skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit of a stretch to claim "discrimination" based on the current volume of approved applicants and country-of-birth queues. A policy would have to take into consideration past approvals as well.

If you go by past approvals, people born in countries ex India, China may very well make the case that approvals have been discriminatory against them.

The ridiculously longer wait period is absurd though. It's equivalent to a rejection, but having it so probably allows a policy change in the future to fast-track them in queue order.
I have a super bad phobia of doctors and needles. Like, I literally pass out during a physical exam or a dental appointment in an uncontrolled panic spiral

50 mg of Zoloft later I am 100% panic attack free. But even 50mg of Zoloft (which is essentially the lowest dose of a very safe drug, and I am a large male) has side effects I dislike, and accidentally missing a dose makes me feel absolutely awful.

I can hardly imagine what serious drugs do to you and the implications of them.
Is this related in any way to Flux, the now-defunct WYSIWYG website creator? (https://stacksocial.com/sales/flux-7, https://designshack.net/articles/html/how-to-build-a-website...)
I imagine the reason they are so keen to be a player in social media is because someone at Mozilla really pushes the idea that there is a community around Firefox (sure, Thunderbird, MDN, etc). There is no community. People who use a browser are not a community: we don't need a place to "hang out" because we all use Firefox. It's a ridiculous aspirational thinking that only moves Mozilla further into irrelevancy.
> nothing prevents a major player to enter the fediverse

Apparently Tumblr intends to implement ActivityPub, so it might be happening sooner rather than later.
Can we get a Lyn Alden take on this ?

I've been disappointed that she has had such low posting volume over these past months of very interesting market developments ...
That doesn’t address the problem I’m talking about, since the process of “changing the racial makeup” of these institutions is going to be done by existing white faculty and administration hand picking the minorities that appeal to elite whites.

As they say, you can’t dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools. We shouldn’t be looking to academics hand picked by white elites to figure out how to police minority communities, or what words to use or not use with respect to minorities, etc. Elite universities are inherently bad vehicles for leading the discourse on those issues.
>Dunno how about you, but I'm stocking up on popcorn.

I'm stocking up on popcorn and a whole variety of other dehyrated foods. And batteries. And ammunition.
These would make great Zoom/Teams backgrounds!
Intravenous potassium is significantly more hazardous than orally consumed.

Wikipedia lists the LD50 of oral potassium at 2.6 g/kg. Meaning your standard 70kg dude would have to eat 182 grams (6.4 oz Freedom Units) to hit that limit. Which would be just beyond horrible to attempt to consume that in a sitting.
> That's even more of a no-brainer, as an average 9-5 has practically zero upside, so your net worth is likely to stay flat (if not even go down).

The average millionaire is just a schmuck with a high paying 9-5 job. Doctors, lawyers, engineers, generic corporate drones etc. I don't know where you got the idea that it's impossible to make more than a subsistence wage with a W2 job but you are wrong.
> So what do you propose, we ban letting people make lists of words?

I'm not a huge fan of watching baseball. Would you also assume that I want baseball to be banned just because I'm not that into it?

There are ways to gracefully respond to someone you disagree with, but suggesting that someone wants to "ban letting people make lists of words" because they disagree with the content of a single list isn't one of them. If you're going to be disingenuous at least put a little effort into it.
Source? Be specific. I’ve only seen links reported that were dick pics.
I cannot imagine buying food at the dollar store even if you are poor.

Eggs, beans, rice, bread, potatoes, apples, bananas, are among the cheapest foods at any grocery store or supermarket.
Day. The incident is now shown to have been almost 24 hours later. I was mistaken at days but it certainly wasn’t right after.
Hasn’t social media moved on from publicly posting with strangers? Of the 2bn people who engage with each other on a regular basis, surely almost all of this is done in private (WhatsApp, Insta, Slack, FB Groups)?

While I don’t need an “open global fediverse” I do need tools to construct my own private spaces to which I can invite others: company chat, neighbours, family, friends. I guess the old problem of who gets to be admin is even thornier when “being admin” doesn’t just mean being able to choose a new background image, but also managing the actual software instance.

Hopefully these are the problems Mozilla will tackle. Twitter v2 isn’t going to be useful to anyone but the 1% of the 1% that engage in public.
> So you'll be okay with me

Yes.

> And I suppose copyrighted printed books (and poems, and song lyrics) destroyed "free press" as we know it?

That's not what I was talking about. The destruction of free computing will come about due to copyright enforcement and the technology necessary for its implementation.

