skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No you might see gamma rays coming from it.
This reminds me of a couple of odd Mango stories. One, the gift of Mangoes by the Paki diplomats to chairman Mao[1] back in the '60s. It looked like the Chinese didn't fully understand the symbolism of the mango, but ran with it and turned around and made it into a worker's symbol) and the one about the Miyazaki mango[2] where some random guy offered the sapling of an expensive mango to an unsuspecting recipient who later learned it was a very valuable variety.

[1]https://www.dawn.com/news/1457496

[2]https://www.vice.com/en/article/k783gy/worlds-most-expensive...
Doesn't seem like there's any compelling reason to use a webfont at all for this; the default sans-serif would be fine.

Or you could use a font-family list that includes a few specific Windows and Mac fonts that you like, with the generic sans-serif as a fallback in case none of them are present.
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Yeah I'm completely with you that this is a really odd choice. Just wanted to think about an alternate reason why they could've made that choice but your initial assessment seems way more likely, sadly.
Of course it is. The entire premise of "media literacy" is that what the mainstream media is telling you might not be true, so you should do your own research.

Which of course is accurate, but at the same time a lot of people would be better off just blindly trusting the media.
Oh well. This one.

Just some context: Samantha McVey was/is involved with the guy who kept pushing repositories with names like perl6-n_g_er (fully spelled out, of course) and commit messages like "Get a job, n_g_er". Just look at this juicy thread:

https://twitter.com/kraih/status/1408525949218570240

There was also a Slack log which corroborated what Sebastian had written about, and I don't know why I spent time to read it, but I have read it, and at the end I don't know why CAT even exists, what exact function it fulfills except for apparently being a SI unit of hypocrisy, and what a joke the whole thing (TPF and CAT both) is.
Yeah, it just can not be understated what an absolute gem that man is. I almost wish he'd post more often, but I'd always take quality over quantity, and he delivers.
I'm curious, what's the downside to e/OS or upside to not using it? I see that it's deGoogled. Is there some other concern?
Hunter Biden's laptop falls under this category. Corporate media and social media companies claim "fake news" and move to censor it a month before the election. An honest look at the actual reporting, as well as what followed, shows that this was not in fact the case.
I’m not sure I follow… If you write an application in Java/Javascript/Python/C/C#/C++/Racket/Common Lisp, isn’t it the same story there? I.e. that you’re expected to provide the DB yourself.

If one desires a convenient solution there’s always Firebase, DynamoDB or even hosted PostgreSQL solutions.

For local development one can spin up a Docker image for the DBMS.
I wish I could say 'oh read them all and you will figure it out'. That is unfortunately not very true. All of the brands have an agenda. Most are straight copy and paste of each other or slight re-writes. Some even are little more than a game of 'telephone'. Errors of omission or addition are rampant.

Funny enough it was NPR that clued me into this mess 20+ years ago. I was listening to them on a long drive. The same story came up over and over. Each NPR station pretended like they had wrote it themselves. Conan has a few fun skits that shows off this effect. If they are willing to lie about something so cheesy I have no choice but to think the 'big lies' would be easy. Our news is corrupt to its core, controlled by few large conglomerates and read by pretty faces and smooth voices.
Part of the primary school curriculum here in Norway is how to be critical of source material, no matter where it comes from. We call it “source criticism.” Summed up, it's about how trustworthy a source is, what method was used to obtain the data or opinions in the material (if any), whether the observations or claims in it are first hand or second hand, and whether its conclusions are reasonably objective or subjective. From there on, you can start to make up an opinion as to whether a source is “good” or “bad,” or neutral or biased. Good teachers will try to keep politics out of it, but there are definitively examples of teachers who for whatever reason keeps a political slant. In theory they could lose their job if they're caught indoctrinating their pupils, but in reality it's almost never an issue. On the other hand, in today's hyper-politicized world, I trust that most of the pupils quickly catch on if they try.
Your experience does not match mine and many of other accessibility specialists. So we have to agree to disagree.
> It seems to me that students’ main takeaway from this course would be to trust NPR, NYT and the like, rather than viral content. Which is of course great for NPR.

