with Italy for example:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105061/coronavirus-deat...

USA has 30 times the deaths among 30-39 year olds but only 5.5 times the population. It isn't just Italy, almost every other country has a distribution similar to Italy.
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Seems obvious that your comments are not in good faith. I feel like I'm talking to a kindergartner with their fingers in their ears, yelling "LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU."

I guess it can be hard to accept that all the propaganda we learned in school - about the US being the greatest country ever, spreading freedom to all, etc. is just blatantly false.

For the record, I was born and raised in the US, but I have come to understand that we are the problem.
The stuff you mentioned should work, if given enough time and a lot of luck.

I know it's frustrating, but you can't force it. The frustration can hold you back. Even if you are doing this stuff to come up with an idea, you have to get lucky in a lot of ways to have it really work out.

I've come up with a bunch of ideas (mostly physical tools/products), but most of them are not very marketable or have something similar already. I have seen one idea from when I was a kid that was commercialized years later by someone else. I also created an app that was first to market. The user experience was probably too clinical and I didn't market it to the right niche. This is all stuff that I came up with because I was curious, not because I was forcing it.

Personally, I don't really get why people are so obsessed with startups. They're rife with failure, bad contracts, and other pit falls. I guess it's like a lottery ticket mentality. I think the people that are successful don't force it and don't see it as a lottery, they leave their regular job to work on an idea they're passionate about that also seems to fit a good business plan.
Aren't gas fees and decentralization inversely correlated?
Yup. It was abandoned almost exactly like MacPaint was. Real shame.
That's a fair point, but this change comes after 5 years. Again, spread over that time span, the effort is negligible.

Sure, the blocker being a first-class citizen on Brave is certainly helpful and perhaps a marker of reliability (imo it is too young of a project to tell). I take that point, but there just isn't enough instability or unreliability on something like Firefox to warrant a switch for me (yet).

I also prefer a more granular control over my blocking, which Brave doesn't offer. I understand this isn't something the majority cares about, but I'm only talking about myself here.
See: the Apple Maps fiasco.

If that's anything to go by, Apple will ship a shitty half-baked version of it and then take years to figure out a way to finally make it good without compromising user privacy.
It's actually this issue here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1563
"The philosophical implications of all this is that NieR: Automata's endless cycles of pain, death, and hope are reflections of human life. Your life isn't unique. Billions of humans, just like you, have come before you, lived their lives of happiness, sadness, pain, hope, and death. Again, and again, and again."

I agree partially with you but contrary evidence is that when you replay the game the second time it isn't actually a new cycle, it just shows events from 9s's point of view.

When you play it the third time it's not a new cycle either, just a sequel campaign.

That said, is what you wrote above really a philosophy? Or is it just a theme?

I mean, Blaise Pascal is most famously known for Pascal's Wager, an argument to believe that the Christian God is real.

Pascal the robot is a pacifist who likes children. Is there really a connection there?
Hitachi knew how to make chips. Times change
python is Way better than js but js people can't cope with other languages for some reason
I mean I have said yes to some apps that ask if they can collect usage information mostly because I know they're not using them for ads.
Anyone using Twitter in the browser uses the Twitter website and sees the ads it serves. But many people using Twitter in an app use a third party app rather than the official one. These people don't see ads. If Twitter's goal is to get more ad views, exanding their share of the app market is more important than the web market that they control already.
> Instead of complex QoS for message delivery, a Broker may provide message history. A Subscriber is responsible to handle overlaps (duplicates) when it wants "exactly-once" message processing across restarts.

The Broker may allow for configuration on a per-topic basis.

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Slightly confused, my impression is that it's At Least Once with the client responsible for dedupe, but it says "if you want exactly once", so I'm not sure if the client is supposed to make a second request for confirmation?

https://wamp-proto.org/_static/gen/wamp_latest_ietf.html#fea...
I've found that this issue crops up in situations where someone has a new app idea. They don't possess the skills to create it themselves because they're in a different domain.

They ask you about building Y, maybe even Z but they don't want to give X away in case someone steals their 'disruptive product'.

There is too little information to go forward, too little trust. Project doesn't take off.

"the world wasn't ready for X, anyway", they say. Whatever that was.
That is enlightening. RTP had otherwise looked to me like a decent place to work as a developer.
> I'm not sure what it's taking about for the "with" feature: ...

