skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, it is slightly disingenuous of you to bring that up, since RMS has not held that opinion for more than seven years now¹.

Secondly, you are mischaracterizing what he actually wrote¹.

The context, that this was a debate specifically about the age of consent, is relevant. Otherwise you seem to imply that any discussion of the age of consent is reprehensible. The age of consent differs quite a lot over the world, and you could declare every citizen of those countries to be terrible people, which would at least be consistent, or you could concede that there was a debate to be had. You might not agree with what RMS wrote (neither does RMS, now), but would you declare every person in a debate to be a terrible person who does not argue the side of the prevailing one? Even if they have since changed their minds?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21092184
Everything true is tautological in some context.
Bit ironic that somebody who has problems keeping up with the fast changing world became a patent attorney..
It seems to be the solution Hugging Face have picked too.
I mean, they are pretty honest about. Land is how countries make money. Its not a secret.
My grand-father was gassed in Verdun (WW I).

All his children had pulmonary problems.

Some of his grand-children also have similar problems.
Just another big claiming without any proof
It's funny how many such shows you go back and watch and realize the "bad guys" were basically being bullied by the "good guys" and you can empathize with the bad guys being bad.
> I’ve felt this same way about all these government press conferences that have a picture-in-picture of someone doing sign language translation. I genuinely don’t understand the point apart from virtue signaling. Why not just use live transcription?

I understand why you might feel this way, so let me try to explain.

Sign languages are a completely different modality/type of language than written and spoken languages. For example, American Sign Language (ASL) is completely unrelated to written and spoken English, and conveying a message between languages is often complicated and requires someone to actively interpret -- it's more of an art than a science. So while Closed Captioning was a huge step forward for making things accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing people, it's still a subpar method of communication because for deaf people, especially deaf immigrants, written English is often their 2nd/3rd/4th language. When you are communicating important information where comprehension is essential, you *need* an interpreter.
> There is no contradiction in being intolerant of intolerance.

There is, because literally every viewpoint is an implicit repudiation of some set of values, ie. aka intolerance. The whole point of tolerance is the recognition of this fact and that resolving such differences requires dialogue (edit: resolving them without violence that is).

As Popper said, only those views that directly incite violence or cannot be kept in check by public opinion should be silenced, otherwise you put the whole enterprise of tolerance in jeopardy.
Weird thing is she checked her hole cards during the hand. I guess it's possible to misread your hole cards twice but difficult to do.

Giving the money back is also a bad look.

The other odd thing is she's a very new player suddenly playing some of the biggest stakes in the world, and she's now won $100k in back to back appearances, while presumably making amateur mistakes like calling $130k with Jack high.

I agree there's no convincing evidence but it's enough to raise my suspicions.
Wikipedia articles for contentious subjects tend to be ... opinionated. Is there anything more contentious than race?
We are going to need a new patent system.
Just this afternoon I was reflecting on how, in many case, N hours of internet feels like nothing in your mind. It's a long stream of nice actions that rarely lead to a worthy memory. On paper it's great, you have free, high grade information.. but something is missing.
Regardless, if you yourself happen to know any sources that weren't covered in other comments, please share them.

I remember learning about race conditions in college, and they were always mentioned in the context of bugs - that's why I took Wikipedia itself for granted, as its definition fit my current understanding of the word.

It seems to be a case of popular usage of the word differing from the original. It also raises a question of whether or not the original intended meaning is the authority, if the majority of programmers use it in a different way. Who should, in general, be the authority on the meaning of a word? But that's more of a philosophical question, I suppose.
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> Anyway, is this useful for deaf people? How many deaf can understand sign languages but not understand written language?

When I was doing accessibility work, I was told point-blank by a deaf person that the reading comprehension of the average deaf person was quite poor, because to a deaf person English is their second language. (Their first language being, of course, sign language.)

With that in mind, we should think of it like the average English-reader’s ability to correctly comprehend Bogotá’s web site: A few will be fluent, but large portion won’t be able to understand it at all.
Top Gun 2 is really a fantastic movie but for anybody skipping the film here's the clips:

First time: https://youtu.be/zlWmeo-4ulw?t=72

Second time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwBwJiyQ_g

Tom Cruise is kind of a weirdo but his films are incredibly entertaining.
> My eyes are my input devices.

Eyes are very important in non-verbal communication so I don't think this is the full story and they are also used for output with deliberate control, but as far as something like being bad as a fine-grained cursor type thing it may hold.
You're overwhelmed because you want to do too much. That's common. You're only human, there are only so many hours during the day, you can only do so much. Accept that, and you've taken the first step.

You should try to:

1. Keep things simple.
2. Focus on what you need to do, not what would be nice to do. As someone said, those someday/maybe lists eventually become someday/never lists.
3. Take a hard look at all of those things that you need to improve about yourself, ask yourself what's realistic, and focus on the lowest-hanging fruit. Once that's out of the way, create a plan for tackling the more difficult items.
4. Block out a bit of time each day for what you want to do. Not what you'd like to do or (again) what would be nice to do. But things you feel strongly about.
5. Take some time to actually live your life. Step away from work, self improvement, productivity, all of that sort of thing. Enjoy yourself by doing something unproductive, by reading something that won't help you in your career or life. Or just do nothing. It'll make you happier and less stressed.

Remember that the tool or system isn't important. If you have too much on your list, that list will become overwhelming and a source of stress. No matter how many bells and whistles your tool or toolchain or system has.
There are written equivalents for sign languages, although their use is controversial among some (but not all) Deaf people. Spoken language is essentially one-dimensional: it’s a series of phonemes (and tones, even in non-tonal language—consider the difference between “It’s here.” and “It’s here?") in a chronological order. The movements that make up sign language are a bit more difficult to represent in that one-dimensional sequence, although not impossible. I imagine that millennia ago when written languages were created, there was similar resistance to replacing sounds with marks on mud/bone/stone/bark/etc.
I think the best argument for having government press conferences with a video of somebody doing sign language is that it underscores that something might be a super serious situation that literally everybody needs to know about as a matter of immediate life and death and it would get peoples' attention who might not otherwise notice that something was serious. That benefit is arguably nullified though when every press conference has them.

Personally speaking though, I'm against using them in about 99.999% of situations that are not imminent life and death emergencies. The gesturers' motions can be super distracting to the point that it makes the normal political process harder to focus on. It's just distracting enough (IMO) that important details about the normal everyday government business can be missed.
I overall like TypeScript. But one thing I have encountered in every TypeScript codebase I've worked on are types with a crazy amount of optional properties like this:

type Foo = { prop1?: number; prop2: string; prop3?: boolean };

I'm sure there is some value to having this than not having it at all, but I find it hilarious the amount of times I'm writing TypeScript that I can't even trust the types given to me. Of course this isn't a fault of TS itself, but I think what TS has inadvertently done is give programmer yet another outlet to express their bad habits.
That was a reference to attempts to have the state run entire industries, not the NHS specifically. The forced collectivization of agriculture pre-dates the NHS by decades. People learned from that, but too narrowly. In modern Britain the food supply is not run by the government even though it's more critical to health than the NHS is, but healthcare is state run and is now experiencing a USSR style collapse.

As for evidence free, well, how do you explain the BBC story that was presented as evidence? Or how about the 999 callout times, or the many other metrics that show the NHS has clearly broken to the point that even the most basic healthcare cannot be taken for granted? The evidence is everywhere.
Working with SVGs for icons on the web
It'd be interesting if this could be embedded in the client/server, e.g. Jitsi. At work we turn off cameras to save bandwidth, but this seems like you could just send a bitstring, and heavily compressed at that.
Again, not a journalist? You/everyone are supposed to have read the primary source, as it's the linked subject of our discussion. I think whatever expectations of fairness we have for internet comments -- I have far exceeded them. And now we have your comment pointing out... whatever it is you wanted to point out. Reader beware!
Perhaps by not telling the alleged perpetrators they are taking advantage of "power structures" provided by racism. If the US is ~60% white, then simply by the numbers there are more disenfranchised white people than any other race. Are these people also taking advantage of said "power structures"?

If the movement to fight this spectre of "institutional" racism would focus less on applying their rules to everyone, and more on applying their rules to actual perpetrators, it would garner more support from the people it needs. To use your analogy if you're sitting in your neighbors pool and he says it's not freezing, but there's freezing water, perhaps don't blame all of his neighbors.
I've seen them in promotional carousels. One large bg image, each individual product is it's own <area>
Affiliation is also what allows them to control members once they are elected. It is the tyranny of leadership. If you go away the group you get kicked out and lose your chance to affect things or get re-elected unless you are extremely popular.

What the politician says or thinks doesn't matter at all. It only matters what the leadership of the party they are member thinks.
Didn't say he cheated. Just countering the revisionist history that he did it all himself, and that it has been nothing but success for him. As the sibling comment pointed out, he didn't "create" Paypal and Tesla (though he certainly has led them). He's a successful entrepreneur, but not necessarily a "tech genius".
> This is extremely subjective
As you would expect, in a discussion about things being comfortable.
Ah, I see, webcam selection is not available, so it pulls-up my laptop's in-built one (I think) and not the one I have connected on top of my monitor, so I just see some noise from the closed laptop. Looks fun, though.
> Please, explain what Hyperloop has accomplished then.

Nothing. I didn't make any argument that they hyperloop was good.

Not sure where I got the idea that I did.

> Elon Musk proposes many things, some of which are harmful, in the hopes to gather investor money.

He never gathered investors for the hyperloop. So not sure why you would bring it up as an example.

> I don't think that this Tesla Robot thing / Optimus has any hope of accomplishing anything useful.

Well, Tesla is a pretty big company, this project is a tiny part of their budget and is heavily based on projects they work on for other things as well.

And Tesla and Musk clearly disagree that this could be useful.

Again, please tell me what investor has Musk harmed.

I guess people might have bought some crypto currencies because musk likes them, but that their responsibility and those people are not investors. Musk never said those things will make money for them.
True - I meant the unethical-but-mechanically-possible act of having someone show you the place, then being a jerk and contacting the seller directly.

edit: to be clear, I don't condone that at all, I just mean that's what I considered in thoughts about why we need laws that cover such things.
Visiting Serbia, the hotel's sauna was broken, but they did have a working 'frigudarium', essentially a sit-in freezer. I did not last long though.
Interesting, how with billions of nodes and supposed "intelligence", the network hasn't been able to deduce a simple concept of symmetry in human faces. All of the eyes and all of the lips in all of the pictures are asymmetrical, which easily gives AI generated images away.
Thank you! Yes, uxn is cool. I seem to gravitate towards systems with more memory:

https://github.com/akkartik/mu

https://love2d.org (e.g. http://akkartik.name/lines.html)
It worked for Polnd in 1939, didn't it?
The have been part of various alliances to keep down fuel standards.
I disagree. A cheater would desperately attempt to latch on to anything they can to show they are not a cheater. So they would generally refuse even more to give back any money and just repeat the “not cheating” mantra ever more and more— and would definitely never give back the money that they cheated so hard to get… just my opinion. The fact that she gives back the money (and I see no reason to disbelieve that she was likely cornered and intimidated in the hallway) shows that she’s not really that concerned about it and doesn’t really even care that much. A cheater would be grasping on to those chips at all costs/odds.
> American Sign Language (ASL) is completely unrelated to written and spoken English

Do you have any resources that could explain this different more fully?
Isn't every energy consumer incentivized to use the cheapest available energy source? In case of a landfill, there probably is a city nearby which would benefit from cheap electricity.

Perhaps miners have an advantage over a city in that they can move or disable mining rigs in times when renewables are scarce. But from what I understand Asics are expensive, and running them is big business. Which probably means they will continue running while it is financially feasible, even when a nearby dam runs dry or there is not enough wind or solar to go about.
keeping up with dependencies, I guess, is the main hassle.
Well, I'm about to post perhaps the most controversial opinion anyone ever dared express about Lisp on this site, so maybe strap in and/or have a shot of the hard stuff:

It's a perfectly good programming language, but nothing special.
> You immediately assume one of the three is the brightest of them, because your understanding of Affirmative Action Policies says this particular race has the highest likelihood of having higher overall test scores.

I think it's important to distinguish between probabilities and possibilities. It is possible that any of them has the highest score. However, it is most likely that the Asian does.

Let me articulate this phenomenon in a more neutral example. Suppose you start an elite academy for the game Go. All of the best Go players in the world come from places like South Korea, China, etc, who have a long history of playing the game. However, you would like to increase the appeal of the game internationally, so you institute an affirmative action policy that says 50% of your students must come from non-asian countries.

Let's say you have 100 slots to fill each year, and you operationalize your affirmative action policy as follows: You take all the asian applicants, rank them by ability, and take the top 50. You take all the non-asian applicants, rank them by ability and take the top 50.

It should be obvious that, in this example, the average absolute ability level of the two groups will be quite different. The incoming Asian group would crush the non-Asian group in competition. This isn't due to any innate racial capacity gap, but due to the historical and cultural relationship to the game of Go.

Now, you educate each group together for say, 4 years. That education process may homogenize ability a little bit - helping the lower performers improve more than the higher performers (though the opposite may also be true), but it's probably not sufficient to close the rather large incoming skill gap.

Now, if you were watching a match, and the only things you knew about the two competitors were that they both attended your elite academy, and one was from South Korea, and the other was from California, who would you bet on to win?

It's entirely possible that the Californian is better! It's just less likely, given no additional information. Critically, this isn't an argument against the affirmative action policy. The AA policy is doing just what it should do - helping to close the skill gap. But it does means that statistical reasoning about racism has to be sensitive to this confounding variable if it wants to make truly accurate inferences.
Show HN: placesloth.com – generate placeholder images of sloths
Hey all,

Last week I had to make a couple of test pages and turned to one of my favorite sites to fill it with some imagery: https://placebear.com/

There's a pretty large amount of sites like this, but none seemed to be serving the superior animal: sloths.

So I hacked this together quickly over the weekend. It's definitely ugly code and an ugly approach, nothing prevents this from going OOM, it'll probably fall over under a bit of load (or when the single spot instance running it gets replaced), but it was fun to build and fills my needs.

Hope this inspires you to expand the placeholder generator landscape, or at least include some sloths on your test pages :)
I believe he founded SpaceX (but wasn't a founder of Tesla or Paypal)
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> (I also didn't understand why old people would play golf when they could ride bikes)

That's it, I'll never become an adult.
I would imagine you need to install a second cannon. I think these days dogfights are fairly unlikely, jet fighters are more likely to shoot each others beyond the horizon with the advantage to the side with the missiles with the longest range. A second cannon is a lot of weight for a very remote use case.
> The cheating claims for the poker example are absolutely stupid. Only people who know very little about poker would claim that.

Doug Polk is suspicious of cheating here, and Tom Dwan called this one of the most suspicious plays he's ever seen.
My traditional way of understanding a program was to find main() (or it’s equivalent) and find my way through the code from there. In modern codebases, this doesn’t work at all. I do find it a bit amusing that younger devs find it magical that I can trace through code without running it and find bugs.
Young boys don't need propaganda to be fascinated by war. Show me a culture where boys don't have sword fights with sticks.
Would you like a side of offshoring with that? [audio]
I don't know what else to do but appeal to authority - it's the definition of a word after all?

https://cs.illinois.edu/about/people/faculty/padua

> David Padua has served as program committee member, program chair, or general chair to more than 70 conferences and workshops. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Springer‐Verlag’s Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing and is currently a member of the editorial board of the Communications of the ACM, the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, and the International Journal of Parallel Programming.
That view is less extreme than Kendi's position which staked a claim on the term "anti-racist" in public conversation.
> But the truth is that DVC is not a great tool for running "experiments" searching over a parameter space.

Would love your feedback what's missing there! We've been improving it lately - e.g.

- Hydra support https://dvc.org/doc/user-guide/experiment-management/hydra

- VS Code extension - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Iterativ...
> only reminds me of what we could have achieved if this ingenuity had been applied in another domain.

I hate arguments like this. Even ignoring how dismisive it is of the achievement at hand, why would you assume ingenuity is transferable like that? Someone who makes a breakthrough in physics is by no means likely to have made an equivalently ground breaking advance in biology if they had decided to study that field instead.
Yes, it's an explicit goal of accessibility, and predates the web
A relevant ping test should also be sending packets far more often than once per second (more like once per frame at a minimum), and should be sending larger packets than the default for ping.
Technology can be both good and bad, depends on the holder.

The government clearly has a goal they want to achieve and cleaning up their data with AI seems like a solution more likely to work than throwing a small army of bureaucrats at it.

The right wingers when it comes to government control advocate for either 1. don't let government have much control (starve the beast) or 2. if govt already has control, let them at least do it efficiently without wasting taxpayers' money.

The left on the other hand want to empower governments with more and more control, but once the govt has it, they want to prevent it from doing it efficiently - by disallowing efficient use of data and technology - which catches them red handed as they pretty much just want to empower themselves through grants, inefficient paper shuffler bullshit job and other forms of transfers at the expense of others.
https://github.com/joschuck/matrix-webcam/blob/main/matrix_w...

Looks like a one line change, change 0 to 1.
Service that offers offshored cashiers
The whole system is rigged. Everybody knows it, but nobody can do anything against it.
You're correct about MRS. They seem to be the last holdout on a number of lines. I believe almost the entire remaining network is on GPS now.
Author here. Hello.

Bookmarklets are a massively under used feature. I love them :)
The ICC is not the only international tribunal who's authority the USA doesn't recognize on its own citizens/self. There's also the ICJ, which has found the USA guilty of war crimes and ordered it to pay restitution at least once, for having mined Nicaragua's harbors, which the US very explicitly and publically refused to recognize.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_States
oh it's even on the todo. Let me add that in a bit