skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The response email is given in the full complaint:

> Thanks for your suggestion in your email below that I give black students special treatment, given the tragedy in Minnesota.

> Do you know the names of the classmates that are black? How can I identify them since we’ve been having online classes only?
Are there any students of mixed parentage, such as half black-half Asian? What do you suggest I do with respect to them? A full concession or just half?

> Also, do you have any idea if any students are from Minneapolis? I assume that they probably are especially devastated as well. I am thinking that a white student from there might possibly be even more devastated by this, especially because some might think that they’re racist even if they are not. My TA is from Minneapolis, so if you don’t know, I can probably ask her.

> Can you guide me on how I should achieve a “no-harm” outcome since our sole course grade is from a final exam only?

> One last thing strikes me: Remember that MLK famously said that people should not be evaluated based on the “color of their skin.” Do you think that your request would run afoul of MLK’s admonition?

Definitely a ridiculous response to a fairly well reasoned email. 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.
I suspect you live in a country with a low corruption index.
Interesting, thanks! I wonder how easy it would be to write a VS Code plug-in using that.
One aspect of train travel that is particularly interesting in Germany is that ticket prices do NOT include seating.
That is to say, the fact that you bought a ticket does not imply that you can expect to sit during your ride. You have to buy a numbered seating reservation if you want to have a guaranteed seat, which is not necessarily offered for all lines.
Sounds like they switched to Matrix management. There must be some studies of when this switch is most effect, and to what degree.
IIRC Milespost GCC already does the database approach
Well, in my country (where tax in cigarettes etc was already very high; no one cared) it was not being allowed to smoke almost anywhere anymore, then, when that became normal (many people did it anyway for a few years until the fines got too high), people who used to smoke and everyone else found it smelly and then, way way way way behind that somewhere, something with health.
The west is the ultimate emperor without clothes. 80 years of muh human rights and Nie Wieder and erecting countless institutions and artworks in its spirit, but when push really comes to shove, it's all revealed to be a Potemkin village of grifters and cowards scurrying away and howling along with the party line.

I can't think of a single mainstream institution which has spoken out against the atrocities going on in Australia. The media are deliberately silent on the matter. Don't expect anyone but a few lonesome, throttled Twitter accounts to stand up for you when you're rounded up. The future is very dark and you're on your own from here on out.
How to Build a High-Pressure Air Compressor? [2 DIY Methods]
Show HN: URL Shortener Built with PostgreSQL, Redis and Kafka
Awesome read! But throwing the Gödel incompleteness theorem at your face at the end of the article without any specific explanation is rude!

Now I want to understand in a similar fashion why the incompleteness theorem makes type systems incapable of preventing all bugs!
Eh I have spent ~100 on smaller stuff on hicetnunc. The majority has been on art made by people that I know, and I've really enjoyed the new artists that I've found.

I'm uninterested in the NFTs with big price tags, and I'm uninterested in pieces that I don't subjectively enjoy the art of.

I care, but I'm guessing you either didn't literally mean nobody cares, or you are going to brush off this counter example for whatever reason.
Headline might want to indicate it's SPARK, not Spark (the Hadoop-ecosystem project).

As someone with a lot of experience building systems in the big data space... I was very concerned for their lander.
Yesterday in the investigative journalism program Zembla on Dutch TV they addressed how the entire agri sector was beholden in a vicious cycle of greed. Where in the supply chain from Monsanto to supermarkets huge profit margins were raked in. Large part of the blame is at the supermarkets. While farmers are left no choice but to apply extractive methods (furtilizers, pesticides) to farm their lands to keep their heads afloat. Even with their huge farms and professional production methods they are effectively exploited.

In this story the supermarkets say "We'll give consumers the choice", but for them that means choosing eco products that have ~40% higher price and they don't do that (~5% of sales is eco-friendly), so this doesn't work.

Once again it is politicians who need to take some tough measures, but they find powerful lobbies in their path plus they do not dare to take impopular measures that make products more expensive, for fear of losing votes. So for 50 years things got worse and worse.

One solution mentioned was what social enterprise True Price [0] is trying to establish: explicitly pricing the detrimental externalities that until now are shoved as costs to future generations. A pack of regular coffee with externalities priced in would go from, say, $5 to become $10, while a pack of eco-friendly coffee would go to $6.50. The surplus to the price should be reserved in a fund with which farmers can make the transition to sustainable agriculture.

[0] https://trueprice.org/
I don’t see why we need blockchain for this project at all.
$200/mo dedicated server + $45/mo prepaid phones. It was a very popular free ringtone website comprised of about 5 PHP files. It sent ringtones to users via MMS using carrier email address or via SMS (link) using AT commands to prepaid flip phones plugged into an old laptop at my house working off a queue.
The ironic thing is that speed limits reduce revenues collected from gas tax via better fuel efficiency from driving slower.
I'm pretty sure that feedlot studies say that the usual situation in the US is that 1/2 of beef calories come from a 10:1 ratio of human edible calories.

