skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, the term is used and has been used. But the idea that it's a concept that everyone agrees on, or that everyone agrees must be used, is not at all true. The debate is alive and well in philosophy and in the sciences. Personally, I don't really see any use for the term in science, beyond referring to a social/informally named group.

For a philosophical discussion see a good summary here: https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/what-is-race-four-philosophical-...

And for a very extensive summary of relevant scientific and genetic findings, see the wikipedia page on Race as a system of human categorization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)#Bi...

The key quote from that article is:

> Even though there is a broad scientific agreement that essentialist and typological conceptions of race are untenable,[12][13][14][15][16][17] scientists around the world continue to conceptualize race in widely differing ways.[18] While some researchers continue to use the concept of race to make distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits or observable differences in behavior, others in the scientific community suggest that the idea of race is inherently naive[7] or simplistic.[19] Still others argue that, among humans, race has no taxonomic significance because all living humans belong to the same subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens.[20][21]

You can clearly see a number of competing views, including constructivist, essentialist, and anti-essentialist, the idea that the concept of race is irrelevant to the study of biology.
Yea it's a bit odd although I understand it. People want all their games in one place. That being said, as much as I love Valve, Steam and what they're doing for the gaming community, I definitely want more competition in the PC game market.

Competition is ultimately beneficial for the consumer, after all :)
"* > What happens to the rest of your spin system when your payload releases?*

"I mean, it's anchored to the ground, right? I'm sure it takes a shock but it shouldn't be out of the realm of stresses we already deal with regularly."

Consider having one arm on the rotational axis. While it is spinning up, the axle is under significant stress, with the mass of the arm plus the mass of the vehicle under significant centrifugal force (Scott Manley says 10,000G at peak loading), which is a hard problem in itself. When you release the vehicle, the vehicle mass portion of that force goes to zero effectively instantly. Not a mechanical engineer, but I would expect a certain amount of vibration. Or possibly rapid disassembly.

It's better if you have two arms with the vehicle on one and an equivalent mass on the other---when you launch the vehicle, you drop the other mass in the opposite direction. (Which is quite a synchronization problem.) (But where does that mass go?)
Just in case someone in a position to do something about it is reading this, there's a graceful way out for Youtube. Leave dislike counts publicly available via the API. That way people who use the ratio to evaluate videos (very useful for reviews) can install a browser extension, but dislike mobbing will be minimized, seeing as most casual users will not bother installing such extensions.
We should apply this logic to something else to have some fun. You go to the shop and look for spaghetti and instead of finding it, you find all the other things you can use together with spaghetti to make a nice meal.

Now, if only you could find some spaghetti to go with all the other stuff...
I suggest Deepl for DE=>EN translation, it's significantly better than google translate.
Ignorant question: is Israel literally an ally of the US? I know they are not in NATO or 5 Eyes, and I don't think they have some other close agreement, like US and Japan.
Just declare them a terrorist organization.
If a business fails then that business messed it up.
Wait, is this the same McIlroy who claimed that PL/I has features no other language has, then listed syntactic sugars and things that could be implemented easily in libraries?

Edit: After having read the link, yes, McIlroy has a point. For quick prototyping, a one off, above all else small project, the UNIX way fits, and fits well. It's a philosophy I agree with and use on a very regular basis as a sysadmin.

But as a developer on larger projects, where chunking them into pipeable tools would probably result in 1000 pipes, any one of which might break, and you want to hand it off to people who don't even know what a pipe is, well, I'm sorry, but I'm going to make something in the tools that they understand and use, and I'll make it more fault-tolerant to boot. And yes, I've run into exactly this sort of situation multiple times in my career.

I might prototype with pipes and commands, but Larry Wall invented Perl for a damn good reason.

Really, TL;DR is that Bentley picked an over simple problem (count words in a file), asked Knuth to write a program in the literate programming style, and McIlroy completely missed the point of the exercise. What a shame, he might have had something useful or insightful to say had he understood what Bentley and Knuth were trying to achieve.
Wonderful how many good changes are happening so quickly with the new government. Merkel held power uninterrupted for over 18 years straight. The new leadership is basically Trump's campaign promise, for Germany (anti-globalist elite), but without all the backlash and manufactured outrage.

I guess these anti-globalist ideas have had enough time to percolate that even HN is supporting their fruits now.
Why? Did you ever read what your wrote?

Because unlike any other company or agency, they are required to prepay retiree benefits.

