skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It happens for Europeans too. White has come to mean everyone of European descent, even though there's tons of ethnic, historical and regional differences across the continent. Asia even more so. Africa is also very diverse when you take into account Northern Africa. The whole Mediterranean area had lots of groups moving around for thousands of years across three continents.
Woz ... always cleaning up after belligerent billionaires.
If you expect people to be running a WRT54G from 2002 or a WRT54GL from 2005, that's a fair warning. Those only had like 4 MB Flash and 16 MB RAM, and a single-core MIPS processor at 125 or 200 MHz.

When those came out, you were probably running a Pentium 3 with 512 MB of DDR2-800 and had an 80 GB hard drive. If you're still running that as your PC, be careful, because modern desktop operating systems and programs are also considerably heavier. Stick with Netscape for browsing the web, though there's a new browser called Firefox in version 0.9. Napster recently shut down, but yes, your old Tomato firmware should be nice and snappy while using Limewire over your DSL modem, FreshTomato, with all the options built in, might not fit.

This will, indeed, run best and be enable the most features when using a router that has a comparatively generous 128 MB of Flash, 64 kB of NVRAM, and 128/256 MB of DRAM. Those are no longer opulent or excessive stats. Wifi AC is out, treat yourself to something with MIMO antennas, a dual-core 1+ GHz ARM processor to run all the neat plugins you might want to use, and USB3 storage. Even with that higher power, switching power supplies have improved dramatically in the past few decades, both the router and the power brick will probably not be as hot as on that old router at the same time as they're doing more and doing it faster.
That would imply light getting scattered willy-nilly as it crosses any medium, which it isn't in case of transparent media...
We could argue about "general/basic problems" all day.

This post is about FB suppressing their own research, which showed that Instagram and its algorithm are toxic to teenage girls.

> We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,”

> Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression,”

> “This reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups.”
Since I do almost exactly that, I agree with the sentiment.

I'll go even further on one point: "Imagine if you could just send it the whole “page” worth of JSON" => why do you even send it as a separate endpoint? Embed it in your page! It works great with a SPA: the first load use embedded JSON, and next partial data refreshes hit endpoints returning JSON with the same format.
> It seems the UK has way more economic issues during this phase of the pandemic than mainland EU.

Tangentially related to this, I have heard little mention about how the timing of the pandemic may have been an absolute godsend and a lifesaver for the current British government. The consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns and travel restrictions on the international economy and world trade have made it the perfect scapegoat to blame for the impact of no-deal Brexit.
I was wrong. It's 5 minutes.
>we live in the 2021 century

I know I've been in lockdown for a while now, but what century is it?
Read another book. No, not Harry Potter.
[citation needed]

I don't know many such morally-absent folks. Perhaps the perverse incentives in our system mean a bunch of CEOs are quite sociopathic, but on the whole, people seem rather good intentioned to me. The internet certainly serves as a platform for many that would be otherwise shunned IRL, but I don't think they're the general majority...just the majority that decide to voice their opinions. The rest aren't even paying attention - only a small fraction of people have a Twitter account, for example.

Even reddit, which can be anonymous, is filled with good discourse, assuming you avoid certain subreddits, and sort by top. Moderation goes a long way to mimicking our more natural IRL tendencies to turn down the assholes. Twitter and Instagram generally lack those tools, so the assholes can be louder and _seem_ more prominent than they are.
Absolutely. Your application API and your data API have different needs and requirements:

You application API is churny, specific and tuned for certain screens and user interfaces.

Your general data API is, well, general, rate limited, concerned with limiting the ability of that expressive power to damage your system, etc.

https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html

One you get over the hump of splitting your data and app APIs, the next step is to realize that your application API can be a hypermedia API rather than a dumb JSON API, and you are off to the races:

https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-apis-vs-data-apis/
I haven't touched Java since 8 but I'm itching to get back in it. Any good overviews of Java since 8 and what was added?
This is actually pretty funny. In much of the American Deep South, even Americans from other parts of the country can't identify race reliably when sitting next to a person.

The notion that a classifier can reliably identify race based on an 8x8 grayscale is risible.
He must be particularly frugal then as the government doesn't pay you much to sit on your backside.

https://www.gov.uk/jobseekers-allowance
My dice used my immune system. Yours used whatever the f they decided to inject into you. Looks like I won!
Absolutely agree. We probably spend more time looking at and interacting with software than the real world! Love apps like Superhuman which prioritize calmness and serenity in the user's experience
Just for a second try to consider that you can not have the full mental picture of another person (simply because it would at the very least require brain at least twice as big as you have right now). So yes, in general, one should be very generous.

