skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important to question the validity of it at the same time taking it seriously.

I found odd that the victim is talking about class action lawsuit and accussing a man of "mansplaining" her (it could just have been a woman saying it). This is just toxic twitter behavior that takes innocuous comments from people and putting it in the bin of sexism, racism, or something that is accusatory in nature to gain a false sense of moral superiority over others.
sure one way of looking at it..
Might also have something to do with taxes.

Washington state is increasing capital gains tax next year. +7% I believe.

Elon had options expiring soon & was forced to.

Might be other reasons but those should not be overlooked.
CT is one of the most segregated states in the US, with some cities there in the top 5. I feel for the author's situation, though to be frank their conclusions strike me as extremely misguided.
Should be starting up again January 2022 I hear
This is all trying to tell people what to think!

Pages of discussion on how data should be interpreted.

All the while ignoring the big players who did not like the fact that they are widely disliked.

As for taking away a tool...

POTUS has a very low approval rating. The dislikes follow, as they should.

That same POTUS getting after long overdue policy with majority public support would very likely see a different outcome.

People disliking big media and government sell jobs? SHOCKER!

Of course they did, and of course it leads to questions which, of course led to eliminating the source of those questions.

Finally, "I don't think people should..." Full stop. We need to realize those other people have agency and work from there.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "such garbage"?

E.g., I stopped using Netflix for several reasons: uninteresting content, obnoxious UI, and unhelpful/implausible recommendations system.

But I was always very happy with the reliability and performance of their streaming system.
> The onion service bandwidth has been reduced by about 2/3 over November

Back to 2019 levels of bandwidth? I feel like I may be misreading that graph, but I'm more curious about what bandwidth suddenly spiked the last two years more so than the drop back down.

At any rate, I always understood the main point of Tor was providing an overlay network for accessing the internet and maintaining secure anonymity as much as possible, with its own internal network being more of a happy side effect.

I don't think IPFS would be as quick to kill compatibility with a vulnerable hashing algo compared to Tor since they're not aiming for security and anonymity as primary goals.
> Apple could figure this out at a technical level

Probably not. Running an app in the browser is essentially running on a virtual machine. That's not going to be as efficient as a native app.
For context of non-Indians and Indians:

Sanskrit is used to refer to several different languages. It's often ambiguous which one people are referring to when they say Sanskrit. Classical Sanskrit is the only one which wasn't spoken as a common language.

Classical Sanskrit -- the language codified by amongst other Panini, around the 5th century BC, which was used for religious and secular purposes for high culture and amongst the political elites.

At this time, some of the other languages now called Sanskrit had turned into the "Middle Indo-Aryan languages", including Pali, and the Prakrits, whose descendents now include the modern Indo-Aryan languages of northern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

Vedic Sanskrit -- the language of the Vedas (1700BC-600BC, approximately), believed in its earliest forms to be the common languages which then became some of the modern north Indian languages. Classical Sanskrit is a codification of Vedic Sanskrit.

Broadly -- any Old Indo-Aryan language, including the pieces of Mitanni Aryan attested in inscriptions in northern Iraq/Syria/Turkey embedded in other language texts including Kikkuli's Horse training manual (mostly in Hittite, except where he uses "Mitanni Aryan" words in glosses and defines them), and king names in the Hurrian language, which are meaningful when interpreted as Sanskrit.
>Where legislators are impotent, the admins, commissions, lobbyists, executives, judges happily make their own laws and govern without any accountability.

None of those make law. The unaccountable non-elected entity which does make actual literal law that is enforced, at the end of the day, with arrest fines and jailing is the administrative state, here the DOT. Not passing laws gives the administrative state less to feed on.

What we need is a decent user interface to government and the legislative process. One sufficient to enable the average person to generate an informed opinion on proposed legislation. That seems pretty basic.

Monarchists like Theil never say what happens after the original, "good" Monarch is gone. History tells us things go downhill fast.
I assume this was added as a way to implement language features such as Furigana, which is a minor, but useful, feature of written Japanese:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furigana

Would this make sense for putting romanized text above non-roman languages?

Currently the standard is just to write the native text and then the romanized. See, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Sh%C5%8Dnen_Jump

I'm thinking Hepburn above the kana:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization

Anyone with more language knowledge want to cuss me out this idea?
Depends on how you define 'it'.
The stock market? Sure.

It didn't for Cisco.
Well, networking always requires some sort of client software, calling it "clientless" because most systems most likely already have the required software rubbed me the wrong way.

But I think I get it now, it's probably a tongue in cheek reference to "serverless" :P
How are minorities treated in your country?
My guess would be location. Amazon is one of the only companies to locate in the city. Not near it, in it.

