skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not much of a fan of lower standards for authority figures.
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> Major apps and OSes put a "choose your race" message on their UI (and very strongly direct people to make that choice)

I have literally never seen this, can you provide a few examples? I'm curious how it's presented.
This decision wasn't made by a company, it was made by an "independent" oversight board. You could expect such an organization to be more transparent to show that they truly are independent.
Last time I checked parents can confiscate their children's smartphones or at least ask about their whereabouts and which friends they're hanging out with.

Children are children, you can't expect the world to be a safe place, our job as parents is to protect them, not Let them run amok and then hold the world accountable.

I am not saying it's the parents' fault this happened but they bear more responsibility than Snapchat in my opinion.
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And Clarence Thomas also believes that the doctrine of incorporation is incorrect, so the Bill of Rights doesn't actually encumber state or local governments in any way. The other 8 justices on the Supreme Court and pretty much the rest of the legal profession disagrees. Note that no other justice signed onto Thomas's opinion here.

Even if you were to agree with his opinion in full, you'd still find these state laws to be in violation, since they would be preempted by §230 in federal law, and the Constitution affirms that federal law supersedes state law wherever the two conflict.
> releasing worldwide pandemics from laboratories...

Just curious, do you have some links to back this up? Seems like a far fetched hypothesis to me.
This is a running gag for William Shatner’s character in Boston Legal.
I’m actually very left leaning and pro regulation and making this argument. Without any law or regulatory requirement, platforms will not do this willingly.
I'm very happy to hear that _carljm. I was just replying to my GP's "they took the 'dump it and see' approach" and my Parent's "What more could we expect from them to do?"

If you're going that mile, then my hat is off to you and the team, that's how it's supposed to be done! :)
I was just discussing prions. Other pathogens do seem to present a bigger risk. I don't think anything would have 100% kill rate. Even weaponized microbes have like 99.8% or something. That still leaves about 16 million people. Plus there's all those preppers with their bunkers, some uncontacted tribes, people who live in isolated areas. Then it becomes more of a matter of how to organize, do they have the knowledge to survive in those types of conditions, etc. The species will survive, but it will be a very different world.
My biggest fear with these scenarios is not really the hacking but law-enforcement agencies undermining civil rights by forcing Tesla or other self-driving car-makers to redirect cars against a customer's will. I feel like an episode of Westworld alluded to this scenario at some point. I come from a country where minorities have historically had a bad time at the hands of authorities, and I can see said authorities salivating at this prospect.
Maybe studying and getting better at one's job, during idle times

Firemen have lots of idle time? I think they play floorball for example (good for them to stay fit)
You can link to your main css from within the component. Browsers are smart enough to use the cached css file.
I’m not complaining about the downvotes, but I’d like to understand what the disagreement is. I’m sorry that people do that. I generally will respond if I disagree instead of downvoting. I’ll take a look at your comment history and see if I have time to address it.

ETA: I’ve looked over your comments, aside from one that appears to be sarcastic everything you say has a response to it. I added my own comment to one of them as well. I think resigning ourselves to Twitter-like flame wars without actually talking things out isn’t very hn like at all.
Nuclear power capital requirements (up front) are one of the biggest roadblocks to building new plants, followed by regulatory complexity and cruft that hasn’t been streamlined to allow new reactor designs to be implemented.

Doing both, removing subsidies from dirty energy and moving them to nuclear, would be the best case.
I think your model for how laws get written is wrong.

Among civilians, AI is more like we are in the 1930s with airplane clubs--advancing technology out of the love of the idea. Ethical questions are important, but the harms do not seem significant enough to regulate before experimenting.

Among the military, it's more like we are in the 1950s with the US/USSR nuclear arms race. The (real or perceived) need to drive AI technology without regard to ethics whatsoever comes from an analysis of the opponent which says they are not regarding ethics.

There are no laws for civilians regarding AI.
There are no treaties for countries regarding AI.
And there won't be until after someone gets hurt.

This is the normal model for laws.
I’m extremely leftist - have organized for unions for 5 years. I didn’t see what he said that needed denouncement from the boss or something. Maybe a better phrased “thank you for your point of view” than “thank you” if you really wanna be political.

Like I don’t agree with him. And I do see how a funny names list is a form of “violence” in a way. I also think Singer is a tad misleading.

But he’s just like, wrong. You can have a discussion or a disagreement on this topic. The way this has all been escalated and framed as “you’re not taking a stand against white supremacy” makes my head spin.

