skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mentions to cancel culture always make me remember a particular quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong."

It is very sad to me that Daphne (the trans woman who committed suicide) got lynched by the LGBTQ+ community for defending Dave Chappelle because she actually knew him personally and that those jokes were just that, jokes. Having watched the special, I felt really saddened to find out that she had committed suicide. Dave described her with a lot of empathy, love, and tenderness. I cannot begin to imagine being attacked by your own people. Marginalised by an already marginal demographic. Who do you turn to?

In the special, Dave mentions that when he says he doesn't understand the trans experience Daphne replies: "I don't need you to understand me. I need you to believe I'm having a human experience." To me that's not the cry of a trans woman, its the cry of a deeply individual being. An individual not being respected and believed as one. Dave finishes the special by saying that Daphne's people weren't the LGTBQ+ because they had forsaken her, but that she was one of his: a comedian. I think it goes beyond that. Dave and Daphne belong to a group that has no group, the individual. One that in today's era of identity politics will never really be understood or believed.
I've seen a couple projects around this, are any of them also tackling the docker-compose-based workflows as well? Or will that stuff work transparently with these replacements as well?
What do you mean by depends on assert for correctness? How?
Are you saying that someone who has a computer, internet and a twitter account can't have their life threatened? What? If someone says their life is threatened, I suggest listening to what they have to say, and not dismissing it outright as hyperbole. If you feel twitter is overwhelming and causes a lot of eye rolling, then maybe take a break?
Yep, using Vim in VSCode is just about everything I could ever want
Same thing. India will be old by the end of this decade, and we are not even as rich as China.
> The only reason I continue to run Windows as my desktop is for gaming,

I decided to buy into the PlayStation ecosystem for gaming and I've been mostly happy with that. I understand it also gives me better anti-cheat than windows, until the PS4 is really cracked. (Rampant cheaters did eventually ruin my favorite PS3 game, but so far OK for PS4.)

Fortunately, in my case, I wasn't already invested in Windows gaming that I couldn't recoup (e.g., game licenses, in-game leveling and stuff accumulation, player teams). I realize that could be an painful move for some people.

I have ZERO regrets about making Linux my daily driver laptop, and keep all closed software off it (except for wifi firmware blobs). I'm also able to run the same Debian Stable for various home servers, etc.
Not work for rest of the world (called Excel)
10 or so prior submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...
Okay. I'll cancel my Netflix subscription.
Nobody was lynched, and "the" LGBTQ+ didn't do anything here.
Doesnt bill Burr just whine about women?
So we're spending $20m on 14 years of life.
The weird part is not that people use stock photos for their site, the weird part is that considering the countless stock photos of people in casual business attire, this one has been selected quite a few times.
The title on HN is what the title is on the metatags on the article (meta-description, and also title tag).
The US does not go to war just to kill people. Australia's covid response is purely for saving lives.
I find it average. My gold standard is Digikey, everything else has its own flaws. FWIW I have more problems with Amazon hiding straightforward matches than Home Depot or many other places for that matter. Amazon seems to always want to distract me with gensym brands.

FWIW Home Depot loads in half the time with NoScript only allowing what's essential. Otherwise they seem to be backhauling every single mouse movement, at least the last time I checked.
> More than half of all my friends outside the office started out as coworkers in the past.

Let's put it this way: how many current and past coworkers do you include in your current social, non-professional group?
There are no more usable NDBs in/around most bravo cities. The last one in DFW was decommissioned about 3 years ago. Any other ones that are still functional are on borrowed time.

