skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my assertions stack up pretty well with the facts.

The names list hasn't been clearly established as racist. If you have 10 times the European names as you have Asian names, is it racist against Asians, or were there "funny" names in all groups?

The perception of racism is not necessarily racism. That is precisely the point that is being argued. The claim of white supremacy does not mean that an organization is white supremacist. Big claims need big evidence. I haven't seen it.

Minor slights happen. They are inevitable in daily life no matter what your race, gender, sexual orientation or other identity. If you use minor slights to create an uproar in the context of your job, you are a bad employee who should be fired. Tying minor slights to genocide is one way of creating an uproar.

Singer had power and seniority at Basecamp. He once linked to a Breitbart page. While I differ with Breitbart on most issues, I do not see that as prima facie evidence that Singer is white supremacist or racist.

Just because Singer is a white male with authority does not make him, by definition, a white supremacist or a racist.

And if the only cure for that kind of "white supremacy" is replacing all the white males with any power or authority with people of other identities, then I'm opposed to that "cure," because it is a racist and discriminatory cure based on false generalizations about genders and racial groups.
Why can't these people just create a blog post and link to it? It takes 5 minutes. Blogging is free. You can actually maintain the blog post over time. It doesn't include 50 idiots' snarky comments. (That's what HN is for)
i particularly enjoyed this rag's conflation of "casual dress" and "drug use."
The Royal Navy is testing using jet suits to fight high-seas piracy
But those are no longer Bitcoin, they are "Bitcoin Cash", "Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision", "Bitcoin Gold", etc. There is only one Bitcoin with the BTC ticker.
> and it's 100% yours (you can do what ever you want to it)

Does it run 100% free software? Will it be certified with "Respects Your Freedom" certification by the FSF?
It's a bad take on the variability hypothesis. GP starts with "outliers exist" and through a parody of inference gets all the way to "there are two tiers of men", a train of thought that Joseph Goebbels would be proud of.
> and we do need to fix that

I can't see any way of fixing it that doesn't entail interfering with the (supposedly) natural operations of profit seeking in the market.

At some point we need a state (or somebody or something that is in charge and able to reconfigure and manage economic processes "from above"), some agent or authority to be able to say, "Build this. Don't build that. Do it even if it doesn't make any money." Or we'll eventually experience our own very profitable self negation.
Basically no protocol changes, especially the ones people are worried about, require ASIC changes.
> What you'll have are people who argue that if people who aren't as intelligent, or as strong, or as funny just had access to the same set of circumstances as Intelligent Person X, Strong Person Y, and Funny Person Z, the "underperforming" - for lack of a better adjective - people would be just as good.

No, that's not really what most of them are arguing. What most of them are arguing is that we should try to minimize the detrimental effect of the environment and maximize access to enrichment to maximize our "return" on whatever heritable potential we have.

We know phenotype is always a mix of heritable traits and environment. Development is guided by genetics but it is an embodied process. If the environment is shitty, which it is for a great many people, then that's an obvious place to look if said group is under-performing. If a group of people are being constantly told they're inferior or treated worse than others, that's another obvious place to look... especially since we have research on "social self-limitation" that demonstrates that humans will to some extent perform to expectation whether the expectation is high or low.

Improving the environment is the low-hanging fruit. Only then does it make sense to look at heritable traits. By then we might have a better understanding of our own genetics and more precise tools than CRISPR-CAS9.
> men tend to have more variance in everything due to having only one X chromosome

The variability hypthesis is interesting (and old), but I don't follow what you said about X chromosomes and males, or how it pertains to the variability hypothesis.

I'm pretty much ignorant in genetics. Does your assertion follow from this observation: "if X chromosome has a genetic disease gene, it always causes illness in male patients, since men have only one X chromosome and therefore only one copy of each gene"? As in, men exhibit more variability because their genetics are less stable, because they don't have a Barr body?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_chromosome

> As every function of the society scales more and more, more things become winner-takes-all games and end up being male dominated.

That kind of needs some explaining too.
I don't believe it.

California did mess with good curriculum decades ago when it dropped phonics, but not for any sort of racial reasons, but for untested education tinkering ones.
That would require changes to the codebase which most nodes probably wouldn't support. Which would be creating their own fork.

