skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is twofold.

1- These are religious traditions that date back to the 1500s. If we can consider chilis a part of Indian national cooking, I think we need to accept that Christianity is a huge part of the national makeup of Ghana, and with it the homophobia present in most denominations.

2- Let's not project on each other. I'm just fine calling colonization a terrible blight and fucked up massive chunks of the world (Antarctica seems fine...), and I can accept that historical/additional context can benefit a discussion but this statement smacked of "blame the West for everything." Of course blame the West, but also blame the people passing this legislation. They don't get a free pass because white people suck. Should the West be trying to fix this, or stay out of it because they should be allowed to run their own government?

Let's rewind a little bit: Who is responsible for this legislation passing in your mind (if multiple parties, please assign what you view as their % of blame). For me it's about 85% to the Parliamentary members sponsoring such legislation, and 15% outside actors with something to gain.

My issue is this: Gay people, my people, are being harmed. Academic discussions about the root causes annoy me when actual blood is being spilled. That's what I'm triggered by, and your comment seemed like one worth responding to instead of the parent (which was gibberish and now flagged)
hahaha, try using the up/down arrow keys, they do nothing!
There was a stretch in my life where I knew a lot of people who knew where George Washington University ranked versus Carleton College versus who knows what. The upper middle classes take this stuff seriously.
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They don’t. However, many right-wingers can’t quite understand how one can defend someone being persecuted for racial reasons (Muslims in this case), yet strongly disagree with them on some other aspect.
The temperature of your hands is cooler than your core temperature: about 33 degrees Celsius (91 degrees Fahrenheit). Obviously comfort is subjective, but I think the difference is large enough for some to feel uncomfortable. Especially when comparing against other things in a room, which tend to be much cooler compared to the body.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rob-A-B-Oostendorp/publ...
Yes, but it's Ghana, not California.

"Greater Than Expected Fertility Decline in Ghana"

https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-fa32-further...

I fell I have have to explain that I'm totally against it, but politically - that's the reason why this law it's being enforced - it will probably play a role in the political propaganda.
Most US stock of multi-family housing in low and mid-rise apartments were not built with modern building code with STC above 45 (hotel framing AKA staggered studs). Furthermore, between floors sound can carry, and even older homes can drop in STC over time depending upon the material used in insulation as well as deterioration of materials over time. My friends that lived in only high rise buildings haven't had noise issues like myself and many others where we could hear conversations on the other side of walls of neighbors similar to the extent parodied in the movie Office Space with the main character's neighbor.
It's kinda amusing how the fertility/procreation strawman started and is already the leading theory for why this bill has been tabled. If you'd listen to a Ghanaian distill it down for ya:

No one in the country cares what homosexuals do. It's not like married couple already get any benefits from the government. Public display of affection is considered rude: I won't dare to kiss my girlfriend in public. Among a familiar group we may hold hands. Gay or straight the culture of the country forbids sexual expressions. Now why the bill then? My theory is, the opposition party is trying to make the incumbent unpopular. They know the current government/President tends towards liberalism and are taking advantage of it for one of two things: (1) he refuses to assent the bill, in which case his party will face certain defeat in the next election, or (2) assents and faces the wrath of the world. He won't do (2) and very likely will play his cards well to avoid/defer (1).

That is, I consider this the game of politics. Let's see how it plays out.
This makes me wonder how many of Van Gogh's works are valid Perl. Perhaps he invented the language...
They can, but they don't, just like how Jeff Bezos can choose to live under a bridge, but doesn't.

Nobody with money goes out of their way to send their children to a school in a 'common' part of town, because they don't want their children to mix up with 'the wrong kind' of people.
Muslim is not a race
The problem with the iPhone is a problem of coercion. Apple is exerting legal power and the threat of force to prevent you from doing what you want with your phone pursuant to the DMCA.

If there were no legal restrictions with what you're doing with you're phone, Apple would have a very hard time preventing you from doing what you want. Anyone could buy an exploit for iOS for a million and sell unlocks for 50$.

There is force and coercion involved, so a governmental intervention is much more necessary.

