skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed it lies in both sides simultaneously, as all your examples have a free and oppressive side to them as well. It seems the freedom lies with the individual and his control over his own computer, and the oppression lies with larger platforms that enforce rules on the individual outside his control.

Computers have democratized art and opinion, but the distribution of that art and opinion is done through centralized platforms, which are curated/censored using automated programs ("the algorithm").

I think computers are neither inherently oppressive or freeing, and I think that is also the point of the article. Computers are -exactly- what we make them do, and the word -exactly- is what is explored, and judged, as easily leading to oppression if given power over the inidividual.

Power over the individual sounds ominous, but what I basically mean is that a computer decides over you, instead of for you. For example: youtube decides if your video is monetized, some AI decides if you get a loan, or get into a country, or get random checks at the airport, or what you see on youtube, etc etc.
Well, LIDAR uses very well understood physics to give you precise measurements of distance from the world around you, without any need for object recognition. It is not enough on its own, but it is an excellent safety technology. It's basically impossible to run into an object that's moving slow enough to avoid based on LIDAR input.

Stereoscopic vision first relies on object recognition of the elements of the pictures taken by each camera, then identifying the objects that are the same between the pictures, and only THEN do you get to do the simple physical calculation to compute distance. If your object recognition algorithm fails to recognize an object in one of the images; or if the higher-level AI fails to recognize that something is the same object in the two pictures, then the stereoscopy buys you nothing and you end up running into a bicycle rider crossing the street unsafely.

LIDAR does have limitations of its own (for example, it can't work in snowy conditions, since it will detect the snow flakes; not sure if the same applies to rain), but the regimes under which it is guaranteed to work are well understood, and the safety promises it can make in those regimes don't rely on ML methods.
I think you get the effect you desire by wearing glasses with + when in front of a computer.
anecdote: i started with -0.5 (10-15 years ago), per ophthalmologist "advice" wore glasses all the time (including computer), got to -1.75. then one summer spent some time without any glasses (just because i wanted to use the sunglasses) and at the end of the summer the vision went back to -1.50. This got me thinking that wearing glasses all the time is not that good. 4 months ago started to experiment, no glasses all the time and +0.5 when in front of the computer. Started with -1.25, and now I am at -0.50/-0.75 ... take it as you want.
Then why not call it a "pandemic"? Shortsighteness has become a global phenomenon with more than one local maximum, hasn't it?
I know you said you

> do not plan to read them or store them.

and

> do not plan to do OCR or any kind of special storage.

but in case anyone else is struggling with the problem you described,

> I hated digital journaling because I had to pick up the phone or sit somewhere to use the laptop/desktop. Also a quick figure would require me to at least open a tool, and at most made me connect my graphics tablet. Pen and paper just removed the friction. Now I just journal in bed sitting or half-lying under a lamp with my wifi turned off.

my solution has been an e-ink tablet, specifically the Supernote A5X. The Supernote's handwriting is extremely fast and accurate and, as far as quality, to me there's no difference to writing on real paper, even though it might not feel exactly like writing on paper. (It feels different but very good!)

All in all, it's basically like a paper notebook, just with more pages/storage and the ability to erase/edit and built-in digitization.
You can do that cheaply by picking up a pair of reading glasses, or glasses with lower power if you are already nearsighted. Roughly, infinity will be at 1/diopters in meters, so +0.5 glasses will make 2m away at infinity, +1.0 at 1m, and so on, and similarly if you are at -3, -2.5 will make 2m infinity, etc. It's not exact because they are not thin lenses and there is a separation between lens and eye, but it should be pretty close.

I've been using one less diopter correction for a while most of the time, with an additional pair of glasses with the full prescription for driving. Not sure if it does anything or my nearsightedness just naturally stopped progressing though, but since it's working and not bothering me I have no interest in finding out.
Wrils Inc. is now part of Jobicy Software
"but nothing beats being able to save the position of every knob and not have to worry about your kids coming in the studio and messing up your perfect tuning by playing around."

That's where im at now. Love playing around, but how to save the state of anything _before_ i start messing ie at the beginning of a tune?

All i can think of is diving back into sysex and doing dumps, but i only can see the optikns on my hardware items.
tools are not neutral: they favor that which they make easier
"The border" extending inward 100mi (160km) inland from the line that is the edge of the US:

* https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone

* https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

Around two-thirds (66%) of the US population lives in this area.
> Journalists are completely illiterate these days.

Was this intentional? You just made the same error.
If only there was a way to display images without JavaScript...
Hack news
Only Americans are afraid of wisdom teeth. 90 percent of the rest of the world keep them with no problems whatsoever.

(Something something medical cartel...)
Have you sent them that criticism or a related suggestion? You could suggest that they add a default-on filter for 'commercially available' or such.
Your kids can trust and respect you, but they still get curious and still get bored. They won't always want to do what you want them to do, especially when they are toddlers.

