skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Java was the only way to write applets and code for feature-phones early on.

That's not how it got its popularity. Applets died very soon (the novelty lasted like 1-2 years), and feature-phone apps were never a big thing. Unlike e.g. mobile apps that quickly overtook the desktop, feature-phone J2ME apps at the time were a peanuts business (and there were other ways, like native APIs from Palm, Blackerry, and Windows mobile edition - of yore, not their post-iPhone smartphone OS).

Java, even back in 2000, was big in the enterprise space and remained so (which is why Sun quickly emphasized that and let the applet sdk languish).
It may be more “toxic” for teen girls but it’s more degree than binary. It negatively affects the great majority of people involved.

Keeping up with the joneses and in vs out cliques in school are bad enough things that get amplified multiple times perhaps orders of magnitude more in a setting that promotes and encourages negative social behavior.

It almost validates the attitudes of anti socials.
Yeah, it's a fair point that e.g. broadcom firmware is a good target (https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/5420/Broadcom.html) because it's widely deployed.
> So, start a video streaming site and show that non-automated moderation scales to whatever scale you would consider to be a successful streaming site.

Why? I can want regulation of big tech corporations without building a competitor.

Are these humongous advertising companies even a net benefit to the EU? I doubt it, and if they aren’t, then why on earth should we keep them around as is?
The original clinical trials didn’t measure immunity, and, in fact, the claim from day one has been that the vaccines were designed to reduce serious disease and death.
the article itself compares Go's error handling to Rust's, so mentioning Rust in the comments is quite appropriate. Even if the article did not mention Rust, it makes no sense to evaluate a language's feature in a vacuum: comparisons with other languages ground the analysis in reality
By the way, the Max Schrems mentioned in the article has started an EU Privacy watchdog project:

https://noyb.eu/

Please suport them with an annual donation, they seem very dedicated and the work they're doing is very worthwhile (and have already gotten significant results).
I believe a serious issue with your “protect the unvaccinated” statement is it overlooks the amount of pressure they exert on our shared medical system. If your hospital beds are overrun with unvaccinated Covid patients, there is less room for others.
Gates Foundation's Annual Goalkeepers Report Finds Disparities in Covid Impacts
The politician was bombed/trolled with real letters saying that he is indeed '1 pimmel', since what he did was a real dick move. Also, he didnt have his own internet address, so.. https://www.andygrote.de
Why Amazon built a new warehouse on the U.S.-Mexico border
On the other hand, teens blaming Instagram does not mean Instagram actually has that effect.
Oh, nice! I never saw that in any of the supplemental materials I stumbled upon. Which Enterprise is on the poster? Do you have a link handy?
HW acceleration on Linux was fixed about a year ago https://9to5linux.com/firefox-81-enters-beta-gpu-acceleratio...
Sure, but that's not the point is it? What you describe is already easily covered by a general law against treason, in that they joined a war effort against their country.

The point here is the "confidential information" bit.
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Morals. Dearly lacking these days.
> If you don't have a vaccine by now, you want covid instead and this booster conversation is irrelevant

Friend’s mother visiting from Jamaica. People in her country are dying while they wait for first shots. The voluntarily unvaccinated in America are idiots. The author’s point is there are billions of unvoluntarily unvaccinated around the world to whom these doses could go.
> Facebook and social platforms in general are just very efficient in amplifying all these <insert adjective here> elements of our culture
Luton? I think some parts of London are more reachable from affordable places than others and that requirements do change when you have a family (more space and you may not need the best school but you don't want a terrible one). We live further up the Thameslink line and we get a lot of people moving here from London after having children, but it is a long commute.
Coal is not sustainable, but easier to replace.

Point is: Air quality in Germany isn't really that much of an issue, certainly there is no significant difference to France, while Germany has more industry and a higher GDP.
> it was created long long ago by Hollywood and the fashion industry.

It was created much longer ago than that. We've had beauty standards for as long as humans have created art, and probably for as long as humans have existed. It's probably biological to a large degree, although the manifestation has changed over time. As with many of social media's deleterious effects, they hijack, amplify, and distort our natural inclinations for their own purposes.
It's also why he looked like he was taking a shower the whole time. He knew he was lying through his teeth but he had to ensure he used wording that would make his statements technically accurate. I'm guessing he spent a month with his lawyers preparing what words he could and couldn't use in his responses.
Have they completely sequenced & assembled their DNA?
anecdotal I know, but companies i've worked with in the past hire freelancers do to the jobs the employees don't want to do.
> No, the response in this case was entirely pertinent

Yeah, they always say that. How convenient that it constantly involves bringing up Rust Rust Rust when the thread is nominally about some other language. Just look at other HN top threads, it's a common pattern when PL's are discussed. And it's something that people will mistakenly blame on the Rust community.
That's basically the idea in The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson. It's years since I read it but it's set in a world of nanoengineering where whatever you need can be created out of common feedstock.
Then the payment will be done by "underground payment processors" with a hefty extra fee. It wouldn't solve the problem I think, only shift the path an organization has to take.
Yes with that I agree. But we are already toxic, let's not blame Facebook for all our problems. And I just don't see how Twitter, TikTok or anything similar is better; maybe we should just say teens can't be on social media ? Unlikely to pass.
And this is the beauty of chaining and extension traits: you can define your own “shorthands” without much trouble, because it’s all in the normal type system.