Furthermore, no one is making the receivers anymore. If you have an NDB needle in the panel you are flying an airplane with some awfully old gauges....
> MP3 is obsolete

What should we be using instead for lossy audio?
I fully admit it's a baseless conspiracy theory :) Perhaps it happened in the early days to get traction if not now, or perhaps not, but anyway thanks for the information.
Readers should be aware that angry_octet publishes lots of misinformation about COVID, they're really an anti-science front user.
Funny, I just posted on another thread a few days ago how kind of the same thing happened with an old Yahoo account I don't use much. I know the username and password, yet it's impossible to log in. For a while, every time I tried to log in, it tried to make me do something different for 2FA, which I don't want on that account. I refuse to supply a phone number or other email. I think I installed a Yahoo phone app at some point. Then one time, it basically started refusing to do anything, just gave me several options that don't work. I just tried again a few days ago, basically for laughs, and now it won't even let me enter a password at all. I guess that account is just forever inaccessible. Good thing there wasn't anything important on it.

Now I'm kind of afraid to do anything with my Microsoft account on the web. I've never used Microsoft anything on the web, and don't particularly care to, but it seems to be required to have an account to run a Windows computer, so I guess I have one, under my gmail address.
Was the engine oil okay for that long continuously? I mean I guess obviously it was but is that ok?
Because minutes after a metric drops that indicates the possibility of an issue an engineer who probably wrote the code or has the code checked out on their laptop and is intimately familiar with it working on the problem. No waiting for a support team to triage, find the owner, and get ahold of them.
Generators would have to kick on and over, with a battery backup it could be pass through. Tesla was used as a representative example.
This mindset is mind-boggling to me. BART’s operational reliability is excellent. The new cars are really nice. Trains in the core come often. What exactly makes it “absolutely atrocious public transportation”? Of course it doesn’t serve all destinations, but that’s inevitable because the Bay is mostly suburban sprawl.
Register a business and do contracts under that name? Are you able to sue this person?
This is only one year, we're gonna keep spending money on the covid response as long as there's lockdowns. We do not have unlimited money and there's better ways to increase lifespan for less than $4M per person per year
I don't know enough to guess why this turbine is of particular interest to you--can you explain?

Is it highly powerful or something?
Yes and especially because planned GPS jams are published in NOTAMS, in my experience, well in advance of the event. Ignorance isn’t really an excuse.
Whatever you end up doing, please make a follow-up post on this. Everyone deserves a second chance (though this is confused by the fact that by the time we hear about it, many are already through their fifth)

I see many valid options for you to take: you could be upfront with it in a cover letter, disguise it by using a nickname, move into contracting and do business through an LLC, or come out swinging and make a bigger ruckus in your own favor. Whatever works. I'm preparing to be cancelled, because the truth is an ugly thing, and I want to know what works.
> Yet Ruby and JS manage to do it somehow.

Ruby does it by having a mixin (Enumerable) that anything meeting a basic contract (roughly equivalent to the Python iterable protocol) can include to get an enormous block of functionality; Python doesn’t have (or at least idiomatically use as freely; ISTR that there is a way to do it) mixins like Ruby does.
Did your employer not listen to your side of the story at all?
Is there any way to try this out?
I don't want to debate or argue. I'll reply only to attempt to be helpful, but feel free to call me an idiot, I won't engage.

There are two issues at play here. One is that everyone has more money, and two is how everyone got more money.

Skipping one altogether, two explains most cost increases. When wages rise, it cost more to make everything. Because labor costs are higher. The farmer wants more money, the butcher wants more money, the drivers want more money, the stockers want more money, and the sellers well, they always want more money. When you double their wages, as what's been happening in the lower wage section recently, those costs affect the product. This is what many people miss about the minimum wage debate. If a guy stocking cans at the grocery makes 10 and hour, and the guy digging coal out of a mine makes 20 an hour, what happens when minimum wage goes up to 20? Of course the coal diggers want more money too, or else they'll take the easier job. This alone accounts for 'essentials.'

Going back to one again. The issue isn't that an individual person has more money. It's that -everyone- does. So it's not a rich person buying up extra, it's people that normally wouldn't buy a product enter the market.