The author is referencing possible future work that can build on the current records implementation, and the work Brian Goetz is doing with pattern matching and record deconstruction. Goetz has put together a draft that shows how these could be combined.

https://github.com/openjdk/amber-docs/blob/master/eg-drafts/...
>When you're the special case, you have to communicate that fact. It's just wasting everyone's time when you expect others to know it without communication.

I strongly disagree. The base assumption is to take it at face value, and therefore should be to answer it that way. The recommendation that comes after is always the optional part. You're wasting everyone's time if you give the Y only, and optionally the X.
https://www.USMortality.com
> who would knowingly want apps tracking them?

The number is certainly almost zero. Hence the Facebook/Google shit-fit about all of this.
I've always called it "The XY problem problem". It's not usually an issue in person but in async messaging it can waste a lot of time if you're not careful. And it goes on forever "The XY problem problem problem" where someone is aware what an XY problem is but thinks this is for sure an XY problem problem so they refuse to spend time thinking otherwise. Then of course "The XY problem problem problem problem"...

In those async situations it's best to provide bits of information for both directions every time, in person it's usually best to collaborate.
I’ve always understood the principle to refer primarily to the distribution of outputs. It’s not like any of us really know where to focus. For me it helps me set my own expectations more than being prescriptive. E.g. you might write 100 articles for your website and 3 of them will drive all your traffic.
> Excess deaths counts have been consistently showing negative in countries during periods of time where they have coronavirus under control.

> Other significant causes of death (including suicide, influenza, road traffic accidents) appear to be down.

That's most probably a direct factor of the containment measures. Influenza has been on sometimes historic lows (https://www.who.int/influenza/surveillance_monitoring/update...), and as many people have stayed home streets have been free and people don't drive home from bars totally drunk, both drastically reducing road accidents.

Suicides however? These are going up by some indications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01042-z), as is domestic violence (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7195322/).
Works as expected for me in Chrome 90
https://imgur.com/a/HDxsf5g
Crude methods are fine. Fantastic models are made with linear regression.

No matter how crude your methods, if you don't validate your model prospectively, it is a mathematical fairy tale.
China has re-education camps, while the US is literally ravaging nations with their military. I'm not making a "tu quoque" argument, because that would imply that the two nations are on the same level.
To be devil's advocate, if someone wants to clear all cookies and still be logged in to Google: it's like eating a cake and having a cake (well, cookie). In Chrome, being logged in to google.com and logged in to Chrome are tightly linked. (If you don't like that, don't use Chrome).

(Of course Google could do the other thing and say "ok since you clear all cookies, we log you out of Chrome, so you lose sync etc." but it's probably _not_ what most people want, nor what Google wants).
We use Crossbar and WAMP to build Simpl (https://simpl.world/) on overall it's been a great experience.

Definitely suffers from some of the challenges mentioned above (commercial clustering, large-ish frontend libraries, etc) but it's been pretty straight forward to work with and scales up well enough for our needs (a few hundred to a few thousand simultaneous concurrent players).
See philosophical cow. There was a much larger philosophy article I read about this but I can’t seem to find it.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/03/th...

If you give a cow a choice between being a gazelle and getting eating by a lion or a cow and being fed and taken care of but eventually being killed, which would they choose? If you gave a cow a choice between the elimination or decimation of its entire species (cows have been altered to be not fit for nature) which would they choose? It’s not as cut and dry as you would think. There are definitely people who would pick to eliminate the entire human race. See
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_M... , so maybe we would have voluntary cattle extinction movements as well.

A belief that birth/procreation is a negative is known as antinatalism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism
This is a great explanation. The only missing bit is that the nodes also find routes based on the spanning tree calculated over the network as well as hunting their neighbours on the snake.
Sounds like bazel.
Please don't name-call. Even if the person you're responding to is making invalid points, or being aggressive, that doesn't excuse aggression yourself.
Man this article is interesting and I agree with a lot of what he is saying, especially about people being totally ignorant of how deeply compromised our corporations and intellectual property is.