Remember also that .map_err() need not be significantly different from that if block; it can be essentially just a slightly different spelling:

let data = some_call().map_err(|e| {
log();
metric1();
metric2();
e
})?;

But I would draw your attention in all this to the fact that you’re dealing with algebraic data types, enums with data attached to the variants; this isn’t just some nullable data value and nullable error where you can say `if error { … }`; in order to get at the data, you need to handle the error. This has profound implications that, once you’re used to it, will shape your coding style and techniques even when you return to other languages.

On things like metrics, I’d also mention that sometimes you may be better served by an RAII pattern, which can be made to be the rough equivalent of a defer statement in Go. Especially if you’re pairing start/end metrics, RAII can be particularly good at that.
Agreed, I'm not sure how any of this disagrees with:

"It is an explanation. The article does not propose an alternative to the imbalance explanation rather alternative focus of action to achieve said intake balance."

I understand the article wishes to point out we should focus on a different action but it spends its time attacking the current definition not because it has a problem with the definition but because it has a problem with the currently popular action associated with the definition.

The popular definition is fine, it's the popular "soluttion" to the definition they attack. The paper is much more clear on this.
I've never read it. Thanks, I'm fast-tracking it to the top of my "to-read" pile!
> For years they didn't do things like fact check posts or try to auto-classify racism, the site was fine.

I’m not sure that I would consider any site that contains virally-spreading racism and falsehoods to be “fine,” but that’s just me, I guess. Even HN is full of BS, but at least it’s contained to comments and can’t be republished with the click of a button.
I think for all disillusioned readers it's absolutely crucial to read this alongside the footnotes. But I've also seen people similarly disillusioned by books as recent as Catch-22.
Why is this ironic?
Four in 10 young people fear having children due to climate crisis
I'm a little skeptical knowing that Stripe never publicly addressed why they banned LaunchGood.

https://tinyletter.com/blauvelt/letters/looking-forward-afte...
Hundred and fifty gramer.
The solution is always just around the corner.

I'd like to wait for it to actually work before accumulating ever more of the stuff.
This uses webgl, right?
Maybe feedback to the user in case of missing support would be useful.

Else folks get stuck at "Initializing..." with an exception in the console. Not everybody checks the console.

(TypeError: can't access property "createBuffer")

Edit: stuck at "Initiating..."
ethnicity = race

race = something_else()

You're just redefining words, we are all still talking about the same concepts. This is unhelpful pedantry.
I used it to built my startup (currently bootstrapping, just me) and I have no regrets. The data model is relatively complex and the frontend makes very heavy use of Apollo features. I think the number one benefit in the backend is just having a well documented data model that isn’t tied to specific (arbitrary routes). For the frontend, using Apollo makes things like consistency very easy in a SPA since it normalizes all the data it receive (there’s no “data tearing” that tends to come when you load initial data from source A then update from source B). Also, using codegen for the frontend is chefs kiss (I hate manually creating TypeScript interfaces for API response shape, especially since they can get out of date easily).
Wage rises without solving the housing issue is only going to raise house prices further.

There's a bunch of potential solutions, but no-one directly benefits from them in the short term.

Any attempt to fix it will be met with sob stories about old ladies in multi-million dollar homes being "forced out of their homes".

So we'll all just sit and watch as things slowly spin out of control.
On each country it really depends. For the US, low wage immigrant workers don't depress wages that much but in high skill areas immigrant workers can depress wages up to 20% last time I read a study on the matter. So it's really about what kind of work and where. Lots of engineers have felt the squeeze on immigrant labor for years but since engineers don't usually unionize they don't bark as much and thus bare the loss.
Yes, but they're hesitant to do that because of the impact the wage increases (which then get passed on to consumers) will have on sales. There's this notion that companies could simply double or triple wages with a negligible impact on the bottom line or consumer prices but are just being dicks. Which is not really the case. Margins are just razor-thin. So you get in a sort of Mexican standoff situation. Who's going to blink first, raise wages, and lose sales?
If you are the designer of an environment that induces pathologic behavior in people is your fault or theirs?