Let's take someone with anarcho-capitalism views - the typical answer by an ancap to the lead poisoning problem will be - suing for damages. It is not that ancaps want everyone to get poisoned, they simply do not want to give so much power to a single entity to decide for them. In their opinion, the danger of tyranny is a greater threat to the people than lead poisoning.

Or someone who is not necessary a proponent of free-market and such, but still sees a great danger to all the people of letting one entity to define rules. Not because they see that one particular entity as an evil (although trump's election could be such an example), but rather because that single entity is a single point of failure and when it fail - the whole nation fails. And in that mental model the danger of existence of such single point of failure is greater than danger of lead pollution.

(Similarly, someone who is in favor of regulations is doing so not necessarily because they are trying to build some type of bad `X-ism`, but because they see a great danger if lead poisoning not stopped right away. And that danger in their opinion is greater than the danger of whatever that may come with regulations).

I still believe that the majority of human beings are not evil and most of them would rather not harm someone. But I also realize that most humans will have slightly different priorities. When arguing, I think it is very important to argue about the same thing, otherwise agreement can not be achieved ever.
Trying to resurrect extinct species while we actively try to make the existing ones extinct is absurd.
I want to delete this
But I can't.
Comprehensive list of all JEPs integrated since JDK 11: https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/17/jeps-since-jdk-11
As the article states the biggest problem is onramp (just like with most crypto).

When using it for payments is that it is hard to make a case for a regular user (new to crypto) to use it.

The onramp is too painful/expensive/convuluted + payment is without recourse.

Joe Customer needs a really good incentive to use crypto. Currently this means something shady.

So only normal crypto use is for those who already hold some crypto.

PS I've looked for a good solution to this since 2011 and the progress has been glacial.
The issue with this though is two fold:

1.) You cannot have a nation of college degree high skilled workers. At least until robots and AI are widespread. Being rich is a lot less fun when you cannot spend it anywhere, because none of those places have a staff.

2.) Since people aren't having kids, and we love to saddle the future with liabilities, someone has to fill that void.

All the hot shot AI inventory management software in the world is useless without grunts actually executing it's guidance on the ground.
Probably one of these themes:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-risky-rush-fo...

https://qz.com/1971751/a-flood-of-spacex-satellites-started-...
"When it's a gold rush, shell shovels"

> Google Cloud will act as a network operator, offering its infrastructure to help Flow scale.

> Google to go after a chink in Amazon’s armor by branding itself as a developer-friendly alternative.

> Google doesn’t allow the actual process of mining cryptocurrency on its cloud services
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Is on Trial. Silicon Valley Is Watching
Please share figures and references. This is fascinating and of great interest to many of us. Thanks!
(Replying to disgruntledphd2)

> Well that's just lazy evaluation of function arguments, which can't be done in Python.

"Just lazy evaluation"! :) It's a pretty big deal. This is three-fifths of the way to a macro system.

> But if take a look at the Python data model, it does seem super, super flexible.

Sure, you can have a lot of control over the behavior of Python objects (some techniques of which remain obscure to me even after using Python for many years). But you don't have anything like syntactic macros. You can define a pipe operator with macropy, though -- it's pretty easy. But macropy is basically dead now I think (and a total hack).

> You'll still need strings for column names in any dplyr port though, because of the function argument issue.

This is major, though, because you can't do this:

mutate(df, x="y" + "z")

You have to do something like what dfply does, defining an object that defines addition, subtraction, etc.

mutate(df, x=X.y + X.z)

But that hits corner cases quickly. What if you want to call a regular Python function that expects numeric arguments? This won't work:

mutate(df, x=f(X.y))

etc. Granted, this only really works in R because it's easy to define functions that accept and return vectors. So in that sense it's kind of a leaky abstraction. But you couldn't even get that far in Python, because X.y isn't a vector ... it's a kind of promise to substitute a vector.

Give Python macros, I say! To hell with the consequences!
Fixing a prod issue by bypassing encapsulation and other programming practices sounds very much like accumulating technical debt.
Encapsulation may be a lot more verbose, but it remains the best way to isolate software modules, to write better tests, and improve the overall reliability of software.
There are tons of people coming into the hospitals in my part of the US who are completely asymptomatic but panicking. The solution to this isn't for everyone to wear masks, the solution is for the hospitals to redirect those people to their primary care physicians.
Do you mean "pyramid scheme" specifically or just "scheme"? A pyramid scheme recruits members for enrolling others into the scheme, and not in an abstract sense. Bitcoin is decentralized and there's no way to enroll in it, no one to enroll people.
Java5 and Java8 were monumental changes to the language… this update probably will have the same legacy. Can’t wait to see the benchmarks out of this bad boy once they get the compilers tuned in.
This doesn't make sense. Do you have a source that says repeated exposure increases your odds of serious disease?
Comparing the best image super resolution models
I think this is exactly what should and will happen to social media. We, as a culture, did very well without social media for millenia. The internet was fine without it too.
I wouldn't necessarily call that variation in consistency, but it's interesting you bring up the regional variations at McDonald's (Pizza Hut is one that has some /very/ interesting regional variations as well). This is something that can actually be jarring to Americans when they travel abroad, so much so that it's become something of a meme in travel communities for first-time travelers.

