skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean if someone is choosing to write the n-word I don't think a Google suggestion box is going to change their mind.

The use cases I see here are either words with multiple meanings (particularly when the meanings differ between cultures or the offensive meaning is on the obscure side) or words that are meant completely harmlessly but are historically linked to (or even just sound too much like) something racist/sexist/etc.

This could be helpful for people who were about to accidentally say something offensive, and maybe it could also give pause to someone that was trying to be subtly inflammatory. But flagging words like "landlord" seems on the sensitive side to me. I wouldn't call it censorship but it does further normalize hypervigilance about language use given how sensitive it does appear to be.

I would feel better about it if I knew more about the settings - if I dismiss the landlord suggestion (for example) once will it stop giving me that suggestion in future docs? I would use if so. If not it will definitely get on my nerves and I'd like to turn it off outright. Hopefully that is an option.
You'd be surprised. I used to work on a product where the lead developer made sure foreign keys were NOT enabled on production. They were only "allowed" in dev. Some teams have a strict "no foreign keys" rule.
Thunderbird works great for me across different desktop operating systems. It doesn't have the best UI but it is all IMAP and it handles multiple inboxes/calendars (custom domains and an old gmail account) just fine. You can also tweak the settings for each inbox accordingly. I use the default mail app on iPhone.
Because I can't resist reading a dialogue, I read this now. I appreciate the summary of the book as it's written but I break with it here:

"He wants a world where smart people and dull people have equally comfortable lives, and where intelligence can take its rightful place as one of many virtues which are nice to have but not the sole measure of your worth."

IMO the more accurate claim is that FDB wants everyone's lives to have an equally comfortable floor. Whatever happens after this floor gets established (by a state, or otherwise) is not his main concern... and in my view, at least, it'll be a very different world so what happens is less important argue about.

Alexander then writes as if FDB hates whenever meritocracy dictates anything, but to me the important point is that the meritocracy dictates the floor.

"... Teacher tourism might be a factor, but hardly justifies DeBoer's "charter schools are frauds, shut them down" perspective."

I think FDB wants to shut down charters because he recognizes that they're immoral, and public schools are simply what we're supposed to maintain for taking care of and educating our kids (at this moment in history.) It seems like Alexander is just saying "you're dreaming too big!"; in every era some people always exist to say this.

"Still, I worry that the title - The Cult Of Smart - might lead people to think there is a cult surrounding intelligence, when exactly the opposite is true."

What Alexander describes here is the reactionary progressive strain of anti-IQ that is only as strong as progressivism's enemies' focus on IQ. It's an inverse function; I don't think liberals actually care that much about less intelligent people, people with educational disabilities and so on.

"DeBoer not only wants to keep the whole prison-cum-meat-grinder alive and running, even after having proven it has no utility, he also wants to shut the only possible escape my future children will ever get unless I'm rich enough to quit work and care for them full time."

I had to skim this ending part. Maybe I missed it, but Alexander doesn't mention that: FDB wants to lower the dropout age to 12; Schools guarentee that kids get to have interactions with lots of other kids, even in very rural areas; Schools guarentee parents time to themselves, to not worry about keeping their kids safe. Aren't these important points?

Respectable and respectful review, but I am still with FDB in ethos.
Thank you for the mention.

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KYC isn't required for users. You can download Brave, opt-in to Rewards, earn BAT, and support content creators across the Web, and all without KYC. But if you wish to deposit/withdraw, then KYC is required (by relevant AML laws/regulations). Brave can't break the law if we wish to reform the Web into a privacy-preserving medium for communication and more. It's not up to us whether KYC is part of the equation; we have to follow the law.
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I don’t accept it nor do I pander to woke bs. I’m a decent person and I’ll use any language I want. It should be opt in not opt out.
How do you know how many women there are? Are you a biologist?
Hm. It seems you're right. Well, I stand corrected.
Is this some kind of gotcha? What's bad about telling employees not to use these words when they give an impression of being anti competitive?
AWS lambda’s work that way.
Take a look at the data channels part of things.
Tell HN: I haven’t been to a search engine website in almost a year
I used to use DuckDuckGo.com but then switched exclusively to the CLI https://github.com/jarun/ddgr. I've been happier and more productive since.
You've taken the stance that people who do not use inclusive language are not genuinely caring and empathetic. People I know who are minorities in tech seem to not care very much. Most have more pressing issues like handling the practical implications of mat-leave or pushing for equitable resume reviews. The people I know who care the most about this are also universally not minorities.

It's bizarre to me that strong sapir-wharf seems to be the dominant thought in 2022.
>I think you are leaping to a lot of conclusions not in evidence. There is a big difference between "centrally planning a city down to the micro-management level" and overriding any ability for a municipality to assert what it feels is needed in a development.

