skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder how many of the people defending or downsizing Nina Paley's position have seen the offending content

Exactly. Nina likes to pretend that she is simply "exploring the issue critically" or that pronouns are "a debate" rather than about the rights of individuals to live their lives. She'll bring up bizzare "talking points" like (and this is a direct quote) "They're trying to kill gay men by turning them into women".

I worked with Nina at QuestionCopyright.org, the organization that she was (perhaps still is?) Artist in Residence of.

I also moved cities in part to be closer to Nina and other QCO folks. (This didn't work out as they moved away from NYC just as I moved there).

I've had many conversations with her, as well as not only following her social media, but also curating one of the channels where her work was shown for a while.

I spoke with her on the phone about these issues specifically, and how posts showing the "Snowflake Flag" and parody songs like "If it has a penis, it's a man" were actively hurting people.

> Imagine if someone had drawn similarly offensive caricatures of black people or any other minority? Would you hesitate to claim that they were racist and hated the targeted minority?

Yes and! If a friend called you up on the phone (as I did with Nina) and said "Let me explain to you how the things you're drawing are not only offensive, but actively harmful" and they kept doing it despite that, I think it would be reasonable to conclude that the artist was placing their own freedom of expression above the well being of the minority.

Moreover, if the artist only targeted one group over and over, then one would be reasonable to conclude that this was a specific, targeted effort to harm that minority.

> I admire Nina Paley for her advocacy of free culture (both public domain artwork and free software), but it is somewhat saddening to her take such a hateful stance.

I couldn't have expressed it better myself.
Casync is a much more efficient protocol due to the rolling hash support:

https://github.com/systemd/casync/
absl::StrFormat provides compile-time safety: https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/format
Mh, it seems that the Twitter thread mostly focuses on the legacy in terms of language design and then blames much of the demise on there never having been a real killer application that showcased it (as the author pointed out and I agree with Rails worked because of Ruby but didn't showcase it well). I didn't see anything about actually faulty language design.
I should add that there is backup to another sdcard for cloning or archiving. Cost is a major criterion for most deployments that use a Raspberry Pi.
What ‘regulatory credits’ are – and why they’re so important to Tesla
Major companies are so used to screwing employees on their wages, they'll do anything to shut people up about how much compensation is received.

Can't screw the employee out of those benefits if they're unaware that %40 of all hires received them. Can't negotiate paid time off if postings are unavailable for the range of acceptability or what's offered. Can't negotiate salary if the salary range is not posted.

Fuck these companies, and their hostile anti-Citizen agendas. We belong here, it's our country; they don't, and our country is not their plaything.

If it were up to me, I'd make it a Federal Law that any company not willing to post their wages or their wage ranges -this goes for international companies as well- they cannot trade on US Markets. That's right. No more stock market, financial industry; nada.
But Ruby is just as fast as Python in most of the comparisons I’ve seen.

It is true IME that usability and compatibility, not performance, are Matz’s first concern.
Does this mean I need to travel the earth and time to find the others so I can defeat them in single combat, because there can be only one ?

Seriously, if you want Highlanders, this is how you get Highlanders.

That said, after reading my doppegangers comment histories, I'd totally subscribe to their newsletters.
Thanks for nothing J M Keynes ;-)

Only someone who never had children would say something so nihilistic
>I never understood voluntary segregation.

Read Malcolm X's autobiography and related works.
I can get by on less sleep but I still won’t be much use to anyone working more than a usual hour load. There’s more to life than work and sleep.
Who are the people who still dream of careers? I don't know any.
As defined by US law, equal opportunity protections are only for the following classes: age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, race/color, and religion.
Really? Our state generally just requires a state teaching certification and FBI background check. I thought that was also a requirement for K-12 private schools.
Apologies, I only looked at a few examples.

So what do you mean by "retro characteristics" and what do you mean by "a classical style"?
I think that highly depends on the service. The new App Runner service for instance is a wild ride of buggyness, lack of testing and incorrect documentation.
Here's a good recap of what sampling looked like in the time of Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MXYZh1jcs

“Ta-da-da-da... aaaaaaand we're out of memory.”

Likewise apparently DJ Shadow pulled off quite a feat with his Akai MPC60 on ‘Endtroducing’, because the sampler could store something like twelve samples, also not too long.

A sorta related anecdote is how the British ‘mind the gap’ was this terse because it was recorded on a solid-state memory, costing dearly in '68 even for the small amount by today's standards.
You could say the same for the Maserati Ghibi which is inferior to BMW 5 series cars in nearly every way but costs tens of thousands more. If you think the profit margins are too large you can just not buy that product.
This isn't true. A recent study showed significant results in using HCQ: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/throat-spray-a...
You have done nothing to validate this claim and are simply regurgitating acceptable political speak.