PS: Where is the people that use to proudly say "with great power comes great responsibility"?
If you want the real version of incredibly talented young self taught artisan, check out ca lem. Vietnamese machinist youtuber: https://youtu.be/hpenv1ZqGx4
You've apparently asked a very interesting question, judging by the volume of replies!

The other replies here are mostly good, but I'd also like to note that "race is a social construct" refers to how "races" aren't really objective categories (What defines if somebody is "white"?) and more of a subjective thing, particularly at the margins. We can build classifiers that can match most people's (in our current cultural context) perceptions most of the time, but that doesn't make it a rigid natural phenomenon.

For example, I could build a classifier that looks at household finances and decides if people are lower, middle, or upper-class. I'd bet that I could get it good enough that most people off the street would agree with the results most of the time. However, that doesn't make "social class" some sort of objective, unchanging, universal truth. Somebody from 100 years ago would probably find us all to be upper-class. Somebody from the far-flung future would (hopefully) find us mostly to be near-destitute.
> We actually have an ongoing project to reduce the occurrence of these mistaken rejections by 90% by the end of this year. I think we’ll succeed at it. (They’re already down 50% since earlier this year.)

More important than that is provide a way for people to get this revolved without having to make the front page of HN.
I think what makes regret a bit different is that its malleable (you can change the function) and theory laden (it evaluates differently based on what you know).
> and a large portion are more than happy to spout things they would NEVER say in real life

This is pretty much an internet problem, not a Facebook problem. The things people say to each other on forums or Twitter or Facebook, especially when anonymous (but not always), are quite often horrendous.
> Also, I see you amended your original comment with a jab against me for the type keys post.

I didn't realize you were the same person who wrote that blog post, and I edited it to include it when I realized. I linked your amended version, not your initial version if that's of any worth.

And you're correct it's not closed. I still stand by that particular proposal is going nowhere. You can make any proposal you want. It hasn't even moved to the design stage yet in 3 years, so I'm not sure why it's something you hang on to as a signal error handling is changing. Take generics for example, and the years (decade) of work that it took.

This is unsolicited blog feedback:

Your blog and writing style doesn't read like it comes from a place of humility and learning, but from a place of authority. Sometimes that's OK, but in your case, feels unwarranted. And the constant push to get it on to HN or Reddit or N other platforms so it can spread... Thought leadership as an aspirational goal has never been something I look for in blogs I read (I recoil and go elsewhere when I sense this is the goal).

I understand it's hard work, and you want others to see it, but just someone else's perspective.

Some blogs that I really enjoy (and I hope others emulate so I'm sharing):

- http://neugierig.org/software/blog/

- https://brooker.co.za/blog/
So the goal with one of their many partnerships was 2021. Looks like they are launching with a different partner in Germany in 2022: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/mobile...

Sure, this isn't living up to earlier estimates, but everyone in this field has been way behind early estimates, often by years. I think Mobileye revenue was up >100% last quarter? Obviously pandemic recovery helps, but even without it, 50+% seems likely.

If they can keep having failures like that, investors are going to be really happy with the outcome.
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IMO it's because it's very dubious the AI is doing what the paper is maintaining it's doing.

People are not 'race x' or 'race y' biologically, as if race is some discrete set of features common to a whole population. Every individual has a set of biological features inherited from their ancestors which, theoretically, could include any or all so-called 'races'. Human beings have a continuum of features that is heavily interlaced amongst all the 'races'.

Putting it another way, if we were alien visitors, and had in front of us a representative sample of dead bodies from the entire world, we would be hard pressed to sort those bodies into 'races' based on biological features.

For example, we currently use melanin levels as a key indicator of 'race' today, but an alien, lacking the social context of the significance of say, high levels of melanin, may well consider it a secondary feature since its shared with otherwise unrelated people
> It felt like one crazy dude going on disappointing adventures and then it just ends with him dying, having regretting everything

Don Quixote is a very deceiving book if you don't understand its true nature. Looks like a sad and depressing history, but in fact Is a savage and dark parody.

The book is linked to a culture, an age and a landscape. We are probably unable to grasp a lot of references in a book written thousands of years before, so is a little like in the Simpsons, that small children don't enjoy so much (by lack of context) as adults do.

The author is a mutilated ex-soldier that has seen enough of the war to feel cynical about warmongers. He as a poor writer trying to struggle, probably envied the success of cheap literature and "pulp" histories from this age. The book is his personal revenge against the "undeserved winners". Specially against dilapidated nobility craving for adventures and glory and dragging lower classes to feed their wars and crazy campaigns and die for the cause.

To write a book criticizing the wars wouldn't be wise. Kings do the war, but he can target the nobility that thinks that is somebody but don't have any experience with war, working, women or the real life. And here comes the nerd.

