skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand the rule of “if you’ve ever been a dick in the past, your life and career should be destroyed proportionality be damned” seems like a societal failure.
What would you suggest you do when you have been behaving incorrectly? You can’t change the past.
I gave them Lubuntu and their scanner app running in WINE.
It worked fine but they refused to switch because "it's not muh windows". This is how Microsoft corrupts people for life...
Gas stations are a notoriously low-margin business. Realistically costs get passed on to the consumer.
I'm not embarrassed about going to the bathroom, but sometimes I was at work and I was pretty sure I stunk for some reason, and I couldn't do anything about it other than leave for the day. So I just sat there, miserable, wondering if anyone else thought I stunk.

At home, I can actually go change my shirt and/or take a shower and actually be sure I don't stink.

Also, nobody cares if I stink while I'm working from home. I still shower mid-day anyhow when I want to.

Lunch is also a lot easier to deal with. I don't eat out because I have to watch my diet or I'll gain all my weight back that I lost. That's really hard when eating out. It's pretty easy at home.
My main complaint is all the programs that think all your documents are so precious that they refuse to shut down. Reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyOEwiQhzMI
Denouncing "cancel culture" and then bragging about "draining the swamp" in the same paragraph?

One good thing about the freenode takeover was that everyone just moved somewhere else. This, however, soils the entire IRC name and there's not a good way the community can really fix it. Maybe someone could throw money at it, but this guy might not even have a price he would sell at.
I can't remember the last time I used Windows search because it's worse than useless - there have been multiple occasions in the past where it can't even find a file in the current folder right in front of my eyes. Nowadays I just use Everything which I think is one of the best piece of software ever.
I wouldn't call him a fascist.

That said, there are a lot of fascists in the mainstream right now. And the number of swastikas (of a non-religious nature) is the highest its been since about 1945...
Linux Foundation to ban non-vaccinated people at their events
Kind of like 'hacker' now can apply to someone learning html.
The distribution of car accidents etc. is known though. I think the point is to determine when you are operating in mediocristan, and when you are possibly operating in extremistan.
What Quitters Understand About the Job Market
As much as I love anonymity online, the lack of accountability for people doing this stuff is almost a worse evil now that people can hold clout. This sort of stuff should hold people criminally negligent of the use of their personal influence.
Some are passionate about their work, some aren't. Same as any other job.
The author is the one who groped all those women at conventions, but is acting like he's the victim here.
We were clearly warned by people at the shops and the restaurant what streets what and what not to take in broad daylight. Being Argentinean and looking Argentinean, not some expensive camera strapped around the neck expensive brand clothing tourist screaming "I'm not from here" without a word.

There are worse places, of course. And people get robbed in San Telmo in broad daylight as well.
With the right USB adapter, you can plug an RTLSDR into an android phone.
I think you took that from the abstract. The abstract, description, or title, of a patent do not determine what a parent covers or not! That is determined by the claims of a patent. The abstract/description/title play a relatively insignificant legal role, these do come in only in some indirect ways.

Please take a look at the claims I have cited in this comment chain, and also read about the importance and relevance of the claims from the links I recommended.

When reading a patent to understand what it covers or not, it's recommended to start with the independent claims.

Hope this helps. :-)
One time Windows got a "feature update" that made it not boot. Apparently it was an issue with Lenovo motherboards that is still not fixed to this day (afaik). In any case, that was the kick in the pants I needed to switch to Linux. Everything has gone swimmingly since!
I took it beyond sprouting and grew full fledged plants out of fresh tomato seeds, fresh bellpepper seeds, dried beans, onions, garlic, dried chickpeas and dried green peas.

They all grew and produced their own vegetables.

Rice and avocado failed, but I didn't pay any special attention to their needs.

Tomatoes, onions and garlic grow under cheap LEDs, too. The latter two probably grow in the dark tbh, very resilient.

Plants are amazing.
Stocks actually are piece wise ownership of an operating business.
That's a very powerful film, everyone should watch it.
English title is "The hunt".
Can America’s Solar Power Industry Compete with China’s? One Firm Tries.
What does internet anonymity have to do with this? He was cancelled was what he did in real life?
I have a Windows virtual machine that was doing this to me a lot, and making Ubuntu reboots take a long time, and then requiring a disk check after the unclean shutdown.

