skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a previous crisis involving the intersection of far-left politics and technology after the Russian revolution. What to do about the problem of all scientific progress up to that point being the product of ideologically impure bourgeois capitalism? Stalin, being, for all his notorious faults, a technological pragmatist, had to actually get in the middle of it and straighten things out:

"At one time there were 'Marxists' in our country who asserted that the railways left to us after the October Revolution were bourgeois railways, that it would be unseemly for us Marxists to use them, that they should be torn up and new, 'proletarian' railways built. For this they were nicknamed 'troglodytes'.

It goes without saying that such a primitive-anarchist view of society, of classes, of language has nothing in common with Marxism. But it undoubtedly exists and continues to prevail in the minds of certain of our muddled comrades."

- Stalin, Marxism and the Problem of Linguistics.[1]

You could easily redo this for the 21st century:

"At one time there were 'Social Justice Warriors' in our country who asserted that the data and algorithms left to us after the Critical Race Theory Revolution were systematically racist data and algorithms, that it would be unseemly for us Social Justice Warriors to use those data and algorithms, that those data and algorithms should be destroyed and new, 'anti-racist' data and algorithms be built. For this they were nicknamed the 'cancel mob'.

It goes without saying that such a primitive-woke view of computing, of races, of machine learning has nothing in common with 'Social Justice Warrior Ideology'. But it undoubtedly exists and continues to prevail in the minds of certain of our muddled comrades."

The Soviets almost failed to implement the atomic bomb because they had an ideological problem with relativity:

"According to a story related by Mr. Holloway, Beria had asked Kurchatov shortly before the conference whether it was true that quantum mechanics and relativity theory were idealist and antimaterialist. Kurchatov reportedly replied that if relativity theory and quantum mechanics had to be rejected by Russian science, the atomic bomb would have to be rejected, too. According to another story in the book, Stalin phrased his decision to cancel this way: "Leave them [ the physicists ] in peace. We can always shoot them later." He could afford a charlatan like Lysenko in biology, but physics was another matter. Stalin relied on his physicists for the bomb -- and for Soviet status as a superpower. When his first atomic bomb was tested in August 1949, five months after the aborted conference, those scientists who would have been shot in the event of failure received the highest awards: Hero of Socialist Labor and so on, down the line."[2]

The 21st century version:

"Leave them [the data scientists] in peace. We can always cancel them later."

I love my downvotes. Thank you :).

[1] https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1950...

[2] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/s...
I certainly can't speak for you, but it has worked quite well for me as I described it, for both gaining and losing weight as needed. I sympathize with people who do a poor job of measuring, either through inconsistency or incorrect calculation, but we don't blame the game of chess for people who play it poorly or suggest that they are evidence that it does not provide value to those who do, do we?
I'm at the point where I just want a tattoo or chip embedded in me. Like I'm integrated in the system at this point. I can't exactly go off grid.
> They are also bigger, lay larger eggs and have smaller brains than their wild cousins - differences that are also seen in chickens.

I wonder if something similar is also happening in amongst some humans in some selection process. Breeders with less cognitive material than others, the others being seen as less sexually attractive (like as seen in Idiocracy, and I posit: real life)

I wonder how long it will remain controversial to consider that
Kubernetes's Swiss Army Knife
The "Use Cases" are on the bottom of the page. Limited but..
Yes, UI library design is hard because it a series of trade-offs one has to make when designing the API. Make the API too customizable and it's a horror to use with horrible performances, make the API to rigid and people will complain it's hard to customize. WinForm is far easier to use than WPF... except that WinForm makes creating custom components a pain. WPF is easy to customize... except that it performs worse than WinForm, this isn't even up to debate...

But also, all these moving parts are why a lot of developers chose to go with Web techs for their UI, for better or worse.
IIRC Readability used to do this. It was my favorite feature, and I've pinged Pocket and others about this.
Dang I hope Linux is getting cool :D Recent releases of things like Gnome and ElementaryOS are pretty close to mainstream-ready IMO, so will be interesting to see things play out over the next few years.

> Also on phones the alternatives are shaping up nicely so do talk well about them, don't say people should swith now but say you are considering a switch next time you upgrade etc.

This is excellent advice, thank you!
For some background, I have a web version and two electron versions of the programming environment. Then there is a web runtime and a web server which run on the output of the programming environment. Originally the main repo contained code for all the applications, but also some code specific to one or more of the applications. I had trouble versioning a subset of the repository. I ended up versioning the main repo and bumping the version of all apps if anything in the main repo changed, because I didn't have a systematic way of knowing that only certain parts of the repo changed. Perhaps that is the piece I would need?

I said there were a number of frustrations, but that was the driver.

