skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So you’re in favor of the government controlling political speech that you don’t agree with?
Where did I say or imply any of that?

>Nowhere in the DI&E training I’ve taken at the country’s second largest employer do they claim one group is inherently prejudice.

Good, so that law you were so much against wouldn't affect you.

> We are all inherently prejudice based on our own lived experiences.

So that is your excuse to justify systematic prejudice? That is the same line of thinking racists use to justify their disgusting behavior.

> White people in metro areas are often prejudiced against “rural America”. Lighter skinned Black or often prejudiced against darker skin Black people. There have been reports that Indians are still practicing the caste system in hiring. Second and third generation Americans of the same race talk about people from their own country who are “fresh off the boat”.

What are you implying? That we shouldn't hire based on merit, but perceived race or prejudice? Your argument is all over the place, make a point.

> But either way, seeing that you don’t see a problem with the government controlling speech that you disagree with is the very reason that the government shouldn’t have that power.

No, that is not what you are seeing, but what you want to see. Feel free to re-read the entire thread because you seem to come to conclusions of your own.

I've repeated countless times that the problem is prejudice, not free speech. You're willingly ignoring what is said and make up conclusions for yourself.
I appreciate the definition at first I thought this had to do with some sort of interaction between Southeast Asians and the Polynesians.
It's not unaccounted.
How about a water dispenser and ice machine?

Mail and Calendar apps are mostly used from the browser now anwyay.
The nukes will all be mothballed by 2040, as they find it impossible to compete.

That is, provided global society does not collapse first. If it does, they will be mothballed as unmaintainable, instead, if they don't blow up for the same reason.
I would do 4.5) escalate to PM boss everytime 1,2,3 happens.
Most people aren't going to be interested in what is taught in school. Is there a way to get such a person interested? Maybe in some cases, but not everything in life will be interesting and engaging. Sometimes hard work and diligence are simply required.
> What's different is the tax rate on dividends from shares, and the tax on employment, and that's the tax loophole that IR35 seeks to close

The dividend tax makes up for this

What's different is the dividends escape employers National Insurance contributions
That's what a security model is for, the best you can do is difficult security/privacy not absolute or perfect.

I don't get this "totalitarian state" b.s., subverting legitimate government's policies seems silly and dangerous. If I was a dictator or something I would have people's phone's searched randomly by street cops, if they see signal then you are a subverter and a traitor so off with your head. I can't imagine security against that.

Security and privacy against nation state actors are one thing but against your nation state actor is a whole different ball game.
You assume of course someone not related to Googs other than having a gmail account is NOT the one with that email address.
> It's not a screensaver, because it's not the 90s

What's funny is that screensavers may end up coming back into vogue if OLED displays continue to have burn-in issues. Ray-traced flying toasters may be in our future.
Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door
How would you propose Signal -- or any app for that matter that provides end to end encryption -- encrypt the messages in the first place if they don't have access to the plaintext at some point?
In terms of having friends that are very successful I simply feel proud and happy for them. Envy just seems like such a damaging emotion that I just won't let myself feel it, to the point where I can't remember the last time I did.
Some places in the world still use indoor fires for cooking and heating, like Mongolia, Africa and India, and they have a lung health crisis there, with astronomical rates of athsma, pneumonia, and lung cancer.

We do have some resilience to mild amounts of occasional smoke, which keeps us from dying immediately, but we know long term exposure does damage, and the levels we’re seeing in the mega-fires has been far beyond what we’re evolved to breathe. Even the typical pollution in urban areas is measurably bad for health.
Things worth sharing over the 2 years of startup
Regan claims that if you consult the computer just three times during a game, he will catch you after three games. If you consult just once, it gets a lot harder.
Bridging the Employer-Employee Disconnect
If you're using modern C++ then you really have to be screwing up to introduce memory management errors. For 99% of programs high level (STL-based) types are sufficient, and if you really need to be allocating things yourself, then smart pointers and RAII make it pretty hard to mess up, unless you choose to circumvent the scope-based lifetime they provide and start doing things like ptr.release() instead.

To me C++ pretty well follows the "make simple things easy/safe, and hard things possible" philosophy. I'm glad this it still does support low level stuff, but the use cases for that are minimal and I do wish there was a compiler flag to reject full C backwards compatibility and only support a modern safe subset, so that projects could protect themselves from junior developers shooting themself in the foot.
Firefox still seems to be quite bloated, although there has been improvements in performance. We need more competition vs a company that’s entirely reliant on Google’s $ to stay in business
Matrix is a decentralised network. The word decentralised means something. Decentralised networks can be designed such that servers aren't easily enumerated, and can be designed such that the network continues to work fairly well even if a firewall intercedes.