I found a registry key that tells Windows to force stop apps that block shutdown. I may lose an unsaved document once in a while but I would have lost it anyway, and I am pretty good about saving things when necessary.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop AutoEndTasks REG_SZ 1
I recently gave a test lecture about a topic in statistics, where I showed a meme that a statistics professor I follow shared on her Twitter feed [1]. I thought it would be safe to include as it didn't get any negative reactions on Twitter and was already being used by a professor in her university class in the US. After the talk I immediately got called out by the women's representative on the hiring commission, who asked me how I would think students would react to such a meme. I then explained how it makes fun of the statistical property of the mean being easily "attracted" by outlier data points, as opposed to the median which is usually not as sensitive.

She did not explain what she saw as problematic. Maybe that a couple in a relationship situation was shown or that an attractive woman was in the foreground, or that the man openly expressed his attraction towards the other woman. I apologized profusley and tried to explain that I'm not an insensitive or sexist person, which she seemed to imply with her remark though.

I have been thinking about this incident for several days now, as I really can't make up my mind if I did something wrong or not by including the meme. If anyone want to add his/her opinion I'd be grateful therefore. The lecture was directed at B.Sc. students at a university in Europe BTW.

Personally I can say it feels quite bad being called out like that, especially as someone who has never (consciously) done anything discriminatory against women or minorities. And as someone who's quite sensitive I can say that it definitely has a chilling effect on me.

[1] https://twitter.com/annaegalite/status/1166446645204213760
I'm bothered by the focus on "performative" social media posting that many people, such as this author, have adopted - it's a cynical personal attack that doesn't accomplish much. I understand a lot of people felt social pressure to participate in BLM posting last summer, it's hard to say if we'll see that level of fervor again in the near future. For these decentralized movements, it makes more sense to focus on the issues and the tactics than the people.
https://archive.ph/vVlOr
Data storage/transfer comes to mind.. consider the following:

1. you request a stored piece of data from me

2. i send an encrypted blob to you

3. you publish smart contract that accepts 1 argument(encryption key) against a sample of encrypted blob. successful execution transfers the balance to me

That's just a random example, but the smart contract portion ensures it's impossible for me to receive payment without you also receiving your data - and vice versa.

edit: formatting list
have you actually READ the article?
There's another good library for fine-tuning transformers called "simple transformers". It's basically a sklearn style interface on top of the base hugging face code. It's also basically "plug a csv in and run".
You did not get cancelled for questionable comments online, or wrongthink, or whatever. You got burned for being a sexual predator. Stop making posts about it online, stop downplaying what you did by saying "I was a different person". Learn to live with the consequences of your actions.
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s Sexguide
Isn’t that what’s going to actually happen?
The editorial board dictates tone and content of the paper, not just editorial pieces. They determine narratives long in advance and news articles must conform to it. You should not believe that nobody at the NYT considered the effect this story could have on GOOG shareholder value. In all likelihood, that was the only objective, given how little substance there is to the article.
You're getting a lot of negative feedback so I just want to say I can relate a lot to the model you're proposing (and practicing).

I interview fairly often with potential employers, sometimes just for the experience and insights. Never once did I consider taking a job for other reasons than the type of work and its pay (commuting time and factors not directly in control of the company aside).

I'm not even the type of person who hates team events and the like, at least at the companies I have been working at these usually were a lot of fun. It's just nothing that keeps me from moving on from or motivates me to take some job.
all i had was 6 weeks in middle school, which covered cooking and... embroidery? i think?

there was a 7 week segment some time in high school that discussed economics, but it was a sort of math-free intro to macroencomics, as i recall. ("here's what the fed does", "the stock market exists", etc)
Not just that. They can be more lax in their hiring processes. That is unethical.
A reference counting bug which leads to local privilege escalation in io_uring
I was under the impression that a PIP was nearly always a "here's your chance to get another job" warning, and never really an earnest chance to improve. Does anyone understand differently?
Why shouldn't Timnit have been hired according to you?
If you can't tell the difference between a remote employee who is working hard and a remote employee who is slacking...

...is there really a meaningful difference?
Flipping USB Connectors: Bayesian decision analysis – you have to flip USB twice
I disagree fully with that statement. It’s completely oversimplifying the reasons to mostly work from home. One might want to spend more time with their loved ones, save money because of commute, might enjoy knowledge seeking and learning by themselves and love long focused work. You can get the human experience in many different ways. For example why meeting the colleagues at the far away office if most of them leave near downtown? You can have retreats and goal oriented team events… there are lots of possible combinations.
But it's mostly a American internet phenomenon.
I didn't grope anyone and I'm not sure where you've heard that, but it's 100% false.
Where are the returns coming from? Is it a productive activity? Or are you making returns from others coming in and buying at a higher price? This can describe people pushing stocks not because the business is profitable, but because they say the price will go up. What makes this illegal? I think it comes down to lying or fraud, which is already illegal.

