skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like publicly owned statues serve a very different purpose than school library books. The former are usually forms of veneration, the others are for education.
It's still too hard to make maps
When I was in high school, the school library was a few minutes away and I could go there easily during the school day. The town library was a lot harder to get to. Your experience may differ —- but people have lots of different experiences; blanket laws affect all of them, and should be made with the appropriate degree of caution.
OH NO! 11 out of 100,000 males!!! GOD FORBID!! That's 0.011%!! The risk is so high!!!!

Why don't we just quote the part you conveniently left out: "For every million vaccinated boys ages 12 to 17, the shots might cause a maximum of 70 myocarditis cases, but would prevent 5,700 infections, 215 hospitalizations and two deaths, the agency has estimated... One of the new studies looked at data from 2.5 million vaccinated members of Israel’s largest health care network who were aged 16 years or above. The researchers identified 54 cases of myocarditis, and deemed 41 of them to be mild."

So 54 cases out of 2.5 million people vaccinated. And it likely prevented over 10,000 infections, 500 hospitalizations, and 5 deaths. It really, really sucks for those folks. But the benefits VASTLY (orders of magnitude) outweigh the risks.

The risk isn't "underappreciated." The risk is statistically insignificant compared to the protection offered by vaccination.
> It's almost like two sides can play that game. Who started the game anyway?

The book banners started centuries ago. the origins of the word "Bowdlerized" are about cutting unsuitable language from Gibbon's 'decline and fall of the roman empire' [0] Thats 1820s.

"Lambs Tales from Shakespeare" was an earlier instance. They cut all the good bits, to make it suitable for kids. [1]

> I remember some statues being toppled last year by very progressive minded people. Maybe you know destroying art wasn't the progressive thing to do after all.

There really isn't linkage. One is about teaching materials and how to expose young minds to written ideas and expression. The other is about memorialising the past and how its treated. Personally?? I think context panels on the statues to explain why we no longer think they deserve memorialising is better, but thats just my take.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Shakespeare
Because the median human is as stupid as a rock. As Rolling Stone illustrates today, Joe Rogan is what an idiot thinks a smart person sounds like.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jordan-pet...
Harvest is still one of my favourite albums of all time. Good on Neil for taking a stand. He doesn’t need the money, and he’s never been enamoured by Spotify.

I have no love for Rogan. But I don’t necessarily think Spotify should remove Rogan. But if Neil doesn’t like the way Spotify operates, removing his music is putting his money where his mouth is in terms of protest, and I respect that.
> thanks to the inclusion of a MIME type in the response header Gemini can be used to serve plain text, rich text, HTML, Markdown, LaTeX, etc. [0]

I think you are referring to the text/gemini format which isn’t a required portion of the IP.

[0] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.html
A significant chunk of money and most of the time was spent on testing everything conceivable. Manufacturing a second one is indeed much cheaper, but would probably not be the main cost at that point.
> Who started the game anyway?

It certainly didn't start last year.

I remember conservatives being grumpy about Dogma and The Simpsons decades ago, and that's hardly the start either. Hell, Socrates got "canceled".
Pretending that the current brand of "activism" is the same as previous ones is disingenuous, and disrespectful. Previous struggles for rights, for example by women, blacks, and gays, as well as pushing back against "the man" - conformity with the establishment, were important causes, I don't need to dwell on that. The current need for outrage and attention while simultaneously being ultra conformist brand of slacktivism is nothing like that. Neil Young may have been an important part of past struggles, but he's just another establishment shill looking for attention now if this is the kind of hill he's dying on.
The first century worth of newspapers were ridiculously biased rags. They existed as political, social, and commercial propaganda for whomever funded them, and they were bought by people who liked that kind of thing.

I think modern professional journalism was a fluke of history. Without independent funding it's going right back to its original state. And the only way that independent funding will happen is with a highly educated and involved citizenry, which scares the living crap out of the powerful.
It's not exactly a uniform space. There are many different spheres, some intersecting more than others. You've got people involved in software development, people keeping track of financial analysis, people being cryptobros on Twitter, people versed in futurism and esoteric art, people who got into BTC early on and use it to justify giving their opinion on everything etc.