Kids can be taught otherwise. And a minority of the rich can be told to stfu by the masses, or enjoy working in the coal shovel jobs.

We pretend there’s a meritocracy lifting these folks up, but it’s been argued well it’s nothing more than network effects and really just seeing no upside to being egalitarian while the masses sit around being apathetic political agents.

And believing you’re going to achieve perfect sovereignty is non-sense. It’s a shared planet. Nation state politics worked fine when technology and access to the world were control by monarchs.

Not enough old people are going to be around to confirm their common sense awareness of these heavily distributed “truths”.

The social narrative will be whatever the political engaged make it.

Avoiding political engagement all but insures this.
Wolves are known to just kill a dozen sheep, either to train the young or because they can. Most predators are known to have behavior which involves killIng and/or maiming inefficiently and for reasons other than food. Even worse is that you have plenty of prey animals that will also go ahead and kill or maim each-other for social reason (elk, zebras).
What a knee-jerk response to a perfectly fine comment…
I think you misunderstand. A company will just charge whatever price maximises profit, there's no reason to "maintain margin" or anything like that. If they thought they could increase the price today and get a net gain after demand fell then they'd absolutely do it.
It’s not that simple.

Read Matt Yglesias or David Shor on the damage some progressive non-profits have done to the communities they intend to help, and their broader cause.

I see many such orgs on Scott’s list. Negative ROI.
My company gave me a little too much responsibility as a junior data scientist... I pushed a model to production without doing due diligence, and ended up spending an extra $60k in about 45 minutes before it was discovered and pulled.
While I don't disagree with your general point, I'm not sure it broadly applies here.

Honestly, a nice B&B is probably priced pretty similarly to a business-class hotel.

Why do I usually stay in business class hotels in cities? Chain hotels like Marriott's brands are pretty consistent quantities. A random B&B really isn't. Business class hotels also tend to have 24-hour desks, I can leave my luggage after checkout, etc. If I don't really care much about the hotel, which tends to be the case when I'm traveling in a city on business, some mid-level chain hotel is just less mental overhead.
> So I think the "local" here is more about spreading it out across more data center providers than doing it at home.

As well as geographically, more nodes spread throughout more existing national governmental distributions is better than less.

> huge amount of money to stake

> So in short I haven't really figured out a good way to get involved in validating as an amateur. And maybe that's ok, but the comment about "local" validating made me curious.

Yeah, same with avalanche as it will require 2000 avax (maybe it will be lowered in the future when the dao goes online and existing stakers ok that). But at least at this point, I know people who are validating for x/p/c-chain on an RPI with 8GB of ram and external HDD or SSDs, which is way more accessible than pretty much everyone else (and has about ~973 validating nodes now).
Please explain to me in excruciating detail how you legally end up net better off by donating ten billion.
Why do you wish to enshrine compelled speech into law?
"Catching up" on sleep is a myth. If you're getting wildly different amounts of sleep night to night (even on a "schedule" like yours) it's a biological/physiological certainly that you're operating at a deficit. Maybe not cognitive, but there is a deficit there whether you realize it or not.
Jeff Bezos wants to pay the least for the most amount of work, and the workers want the most money for the least amount of work. It sounds like both parties should meet themselves half-way as opposed to living in what is effectively modern-day slavery. Suggesting such a thing, however, is "radical" and "communist", and essentially one step away from a dystopian fascism hellscape something something ANTIFA.
They may be confusing the difference between sentience and sapience.
I knew someone who went years with 5 hours a night. He was notoriously quick to anger and tended to over react to everything. Toward the end of my knowing him he started to take better care of himself and suddenly he was the nicest man I'd ever met. Sleep matters.
The difference in intelligence between an egg and a chicken aren't just reaction times. Basic cellular life might respond to stimuli in a way we can call "pain", but they'll never understand it the same way.

The difference is like us touching a hot stove and pulling away as an automatic response, versus the various forms of torture we've invented.

That doesn't mean it's right, just that there is a difference and we'll all draw a line somewhere. A bit like how people see eating cats and dogs as somehow different from chickens and cows.
The xkcd make call had the wrong syntax to begin with.

As 'sandwich' is clearly the artifact, it should be 'make sandwich'.
Right, and at one point the whole team were all or mostly Mozilla employees (which, financially, is a client company of Google). So the core team is a group of Mozilla alumni and their friends. Unlike, say, C++ which is under diverse committees across multiple countries.
That's how I have mine set up.

