skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what surgery did you have? I had RF-based reduction surgery and it didn't do much.
It's the point at which people finally realize they should have appreciated the living more than they did.

To quote a pop song: "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone"
Federal officials talking about how a company should be supressing constitutionally guaranteed rights of citizens?

They should be removed from office.
>Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter highlights the risks to human rights and personal safety when any single person has complete control over policies affecting almost 400 million users

Elon is more dangerous to human rights than the Saudi government (partially) owning Twitter?
EBV is an insidious virus. In addition to growing evidence that it's associated with MS, it's also associated with chronic fatigue syndrome and other sets of symptoms without a definitive, widely-accepted root cause, and even some cancers. If you ever had mononucleosis, you've likely still got EBV in your system. I had lymphoma and it might have caused that. It's particularly insidious in that it's common, spreads easily, and if it really is causing all these other problems, you might not know for decades, if ever.
https://archive.ph/cNfq1
> canceling is a label applied to play the victim when people are being held accountable for things they don't want to be or by people they don't consider equal.

Justine Sacco was definitely canceled, in exactly the way you are denying happens. There is a legitimate discussion to be had on the phenomenon, and it can't be hand-waved away by claiming it's completely legitimate. Clearly it's not.
The major problem, IMHO, was the licensing of C-Kermit. Yes, if you used C-Kermit and set it up properly, it was as fast or faster than ZModem. However, ZModem had free implementations and was relatively ubiquitous. Columbia University was trying to use the license terms to extract enough money to maintain and improve C-Kermit. Compared with Zmodem or Ymodem, it wasn't a success. At least, that's how I remember things.
> Twitter isn't the town square of the internet

Maybe to you. You are entitled to your opinion. I won't censor you for having a contrary opinion.

> owed a fair ranking

Well we are getting it whether you like it or not.

> because no singular definition of fair

Of course there is. If New York Post's tweet about Hunter Biden's story gets blocked, I would like to see Taylor Lorenz's story about LibsofTikTok get blocked in a "fair" system. Since both are doxxing after all.
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Is there a "dad with a thermostat" joke in there somewhere, only applied to CO2? :)
> No one else tried

Passing the bucket to anyone with 43 billions on the side still doesn’t look like a good strategy.
I would have assumed they'd choose to work in a nice narrow absorption band like the 5.6u CO2 where solar illuminance is almost blocked. I know they commonly do that with structured light. It does add cost for filters and I don't know how well these ToF or standard CMOS imagers work there.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328024940/figure/fi...
You open the floodgates no matter what. What voices do you actually see dominating a completely free environment like this? To me it will just be government and corporate bot farms instead of actual people.
The shareholder's control over Twitter is not as direct as you are suggesting. Even if 100% of shareholders were supportive of Elon's deal, they could not immediately force the board to accept the offer. If the board refused to approve the deal, the shareholders' mechanism of control would be to elect new directors. But the company's bylaws do not allow for that to be done immediately. They would have to vote at the next annual meeting. And I believe Twitter has the protection of a staggered board of directors, meaning that only a portion of the board is up for election in any year. The end result is that it would take several years for the shareholders to elect a new board in place to then vote in favor of the sale.
Shadowbans on reddit and youtube are also very annoying
It was a choice. After talking to Musk, the board decided to take the money and not trigger the poison pill. That's all.
In my view, AGI is farther away than fusion.

We know how to do fusion. We know the physics behind it. We haven't yet figured out how to build profitable fusion plants, and we probably won't for a long time, if for no other reason than improvements in fission--modern fission plants are the best .

When it comes to AGI, we have no clue. It's a constantly moving target, because our conceptions of intelligence evolve. Most things that were once "AI" became "non-AI" solved problems after we got good at them using a couple key insights, e.g. that image processing could be sped up with CNNs due to the existence of a topology on the inputs. We still have no idea what makes us tick, and moreover there is not a strong economic incentive to replicate all of our intelligence... although, of course, automation will continue and that itself will be disruptive enough.
Is there some expectation this will work better than the covid vaccine? Is "preventing severe infection" enough or would it actually need to prevent or cure infection?

People talk about the mRNA vaccines as some new tool, but they didn't really work for covid, is there some reason it was especially tricky and they will do better elsewhere?
I'm with the employees ask for the moon and hope to get it. If you don't get it that's ok too you've lost nothing.
> Tilt Brush has a couple dozen daily users

I've got access to the developer console for Open Brush which is merely the open source fork of Tilt Brush. I'm looking at the stats and your estimates are nonsense.

Now - we can get silly and quibble about "significant amounts" but I get the feeling you're not arguing in good faith. VR is a mixture of wonder and disappointment, it's both overhyped and at the same time a genuinely a new medium. I'm not especially interested in it's commercial success. It can limp along for another decade as long as there's enough interest to keep it alive - even on life support. I've seen enough genuinely innovative work created to justify my interest so far. It's the most interesting medium to arise in my lifetime (and I'm not especially young).