Anyway, you might be surprised to hear that our Army and Navy aren't self-sustaining. Obviously, we should cut their funding and see how they manage to make their nukes pay for themselves. /s
> It is amazing what one person alone can accomplish

I was also wondering how Matt did all this mostly alone until I discovered he joined HN only nine months ago. ;)
Except they're not supposed to be split. Just like splitting "therapist" into "the rapist" doesn't capture the intended meaning of the thing, neither does splitting "chaotic good" into "chaotic" and "good" capture the intended meaning. Someone of chaotic good alignment is one who "combined a good heart with a free spirit. These characters acted as their own conscience directed with little regard for the expectations of others. They were often kind, benevolent, and strong individualists who were hostile to the claims of rules, regulations and social order.[1]" I don't give two figs about which horse you have in this race- splitting a phrase to distort the intended meaning is bad faith, full stop. That's all I came to say. But thanks for being condescending in the defense of your fallacious claim, it gave me a good chuckle.

[1] Player's handbook v 3.5, page 105. Draws from version 1, 2, 3.x, and influences v 5. Essentially, everything but 4, which is largely regarded as a version to be swept quietly under the rug.
True black - that is, a black that absorbs almost 100% of light - is actually really freaking scary. And disorienting.

I'm not talking about the absence of light, here - pitch black is something else - I'm talking about paint or other coloration that absorbs light.

Black 3.0 is one of these.
This is incorrect. Their explicit goal is to remove fast tracking and options to take more advanced topics for gifted students. The vision is for uniformly paced classes for all same-aged students.
Yep. Weak, incompetent or absent governments, with corporations governing most affairs in practice.
Just an anecdatum, at UIUC's fab lab we taught Inkscape to all ages, it was really useful to import an image, trace bitmap to an SVG, and send the SVG to vinyl cutters, laser cutters, 3d printers... I think we were not the only fablab to do this, and hopefully it is popular in other educational circles.
I look forward to your treatise on how Taco Bell's removal of the Grilled Stuff Nacho was tyrannical overreach by an unaccountable food monopolist.
Also, no joke: watch Mr. Robot.
Virtue signaling is always elitist. Look at whom does it.

So the "social disease" of virtue signaling will follow the higher socioeconomic crowd where ever they go.
Also remember to consider the threat posed by dihydrogen monoxide but I digress...
Germany often makes me wish I could just show them my family history of when we immigrated to the US so they can let me back in.
Just checked out your website - the "Buy the full database" idea is genius! I'm working on a job board and just assumed that I would never be able to charge the users at all, but your idea circumvents that. Nice work!
> instead I have found empty people with little ambition and little interest in the world outside of a regional microcosm.

You are 100% at the wrong school. Transfer ASAP. As you note the people are a big part of the reason for actually going to a school.

I think you'd find the people and education you're looking for at a U1 type University (my bias opinion). Get into the best one you can - if nothing else the average ambition of the students will be higher.
That has not been my experience and runs counter to their core product offering. Just my two cents.
This was Game 6. Magnus leads 3.5 to 2.5. There are only 8 more classical games remaining.
Pretty much, YouTube is for video watching what IE used to be for browsing back in the obscure IE6 times. Unless you live in China where it's blocked.

Some countries (mostly of the EU) already try to enforce some control against this kind of monopolies but they are still too bland.

And competition fails to appear thanks to the WhatsApp effect. If most of the content/friends are on it, its not easy to change to another platform unless something drastic happens (like the Great Firewall).
It's a little ironic that privacy.com is asking for your SSN lol.
The survivors said that the pilots were waving at them before they carried out the attack
Back when we had CRTs where black also meant no light, you could have real dark in the room if you only had a terminal with green on black or white on black on the screen :)
What value is there in a strong STEM education? A weak one might be fine too.

Just because tiger moms think there is one doesn't mean there is. You'd have to believe students actually remember or use everything they learn in class, vs it being signalling you're conscientious enough to do the homework.
>I speak from experience. Aging parents, especially the stubborn type, will be a massive health drain on YOUR health. For little in return. They are still going to die. Don't put them before your own family, even a little bit. It will end you. They lived their lives, you're entitled to the same.

That's the problem I'm facing since last year

60 yo, half life long alcoholic with dementia/stupor that really tries hard to make our life as miserable as possible and it started affecting health of other people from my family

And I do seriously consider what you're suggesting - just fuck him and leave him alone
> NYTimes maintains a blender docker container

Interesting, anybody know what NYTimes uses it for? Can't find much information about it.
Sorry, I don't follow but feel like I should. At the risk of dissecting the frog[0], could you possibly explain?

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/440683-explaining-a-joke-is...
Ha, I have the Malim!

Yeah, ikea doesn't do the 1:1 (or at least I haven't seen it) but they tend to use unmistakable parts. Like each of the metric cylinder head machine screws are different enough in aspect ratio it's easy (for me) to tell them apart. But I'm good at flatpack assembly (likely due to lego obsession growing up). I can see how that might be confusing for some.