Regardless what others have alluded to, a rise in demand always means a rise in prices. It's basic supply demand curves that have been studied forever.

An anecdote, rather unrelated: Supply demand curves aren't always what they seem.
A pizza place could turn a profit selling pizzas for a few bucks. Demand initially surges, then recedes as people get sick of it. Turns out, it's worth more to price it so that people only sometimes buy it.
I don't know of an approved GLONASS nav unit. Even if you do have one it would be a handheld device that can't talk to the autopilot or the FMS.
The actual ultra-tough material formed in Roman concrete seems to be Tobermorite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobermorite
More people should read Mein Kampf. We have let the Poles squat on German land for far too long.

Seriously, go read it. The Nazis were a party for the German diaspora in the surrounding countries. They were not a 'pro-white' party. Something that should have been obvious since they killed more white people than any other group including the Catholic Church.

That we call anyone not advocating Großer Deutschland a Nazi is a failure of the education system.
Perhaps "lynching" was putting it too strongly. I am going off of Dave's take from the special that it was her own people that gave her the most backlash on Twitter.
> Nobody bats an eyelid....Can't go to Kmart....Riots in the streets...slight personal discomfort

Hyperbole overload.

Here in Victoria, we're still in the world's longest lockdown. Curfews, strict rules, masks outside, closed local businesses, police ready to pounce on anyone waving a sign saying "end the lockdown".

To express any anti-lockdown opinion, is to be a traitor of public health. You're not a team player unless you submitting to the world's longest lockdown.

"This is literally a war", said the NSW Premier a few months ago in her description of the pandemic. I guess it's fitting a military man in uniform heads the vaccine rollout.

A small group of health workers, mostly women, sat silently socially distanced in a Victorian park recently, with masks on. They were protesting vaccine mandates. A bus load of cops pulled up and surrounded them. Can't even protest in a responsible covid-safe manner. It's illegal. You're an anti-vax menace to society if you express anything against whatever the government throws your way because "fighting the pandemic" as you put it.

"slight personal discomfort". You know nothing about the toll of the world's longest lockdown when you frame it as "Kmart inconvenience".

And what exactly should "batting an eyelid" look like for the average person on the subject of war crimes in Afghanistan? Would it please you if more than 250,000 marched though the city like they did in protest of committing Australian troops to the war on terror?

I have no idea what your eyelid battering minimum standards are for war crimes, but one would expect a common reaction would be to allow the courts to deal with the offenders. The average person can't email the judge and provide external influence in those matters. But hey, "nobody bats an eyelid" sounds more dramatic for a good story, I guess.
according to the airspacemag.com link in other comments, they replenished the engine oil in flight.
That’s to bad…. I haven’t seen this one but I went to the previous show, then watched the tv special.

One thing I noted is that in 2 different performances stuff he seems to “come up with on the fly” was actually carefully writen and performed. The audience Q&A at the end was probably the best part.

It was hard to tell (for me at least) when he was being serious and when he was pushing the limits on things because he could..
You've linked to the wrong tweet. This is the correct link:

https://twitter.com/sioppz/status/1447505763300151296

Unless you wanted to link directly to the image, in which case:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBaRyFnXsAMXcbh?format=jpg&name=...
From the link provided below, article by Volkow, re: cocaine and Ritalin in the brain (Eight healthy male subjects, 20 to 51 years of age):
For both drugs, their fast uptake in striatum paralleled the experience of the "high." For methylphenidate, the high decreased very rapidly despite significant binding of the drug in the brain. In contrast, for cocaine, the decline in the high paralleled its fast rate of clearance from the brain. We speculate that because the experience of the high is associated with the fast uptake of cocaine and methylphenidate in the brain, the slow clearance of methylphenidate from the brain may serve as a limiting factor in promoting its frequent self-administration.
Note that “!” in Ruby doesn’t conventionally mean “modifies the receiver”, it means “does something that is similar but less likely to be safe than a method with the same name without ‘!’”.