You can't just "increase mining rewards" as a miner.
How about hard fork?
Yes, the number is "global" - but the actual part of the "globe" that's affected is remarkably small ..making its rate far worse than it otherwise appears
Wow. That's one good speech from Harlan.
Do you have any opinion on what’s going on at Basecamp?
I doubt this would happen, but I could very well see the CCP cracking down on coin mining for host of different reasons.
What does dot paper have to do with English? Looks like these were drawn using a mouse.
Is splitting a real solution? Why can't that powerful group, which had control of the original chain take control of this new fork?
While an understanding of male/female difference has only of late become "scientific", the bases for discrimination between the two had roots in these kinds of observations, and feminists will be the first to point this out.
An interesting thing to research after this is to look at other species. In humans, men get fewer copies of genes (hence also more colourblindness).

In some other species like - I think - birds, it’s the female who has fewer copies and who also displays more variation in traits.

Regarding the winner-takes-all phenomenon, there’s an interesting workup of the idea in the book The Sovereign Individual. Basically, in every market, there’s usually a winner. Before, there were many local markets. Now, there’s one mammoth global one, or at least a few regional ones. Correspondingly, there are fewer winners, who now win on a global scale.
Not OP, but I do have one of these screen protectors. I bought a generic one off Amazon instead of the expensive "Paperlike". It works just as good.
Yeah, China accounts for around 65% of Bitcoin mining globally. If they ever wanted to, I assume they could coerce many of their biggest miners to cooperate on a 51% attack.
Twin studies have done a lot of work in this area. Two genetically identical children, separated at birth and raised in 2 separate families.

At least from these studies, genetics play a far larger role than expected.
Netflix isn't out there kidnapping people to take photos for them for free, so WTH would "predatory" mean.

"Hey you wanna come take photos on a few weddings for a show? We can't pay"

"No"

See? Simple.

That's a normal market. If people wanna do it free, they should be able to. If they don't, Netflix will have to pay someone. Why does anyone else have to get involved here?
Manufacturing mRNA vaccines is surprisingly straightforward
Developers control the means of software distribution, which does give them some staying power even if they make bad decisions. The tipping point to removing software developers from control is when it becomes preferable to set up new distribution channels instead of accept their code as-is.
Ah neat! I've added all of the links in the comments here to my list - great to see what's out there and to combine our collections.
I'm also launching my own podcast and for better ranking I transcribe it into text with https://audext.com/
After 17 years underground, trillions of cicadas are about to emerge in the US
Wouldn't it be simpler to just store everything on your own and let events ( eg. In DDD applications) just write to the blockchain?

Instead of threathing the blockchain as source of truth?
One thing I'd like to see more stress on is that these systems, whatever degree of decentraliation they have, they are highly highly coupled systems, requiring nearly absolute cohesion. These protocols are built to establish consensus, and that almost always requires change to be accepted by a sizable majority.

Touched upon in the article:

> But in blockchains, we have something almost opposite to that. Since blockchain systems are logically indivisible, and also in many ways more formal and algorithmic than traditional financial systems, blockchains practically defy any authority, even the authority of people over their own accounts.

My bias is more towards how adaptable & flexible systems are. There's little loose coupling, little flexibility, it feels like. Sometimes flexibility is engineered in, with smart contracts, but those virtual machines are enormously unadaptable, unflexible systems, by design, and trying to extend or grow or adapt them feels highly unlikely. Governance models for these systems seem rare, and- speaking as an outsider, a not regular user- I rarely if ever come across descriptions of how these blockchains are changing or adapting. It takes many years it feels like to get basic life-preserving measures happen such as the bitcoin block size limits. Decentralized somewhat, but extremely high authority, extremely unadaptable, unchanging. They possess few of what we think of as the general resilliency, adaptability measures that decentralization & distributiziation beget.
As an outsider to those discussions, is there a bullet point list of how money operates (when functional), and and what people ultimately need it to do?

I happen to know a bit about the mechanisms of totalitarianism, and the comments about politics sound like there is a de facto bluecoin/redcoin thing going on. Is the split actually ideological, or is it just a power struggle as an artifact of a vaccuum?
They also do the scene where he plays video games with gesture controlled inputs but no sort of ui that demonstrates how to do them or how they're being received. An odd choice that stuck with me.

I think it was a very good call to not show the AI visually, because it implied a much more emotional bond. The depth of his feelings might feel a bit superficial if the AI looks like Scarlet Johansson.
Alas it does, and also in the email inbox. I wish we had a better solution.
Can't stop thinking about out post and telecommunication board.
Good question, have run into the same problem of sizing/positioning issues. Usually can just manually tweak so it will be okay on typical sizes for presentations, but not optimal.
Ah, I see. Yes indeed. I hope the stress eases soon.
The scenario in question is when a small group has control of the network through consolidated hash power.
Video games are hard.

Think about it, they are essentially a fusion of software and entertainment products, both industries which are noted for unpredictable scheduling and inconsistent quality.

