skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Was it a real prosecution in the Philando Castile case? Did the prosecution and judge really give an unbiased effort?

As far as I know, yes. If you have any evidence to the contrary please share it. Do you have any reason to think otherwise besides the fact that the verdict isn't what you desired?

> He was then killed with impunity.

With impunity? The officer was charged and prosecuted. That's literally the opposite of impunity.

> I’m sure Philando’s race had nothing to do with their silence.

Curious that you follow this line of reasoning when ~~you~~ the previous commenter supplied a counterexample of a white person being shot under near-identical circumstances.
Are there any sociological studies into the breakdown of FOSS development over time? Over the years I have seen most of them result in schisms and forks when given any widespread popularity.
Why do you have the exact same tone and wording as this comment from a different user above?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29502044
I was ABD in math at a top 25 program when I went to a talk given by a graduate student from Berkeley. He was in my area and we had the same length of them spent on the subject. As close to equals in terms of experience and area of study as one can get. He was far better than me and I knew that I’d never understand the subject as well as him. Shortly after I quit the Ph.D. program. I realized I would never do anything worthwhile in the field. There is a large variation in talent within the community of professional mathematicians. Outliers amongst outliers.

In trained in MMA for a number of years and sparred against some local fighters. They were better than me but I could get some hits in. I could cause them to expend some effort. Once I sparred with a low level UFC fighter. He thoroughly destroyed me. It was like I was 5 years old. Outliers amongst outliers.
Putnam --- A prime example of the metaphor of a dominant technology re-conceptualizing the notions of the social sphere. Human relationships are reified as 'social capital' and the fundamental functioning of such is interrelated with productivity (which by common definition is always seen as needing to continually advance on an upwards trajectory). All relations (from the Rotary Club to romance) can be codified in terms of transactions.

The Left --- Does it exist in the United States? The last time a member of the American Communist Party was elected to a state senate was 1929. They're often spoken of in the 2nd person in American political discourse (and have been since the 1870s) but have tended to lack any official capacity to speak in the 1st person, and no one (not even the most minor of minority parties) presents themselves on the floor of any state or federal congress. Those who do occupy these positions (at the most extreme) advocate for political and social changes that could be summarized by their detractors as: capitalism with a few bandaids. (As with the above) government is re-defined in terms of the operations of business. As such, to advocate for anything else would in effect create a business whose function was to be an anti-business, which leads to a situation where: 'All true Dadaists are against Dada'.

Fukuyama --- After over 100 years of communists trying to destroy capitalism, one political scientist almost single-handedly ends it. Interesting how communists, liberals, neoliberals, and neoconservatives have all implicitly accepted Hegel's End of History. The only distinction being three of the four view the present as that End while the first sees that End one step beyond the present. With regards to the latter three, the system is a near Platonic ideal (just short of) enacted -- right up until it's the only game in town (End of History) in which case everyone's looking for the ejection seat. Whereas the communists rub their hands together, believing such creaks and grown signal that Utopia is just over the horizon and around the corner.
Claims of suicide are serious. Byuu has a lot of fans, and they have been reacting badly to this false news. It shouldn't be that strange. But in either case, I agree: we should let him be.
I wanted Rust to replace C++, but now I feel that it’s fallen right back into design by committee complexity in the language and ecosystem tooling and is just if not more complicated to use than C++, and it also seems to have a lot of community toxicity. Knowing that the people driving it’s future are constantly getting bad press makes me want to avoid getting involved.

While I do think memory safety is important, Rust is not a panacea with no trade offs. Community and vision are definitely part of
The equation. If I had to pick a systems programming language I might still pick C for its simplicity, staying power, and lack of drama.
It's easier to convince the budget department to pay for it than convince a judge you have a legal reason for it.
N64 wasn’t a continuation of SNES and 3DS sounds like a new DS, as does the Wii U unless you’re stating Xbox one failed because it’s name is 359 less, and was not an obvious continuation of Xbox 360. They went N64, GameCube, Wii which don’t have any continuity nor does Wii U to switch.

Seems like continuity hurts rather than helps Nintendo.
This would be consistent with Omicron having certain immune-escape features. People who previously had strong, neutralizing immunity (from vaccination or prior infection) may experience reinfection/breakthrough infection, but because of T-cell immunity or residual antibody immunity the variant is less likely to cause severe disease than it would in a non-immune person.

If the above hypothesis is true, that doesn't necessarily make Omicron "milder" than Delta. Omicron would be infecting people who would not be infected by Delta, so in those people (some disease) is more severe than (no disease). I have not yet seen evidence one way or the other regarding severity for a first infection in a non-immune person.