So sure, go for 100%-grass-and-not-human-edible-food-fed beef, but that's not the current system.
My understanding is that disinformation is information that is deliberately spread that is known to be false to further some agenda. Misinformation is where false information is spread without that intent.

From this definition, what’s interesting is that you can only identify disinformation by knowing 1) what is actually true and 2) the motivations and methods of the person spreading it.

I can think of two good examples of disinformation:

1. When oil companies denied climate change despite their internal research

2. When tobacco companies denied the importance of nicotine in their products
It's a concern, but fortunately if cattle population stays constant, their portion of the atmospheric resident methane will also remain constant, because methane degradation will keep pace with emissions.

Compare this to cars. Even if the number of cars remains constant, their contribution to the C02 pool grows every day.

So we should avoid increasing cattle population 100x, but we wouldn't want to do that anyway because we'd have nowhere to put them, and I certainly wouldn't support deforestation.
Internal FUD?
Unlocking features - you’ve just reinvented a subscription plan. We have those and they work fine, why the blockchain?

Secondary markets - why would vendors want or put up with that?! This is explicitly disallowed in most contracts for a reason.

There is no utility here, the use value of nfts for tracking ownership and of bitcoin as a currency are both close to zero.
There are some aspects of the pfp trend that I also don’t like. On the other hand, it’s helping to onboard (wallet, security, metamask…) more people into crypto than any other use case before. Many ready to go beyond collectables.
I'm agnostic about that and have nothing in this game, I wonder if anything encoded using heavy mpeg motion comp is going to do this to noisy parts of images finding near matches and then duplicating them
This is a fact, but it still does not make his actions wrong.

But what might be easily lost because of the strange way this article is written is that UCLA agreed with the professor. There was absolutely no disciplinary action taken against him.

It sucks that he was suspended for 3 weeks, but colleges have to deal with a situation where young vulnerable barely adults are entering completely new environments without their parents protecting them for the first time in their lives and as a result have a disciplinary system that, rightfully, requires investigations of almost all complaints.

That meant the professor got 3 weeks off with pay, while the college investigated and found nothing wrong with his actions.

That’s how the system works, and it actually usually works well, as it did in this instance.

The problem the professor has is not with UCLA that did everything right. The problem he has is with the private companies with whom he has at will/contractual terms of employment. These companies do not adhere to the rules that UCLA did which allowed them to have him continue as before after a reasonable investigation. They simply fired him.

And American law allows companies to fire (non unionized) workers without cause (unless the reason is a protected category, such as race...for example, if he was fired for being white..but he wasn’t. They fired him for being suspended, as he states in the article). But suing a bunch of private companies in a lawsuit that was bound to fail would neither win him any money, would make him look worse, and would not allow him to get a right wing celebrity to feature his story as part of their deeply flawed cancel culture narrative.
Yes? Even if you're exclusively referring to cryptocurrency when you say "purely digital money", it was already possible before the popularity of NFTs to accept cryptocurrency as payment for anything.
There’s a beautiful episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed in which John Green explores this recording.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed/e...
Do You Want to Build an Icehouse?
I am trying to think about a sport that is not sexist and I have a hard time finding one.

Maybe curling (that I know just from a few articles but they seems rather open) but really nithing else immediately pops out.

This is just too say that I think that an activity where the only goal is to win will always attract egos and a sense of dedain for others.

It is likely that the amateur side of sports is less sexist, at least this is what I witness with volleyball.
Having grown up during that period no one needed to. You could survive quite easily on whatever you could buy in the stores. The diet you could get from growing your own food was much better than what you get even in the west today.

The one thing people who haven't experienced it can't understand is the taste of the food. I don't know what price I'd put on a breakfast made with fresh milk, eggs, home baked bread and salted pork but it would be at least a few hundred dollars.

If I didn't live in a region where any rural property is expected to burn down once a decade I'd have bought a weekend farm a long time ago.
Oh totally, I didn't mean to imply there weren't actors out there doing shady bad-faith false-flag things. There totally are. It's just that sometimes (often?) what they post is indistinguishable from the real thing.
That's the thing: there really isn't one.

It frankly boggles my mind that a markup language created by and for academics has neither footnotes nor formulae as first-class features.

