skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more fleshed out (but perhaps still sketchy) outline of the proposed definition of hate speech can be found here (https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/chshc-lcdch/index.h...).

Quoting:

> The bill defines “hate speech” as the content of a communication that expresses detestation or vilification of an individual or group of individuals on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.

> These grounds of discrimination are race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability, or conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted or in respect of which a record suspension has been ordered.

> In addition, the hate speech would need to be communicated in a context where it is likely to foment detestation or vilification of an individual or group on any of these prohibited grounds.

> Speech that expresses dislike or disdain, or that discredits, humiliates, hurts or offends would not fall within the definition of hate speech. This distinction is intended to reflect the extreme nature of hate speech captured by the proposed amendments.

The prohibited ground of discrimination are inline with existing definitions (this isn't them caving into the YMCA of Canada or IHRA or something...)
The person is leaning way out into the street: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi7rJfSrW58&t=52s

This is clearly their fault.
> and those municipalities will either force a haircut on the pensioners or beg for a Federal bail out.

And they will get the federal bail out, of course.
https://opengarage.io/ does a similar thing
I think it comes from the exhortation to read the manual: "RTFM!". This has been around in technical circles for over 40 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM
I think it is difficult to get the definition of such a law right. You don't want to send someone for jail just for, e.g., frequently arguing with someone and sometimes insulting them.
What you'll find is those who support hate speech will cry "free speech" when they're under threat of censorship.

What they're not saying in the same sentence is they would love to silence the groups they are preaching hate speech against.

Many would also like to silence any criticism of their own hate groups. If they ever made it into any real position of power, it's likely this would be attempted by them.

Just look at any of the Facist regimes of the past where this actually happened.

So they are in effect abusing free speech values when in fact it's really just their own speech they're interested in protecting.
I lost over 40 bitcoins in Mt. Gox. I had purchased them for a little less under 1$ though.
Until the team onboards a terraform expert, these scripts might be helpful and cheaper to implement.
I'm talking about any program that provides an execution environment for other, untrusted programs.
I declined their offer for Stanford. Do you think there is a substantive difference between the two? I could try to call the admissions office and beg for my spot back..
They’re one of the biggest forces to have ever existed in emulation, pushing forward accuracy when other emulators were made just to be good enough to play a game, as well as archiving countless rare games. A true legend and they will be missed.
You're welcome to take the lead and do your part to move the planet one step closer then.
Clickable: https://twitter.com/near_koukai
I would expect you to be able to get that to work on a Pinephone.

I used to carry a tablet with a bluetooth keyboard (clamshell design) that I would ssh into a server to code with (when not using Termux itself as the coding environment).

Again, it was cool, but most everyone else had laptops.
Well, it's a good way to call attention to the folly of DRM and draconian copyright without taking a political tone.
'Observation' video game shows how an AI solves problems in space
I know someone who picks up loads from sawmills and it turns out there was no lumber shortage. They were just holding back on shipments to drive up prices taking advantage of the inflation trend.
I don't understand the implications of this assumption. Are you assuming that if the USD wasn't dominant then BTC would be better to hold?

BTC is functionally a security. Under any duress of the USD I'd expect it to perform no different than AMZN stock.
> These carve-outs in 'freedom of speech' will most definitely be abused if history is any guide.

Which history is that?

Genuine question - I'm aware of places where speech is suppressed because the justice system is not independent of the political system.

I'm aware of cases where speech is suppressed by the threat of being sued by private individuals.

But where are the cases where hate-speech carve-outs have been abused in democracies?
> It seems those old Macs may still be in service in niche applications, most notably in audio processing chains at radio stations or recording studios.

Highly recommend looking at the tour of fat-boy slims recording studio for an example of this kind of airgapped system in active use for decades: https://youtu.be/qLjgXPDzeZo

(Though he uses an Atari ST, which is known for being a musical powerhouse)
And your story also demonstrates the power of marketing and of a company's or product's reputation. Frequently one has already decided to buy from a company before calling Sales to discuss the products, so of course the job of Sales is now much simpler. When I bought my last car I had already decided to buy from a particular brand, all the dealership had to do was point me to the selection they had in stock.
I'd love to use unicode on a current project - but just the unicode library is bigger than the memory of the small computer being used :(

Seriously, unicode is appallingly messy and heavy-weight. With all that code-point space to burn, a rational design would be very different to what we've got.
Yes. I found it was quite possible to code up TCP/IP from scratch for my own tiny (arguably toy) bare metal environment here https://github.com/billforsternz/bmz
Maize is a cultigen and can’t reproduce without human intervention so it cannot get to be invasive.
Does anyone have a copy of the report?
If your employer offers a 401k with a match, you should do it.

