skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This little fella is the avatar of the GitHub bot at our startup. I’ve got fond memories of Bonzi Buddy – he was certainly my favorite malware. That was a fun era of computing in general, and not just because it covered my formative years.
> "Then of course there's the whole "the guy who first coined term considered it a joke."

It's worth noting that the Wikipedia page itself contains the following quote from the author:

"It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others."

In other words, the guy who first coined the term says meritocracy works. (Those who have read the book would know that it resulted in tremendous cultural and scientific achievements within its fictional world.) What the author is saying that a meritocratic system needs to be mindful of the hubris and arrogance of those given power just because they happened to be gifted with merit through an accident of birth and circumstance and to also show kindness and consideration to those less endowed with merit, lest they tear society apart.
Microsoft says Bing’s ‘Tank Man’ censorship was a human error

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/4/22519418/microsoft-bing-ch...
Don't Be a Liar
University libraries will often have 40x copies of an essential textbook

If that's true, it's a huge change from when I was in the university. But it seems implausible in the extreme, IE, I'd call bs here. University libraries wouldn't want to buy class textbook 'cause they're worthless at the end of the term. Students are expected to buy (electronic, DRM'd) textbooks are at student stores, not check them out of libraries. Libraries are not expected to service individual course but to be places of general research. Professors have the whole Internet to give links for supplemental material. Photocopied "Course Readers" is another avenue.
In that case, excellent job!
What party? You're confusing dictatorships and planned economies.
Exactly. If everything is based on SAML SSO this is easy. If you manage multiple user databases for access control it’s a bit harder.
This is my observation too, I often wondered if Walmart wasn't around what would be these folks alternatives?
Getting kicked out of ycombinator is petty drama?
No, servers came with PERL and/or PHP, no config necessary.
BlockFi says they are lending at 4.5% and accepting deposits at 8.5%. What's wrong with this picture?
Please take your racism and concern trolling elsewhere.
I think I speak for all of us, when I say we appreciate all you do!
Is this in any way surprising? In Latin countries, everyone is used to gendered nouns as that’s a core feature of the language. In Anglo cultures it is not.
> Capitalism is fundamentally about exploiting labour

That's a very Marxist view. And no, it's not. Capitalism is fundamentally exploiting the planets resources, mostly hydrocarbons.

You can easily pay people a fair market wage and still produce a profit by exploiting the planet or even just market inefficiencies.

The Marxist view assumes that if there is profit it should be shared between workers for their labour.

This view completely ignores the costs and risks involved with capital expenditures.

It also assumes that markets are efficient, they're not.
Professor John McWhorter has called wokeness a religion

> Something must be understood: I do not mean that these people’s ideology is “like” a religion. I seek no rhetorical snap in the comparison. I mean that it actually is a religion. A naïve anthropologist would see no difference in type between Mormonism and this new form of antiracism.

https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/the-elect-neoracists-po...
> it provides the leftist

It's no different than the far-right unfalsifiable standards that were enforced for centuries, more often than not with religious overtones. Let's not pretend this is a left/right thing, so much as it's just an extremist thing. Only now, the leftist is using the outrage tactic just as effectively as the right, which has lost a lot of its moral high ground on most social issues.
You mean HN is internet rage defined? Twitter is awesome.
Who are “all these woke people” that you’re bickering together and prejudging as bigoted?
As usual, there's context to everything and these discussions often skip over it. In some extreme cases, silence is violence is correct, for many people that threshold will be in different places. In other context people may be abusing "silence is violence" as "you should support my pet issue I care about". There will be cases where people will have strong opinions about, like providing services to ICE - literally helping a violent organisation to be more efficient.

Ideas are not the same thing to people - some ignore it, some don't, some abuse it, some change it for different purposes.
> That's a far cry from advocating mass murder of the elderly.

Not what I said. But you obviously didn't read between the lines of why he feels that way, or his statements on the second order effects of a small % of people causing a large drain on the overall healthcare system. I still consider this "Interesting to note".

> is the head of the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy

Why would an employee at a random private university be expected to have correspondence with a public official?
Those other sources are mostly used for special results such as "Instant Answers".

DDG's main search results mostly come from Bing, as the source for that Wikipedia statement reveals:

https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/

> We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).

Anyone can see this for themselves by comparing a number of Bing and DDG searches.
>No, it can also be done theoretically, by actually computing the costs of production (required to sustain certain level of consumption) from something like Leontief matrix. And then comparing with reality. It hasn't been done, mostly because the required data are private, but it is possible to do in principle, and I would argue that it would be very instructional for any society to do such a calculation (and make the result publicly available).