In the new repo format each repo produces a single library/module, and can be versioned as a whole. When I run an application for dev, I can run a given library from a release or from live code (with a dev server serving ES modules from a configured path). This works well when one of the repos is not changing. But I end up developing in a significant number of repos at the same time, so I just configure it to run from live code rather than release for all those libraries i'm working on. This feels like working with a monorepo except I have the hassle of managing commits to all thse repos. Long story short, right now I am working out of the master branch because I screwed up commits. You may have figured out by now my strength is not in dev ops.
Politicians constantly use that kind of hyperbolic rhetoric to rally their base to increase engagement, protest, make noise, vote. It doesn't mean it's some hidden code or message to their followers to go outside the bounds of the democratic process. That's tinfoil hat level thinking.
Basically, is there any "rational" reason to be a rapist AT ALL? Especially in today's world which is full of easy to get sex. I think every rapist is mentally not OK.
Even more moving parts you need to set up and maintain.

It introduces a 4th party you depend on. Now you have:

1: The datacenter where your application runs

2: The DNS server

3: Let's Encrypt

4: The "DNS provider with a better API"
> Why not fix the code that suggests rape videos?

Deciding what is and isn't rape is an AI-hard problem.
I've been telling my friends who, like myself, miss old Trek that the Clone Wars animated series is a fairly good fit for a contemporary Trek.

It has a similar structure with 7 seasons 20+ish episodes each, and compelling and diverse characters that grow throughout.

Each episode deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that is often addressed with clever solutions.

There certainly are flaws but the strengths feel very old Trek.
Humanoid ‘Tesla Bot’ likely to launch next year, says Elon Musk
The author's arguments kind of remind me of those of the interviewer in this 1979 clip with Ted Nelson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVU62CQTXFI
I'm 9 days too late but this is what I was looking for for something I'm working on, so thanks!
On the other hand it may turn a child onto development when they would have normally defaulted into some kind of boring pencil pushing position. Or it may encourage the kids to go into open source if they're not getting paid anyway.
Is there a reason this hasn't been removed?
> I don't see much difference between UIs of today and 20 years ago. Actually, I think UIs are nowadays less complex (more screen space available; and you have to worry less about CPU consumption). One would except that was enough time to figure out component design.

Today, UI need to be responsive, because of all the different screen resolutions and formats and form factors. That wasn't really the case 20 years ago.
> pre-screening

Pre-screening would be the kind way of implementing this feature. They could make it so if CSAM is detected, just don't upload those files to the cloud and delete them locally. Then they are still doing due-diligence to prevent that material from entering their cloud and to remove that material from circulation, but they don't get random people arrested for false positives. When they detect hash matches on a device, they are under zero legal obligation to do anything about it because it could easily be a false positive (as the public has demonstrated on HN and elsewhere), so they'd be in the clear with this approach. This will have the effect they desire without pissing tons of people off.

Instead they have taken the aggressive stance of manual review + tipping off law enforcement, which goes against their entire mantra of protecting privacy. Your phone will now be an informant against you. If you are an activist or a whistleblower, a false positive could be enough to get your device searched and seized.
When is the right time for a startup to take data security seriously?
Yes! SSNs are already not private given the number of hacks that have occured. Today, the real damage comes from the fact that people/businesses still believe they are private. Publish a list of all SSNs would eliminate the misperception once and for all and force people to verify identity in a better way. SSNs should only ever be used for your employer knows how to report who paid what taxes to the IRS. If someone else wants to use my SSN to claim that they paid my taxes, fine with me!
The principle of the GPL does not happen in a vacuum. It's based on regulations of a larger state, like it or not.
There seems to be some odd resentment to your point- the person implying that "makers" don't like taking calls, really? FWIW, I like the phone, it often let's things get resolved faster and avoid misunderstanding and promotes diplomacy.
> I can barely connect with the average person

This is more a reflection of the growing class-based conflict in the United States and less a reflection of how income is distributed. The reality is that many people - especially tech workers - have insanely large impact compared to someone working a simple, local job. Pay will reflect this.
> It doesn't mean it's some hidden code or message to their followers to go outside the bounds of the democratic process.

His speech explicitly demands the Vice President of the United States reject the election results.
> It's nothing personal.

> I'm just saying.

> No need to get defensive.

> I never said I didn't like it.
"How come no tattoo?!"
> You may simply have to bring it up again explicitly.

Depending on the circumstances, it might be possible to bring up the issue later via email or a group chat, saying something like "One idea from the meeting which I think wasn't fully explored was...".