It honestly amazes me that so many games actually work pretty well, given that I've seen how the sausage is made.
I don't know enough to know if that's true, but I do believe you, and:

> Don't help companies for free, they will never repay you.

Is apparently not true, because Rockstar paid that guy for speeding up GTA Online's loading time... but a sample size of 1 is pretty bad data, I'll freely admit.
One might begin to wonder if there's more than mere correlation between those who adopt socially conservative beliefs and those who seem unable to paint their environment in anything other than such broad strokes...
>I don't think Germany's singular goal of racial domination - and specifically extermination of world Jewry - is comparable to most wars.

That wasn't the reason for the war. Nor were there any country actually try to help the jews before or during the war.

It's also not different from thoughts at the time held throughout the western world. Britain specifically didn't help the jews during ww2 because they thought they would flood Palestine (a british colony) after the war. A famous quote in Canada before ww2 was that "We'd take as many as we can, but none was too much." America as well famously turned away boat loads of jews.
Virtually every large go program I've read has asymptotically reached 50%+ of its code being

if res, err := fn(...); err != nil {
fmt.Errorf("Look ma, I'm a human exception handler: ", err)
}

This is held up as a positive thing, because handling errors is explicit and good. Somehow, the Rust equivalent of `?` is implicit and bad, despite desugaring to almost literally the exact same thing and being actually impossible to forget or overlook due to the return type of the function enforcing a Result.

In the same breath, devs will assert that the language is "low boilerplate" (despite 50%+ LOC being just one type of boilerplate) because Error Handling is Important. Which seemingly ignores that the important part of error handling is actually ensuring that errors are handled and not the mechanistic act of self-flagellation by wrapping every line of code in nearly-identical error handling ceremony. Which is unfortunate because golang doesn't do so great a job with the first part. It's surprisingly easy to actually forget to do something with the error while carrying on with a return value whose semantics are undefined (unlike Rust's Result, where you can have an error or a value and not both).
Same question here, there are several similar seeming slide systems and would be helpful to see a comparison or major differences in approach/output.
My HP ZBook 15 from 2014 is still good. I upgraded it to 32 GB RAM, 2 TB SSD starting from 8 GB and 750 GB HDD. I replaced several keyboards (usually because I worn out the most used keys) and a defective screen when it was under the original guarantee. I hope it won't break. I can see me using it for many years, no need to buy something else. If only HP would offer an option without the number pad.
They might have spent more on solving this than your couch was worth.
> Netflix is rolling in cash

Let's say Netflix['s production company] were to auction the opportunity to work with them on this project (for clarity: the winning photographer pays).

Q1: Are we suggesting there would no bidders?

Q2: If "the market fixes stuff" why can't the market fix this?
The general population doesn't need advanced calculus. It would be much more useful if they taught personal finance/investing.
US plants have to insure for disaster up to $200 million. The taxpayer is on the hook for the rest.

In Fukushima total cleanup costs could go up to a trillion dollars : https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/16/fukushimas-final-costs-...
Mosaic: Console UI in Kotlin Using Jetpack Compose
This is neat and all, but can you buy any of the systems? Everything was 'contact us.'
> But right now, it does not work for what people ultimately need it to be doing. As far as I am concerned, people are currently trading pogs or magic cards.

You're one of the developers who helped launch Bitcoin Cash. I'd be curious to hear you talk about why you find (or found?) the project worthwhile, if crytocurrency currently "does not work for what people ultimately need". Do you see yourself as laying the groundwork for a better future implementation?
Bootstrap 5 Released
I think both parties have to sign a transaction.
Six years of professional Clojure development
I want a cachebust="yes" attribute that invalidates an image when it changes, yet never contacts the server when the image is unchanged.
The argument isn't that this wouldn't work, its that this would be sub-optimal.

Squeezing extra tax out of poor people who have literally no alternative is not going to be a popular plan. Allowing for a hint of nuance in your public policy would incentivize switching to alternatives where possible, while also incentivizing the development and adoption of alternatives where they don't currently exist.
True, but they exist in fewer numbers if you follow the male variability hypothesis. The argument is that there are not enough of them to model as their own group.
This is an advantage of proof-of-stake: in order to 'mine', you only have to own some of the coin. It's still not one vote per citizen, but it's much closer to it--and it's more stable, since people holding large amounts of the coin are motivated to ensure it's stability and security.
Colnago C64 NFT: Unique road bike baked by an NFT token
You're no doubt correct. But gym class for me was something like 35 years ago.
Stealth edit, the above post used to compare the author with Joseph Goebbels, now it makes a self-aware reference to "Godwin's law". Still a bad argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
If someone makes you an offer and you say, "no" and they walk away, that isn't predatory.
GoJS: A Framework for Rapidly Building Interactive Diagrams
>The risk of cow->human BSE transmission is infinitesimal.

