skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI: the author works for a right wing think tank whose stated goal is “to apply the riches of the Judeo-Christian tradition to contemporary questions of law, culture, and politics.” So no surprise that he wants to blame the supposed disappearance of absent-minded professors on… society not valorizing the women who devote their lives to supporting these men. How dare those women have their own ambitions!

Anyone who’s recently taken a STEM class at a university can verify that absent-minded eccentric professors absolutely still exist in reality. Go to any math department and look for a professor that doesn’t fit the bill (male or female by the way!).

My favorite part of this rant is when he claims that Galois would not last in grad school today because of his temper. The dude was killed in a duel at the age of 20. Apparently he wouldn’t have lasted long in his time either.
Questions as pot comes to work
> "So, you think that we should circumstantially limit constitutionally protected rights, for the greater good?"

Why, yes, I do. Ask yourself: what was the various civil rights victories and legislation for minorities, women, LGBTQ other than saying "We are circumscribing your rights, including ones formerly interpreted as constitutionally protected, so that these protected classes may be treated equally, for the greater good"? Sounds like you'd argue against that.
https://archive.ph/KK7fS
I get that this is what you think would be ideal, but this isn't true. Having a content policy is not "editorializing". Using that logic Facebook is "editorializing" by not allowing nude photos on the site. This isn't what editorializing means, this is just abuse of semantics to shoe-horn the idea that YouTube should be held legally responsible for content produced by independent 3rd parties.
There is a documentary on Frontline about cannabis. A guy had a medical marijuana license from one state. Cops in another state find a small amount of marijuana with him. He gets 5 years. Put that in proportion to a possible punishment Holmes may receive.
I hadn't thought of that, but this is hilarious, and illustrates my point perfectly.

If your compression algorithm isn't aware of the exact dither you're using, the decompressor can't reproduce the dither on the other end using only rules and image data. The compressor needs to encode every single dither pixel as an expensive "Hey decompressor, you're never going to be able to guess this pixel value, so here's the whole thing" residual value.

This is also why old image compression algorithms that were aware of simple dithers (i.e. a handful of fixed grid patterns) could produce small-ish images that looked slightly better than un-dithered, but still kind of bad. But then as soon as you customized the dither to use a more random looking pixel arrangement that looked significantly better, the filesize would explode -- because the compressor was blissfully unaware of the more complicated dither and had no choice but to encode all of the seemingly random pixels directly.
No pricing page link on the header or the footer? I scrolled the landing page 3 times but seemed to have missed it each time. I’m curious to check it out, but I can’t sign up to something without knowing the pricing.

Also, this is just my opinion, but that logo is super tacky! Is that intentional? If so, it’s kind of endearing. If not, I’d like to make you a new one :P

Best of luck! If your privacy situation is at good as some of the claims, you’re making the world a better place with tools like these.
I like the pcengines apu2, which I use as routers. They're also standard x64.
All the more reason to dispense with the current constitution that enshrines slavery and violence as protected rights. We nominally took back the slavery part but then recreated it with the prison system.
is= is dead, and Safari had good reasons for it. On mobile, so can't quickly find the rationale.

But it's the same rationale IIRC why built-in components are not extensible (even if this was one of the original promises): the browser has no way of knowing about the actual behavior of the object, which leads to all kinds of mess inside the engine.
Point of order: it's not JUST the US, it is most of the world.
I think this is a good proposal and have also been interested in an expanded version of this where the company donates $X to _any_ profit cause, but directed by the employees. This way you can pay Vim one month and the NAACP or the ACLU the next month.

An easier way to scale this might be to just have a set amount (say $10k/month for a large company) and a recurring ranked-choice poll open to all employees. The funds would be allocated according to the poll, with the winner getting say $5k and the two runner ups getting $3k and $2k or something like that.

This way employees don't have to do the work of submitting donations and filing expenses, as there's just one person at the company who administrates it a few days a month.
Thank you for sharing. You are the second person I have met who espoused that view of solarpunk. So maybe I should give it another chance.

I get the sentiment on “overthrowing capitalism”. Since encountering Carol Sanford’s work, I came to see that it isn’t capitaism per se as much as value extraction; and even there, there is a personal growth and developmental stage where someone or communities grow beyond value extraction to something else.

Sanford’s work have been very useful for me to understand how to identify and articulate the world view and paradigm from which people are speaking from.

As such, one of the things I think I see in art or discourse produced on solarpunk is clinging to a machine worldview while trying to work with nature.

Instead, if everything were seen as living systems, one finds the appropriate place for technologies and machines (and businesses and commercial concerns), then it isn’t even about working with nature as if nature were separate from our daily lives. Our role as humans are not about trying to save the planet, but rather, a _participant_ in the ecology as a steward. We’re not above and separate, but already interconnected.
Great point. I agree.