I consider myself fairly well informed and I've never heard of this guy. He just looks like a professional pundit. The kind that found the right audience to keep playing the same one chord to. There's absolutely no chance at all I won't ever have crossed paths with this man's writing if it wasn't for HN's peculiar fixation on crypto.
all the Wordle dev would have to add is a single link to a place to donate. He would make a fair amount given it's current popularity. But I agree with your point.
Exactly, from radiation to muscle loss - humans are simply not meant to live in space. BUT - it doesn't mean we won't eventually, especially if forced off Earth due to some human made or natural catastrophy. Humans may need to evolve for space living though. It may take many generations of evolution and adaptation and natural selection.
This is a repeat of what happened to Dungeons and Dragons books in the 80's and 90's but this time they are coming for actually important books. I say this as a person who plays D&D.
So we should just team our kids lies as long as enough people agree with them?
Ohhhh. Yeah, I think you're right. Thanks.
Well yes, they may be "standardized" within one brand, but that isn't standardized. Why include a Logitech mouse/keyboard radio in a mobo when the one making the mobo isn't Logitech?
Meanwhile… my sister and her daughter had a Covid sandwich: caught it in summer 2020, got vaccinated as soon as feasible, then caught it again a few days ago.

Anecdotally, my sister is one of those people who “catches everything” so I can’t say I’m surprised, but clearly there is no such thing as absolute sterilizing immunity (natural or vaccine-induced) for this particular coronavirus.
Their margin loan feature isn't much faster in my experience. ~2 days to open the initial request, 2 days to transfer via ACH, couple more to clear. I don't remember if there was a wire transfer option or not. Overall I still appreciate how easy it was to use
This is a link to the board minutes / transcript. It is well worth a read https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_...
As far as I can tell, that's Render's pitch.

They aren't there just yet, but it wasn't far off last time I tried it ~6 months ago.
In Julia you could have an `AbstractVector` type also be callable, or more likely a vector of callable objects (and the operation is performed row-wise).

I agree it's unlikely that a user will name their column `.data`. But it certainly saves developer effort from thinking about these issues.

The larger concern, really, is that Julia needs to know which things are columns and which things are variables in an expression at parse time in order to generate fast code for a DataFrame. It needs to do this without inspecting the data frame, since the data frame's contents aren't known at parse time.

One option would be to make all literals columns. But then you run into issues with things like `missing`, which would have to be escaped or not recognized as a column. Its hard to predict all the problems there, and any escaping rules would definitely have to be more complicated than R's. So we require `:` and take the easy way out, which has the added benefit for new users who might get confused about the variable-column distinction.
It should do both.
Is there any big corp that doesn’t do “never use these words” training? “We are going to crush the competition” has been taboo in emails since the mid 1990s. Not to mention a lot of words that should be avoided for sensitivity reasons.
Do you have a source for that? My understanding is that photos generally belong to the person who took them.

>As to Germany's censorship of Nazi imagery, and holocaust denial, I believe the better path is the path the OP outlines where debate and open dialog is a better path and government laws. so I disagree that is an example of "good censorship"

you can't "debate" people who are firmly detached from reality. We can see that with COVID-19 misinformation. Allowing them to parade around in Nazi costumes only helps them, it does nothing for society to let them dress like that and goodstep around.

Another example of positive censorship is when Reddit banned /r/jailbait. Do you agree with that? The pictures weren't illegal.
There is something miserable in the figure who enjoyed in their youth the freedom of speech, but from the comfort of age seeks to deny it to others; some deformity of the soul. -Edward Snowden
The problem is most people (or at least the loudest people) treat it as a black and white situation. You are either for this or against that.
> Cons: 1. Electron.

Sounds like you're happy with the performance though, why a con?
This isn't a "gamble." No one would gamble if the house offered these odds. The gamble is NOT getting the vaccine. You're gambling with your life, possibly. And you're much more likely to get a "prize" like death, hospitalization, long COVID, etc if you refuse to get vaccinated. Like tens or even hundreds of thousands of times more likely.
Eh, wait a moment. I did several fun stuff with just CLI and C/tcl under the zipitz z2. Even with TLS. You understimate what we did in the 90's too with just 32 or 64MB of RAM.

Jabber uses XML and I did it fine under a system daemon like Bitlbee AND an IRC client on top of that. 48MB overall on the Zipit z2, 32MB + compressed ZRAM. The total usage was about ~16MB with a tiny MUSL build, tmux, ash, bitlbee and sic.

SMTP, NNTP, Gopher... are protocols for 16 and 8 bit architectured computers. Go figure.

A Classic Mac with System 6 could do IMAP just fine, jcs wrote a client for it.
As the article mentions, this is not an isolated incident in either Tennessee or nationally. Maybe this book would be banned at any other time. But it is hard to see this book banning as anything but one incident in a larger pattern of censorship in which CRT is the held up as the primary motivation. As the article says:

>Regardless of why this decision was made, we’re in a climate where a sustained attack is being made on our schools, our teachers, and the truth. The anti-Critical Race Theory furor ginned up by Republican think tanks for political gain morphed into an excuse for right wing folks to try to cancel diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and things they don’t agree with in general — and now Conservative book-banning is really having a moment.
Have you tried Cubes OS?
Kudos to Spotify, whether it's a money decision, or a decision to stand up to a has-been entertainer. They stood up to a bully.
> Half the post is about Bitcoin.