To invest outside of an employer fund, you can open an account with any number of firms, but many folks like Vanguard: they have low fees and aren’t trying to up sell you.

There’s a vibrant community at bogleheads.org (their wiki is probably more useful, e.g., the three-fund portfolio). I think there’s a subreddit at r/personalfinance or something that’s reasonable as well.

As others are saying: use simple index funds, maybe even start with just a target date fund if you aren’t comfortable building your own portfolio.
"Soft Bypass function
The Soft Bypass function allows me to over-ride the status of the hardware bypass switch when needed. When Soft Bypass is engaged, the bypass button's LED flashes to remind me Soft Bypass mode is enabled."

These sort of things usually end in tragedy. I worked at a chemical plant that had an explosion where the safety systems (SIS) were bypassed. The engineers were trying to light off a boiler and were having trouble. The safety system had a 30 minute time delay between unsuccessful light off attempts to allow the fuel to disperse. The engineers bypassed the time delay and attempted multiple unsuccessful light offs in a row which flooded the boiler with fuel. Finally, it lit and went boom. Those near the equipment in the field were all killed.

Hope you don't have any pets, children, or slow moving adults around.
Ask HN: Which software do you value immensely but never pay for it?
I am a big fan of Sublime Text (ST) and have been using it from the day it launched. I love its speed and extensive community plugins. I've tried many editors but always reverted to ST.

I seem to always dismiss its "buy" popup. I might end up buying a license after so many years to get over this guilt! (It's just $99 a license)

Any similar experience you have had?
Fry’s stores were absolutely cavernous, and they really felt like a waste of interior space.
> Another crappy diet study. Correlation does not equal causation, etc. etc. It’s well known that these sorts of studies have innate problems

If you think scientists don't know that correlation does not imply causation, I'm happy to report to you that they, in fact, do. Separating out incidental correlation from causation is actually kind of the point of science, and by extension, medicine. The primary population that gets it wrong is the people that read a single study, and immediately conclude something based on that one study, like "oh hey ketogenic diets reduces bad cholesterol, it must be super good."

And it's simply intellectually dishonest (at best) to state that the motivation of the researcher is only to increase their paper count with presumable producing junk science, without presenting a shred of evidence to support such a claim(talk about bad science).
I certainly hope everyone involved understands how precarious this path they are taking is. It should be well known by now from history that this sort of thing can be very dangerous, but it seems like there is a large part of the population that is more than willing to relinquish liberties for a perceived sense of safety without understanding the potential consequences involved.

Given the current political climate, I don't have much faith in things turning out well.
String lights often have fuses in the US.
As a software developer, one of the things that I feel that always holds me back when selling something I made (an MVP for example) is knowing all the things that the software can't do or is not super polished.

How do you sell something when you yourself might have doubts about the product? not because it's not good, but because you know it can be improved?

Obviously you can't wait until the product is "perfect" because that will never happen and there will always be things that are slightly broken or unpolished, etc. so how do you get those first sales that might give you the push you need to keep going (financially, emotionally, etc) with an "unfinishd" product?
The vast majority of this gaggle are pedantic, dogmatic, authoritarian and utterly solipsistic.

That's people and there's nothing to be done about it. A hive of trilobites in pheromonal lockstep.

It's basically "Invasion of the Bodysnatchers" without the invasion. Keep that in mind when you speak.
Oh, I thought it was "the featured article"
Win2k WAS the last good Windows.

Dave Cutler was still in charge, and his attitude towards stamping out bugs is sorely lacking today.
https://www.townofsurfsidefl.gov/docs/default-source/default...
I'm sure every day in the US there are many, many reports of structures with damage that needs to be fixed immediately (my house was one of them). Almost all of them don't collapse. Obviously there is a problem with the credibility of the reports because of conflicting incentives. Inspectors are usually from construction companies who want to get work, so they will always find something wrong with a building.

Edit: I don't understand the downvotes. Care to explain where you disagree? If thousands of daily reports warn of damage that must be fixed immediately and most are of no consequences (obviously) then the problem is that the reports don't accurately reflect the severity of the damage and the consequences of ignoring it.
PG&E Raises ‘Safety Concern' About Half-Million Aging Power Poles
> They have only 110 deaths per 1M population

Where are you getting this number from? Any numbers coming from the Cuban government have to be treated as unreliable, as it is common practice to restrict doctors from what can be reported, unless they want to lose their license.
Author here. My second free course after the landing pages that convert course which is also free. You can head over to https://zenacademy.com.au/course/landing-pages-that-convert/ and take that course.

I have split the lessons into 3-5 minutes video and covers most of the important part about SEO foundation for a startup.

