skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China is hilariously bad at HN and Reddit PR, which they never cared about to begin with. They are tremendously effective at international PR. By providing economic support to smaller EU nations, they've been able to veto efforts to limit their influence.

https://youtu.be/hhMAt3BluAU?t=3270
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think that’s really what it’s for. Publishing exclusively in arXiv would fit in with the spirit of what you’re going for.
Putting Louis XIV in Google translate, I get the correct "Louis the Fourteenth" and "Louis Quatorze" pronounciations in English and French, respectively. However, it has to be uppercased, otherwise it spells the letters.
The must have features are the existing participants and the moderator.
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Please read my premise again. I only called it a failed idea in the sense it could act as well as a human brain.

I said it's not a waste. Not at all, I use it in a lot of the ways you describe.
If you don't listen to The Convivial Society already, it's a blog/podcast that deep dives into the themes of Illich and his contemporaries with plenty of musing of its own

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/
> mid-way through someone’s feature development.

If someone is doing it right, any point in their "mid way" that they expose will be git bisectable. Otherwise, they're doing it wrong. Squashing 20 already decent git bisectable commits into 1 big one is the complaint here.

Squashing 20 shit commits into a giant ball of shit that happens to compile and run is not better though.

Don't make the 20 shit commits in the first place.
I imagine that iMessage isn't executing the code but the malware is packed into some part of the metadata that some dumb library needs to parse and some sort of buffer overflow attack is accomplished. The library is probably assuming the data is safe to parse.
Shouldn't people get to decide who they do business with or work for? Isn't that how free markets work? Besides it's not like there's a shortage of companies who wouldn't hire people with those views. Look at companies like Koch Industries for example. Having those views obviously isn't hurting their bottom line or the enumerable other corporations with openly conservative views.

https://xkcd.com/1357
I should have said just with wlroots. Though smithay isn't a full compositor. There's a BSPWM issue on github (I can't be assed finding it rn) about Wayland where the authors of waycooler explained their difficulties in creating a rust wayland window manager after someone suggested that the wayland version of BSPWM should be written in rust. The waycooler devs generalised their statement to the wayland protocol in general, but in hindsight what they were likely referring to was just their struggles in wlroots.
If someone is really bothered because of the depiction below, they can still look for 'meaningful work'. Nothing is stopping them right now.

>“Put simply, whether you’re a ‘high-class’ call girl or a street walkin’ ho, when you’re on a ‘date’ you gotta get on your knees or lay on your back and let that man use your body any way he wants to. That’s what he pays for. Pretending prostitution is a job like any other job would be laughable if it weren’t so serious.”

This is for sex workers, but selling sex online may result in some people feeling their dignity is violated. Those can still find different jobs right now too.

Removing the option for people who either don't have other good options or do not feel like the above situation is as bad this radical feminist is making it to be, is not a good thing. If sex work is so denigrating to the high class escort as she makes it out to be, why are they still in that field not look for other options? Maybe they don't see it as denigrating as she does, or maybe they don't have other options. In both cases it doesn't make sense to remove that option beyond law enforcement going after pimps and traffickers.

As I said earlier, what you stated sounds exactly like 'let them eat cake'.
While this is a neat 3D fractal I think the best use of a third dimension in the Mandelbrot set is to show how it corresponds to the logistic map.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logistic_Map_Bifur...
> Apple struggled for years to deliver a functioning laptop keyboard. A car is a bit more complicated.

One of the biggest car makers found it cheaper to pay out for customers that got burned up by faulty cars, as fixing them all was too expensive.

Apple choosing to sort its keyboard issues in a way that initially didn’t include fixing a bad design would appear to be following a well trodden path.
> The reason you think it's racist is because you assume it's talking about black people specifically suggesting you think the word is more apt to describe black people.

No, I think it's racist because racists have a long history of calling black people primates, and because an automated system doesn't get to escape scrutiny and critique just because someone didn't specifically put in a line of code that emulates the actions of racists.
It’s more like, if you send someone a photo, iMessage will decode the photo and display it. If the imaging library has a bug a maliciously crafted image may be exploitable.

iMessage has more integrations than that too. If you send someone a URL, e.g., the recipient will see a preview of the content.

iMessage does a lot to mitigate the attack surface, but people still get through.
I find it extremely ironic that my post on why censorship is bad got flagged by OP.
The difference is that the discord UI conveys information that is strictly missing in other UIs. By having a separate voice channel, it's implicitly broadcasting "these people want to talk".

It's also broadcasting who -is- talking; I've very frequently made a binary choice of "do intrude" versus "don't intrude" based on who's actually talking. I know based on the social circles that if person A and B are talking, they're likely "talking shop", because person A commissions work from person B. But I also know that if it's person A and C, they're probably just gaming, and I'm welcome to join them.