That is to say, "Omicron is milder!" could be an artifact of Simpson's Paradox.
A molten salt storage solution using sodium hydroxide
It reads to me like core team just wants to code, and all these fringe people who bring in drama to go away.
I'm going to tell this to my gf who works from bed.
I'm not familiar with one, but I don't also necessarily buy the hypothesis. Proportional to its exponential growth, I don't necessarily see a larger-than-expected increase in social strife.
IPv4 Waiting List
> AUS/NZ/SG-style total flight ban.

Thankfully they weren’t total flight bans, but flights are the only way in, and they required quarantine. This worked until Delta.
Somehow I hadn’t heard of either Tile or Airtags until right now. Just so I understand, Tile was _not_ selling location data, but then last month they were bought by a company with a history of selling location data?
I’m getting a 404.
The privacy tradeoffs someone is willing to make will vary person-to-person. For many, Google only using precise location data for Ads and (probably) not shipping it off to random data brokers is a good tradeoff for powering and using the many products they offer - eg. YouTube, Maps, email/calendar, etc. Even for life360, it's very likely more than 50% of their userbase is fine with this given the features Tile and Life360 provide them.
That was only open to select members and required a reservation. It never was a viable model, or even open to public service.

And we all know that swapping $15,000 batteries out for free ain't a valid business model and never will be a valid business model. It was a project designed to maximize the California incentives and minimize the costs to Tesla for obtaining that money.

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I hope that the citizens of California learned their lesson. But even if they refuse to learn, I've learned very much from that episode.
Not sure how these images are being generated but in my experience there is a wide variety of purr and meow. Can't say unique because I have no way of knowing.

Cats are magical to me but in reality I can be friends with all sorts of animals, even people!
It's nice that the opinionated subjectivity is inclusive, at least
You Could Waste Your 20s and Still Make It
When I saw the word "toxic" I was expecting standard issue misogyny, racist comments, or other standard "CHUD" behavior.

What I see here is evidence of a team that simply isn't experienced with running a serious organization and/or has personal issues around communication skills and personal organizational skills. That's not "toxic" but it is a serious scaling issue. In companies this usually necessitates bringing in someone in a senior executive role who is good at these things and empowering them to take over some of those functions.

Toxic to me implies actual covert or overt hostility.
Star Trek, Moral Man, and Governance
I'd forgotten that comment! Thank you!

I did know about individual targeting last millennium, thanks to the controversy around DoubleClick, but didn't know it would become central to people's experience of the web. I don't remember whether I thought it was ridiculously unlikely, nearly certain, or somewhere in between.
Perhaps I’m jaded, but I think there’s a difference between aiming for a high goal but missing because we’re human vs. deliberately aiming short because it’s easier. I saw a lot of the latter, like refusing to learn how to tune PID parameters to manage system dynamics or saying they don’t want to run certain tests because they would be expected to fix any problems they uncover(!).

The lowering of standards is particularly troublesome when higher standards are contractually obligated. There’s a sad phrase that I had heard at high levels called the “NASA salute” which is basically shrugging one’s shoulders to say “yeah, I know I’m supposed to do that, but I also know I won’t be held accountable if I don’t”
Because it is quality.

People will fall over themselves to be the first to post a link to a new post on that blog to HN because they know they could get 100-500 karma points just like that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=righto.com

The "quality" of that blog is multifold.

On one hand if you lived in the 1980s and loved the music the Yamaha DX7 he is talking about now makes you feel pangs of nostalgia. Even if you knew nothing about electronics you might share that post with your music-loving friends. Very few people know a lot about making microchips but most people find his die photos are pretty. People at very different levels of knowledge about electronics, math and similar things will all get something out of his posts.

Contrast that to the average blog which really is not of interest to anybody at all. For instance there was a guy who was complaining that his blog got "banned" on hacker news. He was writing pithy and worthless posts that were barely worthy of a tweet. Stuff like "I was suffering from anxiety and I feel better after meditating for three minutes a day". (Yeah right...)

A lot of people write blog posts that frankly aren't interesting to anybody and they struggle to "promote" their blogs... They could spend $1000's of money and many many hours promoting their blogs and they are just digging themselves a hole.

So quality content is the foundation.
Because they can buy it with out dealing with the legal system. Much easier to get a judge to sign off on it when there is no judge.
I think Hashicorp will enter monitoring next. Netdata would be a great fit (OSS, fat agent, huge metric granularity, deep infra and network insights)
Tailwind always looks like a cool evolution of Tachyons [0] to me (with a build step). On the other hand, tachyons is really simple, you just drop it into your project with no build required (or drop the sass in), and I've never really felt like it was missing any features I wanted.

Has anyone used both seriously who can compare?