A very common case of this is mutating versions of non-mutating methods, but (1) mutating methods (in stdlib or other idiomatic code bases) that have no non-mutating equivalent are not named with a “!”, and (2) methods are sometimes named with “!” because they do dangerous things compared to a base method that are not mutating the receiver.
What part of my post made you think I don't understand how these systems came to be in place? And what you're arguing does not follow. If I said that the Chinese Exclusion Acts in the US were based on identity, would you respond "Actually it was based on legal agreements"? It makes no sense. Clearly there are treaties and agreements that created the system that results in treating people different based on their identities.

My point is that the system currently is more harmful to everyone - specifically native people - than a consistent system based on individuals.
My manager did and I could tell they believed, but the optics of it all I imagined made it too toxic to be worth defending me over. Racist, sexist content was falsely attributed to me.
This is a delight, thank you. I miss meeting minds like that. Sincere and genuine eccentrics. Her legacy may have been picked up in the 70's by Throbbing Gristle, Brian Eno, and then a couple of decades of industrial that followed. What this video closed the loop on for me was that Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 was him making that music as far back as 85, a quick 10 years after Derbyshire left the BBC after having established her legacy and been such a huge influence on generations of musicians. Just such a pleasure to watch and listen to her story.
The jobs I'm referencing are W2 with insurance and are often sent to big clients like Home Depot or 7-11 or whoever. The company that signs the check is some random agency, yes.

I would be shocked if you fail this background check. My experience across many such jobs has been that they just check for convictions using your drivers license.

If you get an offer and don't pass the background check, you actually have the right to appeal the decision I think.

But if you aren't getting the offer, your name is too unique, your work history is too uniquely tied to your name, and you need to apply with a nickname that is quite different from your real legal name (which is what my wife does as a cultural Chinese thing.
I wish. Sadly, I have no clue who this person truly is. Someone I spent years on ${platform} with, mostly avoiding.
You know who wouldn't have much patience for using that word that way? Dave Chappelle.

I don't know what "her own people" means here, but Dave Chappelle sums Twitter up the way many of his supporters here do as well: "not real".
I’d like to point out that the correlation between size and public transport isn’t always applicable. Helsinki has a fantastic and uncrowned public transport system. It’s also affordable (50-60e) a month. And it’s a tiny city when you compare to other capitals.
Until HR requests your academic records, references or anything else that refers to you by your old name.
It's not so much that you can't fly from VOR to VOR, everyone knows how to do so. It's more that it's a horrible waste of time and fuel.

If you have GPS, you will get cleared direct after getting out of congested areas, usually (presuming you are capable of clearing all of the terrain between point A and point B). If you're having to fly from VOR to VOR you will fly a much more indirect route and spend a lot more time and fuel, particularly on private jets.

Hence the offer to put private jets on vectors rather than tell them to fly the old fashioned way. People on private jets tend to be people who make political contributions, who in turn tend to call the congressmen in their pocket and complain.
Thanks matt_s. That's an interesting way of framing it. Since posting I've decided to let go of trying to keep up with everything and instead focus on improving my existing skills, which will actually be more beneficial to me and my team in the long run than having a basic understanding of everything out there. Thanks for your insight! :)
That's the subject of a previous article in this series: https://technicshistory.com/2021/07/13/the-triumvirate-coal-...

A great read too!
Who else is mad that the blocks in the second picture aren't LEGO bricks but some other product?
Are you proactively bringing this up during the interview process?

If not, you almost certainly should. It's like a conviction: if I find it when I run the background check, first I'm surprised, and second, the candidate has lost all opportunity to set context. Plus not mentioning it borders on lying.