You need to let kids be kids (while being safe which I obviously agree with)
> What I like about it is that it's a no-BS e-commerce store, get in and get out.

https://www.rockauto.com is like also.
Why championship chess sets are so expensive
That's not really how debates work.
You and I and a few others around the web all have had this idea of making screens look farther away, by changing focus with positive lenses and and binocular convergence using prisms. I actually wrote this comment with the math for determining the required prescription (since you can simply order them online) just a month ago.[1] I then found that the concept isn't uncommon when I discovered an older comment with the same idea, which I've misplaced, but a search turns up another thread revealing that this already exists as a product marketed for gaming.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31349629

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21742229
Firefox has a really nice built in table selection mode I use to copy into spreadsheets all the time. Just hold down CMD (Mac) or Control (Others) and you can select table rows and columns.
Excellent Advice! Spread this far and wide :-)

There are a lot of "boring" jobs in the IT industry which anybody with half a brain can easily pickup in a week or two. Use it as a stepping stone to slowly but surely build up a well-paying career.
Google engineer thinks AI bot has become sentient
Pet peeve about language use:

I thought it was obvious that short-sightedness (Exclusively Short term thinking) is an epidemic, nobody on Wall Street can see past the next Quarter's numbers. I don't need the economist to point that out.

Nearsightedness is what this article is about... a completely different thing. I've dealt with that my entire life... and just went through the knock-on effect of retina detachment, and surgery to correct the same. Having a bubble of C3F8 gas in your one good eye is pretty damned effective at taking you out of commission for about 4 months. Looking down hurts! I hope to be up and about, and able to drive again by the start of September, once the bubble has gone, my eye has stabilized, the surgeon has made a final check, and finally after I get new glasses.

I strongly suspect the amount of light outdoors is NOT really the issue. If you're always focused on things close at hand (as the above mentioned folks on wall street), you never allow the eyes to focus on the far horizon for an appreciable fraction of the time.

I'm surprised to learn that there's no consensus on how the eye actually focuses on objects at various distances[1]. It is also well know that the smaller an iris in a camera (or eye), the larger the range of distances that appear in focus. It seems reasonable to me that if you spend your time looking at only nearby objects (like above mentioned Wall Street residents), you'll lose the ability to see things further out that might be coming to get you.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accommodation_(eye)
> Why do people keep adopting this language? Where's the appeal?

There're many aspects to consider when evaluating a tool. To me, Go has one of the best overall packages:

- std lib
- tooling
- performance
- concurrency
- relatively easy to get devs
- reliable
- mature

Also, Go has no substantial drawback. I personally consider an external runtime a drawback, for example.

I also use Rust personally. This discussion shows the value of Rust in terms of correctness. But for my professional projects Rust lacks the ecosystem guarantees that Go has with its great and useful standard lib. Looking at the Cargo dependencies of a mid size Rust web service is scary and reminds me of NPM. A large fraction of essential libs are maintained by a single person. Or unfortunately unmaintained. Rust with Go's std lib would be truly great.
> Or do you seriously believe all prehistoric humans had 20/20 eyesight?

The prehistoric realities were harsh and nearsighted individuals had little chances of survival and procreation (natural selection). In the modern society perfect eye-sight is not as important for survival as in the prehistoric society, thus more tolerance to its greater variability.
I feel it gives a fresh taste of freedom and simplicity. Like, comparatively no magic involved.

It is alot easier to reason about performance. The code does somewhat translate to the machine instructions you anticipate.

But the greatest advantage is all the fancy pants idioms you don't feel compelled to use.
As cool and fun as it looks (compiz eat your heart out ;-) ), my excitement is slightly diminished because the basic function of sharing my entire screen is still not there.
I know a lot might be related to specific apps, but the inability to share my entire screen in meeting is something I sorely miss.
Aside from being anecdotal, that information is not useful unless we know the proportion that got jabbed, the types of vaccines, if they got Covid (which they may or may not have known about if it was asymptomatic), and what other changes in their lifestyle there were during the pandemic.
TCRF is fantastic. I consider it half of a duo, along with https://www.unseen64.net/
Ask HN: Java Suffers from an Identity Problem
Most of the day to day software engineering is our ability to work with the language tooling, we can also call it the ecosystem of the language. From Java's perspective most of our interaction with the language is not directly with the language but with frameworks like Spring etc. These things are meant to make the language more easily digestible. The problem comes in when the platform becomes so huge that there is no way to logical develop a thorough understanding of the actual technology at hand. I started studying Java again to brush up my knowledge of it but found that the language has grown so much it was difficult to derive a logical conclusion to the platform.

