skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"people should stop using accusations of bigotry as a weapon to silence people"

Huh? Are you seriously calling someones words who feels victimized, a weapon? Are you seriously holding fear of actual violence to an unsubstantiated standard?

"If you want to call someone a bigot, its pretty important to make sure you are right about it."

Please show me one other form of bigotry accusation you hold to the same standard.

This perspective is almost certainly a blindspot. Im not certain - but I definitely would not rely on you to stand up or defend folks from actual antisemitism.

How do people even think, let alone say these things and not get called out by everyone immediately?

Do you actually and critically think this is true or even appropriate to say?
People take issue with the following, but I don't recall Google confirming/denying if it is true:

I strongly believe in gender and racial diversity, and I think we should strive for more. However, to achieve a more equal gender and race representation, Google has created several discriminatory practices:

● Programs, mentoring, and classes only for people with a certain gender or race

● A high priority queue and special treatment for “diversity” candidates

● Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate

● Reconsidering any set of people if it’s not “diverse” enough, but not showing that same scrutiny in the reverse direction (clear confirmation bias)

● Setting org level OKRs for increased representation which can incentivize illegal discrimination
The US doesn't have a law that says "you can immigrate and be a citizen but only if you are white"

Also, the US wasn't born out of a revolution against equal voting rights for people regardless of national origin, Israel, like Rhodesia at the time, was.

In both cases, minority groups rebelled against British attempts to impose majority-rule democracy, Israel has just succeeded more than Rhodesia did at the time.
Not that I agree with those mandates too much, but I can see the logic: A group needs to have a story of oppression in your local community to be considered for that. Diversity is a somewhat misleading word here, the aim is equality for historically disfavored groups.
Yurchenko is the name of both a specific vault and a vault family in artistic gymnastics.

The Yurchenko was named after Soviet gymnast Natalia Yurchenko in 1982 during a competition in Moscow.
Police use of facial recognition software already has bad impacts today, so at least preventing PD use will prevent real harm.

> Another Arrest, and Jail Time, Due to a Bad Facial Recognition Match

> A New Jersey man was accused of shoplifting and trying to hit an officer with a car. He is the third known Black man to be wrongfully arrested based on face recognition.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/technology/facial-recogni...
Supersonic transoceanic flight seems like a very valuable capability in and of itself
“Israel’s Apartheid” is not a thing, unless you mean the fact that there are zero jews in Palestinian territory. Yes, “the squad” lied to you again.
Government regulations != government-run

To claim otherwise is equivalent to claiming every single business is government-run due to there being regulations.
I just checked my Android device and the opt-out looks like this https://imgur.com/a/1aaN4Ko

I find interesting the UI, the user have to "enable" the opt-out, not enable the opt-in.

It shows how crucial can be this simple switch for the ad industry immoral surveillance status quo.

I guess the opt-out is disabled by default, I think I enabled it some time ago checking the phone settings.
Precisely.

Being jewish does not mean you are a zionist. Being a zionist does not mean you are jewish (many evangelicals in the US's "south" are staunch zionists).

You can want the palestinians to have basic human rights and still be pro-Israeli state.
This is one of the most interesting features (or bugs, depending who you ask) about the current time we live in. We can organize massive funding and technological efforts like this over morning coffee and Twitter banter.
she's 4'8 - that's not like an extreme left end of the curve dwarf height on a global scale, is it?

NBA centers are all 7 feet tall which precludes most people from being NBA centers, but there's a whole world and somehow they manage to fill the jobs.

It seems most GOATs are eventually supplanted because things that are unfathomable become table stakes, think like triple axels in figure skating. Forever is a really long time.
You know, I reflected on this, and if you add up the whole food supply chain, people driving to grocery stores, overproduction, refrigeration, etc. then wasted food starts to look like a bigger problem than I initially give it credit for.
Those adjectives crop up everywhere, as far as I can tell. Low budget, high budget, MBA-driven companies, engineer-driven companies, ...

They don't actually mean anything, from what I see. They're just what you say.

"Clean" is the only one that might mean something, but it reminds me of the old marketing question: "Which sounds better: 'Contains noropyronethrin!' or 'Contains less noropyronethrin than other leading brands!'?"
If that person hadn't asked the question, any number of other people would have asked it, probably a couple of days later.
>Growing to overcome past problems is not sufficient.

Their assumption is moreso that we cant grow to overcome past problems. So the only way to build themselves up is to tear others down.

Thats why the popular "anti-racism" philosophy is so antithetical to and ignorant of the lives and philosophies of many of the greatest civil rights leaders such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, and MLK.
Remember that what is considered criminal can change over time and not always in a good direction.

A lot of people escape persecution from dictatorships by committing "crimes" and only get away with it because the system isn't perfect.