Contrast that with the Anderson door I build last month. Didn't have any scale indication, really small diagrams, lots of nearly interchangeable fasteners, and way too wordy.
The problem is that network effects determine what video service we use, mostly, as internet users. Saying that you could choose an alternative service is like the old argument that you could move to another country if you don't like it here [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergo_decedo
The efficacy of cancer prevention via fitness, diet and lifestyle far exceed the efficacy of cancer treatment by medicine.
Engine games (you can watch them at tcec-chess.com and some are terrific) with the standard starting position are almost always drawn. Engine tournaments are usually played instead with human selected, unbalanced openings designed to produce an exciting game with lower likelihood of a draw. The unbalanced opening intentionally gives one side (black or white) an advantage, so each opening is used twice, with each engine playing one game as black and one as white, to balance things out. The games are usually drawn anyway, with some occasional exciting wins. The top human players now study engine games closely, and play more like engines themselves. Very few mistakes => more draws.

It's unknown what would happen if a top human with serious preparation played against a modern engine. They'd have basically no chance of winning and a fairly low chance of a draw, with the unknown being "how low is fairly low". My wild-ass guess is maybe 1 game in 10 when the human has the white pieces and much lower with the black pieces. There is not much chess theory about what happens when a human plays a game from the beginning aiming for a draw, even though they do that all the time in real chess. It is something of a gap in the "literature".
yes, they are allowed to do it. nobody is demanding the government to intervene and bring the dislikes back. I don't know which debates are you referring to.

that being said, it is also their right to shut down whatever content Russia/China/Iran/etc finds disagreeable, I'm sure you don't mind that either.
Unfortunately this is not only american (cries in hungarian)
It's governments resorting to tyranny. By expecting a violation of bodily autonomy as a prerequisite for putting bread on the table and participating in society. Germany's government for example is now locking down covid-unvaccinated people and presuming to tell everyone who you can even have in your own home.

“Under rules announced Thursday, gatherings are limited to “one household” plus two other people, if those among them include people who are unvaccinated or who have not recently recovered from covid-19”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/03/germany-vacc...

And this isn't yet as bad as in Australia, where you have armed and masked police officers arresting and harrassing people just for leaving their home to go outside. It is now a "paper's please" penal colony once again. You can find videos of these types of interactions online.

Australia has been going to shit for over a year now. Here are a few examples of how:

They're going to force people who quarantine at home (rather than a government-mandated quarantine "hotel" with guards) to install and use an app. Facial recognition, GPS tracking in your own home. And it will randomly ping you, and if you don't respond within 15 minutes it'll send the police to your house to conduct an in-person quarantine check. Source:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-a...

They can arbitrarily lock you in your apartment building for up to weeks, no one allowed to leave. Sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53316097

https://fortune.com/2020/11/19/south-australia-adelaide-lock...

And there's more examples if you look online.

So while private companies do have issues at times, they lack the power and reach of governments to enact these types of violations against freedom. This is hiding a dislike counter. It's a stupid product design decision that will cost them money as people seek alternative platforms, but it's not comparable to tyranny. We are seeing actual tyranny unfolding in Australia, Austria, and Germany. These democracies are collapsing because of the bureacrats there. Not the companies. It's time to start recognizing who the real enemies to personal freedom and health are.
So you were perfectly willing to pay for an extra semester of college to learn something you could have learned in high school for free.
I see this in theory, but I'm having a hard time thinking of geometric problems that violate intuition and that are appropriate to teach people who have no calculus and limited algebraic skills (admittedly this limits statistical problems too). I'm actually curious if you have any good examples, because I don't.

And I think that's where my objection comes in: if you spend the entire first year just developing that intuition but forcing a rote procedure, you'll have lost the majority of people already. Proof isn't arithmetic and we shouldn't teach it in the same way. Sure develop the process on the easy method first, but then show people why it's important to not skip steps.
BuildZoom (better way to build/remodel) is hiring a head of marketing
Of course. You can't be 100% certain.

You know what else you can't be 100% certain of? How many dislikes this video got.

It's one thing how the comment disappears. It's a whole other thing how you are asked to "take a screenshot of the disappeared comment to investigate".

If you feel this singles out Google, think twice. Yes, Google definitely wasn't afraid to meddle with its search results for its own gains before.
But there are other companies having practices just as shady.

Like "how the Apple Podcasts app went from a 1.8-star score all the way to 4.6 stars in a month without any actual fixes"

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/19/22791968/apple-podcasts-...

Hiding dislikes, disappearing comments, tricking users into reviewing unrelated services.

There is a broader issue unfolding recently about platforms and transparency.
The downside is that you'd end up with facebook memes showing all of the dislikes that "YouTube doesn't want you to see".
Isn't that a strawman? You can call out companies for doing crappy things with their products without advocating government intervention.