This was further evident when I started looking for Java developer roles in my country and found that just understanding the language and its principles were not enough. There seemed to be a general consensus that Java developers must know other related technologies like Spring, JPA, Hibernate, etc. All these related technologies bring their own software paradigm into the picture and hide the actual technology (Java) under the hood.

* Why for some weird reason a Java developer must know or supplement his understanding of the language with framework like Spring, JPA, Hibernate, etc? This is true for other platforms like Node.JS where you have MERN stack etc.

* Are there other languages (or platforms) like Go or Rust where the language is well developed that these external dependencies are minimal.
I had assumed it to mean “actively maintained”, but I think the other commenter is right, it’s just a joke about the name “Berry”.
That is just so flat out wrong… Omicron is less severe now, but there is a clear and real risk even for healthy people
Can’t speak for them, but I know that people in certain regions of Spain don’t care much about Roman excavations. There are so many, it’s almost a nuisance to some.
>not randomly wake up in the middle of the night, in my bag, and just sit there fans at full speed…

At this point I always globally disable wake timers in Windows. They're mostly used for automatic updates. (For more fine-grained control, look at the various wake timers in Task Scheduler.)
In one sense I see why it's insulting, but isn't Santa Claus basically a benevolent god?
Took a highly focused approach, working a lot at night, but always chose to have a fulfilling family life b/c so many successful people I studied went through multiple wives. I chose to be less rich and stay married. Bought houses for lots of family members. Worked at home so lots of time with kids. Was able to live in safe neighborhoods and afford ongoing large medical expenses for several family members. Was able to experiment with other businesses, failing plenty. Fun though.

In sum: Totally worth it, but I always placed a higher priority on jobs I liked.

Wife actually doesn’t want to be richer, because she grew up an unwilling celebrity. Any more rich than we are, and she would perish under the spotlight.
> I feel that everyone should be free to believe what they want.

Why?
It's definitely sarcasm. The "Clearly." at the end is a good indicator.
This study with 192,000 participants found no increased risk of myocarditis after Covid-19 infection - https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/8/2219
Didn't we agree on the fact that if an attacker gains physical access the security is already compromised?

Otherwise you could just inject whatever you want from the uart, no need for any x-ray gun.
I should say the “end” of the pandemic
Maybe what other people in the comments don't get is the confusion religious people have in tech workplace.

On one hand we get constantly "educated" that we should not have biases, on the other hand biase against religious people all around and promoted.

Im a in the closet christian working in tech and i heard weekly peoples atheistic point of view bashing religion.

Example of things that i heard:
"I don't like X politician because his wife is a pastor"
"I am atheist because my family is inteligent"
"We should ban religion"
"Religious institutions should not own property"
It probably belongs more to the trash than a museum.
Something I haven't seen anyone bring up yet:

The author works for Google's "Responsible AI" division. I would very strongly hope that religious people would be welcome there, obviously along with atheists and people or all origins or backgrounds. AIs will soon have very real power over average people's lives. Humanity needs to make sure we get it right.

His 2 main points are:

- religious people being treated without respect or osctracized

- algorithmic bias against religion in Google products

As with all these past discussions (see Timnit Gebru), it's hard to know whether he's really being treated unfairly unless you somehow know him in person. Some people have personality disorders that make them insufferable to work with, religious or not. Personally he seems well-adjusted; it doesn't look like he was trying to proselitize or evangelize; he brought up religious discrimination in passing, was asked to explain what he meant, and privately explained. I don't know why so many here are assuming he's walking around Google asking people if they've heard of "our Lord and Saviour".

>I mentioned that I stood against all sorts of discrimination at Google and listed religious discrimination as one of them. He asked for examples so I privately messaged him with some and he began trying to “educate” me about how those weren’t religious discrimination; they were just signs that I was suffering from “victim syndrome”.

The second issue he brings up (that he says he needs to discuss with a lawyer before he can give concrete examples) also seems plausible enough. Google admits to downranking independent news organisations, politically non-mainstream outfits (socialists[0], subsets of social justice activists, nationalists); given how atheistic most Google employees are, it's plausible that the same would apply to religion. There is also a documented history of religious bias in Google Assistant[1].

If what he's claiming is true, it's indefensible. Algorithms shouldn't have an anti-religious bias. Think: algorithms for hiring, parole/sentencing, or personality testing. Religious discimination isn't a hypothetical, there are people being killed or discriminated against today in various countries because they belong to minority faiths. AIs shouldn't participate in that.

As an interesting tidbit: here's what Marget Mitchell (co-founded Microsoft Research's Cognition group, Google Research's ML Fairness group, fired from Google shortly after Timnit Gebru) said about the author (Lemoine):

> When new people would join Google who were interested in ethics, Mitchell used to introduce them to Lemoine. “I’d say, ‘You should talk to Blake because he’s Google’s conscience,’ ” said Mitchell, who compared Lemoine to Jiminy Cricket. “Of everyone at Google, he had the heart and soul of doing the right thing.”