For context: I grew up Mormon, which I consider "cult-lite mainstream" on the cult<->religion spectrum. Having gone through that and left the church, I've spent some time deconstructing what influenced me to think the way I did as a believing member.

The best advice I can give is (a) make friends with people who are inside information bubbles [1], (b) people are motivated primarily by feelings and needs [2] despite what they say, (c) people often cover what they're really feeling with political, philosophical, and ideological language, which is often very difficult to decrypt to outsiders, and leads to significant misunderstandings, which usually serves to further separate and prevent friendship from happening, which is what's needed in the first place.

[1] see Daryl Davis (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-man-daryl-davis-befrien...)

[2] see Nonviolent Communication, a book that I place in the "top 3" most influential books in my life (https://amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Life-Ch...)
> In fact, the very fact that these companies have to spend so much time trying to make Ruby work well tells me that something is not right.

Did you just say that investing in language performance is a red flag?
Hey, that's fine, but keep in mind:

Black people don't want to be used as a political football.

Black people accrue psychic trauma every time another news story like this breaks. It's communal mourning.

Being able to "examine the issue" without being at this disadvantage is a privilege.

https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard...

We are all affected, but some much more harshly than others.
I'm not sure why I would request features when I can't install it, seeing as I refuse to let Google's apps make their home on my device.

Unfortunately I guess I won't be using your application.
Nah. Brandolini's Law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, explains why this will not work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

The gist of it is that making up bullshit takes almost no energy, whereas refuting that bullshit effectively will be very time-consuming. This is exacerbated by the fact that bullshit is usually packaged in a way that makes it spread way faster by, for example, exploiting social media "engagement" algorithms.

There are corollaries to this. For example, the idiom "a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth is done tying its shoes."
Good job. Alcoholic Dads, in my book, all need a good ass kicking.
> That line of reasoning doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Can you think about one time in history when you conclude "the government was right to censor this"?
Not all of which were part of the stupid category...
This is a different argument.

You're talking about the unvaccinated masses of patients.

The NY mandate was for nurses who worked throughout the pandemic.

We could debate the merits of mandated vaccination for the general public but this mandate is putting a squeeze on healthcare workers which will likely contribute to a worker shortage that will not be without it's own collateral damage.
A lot fewer people smoke now in the US than several decades ago.

So let's do it. Let's isolate and restrict the hateful, the angry, the irrational EXACTLY like we did smoking.
Paho-mqtt implements QoS and also has an option to store unsent messages to disk for later sending.
And in a few years everything will be forgotten. She will do a little philanthropy and be a hero like Michael Milken.
Ok, but how how do we maintain good work-work balance?
How do you propose to deal with unpopular opinions that turn out to be correct with this method?

Also (and related) how do you propose to deal with corruption?
We ban cigarette advertisements because there was finally a social consensus that addiction to tobacco products is harmful. But it’s still completely legal to get yourself addicted.

On the other hand, there’s no consensus about the harm from phone addiction. Maybe in 30 years we’ll ban iPhone advertisements.

Like I said in another comment, I’d rather we deal with the underlying conditions which may lead to harm, than try to suppress ideas.
Nobody is bound to that stance. Some people, myself included, believe that there is no line. You have the right to say anything.
Antifa/BLM are an actual, literal, manifestation of fascism. You're not absolved through your quasi-moralistic rambling:

https://twitter.com/Real_VinceJames/status/14427477015614873...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WyW13shViQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbtQpvMD2cc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZBzTm0hEY
I don't disagree. It's a good thing that people are confident that they can achieve things that others deem impossible, especially experts. That's real progress. The part that starts to cross the line is when someone starts making legally significant promises ahead of schedule.

Tell stakeholders you're working on it. Tell them you're ahead of everyone else. Tell them that the experts are wrong. Tell them it's coming very soon. Update them on the details of your progress.
Don't tell them it's done when it's not.
Open-Source Redis Inventory Tool Visualizes Redis Memory Usage Hierarchically
If you can extract the original halftone dots from the image, sure, you can create new mask layers using those.

But it's unlikely that you can do that, as, unless you're printing in a four-layer pure-CMYK process (and why would you?), even the best photo scanners will be unlikely to be able to capture enough information to tease apart the original offset-layers in their original colors, where halftone dots have overlapped to produce new mixed colors.

Also, you'll be unlikely to reverse the color-bleed effect of the paper to get out the original halftone dot pitch, in order to print new dots that bleed out to the same size the original's did on new, different paper with new, different inks.