I intend to do a few more courses around paid ads, LinkedIn and so on. Let me know if any feedback.
You might want to have two separate alerts for this problem, one labelled WARNING and the other CRITICAL, such as 60 percent CPU usage as a warning and 85 percent CPU usage as a critical situation.
You can have two separate SNS Topics for warning and critical alerts. Warning alerts can be thrown to a slack channel and Critical alerts can be configured to invoke the Pager.
How would this work for protected groups like religions where a particular ideology is essential to the group?

For example, would it now be illegal to say that anti-LGBT churches are bad because they are homophobic?
> States like New York have mostly funded pensions, even with generous pension plans.

What exactly do you mean by "states like New York" here? What is it New York-like that makes place have funded pensions? For comparison, two of the New York neighbors, which arguably are most similar states to New York, both culturally and politically, that is, New Jersey and Connecticut, are among worst five in terms of public pension shortfall. Are "evil republican" "fiscal conservatives" to blame for NJ and CT pension problems? How about in Illinois, another one in top 5 most underfunded pensions? Conservatives also pulling the strings there?
I see, thank you so much for the explanation.

I think to clarify what I said - I didn't mean that static typing and macros are excluding each other. But I think you can either have a sound static type system and highly restricted macros, or less restricted macros but only an unsound type system. That's what I meant with "conflict".
Felt like something that businesses could get away with in the 90s.
Ask HN: How to get started in Augmented Reality?
Hi HN,
I'm interested in learning foundational concepts in Augmented Reality. There seem to be a few popular platforms in the industry, like Oculus, HoloLens etc. which have their own suite of tools and frameworks. There are also open source frameworks and libraries like Vulkan, OpenGL, and game engines like Unreal and Unity.
What is the right path to go about learning and using them? My aim is to be able to create AR/VR applications as well as be educated of the core concepts to understand leading research in these areas.
Any guidance is appreciated!
This was an independent report done on behalf of the condominium by an engineering firm they chose to do the report.
I am wary of these MPDI people. We have seen that over 600,000 in the USA have died from covid, plus far more permanently injured by long Covid and heart impairments. That is the result of not vaccinating. We have seen the enormous decline in infections in vaccinated people. and the elimination of almost all deaths in the vaccinated.
We have seen the antivaxxer loons in full flower. We have seen how they were beaten back by science(for the most part).
I think these mdpi people are skulking antivaxxer loons in white coats...
It strikes me as likely to add a footnote to the effect that Locke may have been more familiar with Hobbes than his works suggest, according to one anonymous contemporary who claimed to be a close associate. I doubt this will change anyone's understanding of his work in the least.
Note: i never really considered putting oracle in kubernetes to be a technical problem; since you can pass a “raw” block device from a distributed block storage.

I consider it to be a licensing nightmare as the normal oracle license means you’ll need to license every single vCPU on the cluster.

The express edition used here has some relatively anaemic usage limits which you could brush up against very quickly:

“Oracle Database 18c Express Edition automatically constrains itself to the following resource restrictions;

2 CPU threads;
2 GB of RAM;and
12 GB of user data.”

Still, it’s cool, but I would caution anyone against introducing an oracle dependency.
In fairness, that did create security issues. But if you're using your iommu correctly then yeah it's excellent.
Vietnam and probably a few other countries, that certainly have the capability, will help in production.

Beyond that, this vaccine is insanely easier to produce than the mRNA vaccines.
I share your skepticism. Personally, I have talked to people (educated and intelligent people) who refuse to get the vaccine because "it is only ~1% effective". Using ARR seems to cause more confusion and misunderstanding that RRR.
Yes and no. It's traceable in the sense that pseudonymous public keys are traceable. But generating a public key is cheap, easy and can be done anonymously. As long as the blockchain participant doesn't interact with any party revealing his IRL identity, he can keep his true identity hidden.
> Kiwi Farms was spun off from CWCiki, a wiki focused on Chris-Chan. They're a forum focused on cyberbullying other people. They especially tend to focus on people who are in vulnerable groups. For example, Byuu as far as I know, identified as non-binary, which is why they started harassing him. It seems like they're a major catalyst for this situation.

Wow. A forum of people that bullies vulnerable people until they kill themselves. As someone who is non-binary and a member of multiple minority groups, this makes me furious.

If there's any website that deserves to be DDoSed, this is it. Just saying.
Aging into Irrationality
Oh God, this brings back memories. Something like this happened to me on Wikipedia, and nearly ended in disaster.

Who are Kiwi Farms and how do we stop them? Don’t they violate CloudFlare’s ToS?