Copying is a fundamental computer operation. If I'm in control of the computer, I can make it copy anything including copyrighted works and there's nothing they can do about it. So how do you prevent people from copying whatever they want? You take control of the computer.

This is our reality today. This is their solution to the "allow them to run all programs except those we don't like" problem. Our computers are already pwned right out of the factory. They have inaccessible memory, secure enclaves, ring -3 operating systems overseeing everything, cryptographic checks to ensure the corporation's system hasn't been "tampered with", the works. Apple computers have cryptography that prevents you from running software not blessed by trillion dollar corporations.

With this technology in place, our computing freedom is gone. We can no longer do what we want, only what they allow. It's gonna get way worse. One day we're going to need government signatures to run software because democratized cryptography undermines their authority and is too subversive to be allowed for the common citizen.

I think computers are among the most important inventions of mankind and far too valuable to sacrifice for the sake of irrelevant business models from centuries ago. One would think other Hacker News users would understand and agree since the copyright industry works every day to undermine and destroy everything that's dear to us.
Most culture throughout human history has been iterative instead of anthologic. Often times the stories, myths, legends, and folk tales we have are because multiple people added to the story after the original author ended it to add a piece that relates to their own time or understanding. They didn't just say, throw sunglasses and a banana hammock on Beowulf and now he's Bae-o-wulf, original character, do no steal. The story of King Arthur for example has three different origins between the changeling child, the sword in the stone, and the commoner to king stories because for the longest time King Arthur's Court started in medias res. Then there's the fact that Sir Lancelot was a later addition to the mythology of King Arthur, appearing almost six hundred years after the popular stories first appeared in public circulation as a cultural response to the rise of the idea of courtly love. And the story of Sir Gawain And The Green Knight itself was a later addition as well to epitomize the growing ideal of chivalry. Even Alfred Lord Tennyson was adding to the story over twelve hundred years after it first appeared in response to gothic literature and it's focus on the beauty in decay and nihilism. To put it one way, Lancelot, Gawain, and Elaine were essentially fanfiction to the existing mythologies that became canon.

And the truest form of that iterative culture that still exists and continues building the mythologies or characters of these stories is fan fiction. People adding onto the characters and history of the fictional world, finding what works and discarding what doesn't, and slowly weaving together a full and rich story. This is in stark contrast to anthology style works such as traditional superhero comic books, where the creators work under direction and the rules of the world and the personas of it's characters are often not allowed to change. Unlike Guinevere who is eventually swayed from Arthur into courtly love with Lancelot, Lois Lane must always love Superman for example.
How does the interstellar medium interact with communication signals like radio waves?
Make a copy or make a sequel.
Many cities sport large enough feral cat populations that rabbits are rare.
Sure, why wouldn't it be? The question is what are you actually learning and how much will you retain. Learning syntax only gets you so far. To me, the hardest part is figuring out how to express the actions I want to take in the form of objects. API design adds a lot of clarity. 10 days on CSS... Why?! What on Earth could they be teaching that takes so long and would you actually need that level of CSS knowledge at an entry level position. I can think of much better ways to spend that time.

Try to recreate standard library functions using just the most primitive parts of the language. That's what I do when assessing my ability to use a language. For example, write your own implementation of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... with just loops and variables.
> I cannot imagine buying food at the dollar store even if you are poor.

If DOLLAR GENERAL qualifies, for many poor communities it's the only option in town.
method_missing is only one tool in the metaprogramming toolbox (just probably the worst one). i wouldn't necessarily throw out the whole toolbox, particularly with ruby.
Mozilla comes to this equation with their totally out of touch bullshit approach. Just like they fucked up their browser market share, now they are the missionaries of privacy and the people and the trees and world peace. While 99% of people do not know jackshit about all this. Therefore they DON'T CARE. Imagine how successful will this become.
What makes you think being the #1 powerwashing company is going to be any easier than making an equivalent amount of money in the corporate world? Do you have any reason to believe you are better at powerwashing than the other 99 guys in your town?
Disinformation
> Their job is to ratify bills that passed the house, not to let them die for the lulz

Uh, no. That’s an absurd assertion. The Governor is another branch, that exists as a check and balance on the legislature. That’s why they have the veto power.

The gov was just as voted-in as the rest of them, too. The will of the voters in both branches.
Yes but presumably IPOs have a business model and assets, quantified by audited financials that can be examined and evaluated against competitors.