I had some minimal education on scrutinizing sources in high school and that's pretty much what it was. I think we spend maybe 10min talking about yellow journalism.

Topics such as evaluating which parties have what direct conflicts of interests or ancillary motivations and how that may affect their reporting were simply not covered. It would have been trivially easy to dig up a few non-controversial historical examples of people peddling very wrong narratives for the benefit of those who fund them.
The deal with hydrogen is that electrolyzers cost a lot of money & round trip efficiency is bad anyway, so you’ll want battery storage for daily cycling and a combination of solar, wind, and good distribution. A small amount of curtailment is fine, in fact most power plants don’t operate 24/7 even when fuel is cheap, and you could consider that “curtailment,” too, but it’s just accepted that it’s okay to idle a power plant if it’s output isn’t needed (the only difference with solar and wind is their fuel is free). But once you use batteries and good distribution, there isn’t much curtailment needed. Hydrogen electrolyzers just using “free” electricity 5% of the time is crazy expensive… it’s 20 times as expensive (from a capital standpoint) as running 24/7.

And all of this is fine until we get to ~95% clean/renewable grids. Maybe at that point it’d be worth using hydrogen fir seasonal storage. But even then, you’ll still have some curtailment because otherwise your electrolyzer is too expensive.

Check out https://model.energy for how this would work.
He said compromise you talk in absolutes.
The author and I ascribe different meanings to "penny pinching" ...

Also,

> Imagine you are in your car driving and you notice someone in another car, alone, wearing a mask. This is during the covid pandemic so seeing someone wearing a mask is not overly surprising. But then you stop and think wait a second, this person is alone and wearing a mask. Isn't that odd? In fact it seems downright ridiculous. Why would anyone wear a mask in their car when they are alone?

> ...

> Doesn't it makes more sense to just give yourself a blanket policy that says "I put my mask on whenever I leave the house, and don't take it off until I get home." That beats trying to keep track of who needs me to wear the mask, chances of dropping the mask, dirty hands touching the mask, losing the mask, etc.

> I'm not trying to suggest here whether or not people should wear their masks in the car when by themselves.

This begs for "I Wear My Face Mask in the Car"[1].

A penny pincher is the person who goes to dinner with a dozen people and ends up spending an hour trying to "fairly" divide the check among everyone. Or, the one who says a few days later that you should treat him to lunch because he only had a single glass of wine whereas everyone else had two or some such.

Sure, it is a good idea to follow useful rules of thumb to minimize cognitive load, but it is also important to be able to know when a rule of thumb should be discarded.

Whether the rich are rich because they do this stuff or because we notice it more when a rich person acts this way is not clear.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DDXG-dHugc
If my kids vomit more than once they go on a cycle we've developed over the course of having five young children.

First time, maybe a fluke. Check for other signs of illness, heat sickness, what did they eat recently, fever etc.

Second time they get no food or water for two hours. Then small sips of water/Pedialyte

If they don't vomit after the liquid they can eat a few bites of BRAT (banana rice applesauce or toast) if they do, wait another hour or two and repeat.

If they're still vomitting after 6+ hours, depending on the child's age, we'll call the pediatrician and ask for advice.

If they're still not keeping even liquids down after 8+ hours (again depending on age) we take them to the ER after consulting with the pediatrician again. We've only had to do that once.

If at any time the child shows signs of dehydration we skip to the last step.

Source - have 5 kids.
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It's right there on the homepage.

I'm not sure how accurate these are though.
It might seems like a simple feel-good story for some, but it's more than that. I didn't imagine how much children learn and cope through toys until I had my own kids.