This implicit social signaling is obscenely important. It's a make or break feature.

When I'm using slack, by comparison; I can see that a coworker is in "some mysterious voice call" but I have absolutely NO IDEA who they're calling, and whether I'm welcome to join. I have to openly intrude on their time, and ask that explicitly, and that's inherently rude. I'm able to do that with close friends because I have a huge buffer of goodwill, but interrupting people is always inherently rude.

Discord gives you a way to get this information without being rude.

If the only way to do it is to be rude, then - here's the kicker: It introduces an outright failure state! Quite a few people will actually decided "gosh, I don't feel comfortable interrupting this person I barely know, I'm just not going to." They literally DON'T make a call they otherwise would make, and it's 100% down to UX. It's a full on, binary, "failure to provide service", and it's because of how your software psychologically runs on the people using it.

There are two computers running your software, not one. One of them is electronic, but the other one is biological. UX is about that second wetware system; some of it is calculable, consistent stuff that holds true for a statistical majority of people - just like how certain optimizations will benefit a "consistent majority" of the electronic computers running your software.
fwiw, the article says desert, but they're considering a lot of options including West Virginia (decidedly not desert).

Going to depend a lot on the local politics and where they can find the land.
But there are experts on this forum, and I only wish what we're discussing was "anti-China derangement."

Even the worst thing said about the CCP is true.

For example, their entire national hospital system is funded with forced organ harvesting. That's a level beyond even the Nazis.
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Not at all. If a child could solve the AIDS issue and science couldn't, then maybe.

Humans and machines are so different today. Of course machines beat us at number calculations and such. But we have organs that computers don't and can't have. And our brains are much more in tune with using those than power of 2 bit twiddling.

As we ourselves don't understand how it works, how can we ever write a machine that does?
Yes it's a real question, since there's nothing that says that a particular misclassification must happen. Watching cars go by on the road, one might suspect that at least one is driven by an alligator, but nothing says that it must be, per se, even the law of large numbers.
The reason doors open both ways is so a player doesn't have to back up when opening a door inward. While it's something we do in person easily enough, it requires fine movements of a character or it requires taking over the character. Both feel awful for the player. So, the sacrifice of having the door open unrealistically both directions.

Can you imagine running away from the zombies, you reach for the door, move to back up and realize you didn't quite grab the handle? Or the other version where you do grab the handle and realize you need to let go of it to start shooting, but are stuck in an animation.

Personally, I'm cool with worlds with no doors and outsized doorways. Ideally the scenery between my character and the camera fades out, so the camera only has to move to follow, not to get a better angle. I do admire the effort that goes into it making the doors look good.
>if it wasn't simulated I wouldn't be looking at it, and I wouldn't find it strange at all because I would be living in a world where that thing doesn't exist

why do you think this isn’t constantly happening?

>how could they be so dumb that they wasted time simulating unneeded details?

if it’s within your perception, it’s needed detail.
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> How do you like it? How does it compare to Protonmail?

For a start you can't use PGP, which means external people cannot send you encrypted email unless they use a "temporary inbox" feature. Often they won't do that so the email you receive will be unencrypted at the point Tutanota's servers receive it.

ProtonMail uses PGP, so you can encrypt with that. https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/encryption-loc...

Also Tutanota does not allow you to use email clients. You also can't import your email, and can only export per-folder.

It's also worth noting Tutanota, and Posteo (mentions TKU), and Mailbox and all the other providers will comply with lawful interception requests. Tutanota in the past has handed over email before it was encrypted.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/08/tutanota_backdoor_cou...

If you don't want this don't use email.
This is a terrible article.

> One measure of this success is the media’s increasing insistence on referring to people used in prostitution and pornography as “sex workers.” What is being done to them is neither sex, in the sense of intimacy and mutuality, nor work, in the sense of productivity and dignity. Survivors of prostitution consider it “serial rape,” so they regard the term “sex work” as gaslighting.

Allegedly, sex workers are called "sex workers" because "the media" insists upon it. In point of fact, sex workers have insisted on it, because when they get reframed as victims, it tends to lead to a lot of laws that criminalize their jobs, and that is very bad for sex workers [1].

The author makes a bizarre generalization that all "survivors" of sex work think sex work is basically "serial rape." To construct this, she cites two former sex workers, which is hardly any sort of consensus. Perhaps if she had consulted the Global Network of Sex Work Projects [2], a large worldwide network of dozens of sex-worker-run, pro-sex-work nonprofits, she would have formed a different impression of the consensus in the industry.

Sex work can be a good job. That's why so many people flocked to OnlyFans. It's really condescending and shitty to dismiss sex workers as helpless victims and all their advocacy as "gaslighting."

[1]: https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/07/why-sex-work-should-be-d...