[0]: https://tachyons.io/
It's the Internet. I hold it as humanity's greatest invention. The amount of effort from all the different entities over the decades it took for it to coalesce into what it is is nothing short of extraordinary, awesome (in the original sense of the word). Civilization-changing in the span of only several years.

However as each year goes by, I think its negatives are fast outweighing its positives. Society...humanity is not equipped to be a global community. We didn't evolve that way. Everyone having a voice in everything is not a good thing because nothing ever changes or gets done. We are desensitized by an endless deluge of information, and we lose track of what is physically around us.
They weren’t “good failures” like Dreamcast. I can’t think of any game that was great on either off the top of my head, but the Dreamcast I can name several exclusives that were. A lot of the good games were just remakes, like Devil Survivor Overclocked.
While I think the word toxic gets bandied around casually pretty often... having a read through their data set I think it's a pretty apt term for a lot of what I'm seeing. Most of these comments are utterly without value.

Though maybe a more appropriate name would be "The Flamebait Dataset" because, while I'm sure not all of these were intended as flamebait they could all quite quickly encourage some highly adversarial responses.
Because by definition offensive has to do with how people receive something. I love the library, will continue using and donate, I would prefer the docs not to assume that people that print papers are animals. That's all! Take it or leave it.
I was going to ask how to install it but figured I should be able to figure it by myself. After a few web searches and reading this Hacker News discussion¹, I installed GreaseMonkey and it was super-easy from there.

Many thanks! It works like a charm.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22896078
The thing that made Bootstrap click for me years ago as a backend developer were these complete example layouts:

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/examples/

Is there anything similar for Tailwind CSS?
Im learning go and c now. I feel much more productive in go than rust.
> Although I love the idea of HTML-native inputs all the way through, I tend to immediately run into issues where using a native interface instead of a JS-based implementation harms the user experience.

The way HTML forms (in particular, but also things like tables) are stuck in a not even good for the time '90s level of functionality is an under-appreciated drag on all web development, IMO. So very much wasted effort, wheel-reinvention, brokenness (a11y, especially) et c. for shit that should have been built-in years ago.
You literally wrote "There is widespread use of non judicial punishments by police officers." and "People engaged in constitutionally protected activities are often subjected to intimidation and brutality with no recourse." Forgive me if I assumed the second statement was in regards to the police and that isn't what you meant.

Do you have evidence for either of those statements?

Increased domestic violence may very well lead to increased violence at work. You haven't presented any evidence to indicate that.
Perhaps. But hard coded colors, hard coded layout (flexbox etc), hard coded margins, paddings hard coded everything right in the markup. Tailwind and those adjectives are mutually exclusive.

Does nobody remember themeing forums software like vbulletin? Designers weren't allowed to touch the markup in the slightest and yet so many amazing themes were made. Why? Styling wasn't hard-coded in the markup. Hell, remember the insanely customized old.reddit subreddits?
> The "required fields considered harmful" opinion was a hard lesson learned through real experience -- the experience of repeated outages of large, complex systems like Google Search, GMail, etc. Certainly, prior to this experience, everybody assumed required fields were a good idea.

There is a common trait in the systems you mentioned: they generally allow for a permissive representation of a domain data where many of the fields could be omitted or replaced by zero-values / defaults, because most of them, by their nature, have to do with things that are optional and are tolerable to noise and accidental mistakes (percentile precision). How much of A/B test data and user tracking stats do gmail / google search encode and process as protobuf?

If you compare it to a simulation engine's data stream or a collaborative BIM / CAD model, you will find out that almost everything that travels over a network in these systems is required to be unambigous and strictly consistent at sending and receiving sites. All binary representations of physical relations in these models are not just scalar values that can tolerate a default value assigned by a protocol parser upon receiving a missing field. The scalar values appear at UI rendering / output formatting. But most of the time you deal with relations and equations and you need to be able to differentiate between missing-by-intent and missing-by-mistake cases. Zero-values will not be helpful either, because a zero value itself can be represented in multiple ways, depending on the model being evaluated and the context it's evaluated in, the values can legitimately come in different precisions, units, ratios (descrete vs dense) and so on, and those are not distinct fields, their combinations are often mutually exclusive. This is not the kind of validation you want to delegate to calling sites implemented in different languages and maintained by different teams of different technical capacity to solve the challenge of a proper validation. The invariants and constraints have to be encoded into the protocol, and required fields is a low-level "must have" bit of it.
Not convinced that this a better solution then just implementing these features as part of the protocol. For example, most languages have libraries that support grpc load balancing.

https://github.com/grpc/proposal/blob/master/A27-xds-global-...
I wonder what the future of code-splitting with Tailwind will be. With JIT and a large web app, it's easy to ship a massive CSS file even if 90% of the rules are unused on 90% of the pages.
My experience of Pleroma is primarily looking at the timelines of people who have been reported by my users. A large percentage of those reports come from white supremacists with anime girl avatars who are using Pleroma. After several years I am increasingly inclined to get a report, look at the offending user, see that they're on a Pleroma, and just block the whole site then and there without any further investigation.