China is a good example of nazi-like concentration camps but with modern technology.
I'm Jewish, and I personally found the post to be offensive and anti-semitic.

Israel is not my "homeland". I've never been to Israel, let alone lived there. My parents have never been to Israel. You'd have to go back over 2000 years to find an ancestor of mine who lived in Israel. I have no connection whatsoever with the actions of the Israeli government. So if you attribute their actions to me, simply because I am Jewish, that is by definition racist and anti-semitic.

Imagine if the non-black head of diversity at a major US corporation wrote a post titled "If I were Black", directly tying the actions of modern-day African governments to all African Americans. Or a post titled "If I were Catholic" doing the same thing to all US Catholics based on actions of the Vatican or even just the Pope. This sort of thing happened in the US decades ago and was acceptable then, but is not even remotely acceptable now, nor was it acceptable when this post was written.
In fact, it already happened to this proposal, which started life as `Array.prototype.item` before it turned out that some libraries were using the presence of a `.item` property to duck-type DOM collections:

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-relative-indexing-method#we...
Oh, I didn't know, I spend all of my time working with Linux so I'm a bit out of touch with that space. I'll see if I can come up with a nice short name that doesn't clash
But a country with a rapidly growing population will struggle to grow economically, e.g. due to the increasing strain on natural resources. The GDP per capita growth of China between 1960 and 2018 is almost 4000%, while some other third world countries even had negative growth[0].

I am not saying that I agree with China's policies or their implementation, but it seems that they worked.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(real...
But cryptocurrency is what led to the scaling up of these attacks.
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> To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

— Voltaire
"never been a country" -> except for the 138 countries that do recognize it as a country.

Moreover, why is this a strong rejoinder? Black South Africa was never recognized as a country either, does that mean there was no moral concern?
I quite like it. It’s function is to showcase a large clock and notifications, similarly to how it is on phones. I don’t necessarily want to unlock it when it’s visible, but when I want it will seamlessly disappear.
That's just bulls... People have a live besides work. Kids, family, spouses, hobbies, ... a lot of things have an influence where people can realistically live.

And furthermore, even if everyone was that free-roaming, only-working, highly-paid software developer you seem to consider average, still there wouldn't be enough living space really close to many offices for all employees.
Yeah, that was interesting. Apparently even being a female POC doesn't allow you to blaspheme against the nameless faith. It has evolved.
> I don't think VR will ever take over the world. Too many people get motion sickness from it and I don't think it's only a matter of more pixels/fps.

To think they won't solve motion sickness (or N other teething issues), like it's general AI vs. a problem of incremental improvement is a little short sighted.
What stake does "the media" have in bitcoin? It's a fun story to write about.
You chose to wait this long. You could have spent a little budget to maintain your software but you didn't and now you're paying the price.
Oculus uses Android. What are they using their own OS for, and what is it called?
40-60 minutes each way for me, occasionally worse. One colleague did have 2+ hours each way (train via London) and so he was permitted to come into the office once per week, even pre-covid.
I think you misunderstood me (or I don't understand what you are trying to say here). I was just pointing out concrete examples of the 'You are in a tread this very moment that shows proof of his opinion' since you replied to that by asking 'In what way?'.
Wow! What an awesome project! I've actually had this exact problem before on another extension I built. I'll look into it. You're like revenuecat for extensions, I'm guessing. Thanks for sharing!

Edit: Nice landing page too.
That's the thing about well crafted satire - the really effective hard hitting kind is obvious to outsiders but will strike a chord with true believers.
I wonder how big the hit is from paid app installs via facebook ads. This is a much bigger market than a lot of people understand, and it's nontrivial to track conversions unless you have that mobile app ID.
> The Jewish people were the indigenous people of that territory. In what way do they not rightfully control and occupy Israel?

This is a fictional narrative constructed to justify the state of Israel. It has no basis in historical fact -- there never existed a Jewish ethnostate in the territory known as Palestine, this is a modern construction. Regardless, I don't believe in ethnostates -- of any ethnicity, anywhere.
Yes :) . "I measured the spectral characteristics of fresh snow and found that it reflects light in proportions making it appear to be white" - "This distinguished gentleman maintains that it was traditionally assumed since long time ago that snow doesn't reflect or emit light, which makes it black" - "I don't see why perspective of the first is any more valid than the second, just because the first took the time to conduct the experiments and have a grasp of the facts."
Sure, but Americans aren't randomly attacked when abroad or out doing normal things, like getting food out or drinks.

And yet, Jews are today. It wasn't too long ago that people marched in Charlottesville chanting jews will not replace us. Now there's a massive rise in violence
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What he posted is literately a rephrased version "The jew cries out in pain as he strikes you"
Well isn't it plainly obvious to be fired one has to be targeted by rabid left.
In my experience, it's usually the C suite who's pushing these type of overly-optimistic PR pieces.
They will cover your liability to others but there is a good chance they won't cover your losses other than medical unless mandated by the State's Department of Insurance regs. I am only talking about the US based P&C here.
> Doesn't that just mean “they were never powerful”?