To the extent that Markdown does implement a specific footnote syntax, it's actually ahead of HTML in that regard.
7 years for a core router is on the low end aswell. High end routers consist of a chassis which can last a decade or more easily. usually the line cards inside the chassis are replaced to allow higher band with, but the control plane can stay in place for a very long time.
Unlikely. This kind of brain injury and dementia isn’t uncommon in heart surgery patients. It’s a known risk. We aren’t 100% certain of mechanisms of action.
Is there really an AI that can climb trees? That is pretty complicated, I've just seen stuff that crawls on the ground.
Completely agreed.

Except, he doesn’t claim any of that in the article.

He claims he lost his private contracts because he was suspended. Which I would be highly surprised if it wasn’t just straightforward policy.

At least the college I studied at 2 decades ago had a pretty mechanical suspension policy while investigations were done for certain category of complaints from students (at the time this was usually sexual misconduct, but racism/sexism/etc were probably also included).
I said closed, not closed source. Closed in the exact sense you are talking about: you don't own your data, you can't transfer in or out with ease, and you can't bring your own user agent without breaking the ToS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_platform
Tattoo Design Ideas
Well, that's just all kinds of wrong.
If we start banning certain foods like beef. We should do it equally. Only allow those crops with lowest CO2 per calorie/nutrient output. As clearly taste is secondary.

After all, replacing all we eat with tasteless gruel and water is acceptable by this logic.
I was at university when that song was released and it used to amuse me greatly at the number of rich students singing along as if the song was some show of unity with “common people” - not taking a second to actually think about the lyrics.
Something doesn't have to exist as a certain quality for a subset of people to determine that it may be perceived as "too much a likeness of some THING".

In short: You can be banned for talking about pasta in a noodles forum. That doesn't mean pasta is not a noodle.

It's not sexist. Them banning it as sexist does not make it sexist.

Every day I wake up to the programming community becoming more pretend, more fake, more toxic and less open. Ironically the very thing it is trying to distance itself from.
Interesting! Your experience does not mirror mine: finding solid wood furniture is either hard and/or expensive.

I don't know how much it might have cost new, but decent quality, older tables, for example, are easily close to $1000CAD and up. This is both antique stores (where there is a understandable markup), but also Craigslist/Kijiji. The only place I've seen similar furniture go for anywhere near $100 are auction sites, but these don't come with the downside of not being able to inspect the piece, and often require you to drive 100s of kms to pick it up. I might also include yard sales, but they are far and few between.
> you can transfer them verifiably on the secondary market while giving a royalty to the issuer, use them to access a concert, and keep them as a souvenir like a traditional ticket stub.

Which of these can you not do on TicketMaster today?
I was making a general statement about "technologies"...

I'm saying AI is a technology that is being overestimated now. People are trying to use it for everything now. I think in the future when the hype has worn off it will not have worked for everything hyped. But it will have worked well for a couple things to the point they are taken for granted or have become invisible.
The only institution that acted against him were the private corporations he was moonlighting with.

UCLA, the entity he is suing, reinstated him without any consequences within 3 weeks.

I’ve personally been suspended for a lot less (actually, for being the victim) in a college setting.
This is exactly how concert ticket scalpers work. Bands/producers covertly but with full awareness sell most of the ticket to scalpers, which outsources the reputation hit.
Try to enjoy the journey, not just the destination.
I'm sure your old colleague is raking it in.

The permitting and environmental review system was put into place with the best of intentions but it's a hot mess now. We definitely don't want to set anyone like Robert Moses [0] loose with a bulldozer again but the system in place now makes it difficult and expensive to build anything, even critical infrastructure.

Example: A dredge hit the only bridge to Hatteras Island in 1990, leading to its temporary closure and planned replacement in the early-mid 1990s. Despite the fact that the soon-reopened, damaged span had a safety rating of 4/100, an environmental non-profit was able to delay the opening of its replacement until 2019. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Inlet#Herbert_C._Bonner...
You can't increase production of semiconductors within 3-4 years.

Those assembly lines are highly specialized and extremely efficient. After all this time, the best they can do is 1% extra efficiency per month.
A mid-sized conventional gasoline car is more fuel efficient at 55MPH than at 45MPH. Pumping losses work that way. With improved aerodynamics, you could get that even higher.

https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10312
There are taxes as mining fees
The taste of a dish is mainly coming from the spices.
At some point Soylent Green becomes an acceptable option.
What's to stop someone from finding a random artist on instagram that produces amazing work and selling it as their own on a website like that?
Go on Blind. There are plenty of engineers at top companies in the Bay Area talking about “grinding leet code” as a part of their job searches.
I mean, if you just look at the offices the DMV works out of, they look like jails. Classic white painted brick (wtf, who paints brick except for jails) and no windows.