I don't think your sources support this conclusion.
bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) rarely passes the species barrier, but it is difficult, if not impossible to estimate what the rate is in the absence of mitigations.
Inflation is the usual result, isn't it?

e.g. Zimbabwe in recent memory
I think it's a mistake to lay a lot of that variance purely on chromosomes. Society treats people very differently based on gender presentation, and that starts basically at birth. It would be truly amazing if decades of gender-based socialization had no influence on personality and outcome. Especially given that the point of socialization is to influence personality and outcome.
Why does the order matter? It'll only write to the guard page if the input string is long enough to necessitate it, in which case it was going to fault anyway regardless of which page it touched first.

Edit: I guess you're considering "used safely" to include reading a truncated string, in which case writing in order would allow the program to be written such that it recovers from the fault and reads the valid page-worth of string.
Yeah this is awesome community work, and I'm honestly thankful for MS having left these works alone.

An official solution would be nice though. These open source projects are popular enough to warrant one I'd say!
Sure, but when people pour their hearts into a product for months or years of their life, and they read about how they are lazy or incompetent (or evil), it hurts a lot.

If you actually want your feedback to be listened to, you should try writing it more nicely.

But then, this is the internet, so that doesn't seem likely ;)
I disagree. As a user, I have no real say. What ever the miners and exchanges decide if what I must use. And for the vast majority of users just don't care about which fork should be considered the true path.

As a user, I have about as much control over US currency. I can be very vocal, protest, and raise awareness for what I think is correct, but ultimately almost all decisions happen with governing bodies. And in the case of Bitcoin, the governing bodies are the miners and exchanges, which have very different incentives than the users.
Naive question: The github page says 62% of the languages used in this repo is FreeMarker. I checked the repo and every file I look at is js, what and where is FreeMarker?
Why do we perceive the passage of time?

I think we are not actually perceiving the passage of time but things changing. So what does it take to perceive change? Let's say there is an object changing color from red to blue and back every second or so. To perceive this change one must extract two bits of information from the current state of the universe, if they are different a color change occurred.

The rest is in a certain sense a matter of belief. One has to believe that the first bit extracted from the current state of the universe reflects the current color of the object. So this bit could come from the wavelength of a photon hitting the eye or a camera sensor in a certain spot together with some belief of how the universe works with regard to the way light behaves and interacts with matter.

For the second bit one has to believe that it reflects the color of the object some time ago. This bit would probably come from your memory or in case of the camera from some memory in the connected computer. This essentially requires all the same believes as for the first bit in order to determine the color of the object. But in addition it requires the believe that things change over time and that the memory stored and preserved information about the color of the object from some time ago.

So somewhat interestingly the perception of change and in turn the passage of time doesn't fundamentally require something to change at all, it just requires a current state of the universe and a lot of assumptions or believes about the working of the universe and how this lead to the current state. This is good enough for philosophical zombies, conscious experience and qualia and so on might require some additional ingredients.

Unfortunately I am not sure what this tells us about the universe. I guess the laws must at least allow the existence of some kind of memory, but that seems a low bar, anything with a delay can make a form of delay memory. The working of the universe must be stable to a certain extend across certain timescales, otherwise one couldn't rely on the memory. One could still perceive change but the change might not be real if the memory is not reliable. More interesting is probably what kind of options this allows for the evolution of the state of the universe, but I have no real idea what to say about that. But I guess as the perception of time is only dependent on the current state of the universe, the evolution could be quite different from the linear passage of time we perceive.
Stop straw manning what I said. That speech was written and was trying to accomplish a goal. Ignoring that public speaking is intended to influence people is like pretending that his words didn't matter at all.

He mentioned being peaceful once, but then suggested that the nation was being stolen from them and that they should be patriots and fight back.
I think the main issue here--getting banned from Facebook--is contentious, so it's not surprising that the points of comparison are contentious. The points of comparison aren't very good anyway--this is new territory. Facebook operates in some new regime which is quasi-public and quasi-private. Maybe the closest comparison is public-access television.
I only meant to comment on the article's neutrality with regard to evaluating the meta aspect of the headline quality. I personally think that the kinds of measures proposed here are counterproductive (I am, among other things, a mathematics educator) — but my opinion on that isn't really relevant to the question of helping keep HN submissions at the desired level of quality.