I don't suspect the best context for you is someone set me up; you should try "I did some dumb things (assuming this wasn't outright criminality), stuff was someone exaggerated, I'm a different person."
Thanks to all for the advice. I think contract work + changing my name is really the only way forward. I was naive in thinking I could get it all back somehow, and I have been too disillusioned to see the obvious through this whole ordeal.
Sorry to hear about this shitty experience. I have a friend who works at MS so I sent them this article and hopefully they might be able to get it properly looked at. Thanks for all the debugging you did and sorry about what you went through.
After reading the tutorial I was not sure why it was called backpropagation. Thanks for the Colah's blog link. I think the two links together explains the things beautifully. Backpropagation seems just like an optimization for the gradient descent calculation as per Colah's blog.
> get discord to spawn VLC

So rather than loading the bogus videos in a sandboxed Chromium instance, you want to load them in an unsandboxed VLC instance? I smell eventual RCE.
Maybe in rare cases a leak can be by accident -- AMICE then?
Please show proof of that in the specific instance you're talking about before dismissing someone as "part of a mob" or a "bot". Studies I've seen show that it's not always bots. Some people actually just do get mad when you say cruel things about them.
Can't you just address this up front if its that big of a problem? Or put up a little blog or something for people to find?

im also real curious what this is about? Apply to my company, i have no idea what your talking about or who you are haha
The consensus on this stuff changes quickly so I may be wrong, but my understanding is that vaccinated people can reach peak viral loads that are similar to unvaccinated people, but tend to be infectious for a significantly shorter period of time, making them less contagious overall. I'm not sure exactly how much shorter but I want to say current research points toward ~50%.
It's funny you mention this, as there is a big thread above that discusses his contribution to learning by reading, and his second point here is "Program. The best type of learning is learning by doing".
To elaborate on this a bit in case it's still confusing for anyone:

Until the mid-1990s or so, memory was too expensive to routinely store RGB values [1] for every pixel on consumer-grade hardware, so sprite/texture/etc. assets effectively contained a narrower type "pointer to color" instead of a wider type "color", typically translated on-the-fly by the video hardware by way of a small and fast palette RAM. This meant that by altering the underlying array of actual colors, an impressive breadth of animation and "compression" tricks could be achieved with little CPU time and no manipulation of the underlying pixel data (which, for NES and arcade games, was often stored in a dedicated ROM directly read by the video hardware). The classic example is a halo of torchlight cycling through a handful of red/orange/yellow values, but it's been used for a vast spectrum of effects by a bunch of extremely clever artists, programmers, and artist-programmers.

[1] It happens to be the case that Famicom/NES color is fundamentally based on the phase encoding of composite video and so doesn't strictly map to a single definitive RGB color space, but the basic principle otherwise applies.
"You know who wouldn't have much patience for using that word that way? Dave Chappelle."

Did you ask him?
People are complaining about cancel culture, pretty sure are very biased. What Chapelle said was mostly anti-liberal crud, and I mean that in a classical sense, Chapelle whether intended or not, basically boosted reactionary rhetoric, it also extends to his racial undertone as well.
HCOL => High Cost of Living

I looked it up so you don't have to.
I am purposely being vague to avoid outing myself, but knowing the situation, and knowing what was attributed to me as being said, somehow this seems like it would just highlight a toxic situation and be an automatic red flag to employers. I wish I had the gumption to do this.
Facebook banned a developer for an app to let users delete their news feed
Tesla officially starts its ‘wider release’ of Full Self-Driving Beta in the US
Part of the problem is that these are already limits he's pushed over his last 4 specials. He has literally nothing new to say about them. I re-watched a marathon of those preceding specials after watching Closer; every scrap of material in this show was done better in those specials. I thought his long run on trans people in Sticks and Stones was generally pretty cringey, but at least the LGBT car bit had hooks.

Again, the whole "walking up to the line, losing the audience and then getting them back, subverting expectations" thing is something Bill Burr just demonstrably does better than Chappelle does. It didn't have to be that way; I think Chappelle has more natural talent and probably more to say. But he's gotten incredibly lazy. This special was an embarrassment.