I am pretty sure I am not the only Mastodon admin who feels this way; anyone coming to the Fediverse should probably be informed that this is a reputation this particular software has.

If this bugs you then do something to clean up Pleroma's overall act and make the racist trolls know they are no longer welcome to use it.
May this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hB_ghSWMoQ
The point I'm making is that it's a racist term, irrespective of whether someone chooses to use it to describe themselves. People are downvoting when their world-view is questioned, without taking a moment to reflect on their assumptions.

I'm Ghanaian myself, and at a loss as to what qualifies one as "tribal", when the same term would not be applied to people in other parts of the world in exactly the same circumstances.

It's the same thing with African art being classified as "tribal" art, their languages considered "tribal" languages, when in actual fact it's just plain old art and language.
I've probably gotten confused about the single letters and the C.D.s, thanks. (actually, looking at the other response's link, the Times may likely have changed their style guide)

But, then why an apostrophe for t's and not for fees? :D It rhymes, it should be punctuated the same is as good a rule as any!
If you follow Ray Dalio, he hypothesizes a lot of what we're seeing is due to decadence. Specifically, newer generations expect a high living standard but are not actually as rich as prior generations to support that living standard. At the same time, the population spends on decadent luxury goods instead of productive goods (which you can see in deindustrialization and the rapid expansion of low quality goods on Amazon).

If you look at the history of the Roman Empire you see a lot of similarities. Increasing living standards means people aren't willing to work as hard as their predecessors because they already have it pretty good. That leads to a loss of competitiveness, loss of competent political leadership (because why struggle in politics when you don't have to?), and increasing corruption. At the same time, people continue to purchase luxury goods to maintain their living standard rather than re-invest in productive assets that might decrease their living standard.
Are certain people using "toxic" as a synonym for "adds virtually nothing intelligent to the conversation"?
Build, don’t borrow, your own community influencers
I might be mistaken but since the auto-correlation function is the inverse FFT of the power spectral density and power spectral density doesn't contain information about the phase. Thus, it's like dropping the phase and taking IFFT(|A|^2)
Toxicity isn’t defined, and it seems the dataset is mainly populated with inflammatory political statements.

I don’t really think you can judge toxic behavior accurately just by analyzing the words in individual comments. I have doubts that this dataset will be useful for “saving the Internet.” Honestly, I still don’t even think toxic comments are the main thing ruining the Internet right now.
Most pensions are mandated to be within a certain asset allocation. Most underperform due to stability being desired and are overweight fixed income. It is very rare for a pension fund to have any exposure to derivates
In my country you are not allowed to physically interact with a smartphome while driving. The cars entertainment system is not off limits, yet. This will be a problem.
There wasn't any system software on the NES, even to the point of no ubiquitous libraries, so it's doubtful.
There are three major police unions in New York City. The Police Benevolent Association (which represents line officers), the Detectives' Endowment Association (detectives) and the Sergeants Benevolent Association (supervisory officers).

In 2020, the leader of the New York City Police Benevolent Association, Patrick Lynch, endorsed Trump in the presidential election, and appeared at the Republic National Convention to support him.

The Sergeants Benevolent Association also endorsed Trump; their leader at the time, Ed Mullins, appeared in an interview on Fox News with a QAnon mug, but has since left the position after his home was raided by the FBI. Prior to that, he was docked vacation time after he tweeted a screenshot of confidential police records concerning the mayor's daughter.

The Detectives' Endowment Association endorsed ... please attempt to suppress your surprise ... Trump as well.

In short: if your perspective is that police unions are run by liberals simply because they're unions, you are not paying attention to the facts.
Not exactly the same but close?
https://tailwindui.com/
It has been provided numerous time. A simple web search will give you more links to studies. Do your own research. You’ve spent a lot time not reading the links provided and not doing your own research. Clearly then you have no real interest in the topic.
I want something like this which includes a few ExtJS-like grid (as in data table) and treelist classes for "enterprise" CRUD want-to-be-spreadsheets-when-they-grow-up apps. (point being, everything in a single toolkit)

So much of enterprise IT is little more than glorified form fill-in, and yet so few CSS/JS libraries solidly cover these use cases.
Well, I guess this one is never going to be more relevant: https://xkcd.com/26