skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's a sockpuppet - I read it as a criticism via satire.

The idea is that any rule you apply should be done fairly and, where that isn't clear, equally.

So as an example. If I say "Pepsi tastes like cow urine", and a corporate shill from Pepsi who has built their self-worth around the company and spent most of their life defending themselves from the usual Pepsi-bashing jokes by bullies telling them that Coke is better, and maybe they fall into some protected class and maybe they don't.

Now, their complaint is valid and their hurt is real. But the intent of the original comment was not to bash this person (or corporation) - it was the spirit of valid criticism.

If the intent is removed from the evaluation of the rules, nobody is safe from those who would manipulate the rules and pretend to be the hurt party to the benefit of a corporation.

[Note: I've re-read everything that person said, and now even I'm not sure. It feels to me like highly honed satire, and if it is, hats off to them, though they've maybe forgotten that a large portion of the Ruby team is not natively English speaking - hence their PR got accepted. If it isn't satire... well, they're not gonna read this, so it would be a wasted education]
Why would "supporting the artist" be relevant at all? Apart from NFTs whose smart contract gives the minter a share of resales, I have never heard anyone say that.

And definitely not in relation to the $90 profit.
Old people arent idiots they can learn.
My 66 year old mom is cashless, does her banking in an app and orders groceries online.
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The company/main developer seems to have ties to the alt-right
https://nitter.42l.fr/WPalant/status/1281540005190672384
Biden is about to get on >> https://natrmd.com

He admitted that he really needs some genuine help to save him from this age related damage that he is having!
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The problem is that the "expert" who wrote the blog posts is not an expert in the subject of the blog posts and he's talking about subjects that a particular group of people, other Greeks who, like me, grew up reading our ancient history as other kids read Marvel comics, know very well and have their own strong opinions about [1].

I agree with you that we should trust the opinions of experts. However, expertise is not only acquired through professional interestes. The opinion of professional experts cannot automatically trump the opinion of everybody else, regadless of their amount of knowledge.

In any case, it should be noted that a blog post like the one above would never pass muster as an academic text, like a scholarly paper or a textbook chapter. My main beef with the blog posts above is that they express strong personal opinions in a manner meant to cause an emotional response- which should never be what a historian does.

___________

[1] Typically, those are nationalistic opinions that I don't share, btw. But there is something to be said about everybody and their little dog wanting to tell you all about ancient Greek history, but completely ignoring what Greeks themselves think about it.
This touches upon the main issue with NFTs and tokens in general, that they always have to rely on a centralised authority to connect them to the real world, and except when it comes to derivatives on crypto assets, that real world connection is crucial.
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Man joins his own search party
And the Wifi router is at least under my control (although depending on where you live and which ISP you use even that isn't necessarily true), so I can still set up some port forwarding for my internal devices as required. Because of the shortage of IPv4 addresses however carrier-grade NAT is becoming more and more common, which is truly an abomination.
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> Since for many (most?) people, the word “google” is a verb meaning to search the web

I've started to really oppose that, and avoid it in my own speech. ('search' is fine.)

It may sound like a stupid trivial thing, but language is so.. powerful/important, and I don't need Google ingrained in mine. It was difficult/didn't come naturally at first, but now I use 'search' without thinking about it, and if anything it sounds weird to me when others say 'google'.

I also think if I were Google ('s lawyer, or in some appropriate/ly-senior position or whatever) I wouldn't feel great about it - it's surely quite damning in any competition law cases on search?
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In C# you just declare them as dynamic if you wish to emulate the ways of JavaScript.

People keep forgetting Basic is dynamic and .NET was designed to support it as well, additionally it got improved with DLR classes to support IronPython and IronRuby projects.

So you can co type crazy in C#, F# and C++/CLI, or just get hold of those dynamic features.
S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge from 'Squid Game'
By the same token we shouldn't need all that crap in omnibox either. It is all about the quality of information and decluttering
> Not to mention the implication that harrasment is somehow ok against people who are not members of the protected class?

The GNOME CoC gleefully states they will ignore complaints of racism against whites and sexism against cis men because "we prioritize the safety of marginalized groups over the comfort of privileged groups".
Interesting everyone in the Netherlands who has a back garden paves that shit over.