Yes, because Bitcoin is an actually working, properly designed system used by people for real-world ends.

> A large chunk is about the ENS token distribution

That would be two lines just below "Which one is ENS?", plus the image text?

> There's no link to any of the contracts or code.

What is there you want me to link to, specifically? I mean, I suppose I could give a source for "they could crank up the fee for renewing only your name to $1,000,000,000, and then allocate it to whomever they please once it expires" if you insist. But this is not contentious, surely? Is there any specific contract or code you think the article would be improved by linking to?

> There's no comparison with existing providers

Unstoppable Domains is arguably even less serious, Handshake doesn't allow you to own domains at the second level but is otherwise solid, [project] is good but there is a conflict of interest associated with me promoting it, MoneroDNS and Emercoin seem all right but I haven't looked into them deeply.

> the trade-offs

The trade-offs only exist because ENS exists as a "crypto-asset," the governance of which has to be freely traded on the open market for the economic structure to work. If ENS wouldn't have the purpose of making a profit for the insiders, there wouldn't be any reason to make all of these strange trade-offs in the first place.

When you sacrifice censorship-resistance and decentralization, what is it that you get in exchange? What are you trading it for?

> There's no discussion on how DAOs are still very immature and evolving.

How do you expect them to "evolve" in the future? Is there a specific issue that will be solved in a certain way, or is it like Proof of Stake, where "new developments" at an unspecified point in the future are supposed to fix all the problems, so you shouldn't ask too much tricky questions today?

> There's no acknowledgement of how ENS has behaved since inception.

Well, I note that ENS made direct lies about their decentralization status prior to November 10, 2021, I note that ENS publicly announced their intention to censor if required, and I note that a few hundred keyholders is better than seven.

Is there something else you think I should acknowledge?

> Flash loan voting? Clueless.

Does ENS have some special precaution against this? Or is it simply outside of the threat model?
Conservative religious groups have been doing this for decades so implying it started last year isn't really supported by evidence.
No, I haven't experimented with generics and esbuild. I hadn't considered whether generics could improve performance or not. Just thinking about it quickly now. I'm not convinced it would because esbuild hardly makes use of interface{}. If someone can demonstrate a noticeable performance improvement then I'd be happy to start using generics for that reason.

The main pattern esbuild uses is an interface with a single dummy method to denote a union type like this: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/blob/34899aaa1d76acd3b4adc5.... It's used several times and is basically esbuild's core data structure. I'd like to be able to optimize this pattern. Specifically I'd like to avoid each reference to a union type taking up two whole pointers in memory (Go represents interfaces as a pointer to the object and a separate pointer to the method table).

I'm only using the method table as a tag for the tagged union, so ideally it'd be a single byte or something even less expensive like part of the pointer. I don't think generics can help with this? But Go doesn't let you do fancy stuff like this so I'm just leaving it be. A low-level language like C++/Rust could do better here, but that comes at the cost of a significant decrease in productivity, so I'm ok with this trade-off.
When I do the first one, I hold my attention upon the thing as perfectly as I can for a length of time

When I do the second one, I watch sensations come and go while refraining from moving my awareness in reaction to what I observe.

Is that what you do?
I definitely couldnt do it in a weekend. But I have been wondering how new cities are born, like not a suburb beside an existing city, but the ones that are in the middle of "no where". And what would stop a few thousand people from having a mutual interest to start something in the middle of no where?

Most of the jobs could be remote save for the ones that support the citizens themselves.

maybe this would fail for the same reason those preplanned cities in china failed? IDK. I'm definitely not implying it's dead easy, just that maybe it's easier than fitting 1M more people in a city that is already dense and full of NIMBYs?
> …and an even worse podcast host

Mmm I’m interested on your reasons for saying that as I think the opposite. He lets the interviewed to talk freely and requests explanations when bullshit claims are made. He never attempts to conduct the interview to follow his way of thinking. It’s a show that surprisingly on these times, doesn’t have an agenda or ideology behind. The show feels like the classic easy going guy from the gym having a innocent conversation with someone who knows about some area.

Overall, I think he is a great interviewer and the only thing I could complain is that sometimes he might brings some wacky people, but hell, I have enjoyed a lot of those too.
this is actually an interesting idea
This has absolutely nothing to do with CRT. I assure you books have been banned far longer than CRT has been a trending topic.

Did you read the minutes of the meeting? The content that is against school board policy is enumerated and there is a request to replace the material with something that can teach equivalent lessons.