[2]: https://www.nswp.org/who-we-are
As we are on an Illich thing here, can I strongly recommend his book "Deschooling Society", which not only predicts the Web, but has some cogent suggestions for getting us out of the mess that higher education in the West is in at the moment.
AI creativity. Where AI can work on a kind of mental assembly line and humans are there to figure out the specifications of the thing to be built.

For example, I'd love to see humans write an outline of a book then feed it to AI who writes the book in full, using a consistent writing style.

Or say, you have a business idea. You can brainstorm a (domain) name with the AI, brainstorm a pitch, the pitch deck, the company colors, and so on.
Israel would like a word with you.
> All this means is that they're adept at parting fools from their money with "feel-good" marketing and such

It’s hard to square comments like this with things like the M1 - what should the fools be buying instead?
How is it a racist outcome? This has nothing to do with the belief that one "race" is inherently better than another. It's a simple categorization error due to insufficient training data.
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Is there any details on what the current flagged/dead threshold is?
A recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSJsKpKKBaI
Hi, thank you for taking time to compile this.

What about you link back to the original threads, so people can see the comments in context? And also put a link to your HN profile.
> "(name) (Roman numeral)" is a much more commong occurence than "(name) (Single letter spelled out)"

> So to answer your question, this one. This universe.

But this is true in this universe only in some countries and places. There are many countries and places where an initial would follow the name and it is the legal name.

This is precisely the problem with the data/algorithm as well as your argument. They’re not well formed for different contexts and need to have more context sensitivity.
@Dang

Dang is my favorite part of HN
I am surprised HN doesn't have an auto-link to archive.org and archive.is for all the link posts. I used it often to bypass the paywalled sites.
>we need large US-based fabricator if China gets more aggressive on Taiwan

So take that concept further of what happens if/when China makes that move. What happens if TSMC's fabs are sabotaged/destroyed during this scenario? This would make today's chip shortage seem like just a blip. Would that be the thing that makes Intel relevant again? If this current shortage actually motivates US based chip manufacturing equal to TSMC, the loss of TSMC would obviously not be as severe. How much would China benefit from being the sole customer of TSMC at that point? Time to crowd source a new scifi/techfi plot
An 'innocent mistake' performed by a megacorporation with bajillions of dollars, of exactly the same kind of error that has publicly appeared in the actions of other megacorporations with bajillions of dollars... at that point it's not a 'mistake', it's just the people in charge not caring.
Title needs the [PDF] tag.
> I wonder what sorts of social media we'd see if it wasn't dependent on selling ads.

Probably there are two best answers to this.

1) hn. No ads. Social network (in the way that Reddit is).

2) build it! FB monetizes each person on the order of $10-20 per human per year. So just start up a social network that costs $10/year. Pick a few principles you want to stick to and see if it survives.

Edit: I see my estimates are wrong since time has passed; it's now more like $40-50 per human per year, but I think maybe some of the properties are worth more per person (almost certainly instragram is worth more per person than fb proper).
> but they’re very real and have been for nearly a century now.

Royalty existed for much longer than that in many countries, and it was never ever legitimate unless you believed in god-given power bullshit.
1 - 2 generations in the silicon world is 5 - 10 years
The PDF: Should there be one?
> sorry it seems discussion about solutions to racial issues isn't welcome here

Oddly it seems like you are the person who doesn't want to have a discussion.

You stated "As an ML engineer I can tell you confidently here's how you fix these systems" and people critiqued your solution. Is that not being open to discussion?
It's going to be very tough as a juror to disassociate a deepfake voice of the defendant admitting to crimes if it has to be included in the case for some reason.

The slanderous implications are just harrowing. I never thought I'd live to see Australia make a law that makes your lawyer obsolete. How can they advocate and advise you which actions to take if you are not in full control of what you can project, digitally or otherwise.
and? few questions I have
- how much energy is consumed from Christmas lights each year? Or idling home devices? (Phones,TVs, speakers, chargers, etc) we don’t talk about these numbers.
-how much of btc’s energy consumption is “high commodity/demand” energy? Opposed to say energy from a remote hydro electricity plant that has a small or infrequent demand?
- what price changes that dichotomy between unused vs used electricity?