Guess what gardening takes time and effort and ain't nobody got time for that!
More Than Half of Police Killings Are Mislabeled, New Study Says
THIS. IS. SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Come on. Someone had to do it. Shields up)
If they weren't on the blockchain they would just be jpgs. Nobody would pay 100 k for a jpeg of an ape.
Wow that looked amazing. How monotonous was it on a day to day basis?
I also suspect there's a personality aspect. Software engineers make good money, but that's not their primary, or only motivator. They're willing to trade a bit of that income for QoL.
NFTs are not baseball cards, they're not JPEGs, they're none of this.

They are emblems of buy-in to a community or idea. Think of it like the next generation of crowdfunding.

Most of what people are saying here is really ignorant of the reality on the ground to be honest, so it's hard to say anything other than-- ya'll really don't see it, because you haven't bothered to look.
The Lancet study"Fatal police violence by race and state in the USA, 1980–2019: a network meta-regression" that the article refers to is available online at: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
>If a mathematical statement has no proof within ZFC we (usually) don’t call it a “truth”, regardless of if it is true or not.

I'm not sure I understand what this changes to the overall situation. Remember that a formal system also can't prove its own consistency, so you can't just ignore bits that you don't like and expect that it doesn't matter, it's possible that one of these "true but unprovable" propositions would actually render your system inconsistent, in which case it ought to be addressed.

I mean in the end Godel's own proof effectively relies on this: he builds a proposition using the rule of the system saying "this proposition has no proof" and at this point you either have to accept that the proposition is incorrect, but then your system is inconsistent (it can be used to derive falsehoods) or that it is correct but then the system is incomplete. So you may decide not to call it a truth but you also can't really call it a falsehood.

I would also wager that mathematicians generally prefer incomplete to inconsistent systems, if which case you have to accept that these unprovable propositions are indeed truths.

It's like the "does the set of all sets not containing themselves contain itself" paradox, you can't just ignore it as irrelevant because it puts into question your entire formal system.
This email really challenged the way Professor Klein did his thing, which can make it hard to muster one's best self.

Curiosity would have been a better response: What's going on for the student who's sending it? How about for the students of color? Really get a personal understanding without an agenda. Find out what you're missing. That attitude by itself could really settle things down.

In a school of management, he obviously mismanaged the situation, because the end result was loss of income for himself. I'm guessing that his preconceived
notions prevented him from seeing the considerable power that demands for racial equity carry in organizations nowadays, even when they come from people low on the totem pole.
Was Copernicus ever imprisoned? I think you might be thinking about Galileo.
This is a fantastic talk. I've watched a couple of different versions of this.

Towards the end he spoke about something in passing that's stayed with me.

Through out early/mid 20th century different mathematicians created their own theories of mechanised computation. Turing machine, Lambda calculus, SK combinators etc., However over they all turned out to be equivalent; for example Church-Turing thesis. So this leads one to believe strongly that mechanised computation is "discovered" rather than invented. Also it is a good indication that the computing theory is on a solid foundation.

However, when it comes to distributed and parallel computing theories have been proposed but no equivalence has been found (or at least proved). It's an active field which he hopes will result in a similarly solid foundation for the distributed computing. At the moment it seems to be on a shaky ground.
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The first version contains a FAQ component.

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This post might as well have just been titled "Launch House is really out of touch"
If this hypothesis (they’re starting companies of their own) is true, why not show any data on new incorporations or number of new startups? Very doubtful of this. Funding amounts could be increasing because of more capital; valuations could be increasing due to that capital chasing fewer opportunities.
It was there behind a OS setting, but most features were available by extension anyway.
Still no float rendertargets, which is more of a pain than anything else
Good news, the EU realizes that as well. Starting May 2022 all new cars sold in the EU need to support Intelligent Speed Adaptation: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/european-union-speed-limi...
Commenting on this separately:

>> I explicitly quoted you, not trying to put words in your mouth. I do think that "read [sources], and make up your own mind" is exactly the same as "do your own research". I can't see any difference in meaning there.

This is what you wrote:

begin_quote

> And so on. Read history; and make up your own mind.

I'm of the opinion that this "do your own research" is generally bad advice.

end_quote

So you quoted me, but then you also quoted "do your own research" as if that was what I said, not as if that was your interpretation of what I said. In the future, if you wish to discuss your interpretation of the words that someone acually said, I suggest you make this more clear. For instance, instead of saying 'this "do your own research"' say something like:

"I interpret your suggestion to "Read history" as a prompt to "do your own research" because ..." etc.