Not necessarily. It could also mean that the people living in Gaza today were not historically from Gaza but were from Egypt or elsewhere.
Which specific FAA requirements are illogical or mutually contradictory?
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Happens plenty of times with US companies wanting my ID before I can access developer portals
Please note that in the aviation space, "ordered x planes" is a very, very elastic concept.
The people change defense obviously doesn't work for Damore, who was fired over his actions while employed at Google

Lots of weird comments in this thread.
You can format your post as a "quote", but that doesn't give you a true-pointer (e.g. you cant click the quote to go to the post, like in a Watsapp or Slack reply)

To add insult to injury its very clunky to quote and respond in the same post. You have to paste the text you're going to quote, then hit return and type your answer and only after select the text and press "quote" in the rich editor
If you don't follow that particular order everything (including your response) becomes part of the quote.

I'm ranting, but seems such a trivial thing to get right that it bothers me. And I need it everyday
I suspect it was a little harder to demand a ransom when your options were picking up a suitcase of unmarked $20's or a gift card to Home Depot.
I've not met many. But I have met plenty of people who deliberately conflate criticism of Israel with criticism of Jews in order to easily dismiss criticism of the former.
I'm part Jewish.
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I hope everyone is given flight suits as just the image of a plane full of people making a 180 degree turn at 600mph to accelerate to 740mph is somewhat comical. I know not entirely what you are suggesting but its immediately the thought that came to mind.
Your comment is a straw man because I never claimed that you couldn't be critical of Israel but not be antisemitic. In fact, I said it's theoretically possible. I just find that in practice, people who show their hand at being antisemitic seem to try to hide behind the whole anti-zionist/antisemitic distinction.

Based solely on the merits, you'd think that Israel's ethno-state bona fides wouldn't be any worse than dozens of other countries'. In fact, they're far less problematic. You can be Arabic/Muslim in Israel and rise to the highest levels of government with full rights of citizenship. I can point to many other countries where that wouldn't be the case for ethnically/religiously mal-aligned individuals. But somehow those other countries aren't constantly in the news cycle for defending their ongoing right to exist.
It’s surrounded by countries who tried to kill all Israelis be them Jewish or Arab multiple times.

It’s next door to hamas which stones to death gays.

Yeah it has a strong military to ensure it the security of its citizens.
Yes, sure but if it's a bad hire. You would dismiss within the probation period, right?
And we should be clear here that the bar for improvement is verrrrry low. Take a look at the questions asked in the National Financial Capability Study, and the results:

https://www.usfinancialcapability.org

The survey is composed of five really-quite-basic questions about interest rates, inflation and risk assessment.

As of 2018, 66% of survey participants get 3 or fewer of the questions right.
I get what what your saying here. So use 3 quaternions to represent the orientation rather then 1. Right?

But doesn't that magnify the problem by 3x? Extracting the angle from the quat again can yield multiple possibilities. If you have 3 quats you now have 3x more possibilities. This can only be done if you assume certain restrictions for each quat such that they yield a singular axis angle when you do a back conversion.

Additionally doesn't that technique yield more possibility to encode axises that are incorrect? A quaternion representing the x axis can be accidentally encoded with rotations along other axises. It's better to keep the type of your domain restricted to be able to encode only possible answers.

Still this can be done as a valid-ish workaround. I give you credit for that, I wouldn't of thought of this so thanks for ur explanation. Although I might use this idea it is far from ideal imo because of the problems I mentioned above. That is if I interpreted what you're saying correctly?

Also addressing your example, the bigger problem in my mind is that there are still issues that arise even if the physical gimbal is restricted on all axises to (0, 2pi). Any gimbal that can go 4pi likely can go infinite pi and that knob will likely be the same so losing rotational information greater than 2pi is ok for most cases in my mind. (If the system yawed 790pi, users are usually only interested in some value under 2pi). The insidious thing imo, is that information is lost even in (0, 2pi) and a lot of people don't realize this.
as a nonbinary black person who self identifies as a holocaust survivor, i dont even know how to describe the pain and suffering reading that blog post from 2007 has caused me. this nazi should be killed, not reassigned to some other department where his jew hate will only continue to trigger holocaust flashbacks for others like me
As someone who has mostly been an outside observer to Erlang, you have succinctly described why I have not felt the need to use it.

It's amazing at what it does - If you had lots of physical nodes and needed to build a robust, fixed-size system at any moment in time, it's an incredible option.