Basically, this is as hard as any art forgery project (i.e. needing to match historical materials and processes and environmental conditions), but before you can even start the forging process, you need to destroy even more information by passing the image through the grid-sampling process of a scanner, and only then try to reconstruct layered vector circles from the resulting sample grid.
> They won't supply us with parts unless we have some sort of product interest, but we can't generate any sort of product interest unless we have some sort of website. It's very much a chicken and egg sort of problem.

Well I reckon that problem is now solved.
It is actually possible to do it without a managed switch (and therefore vlans). You just assign a separate subnet between your router and modem than what you use internally and put both router addresses on the same interface.
To me this is the key, I got the myocarditis symptoms post vaccine and notably none of the ER staff knew (or wished to acknowledge) that this was a potential sideffect. It's become heresy of the most dogmatic kind to not support the vaccine full stop.

Also it took an unrelated to this situation healthcare worker (therapist) to even suggest to me to report it on https://vaers.hhs.gov/ which is how they find out if the vaccine has side effects.

IMO we need to tolerate a lot of "free speech" in order to ensure the validly dissenting voices are not squashed.
The best part about your comment is that the video in question is fiction!
Governments already mandate vaccinations [of kids] in many places. Just not for covid-19.
Many people use https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/ now too, it seems people are moving in this direction
"We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook..."

- Jen Psaki 7/15/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0aWGsxyYPg
I mean, yes. I think that's fine. But that goes in both directions: if you're willing to sacrifice the speech of some for the speech of others, clearly either you aren't a free speech maximalist, or there is some inherent contradiction in what free speech is. Because if my free speech requires limiting yours, well...how do we decide whose speech is more important?
I give a couple bucks a month to a few creative people I appreciate. I don't get anything for it, and I don't care. I just want to support them. There's nothing majorly controversial about any of this. I read the article and the guy seems super humble and there's no degree of "pathetic begging" whatsoever. Great post (with a nice clean site design I should add).
Wow, I had forgotten how retro-industrial those Atari language cartridges were. I also forgot how rich the language was, given the constraints. Great memories!
If we could mail a free test and free mask to every registered USPS address once a week we could end the pandemic if people who are anti-vax are not anti-test.
Lexicographical Order Descent Assembly
Would the alternative, leaving it up, weaken her position? I don’t see a scenario where a decision by Youtube removes her hesitancy, TBH.

Knowing some hesitant people, the only thing that changed their minds was their MD.
CNN will no longer publish content on Facebook in Australia
Dita Von Teese: ‘Even when I was a bondage model, I had big-time boundaries’
Wow, I didn't know that. The first time I saw one was up in the Enchantment Lakes in Washington State. We came around a corner in the trail and heard the squirrels making a furious racket high up in the Douglas Firs above us. I remember thinking "hey, we can't be that scary, what gives?"

We turned a corner around one of the Dougs and there was a big Pine Marten scrambling up the bole of the tree, chasing squirrel for lunch. Mystery solved!
Ok, I understand what you are saying but I think this is a little different from “hiding the homeless” or putting them on a bus with a one-way ticket. I agree that people will just go further underground however it does stop the initial radicalization.

People are on platforms like FB, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, etc because they expect them to be safe (different people will define that differently of course). They also expect most (if not all) the content to be true (of course we know this isn’t always the case). Allowing lies, dis/misinformation to spread on one of these platforms legitimizes it for people.

As humans we are much more likely to believe content we see on a major platform vs myrandomthoughts.blogspot.com. That said, once radicalized on a major platform you might believe the afore mentioned site but you wouldn’t have given it a second look prior to that. So again, preventing the initial radicalizing by not allowing disinformation laundering on major platform does have an impact and stops the slide down for many, many people.
We felt like DeFi launchpads s*ck. Then, we reinvented them
We envisioned creating the fairest and most fascinating DeFi Launchpad to date. Did we get it right?

About DePay

DePay is an open source (chain agnostic) Web3 payment protocol which is truly permissionless & trustless. We allow your buyers to pay with any token they already own by converting it on-the-fly into the sellers requested asset.
How is this hypocrisy? The cake was about whether or not places should be able to restrict access based on protected classes (and in particular sexual orientation).

Being an anti-vaxxer isn't a protected class.
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I'm glad you got vaccinated. But... Can you expand on why you were hesitant because of censorship? Because if there were lots of serious problems with the vaccine, they'd be covered in a second on fox news. Meanwhile, a lot of people are hugely influenced by false stories on social media, it's just a fact, with recent examples being things like ivermectin and the 2016 presidential election conspiracies, and don't forget q-anon.