No it can't. Value (in the sense generally used in economics) can only be known through people's revealed preferences, and it's not possible to reveal people's preferences without giving them the chance to express them in a market. Markets require people to sacrifice money/labor/time to purchase things, which gives a much more meaningful measure of those things being valued than if people were just asked, surveyed or whatever and didn't have to put their money where their mouths were.
Oh c'mon that was a good'un!
I think most people just have a tendency to to repeat dogma they are exposed to, based on the groups they belong in. If you join any group anywhere, be it people who practice yoga, the burning man crowd, or an online forum about programming, you'll find that there's a hierarchy, with some individuals who are highly regarded by the group, you might call them thought leaders. The individuals at the top have certain beliefs, and most people in the group will echo those beliefs as dogma everyone should believe in, and try to suppress dissenting views.
For a good read regarding translating Microsoft's Fortran compiler from 8080 to 8086 written by the guy that did it see https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/translation-of-8080-code-t...
Aaaaaaaaaand it's gone! (from the front page)
Reagan gave green light to sabotage of Soviet oil pipeline (2004)
Ignoring all the social aspects of the article, regarding this quote from the memo;

> “repeated interactions that are nonconstructive, cast doubt, assume bad intent, make unsubstantiated accusations, or otherwise do not contribute to a positive environment have a massive negative impact on the team and working environment.”

I've had experiences where different levels of management within the company (macro level) or project (micro level) have been making what appear to be less than ideal choices. Often this is because they aren't listening to all or the right workers, which could mean they might not understand all of the issue, or possibly that they don't know all of the options/solutions.

Of course, the workers might not understand all the aspects that management does either (which might relate to the quote in the article: "even tough feedback can and should be delivered with empathy"). However, this won't stop the workers that feel wronged or otherwise justified from voicing their discontent to their peers, and so the problem of negativity quickly snowballs. And so a naive solution is to send out a memo with a sentence like my first quote.

But it's a bit of a chicken or egg scenario, because if the management were achieving better results, the workers wouldn't feel negative in the first place.
Google Just Announced New Terms for Crypto Businesses Starting Next Month
Basically no one is "cis", because people are just born the sex they are and don't "identify" with it, or agree with all the outdated stereotypes placed on their sex. Men and women aren't a subset of their sex.
> Working class shoppers.

Almost everyone in America is "working class". America no longer has a leisure class to speak of, if we ever had one. Looking at the most recent data - I forget where I saw it - but the wealthiest Americans also put in the most hours at work.

I know a lot of people have brainwashed themselves into thinking they're something they're not, but they're all wrong. If you have to go to work in the morning to maintain your lifestyle, even if you "work" for yourself, you're just a working class stiff like everyone else, you can just afford bigger shit.

If you can decide to just stop what you're doing and go attain spiritual enlightenment for the next 18 months, and literally nothing about your life, your children's lives, your grandchildren's lives, and your great-grandchildren's lives will change - you're not working class.

> Sure, it’s elitist, but people like shopping alongside people in their own stratum.

That doesn't make someone elitist, it just makes them an asshole.
That is interesting, thank you for the insight and response.
The party that plans the economy.
Robots, Manners and Stress
OBS uses NV12 variant of YUV by default for its rendering pipeline, which is supported as a GPU pixel format by Direct3D. OBS has written various shaders to convert into and out of NV12 on GPU.
Do not attribute to malice what can be attributed to stochastic co-ordination
Shots in arms for people in neighborhoods with a much higher rate of infection and death from COVID are more valuable than shots in arms in neighborhoods like mine where people could work from home and were basically unscathed.

I understand what you’re saying but the neighborhoods in question weren’t prioritized randomly.
QAnon's claims were targeted at the left, but I could be conflating that with Pizzagate which was a "Democrat" pedo ring.

Maxwell/Epstein would not have had any bias as far as who they targeted.
Qwant also shows no results. https://web.archive.org/web/20210605040421/https://www.qwant...
Bye, Felicia
> If you disagree with something your colleagues or the company you work for, just quit and find another job.

On the flip side, why should you? Companies and cultures are made of people and they change as people change. Why should you just quit before trying to institute change?

When I hire people, I generally look for people who don’t accept the status quo as inherently right and try to solve problems.
Please dial down the racism.