I think it's important to understand that it's pretty rare for a business to fail in its home market and succeed elsewhere, so winning in the home market first is important. A&W's home market and McDonald's home market is the US, and in the US McDonald's is /extremely/ consistent nationwide. It's probably the most consistent restaurant in any category.
> You've apparently asked a very interesting question, judging by the volume of replies!

Agreed, and upvotes too! It seems like I've struck upon something people have been interested in talking about.

> 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.

I certainly believe this to be the case, but when I hear "race is a social construct" it's almost always in the context of denying biological differences between the races in the same way that some extreme (though mainstream and influential) people take "gender is a social construct" to mean that literally all differences between the sexes are socially constructed including height, weight, strength, etc (otherwise known as "blank slatism").

That said, unlike biological sex, there are fewer valid social implications that we can draw from race (e.g., there are a bunch of social implications which fall out from women's unique ability to bear children, but no analogues which fall out from race) and we have drawn many false implications from race which have been tremendously harmful to individuals of different races, so if we have to reduce everything to a slogan or a binary (as our simplistic society increasingly demands), then "race is a social construct" isn't a bad one.
So many places with obtrusive security presence, security checkpoints, etc; still have a side door propped open around back somewhere that lets you wander through the "controlled" area freely.

The "defensive design" things like bollards and big planters that block walkways are like rung 1 (or 0.2, perhaps) on the "defensive earthworks" ladder. Its a well studied field and there's counter-actions available for most of that kind of thing. An attack may become more expensive to prepare and require more resources in flight but the bollards and defenses can be hit first and removed.

Judging by the results off all the upgraded security measures since 9/11; we can see what is actually feared.
Regarding taste tests, it's common for very sweet drinks to win because they give a small amount to taste. The experience of drinking the normal serving size (in the US) of 12oz is a different beast.
Most farms are like that in the UK, they are completely dependent on government subsidy.
https://ondro.inginea.eu/index.php/new-features-in-java-vers...
A lot of that learning experience depends on context- I had a nerdy, young (early to mid 20s) high school teacher teaching classic and not liturgical, many had strict Catholic school nuns.
So your solution to inequity is to pull the ladder up behind you? What did you DO to deserve to be born in a Western nation?
> I'm relatively seldom worried about actual side effects

I'll give you one concrete example: In a number of ORMs, I have no idea when database calls actually happen and this can lead to a) subtle logic bugs (inconsistent state), or b) bad performance (N+1 queries).

I've had such problems both with Ruby's Active Record and Hibernate, two of the most popular ORMs. I've even deployed code that had subtle bugs, even though I wrote tests, because while my tests verified that the correct state of the object was written to the DB, the updated state was not reflected in the JSON response object. I'm sure similar things happen in other frameworks as well.

A PFP can prevent that sort of craziness from happening.
> relaxed gun laws make it easier for criminals to shoot people

A little O/T, but this trope needs to please stop.

The places with the highest gun crimes are also the places with the toughest gun laws. It should go without saying that criminals without definition would not care about laws.
I believe that's a shortcut to measure WBT directly. By it's nature, WBT are affected by other variables such as humidity and atm pressure, etc... , so it's a derived unit: Twb = F(T, H, P...).
As a derived function, you tweak its scale as much as you like, you can take T = C*2 and that solved your problem.
According to the article Facebook’s own research found that while it is a problem for all social networks it’s a significantly more pronounced problem for Instagram in particular:

> They came to the conclusion that some of the problems were specific to Instagram, and not social media more broadly. That is especially true concerning so-called social comparison, which is when people assess their own value in relation to the attractiveness, wealth and success of others.

> “Social comparison is worse on Instagram,” states Facebook’s deep dive into teen girl body-image issues in 2020, noting that TikTok, a short-video app, is grounded in performance, while users on Snapchat, a rival photo and video-sharing app, are sheltered by jokey filters that “keep the focus on the face.” In contrast, Instagram focuses heavily on the body and lifestyle.
The features that Instagram identifies as most harmful to teens appear to be at the platform’s core.