ICOs were taking real money and exchanging it for tokens with no legally enforceable equity rights. It's GoFundme with a slicker landing page, but no oversight whatsoever. There's a reason they do that and it's not because doing it through the proper channels is impossibly onerous.
I'm not sure if I get low blood sugar. I'm sure if I ate ice cream every day I could gain weight, as I was overweight most of last decade. But now I generally don't eat a lot, little bits throughout the day. I lost my weight with diet and dedicated exercise over a year ago. Then I mostly stopped exercising except for walking, but still kept losing weight. I mostly stabilized around 150, but I have dropped below it a few times (when I do, I sort of binge at my families house). Pretty sure my diet is protein deficient as well (little meat) explaining my muscle issues but then I've always had an extremely hard time putting on muscle, low testosterone probably.

Was just thinking that, if potassium is implicated as some kind of weight-loss amplifier, and I am already not eating a lot, then it might push my weight down further than I want.
From the fossils or artifacts of that time, the value will be estimated but even the estimated value shows just how big human history is.
Not the original poster, but the book "The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One" by William K. Black (former bank regulator during the S&L crisis) might shed some light onto the S&L crisis, if not 2008's comparative response, though not directly.
Space ambiance! this is one topic that really interests me - how spaces create psychological states that are unique and satisfying.
there is a similar set of spaces - liminal spaces (google image search this term to see examples) - these are similar spaces - like corridors which have a unique feel.
The idea of working with a distributed data pipeline implemented via makefiles is nightmare fuel
So you don't mind me taking all the frontend from https://easypub.io/

Or doing whatever I want from any code of yours in github.
Lord Vetinari in Terry Pratchett's Discworld is an interesting study in tyranny. He is referred to in-world as a tyrant, but Pratchett frequently lampshades that that isn't a great word to describe what he actually does. Vetinari has no life outside running the city, no personal goals, no individual ego. In his words, "it is always about the city"[0]. He views the city as an organism and himself as its caretaker, and he does a remarkably good job. He can be ruthless and brutal when necessary to protect the city, but the city thrives under him.

Vetinari has a direct parallel in the Benevolent Dictator for Life in FOSS communities, or dang on HN. Individuals often hate these "tyrants" and wish them gone, but the community as a whole only thrives because of their careful, patient, and deliberate care. You can't easily replace a BDFL with a democratic process without losing the community's soul.

The problem with the BDFL model is that if your dictator isn't benevolent, what you have is a normal, flawed monarchy. And very few people are capable of being as ego-free as a benevolent dictator needs to be.

[0] Making Money, page 98
You started by doubting the #2, now pivoted to doubting the age? There's no making you happy.
https://pushups.dev/
I like GrapheneOS. Not sure if this fits your use case or not. It is an Android-based OS with a focus on security. By default it has no real app store, and no push service. It's basically a hardened AOSP with a bunch of security focused modifications. It runs on Google Pixels only, because (they say) Pixels are the only Android phones that meet the security standards of the project. But don't be fooled, GrapheneOS is completely degoogled. No account will be needed or prompted for.
Too many users, I don't know Hugging Face's rules but they seem to limit how much each demo can use to a ceiling. When I ran it originally it was like 12 people using it, looks like the queue is now around 300 and Hugging Face doesn't spin up more instances. That being said the model is relatively small and can be run locally with at least 5 GB of VRAM according to the Stable Diffusion subreddit.
Mozilla to explore healthy cigarette smoking..
> is grossly crowded with generational wealth

The top ten wealthiest people in the US did not inherit their wealth - and power law distribution of wealth really matters.

That said, I agree there is a problem with intergenerational wealth, although possibly more through family political power and influence than their raw financial power.
Technically, Westward was AI's Jurassic Park moment.
It’s probably not even worth doing a search for Adrenochrome in this write up.
> Previously, we did a potato diet study and found that on average people lost 10.6 lbs over 28 days of potato diet, even though most of them took multiple cheat days. This was a pretty strong effect, so naturally we started wondering, why does it work?