Again, I’m a staunch leftist. I agree with a lot of the arguments made, but the way they are being made and the expectations on the employer are very confusing to me.

A lot of comments have said childish and I agree. Everyone looks like a horribly communicative child in this story, and it’s really uncomfortable to watch.

I in no way see how his comments were “very questionable”. I disagree with them? But I just like think they’re wrong.

“Very questionable” is going off on a tangent about (((globalists))) and a worldwide conspiracy network. This is a very uncomfortable shift of the Overton window for me.
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Left handed people shake with their right hands
This varied a lot for me during testing - It looks like it's actually comparing rotations of the gesture to find a match

It would nail the zigzag and most of the star/box shapes even if I intentionally started in a different place (Very first thing I tested, I'm left handed and start characters/shapes in different places)

It did not handle shapes that are rotationally similar - ex: right square bracket starting from the bottom is always detected as left square bracket, probably because the gesture matches the left bracket, rotated 180 degrees.

It also flubs arrows going right to left (they always come up as v for me)
I'm not a neurologist but maybe some of the prions from Mad Cow Disease can further the progression of dementia?
I haven't tried running the distributed Timescale DB - in general more parts means more things to go wrong, so using their managed cloud service for that is a good idea.

But I can attest that the single-server version is rock solid, just like PostgreSQL that it's based on. And it's free and source visible. The pace of innovation has also been really high, it just keeps getting better with every release.
I don't see the point in blocking utm_ query string variables? they don't give up any personal information about you, they just help inform the landing site about which channels of marketing are working more effectively than others.
This isn't about personal data, removing the UTM codes isnt helping anybody, it just means that the sites don't know where best to spend their money on marketing and ultimately results in seeing more ads in more irrelevant contexts in the future.
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Yeah, right. If you are building a rocket, you have to have that attitude, otherwise, how can you launch it successfully.

Yes, insert "virtually any field" in your conclusion, sum up 1.4 billion people nicely.

chabudou is about accept tradeoffs economically, this is especially true when China was very very very poor. If you work in service industry, you know Chinese customers are very flexible. It is neither good or bad. You are not handcrafting a handbag for a rich upper class Englishman.
No, this is unusual because it is a first stage booster (it is lit on the ground, making it "first" stage in most people's common usage of the term (in reality, there's no hard and fast definition)). It is definitely not the "second stage" (the second stage of the Long March 5 is the CZ-5-HO).

This would be like the center booster of a Delta IV Heavy making it to orbit.

Second stages pretty much invariably make it to orbit. To say "it happened" to SpaceX makes it sound like something went wrong... it's just how rockets work. The central booster of a Long March 5 making it to orbit is unusual (though it has happened before).
I know teens who do it all on Tik-Tok.

Marshall McLuhan was right to point out that "television" would erode the need for people to read and write.
Couldn't say. As far as im aware they choose what cases to take up independently. I doubt they have a blank check to just start doing whatever they feel like, though. They still have a mission statement designed by him.
A similar premise underlies the amazing "Book of Dave" by Will Self. The book has two parallel time streams, one involving a London taxi driver in the present day and then one in the far future in which some writings of his have become the basis for a Taliban-like extremist religious society.

It's an incredible book in particular if you know London and have been in a black cab and heard the sorts of banter London taxi drivers use, because in the "future" section everyone speaks in a corrupt English dialect based on this. You can also spot various London landmarks in the post-apocalyptic setting (eg the Centerpoint building).
How about: not an inherent trait, but rather an endemic and “parasitic” meme? (Like the popular belief in eugenics in many countries in the 1930s; or the belief of several colonial powers—but mainly Britain—in the inferiority of aboriginal tribes’ values and beliefs during the Age of Exploration; or the belief in Varna [caste] as a popular interpretation of dharma within Hinduism; or the belief within Islam that a “jihad of the sword” can permit civilian targets.)

These sort of memes come along and “infect” a culture, saturating it — or at least the more vulnerable-to-manipulation populations within it — with these views; and they can stick around for decades or centuries. But, they aren’t intrinsic to the culture; eventually the culture stops believing these memes, because believing them offers no real benefit (thus the “parasitic” part.) If/when they do get over them, the culture as a whole tends to feel ashamed that they ever did believe them.
I'm concerned that this might also remove referrer codes; unless it's smart enough to distinguish. I imagine some of them might be quite cryptic.
Do your own research, there are thousands of pieces about Asian schooling around. Or stay in your bubble.
How is there any honor in murdering hundreds of innocent people?
"we put a dialog in front of people and they made a selection, therefore people wanted this dialog"

You're suggesting that it's impossible for people to have wanted a feature, because UXs have a popup showing people that it's possible to use that feature now. I disagree. You're projecting your personal opinion as everyone's personal opinion.