Example 1: when my daughter was 2 she got a fishbone stuck in her mouth. I gave her lots of bread and water so that something would force the small bone to go down. After 5 minutes the issue was resolved and she immediately jumped to her teddy bear and started playing "you have a bone teddy, you need bread, take this, take that". The first plays were urgent and quite serious and the teddy was always "cured" quickly. But later through the following days as she played the same idea she started to improvise. Teddy, in her hands, would cough and cough - I would offer him things for 10 minutes and more and nothing would help him. And she would laugh at this. After these plays fish bones in her mind were no longer serious.

Example 2: when she was 3 we tried to adapt her to a kindergarten. After the first day when she was home she picked up her toy cars and started playing. Some of the cars were teachers, others were children, one was me, another one was her, and one small car was a smaller child that cried all the time. And we played the routine where I came to the kindergarten with her, stayed for a bit, and then went to work. At the moment the "dad" car went to work she would physically tense up and become silent, as if it was really happening. But those moments became easier once she learned more details about what to expect during the typical day in the kindergarten and that later the "dad" car always comes back to take her home. Seems like this experience was helpful as, despite being somewhat shy, she never cried during her adaptation period.
> Who wants their printer to scan every document they print, and if it sees something the printer manufacturer thinks is illegal it's reported to the police?

FYI most (all?) modern printers will refuse to print anything they think is counterfeit money, and will include a unique code traceable back to you in every printed document. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
Yes! This is my pet peeve! There are so many studies and sources that, if taken out of context and pointed correctly, can be used to support your claim.

Now combine with the good old “you don’t know what you don’t know” and you have a great tool to mislead the masses.

Add a bit of cognitive bias on top (combined with being profiled by “popular search engines” that give you the results you already believe in) and you’re hooked.

Underlining story: there is so much need for critical thinking in our schools!!!
I don’t disagree, but this discussion was about PLA specifically.
Please look more carefully at that document. It says, on page 5: "Instead of scanning images in the cloud, the system performs on-device matching using a database of known CSAM image hashes provided by NCMEC and other child safety organizations."

And look at the diagram. The matching of image hashes with user photos occurs "on device."
You could drop matter in there and get 40% of the mass back as energy. Not that it's useful energy for us at the moment, but a more advanced civilization could probably learn how to ensure most comes out as polar jets and harvest that somehow.

https://web.stanford.edu/~wilkinsd/docs/posters/BlackHolesPo...
> I recall in grade school with vivid detail my teacher saying “anyone who voted for bush is an idiot”

I never encountered anything like it or met anyone who did. My teachers always taught us to think critically; they didn't care what the topic was or what our conclusions were; it was about learning to think. Is there any research, such as a survey, of student experiences of political speech by teachers?

I'm sure we can find a few examples of anything, but we also all know well that there's a political group that is trying to denigrate and politicize every institution, from the media to schools to the FBI to the courts to scientists, etc. by saying they are biased toward liberals. Repeating its claims doesn't help; if we are going to think critically about it, and we should, we need some credible evidence.
Indeed. Jacques Ellul discusses this at length in his book "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes" [1]. Whenever I reread this book I feel it's more and more relevant than before.

> "But modern propaganda has long disdained the ridiculous lies of past and outmoded forms of propaganda. It operates instead with many different kinds of truth— half-truth, limited truth, truth out of context. Even Goebbels always insisted that Wehrmacht communiqués be as accurate as possible."

1: https://archive.org/details/Propaganda_201512
> But as I type this comment I realize that other syntax parsing tools like IDEs would be happier if the unprocessed code is still valid C.

Yes, that’s the reason. The code is still close enough to standard C to work well with Emacs for instance. It would be a deal breaker for me to require a special editing mode.
Side note - I wonder how they'll treat Wikipedia in these classes. When I was in high school (<2016), they were still telling us not to use Wikipedia because "anybody can edit it" and the librarian once saw the Amerigo Vespucci page had been edited to say he was the "King of Grapes".
Cousin's parents spent entire life working. Kids moved out and now they have no one to take care of them. Elder care near them in $3000/mo per person. They can't afford that.