From what little I understand about Matrix, the former is probably the case and the latter might perhaps be but I wouldn't bet on it.
Yeah, I know! I didn't mean to suggest it was a good idea. But if you want to get The Great Pyramid of Giza into space, that's how you'd have to do it (i.e., it's possible in principle).

I think the Orion project people spoke of a spaceship the size of a large hotel; with plenty of lead for screening cosmic rays. They claimed there'd be so much lifting capacity that keeping weight down wouldn't be an issue - you could have a barbershop with real barber's chairs.

I don't see much future in this kind of design. But I also don't see much future for human space exploration without truly gigantic spaceships. I suppose the alternative is to assemble the ship in orbit, using hundreds of chemical-powered supply missions.
Was looking for lists of underlying lisp hardware DS / (ebnf) terminal node (aka lisp 'cons' form ) for a given lisp implimentation.

** x = 1

aka s-expression cons on symbolics machine would map to a linear array / stack.

** x < log(1)

Are there modern non-stack based follow-ups? aka revised symbolics approach, not necessarily in direction symbolics went, perhaps ranslations to asci / neural net / 'dna' organizational hardware?

*** x > log(1)

Guess lisp using math to not get in the way of language designer/programer to allow language to conform to subject at hand doesn't make for similar categorical discussion as algol family of languages.

Lisp lanuage & reasoning for dialect closest 'broad category/taxonomy of dialects' without getting into specific subject domain / 'what lisp get's compiled to'.

aka:
** Lisp generational groupings per ebnf terminal node:

1st generation, use of "point" forms : encoding schemes / Lisp macro -- data 'point'

2nd generation, use of functional forms : scheme -- line segment / group set

3rd generation, use of topological forms : Haskel / ARC -- function
This is all based on personal emotions and faux logical assumptions. There’s very little concrete or scientific evidence being presented to back up any of the anecdotes. There’s mention of avoiding mushiness, but ironically that’s precisely what the comforting cognitive miserliness does.
I have an obligation to deboonk this meme wherever I see it. I apologize for my self-righteous zealotry, but I have no choice.

When we hear about average life expectancies of the days of yore, infant mortality is almost always factored into this calculation. The truth is, if a human made it past infancy, their life expectancy approached 65+.

So, when speaking of cavemen or Ancient Egyptians or whatever, when we hear "average life expectancy of ~30", or "most of us died before 30", it's technically and semantically correct when including all those babes that died in their first year or two of life, but it's misleading and thus not very useful.

I don't know if it's historians and anthropologists trying to be cute or pedantic or what, but I wish this meme would just die, because it paints a deceptive portrait of the past.
The game is branded as RPG and there are a few "meta" dialogues where it's explicitly declared that you're playing an RPG, but I found that a bit strange. It always felt like a point-and-click adventure to me. But don't get me wrong, the RPG elements are excellent and it's one of the most innovative games ever.
Pontificating from ignorance existed long before Johannes Gutenberg.
Why? As long as the audience is visible. Some color coded signal like handkerchief color should be good enough.
I legit 100% cannot tell if this comment is satire.
My understanding was always that whatsapp controlled/has access to the key, so they can decrypt anything anyway. It wouldn't be surprising that "end to end" means that it includes you, your partner, and whatsapp.

it wouldn't be surprising that whatsapp gleans info from your comms and builds a profile of you, from which ads get injected. whatsapp is not selling your actual comms, but the likelyhood you'd be interested in certain things/products. sort of like how the three names supposedly only store metadata of your calls, not the actual call.
>Go re-watch "Office Space" from the 1990s

I like how you assume I can't recite that movie from memory.
> Pointer tagging is still spiritually an integer

No, pointer tagging is spiritually a packed structure. That can be a simple union (as it is in ocaml IIRC) but it can be a lot more e.g. the objc “non-pointer isa” ended up with 5 flags (excluding raw isa discriminant) and two additional non-pointer members of 19 and 9 bits.

You mask things on and off to unpack the structure into component the system will accept. Nothing precludes using tagged pointers to discriminate between kinds and locations.
IIRC, Factorio uses SDL - which afaict already targets macOS.
"Cruically, our teachers could see how many times we've watched the video..."