Because if you just put words in quotes and then reply to the words in quotes, what am I supposed to do? I didn't say that thing, so should I just ignore it? Are you replying to what I said or to something you just felt like replying to?
Yeah come on it should be pretty simple to explain why Bitcoin has value. It's because there is demand for it, for whatever reason. A "scarcity theory of value" feels like someone hamfisted the labor theory of value into the cryptocurrency space. No, even if labor is scarce and precious then making beanie babies for which there is basically zero demand (I assume) is still producing no value.

I'd say most of the value of Bitcoin comes from the ability to do payments that are not possible in the current legal system. Some of them may be illegal. Some of them might be genuinely useful like in El Salvador.
What will come first though, POS or fusion power dominating power generation?

Every estimate so far has been wrong.
I believe it is correct to say there are undecidable theorems in some limited type systems which cannot be proven, but which can be once you extend the type system (e.g. by making it higher-level or dependent).

So in those limited systems we know there are things that are "true" or "false", but which can only be proven when we have a superset of the original tools available.

And by extension, maybe in our more complete type system there are things which can't be proven yet, but could perhaps be if there were better tools available?

Maybe another angle to look at it: one of the things which is difficult to prove is the halting problem. Maybe you can't prove that a given program will terminate. But you could run that program and watch it terminate, and then you'd know it does. In that sense there is a "true" answer, but one which couldn't have been proved in advance from type theory.

But I admit I only have a high-level understanding of these things. Type theory and axiomatic mathematics is something I'd like to know more about.
It makes sense to be objective rather than assuming good intentions.

Assuming good intentions enable troll to engage in endless sealioning.
> CoCs themselves, and the wider identity politics culture war, are also extremely Ameri-centric.

An idea can be both a good one and political. And indeed a good idea while Ameri-centric.

The risk is that this might be a status play by authoritarians, who very rarely have good ideas and typically do a lot of damage once they get in to power. I suspect actual minorities & protected classes are more worried about authoritarians than racist jokes. If they aren't they should be.
To me the more likely use seems not a pump-and-dump scam but rather money laundering - get a plausible and legitimate money trail as "capital gains from digital art investment" from some dirty bitcoins coming in from, for example, a ransomware payout.
> However, he definitely could have left out the sentence comparing the suffering of people experiencing racism to people who are afraid others might think them racist.

The student letter didn't ask for special treatment because black students were suffering because of experiencing racism themselves, but that they are suffering anxiety because an unrelated black person was killed by racists. In terms of practical negative impact on a person's life, people thinking you're racist will probably make things a lot harder for you than "someone who vaguely looks similar to me was murdered on the other side of the country".

Now, I'd hope people wouldn't be dumb enough to think someone is racist just because a high-profile racist incident happened in their state, and in that case, the above wouldn't make sense, but we did see a bunch of people become violentl against Asian people just because a virus was allegedly first found in a Chinese town, so it might be a very real possibility.
Unlike NFTs there is at least a (physical) product.

(And even in the digital version, you have a limited digital item in a verified/trusted (digital) environment, backed/supervised by an entity (company). In crypto you're backed by a concept (an algorithm))

To me this whole crypto stuff seems like a bigger and better incarnation of the tulip mania (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania), very little crypto stuff /coins are backed by anything of intrinsic value. In a way it's the ultimate decadence.
Sure, but it has a different address...there is no possibility of confusion. Something from the 1950s is not going to be confused with something from the 1980s, especially with a blockchain timestamp.
We've got a lot of lawsuits on our hands then.
It is, but it isn't as widespread as some thinks it is. Old school techniques like decision trees perform better for almost every ad tech tasks and are much cheaper, so if you can't do those you are basically worthless in the field. But sometimes a neural network is actually useful.
> Also the smile my niece had when the car mechanic was explaining to him how he could

Apologies if it was just a typo, but in case English is a second/nth language just FYI that your 'niece' is your brother or sister's daughter; I think you mean 'nephew' (brother or sister's son).

(And, er, if a niece 'identifies' as 'he/him', then I would assume (but who am I to tell them etc.) they would also identify as a son and a nephew thenceforward.)
Genuine query; why aren't you just building it directly for the web, instead of inside UE?
You'd pretty much have to start from scratch switching between clouds even with Terraform. All the providers map pretty closely to the underlying nature of the resources defined in other clouds.
Since other people are popping their projects up here that meet these criteria have ours as well. It's a full game making/playing platform called dot big bang where everything is done in the browser.

https://dotbigbang.com/

We're about to release a new social hub today and our user facing release of our TypeScript based scripting very soon.