Such that the "campus" of other companies is a discrete thing.

How this fits for housing is that many new hires to Amazon don't have cars, and choose to live close to where they don't need them. Not really an option for the campus centric companies, where folks live further out and commute.
Sudoku Academy Will Be the First Play to Earn Sudoku Game
The Metaverse will rival the real world within 10 years
Housing prices in the eastside were definitely blamed on Microsoft.

Before Microsoft, for example, Kirkland was where you bought a house if you didn't have much money. Microsoft built their campus next door, and that was the end of cheap Kirkland real estate.

Housing prices were closely related to commuting distance from the campus.
For my financing activities (origination and refis), I didn’t get to pick my appraiser; the lender did. (I can’t imagine how an applicant choosing an appraiser could even work. I think you’d find a lot of cash payments being made on-site.)
Bitcoin isn't bound by the white paper.
Now I'm even more confused!
great, see an example in both, dark and light mode, of https://demo.mro.name/shaarligo
old laptop is fine then :)
A party line is not when "a" whole family shares a line, it's when several separate houses share a line.
I don't have a great suggestion unfortunately but I appreciate your thoughtfulness on the matter. I didn't intend this post to be inflammatory, it honestly feels like I notice Jerry in particular all the time but it seems clear my memory is faulty in this regard. I plan to take a more analytical approach to how frequently I notice these and if I have any thoughts I'll send an e-mail.
> When it comes to censorship, I think at best it doesn't really matter why

Your "censorship" framing is just a speculative assumption. There is no proof that censorship is going on here.

> What hypothetical "pure" intentions would you suggest are possibilities?

There are billions of comments on YouTube and anyone who actually works in software understands that software very often does things that the programmers didn't intend, and I'm not even talking about ML which is literally statistically applied logic, i.e. the wrong thing happening is inevitably assured and assumed from the start.

This whole argument is moot anyway, there's no commercial incentive to hire a legion of moderators because for all that extra money spent they'd simply be accused of bias even if the moderation was actually fair, a statistic of which there is literally no trusted party to arbiter.
Maybe because that leaves it still three or more orders of magnitude away from usefulness, about like a car that maxes out at 300 ft/hr or a rooftop solar panel that generates 0.3 watts at noon.

Fusion that releases its energy by emitting hot neutrons will never, ever produce commercially viable power, no matter how big its Q gets.
Anytime somebody tries to illustrate the futility of banning math, they are confronted with this argument. It is the same argument that has been used for DECADES at this point to continuously erode digital freedoms. There are countless memes documenting this through the Internet ages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

There is no good faith outcome that can continue from this, it shuts down the argument.

Good day.
This doesn't explain the non-existence of White. They are perceived and treated in a certain way in the American society.
I too remember using a rotary telephone.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html
> He hit Rittenhouse with his board, sure. Whether it was attack or defence is questionable.

Rittenhouse was running towards the police and away from the mob. He ran after Rittenhouse to attack him instead of fleeing.

> Disgraceful but ultimately irrelevant, unless you think that Rittenhouse knew that and acted on his knowledge.

> This is not obvious by a long shot, although it is possible. The police were a few hundred yards down the road, and it is plausible that Rittenhouse would have been held on the ground until police arrived, or marched down to the police, etc.

We are not debating Rittenhouse self-defense as that it is obvious from the video footage and the trial. The fact that one of the attackers was a convicted child molester is one of the signals that indicate that the attackers would beat up (and possibly kill) Rittenhouse. Other signals include the fact that there were previous beatings in those riots, that rioters previously attacked police, etc.

You are derailing the conversation and I do not want to repeat myself or extend my time on this. You can see the trial for more information.
VLC is by far the best media player in existence, and I'm extremely thankful for the team behind it. Gives me hope that this whole Foss thing is actually very good for the world.
just the hashes on chain would mean a central org can censor anytime .. they wont be any diff than twitter.. the biggest problem with bitclout like on chain socials would be that people wont be able to change for the good or obv go back on what they said.
The significance of off-by-one errors depends on whether you predictably get a runtime error on the first execution, or not.
Aubrey de Grey said in 2007 and earlier a lot of people alive then will live to be 1000.

It's a very catchy thought, but so were Theranos's blood tests. It's almost the perfect scam, way better than Theranos's...investors will all be dead before he's proven wrong.

(Cynical take)
I've been interested in this field long enough that I'm still plenty happy with the fact we now have a longevity biotech field, despite it's issues. :)

I agree with the author that longevity biotech is frequently tripping over itself with enthusiasm to bring interventions to market (or some variety of off-label use) well before they're on solid scientific ground. You don't see this in, e.g., cancer research- if a novel kind of anti-cancer drug tests well in mice, you (almost) never see a sudden cottage industry pop up around it the next week. Obviously part of the difference is that most of us aren't expecting to suffer from cancer in the immediate future, whereas everyone expects to age; aging research faces a lot of weird psychological pressures that most industries do not.