This sounds like it's normalizing invasive surveillance. Getting kids used to the notion that their teachers should be able to monitor their online educational activities... and then, if governments and corporations are tracking all your internet activity, email communications, phone location data - it's just the way things are done! Now have a social credit score, it's like a grade in life...

That said, I wonder if there's a similar approach, some scripts users could run to artificially boost their social credit score (in China, for example). Just something that would run in the background - it could send pithy positive tweets, visit all the government-approved websites, etc. - all with no need for the user to be involved.
I'm aware of the concept. I'm saying the word chosen for the concept is bad, and I suspect it was chosen for rhetorical reasons, rather than by accident.
How about a gaming console with a built-in chicken warmer?
https://landing.coolermaster.com/kfconsole/
YouTube game reviewer SkillUp talks frequently about the importance of great writing in selling mundane, repetitive content to players, particularly when it comes to single-objective side quests in open world games. He references The Witcher 3 as a game with many great examples (like the famous frying pan quest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9-aHUyokr4), but another one that is often referenced is the Supideo quest line in AC: Odyssey ( https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/wiki/Supideo).

Anyway, I think of this often with respect to real-life escape rooms. I've only done a handful, but of those, so many seem to be completely bare-bones, with little or no scenery, little or no story, basically nothing to justify exactly the type of inanity you describe, where numbers of random objects turn out to be the digits in combination locks or whatever.

However there was one for me that really broke the mold— the premise was that your long-lost great aunt had recently passed away, and you'd gone to recover valuables from her house before it got bulldozed to build a new highway. Quite apart from the nod to Douglas Adams, this immediately led to some terrific justification of otherwise standard game elements:

- Getting trapped in the house because of her paranoia and multiple locks on all the doors and windows.

- Having a time limit, enhanced and communicated by the increasingly loud sounds of construction equipment moving around "outside" the house.

- Needing to make random connections, because she was a little batty and forgetful, so used random objects in her house to help keep track of how to get from room to room.

Obviously the underlying gameplay fundamentals are exactly the same as any other low-budget escape room, but this particular experience really stuck with me as one that I felt far more invested in than usual, due mostly to how much more motivating even this threadbare "plot" was relative to others I'd seen.
Cold water and ice being dispensed from a thing that makes things cold? Makes sense.
If the ideas doctors recommend worked, they would be employing them. And I don't want to hear about "busy family man" excuses.

Would you ever go to a dentist with crooked teeth or a physio with scoliosis?
I'd call this a "demo" for sure -- harkening back to the mid-90's when people built things for fun / just because they could / to explore
If I'm hearing you right, it's possible to capture higher-fidelity photos on iPhone, but then you require either special hardware to view it correctly and/or a special workflow to make a better end product for web viewing by tweaking the values yourself?

Whereas the Pixels just make better web-ready photos from the get-go, not because their hardware is better, but because their algorithms are. That seems a lot more useful to me because you can actually capture good photos nearly every time, with zero effort, and send them to anyone.

If you have a specialized professional workflow, I entirely believe that you can -- with effort -- generate a better end product. But that's not what most people use their phones for. "Dynamic range" doesn't mean anything to the average person, and if they use HDR it's to create that 2000s-like super amplified gimmicky lighting effect. There's not really even a way to get real HDR to properly/intercompatibly show on most consumer computing devices anyway... same with gamut and color spaces.

IMO (only) making it look good on the average device should be a more important goal than making a workflow that only professionals with specialized knowledge and software can utilize.
I think people decided he’s cheating because he admitted to cheating the two times he got caught cheating online, denied ever cheating besides those times, has had a meteoric rise in terms of moving from low GM to his current state, was unable to explain his play in a reasonable way, played almost perfectly, beat a substantially better player, and that player feels he cheated despite having never made accusations like that against people before.

I’m not saying it’s a slam dunk because it’s not. I can respect people who come down in either side based on the current evidence. But it seems like willful ignorance to suggest that none of the above has any bearing at all.
> Now, the final startup time when the game is installed on internal storage is 70 seconds, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Maybe I don't notice this with other games but that seems like a really long time.
Your "why" is exactly what selykg answered. To paraphrase: there are some people that would like the convenience to have calendar and e-mail client in their browser, just because it's already there and maybe intersects with the workflow. A niche? Maybe, but there's always someone.
This is facebook. They've been caught recording people and selling that for advertising, they deny it because technically your audio is transcripted not recorded and they can send only some keywords back so whole conversations aren't sent back to them.
Funeral with the Cargo Bike
The only thing which prevents propaganda from propagating is closing the channel through this propaganda propagates. :)
We live in a society. I don't get to define the world my children live in. They will have to work and survive in the same world you and I do, with all its broken processes and expectations. It's complicated and full of contradictions.