It would also make it way easier to transfer your apps from platform to platform and to switch OSes.
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Does anyone else have this issue? On a Macbook Pro with Touchbar, when you bring up Quicktime to do a screen recording, there are no controls to stop the recording on the screen. All the controls are now in the Touchbar. OK, brilliant. Except when I have the laptop closed and connected to an external monitor. It took me 30 minutes to figure this out. So I HAD to do my screen recording with the laptop open. Not the end of the world but wish there was a warning, etc. Maybe my MBP preferences are setup incorrectly but Apple does have a tendency to hide those controls too. :-/
the x.company landing page is the one they mean, its full of scroll-captures that freak out on firefox. It scrolls smoothly in Safari.
Its a horrible thought. And its being practiced right now worldwide. People not wanting to be vaccinated are being called stupid, selfish, dumb, and dangerous. Here on HN, and in the real world.
This is in fact exactly what happens in Texas. I've met many people who attended UT whose parents or friend's parents did exactly that for the explicit purpose of increasing their chances of their child being in the top 7% of their graduating class so that they could get automatic admission to UT Austin, a very good school to attend compared to the usual options for someone graduaitng #35 in a class of 500 from a public high school with low educational achievement rankings.

They'll often go straight for petroleum engineering if their career path is as calculated during college as it was in high school, and end up with a six figure salaxy at age 22 (not sure this still works as of 2020 given the problems with Houston's gas sector).

For some parents, making sure their child has a sure fire path to the middle class is what they consider their main responsibility, and will do things as crazy as move to a worse school district just to get them on the above track.

If you're as cynical about the value of education (to provide a "job") as the people described, you'll absolutely sacrifice the quality of your kids education (moving to a school with ostensibly less talented or credentialed teachers and possibly less academically gifted peers to learn from and larger class sizes) in order to game the system.
The texts largely don’t matter, Catholicism for example has very little to do with what’s there in the Bible.
I believe the permissions are more granular now but I didn't look into it in detail. See: https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Android_Compatibility#Permission..., https://sailfishos.org/ (search for security) or https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-apps-permission/5466.
The worst part about all this is that video games as a social network or social medium has been around since at least the late eighties!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game)
The "modern" apartments I've lived in have been relatively quiet, but the one 50's era apartment was terribly noisy. It was a two story with an attic appt and a basement appt wedged in-between the main floors.

I lived on the second floor, and loved the hardwood floors and french doors etc. Then someone moved in above me, and another across the hall. I could hear the guy across the hall every time he opened or closed the door. The guy who moved into the attic above me must have been related to Sting. His lovemaking sessions lasted for what felt like weeks.
a lot of that is probably because planes usually fly during the day, and most of the over night ones are flying over oceans.
I think it did replace PC for a huge group of people. But at the same time PC isn't dead and it is showing its advantage in many scenario. So we could think of it as both Tablet and PC won. Nothing is winning over the cooperate, enterprise usage of PC and Laptop. A Keyboard and Mouse is still N times more productive than a Tablet. And as long as that continues, ( a iPad with Keyboard and mouse still couldn't win because the software was written specifically for touch screen ) Enterprise wont adopt iPad for those jobs. That is roughly 700M PC there.

Tablet is literally everywhere for those on the Field. From Engineers on site, to Sales going to visit client doing presentation.

The way we should think about it is that Tablet didn't replace PC as "the" computing platform, as the platform itself, the pie grow a lot bigger. There are close to 300M iPad user. That is not a bad figure.
i'm not sure if this is some super duper AI. it look like TiTok just give you what you are interested in like YouTube.

i watch a lot of YouTube video without logging into my Google account. if i watch a digital camera review then Youtube will server up a lot of camera related content on the front page. TikTok seem to do the same.
>objective flaws

opinions are not objective
Upvoted. Similar in Eastern Europe. 90-00s were more tolerant than now, in large part due to american evangelical influence.
FWIW, this appears to be the site:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/8559J8Q5%2BFC/@33.6386875,...

(based on the map on their "Infrastructure" page)
Ask any Christian who know anything about their religion and they’ll know that Sodom had nothing to do with homosexuality; it’s just a translation error.
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One past thread:

Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20724363 - Aug 2019 (48 comments)
Does anyone actually like these homepages that move around a bunch as you scroll? I don't see the appeal of parallax effects and the like. To my eye, they are neither pretty nor useful.
The trend toward embeds rather than screenshots or direct copying has long struck me as ill-conceived.

At least it's only pr0n. As a vector for malware / spyware injection, this could be even more interesting.

Relevant xkcd, of course: https://xkcd.com/1698/

h/t Elda King @ Mastodon https://weirder.earth/@eldaking/106626603001624730
"got caught" -> voluntarily disclosed

"sniffing for passwords and emails" -> collecting unencrypted data broadcast to anyone nearby.

If you believe them (which you might not, since you seem to have issues here) they never even looked at any of this data once they realized what the software was collecting.
And that doesn't appear to include the spending of state, county, and municipal governments...
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Your links show it's much less common than I'd think. In all cases you cited the majority of asylum claims were legitimate.