You don't need to use the pi's built-in wireless, but it's a cheap way to get started and covers most use-cases where the users are very near the device. I've got an old Ubiquiti Bullet M2HP mated to a broomstick omni acting as the AP for my IIAB network, and you can hit it from halfway down the block. Further if I get some more height under the 'tenna.

I wish 802.11ah was more common; a low speed long range option would be perfect for lightweight content like this. But until phones have the radios, the use-case just isn't there.
This might be a dumb question but if it's standard to drop everyone a level (I've heard this too) is it possible to interview for Principal or something where they would drop you back to Staff?
Yes much like cryptocurrency, the ownership of NFTs can be de-anonymized.
True. I guess it is worth watching what people are doing regardless of their political beliefs. Have you noticed for example that in US people target specific locations for their kids? Hell, my wife was pushing hard to get a house in a 'good' district and we didn't even have kids yet. Social proof and all that, but there is a reason it exists to begin with.
I’m guessing another lousy side of this is the toxic HR as mentioned in the post. Let’s say you lasted a year and left. Now you can put Amazon on your resume. However, HR is so toxic that they’ll never give you a good reference if someone calls in. Now all that work and effort was really for nothing.

Edit: I meant if someone calls into HR to verify employment. You run the risk of HR secretly bad mouthing you. Yes, it’s probably illegal, but if they are doing all this other stuff, then would you be confident what they say or don’t say?
Considering that the biggest reason to buy a lot of these luxury products is status, it seems like many people would want their ownership tracked.
In reality it's still difficult because companies need to have support from top level politicians to grow big. So essentially it's a political problem.
Yes you are, but that wouldn't necessarily require you to reveal your identity either.
Its purely chemical and much slower than a nervous system. Really just signaling and arguably we dont even know if animals feel/expirience pain like we do either. Kinda begs the question what is actually capable of suffering
I was under the impression that the idea that one can just oversleep to "catch up" was debunked already, e.g. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-c...
Maybe I’m wrong but things like 3.times { ... } are more prevalent in ruby than in other languages. There’s optional return statement (do I put it or not?), strings vs symbols, hash conventions ({ hello: :world } vs { “hello” => “world” }, people still use both), optional parenthesis in method calls, etc. I think ruby gives more ways to do the same thing, but that’s confusing for a newcomer. That being said, it’s my favorite language.
Seems like you should get off your butt and create an AWS competitor with 50 engineers. You'll be able to underprice them by so much you'll completely eat their lunch.
Could you explain what's negative about Scott's giving?
Real question here, how do people know whether to bother applying for a position if they don't know the pay range? Why would I put myself through a weeks long process if I thought there was a chance the pay was too low?

As an employer won't you get a really mixed bag of candidates if you don't give a number? Why would you want new grads mixed with 20 year veterans in a pile of CVs?

I interviewed recently and the recruiters all gave a number, or at least OKed that what I wanted was possible.
It's weird that half of every description is dedicated to a different version of "despite knowing how much the Soviets sucked"
Even the incorrigible will perform (much) better given 1-on-1 instruction. Less kids per teacher yields better results.

The problem is that performance is exponential. That same 1-on-1 instruction will take a well performing kid to "surgeon".

It will take the incorrigible ... maybe ... to only quit school at 10th grade. Which does directly translate to money for the school these days.

What teachers/schools also effectively like about the incorrigible is that any (lowest wage) idiot that sticks to it will help the incorrigible. Not to surgeon levels, but better than before, sure. For obvious reasons you don't need much math. Some, yes, but not much. Whereas it takes a capable teacher to get good performers even higher.

Teachers are protecting the incompetent among them by doing this.
It is using iTunes sync so you’ll need to be running macOS or Windows.
see also https://github.com/iiab/iiab/issues/1540

there's thinking along this line, just needs some muscle behind the implementation
I'm happy if employers need to disclose upfront; this is a powerful signal that I don't want to work for them.

Being able to avoid the disclosure by throwing out applications is more problematic.
Dividends are not the only way to distribute earnings; stock buybacks are a very popular method as well.
It would be a start to salvaging the utter waste of resources wasted on this development, but I would be (pleasantly) surprised if anything actually happened. Great setting for a horror flick though.
It would be no problem if Apple were just doing their best to deliver the best experience to their users as you are implying they are doing here.

The problem here is that they are deliberately crippling and limiting what the hardware can do in a way that avoid any possibility of competition.

Limiting JIT's and external web engines are an example of not allowing the devs to have an option to develop for web SDK forcing them to stick with the apple SDK.

So, there's no problem in Apple trying to do things better. The real problem is the limitations imposed to curb competition and freedom for the developers to use the hardware the best way they can.