I love you. Fight the hate!
Interesting, I’m getting results. Pretty much the exact results I would expect as well. Have they fixed it or is this a regional thing?
> “coffee is for closers”

To be replaced with "merit doesn't matter, only group identity"?

> “diversity is our strength.”

That's rich coming from an ideology that actively depersonalises and reduces people to a group identity. Merit, intelligence, accomplishments, effort, passion - these things don't matter. Personal choice when it contradicts the narrative - seen as misguided, not respected!

What diversity is that, when they ignore exactly what makes one different from another in the same group? How is it fair when it proposes group guilt and punishment, to ignore all personal circumstances except race, gender and a few more attributes? It's diversity meant for group identities, not for people.

The ugly thing is that identity politics emphasises differences while being silent about cooperation. We all benefit from the work and advancement of the other groups, we cooperate more than we fight each other. There's more value in being together, but that's uncool to praise for them.

For reference take a look at how guilting and punishing for ideological motives and based on group identities went in the French Revolution. They started with an absolute monarchy and ended with an absolute dictator, in the meantime any wrong think could send you to the guillotine.
Have you been following the NYTimes diff bot on Twitter?

"Reputable" journals are only reputable on momentum. They do some shady shit.
> prejudice felt by academics like Mr Graeber towards those who work in finance or other capitalist occupations

> resentment that such people earn so much more than those who work in the caring professions or manual labour

It's more than this; it's also how some people who work in finance actually feel about their own jobs.
> A case against the development of Lynetteholm has been brought before the European Court of Justice by environmental groups.

I’m always a little surprised that the most wild and natural parts of world (the flyover country) is populated by anti environmentalists (or rather, libertarians typically), and the most densely populated cities devoid of most green things tend to have clusters of environmentalists.

Don’t they know they can come out to the country, buy 50 acres of woods and streams and meadows and wildlife, and not worry about how many cars are on the streets of Copenhagen?

They’d love it in these areas. People ride horses and graze animals. They hunt and go bird watching and identify all of the local trees.
1965 short story, Slow Tuesday Night, https://www.fcusd.org/cms/lib03/CA01001934/Centricity/Domain...

2021 review, "Who Is R. A. Lafferty? And Is He the Best Sci-Fi Writer Ever?", https://www.wired.com/story/who-is-r-a-lafferty-best-sci-fi-...

> A select few actually have read Lafferty, a secret society of loonies whose names you probably do recognize. Neil Gaiman. Ursula Le Guin. Samuel Delany. Other sci-fi writers, in other words. R. A. Lafferty has always been, then, a sci-fi writer’s sci-fi writer—a blurry, far-out position to find oneself in. When comedians hang out, they famously have to commit acts of borderline criminality, usually involving nudity and great heights, to get each other to bust up. So just think what absurdities a sci-fi writer has to conjure forth to gobsmack his fellow sci-fi writers—sci-fi writers who actually are, by much wider consensus, some of the best in the world. The descriptor they tend to resort to, as if by no other choice, is sui generis, dusty old Latin for “one of a kind.” It’s probably the most common phrase associated with Lafferty ..
They're not going to ban you for saying no. This is pretty well settled stuff.
I honestly just don’t care. If I want high quality I don’t go to Amazon I go elsewhere to niche retailers.

I never went to Walmart for better quality. Heck that’s why I personally use target more now. Slightly higher price and slightly better quality.
You described my situation precisely. Weekends are long and chaotic when you have small children (and I've got three with the oldest being 5). Mondays are a return to normalcy - they go to day care and I go to work. And like you said, if work isn't satisfying, I have to find something new because work becomes my escape.
It’s funny seeing many posts on HN rallying against capitalism, decrying the cycle of poverty and food deserts and then see someone complain about seeing poor people at Walmart.

Sorry you have to mix with the “rabble”!
And this becomes increasingly true as compression methods get increasingly clever.

https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_mea...
I had one right by my college apartment and was really happy with it. Very clean and always had what I needed, but not 'everything.' If they rebranded & incorporated them into suburban neighborhoods with a focus on walkability it could be a smart move to capture the wealthier 'conscious' shopper.
Then you live in, or near, a shithole.

Nothing about your list describes Walmarts in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, except perhaps the poorest parts of Dallas, which I have not personally visited.

Grapevine, Flower Mound, Roanoke, Rome, Keller, Preston Hollow Walmarts are all immaculately maintained and clean.
I appreciate your point of view but if we look at the origin story of Bitcoin and Satoshi’s vision of the hardest money ever created, the fact that all fiat currencies lose value over time is exactly why it was created.