So vegetable life in a suburban house it is for them
Nice site! However it did take me quite a long time to realize I could scroll down on the landing page to see more options. Perhaps you can add something to make that clearer.

Also, and this might just be me, I need a "Skiing" filter much more than I need a "Warm" filter.
That's obviously true for system-provided fonts but fonts like Helvetica Neue aren't typically available on any platform by default and has to be loaded in...
What is the purpose of having a company's demographics represent the country?

The value to society, if done well, is ensuring everybody has a roughly equal chance to succeed across careers/jobs/industries.

The company itself possibly gets value from ensuring new candidates see others like them working there. They might get value from being able to show broader society that they are being fair. Regardless, it's up to the BoD, shareholders, and C-suite to decide what value is created and act accordingly. Apparently some tech companies see value in building a diverse workforce.

What if certain ethnic groups focus more on sports, or biology, or being lawyers or doctors, or they skip the whole college ripoff and go to a trade school. Do they still need equal representation in tech?

The burden is on people who want to maintain the current, non-representative state to prove nobody from other demographics wants into the field. Failing that, we should be trying to discover why some groups are underrepresented. And I just don't buy the argument that blacks prefer to play basketball and women prefer to teach, or whatever else it is your implying.
This week, a story broke how Hunter Biden had yet another laptop stolen from him, this time with videos of him doing "crazy sex acts". [0]

Yet again, as in 2020, I was unable to share the link below in a private Facebook Messenger group. What else will be censored next, at the behest of the government?

I severely mistrust when the government tells you what and who to believe, and that includes our schools. Teach critical thinking, logic and fallacies, and leave it there - the students can make up their own minds.

[0] https://nypost.com/2021/08/11/video-reportedly-shows-nude-hu...
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No, but I want really want to get a Pine phone ,by all accounts it a bit janky to use but I can live with that if it helps push forward an independant mobile phone sector. I have not real faith in Google or the Chinese manufactured mobile phone manufacturers, I did hope Apple would be better after all they declared but clearly not now.

On PC's, desktop and laptop, and mobile devices we need to make a push to Linux or other open source systems if we want to preseve and semblence of privacy and commercial freedom.
If you can do it in code easily and you probably don’t need to scale to a massive extent, keep it in code.

Because for your code you already figured out how to test it and how to deploy it. Probably those processes are already set up and running.
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The Amish knowingly choose lives of less capability, opportunity, and range than modern ones.
The entire state of Texas lifted all Covid restrictions around March? Had only 16% vaccination rates and had record low levels of Covid infections for 6 months up until recently with apparently the Delta variant.

So don't understand why actual reality contradicts this paper.

If you tell me that millions of Texans followed social distancing rules on their own without a citation, it will be humorous.
>> Wait are you saying you get ads based on things you converse about out loud in the real world because your phone is listening to everything in your pocket?

YES.

>> You know that is a myth and isn't true, right?

No, it's not. I guarantee it. I don't know if it's built-in phone software or if it's the FB app listening while idle, or something else. Alexa seemed to be doing this too, so that's put away in a box somewhere.

Here's another story. I got an Oculus Quest 2 and had told a co-worker about it and one of the games I play. He was on the fence, so I brought it in and let him try some of the intro/demo apps on it. Having been convinced that this particular implementation of VR was finally good, he decided to order one from Best Buy to pick up after work. He got out his phone and (not sure what app he looked at, probably browser) the first thing that came up was an ad for the Oculus Quest 2.