Edit: looking into this more, it looks like the accused him of paedophilia, and when this didn’t work they went after his trans friends.
I will never understand the type of self-destructive attacks that drive this. I don't agree with but can understand the logic of attacking some public figure, but one of your own? An anti-establishment, anti-intellectual property nerd? The driving force behind one of the most impressive emulators on the planet? Even if you hate LGBT people you can't ignore it in the case of someone who's doing free work that directly benefits you?
Ask Cuba to help you set up a factory. The vaccine is not very complicated to produce from available information, and they seem willing to let other countries make it.
Did you have/do market research or A/B testing on this? If the minority of your userbase are on desktop, maybe those users came from your mobile app and would be more familiar with the hamburger menu than a custom navbar.
Microsoft Build 2021: My Tiny Little Summary
This is incredibly saddening news, near was an active HN user whose posts I always enjoyed reading. These cyber stalking websites needed to be shut down long ago.
The total amount of buybacks in 2020 was less than $500 billion, but almost $35 trillion in shares were traded. How is it mathematically possible that buybacks are the only thing keeping it afloat?
The questions & considerations you ask are all valid, and are generally included in the buyer's evaluation process. Every point is extremely subjective and not precisely knowable. That's part of the fun of business!

But you are obviously correct that there are no risk-free transactions.

> It might even be cheaper (incorporating risk) to build a $500 / month business than to verify the purchase of one.

Here I want to point out that I know a number of talented people who want to launch a business, but for whatever reason cannot get to the "launched, accepting money" phase of their projects. These people have no problem improving an existing business, but have trouble going from 0 to 1. (I believe this population is as much as 100x the population of people who have successfully launched & gotten revenue in an app.) For these people, it might be entirely worth knowingly overpaying for a working SaaS because it gets them past the launch phase. Putting it bluntly, would they rather spend $10k on an app with revenue that you can grow or another $50k of nights and weekends over the year with no launch to show for it?

Edit: I also forgot that there's the entire category of buyers who just want to keep the app as-is and either integrate it into a bigger suite, use its traffic for lead gen, or otherwise leverage it for some other purpose. If the buyer considers the purchase as part of its marketing budget, $5k is not very much at all. (Plus the bar is low as most marketing spend is wasted, see the adage.)
That does not contradict at all what I said. Why the downvote? Also, have you read the report?
>Power goes both ways. States created more prosperity and misery than anything else.

Citation needed? America had more economic growth in the 1800s when the state was much smaller. The large states in communist Russia and China held their economic back decades compared to western countries with smaller states.
Audacity
Firefox
Ubuntu 18.04

OpenOffice but I’m valuing it less over time.

I would have said Sublime, but I paid US$85 for a registration a couple of months ago, first time and for only one of my machines. Gotta support the things you use.

I love this question, let’s see what the answers expose.
Browsing doesn't scale to the amount of content now available.

The selection at your local bookstore and blockbuster was also the result of a less sophisticated recommendation algorithm.
I am a public school teacher at the high school level. I’m a union member and I have tenure. My union participation means I have to be offered a PIP before I can be released, and I can request a union lawyer at disciplinary meetings. If my boss wanted me gone next school year, I would be ‘not renewed’ and gone. I only say this to underscore that the country is big and broad.
The Noctua was 37mm, the Sandia was 27mm.
I don't have performance per unit volume stats, but I suspect the Sandia would perform well there.

Performance per dollar, though... maybe not.
CloudFlare is providing them DDoS protection.
It seems crazy that you can have Greek immigrants in Australia making feta cheese the traditional way and not being able to sell it as Feta. It seems to me to be protectionism pure and simple. But that is what Europeans seem to want.
In the long run the reputation of products will match their quality, and if it is any good, people will be eating Australian white goat cheese instead of Greek Feta. You see that happening already with Monterey Jack instead of Mozzarella.
Emacs I've only donated to the GNU project once... but emacs is so useful in my life that I should do it at least once a year.

Xmonad the only sane window manager in this age of "point and grunt" interfaces.

Ubuntu linux
Yeah this is insanely false. I've been to Cuba, people have smartphones and laptops (though internet access was limited as of 2013), soap is certainly not lacking.

Telco equipment, foreign currency, parts that rely on US technology, and so on is difficult to obtain. You'd be a lot more sucessful with a 4G base station, a boat full of crate engines, or mesh networking gear.
> "Hate Speech" is a super political term

Laws are political.

We seem to have completely lost the meaning of this word. Did you mean something like "controversial"?
I have followed and admired Near for the better part of my life. I feel I know Near even though they didn’t know me. I am extremely saddened by this news.
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652814, which inexplicably is on the third page despite 200+ points.
The "bypass" system seems to only suppress notifications about the door being open. This project doesn't appear to be coupled to any garage door control systems; it can't open or close the door, it can only report on the current state by ringing the doorbell or sending email. It seems that even if the system grossly malfunctions, you're left with a perfectly normal garage door opener. So the lecture about safety is probably not applicable here -- more likely is that the thing catches on fire, or gets the Google account banned after ignoring some rate limit.