What makes crypto interesting is there isn't one person to point to, but everyone out there promoting it is like running their own ponzi because they only profit by convincing someone to buy in a higher price than them. Also in crypto, you can say bitcoin is going to 1 million and it is taken seriously so how do you this a lie? Also, it might get there in the future. It has to be about why the crypto is going up and that is tricky. Can you lie by omission, because in a ponzi if you don't say how the returns come, is that still a ponzi? If you just say, this is going to the moon, and people believe you, is that a ponzi?

Ultimately, all legitimate returns (investing) come from productive activity.

Gambling comes from ponzi like dynamics. Gambling that the stock goes higher, trading, etc. This is all about returns from other people, not from productive activity of the underlying. I think this ponzi is not illegal as long as there is no lying about where returns come from. Perhaps these activities shouldn't be allowed to use the word investment.

Because it is so hard to think about, I don't think it makes since to call them a ponzi. I think it makes since to explain to people you are gambling, not investing, and it will eventually not be sustainable, but crash back to fair value, which most of crypto's case is slightly above zero. I think with crypto there is a lot of misdirection, fraud, lying, but it is very difficult to prove. The SEC can't even figure out what a security is....

Because crypto has no intrinsic value, predicting crazy prices are ridiculous. It is all based on speculation. Most people know there isn't a company behind it making profits and they know that some people got lucky and bought in way lower than them. This is known. What may not be known is basic financial literacy and people who know better that do not tell the truth because they can make more money confusing and pumping crypto to the moon. Most people who know it has ponzi dynamics do not care, most people like ponzis, know the risks, and still want to play. Crypto makes ponzi games more fair.
The terrifying thing about this article is that after all of this, he's still on Twitter, and still feels like he has to be on Twitter for the exposure it gives him.
Worth noting: Twitter's trending algorithm doesn't appear to have a concept of a denominator either.

A relatively small collection of people talking about one subject can trigger the trending analysis even though that group represents a fraction of a fraction of Twitter users. Once that happens, the topic becomes publicized to everyone using Twitter's UI.
It seems to me that: the title they used is accurate, and if you want them to clarify it in order to diminish the reader's perception of the amount of power someone in that position has over policy, the issue is not with the article, but with your underestimation of how much influence and power Federal Reserve Presidents have.
What in the world is going on with that URL?
And set a password as soon as you root it for cryin' out loud.
If you research this I think you'll find that starting with capital correlates strongly with having a financially literate family who can provide useful guidance.

Giving capital to people who are not financially literate will likely end up with that capital quickly moving out of their hands to people who are financially literate.
In theory crypto could cure cancer by funding a promising researcher via micro payments. But until that actually happens, crypto's use case is ransomware, buying drugs online, and being used as a way to "invest" in coins that have no cashflow.
Taxing SaaS and tying it to funding open source alternatives would be a solution to corporate colonization.
I do, doing it right now, to find links to post on my tumblelog https://plurrrr.com/. I do upvote things that interest me.
Have you heard of hire to fire? When there's an incentive to game a metric, the metric gets gamed.
You can find his original apology here. https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2020/06/noah-bradley-admi...

Maybe if he wasn't so self-loathing in it the consequences wouldn't have been as extreme. When the mob comes for you its best to just ignore it rather than give in to their demands. He called himself a sexual predator, what kind of impression does that give?

A sidenote, this happened at the same time as the Smash bros community was experiencing a "metoo"-ish moment, and it dragged a lot of nerdy hobbies into the mix. Many innocent people were cancelled last June, and not all of them managed to get out from the hole like Noah sadly.
Honestly, the biggest mistake people make is issuing public apologies.

So far, we have very few examples of them actually working. On the contrary, any amount of admission seems to show weakness. The "controversy" around Lin-Manuel Miranda seems to have come nearly entirely from his apology to a very small group of disappointed fans.

