skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
people want to make money, being rude to others often prevents that, “elite” schools teach “elite” students who end up in places of privilege, they then teach or pass those lessons onto their workers. wokensss is really just HR on steroids
Yes, actually. I live in the heart of downtown Dallas and was a fairly active Pokemon Go player for years, so I traveled all over the city to gyms and raids, many of which were at schools. I don't recall seeing a rainbow flag at any school at all. I do recall seeing them at City Hall and at a Raytheon facility, bizarrely enough. The only thing that stood out about the schools is how many of them had the names of confederate generals that never lived anywhere near Texas and they all seemed to magically acquire these names right as civil rights legislation was being passed in the 60s.

That said, I don't exactly doubt that tolerance and acceptance of gay people is being taught in many places, but I find this quite baffling as something that I am apparently supposed to find troubling and a sign of violent conquest at the illiberal hands of people advocating for tolerance and acceptance of gay people.
Actually, I say slavery is good, and abortion is bad. Who is right?
At the time, the US Surgeon General tweeted:

> "Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!"

There was absolutely quite a bit of false messaging on the point from authority figures.
Well, protected classes are arbitrary AF.

You guys need to keep the following question in mind when presenting an argument that is legalese nitpicking:

What if Trump (or whatever your political monster du jour is) redefined $statue_my_argument_is_based_on, would I still be arguing this way?

By the way, being against abortion might actually count as a protected class, since it‘s based on the person being of the Christian faith.
iCloud servers are not your property, they are Apple’s property. Even the neighbor terminology is accurate since there’s is an implied trust higher than a random stranger.

OP’s analogy is spot on.
Really? I don't like the subtle skeuomorph of trying to make it look like a book, but the colors seem benign. What problem are you seeing?
It’s hard to judge out of context. IMO None meaning “disable limiting” should be a docstring/comment at the method level, describing what its return values mean, not inline next to this code.
Nobody doubts Ivermectin for what it was made to do. Coronavirus is not one of those things.

Moreover,

> https://ivmmeta.com/

we're on "Hacker News". This is anonymous website. WHOIS is hidden. It runs on Google Cloud. Nobody is signed, they use mysterious "we". And what is "real-time meta analysis" - that's not a real scientific term.

You know, all and all pretty suspicious website, for what it claims to be.
For one, it looks like it. Posts are hard to find, not indexed by google, topics are mixed in conversation etc. Overall i find that discord has an unworkable model, it doesn't scale when too many users join user. It's like IRC + history + notifications.
How about using old hardware for longer and building optimized software that performs great even on old hardware?
How in the hell in the same paragraph do you claim speech and firearms aren't protected civilly (which is false), but figure privacy and/or non-explicit abortion rights aren't?
What a shitshow. I thought I was on HN not Reddit. This thread is worthless
That’s true from one perspective. From another perspective pro-life views have religion heavily mixed into it and religious indoctrination happens early without a lot of consent and can be viewed as a form of brain washing. So the optionality can be argued.
Legal peril is the definition of not being free.
One stupid thing? The person later reiterated their stance as:

"I don’t necessarily hate homosexuals, but do believe in Jack Kemp’s suggestion that they may not be the best teachers of young children in public schools and recognize that the spread of AIDS has a direct causal link back to their activity."
> So no, I don’t think just laying out raw facts with no context and explanation and simply hoping everyone educates themselves is good enough.

Again, it's not a matter of belief. When you call them "unbeliever" you're inviting doubt into it. This also goes to another vexing thing on the issue of how the general uneducated public deals with "climate change", the likes of online warriors and talking-point media personality and politicians, which is to say that the "science is settled", againt acting as if it's an undeniable fact that their interpretation of the data and evidence is not questionable. This too will not help prevent further damage to the environment, no the opposite imo, it's one of the main reasons people continue to talk and talk and talk, and no actual preventative measures are being taken that actually can make a difference. All of this is because the issue was politicized by almost all sides from the beginning.

This is exactly the kind of mentality that's giving fire power to the corporations and the people behind them that give two shits about the environment, the future of the planet, or life quality of next generations, to come up with counter propaganda that sways people the other way. So far it's working. It's beyond idiotic imo to think that bending facts or coercing an agenda will get us any good.
> The problem is that in reality, certain "merit-based" programs such as workplaces or colleges don't also align with the racial demographics of the general public, and it's a discrepancy that should make you ask "why?".

> Of course we want to only hire qualified people, but a disproportionate number of people of certain races were not given the opportunity to get those skills already.