Link 1:

> "It's almost like a war zone for homosexuals," said immigration lawyer Richard Odeleye

> it's not uncommon for gay and lesbian Nigerians to get married simply to keep up appearances. When they come to Canada, they struggle to come to terms with their decision and assume they must be bisexual

...sounds like a good reason to leave and claim asylum.

Out of 2,055 Nigerians:

> a few lawyers were responsible for a "disproportionate" number of claims

Link 2:

> identified 36 as possibly fraudulent

...so a whole criminal enterprise is prepping fake asylum seekers but not even 15% of them are possibly fraudulent?

Link 3:

> two indictments charging nine individuals

A whole 9!
You are drawing a straw man. Outside of Islam (which Sharia law, I believe, calls for death by stoning for Gay sex), most Christian religions do not call for the death of LGBTQ people. They oppose the agenda and oppose adoption, that's very different than supporting "murder."

Second, the claim "You can be well received in the eyes of your God" is a religious statement, because you don't know what my God is.

Third, "heretics and apostates among their flock are, almost by definition, the extremists." Maybe religion itself is "extreme" and most of its followers are lax, not that the followers are tolerant and there are a few extreme and intolerant members.
Yeah, I've read about that. Really awesome move from São Paulo. In my city people are placing ads everywhere. About three huge billboards on every major street, electronic billboards brighter than the sun, ads near sidewalks and traffic lights, ads on street signs, ads anywhere and everywhere they can possibly get away with. I'd rather look at graffiti than this garbage...
> A chair supplier telling Apple to only allow it's employees to sit a certain way.

Chair suppliers don't have a history of decreeing sitting posture. The iPhone OTOH has been locked down from day 1.
You portray this as a one-way relationship, but it's a cycle. Yes, perceptions of safety are part of the reason why people flee to the suburbs, but that flight is itself part of the reason so many inner cities are destitute and unsafe. Why put all of the blame on the people most negatively affected by this dynamic and least able to change it?

> People rightfully don't want to invest in areas deemed unsafe, where those investments would be at risk.

That's exactly the rationale behind redlining, food deserts, infrastructure funding (especially schools) and other kinds of systemic racism. I suggest you read up on what that term means. It does not mean that everyone participating in the system is racist. It means that our institutions and economy themselves perpetuate racial injustice even without further racist intent. Framing this entirely in terms of "rational" choices by those who flee, as if those who stay don't exist or don't matter, is perpetuating a false narrative. So, again, why?
I think this is a key point of customer discrimination. It would be really helpful for housing to have a required and standardized "sound-proof" rating. If customers could be informed and builders incentivized, then what is build and bought could change.

That being said most apts I've lived have been pretty quiet, but I'm not sure how much that is from materials or luck with neighbors.
Don't understand the hate for the SAT. Where I went to school, students would just beg their teachers for better grades and it literally worked.

I did average on my SAT compared to my ex-gf in college (top 30 US school) but I ran a 3.8 in college compared to her being a C student.

Doesn't matter anyway because none of the stuff I learned in college is used in my daily job as a java developer.
The supreme court sided with the baker
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The reason being that US conservatism is often a more egalitarian branch of liberalism. In states like California and New York, they're animated by a more hierarchical and traditional type of (small-r) republican politics in which they cultivate client groups which they support through direct cash payments and favored policies.

In California the worthies are untitled hereditary aristocrats who secure political power by accumulating and supporting vast client populations. These clients vote for the aristocratic party and provide it with a patina of moral justification. It is an intensely traditional political form that can be found in other societies going back thousands of years. These aristocrats in turn ensure that big corporate interests get favored tax treatment (often effectively zero tax) while preventing small business competition through hyper regulation. BigCo gets subsidized and pays zero tax, LilCo gets hit with endless demands for paperwork and fines. You can find similar social forms in many societies throughout history: it's not special or unique.
Human history is filled with change, it's the only constant.

Unfortunately we don't see that when we're in the centre of the storm.
Didn't Cognitect primarily make money through consulting services revenue for other people's projects, and not selling Clojure / Clojure tools?

I think there was a product attempt by becoming a database company -- datomic -- that happened to be written in clojure, but ultimately they still got bought out for consulting vs product: https://www.cognitect.com/blog/2020/07/23/Cognitect-Joins-Nu...

So again, for all the good parts, just not the success story for a PL/tools startup that Jean is looking for..
I am not talking about triangulation via towers and signal strength, rather GPS, accelerometer, and WiFi traces recorded on-device.
I worked and interviewed a lot of people in business consulting. We did ask what you call Fermi problems as they are surprisingly representative of the abstract thinking that is required in the job, specifically proposing frameworks for what kind of information we need to either go and get or state as assumptions in order to support a decision. As the GP points out, the questions are testing how you model something you don't know but have common sense about, and significantly, how you don't get caught up in uncertainty or irrelevant minutia and identify some core assumptions.