Not really, if the municipality is in fact willing to centrally plan a city down to the micro-management level, and a different level of government wants to prevent it from happening. Some overriding is gonna have to happen here.

>Negative externalities are a very real thing

Indeed. Example: artificially embalming swathes of single-family neighbourhoods in time, right next to recently built public transit we're sinking billions into building. So let's not be selective about negative externalities and consider the ones created or exacerbated by NIMBY-driven urban planning, too.

>allowing developers to have arbitrarily many of them at arbitrarily bad levels is not the only alternative to complete and total central planning. Believe it or not there are reasonable middle grounds that allow some influence on developments from central planning to limit negative externalities while also listening to market forces. My beliefs align somewhere in this middle ground.

Sure. I too am somewhere between allowing toxic smelters next door to kindergartens and Soviet-style central planning where government owns all and builds all. Everyone's gonna align themselves somewhere in this middle ground between two contrived and straw-man extremes, all NIMBYs included. The whole debate is about where in this middle ground we ought to be. Forgive my skepticism, it's just that I've heard this middle-ground line often. And often, this is simply a rhetorical cop-out and a prelude to killing off any meaningful changes that allow for building the types of housing people want in places where they want it.
I already did for my kids, and I didn't have to wait for the New York Times to tell me. College is a scam (specifically the debt-based form of it) and nearly completely unnecessary for most work.
Can't see how this will ever compete with the Alameda Weekhauken tunnel, but hey, startup money is cheap so haave at it.
Hubitat will still be working. It runs 100% locally, and you don't need the cloud for anything. There is an app for remote access if you want.

And you can do remote access yourself if you are skilled with tunneling through your router.
Well I have to ask you whether or not you participate in zoning board meetings? Have you actively fought or supported any motions to restrict mixed use development or anything that would bring the "missing middle" to your city?

If you haven't done the following then I don't think you're the problem but a symptom. Sure, we could tax small landlords more over an arbitrary amount of real estate valuation or something but I would suspect that due to how corporate structuring can be handled that it would be mitigated by such things. I think it'll be a complex set of decisions that'll need to be taken before North American cities become economically viable for most folks in the lower income brackets. Until the various benefits are exceeded by the hidden costs of keeping them for multiple take holders, nothing will change.
How are objects differentiated from their background?
Same for me. I wonder what has changed in Spacemacs in the last two or three years? Is there anything that Spacemacs offers that is non-trivial to do in Doom?
On the topic of PDF tools running in the browser, I made a simple app to split apart large-format pages for printing at home: https://splitpdfs.com/

I use it to print posters and big templates for cutting out e.g. foam board from plans.
Because it was the truth at the time.
> Do you think having a potential traitor party during war is good?

If the biggest party before Maidan (30%) is forbidden as a "traitor party", can it be really called as such? Or was Ukraine before Maidan openly pro-Russian, and was the Kiev regime the traitors?

> Please tell me how was Czeczen separatists treated in Russia?

I cannot agree more. Not always separatists are allowed to separate. Even Spain had a episode of that recently.

Though, the pro-Russian crowd in Ukraine feels somewhat Russian, and Russia is sympathetic to them. If the Czeczens were entically chinese, their faith may also've been different.
Well, grammatical correctness is at least standardized and thus absolute.

Oh wait, not in English.

But at least respected dictionaries exist for grammar, offering a vague consensus. But is there a dictionary for "absolute inappropriateness", against which we can check google's checker?
I’m also a subscriber and wanted to export the some stuff to a Google Sheet to give to my financial adviser- I had to do some funky js console stuff.

Adding an export, with yearly/monthly resolution and customizable columns would be trivial probably.
Warning, I am also a layman, but I don't think we know how clumped dark matter is. We know it has to be spread out on galactic scales, but that doesn't mean it's spread out at solar system scales. Some people even suggest dark matter could be black holes with intermediate masses. If we can figure out how concentrated or spread out dark matter is at the solar system level, it constrains the models that would fit the new data.
The transaction is basically a function call like this:

flash_loan(int amount_borrowed, func arbitrary_trades)

1. give LOANEE_ADDRESS amount_borrowed

2. call arbitrary_trades()

3. give LOANER_ADDRESS (amount_borrowed + interest)

When 2. is executed, the loanee has the money. When 3. is complete, the loaner has the money back. If the loanee doesn't have the money to give, 3rd step fails. And since its atomic, the whole transaction fails.
Last I checked, this feature is paywalled behind specific certificate authorities.

Any news on that?
In theory BC at least has a residency tax on vacant homes - but that just increases the cost of making the investment and shifts the numbers... it doesn't necessarily make the investment a losing strategy unless you're right on the border.
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Tanks are dead, apparently since 1919
I think the key is the comparative "-er" in "cleaner" and "simpler." Fetch may not be the cleanest or simplest possible solution, but in my opinion it is cleaner and simpler. XMLHttpRequest is good. Fetch is better.
The issue is people need homes to live, but people also use homes as an investment vehicle. These are fundamentally at odds with each other.
Would the Lady prefer to let her site go down?