For in-person meetings, though, I think that we can probably learn a lot from the rules of order used in places like parliaments and courts, where discussions are deliberately arranged to be turn-based, with an ostensibly neutral party (the speaker or the judge) who guides proceedings but isn't an active participant in the flow of dialogue.
Yes they were, and no it's not.
Totally unrelated question.

Greenland has so few people, yet so much land. I get that this is on account of the temperatures, but would it be possible to build large cities there if there were demand? Or are the geography and natural resources insufficient to support cities of scale?
Who becomes owner of a person's share if he stops paying maintenance fees?
Reminds me of this: https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

I wonder whatever became of it?
I'm in Ireland at the moment, where the health system, and vaccination process, appears to use mother's maiden name as a de facto password. There is no option to change it. It is often asked in person, and so can't be used as a placeholder.

For business reasons, my mother has her parents' last name, I have hers, and this fact is easily discovered online with a few minutes research...
More Americans Now Correctly Believe UFOs Could Be Alien Craft from Outer Space
I really doubt you have tried all of them. As for the legal concerns, these are technologies, and the author of the article was talking about actual access, NOT politics or laws.
It's a shame that the concept is gone. I liked PalmPilots. The iPod Touch is the remaining relic of the non-phone smartphone.
Is there any free CA supporting intermediate/sub certificates?

This is what I would really be looking for in an alternative to Let's Encrypt.
It depends on the other party's phone habits. We don't all carry them everywhere or check them constantly.

If you call me, I'll probably hear the phone ring, and can either answer it or check for a message, whereas if you send me a text, there's a decent chance I won't even notice its existence for some hours. Better hope that "urgent communication need" isn't too urgent...
Amazon Is Telling Sellers That Antitrust Bills Will 'Significantly' Harm Them
> Is it a millennial thing?

It may be more of a millennial thing but I've heard this from both younger (Gen Z) and older (Gen X) people as well. It does depend on the type of call. If I run a business then I'm not expecting my vendors/clients to pre-schedule a call but if a friend calls I assume it's an emergency or extremely time-sensitive. I regularly send and receive "Are you free to talk?" SMS/iMessage/Discord/etc messages and only initiate calls without first asking if it's something that just can't wait (or in the case where we are about to meet up, like calling to say I'm almost there or calling to find someone at an event we are both attending). The only exception to this "rule" is my parents who regularly call me out of the blue (I get a text ~20% of the time max to ask if I'm free).
You might have a point but it also strikes me as odd to give equity based comp to warehouse workers. Do warehouse workers actually have any way to improve the ability of Amazon to make profit besides simply working faster?
This is the big problem. It wouldn't be bad if they replaced products with products that are already fully baked; but the fact that start automatically when connected to Bluetooth isn't already there, that the music apps don't show playlists in Driving Assistant but do in Android Auto, and that there is no touchscreen UI for selecting a music app makes this needlessly frustrating.

It happens every time. YouTube Music didn't have critical functionality fron Google Play Music when the latter's deprecation was annoyed, and Google Chat is still missing functionality from Google Hangouts.
People, for a while: I need to remember to reach out to all my friends and family during this terrible period!

A few months later: Stop calling me! And make sure to slip a note in my mailbox before you even think about texting me!

I REALLY do not like this isolationist culture we're slowly building up to, at least in the U.S. Calling someone is the equivalent of showing up unannounced? I find that notion absurd on its face. Maybe there are some parallels but it stops pretty short.
Funny you mention that book. It's cited in a huge proportion of AI fairness papers, especially papers by academic authors who do not have a technical background, and I can't figure out for the life of me why. The book itself is more polemic than academic.

One of the heuristics I actually use when reviewing papers in this area is to check whether that particular book is cited without any references to page numbers, like a mantra rather than an academic citation. This seems to correlate fairly highly IMHO to low quality work with few, if any, interesting original contributions.
That's a fair point, I don't have the same expectation of other os-level package managers.

There are alternatives in other projects that bridge build system and package management while directly addressing versioning of dependencies e.g. Spack, Conda, ... The first in particular does exactly what I want, so I suppose I should just be happy with it. Still would be nice for Nix to compete in the same space, esp. with the really slick translation from local to containerized environment displayed in here
> I don't understand the first point because I can access my calendar, email, contact, etc all during a call on my phone without problem (Android 10).

This might be a weird question but are you always connected to WiFi?
I don't know if it's just an introvert tendency or what. I mean I get it, being so deep whatever project your working on that a phone call--even from someone you like--can seem like a burdensome interruption.

But it does sometimes feel like something bigger has changed.

When I was a kid, the house phone was almost _always_ in use at night and on the weekends. Various family members and friends called just to chat and catch up and BS about whatever was on the news. Birthday calls were placed and gratefully received. The teenagers in the house got in trouble for tying up the line all evening to talk with their friends even after having spent all day with them at school. Today that's all been replaced with texts and tweets and facebook likes and it makes me sad.
People who believe in evolution have fewer kids.