Why would you recommend people go on a potato diet without a working theory on why people should go on a potato diet?!
Thank you for sharing these insights. The whole problem space feels so intractable, and all options seemingly inhumane in their own ways, so it’s very helpful to hear from someone whose had success working though it.
Ultimately whether it is humane or not is irrelevant. If you are trapped on a lifeboat with a bunch of people, and one of them is mentally ill and threatening the safety and survival of the other people on the lifeboat because of an ability to regulate their own behavior, the people on that lifeboat are justified in taking whatever action necessary to ensure a safe environment. Society is that lifeboat. We should do everything possible to offer mentally ill people the resources they need to help themselves and to integrate themselves into society. But if that fails, and they are unwilling or unable to integrate into society, and their behavior causes a safety risk and/or a significant disruption to society, then society is completely justified in using whatever measures are necessary to ensure they aren't a danger to others. It is simply absurd to suggest (as many do today) that profoundly mentally ill people should be allowed to roam free and manifest their mental illness in ways that are harmful to other people because it it "inhumane" to stop them.
This is what it said

> On home loans, the CFPB said the bank improperly denied mortgage modifications over a seven-year span, with some customers losing their homes.

This says it started in 2011 (maybe earlier). If they already had a mortgage, in a good labor and good housing market, I doubt that many people actually lost their homes who wouldn't lose them anyway. Mortgage modifications are for people already behind on their payments.
And the Bill Barr DOJ faced no consequences?
People of all income groups in the US seem to have problems living within their means.

My co-worker and I were talking about how much we spend on groceries per week, and it turns out they spend about twice as much as we do (and we could cut some corners). I'm sure my mother spent half of what we spend.

She buys the big container of store brand oatmeal, we buy "better oats". My co-worker buys the cups of individually portioned servings.

My mother buys the store brand chocolate milk, we buy fairlife, my co-worker buys individual fairlifes.

$8 bottles of salad dressing, more expansive cuts of meat, $15 bags of frozen shrimp, it all adds up. And this is just groceries.
Detecting Missile Launches with Ionospheric Disturbances
My main question is how they obtained her face in order to configure their system to recognize her.
Many investors would do well to consider a hedge on the currency risk.
It always comes down to education. An educated poor person can pull herself out of poverty within one generation. My parents were dirt poor because their country was devastated by war, but they were able to concentrate on education and were middle class, and now me and my siblings are 1%ers.

The problem is the poor areas in the US are exceedingly violent and basically succumb to victimization to explain why they can’t get out of poverty. If they can’t have safety and the culture is to just blame others and not try to better themselves, this is a perfect way to create generational poverty.

I think we need to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into the most economically devastated areas of the US and first create safe neighborhoods with jobs. Once kids can go to public schools and not worry about violence, that neighborhood will thrive. In order for that to happen we need to INVEST in those communities with more police and more jobs with middle class wages.

Instead of $100B to Ukraine we need to invest that money on Americans in South Side Chicago, where there are 50 shootings a weekend, and Baltimore that has live birth rates lower than 3rd world countries, and Missouri and Oakland, etc. Create Amazon warehouses there or whatever can create an impact immediately and then hire a ton of police officers from the community and train them (1 day of training a week). Within a generation it will change the entire city and you will have a thriving middle class where wss once generational poverty.
Just curious, how did you determine the released data is "a bunch of half-truths"? Do you have access to more complete data sets which contradict what we've seen? Why are you keeping this additional data private if so?
When is Wells Fargo not mistreating customers? I feel like every few years it's another Wells Fargo story.
I suspect the numbers would be worse if you looked at households instead of individuals due to declining marriage rates (but I'm not willing to put in the effort to find numbers).
Number Stations and Enigma Stations
Yep I was “cutting” (restricting calories in a way to try and lose fat to become more tight and muscular looking) and lose 15 lbs and still had a pizza every week.
That doesn't justify giving them lifetime government enforced monopolies. If they want to keep getting paid, they should have to keep creating new works. Anything else is rent seeking. Having to give them monopolies at all is bad enough but the current state of copyright is completely unacceptable.

Also, their children are owed exactly nothing by society. At most they should be able to inherit still valid copyrights with no change to their durations. Heirs getting a completely new two decade monopoly just so they could "benefit" is absurd and intolerable.
Why would you trust the seller?
I joked recently that these days, if you see a XML file in a project it means there is a higher probability that the project is good.

It means someone of those who make it is capable of making pragmatic decisions.
The missing measurement is how many calories you poop, and what relationships exist between what and how much you eat to the amount of calories you poop
If the government had let the banks crash in 2008 the economy would be in a much worse state today and everyone would be a lot poorer. Foreign investors hold a vanishingly tiny fraction of the real estate in America and are not responsible for whatever economic ills you are projecting onto them.

You've chosen to believe a lot of incorrect things in service of your ideological commitments. You should learn to distinguish between things that are actually true and things that you want to be true because it would validate your politics.