For all that, though, there are a lot of parts where I think this article is too skeptical. As someone who uses machine learning in (non-aging-related) biotech, the discussion of "garbage-in/garbage-out" put me in mind of "Yes We Have Noticed the Skulls" [0]; we're well aware that data quality coming out of molecular biology is a problem, and anyone working in the field could give you a long list of the kinds of biases, distortions, and gaps that are known to occur in their areas of interest [1]. Not all of the grand claims made about biotech AI/ML are taking this expertise into account, certainly, but certainly many of them are.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-th...

[1] The list, regardless of what variety of data it applies to, would always end with "sometimes something unknown happened and the data just turned out bad, oh well."
Are you really saying no one has ever worried about death? I'm pretty sure everyone has, including you.
There's the rather big deal that it also allows me to access APIs that I can't access from a normal website - like vibrate, notifications, storage, authentication, bluetooth, orientation, network info, motion, speech recognition, NFC, contacts.
No doubt there is a lot of good advice in your post. Being independent is of course a key aspect of being a successful scientist and researcher, whether in industry or in the traditional pathways in academia (tenure track asst. prof, etc). It's just unrealistic to expect in new PhD students. Of course at places like Berkeley/CMU/MIT/Stanford you will find many such people, who come with "batteries included". As a result, their advisors can sometimes just let them do their thing and they will churn our fantastic results. But that is not really the norm at most of the top-25 or top-50 graduate programs, and the students there will need a lot more guidance and collaborative work to turn them from merely strong students to great independent researchers. So I absolutely agree that being able to work relatively independently will make it easier to get a PhD. I just think that that quality is something one develops during the PhD journey.

Re length/rambling: It's not a personal attack on you, just a suggestion that the information you write can probably be compressed and made much more effective. Yes, this is not an English class. And yes, you're trained as a mathematician and trying to be rigorous. But often times dropping some details to convey the general ideas is sufficient, especially on a fairly technical forum like this one. Your writing would be more effective if it was less prolix.
If a tech tries a random 4 digit passphrase on every device they work on, they are bound to get it right occasionally.
How is that going to work though? We're likely way past the carrying capacity of the whole planet-wide mesh of habitats, even if we make some huge technological leaps to reduce our adverse impact on the biosphere – right now, the combined H. sapiens biomass is about ten times that of all other non-livestock mammals combined, and just the space we take up is driving lots of other species to extinction. Cure aging and this will grow ad infinitum and likely outpace anything we can do to lessen this. I don't see people stop having children, most people are incredibly strongly wired to want them, and they're pretty important to how all our societies function.

So either you keep this cure away from most, creating an impossibly dystopian society of immortal lords and mortal slaves, or hope for a miracle like a terraformed mars within a few generations, or things are bound to crash horribly at some point probably not too far off.
I already want to take this back because Morphy probably would pick up points if we ran a tournament on the basis of all official and unofficial world champions, plus people with openings named after them. But the correlation between date of peak and performance would be extremely high.
Nope.

Seriously. It won't. "Ready Player One" is a long way off.
I dont know. But I think it is quite normal during these sort of transition. Because if she was a CEO candidate and she lost may be its better to leave than to stick around. So probably just some power play. Not a change in strategic direction.
The is-ought problem is tricky like that.
Do you write your code in notepad or pico, or use brainfuck as your primary programming language, or copy your code to a new folder for version control? Those things are all the simplest in their tool category.
In the new open world censorship would be public shaming (with some sort of labels) - scary and interesting at the same time
If you follow the types of anecdotes posted on reddit of the trials and tribulations of Fi users seeking customer support for device replacement, empty phone shipments, etc., this report comes as absolutely no surprise. They are contracting out all these customer-facing services to the lowest bidder, in typical Google style.
What does the "ruby" gloss mean in the linked text? Why do some words have it? It's been many a decade since I took Latin...
When I'm seeing half-arsed APIs like this being introduced into so-called "modern" incarnations of the web, I start doubting the technical chops of the people involved and the process as a whole. Is it truly possible that there wasn't anyone with sufficient experience in building concurrency/multi-threading/parallelism APIs involved in building this?

Failing to account for the thread-pool scenario, as an example, is just mind boggling.
I have many of those same questions. Dem for decades.

Just saying...
Yes and no. There certainly is a focus on race, but the argument is that it's in response to a historical focus on race. African Americans are in large part of here because of their race-- specifically because of the view that it makes them inferior 'workhorses'. Even after abolition, Jim Crow laws and similar measures make it difficult to just ignore race when in fact it's clear large portions of the population are not willing to do that.