It may never take over the world and that's fine. It just needs to pay it's way and keep it's head above water.
That's true, it probably would have helped had the original poster provided some examples of the supposed racist behaviour to save us the trouble of speculating.
Are you sure Musk is against the former? I don't have strong knowledge either way, but it's pretty hard to split that line. The recent history of at least the US far-right can be described as recruiting/evangelizing primarily via "clowning" and "shitposting" that seemed fun until it wasn't. Musk has been fairly open history about palling around with folks I'd easily describe as "far-right trolls", or at least only a few degrees away from them.

I'm mostly unsure if I trust Musk, someone I associate with unfiltered mental garbage intended to en(r|g)age on Twitter to lead the vanguard to moderate out any of that.
It depends. Part of the job is being the leader is being able to foresee risks and consequences, and also to evaluate your constraints. Sometimes, you can let something be a teachable moment. Sometimes, you need to prevent a decision from creating problems or risks. Sometimes, your reports will do things better than you would have, and you're the one who learns a good lesson.
I was a shy, socially awkward type when I enlisted--definitely not military material. The experience did me a lot of good. For the first year or so I was a target of relentless bullying, but slowly I learned how to stand up for myself verbally, and got better at not attracting negative attention in the first place.
Thanks, sadly I didn’t proofread or edit it. I think “pass down” would’ve been best here to rid the confusion.
It really is irrelevant nowadays, with a) all IDEs showing you the required parameters as you type, and b) with named parameters.
> The primary motivation for holding back students _was_ gender/race concerns. It’s plainly stated in the GP’s linked document and in many other documents on the CA education “reforms” that differentiating students into different tracks is supposedly racist.

You say things like “supposedly”. What if it is?

> No, it hasn’t.

Yes, it has. I witnessed parents complaining about the removal of specialized tracks in the 90’s, in nearly 100% white communities. It had nothing to do with race, and everything do with with parents not wanting to accept that their kid didn’t have the same abilities as other kids. Maybe the focus has changed to race now, but this is nothing new.

> I see you’re not familiar with the history of American discrimination towards Asians. Maybe we do need some education in our schools on racism against Asians to teach people like you?

People like me? That’s very rude, and very much in bad faith, which is against the HN guidelines. I’ve tried to avoid that language myself, and would appreciate if you did as well. As for me not being familiar, my father was in an internment camp. I'm likely more familiar than you are.

> I don’t see how you can compare gay bashing to literal concentration camps, systemic bans on Chinese immigration, and indentured servitude of Chinese railroad workers.

Yes, I am comparing the murder and system oppression of gay people. I am also comparing the enslavement and systemic oppression of black people.

It seems that your question is why don’t we focus more on the oppression of Asian people? You answered it in your previous reply:

> Because Asians are “overrepresented”

It makes more sense focus on underrepresented groups than overrepresented groups when trying to address systemic issues. It’s more efficient.

> Would you feel the same if you worked your ass off and got rejected but saw people with inferior achievements around you get accepted because of their skin color? If I was your boss and I promoted your black coworker over you because of his skin color wouldn’t you be mad? Don’t dismiss the hard work of millions of high school students applying to college with a simple “being rejected by Harvard”.

Yes, my answer would absolutely be the same.
In a broad and abstract sense (and IMHO), Ruby has a substantial core and community-wide commitment of aiming for that pleasantness, and a track record of achieving it.

I usually compare/contrast to Python's 10 Principles / Zen of Python, which are rather explicitly about the code itself; instead, Ruby has "developer happiness" and "ruby is nice so we are nice". These show up in many, many small ways throughout both the code ecosystem and within the human community (rubyconf!).

There are ofc concrete things to point to, but other comments have already done so, and this bit is a personal fav :)
I somehow assume that the interconnect between the M1 Ultra dies boils down to bunch of AHB ports more or less directly connected together through the interposer (with only minimal pad logic). This seems consistent with both the performance profile of the thing and with macOS mostly ignoring the topology for scheduling purposes.
European wind-energy sector hit in wave of hacks
Prettier itself would feel much faster if it supported caching like other code formatters (Python's Black, Rust's rust-fmt)
Current macOS does have some features that I personally like: dark mode, sidecar, universal control/continuity, compatibility with the brilliant Apple Silicon Macs, and of course security patches (and improvement like finer grained permissions, read-only OS filesystem, etc.) and current web browser support.

But in general I concur - old macOS + old Photoshop has a lot to recommend it.
> I'm highly skeptical that putting the extremes in greater contact would cause de-radicalization. I think it's more likely that would cause the extremes to further polarize and dig in for apocalyptic battle for the fate of the world.