When she was at home during COVID, her mental health suffered greatly, and remote learning simply did not work for her. Daily structure is important, and so is social interaction. And we cannot provide that for her at home.

My (teen) daughter I referred to is in a specialist arts high school program on a media&visual arts track. It's unique for our whole province, and required an audition (portfolio in her case) to get into. But she does have to maintain a reasonable report card in other subjects to stay in that program or risk getting dumped out into the local 'regular' high school. By and large she's motivated by that, but it is anxiety inducing.

The 7:15am departure time reflects this situation. She has to take a (school board provided) cab all the way across the city for 8:40am bell time. It's a garbage start time for teens, but I don't make the decisions.

She is a very bright and talented artist. Her post-high school situation will be a financial struggle, I'm sure, but likely also quite rewarding and creative. Just need to get there.
As a guy who tried writing my own chess engine, it's pretty trivial to modify a chess engine in such a way that looking for "chess engine like moves" won't work.

Take a high end engine, start messing with it's piece square tables. Modify or turn off the opening book and end game tablebases, and add slight changes to the evaluation function (e.g. slightly modify piece values.

Even doing just two of the things listed above is enough to destroy fingerprinting techniques.
Dividends incur dividend tax which means between corporation tax, and income tax the contractor will pay roughly the same as someone on PAYE + NI

What dividends escape is Employers NI and that's where contractors make a gain

Coupled with the ability to have a spouse as a director or shareholder and so income split with them
Instead of regulatory capture they are going for the standards' committee capture... I'm curious about other cases of corporations taking over standards' committees, anyone else has examples?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220714100230/https://www.wired...
This looks really useful. Thank you.
Or they were lacking in polymaths
very low IQ scores correlate with ordinary measures of mental performance. Above 100, they're randomly correlated with generic extrinsic measures of performance, and have little test-retest consistency.

You can differ as much in your test-retest score as would be the gap between mental retardation and "normal".

Above 100, they're mostly a measure of proficiency at taking written tests.

In any case, there is no theory of what IQ measures other than by assertion that it measures "intelligence", so there's nothing actually to be said about it.

It's a means of extracting apparent patterns in some test answers; there is no scientific theory of what those patterns mean.
Well, unsurprisingly. The nature of the web ties 100% into everything Google does as a company. It's not just in their vested interest to be involved in that system; it's an existential underpinning to their company, akin to General Motor's interest in rubber standards.
> all computers seamlessly worked together sharing computer power as needed. Even 256 bits wouldn't be out of the question then.

This sounds like it would be massively out of scope for Linux. It'd require a complete overhaul of most of its core functionality, and all of its syscalls. While not a completely infeasible idea, it sounds to me like it'd require a completely new designed kernel.
CIA launches a podcast, hoping to ‘demystify’ the agency and boost recruitment
Some of the standard contracts used by recruitment agencies when they place contractors are outrageous. I've looked at working that way a few times over the years and more than once I've walked away from what seemed like a done deal after seeing the actual contract and discovering that they really did mean it and they weren't willing to enter serious negotiations about changing anything.

Those weren't small agencies either. They were some of the biggest names in the business. And they would do other questionable things as well, like not sending the real legal documents until the last minute so any challenge would risk losing the contract, or having their agents and sometimes even their lawyers just straight-up lie about what the terms meant or what the implications were. And of course they would often claim they've used the same contract many times before and mysteriously no-one has ever challenged terms that would spook any contractor who'd ever taken real legal advice in this area.

It's as if they think introducing an obviously-never-going-to-be-used substitution clause is a get-out-of-jail-free card for IR35. Meanwhile some of these "outside IR35" roles require hybrid working where the contractor's time and place of work are controlled, pay based on time and use a rolling contract, have no fixed scope or detailed specification of services to be provided, etc.

There seems to have been much more of that since the reforms that are now being wound back and I've never really understood why. Maybe a lot of contractors were OK with risking it if it meant they could avoid the umbrella trap or something. Seems like a good thing if those not-really-outside roles will now get more resistance because contractors who will be on the hook for IR35 again or the insurance companies they use to protect themselves won't accept those kinds of conditions any more.