Op article is a great example. There's still a discrepancy in treatment. I'm not convinced that is caused by the capitalization of Black by the media so much as the other way around. But the media being the media-- manufacturing stories people want to read may play a part. Although that can be said about.. well just about everything. If it's true, it's still important to me
Hi there neighbor… (walla walla/ CP) When I first moved here, I asked someone if it was a normal winter. They said no. The next year I asked them if it was a normal summer. They said no… finally after 10 years of being here, I’ve come to the conclusion that we have cycles. Wouldn’t surprise me if this year is a bit like three or four years ago when we had that really bad freeze in February but otherwise a completely mild, snow-free winter.

I haven’t blown my sprinklers out and I don’t know if I will even bother. We get so few cold days, and even fewer in a row. Have to keep an eye on one of my chickens that has a large comb to make sure she doesn’t get cold, but other than that our winters are so easy.
I did notice some victim-blaming, which isn't right. But I do think that if you're going to accuse someone of serious malfeasance that might be a criminal act, a little more than a naked accusatory Tweet thread is needed.
The other half of the drug crisis is stimulants actually: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...

And yes, it's actually very, very easy to do incredible amounts of damage to a place without much action. Don't clean it and leave trash rotting everywhere and cause an insect and vermin infestation. Throw literal shit on the walls, leave a clogged faucet on and forget about it and cause a lot of water damage everywhere along with a very bad mold problem, punch the walls in anger and leave huge holes in the drywall and broken windows. Rip off cabinet doors and use it as firewood because it's 'free firewood'. Fixing damage from bad behavior like that crosses into 6 figures very quickly.

And if your actively angry, you can do shit like pour concrete down the toliet and faucets and more.

These people need active management in a long term mental health facility, not just housing. The +%90 of invisible homeless that don't have a serious mental illness, brain damage and crippling drug addictions yes can be helped by housing. Most 'invisible' homeless people in that category get out within a year or two. I think what everyone is referencing when they are talking about homeless is the chronic visible ones yelling at a random tree.
I've always thought that the Unix philosophy could do well here; if you start by building the rawest version of your app to operate on the command line, and then make the UI an interface to that, you can trivially automate anything the UI can do.

so in this scheme, the cli's "do one thing and do it well" is driving the program, while the UI's "one thing" is providing an interface to the cli.

the other nice thing about this is that it provides a far more debuggable build. also enforces good habits vis a vis separating abstractions.

not always possible in all contexts, though. I would have trouble implementing this for an app like Photoshop (although their command palette implementation is super close)
Greetings, neighbor! I was traveling at the time, but I did hear something about Denver getting some slight precipitation, but not enough to qualify as snowfall. Now, given your comment, I'm wondering if we got inches of snow here in Olde Town Arvada, or if maybe you're closer to the foothills.
Unless someone wants to leak internal information, there is no such thing in either case, as far as we know. These services are almost certainly contracted to third parties.
Buddy the worst smallpox variant killed 20% of patients. Covid and smallpox are about as comparable as your average granny and mike tyson
If anything, Mozilla was pioneering around idea of such easy accessible web applications with Prism project up until it was abandoned [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Prism
Sure, but that's not malfeasance or criminal trespass; that's just bad service.
I've tried some, but I've finally given the Ikea garlic press a try and I'm happy with it. Easy to clean, robust.

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/koncis-garlic-press-stainless-s...
Time to short FAANG and TSLA. :)
Seattle commutes are pretty miserable. Always have been. The problem is the metropolitan area rings a huge lake, so a grid arrangement of roads is impossible.

The current problem is Sound Transit does not recognize that the metropolitan area rings Lake Washington, and the sensible thing is to build mass transit around that ring. I don't think the ST people have ever looked at a map. Even worse, the old rail corridors that ringed the lake were deliberately destroyed.
Opt-out rather than opt-in is a philosophical issue at the core of many concerns. I simply don’t think the open web deserves opt-out access to my notifications. Websites need to step it up and become apps if they want me to risk my time on their notifications, and if they choose not to, so be it.
i do wonder what constitutes "a measurable amount"

The National Weather service has a standard for a "measurable amount" of rain. I think it's 0.01 inches, or 0.1 inches or something like that. Anything less is called a "trace."

Presumably, since they're scientists, they have a similar standard for a measurable amount of snow.
Suppose we accept as a given that this hypothetical town with a declining tax base and concomitant increasing tax rate represents institutional racism.

What should (can?) that town do about it to address the problem?
Had an actual chat once via OpenVMS Phone: https://raymii.org/s/blog/My_first_OpenVMS.html#toc_4 - really fun!