Is a belief in natural selection a negative selection pressure?

If you bring this up people who are rational seem to get upset.
If a friend calls me unexpectedly, most of the time I do care more about them than whatever I was doing, because I can just resume what I was doing a few minutes later. Most stuff can be interrupted and resumed without a problem. If this was really important and more important than the thing my friend calls to me with I politely refuse to talk and offer a callback later. Maybe we have a different culture, but calling people on a phone is normal here (Poland).
> It's literally been all over the news, with journalists and analysts directly linking the column with the changes at both PornHub in December and at MasterCard in April

This is not evidence of a link. What they have said might contain evidence of a link, in which case i'd be interested to hear it. But the job of talking heads on the news is to construct compelling narratives from facts they have to hand, regardless of whether those narratives are true, so the fact that they were talking about this is just noise.
Doesn't Google use language models heavily? But we still get this wrong behavior:

https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1333529967079120896?lang=en
It's like when someone asks you something over IM instead of over email, even though it isn't time sensitive.

That's an interesting perspective. I think that explains some people's behavior. I tend to think of IM as in please reply in the next day or so, and email as in please reply in the next week or two.

I'm always telling people to not say hi in an IM and then wait for me to reply, because if I'm busy I'm not going to reply until later, but then you might not be there, and if you had asked whatever you needed in the first message I could be answering it now
It's a very contemporary interpretation of violence that has gained a lot of steam, though it is in opposition to historical use. For example, in many situations today, people will consider "silence to be violence".
As an enginer you are sometimes reduced below human dignity.
This is a previous version where it was in there. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thought-terminati...

And the last entry in Talk is about how it was removed.
the earlier ones mention 2-5% of the feed replaced by seaweed is sufficient. you can taste that difference ?
The author lost me when they started the Christian bashing. The author lumped all Christians in with the organization cited in the original NYT article, which is just as prejudice as those for which they're claiming to defend (prostitutes).
I use a similar launcher: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.neamar.kiss/

I have a lot of the features tweaked or disabled. The way it is configured, it basically acts as a static list of a few apps I use most, with a search bar to access anything else.

I find this setup to be more straightforward than the normal icons+folders type of launcher. I have handed my phone to other people who have never used it, and they have no problem finding things because you can just search.
Or how NY Times framed it:

> Banks Tried to Curb Gun Sales. Now Republicans Are Trying to Stop Them. [0]

Corporations like predictability. When you see regulations going back and forth with administration to administration, companies just pick the worst case scenario and go by that. That's why you didn't see any cars lower fuel mileage just because limitations were lifted during the last administration. I imagine MC and Visa are definitely anticipating more restrictions and don't want to be caught flat footed.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/us/politics/banks-gun-sal...
You can implement a consent modal with dozen of dark patterns, but that is not a problem of the consent modal.
Text messages between iPhones are also invisibly shunted to iMessage
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Testing the Performance of ClickHouse
Spot on, security is not something that can just be slapped together due to external concerns after the product is done - it needs to be part of the product and the mindset from day zero
> You cannot ask a researcher to invent a new more performant computer-vision model, invent a way to correct for bias, and design a fair dataset all in one. That's three entirely different careers.

Might it not sometimes be reasonable to ask researchers in one domain to slow their roll, if researchers in a related domain are making slower progress? If I invent 10 new forms of nerve gas every year, while you invent 5 new antidotes to nerve gas every year, where does the problem lay? Solely with you, for not working fast enough? I don't think that's reasonable. Does the problem lay with me, for not inventing nerve gas antidotes? I don't think that's reasonable either, antidotes are not my specialty and I can't be expected to create them. But if I'm the one inventing new systems that become a problem for society because your domain of counter-research isn't keeping up, then I have some substantial share in that blame nonetheless.
> It's just completely worthless for providing any insight

I dunno, I think you might be surprised by how many people genuinely do not seem to understand it. It's valuable to them if they are willing to listen, problem is a lot of the time they really aren't, hence their problem.
How to Build a Command Line Interface (CLI) with Node.js
First llama-derived antibody for Covid-19 headed to human trials
This is no more exploitative than someone trying to make it big on Youtube, Twitch, or Spotify and gaining zero traction. If the content someone creates on these platforms doesn't capture an audience, the hosting platform doesn't generate any revenue and neither does the creator. It's completely free to produce the content (minus your time) and the platform hosts it for free, even though 99% of it never receives any views/plays/listens.

At the end of the day I think the only worthy argument is whether or not the revenue sharing arrangement is fair.