Is this a new thing? I see this argument all the time.

When Coca Cola made their impopular recipe change were people defending it with "oh it is a private company, haters gonna hate".
I agree with this. Not having to fiddle with changing cards was the main selling point that made me switch to Privacy, after my debit card was canceled 2 times in a month for “fraud” (it wasn’t -- they were legit purchases). I also have over a hundred cards, and subscribe to the paid plan. This is a huge inconvenience, especially given the short timeline and holidays. I wish this was handled better for older virtual cards.

Also, I haven’t received any email about this change.
If you wrote everything like a high school essay, you’d be a pretty terrible writer. In real life you don’t need a topic sentence for every paragraph and sometimes an infinitive needs splitting. Nonetheless, high school essay writing is a pretty good way station to good writing. Perhaps high school geometry proofs are similar.
I don't know much about chess but Magnus throwing away his queen like that (traded his queen + rook for two rooks), was that a common thing to do? Looked outrageous to me but what do I know.
Shardz
GOG's client can be connected to Steam and Epic accounts, so you have all games in one place.
Is this an argument for a centralized govt provided video platform?
In principle, America could drop Hellfire R9X sword missiles through the cars of every NSO employee. In practice, would American politicians have the nerve to go to war with NSO, when NSO probably infected all their phones years ago? How much dirt do they have on American politicians?
I wouldn't abandon the sentiment behind the name entirely, but 'god' is a loaded suffix. I'd explore companion spirit nomenclature, I'm sure there is a good one out there. Like the little Navi faerie from Zelda :)
Naval is a preacher of the market ideology.
The "legacy financial system" exists in the way it does for specific reasons. Do you understand those reasons? It's a Chesterfields Fence situation: unless you can elucidate those things, you're not qualified to propose an alternative.
Way to bury the lede there! I think if companies like Google were to say, "Hey, we're going to start requiring people to come back into the office, and we do mean office in a literal sense. Here's your own office" -- we'd be having a very different type of conversation.
The list of times when scientists and politicians have been wrong or just lied is a long one.

Are you so sure they are right this time? You are probably no expert so it seems like you are just taking their word for it. Good thing they are telling you it's the right thing to do!

> You’re simply wrong. You’re entitled to your wrong opinion, but you’re no longer entitled to force the rest of us to suffer for it.

The only one making you suffer is you not some 'other'. You are choosing to let fear become a wedge.

As a moral exercise, consider that when you force people against their will to do anything, you necessarily assume responsibility for the results, unless you are an immoral person. Are you willing to assume that responsibility? The manufacturers of the products are not. This in particular is a big red flag.

How would you feel if the roles were reversed and it was you who did not want some medical procedure? What if others just discounted your position out of hand?
Magnus Carlsen Defeats Ian Nepomniachtchi in Game 6 of World Chess Championship
From your PDF:

> Administrators should examine programs and policies and how white supremacy impacts student outcomes (e.g., tracking, course selection, intervention rosters).

> White supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when... Students are tracked

I interpreted this to mean that tracking is (like course selection) a student outcome that can be impacted by "white supremacy culture", not that tracking is, inherently and unavoidably, a sign of white supremacy. If there's burglars around, unlocked doors are usually correlated with burglary; that doesn't mean you can't leave your doors unlocked, but you're going to want to be careful about it. Similarly, if you live in a society with pervasive racism (read: most societies), it's possible to track students in a way that doesn't reinforce those racist trends, but probably only if you're careful about it.

I think I probably agree with you that "white supremacy culture" is, as a term, perhaps more aggressive than it needs to be. Not being deeply embedded in this debate, I'd assume it's going to turn off more people who hear it, think "I'm not a klansman, so this isn't something I need to address" than it will engage people who think racism is bad but haven't considered how their own (probably unexamined) practices are leading to outcomes they don't want.
I definitely agree with this. If you go to any video right now that even mentions vaccines you can look at the comments of people talking about how evil Pfizer and Moderna are, and it dominates the entire comment section. I'm reasonably certain that a lot of these people are looking for vaccine videos just to shit on them in the comments and downvote them.
You don't seem to be discussing this in good faith. Obviously most consumers prefer what is good for consumers rather than what is good for giant retailers. We don't have to justify that to anyone.
I've worked in Erlang/Elixir for the past few years and I haven't had the opportunity to work "in anger"[0] with languages with traditional threads/mutexes/sempahores. This game was a blast and made me appreciate the Erlang's approach to concurrency. The best beginner resouce I've read on Erlang's concurrency model is here https://learnyousomeerlang.com/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-conc...

[0] https://erlang-in-anger.com/