And that emoji picker still allows you to pick the default yellow color. So if people -really- didn't want to use them, they wouldn't.
I'm fine with subsidies for nuclear power given the absolutely terrifying stakes of unchecked climate change.
I like the idea.
How do you finance yourself? Could not see a business model in the FAQs.
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AKA crap. When you walk into the store, does the clerk know which street have you used to drive to the store? Do you tell him on purpose even if he didn't ask? I didn't think so.
Do you have a counter argument? Do you think such a person should be trusted or do you think this is not how the activism works?

If it’s about my comment on trust: You are welcome to trust someone that use these power tactics based upon lies to undermine the moral authority of viewpoint opponents, I just believe there are so many people of better character out there to build a relationship with.

Social justice tactics when it boils down to it are effective, but not very creative. Domain specific language is coopted and it’s definitions changed to mean what’s useful for activism. Goal is to redirect as much as possible of an organizations resources and attention towards the ideology instead of whatever it used to do.
> Another anecdote - my host-family mom is a psychiatrist (the doctor type; not the other psychiatrist kind).

In the US, a psychiatrist is a medical doctor, MD or DO. The other kind is a psychologist, who are not medical doctors, and can only prescribe in a small number of states.
I guess half a lifetime of slogging away at big orgs has made me cynical, but I can hardly even see how this rates as news. Once worked at a place where we spent a month on an app server bakeoff, selected vendor X. Following week, boss’ boss informs us we’re going with vendor Y. Corrupt? You tell me. Or the time I worked at a Fortune 100 company that had their entire IT outsourced to one of the big consultancies, only to find out that the CIO had a relationship with that consultancy. I could go on. It used to frustrate me more until I finally realized that in a big org, multiple games are being played, and you are probably not at the table of any game being played that matters.
There’s a power plant near me that might be closing. Hope this is able to save them.
That is what I was thinking of yes! Thank you.
> On an aircraft there is almost no powered circuit without a breaker to enable the crew to shut it down if malfunctions, or worse yet catches fire. So a crew that has prepared properly will still be able to go dark.

I think "crew" is the key part here, right? I understand a system like this would be designed in such a way a single crew member could not make a plane go dark -- or make it stay dark after disabling the safety systems. For example, a rogue pilot can manage to turn the beacons off, but any other from the cabin crew can just turn it on again while the pilot is in the cockpit, etc.

I still need to find out which changes this even brought to the entire airline ecosystem.
What happened to nuclear being so much cheaper than coal? Is it really just subsidies for coal that tip the balance? Then the logical consequence would be to remove subsidies from that. But I suspect the "nuclear=cheap" mantra is not the end of the story.
Enjoyed this writeup, I'd love to hear some verbatim thoughts he had, if they're not too personal to share with the world.
That's BlueAnon propaganda. No better than Q Anon's PizzaGate.
Good point. They are used by extremely powerful people. We better ban Bitcoin before it’s users and environmental impact are similarly socially entrenched!
Take a look at CSS shadow parts. It allows you to mark which part of the shadow dom are stylable which you can then access using the ::part() pseudo element.

Another handy thing to know is that exportparts reexports parts from a nested web component, and CSS --custom-properties will cascade down into the shadow dom

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::part
I don't mean they literally print these words. You can see how it's done if you search for "emoji color picker" or similar.
Thought experiment: Let's assume we wouldn't depend on China for industry. What could we do in your opinion?
I believe the comparison to "viral challenges" is in relation to the "Tide Pod Challenge" as it was started by people of the general public - not an organization.
If he wants to stay married and have a healthy marriage, a man should put his wife first.
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This may be because content is moving away from conventional websites and onto platforms.

Reddit, stack overflow, writing sites like wattpad, and content sites like substack, all make content publicly available. There is also a lot of real public content on youtube. These are indexed and show up on a search engine.

But lately, a lot of platforms wall off their content, for privacy (facebook, linkedin), or to allow content creators to monetize it (udemy, patreon, medium). Search engines can often surface content based on e.g. course title, article title, but the in depth content is not accessible so they don't rank.