> I've got enough faith from the Director of Schools down to the newest hire in this building, that you can take that module and rewrite it and make it do the same thing. Our children need to know about the Holocaust, they need to understand that there are several pieces of history, Mr. Bennett, that shows depression or suppression of certain ethnicities. It's not acceptable today. We've got to accept people for who and what they are… But Rob, the wording in this book is in direct conflict of some of our policies… I move that we remove this book from the reading series and challenge our instructional staff to come with an alternative method of teaching the Holocaust.
Sierpinski’s Turtles
The average person isn’t stupid or dumb and I’ve found when people claim they are it’s usually a projection.
Arguably that’s the current system. For example, “You can be anything you want” is one of the most egregious lies we tell children.
That’s the thing, they may not break up companies, or pursue bad actors to the fullest extent of the law if they depend on fines for funding. It creates perverse incentives… we’ve seen this with eg police departments over relying on fines.

The goal of the agency should first and foremost be the protection of the public, not to extort funding.
I don't think an appeal to popularity is a useful or interesting challenge, even on topics so closely related to popularity like this. It's perfectly valid to have an opinion that some piece of entertainment media is "bad" while acknowledging that it is popular. There are plenty of reasons a non-fiction content creator in particular can gain popularity without being good at entertaining. E.g. if he gets guests that are perceived by a large group of people as challenging a status quo that they hate, he may develop a religious-like following among that group, and that certainly is viable outside the context of entertainment value.

For the record, I am coming from the perspective of having listened to very few episodes, but enjoying what I heard.
This is obvious weasel wording. It is good for students to question all things they're learning. I hope they do question it, as I hope they question the sections on manifest destiny and American exceptionalism as well. It doesn't mean that 1/3 of 8th graders are holocaust deniers.

EDIT: I read their PDF, this methodology is ridiculous. Their website has the bold claim that "42% of teens have witnessed an antisemitic event", but reading the actual document, that includes hearing about the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on the news, which basically means that 42% of teens read the news. This isn't the kind of source you should be citing if you want to be taken seriously.
I would argue it's not needed for the last sentence. In fact, when people are freed from convention in contexts like chat programs, they often drop unneeded bits like trailing periods
Well, that depends. In this case it was a school board, so it's "representative government." In other cases, "cancelers" are going around or over the heads of their school board, which is much more like "direct democracy" which is simultaneously much-decried when it comes to defending the absurdity of the Senate or Electoral College's vote distribution.

Fancy-sounding principles about government don't matter in this debate. Look at the lack of right-wing outcry over the canceling of Colin Kaepernick. It's just about power, and doing whatever it takes to make sure the "right people" have it.
I feel mixed about this because "sold by Amazon" meant that if there was a problem I got to deal with Amazon customer service rather than trying to get service from some Joe with a mailbox 3rd-party reseller.

Yes, I often knew I was paying more and explicitly chose the SBA option as a loss-risk reduction strategy.
> So communist Cuba is corrupted by a form of corporatism?

https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/cuba-he...

> Authorities of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) and the Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industries of Cuba (BioCubaFarma) met with representatives of European embassies, Cuban-based partner agencies and PAHO/WHO country office to continue promoting collaboration in the health sector.

https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/13990121000392/Ayallah-Khame...

> The World Health Organization has considered priorities in combating coronavirus and Islamic Republic of Iran obeys and follows up priorities as defined by WHO.

Admittedly Iran banned US made vaccines, but then just put out their own in cooperation with the WHO, COVAX and Gavi.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/01/12/iran-khameneis-reckless-...

> Iran has said that the country is participating in the COVAX Facility, which is an effort by the World Health Organization, Gavi (the Vaccine Alliance), and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to help low- and middle-income countries get access to vaccines. Iran started the first phase of the human trial for a domestically produced vaccine in December 2020.

See https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/who-funds-world-healt... for who the WHO is funded by. At the point when the US pulled funding, the largest donor was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the third was Gavi. Bill Gates owns a lot of pharma stock. The foundation is a way to garner influence in a tax free and humanitarian looking way.

Who funds Gavi?

It's a rabbit hole, but the world is complicated and conflicts of interest (corruption) abound. Please do follow a few of these research threads and try to be open minded to those suspicious of wealthy people claiming to operate in our interest.
Because the code that gets exploited to set the environment variable runs after sanitization has already finished, and no further sanitization happens between then and when it gets read.
Though it is great, WikidPad only works on Windows. Zim is multi-platform.
> Knowing a triplet ain't employing Pythagorean theorem.

3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2 = 25 guarantees that the angle between the side length 3 and the side of length 4 is a right angle which is what the carpenter very much wanted to know. E.g., the sides might be 30 feet, 40 feet and 50 feet, e.g., for the foundation of a house, and presto, bingo the carpenter knows that the 30 foot side and the 40 foot side form a right angle, are square, which can be very important to a carpenter and not so easy to know otherwise.