Bubbles pop when reality collides with speculation and we get closer truth.

Honest discourse through free speech where the facts are not censored will surely get us closer to the truth.

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."

~ David Foster Wallace,
Infinite Jest
Do either of your employers know that (1) you're working for another employer and (2) are actually working 20-25 hours a week when the terms of employment clearly state otherwise (as is almost universally the case with "full-time" employment in the U.S. and just about anywhere else)?
Cutting edge language processing algorithms trained by professionals in a herding manner for years ought to produce something that solves what is basically a parlor trick of language. It might even be a cheat-around on encoded rules but I don't have the paper.

Still I'm willing to go out on an increasingly thin limb and say GPT3 is still playing a really big game of mad libs, and its 'understanding' of the language is more akin to the extremely rudimentary mathematical factoring of sentence structure and grammatical rules. That is, it could be trained to recycle on what others have done for poetry, and spit out something that sounds like what we've read that we call poetry, but it isn't putting poetry out, because it doesn't know what that means...not in like a conscientious way, but a literal, it has no "idea" which to express through a medium, it's just transcribing according to rules, not from say, first principles which then are interpreted through rules.

Again, too much to demand of a really fast adding machine anyway.
Pretty much everything in the high end large language model area is off limits to people without access to a supercomputer (we're talking hundreds of A100s or several $100k in cloud computing equivalent). Open Source efforts like BigScience may open up downstream tasks for normal people, but the forefront of this research is no longer accessible to individuals.
> is that age over

That was not an "age" - it was bait. Now it's time for the switch - for the trap to close.
Oh the racial bias is much easier to find, just start typing for "are white people". The suggestion list is perfectly happy with "are white p" and "are white pe", but literally vanishes as you type "peo". It does not do the same thing as you type "are black peo" (...ple more athletic, "what is a blue black person", "is wearing black bad", "how does wearing black affect you"). It's like they don't think white people are people, or don't want you talking about them as a group.

If it were objective, you'd think it would try and suggest something for all queries just to be maximally useful. But it doesn't. I mean surely people have asked questions that start with "are white people" why not show the most common one, or the most controversial, or the "highest quality" whatever that is. But no, absolutely nothing.

Someone clearly has their thumb on the scale.

>religion

Nah, this one is super obvious in the lack of an Easter doodle, but every other religion gets a shoutout on their important days. Just like the lack of one for International Men's day. Google's bias is as predictable as every other (D-CA).
Who is the author of the study? This New Scientist article paywall is terrible. At least with academic papers, you’ll have access to the abstract even if the rest of the article is paywalled. Here, there’s zero information besides the headline. Not even any hint if the study is new or not nor who did the study
Regardless of Deno, I've been leaning more and more towards dprint over Prettier recently given how fast and configurable it is.

I get Prettier's whole shtick about not being configurable so that your team can't fight over a style guide, but as a team that already had an internal style guide that predates Prettier, I just want a tool that can match what we have already decided on, which is where dprint has fit in nicely.
If it's a "gig" based on deliverables (rather than hours) that's another matter, of course.

But we were speaking of full-time employment in the usual sense. Including the usual sense of "full-time".
They're paying for a mascot. It's a marketing expense. $1.2 million per year is nothing when one considers the increased ease of hiring young grunts who do the ugly but necessary work, and who do it well because they think that if they pay their dues, they'll be picked to do the upper-caste "interesting" work, which of course they won't.

In those jobs, you don't even have to show up (although most of themdo, in order to stay relevant but also because these ex-academics tend to be very driven people). You're getting paid well for letting the company say you work there, because this makes it easier for the rest of the company to fill out their chain gangs of early-20s Jira jockeys who'll be used for three years and then PIP-raped because "yellow zone".
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Is there any friendly place on the internet where you can have open, unrestricted and constructive discussion on politics and deep social issues, with people from various backgrounds and differing opinions ?

That looks like an utopia to me
You can also say that about the extremists in the middle, or anywhere.

There should be no doubt as to what is real and what isn't, independent of political ideology.
Radio is different on a submarine, in that most of the time you're on watch, you actually can't radio anyone. :) So radio spends a lot of their time routing message traffic, preparing outgoing messages, and then a bunch of day-to-day maintenance/crypto stuff. (On my boat, IT was run by Fire Control division, not Radio.) If anyone spends time in Radio outside of watch, it's because it's pretty private - only officers and people in the radio division can get into the room. No one ever slept in Radio on a submarine.

And yeah, there were about 5-6 people in the Radio division, IIRC.
Deno is getting closer and closer to being able to compete with Node. A remaining performance issue was just partially fixed with this PR:

https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/14319

Here's the issue: https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/10157
The threat of the poison pill was likely just a negotiating tactic.