Like all wicked problems, there are many reasons - not exclusively caused by one group. I'm the son of italian & french immigrants and I grew up in a poor neighborhood with many black/hispanic neighbors. I wasn't poor, I was middle class. In my observation (admittedly a relatively small sample), the differentiator between my peers (white and non-white, poor and not) was the parental emphasis or lack-thereof on education. My parents never made it beyond high school education, but it was assumed I was going to college. The friends (white and non-white) whose parents emphasized education have fared better than those who did not. How do you fix that? We can offer everyone the opportuntity to go get an education, but we can't change the parents' mindset to its importance.

A stable home environment and an emphasis on education at home would do wonders to advance these inequalities. To be clear, I'm not saying it "their fault", but there is plenty of "blame" to go around. Let's give people a living wage. Let's stop treating K-12 school like a babysitting service, etc.
This is bad.

Israel has something like this with "kosher" phones.[1] One man determines who the ultra-orthodox are allowed to call.

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-one-ultra-o...
Calendar as a tool to get things done
Property rights themselves depends on the use of coercion to deny others access and use.

It's a core inconsistency of right-libertarianism that the artificial creation of property rights are taken as an exception that is elevated to something almost holy.

But because of the coercive nature of property rights, there isn't a country on earth that doesn't have huge carveouts to reduce their applicability. Ranging from zoning, to regulations of what you can do on your land to access rights and easements.

Some more than others. E.g. in Norway where I grew up, a private property owner can't deny you access to walk through forests or other non-urban land, nor can they deny you the right to forage or camp, as long as you're a certain distance from dwellings, as such restrictions have always been seen as undue restrictions on the liberties of the public to the point where it was for a long time the only uncodified area of Norwegian law, as it was seen as so inherently obvious it didn't need to be. Sweden has similar rights in their constitution.

But left-libertarians reject property rights entirely because they see it as entirely incompatible with liberty to apply coercion to exercise a claim of land at all by denying others access.
Wasn't it more Christianity than the Roman empire that destroyed Celtic/Druid culture (noting that from the 4th century on the Roman empire was itself Christian) ? Druidism also disappeared in Ireland which was never invaded by Rome.

As far as I know the pre-Christian Roman Empire was very tolerant of foreign religions as long as they reciprocated by respecting the Roman religion. I'm not sure why Druidism would have been unique in that regard. Do you have any references supporting your assertions and explaining why Druidism would have been singled out among other pagan religions for persecution ?
Thank you, so essentially, it works as an anti-inflammatory, reduces overactive immune system activity and inhbits viral genetic transmission?

This makes a lot more sense than any other explanation i've gotten over this. Thank you.
It's a motivation people have, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it could achieve that goal. Another perspective is that bringing gender to the front and center will cause people to question the gender of people they're interacting with in situations where its completely irrelevant.
Not necessarily, Alice, Bob and Charlie talking together might not be representable through a set of <AB>, <AC>, <BC> interactions, sometimes you really need all three to be talking/listening together. Then the interaction is <ABC>.

This problem also appears in some physical materials where there are strong electron-electron correlations and so you can’t rely just on pair correlations for your calculations.
> 20 years ago, I prided myself with keeping on top of almost everything in CS. Now, I can barely keep up with the names of all the cool tools out there.

20 years ago CS was smaller in scope, simpler, because there was less of it. We have more systems, more complex systems, and in some point the body of knowledge grew so large that one human cannot know all of it.
Self-reply answering a number of points:

- I'm familiar with Eddington's "arrow of time" and the concept's fascinated me since I first encountered it listening to a lecture by Stephen Hawking, and reading his own A Brief History of Time. (The lecture was effectively a chapter from the book.)

- The question of whether or not all clocks are entropic has bothered me ever since.

- It's relatively recent delvings into origins of technology, and recognising that astronomy was in large part the science of time, as well as the fact that most of our historical measures of time were based on astronomical phenomena (the day, month, and year, as well as multiples and subdivisions --- reliance on nonastronomical standards is a modern departure largely undertaken for accuracy but not basis).

- In the Seven Liberal Arts, the trivium concerns data input/output and processing (grammer: parsing input, logic: processing, rhetoric: output), whilst the quadrivum is quantitative: arithmatic is quantity, geometry is quantity in space, music is quantity in time, and astronomy is quantity in space and time. That adds an additional dimension to astronomy, but again, the role of ancient astronomers in timekeeping, prophecy, and navigation remains significant.

Reducing my argument above to its essence, I like the formulation I arrived at in one subthread here, a variant on the "if a tree falls in a forest" conundrum:

If a dead planet orbits a black dwarf whilst tidally locked in an utterly dark Universe, does time exist?