[0]: https://www.michigandaily.com/viewpoints/op-ed-why-google-ce...

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/google-censoring-jesus-knows-buddha...
I have very bad eyesight too. May I ask what is your correction? (Not sure it’s the proper word in English, but the thing measured in dioptres?)
Short-sightedness is the eye problem in British English: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/short-sightedness/ We also use long-sightedness.
Doesn't xdg-desktop-portal-wlr work with wayfire?
This is exactly why free software was invented, which respects its users: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/why-free-software-is-more-impo....
Essentially, palms inward instead of downward. It's the natural position your arms are rotated when at your sides.
Well it's questionable when that personal freedom is part of the same society's constitutional law.

In that case, there would be no limits at all to what a society can and can't do, just declare martial law at any time for any reason. That's the same thing as living in a totalitarian dictatorship.

Can society actually become the opposite of itself over night, and this should not be questioned?

One of the core basic principles of society is this freedom, and suddenly it's obvious that society can take away freedom whenever it wants? Does not even need to be debated and people who have show any form of surprise or need to talk about this, should be ridiculed?
> If you are young, healthy, and active you are at virtually zero risk of Covid.

While you're right that the risk is very small, you are still at much, much more risk from Covid than from the vaccine, though.
epidemic, novel, genocide etc. have become diluted due to misuse....
There is more than Club Mate now, in the last decades a large variety of Mate brands have entered the market, many also vanished again.

Club Mates largest competitor is probably Mio Mio Mate, while generally the cheaper alternative, their Ginger Mate really adds a new twist.
There are of course many small regional Mate breweries which often lean more on the tea flavor side. I really liked Lux Mate, which added Mint to the mix, but it appears to no longer exist.
To get over the fear of falling over backwards, you must learn to turn your tree trunk like fall into a collapse to a ball and then a forward roll. If you have a bit of muscle on your back and shoulders rolling even on a hard floor should not be too uncomfortable. (A crash mat is still a good idea though.)
Does it? I haven't had a problem with this since Windows 2000 and it's NTFS I also don't install unnecessary crap that run in the background.
Obligatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

> The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment about whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. […] The concept is one of the oldest in Western philosophy, going back to the time of 500–400 BC. It is a common theme in the field of metaphysics.
How is protecting yourself from a disease with a low but real risk of life-altering effects by taking a vaccine with minuscule (but also real) risks a form of self-punishment???
Rule 53: if you can think of it, someone's done it in the DNS.
Experiments on the undead will hopefully someday lead to experiments on the living.
VRS: Lightweight static web server written in Rust
Usually registering an account also requires an email address. However, if definitely indicates wanting to track your use on their site.
I ended up marrying the chick who stank up the office with microwaved fish.

Not sure what the lesson is although we’re still married after 30 years.
You'll get used to everything. I take 300-400mg in caps as pre-workout and another 200-300 via coffee per day. There's a reason why an espresso for dinner doesn't affect your sleep.
There's a neat Chrome extension to do this https://www.georgemike.com/tablecapture/
> Your equation of Santa Claus with God reveals your prejudice and stereotyping of religious people.

The person you're replying to never equated Santa Claus with any kind god. It was just a question. Would you take an adult insisting Santa Claus is real seriously? Do you think people are entitled to their beliefs, whatever they may be?
Mass frog burial baffles experts at iron age site near Cambridge
If you use Oracle's own IDE, it will support it out of the box, as it already did on Sun's days.

Then there are other ways depending on which JVM implementation is used.

On OpenJDK's case you can load runtime plugin to do it

https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/jitwatch
If you look at any decently sized local shops or services like family owned restaurants, landscaping, etc. they are probably millionaires and will likely tell you its worth it. You don't have to be a tech founder to be an entrepreneur or get millions, if you want a billion maybe. Pros are not working for the man and financial freedom.
geizhals.eu is in fact not in english (I never visited it before and it shows in German by default). I can't immediately find a language selector. I don't have german in my preferred languages browser setting.
Does SEC feeling define what makes a Twitter user monetizable? Even knowing how much users bots is good to know. Personally, never believed he really wanted to buy Twitter
Spot on! The matter at hand here isn't "human vs machine" but "human vs machine vs human", meaning the oppression of human by human via the machine
They didn’t explicitly state it but it’s heavily implied based on the context.

No, I wouldn’t take an adult believing in Santa Claus seriously. They’re entitled to their beliefs and if they do their job well then I have no reason to have an issue with them.

The issue I take is with the equivocation they have made. Believing in Santa Claus and believing in a divine entity are two drastically different things.