You can't expect the people working there to not be driven to insanity.
theoretically, ipv6 routing itself is far faster because the header is far simpler to parse.

also, the ipv6 space is far less fragmented then ipv4. this could lead to more direct routing aswell.
I agree PoW is bad, and I'm hopeful for the future of Proof of Stake. Just like using coal and oil to fuel our industries is bad, and we are moving more and more towards renewable energy it is a path of progression. You have to start somewhere and grow, but I think it is somewhat disingenuous to discuss them as if they are static states which are not seeking and progressing to more ethical models.
From their status page

> Less than 1% of users may be experiencing trouble connecting to Slack

This is a good example of how to not communicate uptime issues. It clearly shows that Slack is trying to downplay the problem and do damage control. This is not smart and gets customers upset.
My explaining basic definitions of words is not a "point of view", it's a basic fact. The meanings of words should not offend you. The definition of "public good" has no more to do with the Bush administration than the definition of "celsius" has to do with the Carter administration.

The term "public good" is a term from economics and has a specific economic meaning. It's not a term like "demand" that was in circulation by non-economists and was given a specialist meaning, so there can be confusion by people who use "demand" in a non-specialist way. "public good" is term coined by economists, so if you are going to use it, you need to understand it.

The word "good" here is meant as an object value (e.g. "goods and services") not as as moral claim. And the term "public" here does not mean "the public benefits from the good", but that the public as a whole cannot be prevented from benefiting from the good. Obviously the public benefits from all goods, otherwise they wouldn't be demanded by the public and they wouldn't have a positive price. But that is not what we are talking about here.

You can learn about what public goods are in this article:
https://sites.bu.edu/manove-ec101/files/2017/11/WikipediaPub...
It's a useless question anyways, because the company gains nothing by "budgeting" for death, and loses everything by settling on a real number. It's like asking Boeing how many families they expect to send payouts to in any given quarter. The only answer is zero, and any answer above zero is itself negligent.
That’s nice, but clearly not how the majority of the purchasing departments work right now, correct?

And if most people don’t buy that way - then it isn’t easy to get solid equipment that can do things that way - which makes it hard to get the equipment you need.
The NIF and some other facilities (eg the Sandia Lab Z machine) are for studying fusion plasmas in order to understand their behaviour in thermonuclear weapons first, and possible application in power generation as a distant second. That’s pretty explicit, it’s a way of keeping up nuclear weapons research and maintenance without detonating actual devices and breaching test ban treaties and causing various other messes.

JET, ITER, Wendelstein and other magnetic confinement facilities on the other hand are investigating fusion as a source of grid energy.
There's only a couple reasons why you'd ever "need" a blockchain, the oldest is trustless artificial scarcity. That's why.

Otherwise it's literally just a text file
Is there an appreciable difference between paid channels for disinformation and non-paid? Just yesterday on this forum it was discussed how 19 of the 20 largest Christian pages were Russian troll farms [0]. You don't have to be paying Facebook to craft a public narrative. Admittedly, it does take some capital investment creating the content farm: a small army of modestly paid office workers abroad.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28691585
I have a hard time believing it was a coincidence.
> mass migration

In case you’re wondering why he claims global warming will lead to mass migration, it is because the millions of miles of coastlines will change.
Things Tutorials Don't Tell You About PyPI
In fintech we say a microsecond is an aeon and a millisecond is an eternity.

If it gets there a millisecond before anybody else has it, that's all you need. And, anyway, there are only two routes: up 340-500 mi to this satellite to the next in front of it to the next and down; or back.

And, you don't need consistency: each message that arrives well before anybody else gets it is an independent advantage.
> but colleges have to deal with a situation where young vulnerable barely adults are entering completely new environments without their parents protecting them for the first time in their lives and as a result have a disciplinary system that, rightfully, requires investigations of almost all complaints

My wife got pulled out of undergrad to go drive trucks in Ramadi during 2004/2005.

To argue that college student need to be protected from words is the height of privilege.
If he was maligned then why doesn’t he claim that?

He claims the act of suspension is what led to him losing his private contracts. Not slander or being maligned.

Suspension is a normal part of university investigations that everyone agrees to. The fact that hoti are companies that employ him are able to use that to terminate his at will employment or contract with them says nothing about UCLA doing anything wrong.
Edgar: What does steak taste like again? I had it once, but I can't remember.
Curtis: If you can't remember then it's better to forget.
Edgar: What does it smell like when it's cooked? It must emanate around the place.”
wow. only after reading 10s of comments did I understood that crypto-hater and pro crypto refer not to cryptography but to blockchain and friends.
You can wake from sleep via motion, and presumably from the perspective of the AOP, there isn't really a difference between "turn on" and "wake from sleep".
One of the biggest and most common attacks against Facebook is that its algorithms are what drive misniformation so much on its platform; if those algorithms are so powerful, then why would Facebook's ads algorithm be so much worse?
Grandmacore seems a bit NSFW