I think what you are seeing is the end of the open internet, and search results just reflect that.
Changing the drive settings from "chill" to "sport" will increase the acceleration by 15% or so. This doesn't allow control of the steering wheel.
> Java doubling down on the collection APIs without introducing monads explicitly for users.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but how has that backfired for Java? It seems as popular as ever, and I don't hear many people lamenting the lack of monads in Java.
I think you might get better results delegating more and reducing your hours. But you have more experience than me in this, so take that with plenty of skepticism.
Florida doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning in court.
The notion that there are large subsidies for fossil fuels is not backed up by the data.

There are currently more subsidies for solar and wind.
I'll give it a try, but I'm already turned off by the "free speech" mention which has become synonymous with "give people a place to be a racist" and "all things Q."

Edit: for clarity, I believe everyone, including the racists, should have freedom of speech. Though, forcing companies to host that speech is not freedom of speech. And the speech that is supposed to be protected, dissenting views, seems as protected as it's ever been. Freedom of speech is not there to protect objectively harmful hate and conspiracies that intend to manipulate the vulnerable.
Nuclear is cheaper than coal, which is why coal market share is collapsing way faster than nuclear’s is shrinking. But they’re both having trouble competing against cheap gas and solar.
To expand on this: The original emoji were created in Japan and had light skin tone to match Japanese users[0] (with a few exceptions of other racial stereotypes - like "person wearing turban"[1]). After they gained international popularity, their rendering was changed to yellow in an attempt to be more neutral.

I'm guessing yellow was chosen to match the yellow "smiley face" which few had objected to historically

[0] https://emojipedia.org/apple/ios-6.0/boy/

[1] https://emojipedia.org/apple/ios-6.0/person-wearing-turban/
Couldn't say it better. Subsidies don't work out the way you want. Look at ethanol: it's an incredibly dirty fuel source (using tons of diesel to make "fuel", smart!) but the ethanol lobby and unions have entrenched themselves permanently so its not worth the fight.
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The familiar phrase the GP made me think of is:

"Good enough for who it's for."
I find it interesting that Wikipedia agrees with me. What’s your opinion on them treating the two as equivalent?

But for argument’s sake let’s say they are different and I’m talking about the Zone Which is Not Flow. The hazard is still there, right?

What you’re describing is, to me, one of several other mental states, in which you can perform one physical task while your attention can be on any subject, from the subject matter of the task at hand, to philosophy. Because you are working from rote, it’s optional whether you consider the profound long term implications of your actions. In this state you aren’t really going faster than anybody around you doing the same activity. Whereas rearchitecting a big part of your code base invites a trip to the Zone, even if Refactoring teaches us that with enough experience you can achieve similar outcomes without it.

In particular, mastery of a subject involves pushing much of the work into intuitive thinking, where it is cheap and affords you to focus consciously on anything you want. This is just mastery though, or what Thinking Fast and Slow might call Type 1 vs Type 2 Thinking. Maybe I’m weird, but I don’t really agree this is a mental state. Not any more. I’d be curious to see if, as you advance in your career and hobbies, if you still agree with your assertion that this is a mental state, rather than an achievement.

Something I’ve discovered is that a number of different groups lay claim to a Zone-like experience and for at least the ones I’ve tried, I’ve found they are all the same thing. Even though strategies vary for how to enter it, the feeling is exactly the same. Multiple sports, programming, even once in a yoga class (last day of a class, I recall thinking, “uh oh, this could be addictive”). I’m starting to have my suspicions about satori, and wondering if this is just some people’s first experiences with The Zone.

At any rate, this experience informs my comments about practicing entry and exit with the purpose of using it in small chunks instead of all at once (or all the time). The danger is if you can push that button why wouldn’t you all the time? It feels amazing, I wouldn’t doubt there’s a dopamine hit going on. But I don’t for the same reasons that getting buzzed on alcohol once a week or fortnight is one thing, and being drunk all the time is something else entirely. For many it becomes a conscious decision which road to take.

(I will confess that after all these years, including a six year run as an endurance cyclist, I still can’t say which of these states the Runner’s High is. I’ve felt good, I’ve been In the Zone, I’ve gotten lost in thought and had epiphanies, and I’ve had the miles melt away. I never felt a “high” that turned out to be a distinct experience, although in some cases it was my first.)
> Not sending data to a major cloud provider is quickly becoming like producing your own electricity because you don't trust the grid will provide a stable frequency and won't go down.

What, you mean smart? A lot of data centers do exactly that. SevOne has at least five Bloom Energy H2 fuel cells that run the whole building because they can't afford any downtime.
One of Go's objectives is to have a simple and fast compiler; emphasizing simple and readable code will ensure that. It's one reason why type arguments were put off for as long as they have been.