While bitcoin may be volatile in USD over the short term, I can tell you the exact inflation rate of Bitcoin today, tomorrow or 100 years from now. Try that with the US Dollar.
Have you look at the actor model inside DAPR?
As the article states one of the functions of the island is actually to protect the rest of the land from rising sea levels because it will involve building advanced flooding protections.

(Also as a side note, a 0.3m rise doesn't sound like much, but that is an enormous mass of water. IIRC a rise of that level would destroy more than a quarter of the land of most American coastal cities)
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This refutation is really weak. The prompt provided in the refutation is:

> “I have the feeling of doing useful work”

Doing useful work is not a feeling, so people probably choose the middle-of-the-road answer (sometimes), or the socially desirable answer (often/always).

It's better to ask how useful they think their work is overall. Even better to ask them about their job 5 years previous. Think about all the people who joined the US military in the early 2000's. If you asked them about their work at the time they would say it was extremely meaningful. With hindsight the number would go down drastically. Same thing with all the people who see their work tossed asunder when a new CEO takes the company in a new direction.

Or even better^2, analyze how much bullshit work is actually being done regardless of whether people feel they're useful. People rarely glimpse the big picture so they are unlikely to see if their job is a strategic blunder, even years later.
This should not be this easy. Really?
Mathematics and Passion in the life of Thomas Jefferson (1999)
A poc appears to be available there : https://github.com/xnianq/cve-2021-21985_exp !

P.s. I use yandex to find CVE POC, google is almost useless for that kind of search and yandex almost always deliver working code !
> At least until the revolution comes and a living can be provided for all.

Unless revolution comes and things go the other way.
I’m not sure I understand, has BTC ever lost 99% of it’s value? If I understand correctly, the value of Bitcoin has only gone up over the past 11 years. While the purchasing power of the US dollar has fallen in real terms every single one of those years.
The rise of X may reshape Y. Or not.
Sorry I don’t really know enough about LiveView to give a good answer. The protocol involved here is a fairly unsophisticated game networking protocol sending delta updates of object properties and transforms at 10Hz or so, and takes the approach of ownership transfer to orchestrate which packets are authoritative. If a reader who knows LiveView understands what I just wrote, they may be able to answer :) (the library for Hubs doing this is networked-aframe)
Well, just pull up a CVSS calculator and start asking yourself questions and playing with it. As a fun game we would have people independently rate bugs on our Slack, mind you these are seasoned information security consultants that have broken a lot of software, and the ratings were hilariously far apart. Ask everyone to rate it low/medium/high/critical and consensus was pretty easy to achieve. Anyway the point is the criteria are quite subjectively. What comes out seems very quantitative, but it’s basically a pile of Jello in terms of how solid it is.
“Happen to be dominant.” You mean the ones that haven’t failed?

And this may surprise you, but plenty of country still use “dollars” that aren’t American. But you already knew that.
There being political movements to end the race to the bottom is still a huge step. I can't imagine this ending in appeasement rather than a thirst for more.
They are trying to realize the politicization of all institutions in service of political revolution:

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

Also see this article from 1999 when all this was getting started:

https://www.hoover.org/research/why-there-culture-war
I remember when I first saw latinx, I thought it meant something about a Latin mixer or Latin cross exchange, or cross pollination. I had no idea it was a regex metacharacter for `a` or `o`, essentially latin[ao].
They didn’t skirt some eligibility rules because no one asked questions. The west Oakland site first tried reaching out to local low income community members and after seeing low uptake opened it up to everyone one, the pastor of the church himself was encouraging anyone over 18 to come by.
It’s hard to get employees to work 60+ hour work weeks if they aren’t bought into the company mission. It is very effective to blur work and life lines to get workers to put in the extra hours.
DAI is managed decentrally by MKR holders so not really. At least not in a way that you wouldn't be able to do with any crypto.
When Living in California Means Fearing the Outdoors
This is a requirement for ISO 27002. Just had to implement an offboarding checklist recently.
cool -- what talk was that? Could you share a link? I've looked through the youtube uploads but can't find the Pandera talk based on the titles
There have been several attempts to try to dockerize the stack but none successful as far as I know. I did most of the work on packaging this so I’m not totally sure what is missing, but the droplet setup was close enough that I’m surprised nobody has cracked an all in one container image yet.