Apple is ur-facism encoded in a private company. Google or Microsoft dont get away with half of what Apple do, so people should look more carefully to what is beneath.
The root of this problem is the conflict of interest in insurance. You lose money when settling claims.

There are some companies addressing this problem for consumers.

Look at Lemonade.com, they do not benefit from not paying out as their margin is fixed or Laka.co makes money when claims are paid.

(Disclaimer: I work for Laka)
Because markets are distorted by unequal access to information.
I’m a believer in technological determinism (from wiki), a “...theory that assumes that a society's technology determines the development of its social structure and cultural values.”

I also believe that the rate of technological change is accelerating (technology begets more technology).

When you take those two things together you’re left with a rapidly changing world that is just going to keep getting disrupted by new paradigm shifts at a faster and faster pace.

This is both why we need conservatism, traditionalism, and cultural limits on uncontrolled growth and change... and simultaneously why we need flexibility, agility, and openness to change.

This isn’t an either or situation, either stick our heads in the stand and try to stop time, or throw caution to the wind and run headfirst into the unknown.

Balance, we need balance.
Indeed, I suspect that experimenting with new ways of teaching children, and believing that doing so is ruining children's minds, are both as old as humanity itself.
Not really, the history of education is surprisingly short. So 60 years is ~1.5% of the total for formal education, and a much larger larger chunk of anything we have meaningful records for.
Germany and France are pretty similar TBH. Though, like Americans, Europeans also get mad when you point out they are not as diverse as they imagine.

It's really hard to talk about things when you can't generalize a bit.

"100 million American homes have things set up this way" - oh no, let's divert the discussion to worry about the one guy who has a fully custom setup!
Postgres to TypeScript Interfaces and Enums
And on race "equal opportunity" means we can discriminate at will as long as it is against Asians or white people.
That's fantastic. I was about to start a project in October building something that's almost completely there already, for a specific use case (annotation of therapy sessions).
This isn't specific to Bezos, and it's not specific to any particular class or type of "worker." If Bezos could double his money today with zero work he'd certainly do it. The family business down the road would cut every employees' salary in half tomorrow if it could.

It's just the free market, nothing particularly interesting or scary about it. Everyone wants to get the absolute best deal for themselves, and some are more successful than others.
I've been functioning on ~3.5 hours sleep per night for about 5 years now. You get used to it.
What about animals that are known to have emphatic behavior and are fully capable of making non instinctual choices yet will gladly be very cruel (e.g. wolves, dolphins)?
For the same reason we require businesses to serve anyone, regardless of race, color, religion, or national origin.

The social benefits outweigh the harms.
My religion is of an open and free society. They practice said religion by passing laws that allow for data to be public, protecting what one does at home as private, etc.
The EEOC's guidance regarding pre-employment inquiries falls into the following categories, and state residence is not addressed:

- Race

- Height & Weight

- Financial Information

- Unemployed Status

- Background Checks

- Religious Affiliation Or Beliefs

- Citizenship

- Marital Status, Number Of Children

- Gender

- Disability

- Medical Questions & Examinations
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Actually, I'm going to make this a top-level comment.

Would one of the people claiming that she's just doing it for the tax benefits please explain to me, in excruciating detail, just how you would legally end up with more money by donating billions?
I’ll take another look.

EDIT: those users are not even on the list of my doppelgängers.
What I'm saying is if the fix for the vuln negates the performance boost from speculative execucution, then the net outcome is 0 performance boost and speculative execution might as well be removed entirely. It wouldn't surprise me if it just costs more energy to keep the vuln and mitigation active at the same time.
Reminds me of that old quote by John Godfrey Saxe:

”Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.”
The disappointing thing from my point of view is the number of companies that have no interest in contributing anything back to the open source community that they benefit from. My employer benefits from a great number of open source tools but we have no policy in place for contributing anything back.

In terms of negative effects the companies who resell or provide competing services without approaching the maintainers first are even worse. It's technically legal, but it's effectively a giant fuck you to the spirit and community.

In terms of leverage it's the ability to put food on the table and maintain a decent standard of living that has the most effect. To this end I'd rather see UBI and unionisation over everyone continuing to play stupid games where we all pretend we aren't there to maintain a decent standard of living.
Ok those other things I mentioned were still pretty daunting I guess. But corporations are still not interested in having their actions called out. Relatively low-budget operations like https://popular.info/ get good results in shifting behavior of big companies. (Note you can skip the signup page, just click "Let me read it first").
FreshPorts
I think the most underappreciated story of the last year is the humbling of Jack Ma and Alibaba by the CCP. Imagine the same thing happening to Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg or heck even Mark Cuban.
HR at a large company basically never gives a good reference if someone calls. They'll acknowledge the dates you worked there.