I don't understand this way of thinking. One of the main benefits of serverless is scalability, peace of mind for precisely when you go viral.

If you're doing something good, especially if you're selling something good, all you want is to go viral. And of you went viral, you don't mind paying the AWS costs, which should be tiny compared to your revenue. Just need to care about your unit economics.
I’m skeptical that the things you don’t like about 2022 are because 1982 was strictly better. Seems much more likely that we simply have a different set of compromises and priorities, with some things better and some things worse and no easy way to untangle the complex interdependencies into sweeping linear statements like “decline”.
The unredacted AMP lawsuit is: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.56...

I'm not aware of other sources of internal emails on this topic. What were you referring to when you wrote: "internal Google emails demonstrate very differently: AMP was designed to increase Google's ad revenue."?
Now that you are saying this.. take a look everywhere, it's all like this.. every country turned into the worst versions of themselves, but even the worst of UK its kind of not bad in my opinion, compared to other countries.

At least from an outside view, it's the UK now that is showing a good leadership in the current worldwide crises. While the US, France and Germany are completely lost, especially on how to deal with a "strong-man".

(Meanwhile nobody remembers Cameron or that guy that was a pure puppet of the US in the forced Iraq war, and they were the posh gentleman everyone was expecting)
Because language is a collective action. Definitions evolve with usage.

That's just how language works.
Apple gets at least $99 per year plus device sales and usage data if it's an app. They also get to sell App Store ads to competing banks.
Looking for memory shrink instruction.
This is a great example of how a lot of these methods of "avoiding upsetting people" seem to really be ways for people to make themselves feel good for doing something that they think is nice, like how almost every latino has no problem with the gendered form and has never heard of "latinx".
He never asked about switching the provider, just an app to handle his Gmail correspondence due to poor interface. Truth is that everyone should switch to ProtonMail promptly but just pointing out that it isnt the answer to his question.
In this hypothetical I thought we were talking about a founder-operator. It seems like your point does not work in this case?
I've had cavity wall insulation added to the last two houses I've owned. Made a huge difference to both, especially noticeable was how much longer the house stayed warm when the heating was off. Both were detached which will make a difference in terms of surface area impacted.
You could. You might even say it's difficult to make any project estimate without your plan being waterfall. Planning and execution are deliberately two very different things, and convincing the customer - or the steering committee of that - is key to a good product.
The problem here is that you have not proven in any way that the Second Amendment's use of "well-regulated" does not refer to "government law" or "some other type of control". If you're suggesting that they expected militias to be self-organizing, you need to present at least one instance of a self-organized militia being referred to as "regulated". The evidence you've presented so far makes it clear that contemporary thought understood militias to be organized by law.

If you could find a single example of a militia being "regulated" by anything other than a legal mandate, I have to assume you'd have presented it by now. 1 gazillion points to Calvin; game over.
> It's not telling you what to change, it's giving you suggestions.

By giving you suggestions it's telling you that it thinks you are wrong. There is no way around that. It's a judgement plain and simple and that changes people's behaviour.

> Even the suggestions can be turned off.

Let's be honest. No one changes the defaults.

> Language (like everything) has become politicized,

ANd now my word editor is picking a side...
You can go back and read the historical reporting on this.

I think the point is that the Evers administration didn't kill anything, they issued a death certificate for something that had been laying by the side of the road for a really long time. They felt for a pulse, they poked it with a stick, they threw a bucket of water on it. And finally said, "Yep, it's dead"
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Every economy has boom and bust cycles, so "the bubble is still ahead of us" is a meaningless statement since it is true by default. Yes there will be a slowdown at some point, but can anyone can predict when and how big that will be.
> Is this satire, are you really advocating building houses with an expected life-span of 40 years?

I'm really not sure. On the one hand, I agree it is wasteful. On the other hand, I personally like living in a new home.

> No more drywall, particle boards everywhere. Tiles.. forget it, kitchen counters made by reclaimed wood etc

The average kitchen where I live is renovated every 10 years, so the drywall, much of the electrical and plumbing, the floor, tile backsplash, etc...is redone. Bathrooms are also on a 10 year schedule. You can let the reno slide, of course, or perhaps you can do a higher quality reno and hope it lasts longer than a decade. (I'm looking at a kitchen reno right now and my house was built in 2016...the builders just made too many mistakes, but $150k to redo the kitchen...ugh)

In Japan, they don't do the reno every 10 years, they just rebuild the house every 30. How is that much different?
What's stopping you from using "African American"?