Is the observer necessary?
Agree, and I have no reason to believe that international and national health organisations don't have their own fair share of shitty incompetent doctors too.
It's really sad to see someone assuming that just because you don't literally die of starvation that limited access to food doesn't have extremely profound, inter-generational effects to millions of people in this country. People in 2021 deserve to have access to food regardless of circumstances.

Starvation by definition doesn't mean death by lack of food. It means you are deficient and unhealthy because of it. Which absolutely happens a LOT in this country.
>He threw new requirements out of left field in the middle of demos that were not real requirements written down anywhere, but for whatever reason, we had to change course in the middle of development and do it anyway.

To me this sounds like the fundamental difference in approach between "agile" and "waterfall" (and underscores his accusation of the DoD using broken "water-agile-fall"; which is more commonly called "water-scrum-fall", but I digress). You can't use an agile process for a project whose contract demands requirements (and all that implies) up front. It would require a complete revamp of the entire DoD contracting process. Which may or may not be something that can or should be done, but with the understanding that it IS the way it is, for a very good reason: to prevent fraud. Which was a painful learning experience going back to the very beginning of the Federal practice of providing national defense. The current system is NOT perfect, but you don't throw the whole system away in pursuit of "cost savings" or you'll attract every grifter and con artist out there into this business looking to scam every penny they can from taxpayers.

>He's touting a lot of accomplishments here that are accomplishments because pushing broken functionality and calling it done is a very easy way to say you delivered faster than a normal DoD program that has to actually prove it does what it says it does.

100%. But dang, wouldn't it be nice if we really COULD do all this? And given my limited exposure to P1, and the traditional delivery systems, it seems to me there's a very worthwhile middle-ground to pursue. It didn't seem he was interested in pursuing an incremental approach. It seemed like very much an all-or-nothing mission to him.
Interesting. Personally, I feel that the Guardian, its readers, and government and media elites, are the ones in a toxic and dangerous love triangle. Do either of these ideas really mean anything more than "I disagree with the other side"?
You average user works on Ms Office, plays some games, uses photoshop and other apps that linux has some alternatives barely.
No libre office is not a replacement, GIMP is not a replacement, proton for games is not. They’re compromises. Same about Wine.
Im a linux+windows user. Linux is not even near when it comes to average UX.
Axios does provide information, it's just that rather than a long-form essay they distill a story down to a few bullet points. You are obviously going to lose something if you exchange essays with 3-5 bullet points. Nevertheless, Axios is unique in choosing this style.

I don't know how they did it, but Axios emerged out of nowhere and suddenly developed access to the White House, including under the Trump administration.
"Trust is gained drop by drop, but lost by the bucketful."
Taking something seriously is what I’m suggesting, not being outraged. Being flippant or intentionally over pedantic is dismissing it as unimportant or a non-issue.

It would be easy as a white person (as I am) to look at this and say, ah well it’s just an honest mistake. But this is just an example of a wider problem of AIs being trained on white people.

A while back I made the first automatic face swap app Face Juggler and I would often get complaints that it didn’t work as well on black people - I was using apple’s face detection so couldn’t do anything about it which was frustrating.

It might seem trivial but it isn’t. AI’s are going to be running more and more stuff that is a lot more important.
this is also already happening.

"If you Tweeted about BLM protests last yr, there's a good chance your Tweets were forwarded to the LAPD. Even if you don't live in LA."

https://twitter.com/ShotOn35mm/status/1434203354696019971

https://www.lataco.com/lapd-social-media-surveillance-protes...
Global Gas Price Surge Threatens to Dent the Economic Recovery
Resiliency and degrading gracefully is beauty.
Here is the tweet

https://web.archive.org/web/20200229123317/https://twitter.c...
Sure, they all support mutation. So do languages that are clearly not object oriented, like, say, ALGOL-60. (You can do mutation in Haskell, too.) So "mutation" is at least somewhat orthogonal to "object oriented".

What is object oriented? It's worse than "you can find an OO language that doesn't support feature X". There are (at least) two schools of OO, and they define OO differently. There's the Alan Kay school, where objects are independent entities that send messages to each other. And then there's the C++/Java school, where objects are less independent, and they call each other's functions.

What both of those have in common, though, is the idea of an "object", which is a bundle of a data structure plus code. In general, the associated code is the only code that can modify the data in the structure. (Yeah, I know, public data. But if you do that as your normal approach, then you're not really doing OO, you just have a bunch of structs that anyone can modify.)

An OO language, then, is a language that either supports or requires OO programming. Java, for example, requires it - a function has to be a member of some class. (Yeah, I know, it could be static, and it could not operate on any of the data of the class. Java still forces you toward OO more than C++ does.)

What about something like C? It lets you create structs, but it does nothing to let you restrict access to "associated" code, nor does it give you a way to associate code with the structure. (Yeah, I know, file static.)