One really nice thing about the web is that it works anywhere you can find a browser. So we run on smart fridges and thanks to MS including Edge on the XBox accidentally launched on console last week. Was a pleasant surprise to find full controller support and all our editors working!

Web games also let you do other neat things. We built a game with Day[9] one of the OG streamers and due the wonders of deep linking could open up the game to his entire chat. A short highlight video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs1p22oI_V4

We're also hiring a bunch of roles here: https://controlzee.com/#jobs
Of course they are. Next they sell to the same gullible audience as every other Ponzi scheme.

After all, they need a new communications solution for their next January 6th event after Parler handed over their comms and that sweet ultra secure alt-right phone turned out to be a rebranded budget set.

It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.
This is really a fantastic article. And IMHO, it should be must read by every startup founder out there. The nuggets of knowledge shared here are truly incredible.

He writes about startup hubris, about the meaning of an open web, about empowering your users.

Amazing article. Thanks for posting it.
Sorry, but are you saying that the blog posts above are an objective analysis of historical sources, without "biases, [disagreement], making things up" etc?

No, seriously, when you read that blog post, did you think "ah, that is an objective analysis of history, without any personal opinions or any attempt to promote an agenda"?

Because that's not at all what I thought!
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Community comes up in every facet of life...what's your point here?
I saw part of the burst and to me it was immediately clear what it was. Also, the timing of the boom arrival helped determine the distance with good precision.

Thoughts, 'WOW', 'COOL', 'Did somebody film that??', and, of course, the rest of the workday was not very productive. It was nice to see that so much footage made.

One thing footage doesn't show is, however, the heat: the radiation was intense and open parts of the skin did feel hot, like , REALLLY BURNING HOT. Had it lasted longer, there would be burns on everybody.
The rapid increases in compensation right now isn’t even the primary motivator. That’s the icing on the cake in case you weren’t sure.

In the big companies senior developers are tired of the failed institutionalism. Most large companies I have worked at are Java shops and do everything the same way. They move so astonishingly slowly and spend a lot of time convincing themselves otherwise with agile. It’s not hard to feel like a 100x developer when working on an open source project that does 10x your corporate equivalent in a fraction of the time.

What I have learned from interviewing:

* front end skills are dead. If you are a startup use react for everything, otherwise you can dick around with Angular or some custom jQuery looking mistake. It doesn’t matter. Its all unimportant MVP that just needs to look good and will get fixed after business exit or lawsuit.

* for backend don’t worry about inverting binary trees. That’s so last generation. Now the interview process is to build an entire tech stack in 3 hours or play in a software toy box of a trillion dependencies or service tools. Good systems automation skills or just services are too boring.

* Open source contributions are resume line items, like education. If you want people to take that serious be very explicit about the value of your open source contributions on your resume. Even then be prepared to treat open source as a new business pitch deck if asked.

* If you are a non-management developer don’t bother with things of social value. These are commonly viewed as a harmful distractions. This includes professional certifications, social organizations, accreditation’s, security clearances, and so forth.
It's really hard to generalize a group on that level unless you're on the outside looking in.

There's plenty of jokes about man-bun and skinny jean wearing hipsters floating around. There's plenty of jokes about white trash floating around. I'm not sure what a joke about white dudes in general is going to look like barring the obvious case where you generalize a joke about white trash or hipsters to all of them. It's going to be very hard for a group of mostly white dudes to joke effectivly about white dudes because as members of that group they all see that group in higher resolution than that.
Generics are mostly just a compile-time duck-typing layer on top of the simple static typing model I described (with the purpose of getting some of the flexibility of dynamic typing back into a statically typed language).
The best yellow senape mustard I ever tried is one I bought at a middle/far east shop almost 20 years back. It was different from others I knew for having a harder consistency, a bit harder than peanut butter to give an idea; I had to apply some force with a spoon in its big jar to cut a piece. Used it to give more flavor to meat by putting it in the frying pan along with oil and other spices, and the result was delicious.
Unfortunately I don't recall the name, the shop changed owner although it still sells oriental spices, but now they have no idea of what product I'm talking about.
Does anyone know if such a type of "hard" senape mustard still exist?
Subsistence farming is no fun. There's a reason why people voluntarily moved to factory towns in the 19th century.