The switch to "Black" is part of an update to the style guide of newspapers and magazines. They publish articles describing the change, because it matters from an institutional history perspective. Someone looking at news stories before and after 2020 would notice that, so it merits explanation.

That being said, it's a style guide change. It's not a law. You won't be cancelled for not using a capital B.
Until proven otherwise, I'm a firm believer that all good, modern multiplayer games basically rehash the original 1999 client-server, server authoritative architecture design of QuakeWorld. You'll get a lot of young amateurs claiming otherwise or that game multiplayer networking is too nuanced than that, but I think that's a load of bunk.

I think the opposite is true, most good multiplayer networking uses this model, and deviations from it are the niche. You may even have large player base models that shard on top of using this design, but the original premise takes hold, and there are entire generations of young hobbyists who I think probably refuse to believe this in large part because most of them aren't doing sophisticated enough networking to say otherwise, and as soon as they even try, they'll be reinventing the wheel.

The nature of multiplayer games forces you to make architectural decisions that will always essentially look like a client-server, server authoritative model.

Why? Because you can't allow cheating, and you will always want some degree of prediction. Even if you didn't care about either of these you can simply choose to not opt-into those limitations.

But you get too many armchair network experts who have never opened a socket on HN saying that even things like serializing game data is too nuanced. Yeah, OK.

I'm sure there are alternative models that do exist, but it's been less than 25 years since that design took hold, and most significant real-time video games have used something exactly like it or similar.

Even RuneScape had serialized game event RPC that was reverse engineered over many years. Every game has something like that. You will always need to at least serialize something.
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For example…

As the “show me” state, Missouri does not tax the income generated by Twitch hot tub streamers and OnlyFans content creators, but the viewers pay an ogling tax based on tracking eye movements.
When I scan documents with my phone camera, it introduces some skew as well. Or it doesn't detect the edges accurately, cropping or padding the sides.
Ah, racism. Long time no see.
> To this day I wonder why Palm thought it was ok that all their LCDs emitted a high-pitched humming noise when turned on.

Maybe it was designed by people who couldn't hear it? High-pitched sounds are supposedly the first to go with age/tinnitus/etc: https://mosquitoloiteringsolutions.com/why-mosquito/sound-de...
Is WebAssembly faster than JavaScript? Any good benchmarks you can link me to?

I found one of Daniel Lemire's [0] from 2018 which seems to suggest it's basically not much faster. 2018 is long enough away from now though that this post may not be relevant. I don't know.

It's odd to me how WebAssembly seemed to be started as a way to get performance
improvements by working with cached instructions (and maybe also explicit memory management and integer types) but I don't hear much about performance these days.

Maybe I'm not paying attention.

Instead I hear more about it as a universal platform or a way you can run C/C++ code in the browser (like tree-sitter and CPython and Ruby, etc.). Or about people using it in edge compute or as the engine for smart contracts. In those ways you could just as well have used the JVM though.

[0] https://lemire.me/blog/2018/10/23/is-webassembly-faster-than...
People dont lose anything until they sell.

Most people aren’t selling. So they haven’t lost.

And how would you limit the effect if housing dropped for the many other reasons prices drop?? You don’t.
Largest subreddit for Amazon workers has banned any mention of unions
While this may work for unsophisticated attacks, wouldn't it still be possible for a more sophisticated adversary to do something more like store the document in browser local storage, and then later with internet access to post the contents?

I haven't spent a huge amount of time in the browser security space, but I do think there is quite alot of surface area if you give the browser session sensitive data.
Netlify's creative pricing is what lost me as a customer. They decided to start reading our git commits to decide how much to charge us. Instead of charging for usage of bandwidth and build minutes they decided to charge based on how many different authors we had--even though those people never interacted with Netlify or even knew how we were deployed. If we didn't hurry up and migrate to Render.com this would have taken our bill from $1.5k/year to over $25k/year.
EXAMPLE: 120k income breakdown (10k/month):

Federal actual rate 16.5% (24% marginal)

CA State actual rate 6.4% (9.3% marginal)

Medicare rate 1.45%

OSDI rate 6.2 %

CA SDI rate 1.0%

Total:31.55% total before tax deductions and tax shelters

If your mortgage is ~40%, you have ~30% left over.

Per month, this is 4,000 for a mortgage, 3,000 taxes, and 3,000 remainder.

A 4,000/month mortgage covers a 800k loan on $1 million dollar home.

You don't get a lot of house in the bay area for 1 million, So if you are single earning this much, you are looking at condos.

If have two similar earners, you just double everything. E.g. 2 million dollar house with $6,000 per month remaining income.
> I remember those things that like... ran credit cards by impressioning them into paper. Haven't seen those since the 90s.

An imprinter? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_imprinter

I saw one of those being used not even 10 years ago, though it was at an admittedly hipster establishment.