It is like when an athlete's agent puts out a press release about how the player doesn't feel valued at the current club, etc, etc when they're in the middle of negotiations making it seem like they're very open to jumping ship and stirring up a groundswell of emotions from the fans. But really they're just looking for a bit more in their contract. Deal closes, player signs, the statements are forgotten in a week or two.

We'll probably never know exactly what the points of contention were in the twitter deal.
I don't want to live in China, and I don't want the US to become China, so I vehemently disagree. The excuse censors in China use is almost always that the content is harmful for society. This is a tradeoff that was chosen carefully and specifically by those who designed the laws and principles of the US. During difficult times is not when you start throwing out basic principles - in fact quite the opposite. It's easy to stand by your principles during quiet periods.
Long Island Rail Road has been testing and using high powered lasers to clear the pectin from the rails.

Explanation of the problem and the solutions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL21bWhNsv0

https://new.mta.info/LIRR-Industry-Leading-Leaf-Fighting-Tec...

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/choo-choo-pew-pew-how-a-n...
My dad said that he wouldn't trade his WW2 experience for anything. He also wouldn't do it again for anything.
A week ago, the Twitter board rejected Musk’s offer to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share.

Today, the board accepted Musk’s offer to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share.

What is that if not a 180?
Wider color support hardly requires having complex font rendering features.
Define your case. Tell us why they should be.
The ruby way is you just don’t do that. Or you use named arguments which are unordered.

In most ruby code I have worked with, most non trivial methods use named arguments.
> The last sentence is just guffaw-inducing ignorance....

> Holy cow, what a leap. What if neurons don't work like memristors?...

> This person is...ok, let me read a little more...

> ...

> ...high as balls maybe?

It's LessWrong, what did you expect?
It was added like two weeks ago.
It's not new. It's an old piece of functionality.
>Yes and yes he was impeached.

But not convicted! Something you Trump obsessed seem to always leave out. So yeah, means nothing more than Clinton's impeachment.

BLM? The summer of love? Surely you jest!

And January 6 - sure you want to keep beating that drum? There is far more documented evidence of people on the FBI payroll inciting violence in the days leading up to January 6th than anyone in the Trump campaign, let alone of his followers. Indeed there is plenty of video of such wackos as Alex Jones and other right wing extremists telling people NOT to enter the capital. More video of capital police standing by or ushering people inside. I was watching it live on various live streams on January 6th because it smelled too good to be true. People being ushered inside by the capital police - that's one hell of an "insurrection". People walking between velvet ropes, not lighting shit on fire, spraying things with paint, knocking statues down. People walking inside of a public building and taking selfies. ZOMG! How will the republic survive?!?

How many convictions have they gotten - after more than a year - of these "insurrectionists"? Zero. A few plea deals that are now unraveling. But sure, keep bang that "insurrectionist" drum.
And office politics can be brutal, especially in large organizations - watching out for other teams trying to trap you into unrealistic deadlines, pushing their work on to you, deflecting blame - You want to be a team player and help the company achieve its goals, but there are can be a lot of pitfalls to look out for when others teams depend on you and your team's work.
I strongly agree with this part:

> Pseudonymity and anonymity are essential to protecting users who may have opinions, identities, or interests that do not align with those in power.

Their suggestion to open the platform up to more 3rd party devs is good, too. I’d love to see Blue Sky become more than vaporware.
You just said government would lift tariffs. Most of the land would go to a monoculture for export. The only land that would grow diverse foods for domestic consumption would be to cater to the demand for local consumption. And in the world where government lifted tariffs, we must assume that they acted in representation of the people, so that demand mustn't be so high.

This is pretty basic.
This is true, README has a long history.

However, I strongly associate Readme.md, designed for a web based intro view with Github.

It would be interesting to get the real history, because it could be a fluke of timing.

I’d bet if we look back at old source forge projects created pre-github there would be a strong correlation with the markdown version added and the rise of github.
(Of course this could be a timing fluke)
There is such a thing as hateful speech. The people who yelled the n word at football games at the opposing team when I was in college, that's just ok with you? No issue? Abhorrent maybe? My semi-integrated high school had a semi-racist 'school song' too, sung before every game or pep rally.

I'm from the deep south, perhaps you are too, but there is definitely a thing known as hate speech, and there's definitely a thing where the leaders of a town are happy to keep black people down, including using derogatory words. Their speech reflects their views on life. I disagree that we are improved as a society for them being able to make such comments in the public sphere.
> Will those keep vesting somehow?

Typically insta-vest and converted to cash on date of sale.
Same thing for Firefox on Android, it seems.
>He WAS involved in violence

Citation needed - and be specific with how he, personally, was "involved in violence".