That said, I agree 100% with you about "trick" questions. It seems some people cannot distinguish between "market sizing" (Fermi problems) where you need to make reasonable assumptions and describe a model of something, and "a man is found in scuba gear in the middle of the forest" brainteasers for kids. I have no idea why anyone asks brainteasers in an interview.
You're literally __NOT__ citing the study used and provided to the regents and which forms the basis for the article.

Again, as I noted to the GP, the study is not clear in all cases what n they are using when calculating their percentages, and the author of the article takes advantage of that.

Further, you're reading a lot into my comments; I am neither advocating for or against changes to given policy, but that the study leaves inconsistencies that the author readily takes advantage of for their own agenda.
This article really got me back on track with my side project. I haven't managed to work on it regularly for a couple of months - always seemed a bit daunting on top of work. Now I turn up every day (think I've skipped one day since reading the article) and my only goal for the day is to review my todo list and give some thought to how I might tackle one item. I always feel like I can find the energy to do this and of course once I've actually got my mind on the task I generally end up spending an hour+ on it.
Ah, the old "Let me track you using this cookie so that you don't have to sign in and let us track you" trick! I'm guessing between IPs, browser fingerprinting, and usage/viewing habits it's beyond trivial for google to know the computer opting out at 3:00pm today is the same one that opted out this morning before clearing their cookies, and the same one that opted out yesterday for 16 hours and the same one the day before that, etc

As for me, I'll stick to youtube-dl
I will ask uncomfortable questions here. How will this change affect UC’s competitiveness (as measured by alumni quality) against Tshinghua University (China), or IIT (India), or MSU (Russia). Or we don’t care about that any more?
It doesn't take much effort to find other dissenting opinions:

"The problem is that Full Throttle is still a SCUMM adventure game, but layered with bizarre action sequences that have aged like a tuna sandwich someone left in the back of the fridge for two decades. A few motorcycle fights mid-game are awkward but bearable, but a late-game demolition derby sequence is just about as obnoxious and unplayable today as it was 20 years ago." [0]

A guy I watch on twitch played Ocarina of Time for the first time a year or so ago. I love that game, having played it to death in my childhood.

He hated it.

I asked him why.

He then proceeded to enumerate all of the ways he hated it: Navi's interruptions, time-wasting animations and transitions, and of course the entire water temple [2], to name a few. I had to tell him that yeah, every single one of his criticisms was entirely valid. I love the game anyway. Is it nostalgia? Maybe in part [2], but I think it's also possible that the things I really enjoy about it outweigh the things I dislike. Either way, it doesn't make his criticisms any less valid.

It's possible Maher's criticisms aren't very fair, I don't know since I never played Full Throttle. But I will say that I highly doubt that's the case from having read his other work.

[0] https://www.pcworld.com/article/3190569/full-throttle-remast...

[1] If you played OoT and don't know why people hate the water temple, it's because you played on the 3DS, where they made some changes to make it less confusing and tedious.

[2] He also hated Outer Wilds, and once again I found no flaw with his criticism but love the game anyway.
Ask any translator or Biblical Scholar and they'll say it's way less clear-cut than that.
No, current US sanctions against huawei says, any entity using US origin technology cannot fabricate Hisilicon chips. While TSMC is not headquartered in the US, they use US origin technology. For example, ASML EUV machines contain US origin tech, or they use Applied Materials, LAM research machines heavily on their production line. I am not sure how deep it goes, maybe even if the manufacturing line uses Intel CPUs also counts. That is for the legal experts to explain. As result, TSMC is under US jurisdiction with respect to this particular ruling. Maybe TSMC can risk it and supply Huawei, but US could retaliate by sanctioning them. At the end of the day, TSMC can't operate without US origin tech; if they can't get EUV machines or LAM machines, they are dead as well. So the choice is clear. And I am sure TSMC wants to be on good record with the US anyway.
Ironically, there's a big overlap between the "my vote doesn't matter" groups and the "vote with your wallet" groups.
That's terrible practice, ironically, as it's extremely unreadable. How could someone looking at it know what Sales and Tax actually are? You have to go into the formula name box and dig in to find sales = "yada yada" etc. That doesn't seem too bad until you have a decently sized file and you have to dig into 40 formulas to find the one you want, and go check that it's actually referencing what you want.

I work as a banker, and what you do is one of the very first things new employees are taught not to do in excel. It's an amazing solution for the person that built it, but a terrible one for anyone looking to check the work.
The prairies in Canada/US are very arid, and they have no problem growing things.