I keep saying "yeah, I know" as I admit the exceptions to what I'm saying. None of this has rigid, clear boundaries. Still, there is a set of things that are generally OO, and a set of languages that generally encourage and/or support programming that way.
We use Cairo for all rendering. Cairo has various backend implementations, and when it gets a Vulkan backend and you're using Ardour on a system with Vulkan available, it will be used.

We're not going to write renderers at a lower level than Cairo at any time in the foreseeable future.

Also, most of the issues with slow rendering are caused by your video interface driver and/or bugs in Cairo that we provide a few workarounds for already. Edit > Preferences > Appearance > Graphics Acceleration has two options ... you need to try all 4 possible combinations to exhaust the possibility that we've already solved the issue you are facing :)
I think it that the entire web (excluding videos) is nothing but typography. Typography is not just about fancy flourishes and font serifs, it is about readability and how information is organized and presented visually. Granted, it does have a stylistic element (which is like adding chance to a board game), in that nothing is "perfect" because of culture and trends, but there are rules developed over the past four centuries that help make the medium more accessible.
Bit History: The Flathead (2018)
Methinks the lady doth protest too much (regarding the media reaction to this)
I don't think this is fair to you. Contrary to what Ayn Rand might think, society isn't a competition. Someone doing something impressive shouldn't detract from what you're doing, especially something like this which is (imho) a couple of sigma above the mean. Nobody, regardless of talent or repute, will have any trouble finding people and achievements to be amazed by (if they're honest with themselves). This obviously doesn't diminish their work and their worth as a person.

This all goes double for industries like this one that are all about self-promotion and trying to wow investors and employers by displaying technology-indistinguishable-from-magic.

Even if you did have an objective and rigorous measure of programming acumen, the fact that someone scored better than you should hardly be surprising, let alone disappointing. There's plenty of room for mediocre coders in the industry, I work with many. In fact I outshine them in mediocrity every day, but I still get paid and have a good time.

In conclusion: there is no time to feel sorry for yourself, there are too many cool new technologies to learn and use.
Nor were covid vaccines until recently.
>... powerful state- and local-level politicians were willing to kowtow to Trump and repeat his baseless lies in the fallout from the 2020 election. These are political hacks with zero regard for the integrity of our electoral process, ...

>I would call it a relatively new trend, and it is fucking frightening. They are learning that the more they corrupt the process, the less anybody is able to hold them to account, and their mendacity and depravity seem to know no bounds.

Yes, this.

It is something that I would never have expected in the US, because, to me, "unAmerican".

When I was growing up, I was extremely conscious that although I was British by birth, my entire family was Irish (from the republic). I fielded a lot of crap from people on account of my parents' accents etc; there were lots of problems in the UK because of IRA attacks etc.

My go-to place, my haven in my head, was that the US (although I realised even when growing up that many Irish-Americans were pro-Republican and supported extremism in the cause of a united Ireland) was bigger, better and as a nation above partisanship, seeing a world picture and being the leader in championing rights and fairness. Yes, a bit cut-throat and market-driven, but always in pursuit of equal opportunity and fairness.

I'd imagined that the US would lead the world into a higher plane - by example, and by sheer economic force: "you need our money, you toe the line".

Anyhow, I still cling to my childhood dream of America and Americans coming through for the rest of the world. In simplistic terms, as I saw that dream, that everyone deserves the same degree of respect because of our common humanity.

To restate my original sentiment, perhaps I was just wrong.
Babylonians discovered trigonometry 1000 years before Pythagoras
You need to correctly assign the churn event to the privacy issue. This is a) very difficult to do and b) not evaluated because churn relates to marketing, not product design.

"Wallet voters" live under the illusion that their intent is known and taken into account by BigCo decision makers. This is NOT the case. They just don't show up in reports. So what do you think they are going to do about it ? Nothing.

If you want to influence product design, you can talk about it online and condemn their choice. If that's big and controversial enough, they might do something about it. And ypu can do that while buying a new iPhone as well because it doesn't matter.
Oh boy. Who wants to train such a model? Imagine Google used this topic instead of their infamous cross walk recognition captchas.
Second graders aren’t “racist.” They see color differences, just like they can see if kids are short or tall or skinny or whatever. They are either taught or learn by observation to associate color with other things.
Which cloud provider can you store your images on that does CSAM compliance in a more privacy friendly way?

None. All the main ones scan your entire library of content you upload.

Apple’s solution is the most privacy conscious by far.
New Texas Abortion Law Likely to Unleash a Torrent of Lawsuits Against Education
This isn’t about computers. It’s about all the other things that have chips in them. Look up SiC chips in particular, they’re in everything.