These are not coincidences - particularly the one I mentioned a few comments up. That's not a topic in our house, but the next day there were the ads.
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Please join the school board if you are so concerned. Schools have been teaching critical thinking when it comes to research topics for probably decades/hundreds of years. Remember primary sources? Remember conflicting sources and having to dig into why they were conflicting? Public school ain't perfect but I'd rather have kids know that there -is- bias, than do what you are suggesting which is....? nothign.
I just turned off iCloud. Mine has filled up ages ago anyway and I don’t want anything to do with it
I've heard of people in Indonesia(Bali) getting caught because they post in public Facebook groups about the work they do, like "Hey guys I'm a yoga instructor/web designer/surf teacher/English teacher and I'm available for hire!"
No, I meant true E2E encryption. Unless I'm missing something in your comment.
Choosing either implementation as "more Pythonic" than the other feels to me like choosing tabs over spaces, or vice versa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7PLxL8jIl8

i.e., it's a matter of personal preference -- except that, as gizmo686 points out below, as of Python 3 tabs are now, officially, considered more Pythonic.
I’ve wondered this too. So far, all I can discern is that smartphones behave like a tasp, from Larry Niven’s scifi writings.

A tasp is a device that stimulates the pleasure centers of your brain. This rapidly leads to addiction and enslavement of the person(s) the tasp is used on.

We’re very easily controlled, and so many of us don’t even realize it.
Unless/until you have to change the infra.
I want to touch it.
> Will anyone know?

yes, because the sect that is responsible for all the blasphemy accusations (like the one you linked) is separate from the sect that the Taliban follow, sparks will fly between the groups, and they have a significant numbers advantage in pakistan.

in other words, the taliban can't capture pakistan because a different sect already has ;p
The core of the course should be critical thinking, with a heavy lean in on problem solving. The passive consumption of "stuff" - whether that's food or information - is the basis for so many of our so called crisises.

But - warning: editorial - The System is intentional in creating this mindless mindset. Not to worry Big * has it covered. Don't think. Just follow contentional wisdom, follow the narrative.

Moi? I spend a fair amount of time reading / listening / watching for what isn't said. This forces me to duck the click bait, hyperbole, sensationalism, etc. So often there are obvious questions that are ignored. That's a tell. I'm also recommend becoming hypersensitive to language and words. When there are big sweeping phrases (e.g., "everybody...") it's another tell.
> CGI Jensen looks like he came out of a 2009 videogame. Nvidia may have the tech but you can tell it lacks the artistic supervision of a proper VFX hous

That's part of the point. If computer software alone can replicate state of the art human effort from 12 years ago, that's what they're showing off. It's not "look how great this rendering is", it's "look how good the AI that made this is".
I doubt remote work is the sole root cause for this. My communications had to improve when I went remote a decade ago. I had to do better at softer skills to work well with remote teams. It was in an office where I would see people roll in, sit in their cube, and lock into a stagnant routine.

I'd suggest that your focus should be on what your interactions are and with who, not where you sit when you have them. I'd also suggest that "social status" is a worthless measuring stick. Are you happy with who you are and where you are? If so, who cares what other people think or how you compare? And if not, step up and make a change to fix it.
Growing up, we had classes where our English and History teachers reviewed current events and historic periodicals (w/ original newspaper!)

This just seems to be instilling propaganda from a young age.

--

" That can be as simple as opening a new tab and leaving the post to find more about the source of information. It appears to be effective. "

And then the article goes more depressing from there, it's not per se news literacy, but general information technology literacy.

Anyone can spin up a LAMP stack and run a web server, or a blog and post content, buy a $9 domain and put a portrait of someone who does not exist - and link it to some scientific or even hijack an accredited offical.

What then? You're going to teach students how a WHOIS works?

(Granted I knew about WHOIS since middle school, but 99% of students though and todays generation I'm sure don't even care how the Internet works outside..)
Facebook, Google, Isovalent, Microsoft, and Netflix Announce eBPF Foundation
Very cool! Thanks for the link!!!

It's even open source!
Thanks! Oh, that explains some of the comments... i didn't realise that myself. So great feedback! Will add the skiing filter in the future :)