we need to use less energy all around, and use the energy we produce more efficiently. the grid is use it or loose it. So what is btc’s real energy impact?
If they're rounding to the nearest $50, they're doing it based on the final cost. They're not going to base it on a what-if scenario of having a cheaper development team. So it's more or less a 2% chance of the price going up $50.
Both of those jobs are very often performed my people with little to no other option to escape poverty. A poor kid growing up in WV in some bumfuck town may only have the option of mining coal like generations before him or joining the military to escape the town. Of course he could just leave the town on his own but now he's out in the world with no family or friends to support him with a high school education that puts him at the bottom of any job applicant pool. These kids are at the same level of advantage as poor kids in inner cities. Poor education and possibly a poor home life leads to limited opportunities which leads to a cycle of poverty that's hard to escape. Things like basic income and free college can really help those that wish to succeed and escape their economic class. To simply ignore the situations that drive people to join these jobs is ignorant at best and classist at worst.
There is an add-on called SponsorBlock that automatically skips the sponsor 'ads' in the video content itself.
I can't edit my original reply to you because I'm not on desktop right now and the mobile app I use doesn't support edits, but here's the response from the waycooler dev. Note he actually was talking about wayland as a whole, not just wlroots. Obviously it's just one take on the matter, but it's a credible one based on their background: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/issues/199#issuecomment...
They get away with far worse and equally obvious and utterly evil acts.
Too many MBAs and not enough engineers
i used to argue with the other middle schoolers about how dark forces was superior to doom because you could look up and down. it really did seem pretty amazing in 1995

dos gaming was great. you had to work to get games running but then you were rewarded with something like mech warrior 2 or privateer which couldn’t really be experienced on any other platform
> Half the problem is it's not really snubbing

If you were in the middle of a face to face saying something to someone, and then they suddenly turned around and started talking to someone else, is that not a snub? What's worse with the phone, the other person isn't even there.
Limitation breeds creativity.
You don't happen to know of a slightly more approachable specification?

A search for anything like "stream cipher construction" only lands me on the traditional "stream vs block" discussions.
>> to some type of corpus that contained a great deal of Roman numerals.

I wager that there is more text online about Louis XIV than of Malcom X. Certainly there are many more books on that epic corner of French history than one modern US leader. Then there are all the British kings. Point an AI at the internet and it likely would decide that roman numerals are most often pronounced as number than letters. Malcom X would be rare an exception that might need to be hard coded.
Perhaps, but that's off-topic what aboutism. What does that have to do with the story?
Critiques and debates are fine, but downvotes don't encourage discussion, they scream "shut up" and disincentivize speaking about the issue ever again, and downrank a viewpoint instead of leaving it up for fair discussion.

Because presumably, if it works like many other systems, if you get downvoted enough, you probably get banned, so it means I should be scared to say what I said again.

If people were interested in debating like mature adults without downvoting then I would have left it up and continued the discussion.
>Is there any details on what the current flagged/dead threshold is?

No idea. I suspect the details are kept so as to avoid abuse, but I've not read either-or from an authoritative source.
It reminds me of the loading screen patent from the early 90's. You couldn't have any user interaction during a loading screen because if you did you violated some patent.
Yeah, Greenwald has done some great things in his career, and then in the span of 3 or so years, something tripped in his brain that made him go batshit crazy and sell out the entirety of his soul and career.

If you "knew the people", you would know that about him, it's not particularly something he attempted to hide, which is why I make my comment of not being able to understand why you're paying for him. Why would you pay for somebody's outright lies?
I'm pretty sure Tesla refer to them as ECU.

Trust me, I'm more customed to use the term ESC since I play RC models and I don't drive a electric car, or any car.
See https://unherd.com/2021/09/the-lefts-science-denial/ for example
> The sheer force of will needed to cut them off from the global economy

It's already happening. China is no longer the us' #1 trading partner. Europe is deleveraging off of china. Canada is on the verge of boycotting the chinese olympics.

Even if there weren't geopolitical conflict involved, it's going to happen out of sheer economics; labor costs in china are no longer competitive with those in neighboring countries e.g. thailand, vietnam, bangladesh, and, for the US, mexico, and there is going to be a rough demographic transition as due to decades of one child, there are fewer entry-level people to take on entry-level low-skilled jobs in china (and basically no one wants to immigrate to china because the government has stoked chauvinistic nationalism way worse than trump ever did).
It’s an inevitable result of angry mobs (like this article and entire HN thread) and risk-intolerant corporations.

It’s impossible to test every image for accuracy and to guarantee it won’t happen again, so they just sidestep it entirely.
GNU Guix package manager is very interesting - https://guix.gnu.org/en/videos/2020/everyday-use-of-gnu-guix... ... Thanks for rec. There are so many interesting GNU projects that remain unpopular due to lack of publicity and / or poor UI / UX that it's sad when you consider the amount of man hours went into developing these projects.
> Then Google Maps was like, 'turn right on Malcolm Ten Boulevard' and I knew there were no black engineers working there

Silly Google TTS, the proper pronunciation is obviously "Malcolm the Tenth" there.
If you misinterpret someone's intent and the only outcome is a subjective emotion, that's all on you. So yes, intent matters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lyex2tSUyA
But they also lead to commits that affect a lot of lines and files and are much harder to revert without conflicts.
Okay. Why did you make an engineering discussion into a discussion about race?