> The tendency to share only the best moments, a pressure to look perfect and an addictive product can send teens spiraling toward eating disorders, an unhealthy sense of their own bodies and depression, March 2020 internal research states. It warns that the Explore page, which serves users photos and videos curated by an algorithm, can send users deep into content that can be harmful.

> “Aspects of Instagram exacerbate each other to create a perfect storm,” the research states.
The TP-Link TL-R605. It says a bunch about "Omada" and I still don't really get what that is. Don't worry.

And yes, Amazon et al DO NOT HELP because all of the little boxes look exactly the same, and Amazon will happily recommend the wrong thing. This was how I learned that you can return things at Whole Foods easy.
Facebook studied it internally and covered it up in congressional testimony. That's literally what the article is about
There is standard set of beauty see https://imgur.com/a/j0Llx02
I found instagram extremely useful they have great algorithm for finding cute girl which is daily source of masturbation.
> BBC/Channel 4 knows I’m not actually in the UK. If anyone has any idea how they’re getting my location I’d be curious to know

Plenty ways to figure out you're connecting from behind a VPN. Aggressively filtering for well known residential address space, detecting suspicious changes in traffic patterns from shared blocks/IPs used by VPN companies, detecting split DNS behaviour, detecting much higher latency and/or lower TTL between the client and server than what's expected/average within that public address space, detecting unexpectedly low MSS/MTU on the segment behind NAT, ...
There’s a serious disconnect between public health experts and the general public, and the experts have continued to not learn that lesson over the last year plus. It’s mind-boggling.

Earlier in the summer, we lifted mask mandates “because the vaccines were preventing disease”, and regardless of the technical facts behind that decision, the perception was reality for the general public. Now they are trying to walk that back to “vaccines prevent serious disease” in the face of delta breakthroughs but the baseline had already been set.

Not to mention the fact that experts continue to pedantically stick to their definition of serious disease as “needed oxygen in the hospital”, once again out of touch with the layperson’s opinion that a week of debilitating sickness at home followed by a month of weakness until full recovery seems pretty “serious” and something people do not want. Boosters are appealing because laypeople don’t want any serious-by-their-definition disease and experts seemingly are incapable of acknowledging or understanding that, let alone their part in creating confusing messaging (partly to appease a 3rd set of people who ironically don’t really want to hear from them at all).

Public health officials need to understand that their primary job is managing public perception of a situation first and foremost. They can go push their glasses up and pedantically spout off technical corrections behind closed doors as much as they want, but in public they have to connect and empathize with normal humans.

Part of this probably comes from medicine’s continued promulgation of their air of expertise (read: superiority) that they’ve affected for a long while, but things like compassion and bedside-manner at lower importance. I worked in medicine and studied public health, and this status-over-all-else attitude was one of the reasons I left.
I really appreciate your comment. I still think my theory seems reasonable, but we should all be clear that a theory which "seems reasonable to some people" is very far something which is scientifically proven or even likely.
Much of what you say about hormones has been considered scientific fact for a long time -- but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the facts have been banished by political correctness.

Plus, Facebook is indeed a harmful product for society at large (like cigarettes), and often has bigger negative impacts on younger users (again like cigarettes).

The combination of these is obviously bad...but Facebook knowing it and hiding the fact is very much (again) like what tobacco companies did.
I think the misinterpretation is mainly by the media and the general public. When most of your population is vaccinated and most of the serious disease is in the unvaccinated, you need to report by rate and vaccination status as the Ontario Science Table [1] now does (rather than absolute case numbers).

Simpson's Paradox is more of a data artifact that you have to be aware of. I didn't know about this statistical anomaly before but the takeaway is that if you see a effectiveness percentage decrease from 97% to 77% then you should also check that the value in each age cohort because each individual cohort may surprisingly be above 90%. The Israeli data might be fine but I want to see the "age corrected" range rather than a single effectiveness number.

The bottom line is that we will get good data moving forward from the Israeli 3rd dose program with other quality data sets soon to follow from the U.S., UK, Canada, Singapore, etc.

What we have not yet seen is any good evidence that the vaccinated are contributing to spread, though in the Fauci interview he indicated that the R(t) in the unvaccinated was non-zero. This is an important question, IMO.

[1] https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/ontario-dashboard/#riskbyvac...
not even go developers find the error handling adequate. Since if it was then slice acces would return an error rather than panic.

a,err:=slice[i]
...
It seems that prior exposure to common cold coronaviruses doesn't provide significant immunity against COVID-19.

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2021/februar...
Obviously the fix for this is to let the one that wants to have the satellite in that orbit pay for the cleaning of that orbit instead of some government.