Quixote is basically a grown man so obsessed by superhero comics and so clueless about society that one day starts driving around the neighborhood disguised as batman and searching for crimes in his bicycle. The problem is that he hasn't any money, talent or fighting skills, so the results are entirely predictable. Some people would find it hilarious, for other it hits too close to home and is not funny at all.

You shouldn't like Don Quixote, is just a crash test dummy, a freak and an idiot for most of the book. But if you meet personally somebody that fits in the stereotype, now you can enjoy each time he hits the ground, chooses the wrong option, and each time "a piano falls in his head".
> not sure if vaccinating outside of risk populations or to control hospitalizations if they are too high makes any sense

Based on this logic, flu shots are useless. As is any treatment without guaranteed success, i.e. most medicine.

(Note: prioritising vaccinating when hospitals fill up is programmatically, repeatedly peaking the healthcare system. It will do to it what repeatedly flooring the gas and hard braking will to a car.)
If you don't disagree with the monopoly statement, then start altering your speech to reflect it. You can use the phrase “(public) Git forge” and avoid using the trademark generically and encompass all alternative forges.
The same way that a "JAMstack" static site generator like Hexo, Jekyll, etc that requires some additional Runtime Cₙ, Cᵣ (or binary B or so on) helps you generate a static website from Markdown—except you're using a static site generator that instead targets the Runtime A (i.e. Firefox or Chrome or whatever browser you want) that we have quietly assumed is already available and is going to be used at some point, anyway.

From <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24495646>:

> [There is] a "packager" for putting together add-ons. It uses "node.js". All it really does is apply "zip" to some files. I tried to install the "packager" on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It had several hundred dependencies, and wouldn't run because of some version dependency in node.js for something totally irrelevant to the task at hand

From <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28518839>:

> If folks were really committed to improving the developer experience, [...] development would work like this: ¶1. Download the project source tree ¶2. Open README.html ¶3. Drag and drop the project source onto README.html

See also: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28407936>
I had a suspicion that there was a significant recency bias, so I clicked on the first 19 amazon links and looked at the published dates.

- 1988 - 1

- 1999 - 1

- 2000 - 1

- 2002 - 1

- 2005 - 1

- 2007 - 2

- 2008 - 1

- 2012 - 1

- 2013 - 1

- 2014 - 2

- 2015 - 3

- 2016 - 3

- 2017 - 1

I'm also reminded of the the recent post on The Creative World's Bullshit Industrial Complex [0]. There are some gems in here but I can't help but feel like a lot of them are just uninspired remixes of what came before. The list I want to see is of the "great management books". Ones that:

- had an effect on firms both in the time the book was published and in subsequent business "generations"

- influenced subsequent works of note.

- remain relevant to business today

Where is that list?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28459533
Yeah, Rei Toi came to mind straight away. Here's a more direct link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rei_Toei
"Yeah, we are going to need your chest x-rays to approve you for a loan."
China is a superpower. The future is bleak for Taiwan.

But India has nukes, Japan can probably produce nukes in short order, Korea is in a state of hyper-militarisation for unrelated reasons and the US, insofar as they are active in the region, have nukes.

It doesn't matter what the CCP wants, they might get away with Taiwan but it is hard to see what the follow up would be where Shanghai still gets to have skyscrapers. Most of China's success in the last 40 years has been economic.
This is my first exposure to Spasm (a wasm web framework where apps are written in D) and my first impressions are quite positive.

https://github.com/skoppe/spasm
I have no idea, but isn’t it the usual real-world case of “it’s complicated, and it’s both”?
Wasn't Bezos phone hacked by the Saudis?
Sorry to say that, but the fact that founders have to post on Hacker News to get necessary support from Stripe in case something like this happens, gives the impression that your reply is just reputation damage control, and nothing will actually change.
> This is the idea that GP is responding to - clearly there must be some biological basis for race, if an AI can determine race from an x-ray.

Not necessarily; they could easily reflect societal differences. Bone density could be affected by diet, or medical care received, or environmental factors in poor neighborhoods, which might easily vary by race without there being a genetic cause for that variance.

If it were a simple "all black people have a bone density of 3; all white people have a bone density of 2" you could pretty solidly conclude a biological component, but we're in the realm of small variances and probabilities that confound things quite a bit.

I think the most likely explanation for these results is something like https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/31/this-clever-ai-hid-data-fr..., personally. Especially with the 8x8 pixelation example.
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It's amazing how backwards we went from a sustainability perspective when you consider likely no one had this issue front and center as they did in the early industrial days.

We used reusable metals and glasses much more. Now everything is plastic.
Perhaps teen girl culture is what's toxic.
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