But with container orchestrators, you get the ability to design a polyglot with more fluidity in your design. The admission that different languages are best suited to different tasks throws a monkey wrench into the Erlang ecosystem, because now I all of a sudden can't use Erlang for everything.

It does sound like an excellent choice for a control plane in many cases, however. I think it's phenomenal at what it does, but I think you have provided excellent context regarding its ideal use case.
> How is that anything except Anti-Semitic?

As you frame it, there is no other way to interpret his words (found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210601160519/https://www.kamau...).

If one takes a charitable read of his words, it might be less damning (although definitely questionable in terms of style):

1. It’s clear in the post that he’s speaking about Israeli Jews. While even Israeli Jews are not monolithic, and speaking of them like they are is suspect, he could have been clearer by using “Israeli Jew” rather than “Jew” in this post.

2. Furthermore, it seems more like he is speaking about “Israeli Jews” both in terms of being an actual Israeli Jew as well as a term used to represent the Israeli government.

3. He use the wrong pronouns. He used I/me when we/us would have been more standard when speaking of the acts of a nation state (esp. a democratic one). Even this creates problems since it would paint Israeli Jews as being monolithic in their thoughts (my experience is that they very very much are not monolithic). That said, with a charitable read, the stylistic use of I/me is definitely more powerful and more personal, and it probably provided the effect the author wanted of making the violence feel personal. As an editor, I would have given this stylistic choice a firm veto, but try explaining that to a young person who is finding their voice and is discovering the amount of violence towards various peoples that is occurring around the world.

TL;DR - Another way of interpreting the post is that a young kid trying to find a powerful voice made some very suspect stylistic choices when trying to write about the government of Israel.

Thanks to ‘andrewla for finding the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27381980
If the plane goes supersonic at 10 miles of altitude, will it still make much sound on the surface? It's not just distance, it's the pressure of the air at the altitude, too.

Haven't engines improved a lot since 1967?

No idea about cost, but currently oil is cheap and abundant, compared to 1970s, and the U.S. has a large domestic supply.

Regarding identical planes, I suppose first Boom's supersonic planes are going to be mostly identical. But even standard airliners get small changes with every dozen planes built.
In the year 1890 Samuel D. Warren, with future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, published "The Right to Privacy" in Harvard Law Review[1]. Among other things, they wrote, "Instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded the sacred precincts of private and domestic life; and numerous mechanical devices threaten to make good the prediction that "what is whispered in the closet shall be proclaimed from the house-tops."

In the intervening 131 years the law has addressed this problem, but it is lagging behind the changes and problems brought by new technologies like digital imaging and the Internet. The solution, as it was in the late 19th and early 20th century, is for a legal framework to protect the victims.

Right now we're in the "You have zero privacy anyway, get over it"[2] era.

1 https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~shmat/courses/cs5436/warren-bran...

2 https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/
>will be reassigned to a STEM research role

Not fired, just reassigned.

I'm ok with that as a policy. Presumably he isn't ok with those old statements and can move on.

At the same time the folks who need to post some general statements about a whole group of people, religion, or whatever ...

As far as I can remember I've never felt a reason to talk about a whole category of people and "insatiable appetite for war and killing“ or "increasing insensitivity to the suffering [of] others".

I don't get it.
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>Additionally, the flyer about Black Lives Matter could equally well be a talk.

And if it were, it might hypothetically have been tolerated.

However, "Black lives matter mostly peaceful arson and riot" doesn't describe a talk, it describes an arson and riot. Claims that Stanford reacting differently to the two would merely be due to political bias is disingenuous projection.

Maybe GP intended to describe a satirical talk exactly like the one in the OP, but they didn't, and their language entirely undercut the premise of their attempted argument.
Internal and external criticism is important and welcome, but when the only democratic country in the hostile region, that's constantly fighting for its existence, becomes the world's punching bag, you have to wonder why it is. Does UN's human rights council obsession with Israel [1], while turning a blind eye on real atrocities in murderous regimes like Iran, North Korea, Turkey, Russia, etc., makes sense to anyone with a common sense?

BTW, I don't think most people who use the term Zionism in a negative context actually understand what it means. It's just the desire of Jews to live in its historic homeland - Israel, in a peaceful coexistence with its neighbors.

[1] https://unwatch.org/updated-chart-of-all-unhrc-condemnations...
So malware magically ceases to be malware as soon as it’s preinstalled by the vendor?
Isn't that because airline is a low margin business ? You'd need a ton of cash to own your plane manufacturer.

You may have hard time to sell planes to concurrent companies so you cannot scale like Boeing or Airbus.

You would be tied to this manufacturer for life and if you start to manufacture defective planes, you are on the highway to bankrupt and selling your plane manufacturer wouldn't even save you because nobody wants a defective airplane manufacturer.

Sounds like a lot of risks.

But those are just my thoughts, i'm far from being an expert.