skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
7 billion people in the world. I don't think the global lead on diversity strategy role should be going to someone who wrote an elaborate essay in which he was clearly anti-Semitic. He graduated university in 1994 - it's not like he was a kid when he was writing these words.

Who else has he helped discriminate against based on their ethnicity or views?
Show HN: Assetroulette – Randomized Assets for Webdesign
Hi HN,

Since last year I developped many websites for friends that wanted either to start working on their own or just wanted to have a small online presence. While designing I always had problems finding the right pictures / images / stock or design inspiration to get them going so I whipped out a small free project to help me "randomly" find images https://assetroulette.com/.

You can try it out, it's free, no need for registration, I am not gathering emails or whatever, it's so far just a simple tool I whipped up last weekend to solve a small niche problem I had.

Currently hosted on a 3€/month server. It helped me visualize images in their context (web page) to iterate quickly. The issue I was facing was that while some images on stock websites looked cool at first, embedding them almost always looked bad and was a waste of time... This way I can refresh a couple of times and eventually find an image that is relevant (works for CSS too and generally any asset - even user provided ones - on the webpage that can be shuffled until it is satisfactory).

I'll leave the website up for a little. I decided to share it because I successfully used it today on a website for a friend that wants to start selling jewelry. I would love to have some feedback, it's still in construction but maybe you can already find a good use of it. Thanks in advance!
Yes, I should have put more effort into saying how excellent it is. It's a masterful demonstration of how good podcasting can be as a medium for explaining history. I really have only one minor gripe with it: I wish he'd stop saying "cantaberry" when he means Canterbury (but that's only likely to bother Brits).
If you posted a flyer calling for arson and riot, even satirically, it probably wouldn't have gone over well. This was a flyer advertising a talk.

> But both of these are intended to mock one side and entertain the other. Both of these are crass, and both implicitly defame.

So what? That's not illegal. You're allowed to criticize others—that's a key purpose of the First Amendment.
>But as a matter of probability, a lot of people who criticize Israel are also antisemitic.

This is a meaningless statement though. We can expect that nearly anyone that's antisemitic would be critical of a country run and mostly inhabited by Jewish people.

It becomes a problem when people try to extrapolate that fact to dismiss every criticism of Israel as "this guy's probably just antisemitic."

Its only true as a matter of probability throughout the entire world because its true in a particular region that has an enormous population padding those statistics.

There is antisemitism everywhere in some amounts and it is wrong like all forms of bigotry. However, in many countries, such as the US, you are just as likely to run into a person that criticizes Israel for reasons that have nothing to do with the religion of its inhabitants. You are still free to think that they are wrong, but people should stop using accusations of bigotry as a weapon to silence people simply for disagreeing with them. If you want to call someone a bigot, its pretty important to make sure you are right about it.

And for the record when it comes to that Israel/Palestine conflict I think neither side is even close to being innocent. I don't give a shit about their religions I just want families to stop being murdered by the actions of two shitty governments.
Regarding Garcia Martinez, I am still surprised "straight male" is such a disadvantage that being POC doesn't buy enough oppression points to allow you to criticize white women. Then again, maybe it's more that being Hispanic specifically isn't enough. I have a hard time imagining a black man getting fired for the same comments.
I think Airbus owned them outright.
> Feels like we're still in a massive aviation crisis

Commercial aviation tends to be a cyclical industry so there will always be a crisis somewhere on the horizon. Airlines like United are trying to broaden their offerings so that they can better maintain margins in a downturn. Some "Time is Money" expense account travelers will always have money to spend on a premium product like getting there twice as fast.
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> and that he agrees that in retrospect Python 3 was a mistake, and it was.

You need to read it again. What he actually said was he should have provided more support to developers migrating code, not that he wouldn’t have done it.
On the other side, Europeans tend to think that there is only the US and Europe in the world.
American-style long commutes are the reality in most of Asia, Latin America and the larger African cities.
If anything, Europe is the exception.
Yeah it's not surprising. I'm kinda disappointed since I'd be excited about faster flights to Europe and Asia, and I would pay for it

Since they're telling me it's 2029, what I really hear is 2030 or 2035, or never. So that means I'll probably be stuck on the same slow flights for more than a decade :-( It doesn't feel like this is a space where there is a lot of competition.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law:_Israel_as_the_Nat...
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>Teachers may not be "experts" like a PhD in a topic is an expert, but they are educated (Bachelors minimum, many states require a Masters eventually) but they are often experts in education.

If they were experts in education, presumably they would know how to do education.
Diversity training may help change people's attitudes, but you're right on the nose about actually hurting.

The real reason enterprises spend money on Diversity Training is because it provides Faragher-Ellerth protection from damage claims— even if racist conduct within the company has been accepted by the court.

By having diversity training, corporations ensure that victims of racism do not receive financial restitution.

https://content.next.westlaw.com/Document/I0f9fbe84ef0811e28...
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I thought this would be brilliant, so I clicked 'try it out' only to get through and be asked to manually write in the tasks. I have a huge backlog already in an external tool.

I can't comprehend I'm expected to write them out one by one with no ability to import that I can see.
Why Is the TSA Making Vaccinated Air Travelers Wear Masks?
I'm being as clear as i can, when I read the document I don't see anything about "the jewish race". What i see is commentary on the jewish nation of israel. I can only blame israel for bluring that distinction as much as possible.
it’s a colonial ethnostate
Palestine is not an ethnostate

That's a strange view on the situation. Let's say I give you a choice.
1. Be a practicing Jew living in Palestinian-controlled territory.
2. Be a practicing Muslim living in Israel.

I'd definitely choose 2, choosing 1 would be suicide.

who rightfully controls the area occupied by Israel

The Jewish people were the indigenous people of that territory. In what way do they not rightfully control and occupy Israel?
I disagree with this. There are certain things that the Israeli government have done that are worthy of being criticised - the same can be said for every government in the world. Brushing off all criticism as antisemitism is unhelpful.
Likewise, some people would feel very uncomfortable working with him if they knew he had a massive dildo collection.

But no HR department will recommend firing him for the size of his dildo collection, unless of course he brings it to work...
This statement brilliantly sums up contemporary American social discourse.
> You can’t have your cake and eat it to.

With skillful public relations and political lobbying you can, at least to a very large degree.
Yay, nationality-based pissing contest...

Out of curiousity, this is the earliest research I can find about graphene in Li-Ion batteries: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/nl800957b

The researcher names are Korean, Chinese and Japanese, and in the "Supporting Information" window they were affiliated with 2 research institutes in Japan.
We've barely started (we produce embedded router/fw appliances.) We've written up our backlog items to start tackling it but when you're under a constant crunch to get features and bug fixes out the door, PM will never prioritize willingly introducing subtle bugs across the entire codebase unless there's an extremely strong reason to upgrade.

Unfortunately "no longer receives security updates" isn't strong enough. Until we can't ship a new feature without Python 3, we'll be on 2 for a long time.
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if i understand what you’re saying, your setting aside the direct text from the article which targeted the jewish people and reading the google guys post as specifically being about israel?
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Absolutely. As a private tutor, finding applicability and motivation for students was quite a challenge. I spent a lot of time reformulating problems in terms of things they might care about.
> Instead of firing him, though, Google is moving Bobb into a STEM-focused role.

Other industries: It's who you know

Tech: It's who you hate
Uh, yeah. That's the point. That to be Jewish, to be Israeli, and to be in support of the Israeli government in power are three very distinct things.

Next up, let's write an article critical of Hamas and start with "If I were a Muslim, I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing".
It's really about Israel's actions. Can't really expect the Holocaust to buy an eternal Get out of Jail free card for Israel.
I know it’s fashionable to support the perceived “oppressed”, but you really have to be at the pinnacle of ignorance to think it’s Israel, the target of ethnic cleansing, is the perpetrator. Palestinians are welcome in Israel with full rights, and they make up about 20% of the population. There are zero jews welcome in Palestinian territory.

I don’t think people who criticize Israel are anti-semetic, but they seem to be almost always completely ignorant of the situation and history of the region, so their comments are unintentionally offensive to anyone even vaguely familiar with it.
Couldn’t disagree more. If that would happen, why hasn’t it happened yet? There are pirates and terrorists too, and they don’t make the world better or safer, quite the opposite.
Cool! And Jeff Hawkins has a new book out, in which he explains aspects of the neocortex and provides a roadmap for ongoing research.
https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Brains-New-Theory-Intelligen...
I think it's reasonable to link the two, but not conflate them. Crypto has certainly made ransomware a much more viable attack vector. A crypto address is easier to hide behind than a bank account number or mailing address or drop location.
>Why do people feel the need to socially shame people publicly for an offense over a decade ago?

Because they're playing a game of Moral Supremacy one-upsmanship. In the long run, everyone who plays this game must lose, because were all humans. But in the short term this game can be quite lucrative in terms of attention getting, internet points, and money.
the group that called him out on Twitter are clearly Zionists, though, not Jews who want nothing to do with Israel. I think a Jew who never thinks about Israel is likely to read that essay and think it doesn't apply to them.

If someone wrote "man, people in Colorado like to go on shooting rampages" I would think to myself, "yeah, that's right, we should not sell ar15s to folks; also, what is it about this place that affects mental health?" I would not take offense just because I happen to live there.
this is such a tired old debate.

1. fundamentals are important even if people forget them.

2. not everyone in tech does web dev.

these things are true and self-evident. the end.
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Maybe we need something like SMART but for CPU cores?
The Holocaust definitely changed how the majority of people felt, but it doesn't mean that I can't be critical of that sentiment.

Bundism also continued to exist after the Holocaust, albeit in a diminished form.

"premise of Zionism was that Jews could not stay in Europe" -> the creation of a state where citizenship is granted explicitly on the basis of your ethnicity, in the form of a "right of return" is 100% the premise I suggested.
I agree with what you say, but:

> The maintainers would probably do some things different with the 2to3 conversion if they had to do it over again.

Saying that "probably do some things different" is quite an understatement.

Python 2 to 3 was an articulated train collision in slow motion that spans a decade. I'm sorry to say that, but it was monumentally awful.

I really, really wish that it didn't happen because I think it kept Python back at least 5 years.

People got really burnt by this upgrade process, and the answer was "we said we'd do backwards incompatible changes". "And what, are we going to have this every few years?" one might have though.

So, it isn't enough to tell people to "stop complaining about Python 2to3" and things might be done differently in the future or past.
> Because you know what happens when private property is abolished? Spoiler, only the well connected and powerful will hold private property

If only a few people can own private property then you haven't abolished private property, you've just limited who can own it.

This was the main issue caused by the massive state control of Marxist Leninist countries like the Soviet Union -- by centralizing all control within one single political party you essentially just replace an economic elite with a political elite. Couple that with the democratic centralism you often find in these single party ML countries and suddenly you have something that's a lot less like the communal living the OP was referring to.

I'm not saying abolishing private property will be some magical fix all, but I also don't think using the soviet union as an example of why it won't work is a good example. You could have a society where usage of resources is governed by consensus rather than "lol stalin said so" but consensus is obviously a lot harder to do on a global scale than a small communal village
Does Silicon Mechanics license out their web configurator?

I ask because ThinkMate.com web configurator is identical to SiliconMechanics.com

EDIT: I'm going to answer my own question. It appears Silicon Mechanics was acquired by Source Code Corporation, who also owns ThinkMate.
What? Point me to a single piece of malware in any major distro's repositories; I'll wait.
This is also exacerbated by the didactic approaches people like OP (and most teachers) take, about why the students -should- enjoy Shakespeare.

I bet I would have liked it more in school (rather than much afterwards, when I became acquainted with the Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta, though props to the teachers who set up field trips there) if instead a teacher had said "Okay guys. We're watching a movie today. It's going to be a little hard to understand, but don't worry too much about it; it's less the words and more the performance. There won't be a test, but we will discuss it afterwards. I'll have subtitles on to help with understanding; it's kind of interesting to see how English has changed since this was made, but how it still has themes you'll recognize, and can still be emotionally charged even when you don't fully understand everything being said. It may be a little challenging given that, but I think you're up to it", and then put on Branagh's Hamlet.
hopefully covid sensationalism will open the eyes of more folks to this kind of emotionally-wearing manipulation. simple phrases like "could have" and "may" are simultaneously designed to be outwardly innocuous, seemingly informative, and highly effective in leading people to jump to overblown conclusions that keep readers heightened (i.e., stressed) so that they desire more information. it's the same primal anxiety you see in rabbits in open fields. news media will mash that button over and over again to get their little ad revenue stream while laying waste to your nervous and cardiovascular systems.

relatedly, my neighbor was just telling me yesterday how anxious and frazzled she's been for the past number of months. she's constantly following current events on npr, nytimes, facebook, instagram, and youtube. she's having a hard time concentrating and getting things done. she's yet to make the connection between these things herself, even with gentle (and even overt) nudging.
HackerNews is a curious place.
My mistake, I just quickly googled it and misinterpreted some documents I saw. In fact it doesn't
I've found it helpful to use probabilities throughout my life. When picking a career, it's helpful to know the graduation rate and the likely salary if you do graduate to calculate the expected value of pursuing any particular career. I started playing poker and in order to be profitable, I learned the odds of various situations.

Sometimes folks will be afraid of things, even though the odds are they'll be okay. Knowing the odds can give you courage where others find it difficult to go beyond fear.

I've been a fan of Peter's AI book(s) since my university coursework. Glad he's introduce so many of us to these helpful ideas. Basic ideas can go a long way if you learn where they apply to your life.
Seems like a lot of people forget there was a goal in a big portion of Europe to exterminate all Jews.

So when some are shouting to end Israel, it’s not unreasonable to think the next step is finish the genocide.
Yes, except for the "westerners" bit. People from everywhere conflate this issue - even people living in the region. Check out The Ask Project on youtube, tons of people on all sides of the issue are misguided or simply wrong - and they live there.
I dunno, when I go to Mexico I don't look at the heavily armed guards outside of a bank and go 'gee, it's a good thing there is so much violent crime here otherwise we wouldn't have these armed guards here to protect us from it'.
The book rainbows end by Vernon vinge had some really intriguing ideas about AR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End
You used to be able to use Facebook on mobile OSes without the apps. Many people did this (because the apps don't really add anything anyway and take up a ton of space) but Facebook put themselves at the complete mercy of these mobile OS vendors by killing that off.
Adds a mental step for those of us who do not default to regex searches (there are sometimes good reasons not to)
This may seem a bit extreme, but, in my opinion, while in mathematics (and especially in physics) there is a fair amount of scaffolding, what they do in mathematics is, actually, they discover things that do exist in reality in one form or another. (It is important to understand that few, if any, things in mathematics are pure fantasy; the objects and relations studied there are pretty much forced upon us - which, incidentally, is yet another evidence in support of their having real significance, i.e. as something lying outside our consciousness and acting there independently from it.)
I graduated with a computer science major, and I've taking courses on linear algebra. It didn't really hit me about practical applications of linear algebra until I watched a video on youtube by Stuff Made Here[1].

Which is funny because I totally recognize now how it can be applied, but moving from system of equations on paper to real world applications never really clicked in usefulness until it was explained in that video.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myO8fxhDRW0.
Despite the downvotes this post has a point - if you want to protect your religion/ethnicity you have to do it yourself.

Rise of anti-semitism in Europe - nothing is done

Jews seek safety in other countries - immigration denied

Holocaust happens - world sympathizes and moves on

Israel is under no illusions as to what happens if they don’t have a home and defend it. I kind of don’t blame them for ignoring the worlds criticisms.
Tesla’s spite-move to Texas may not have been such a clever idea, after all
Yes – United used to be owned by Boeing. The Air Mail Act banned common ownership of manufacturers & airlines.

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