But wow this guy is on somw type of high horse. Talking about how a third of americans believe conspiracy theories and want college to be more expensive cause they dont want their kids to be "libtards"

And the part where talks about a kid in the US having a bake sale to pay for his brain surgery being some sort of embarrassment compared to China. Pardon me while I roll my eyes back into my skull. You think 90% of the population of china has access to brain surgery? Give me a fucking break. This is the country that not a generation ago were killing children en masse and forcing abortions to stop their population growth. Its not some utopia where all the sick are healed. The CCP couldn't give a fuck about some poor kid in the country side with a brain tumor. Gimme a fucking break. And to say they've eliminated poverty to a greater degree than the US is absolutely laughable. The fringes of Chinese society are dyed in the wool 3rd world levels of living. Even the living standards in the biggest cities are arguably shittier than poverty in the US. I'd rather be impoverished living on an acre of land in boondock Missouri than living in a 200 sqft apartment in Shanghai.

But yeah, we can't ignore the rise of China. We do so at our peril.
China's emissions now exceed all the developed world's combined
Interesting, I thought the repetition was the "machine wars" and they were on the 14th iteration or whatever it was. I've played through it twice, but I didn't pick up anything about the entire YoRHa setup being repeated. Maybe it's time to play through it again.
I do understand the concept of progressive taxation.

$65K is an average household income, but there's no way that the average household is paying $10K in federal income tax, that's laugh-out-loud far of the mark.

Let's just say that's a couple married-filing-jointly.

In 2020, you'd take first of all a $24,800 basic deduction. Then you'd pay $4,429 in income tax on the $40,200 taxable income.

If you had two kids, you'd take two Child Tax Credits for $2,000 each and pay $429 in federal income tax.

An average household with two kids pays essentially no federal income tax in 2020.

Even in the absolute worst-case, a single filer pays no more than ~$7,400 on $65,000 of income.

In 2021, thanks to the increase in the Child Tax Credit ($3000 per child or more younger children), the bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the average household will pay no federal income tax at all on income under $75,000 per year.
when I open upwork.com it has 6 iframes in it, including to accounts.google.com/o/oauth2... I'd imagine that's where the cookie goes, not to the parent frame.

You'd need to see which request has the cookie on it, not just which ones were set "when you viewed this page".
"more interesting" is definitely a term of opinion. I'd agree I don't see these as useful for anything that I can imagine, but if we limited things others can do to "what I can imagine" the world would be a semi-dull place.
> there exists diffuse but consistent behavior

I think that is possible and that one could prove it statistically.

I do not think that, just because such behavior can be shown to exist on average, that is necessarily exists in specific situations. If you want to apply an anti-racist remedy in a specific situation, you should have to prove racism in that situation.

And I think that the remedies to specific situations will differ a great deal, depending on unique variables. That is, if a person proposes a remedy, they should show how it will fix the specific problem.

I do not agree with one-size-fits-all remedies that try to fix a social ill by turning a specific company on its head without factual evidence of racism in that company.
Part of why we evolved two ears is to be able to locate sounds within our perceptive field. I think the best example is to listen to some recordings made with two head-mounted microphones. I like these here; one was the closest I’ve come to believing I was standing in a pond while in my own house. It requires headphones to get the effect: https://quietamerican.org/field_vietnam.html

There’s another component at play too: beat frequencies. This happens anytime you have different frequencies playing simultaneously. This is a result of simple waveform interference. Lots of examples, but I’ll never pass up a chance to link to Julius Sumner Miller[0]: https://youtu.be/7dxkW5bsUgs

So the brain is doing lots of work to integrate the stereo “image,” in much the same way we can wear 3D glasses and perceive depth[1]. Binaural beats reduce things down to a more fundamental level: you’re playing with how your mind integrates the stereo field in a weird way, and it produces a beat frequency that does not exist in the pulsed air. This may be learned behavior.

[0] I’m eagerly waiting for some music producer to sample this video: “all the music fell out”, “we should have this mechanism called beats”, “beats: wonderful!”, etc.

[1] I wonder what the effect of rapidly switching the left/right components of a stereo image would be. Probably nausea.
Better than bash but nothing beats Python for scripting IMO. I’m a mediocre programmer and search results are rich with Python examples for anything under the sun.
I feel pretty similar.

I have no advice for you. I'm 9 years in with a masters and I'm only a midlevel developer with no future.
As opposed to all the ones that have been asked so far, which were somehow "not hard"?
With the caveat that typed racket does not have any unsound corners of the type system, not even for comfort.
Probably Scribble, which is pretty opinionated. Pollen basically gives you tools to design your own markup and makes no assumptions about the published result.