There are even more examples of very publicly terrible people who have skirted worse controversies simply by ignoring them! There is no reward for being self-aware or apologetic. But there are rewards for unyielding self-righteousness.
Earlier this year when Richard Stallman was re-instated to the Board of the FSF, there were a lot of tweets expressing dismay. To one of them, I replied that I personally don't think he has done anything wrong at all - and linked to a well-known article by a woman who defended him better than me. While I found some support among a few people, the amount of hate I received shook me a bit. People started adding me to lists like "a list of people who tweet stupid things". It went on for a couple of days. The good thing is that I am a nobody - I am not known in any popular online communities, I am not famous and no one really cares who I am - so I could not be cancelled. But the amount of negative emotions and energy directed at me did affect me for a couple of days. After that event, I sympathize much more with people who have been cancelled (earlier I tended to support those doing the cancelling even though I did not tweet/comment myself).
The post says that there isn't much learning to show because he's not that person any more, and being cancelled happened long after he had already stopped doing the bad behavior.
After January 6th, "ACAB" had to take a back seat for while or they'd be in the strange position of condemning the capitol rioters for something they generally support.
I recently wrote a "How Web Apps Work" series that covers the common terms, technologies, and concepts that are used in web dev. It's a bit more oriented towards the front-end / JavaScript side of things, but covers some information on both ends. I'd suggest reading through some of that as a starting point to get the lay of the land:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/series/how-web-apps-work

I also have a "JS for Java Devs" slideset that provides a cheatsheet-style overview of JS syntax and concepts, as well as summaries of common JS ecosystem tools:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2019/05/presentation-js-fo...
I have been on both sides of patent lawsuits in the past, but I am not a lawyer, so this is not legal advice.

You need a lawyer, but a lot of lawyers do this sort of thing pro bono for small companies. The EFF has a list of attorneys who can help. Interview at least 5 of them - ask for references, ask about past successes in this space, and ask about your case at a high level (give the one-minute overview of the case and ask about their plan).

The good news is that most software patents are invalid (thanks to the Alice decision* in 2014), and will be struck down in a process called inter partes review, which is a cheap way to challenge the validity of a patent through the USPTO. When you interview attorneys, you might want to ask prospective candidates about the validity of this patent and if they see this as a viable strategy.

Another dynamic at play here is that in many patent proceedings, the loser pays attorneys fees. You may not end up paying a dime, even without a pro-bono lawyer. Trolls like threatening lawsuits to pressure you into a settlement, but there's a lot at risk for them if they actually sue you for infringement.

*The full opinion on the Alice case is here, and is very interesting: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-298_7lh8.pdf

EDIT: Also, if your lawyer suggests that you might be able to invalidate this patent, you may be able to band together with some of your competitors to share the cost of invalidating it.
He loses work due to false accusations of rape. Wait, you say, they just misinterpreted his words! Well, they also accused his wife.

> The internet, though, misinterpreted some of what I had said and began accusing me of rape. No one has ever accused me of raping them. But twitter latched onto that narrative and couldn’t let it go.

> My womanizing at events predates ever meeting my wife. But people went so far as to call her a rapist, a sex trafficker, or at best a rape apologist. The online world expected her to divorce me and when she didn’t many more people who claimed they would support her, shunned her.

And, depending on what the media actually said:

> I think my low point happened when the story was picked up by some bigger online blogs. Not because they made things worse or that I have any delusions about their journalistic integrity (I was never asked for a comment by any media outlet or blog that shared this story).
I think they may be conflating Focus and PIP/Pivot, since they mention 35% w.r.t. focus later in the article.
That's an odd strawman. I... wouldn't behave incorrectly in the first place. It's not a difficult concept to understand for most people I hope, especially with sexual harassment.
Who are “our laws”? Twitter is a global corporation.
I don't know if you overplayed it, or if if you were dumb.

You had in the past done some terrible things, you agree.

The internet these days tries to utterly destroy people for having in the past done terrible things, with no way out.

This does not in fact make it less likely for people to do terrible things; it does make it less likely for them to admit to them (even to themselves), to apologize to those who have hurt, or to do what those they have hurt need for repair and redress.

So, that's not great, all around, it's true. It's a problem. This response does not actually reduce harm, it just further treats people as disposable.

But if, say, the people you had hurt needed/wanted to hear you say it like that publicly? Then you did the right thing, you didn't do a dumb thing. You owed it to them regardless of consequences, because of the harm you caused. And I respect it. And I think you can feel good about owning up to the terrible things you did, instead of feeling dumb about it, it's the right thing to have done -- which doesn't mean you have to think "the internets" (or your friends :( ) response to you was appropriate.

I'm glad you are figuring out a way out of the hole, and I'm glad you have figured out how to stop treating people like you did in your youth. I respect the way you tell the story without trying to excuse or escape the harm you caused in your youth.
Don't ponzi shemes need to pay out early investors (usually with the money from latter investors)? No-one is paying out Doge buyers, except those who choose to buy their coins from them.

Speculation bubble =/= ponzi scheme.
++ to making it easier to use other codecs in place of .gif!
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights