skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The court, like so many parts of government, only works if people believe in it to some degree. Like, you don't have to agree with the ruling to agree that it was considered fairly or without political or religious biases interfering. Without that trust, the court's actions/words are just a threat of state violence.
KiwiFarms is the latest example. No one is claiming it was a wholesome site, but it was entirely legal in the US and yet the owner is having difficulties getting it hosted because even though they have VPS providers willing to host the site, tier 1 ISPs have blackholed the sites IP. There is no alternative to a tier 1 ISP. You can't run your own, the are the lowest level of internet infrastructure and if they are being weaponized for censorship than it's all over for a neutral internet.

There are 16 tier 1 ISPs which basically hold the entire internet in their control. Arguably these companies should be required to route any legal traffic.
early TNG, literally, re-used TOS problems and solutions (aka plots). It was like a best-of playlist. Absolutely ridiculous as a television show.
My theory: in the past, malicious actors have created WhatsApp users who pretended to be Microsoft tech support (or similar) for phishing purposes and used official logos and URLs as their profile pictures to make the impersonation (slightly) more believable. WhatsApp T&S team now detects what you're doing as a likely phishing attempt and deactivates it silently.
Though to be fair it was a bit buried. Another commenter surfaced a relevant quote:

> There’s no technical reason that Big Tech can’t directly connect to the Fediverse. The ACCESS Act, a proposed US law, would do just that. The EU has passed the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which promises to impose interoperability on giant social media platforms…eventually.
The universities have been doing a underhand work around for affirmative action for a long time now. In particular the ivy's have been allowing certain races more leniency on standardized tests and other performance metrics in order to promote so-called diversity.

I do not expect this to change. They needed the above workarounds because it is often the case in the recent decade that white people in particular were reaching minority status in their population. This would mean white people would be entitled to affirmative action treatment at their university. According to dogma this is certainly not "diverse" and therefore, not good. I'm not going to spend 20 minutes hunting for source as this has been discussed here on frontpage topics for the last few years. It's common knowledge at this point.

I think the supreme court is making the smart choice here because affirmative action is often being ignored by the universities. There's no sense in even having it if they are defining their own rules to select for non-asian, non-white students. The existence or lack thereof of this ruling will not change the current bigoted admission policies of the ivy's.
you could be right, but aren’t they looking more towards constitutionality, then their own ideologies?
Legacy status probably should fall under disparate impact. Roughly, race neutral policies that result in racially unequal cost are equally suspect as explicitly racial laws.
Or maybe you think everything is political so it may be clear to you.
Race in the US tends to be a proxy for class. Instead of using race as a factor, they can just use family income as a factor.

Is "race" (and its manifestations) is a protected class? I'm not sure what the law says. If so technically you're not supposed to use it, because the 14th amendment (which is what AA is based on) mandates "equal protection." Reverse discrimination isn't equal protection.

That said, racial politics in the US are all weird. First there was no such thing as race, then suddenly everyone was using race for everything, and now only white people can't use racial terms. WTF?

As a POC, I'm always amazed at how well advocates manipulate everyone to get what they want. Liberal white people are ridiculously easy to guilt trip, and they keep falling for the same old shit time after time. It's pathetic.
Electroconvulsive therapy
Companies like hosting their own email. Users don't because because they don't have an IT department whose job it is to filter spam etc.
Sure that's an explanation for that.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/20/brett-kavana...
MBDA Meteor has the dimensions of Amraam but is air breathing and has very high range and speed. For one example, even the small Gripen has already fired it.
Funny enough, the Atlantic published an argue a while back arguing Supreme Court has historically been aligned with popular views in society. [0] Makes sense considering they have no enforcement mechanism without the People, and are appointed by the presidents.

As Andrew Jackson once said, "John Marshall has made his decision now let him enforce it."

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/06/does-th...
I was in a segregated housing unit in the early 2000s in a prison in the northeastern United States.

We interacted with COs, were in the same room as them, and were often directly in front of them.

There were no intercoms in the hole. In general population, these were only really used by inmates who were doing custodial tasks between units.

To leave our cell, our hands were cuffed, through the door hatch before doors were released via radio, prompted by the CO. After, the COs secured our legs with shackles this happened whenever you left your cell.

Shackles were removed to take a shower, hence being watched by a CO the whole time.

What you are calling AggSeg is what they called the segregated housing unit, SHU, or "shoe". Having read others' experiences, this varies based on the prison.

It is interesting to me that you assume that this is a fabrication over considering that things are different in other administrative areas of the United States.

I have no reason to lie about my experiences while being in prison. Normally, I lie about ever having been there.

> Automated lights? What's the torture there?

I don't think I said it was torture, but it was incredibly annoying to me, having an abnormal sleep cycle. I slept with a shirt sleeve on my head, covering my eyes, which would leave me with acne, often.

They went off at like 9PM and came back on at 6AM for breakfast.
which do you want: diversity of opinions or just the one you agree with. it sounds like you'd be more comfortable with a place that fosters the later.

this place is trying really hard to allow the former
I've had the pleasure of alpha-testing several builds of lil and decker. It's nice to see that it's out in the wild now.

Some of the little applications I made in an hour or two each (with live help from the creator of Lil):

- a plotting program that tweens between two different plots when you move a slider

- a frame based traditional animation program

- a (color!) paint program with reflections for drawing little mandalas

It's actually quite a nice tool for rapidly prototyping all kinds of applications.

Also, I'm not sure if it's obvious from the given link, but there are implementations of both lil and decker in both C and JavaScript, so it's an incredibly portable little system!
So is the only meaningful difference the scale of an instance? If a single Mastodon instance becomes Twitter-size, then its owners will have the same power over the users and will face the same challenges as the current Twitter? They won't be able to ban users cross-instance, but if they ban you on that instance, wouldn't you have to create a new account somewhere else (i.e. start from zero).
They’re already having trouble cranking out enough X100V models
How many asians were in that class?
I'm old enough to remember the Activision / Viacom lawsuit in 2003 when Viacom was accused of so badly mis-handling the franchise that they'd ruined the value of Activision's exclusive license.

Whatever our fond memories of the older versions of the show, they stopped resonating with audiences. And a franchise that cannot adapt dies.

The new Star Trek is a different flavor from the old, but it has to be. Because the kids that grew up watching the old Star Trek didn't see that future manifest (if anything, history has played out in a direction bending away from it). I'm honestly impressed at the new material's ability to bridge the core ideas of the original shows to a language that modern audiences speak. It's pulling in viewers again, and that's vital to the franchise surviving.
Appropriating German history? It was a core part of the world’s history.
> The problem is...

My thinking is a bit different: I would say an even more substantial problem is the near ubiquitous phenomenon whereby people believe that what they "see" to be "the" problem is necessarily the actual problem.

Or in other words: a dangerous percentage of the population no longer has the ability to wonder about or desire to know what is true.

Do you think there might be any validity to this theory?
> Really? I'd love to see some references to that.

I remember that SpiderMonkey shifted to multiple encodings around 2019 and v8 had done that earlier.

Source: I was part of the SpiderMonkey team when the shift happened.
Having just read about this a bit more, it looks like it is also to prevent something falling onto a half-inserted plug and causing *sparks*. China's "upside-down" version is also a solution to this, in that something falling would fall onto the earth pin first. Not sure how that works for two-pin plugs.
What you ACTUALLY need to learn to get a job as a software engineer [video]
Spatial-Temporal Graph NNs model spatial and sequential dynamics of time-series
Swipestats – Visualize your Tinder data, sharing the text messages of others
What’s obviously incorrect to one segment of the population is obviously correct to another.

When you say “1st Amendment”, you are talking about something invented by SCOTUS. The original 1st Amendment was a lot narrower (it only applied to the federal government not the states.) It was only in the 1920s that SCOTUS decided it should apply to the states as well, even though there is no evidence that outcome was intended at the time of its adoption (or the adoption of the 14th).

It isn’t “gaslighting”, it is legal realism, and paying attention to historical details.
What kind of equipment outlay was necessary if you don't mind my asking? I.e. the splicer the OP bought seems a bit expensive and impractical to own compared to an ethernet crimper, etc.
Télétel, the French Internet of the 80s – How did it work?
Sure.

Ruby:

def foo(a)
raise ArgumentError unless [ :bar, :baz, :quux ].include?(a)
return 1
end

def test_foo
assert_raise(ArgumentError) { foo(1) }
assert_raise(ArgumentError) { foo(:moo) }
assert_instance_of(foo(:bar), Integer)
end

In C++ I'd write:

enum class Value
{
Bar,
Baz,
Quux
};

int foo(Value a)
{
return 1;
}

In a strongly typed language you don't need to do any of the input validation. I'm not sure that I'd do that level of granularity of tests in an application, but I spend a lot of times writing libraries, where it's pretty important.

You also have to call all code paths with your tests in Ruby because otherwise you won't hit errors. Just basic, "this thing runs, the methods it calls exist, it returns a value, and it's of this type" is all guaranteed in a strongly typed language and doesn't need to be explicitly tested.
Ethical AI Team Says Bias Bounties Can More Quickly Expose Algorithmic Flaws
> https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2013/jun/22/amanda-palmer-...

So, she seems quite alright then. A bit egotistical, perhaps not the wisest with the 1.2M USD, a bit 'arty', but nothing toxic indeed.
You're right. Antisemitism is provably real
Tesla code is pretty bad. If anything, a Twitter engineers should be evaluating Tesla staff.
East Asians are socially dominant in the US? That’s news to me.
You're aware that there are admissions policies in place that seek to bring poorer people into universities, correct?
The Constitution can always be reinterpreted by future courts, regardless what the current SCOTUS says it does.
I don’t know how far the x-axis goes (experience) but I know that debugging improved with practice and diversity of applications developed. Similarly, the ability to pull together the top level design of a new application similarly improved. Language facility improves with practice as in RL with physical languages

Maybe as the end of the article states, toy code is too simple to be a differentiator. But like the 10k hour commentary states, it’s got to be increasingly difficult work, not endless repetitions of three chord pop tunes. Programming is an attempt to render an idea in code. Practice makes perfect.
Sure, but cognitive dissonance is one hell of a drug
That is essentially the core difference in viewpoint, though. Whether to treat people as individuals or broad statistical classes.
The bitterness has little to do with 9/11.
I disliked every episode Lwaxana Troi was in. I had no time for her character.

I never saw the point of Guinan either. The ship already had a counsellor.
I don't see a realistic path for popular opinion to overturn a bad SCOTUS decision, no matter how egregious.

We are way beyond an Andrew Jackson "The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it" type moment.
This looks neat.

I'm not understanding though, why is registration required to "Get Started"?
> I know HN loves to pretend that racism only affects white people, but it just ain't so.

Do you normally just make things up?
Even if it "falls under disparate impact", so what? It's not illegal to merely have a policy that incidentally has a disparate impact across protected groups.
Why does this article capitalize the word "Black" but not "white"?
I agree with what you're saying about support. I get nauseous just thinking about the number of people who call their ISP just because their laptop has a flaky Wifi module, and the thought of having to deal with that.
https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2004_1g_12s_2xs

You pay the SFP module tax on every port for that model, and also have a loud fan. You also probably can't put a copper SFP module in every cage without overheating.

https://mikrotik.com/product/rb5009upr_s_in

That will let you receive 10Gbps fiber, and maybe route 3Gbps or so. No fans. No SFP module tax. And PoE on every port.

Mikrotik is definitely missing a product that has maybe 1 SFP28 port, 1 SFP+ port, 4 10GBps ports and 5 2.5Gbps ports. That would let you take in 25Gbps fiber, have a 10Gbps fiber run to a switch someplace, and run 10Gbps ethernet as needed.
I would like to remind you that the framers of the Constitution did not give SCOTUS any discretion to interpret the Constitution. That was a right seized by them in Marbury v. Madison.
If you've had mystical experiences and trying to make sense of them, PKD's Exegesis is required reading. If you haven't had any experiences of this sort, then it'll probably come across as disconnected ramblings indicative of serious mental illness.

After spending decades reading everything I could on the subject of mystical experiences, from Crowley (the English libertine) to Timothy Leary and Mckenna, the only other writers I'd put on the same "absolutely essential reading" list as PKD, worthy of intense study, are Carl Jung and Rudolf Steiner.

That a pulp scifi author made this list is, to me, supremely fascinating.
Because of the friction starting a public convo, going to DM, then negotiating which private messaging system to then switch to again. Most people won't bother.
'affirmative action' (sometimes 'positive action', 'positive discrimination') per the title is exactly that - discriminating the 'other' way to try to balance the scales as it were.

(I'm not saying it's good, personally I think it's a bad approach to a good goal. Would likely never be in my favour though, so pinch of salt etc.)
A lot of this is because things like Line and WeChat haven't take off here.
Dude, you need direct primary care. When you pay the bills and no one else is involved, the doctor works for YOU. It's a profound difference, and one that it sounds like you need more than most.

https://www.dpcare.org/ is a good place to start, but I guarantee there's direct primary in your city - just google for it.
> I guess the argument is that within Mastadon, it's easier to create your own filter bubbles that would allow you to enjoy an experience untainted by "Nazis"?

This is absolutely the argument.

It seems that for some people, the ability to control your own environment is not enough - they want the authority to control everyone else's environment, to make it impossible for people they disagree with to exist.

Of course, it always starts with Nazis, because Nazis are universally hated and not arguing against Nazis will get you labeled as one very quick. But in order to be able to make it impossible for one group of people to exist, you must have the ability to make it impossible for any group of people to exist. And that's power I would not trust anyone with.
Recompile the whole OS or just the HAL?

Why wouldn’t cross-compilation be an option?
I'm not sure if things are different outside Australia, but it's probably been 15-20 years since I've lived in a house with a hot-water storage tank. As far as I know most places seem to have instant/continuous systems that heat the water on demand as it passes through the line.

Solar-heating definitely makes storage make more sense, but I don't know how the numbers actually work out on that one.
Used to play with MGR on my Atari ST way back in 1991, before I got my hands on my first 486 to run Linux.

Definitely an interesting path-not-taken.
That may have been the goal, but it was never the metric that was measured.
(not familiar with Mastodon tech) Would I be able to move my social graph as well in your example, or just content? E.g. if I first registered an account at mastodon.se and many other mastodon.se users followed me, would they still see my updates if I move to a different instance (or if I am banned from mastodon.se)?
All you need is a properly configured authoritative domain DNS server with the appropriate logic to inspect client GeoIP details and spit out the appropriate result. Anyone who wants to bother creating, setting up, and operating/ / maintaining such a system can do it.
I remember reading somewhere people can be broken down into 3 types. It applies in programming as well as in a restaurant kitchen or your family's garage cleanup.

*I'm probably remembering everything wrong but it was something like:

Cowboy: move fast and break things style. Sorta what you mentioned above.

Duct tape: most people are a form of this. Work on something just long enough to get it working but it's not beautiful and not prepared for the future or edge cases.

Professor: these get very little done because of the amount of planning put in and tend to over think most things. But almost never have to come back to a job since it's done properly and to completion.

Any team without a blend or with too many cowboys or professors is going to have a tough time.
The same tank could be connected to the sink too, turning any toilet into a toilet sink.
In which Ivy League universities were white students reaching minority status?
Can confirm, official guidance from the U.S. government says "equal employment opportunity is the goal, affirmative action is the tool to get there."

"Affirmative action" originally meant just that it wasn't enough to say "okay, we won't discriminate" - employers had to take some active measures to ensure discrimination didn't happen, but it didn't prescribe particular measures. That sounds vaguely reasonable. But over time affirmative action warped in most peoples' minds into establishing racial preferences.
Don’t forget cosmological timescales :)
It is an interesting idea to use these in mock-ups for the TFMS replacement as long as they were example and not hard HF/CHI requirements.

I would not trust college students with no experience in HF/CHI to create GUI requirements for a mission critical application like TFMS. While it is not safety critical, traffic flow management is mission critical.
Not Twitter. They all got bought on Friday by Elon. There's no way they would have time to create the necessary legal structure by Tuesday to be able to allocate shares and even to give them to employees.
I hear you, and I simply stated that I don’t like where that line of reasoning can go.

I’ve spent plenty of time around people who have been incarcerated for serious crimes and many of them are life-long con artists who take no responsibility for their actions. Their profession seems to be manipulation and manufacturing endless excuses.

The trouble is that there are far too many naive people in the world that believe their bullshit stories and end up feeling sorry for them. The most charismatic of them are usually the most dangerous.

The saying “give them an inch and they will take a mile” applies perfectly to this type of criminal sociopath.
The original title says "4 twitter features", which is less confusing.
Are you suggesting that genes can leap from frogs to humans? /s
Have to say I wasn’t expecting “antisemitism is fine” as a counter argument to downvotes. Suffice to say this comment isn’t the slam dunk you think it is.
That could be a true allegation, but by making it without evidence you're creating a standard that someone could only satisfy by hiring only men. None of those guys actually care about affirmative action, they're doing it as a fig leaf of civic-mindedness, and that means they'll drop it instantly if their reputations would ever be better off without it.
It's also the img tag that you style in CSS. So for all layout purpose, it's still the img element that defines the container and the picture element is more a syntactical bracket to associate other source-sets with it. (This isn't very HTML-y, but, well…)
The biological rate of maturation of the human brain hasn't changed appreciably in the past 200 years. People were given a full range of adult responsibilities at a young age in the past, but that doesn't change the reality that a 22 year old and a 13 year old have a VERY serious power imbalance based on their brain's maturation thus far.
Nobody is forced to use gmail as a provider. Remember it’s a free service with less commitment to you than a pay as you go mobile phone.

Anyone can buy their own domain and there are many providers who will provide email service.
"Steam Control" was a key phrase in the Tom Wolfe novel "Bonfire of the Vanities".

It was a reference to political influence peddling.

[1] https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/wolfe-2002-bonfi...
Completely irrelevant. Twitter just got bought. There are no shares anymore and Twitter hasn't had time to go through the process to create and distribute them.
Legacy admissions are a major benefit of getting into those colleges in the first place. They aren’t just educational institutions but rather signifiers in the American class system, which is partly hereditary.
Part of the selection criteria for inclusion in the S&P500 is "Minimum monthly trading volume of 250,000 shares in each of the six months leading up to the evaluation date"

If you tried to move $1B in shares in the smallest company in the S&P500 then yes you will move the market for sure. But if you have $1B invested across the S&P500 then it will barely be noticed.

> So an interesting metric would have all the assets categorized and multiplied by some sort of liquidity factor. Of course in practice that is pretty much impossible to actually accomplish.

Not at all. Average trading volume times price is almost exactly that.
Would love to hear from folks building if there is any appetite for an API and admin portal to embed alternative and private transactions into applications that you are building. Happy to answer any questions you might have on this!
Build something people use.
I agree. I have no argument against this.