Since covid is so deadly if you get it, and there are basically almost no cases of serious health issues with vaccination and furthermore, vaccination is also almost guaranteed to protect you from serious cases, why wouldn't you get it? Have you heard rumors of some problems from vaccination?
I wish I didn't have to work 40 hours a week. Can I just go to some random plot of arable land that isn't cultivated and start farming? Can I just process it any way I want? US, circa 2021.
The underlying philosophy is nominalism, and it has been a major strain of Anglosphere thought since at least William of Ockham.
I've been eyeing a Dell XPS Developer Edition for a long time but other HNers told me it suffers noticeable coil whine. Have you noticed any coil whine on the XPS?

There was also a story 5 days ago that putting an XPS in a bag voids its warranty unless it is completely powered off. Dell says you can't just close the lid to put the laptop in a sleep state before throwing it in your backpack:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639952

(Of course, this could just be a CYA cover-your-ass clause that Dell's lawyers said to throw in to reduce lawsuit losses from lithium battery fires that affect all laptop makers including Apple. If the sales losses from this CYA clause's bad publicity are less than the reduction in lawsuit losses then I guess it's a win for Dell's balance sheet. I haven't seen any evidence that Dells are more prone to fires than any other brand.)

EDIT: I was just reading the linked XPS thread and it sounds like the overheating issue is due to a change in how sleep states were traditionally handled (S1/S3 etc.). This affects all Windows laptops, not just the XPS. A Linux XPS can actually avoid the issue if Linux sleep states are configured correctly, according to posters in the discussion.
it just do not work, usually only scientists know truth, and they try to let people help, no one care, until Rachel Carson displayed how to use emotions let people 'understand'.
The scandal is that it has taken this long.
YouTube is not a public platform and should be held responsible for the content they promote.
Mariana Trench: Security-Focused Static Analysis for Android and Java
The REST paper explicitly mentions that REST and HTTP only try to solve the common cases, and solve those well. If something is not covered well then you’re explicitly advised to leave it to another protocol. You could for example have a GET response that (due to HATEOAS) suggests a websocket url including a topic to subscribe to.
1) Fair point on ICU beds.

2) Yes, but lots of people make personal choices that cause their own premature death. We aren't muzzling obese people for trumpeting the values of an all-bacon diet.

3) True, but this circles back to the fact that vaccinated people also carry viral loads and if you get infected while vaccinated it's much less severe so it almost negates any longer term carrying argument.

The real point of contention is the unvaccinated taking up resources that vaccinated people need because if you're in the hospital for covid then you're running your life like an idiot and I can't get my broken leg fixed from when I broke it doing parkour last weekend.
You're talking about rights versus privileges.

It's a privilege to drive, not a right, thus it's reasonable that there are conditions around that.

You do have a right to an education but, at least in my state, you can completely exempt your child from vaccines and still send them to public school. But even if you don't, you have the right to educate your child in other ways (i.e. home school).
The "Balwani abused me and I had diminished mental capacity" is her planned defense in court as stated in the NRP article.

At the trial right now (in court), her lawyers hasn't presented that defense yet. Right now the trial is in the first step, the prosecution/state presenting their case. Once the prosecution/state rests their case, the defense begin present their case (at this point they will present their "Balwami abused me argument".
Hacker News doesn't like that link. Try this:

https://gamicus.fandom.com/wiki/Computer_Intro%21
Apple iPhone 13 Face ID Stops Working After Third-Party Screen Replacement
A private site like YouTube choosing to censor content on its own servers is not suppressing freedom of speech.

In fact, it is YouTube exercising freedom of speech by wielding editorial control over their own website.
I don't have the impression that Taleb's thesis is anything like choosing between two known valued bills on the ground. Maybe it would be more like:

"if you were going to hunt for $20 bills on the sidewalk, which park would you go to? Central Park always does pretty well but if you were to play 'double or nothing' for tomorrow's find, you couldn't guarantee that you'd find a $20 bill there just because you found one there yesterday."
One should wear a seat belt, of course. But that's not the question: the question is whether the State should punish those who do not wear seat belts. Given that they risk only their own lives (modulo the vanishingly-small number of folks injured or kill by bodies flung from crashes), I believe that the answer is unambigously no.

Wear a seatbelt. Don't fine and/or imprison those who do not.
I wonder if for some people there's the aspect of, once they receive money, they have to deal with extra complexity for income tax and whatnot? Just a guess, only thing I could think of (other than, like you say, pre-existing financial stability)...
Depends strongly on how your represent the accuracy of your test to those using it. If you are up front about the level of accuracy it should be fine.

But my limited understanding of this case is that the Edison machine was so inaccurate as to be near useless. So if customers had been informed about how bad it was, they would not have chosen to use it.
It's the easiest way to stack sats without forking over your government ID.
The founders allowed for rights to be revoked when the "weather" got extremely bad: agree or disagree?