skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Safe spaces aren't a new thing. It's just now there is a vocabulary for it. 20 years ago, before people talked about safe spaces, I would hang out at comic/gaming stores because I could be my nerdy self while playing Magic: the Gathering.

When I would go to bars, I'd go to gay bars. Because I could just be myself and not worry about running into the violence in the clubs that catered to teens.

A safe space is about finding a place where you find yourself comfortable to be your authentic self. They've always existed, even if they weren't called safe spaces -- or castigated as part of a culture war.

As an aside, I probably wouldn't use dicta from Plessy v. Ferguson, one of the worst decisions in US history, to buttress any argument. The constitution was never color-blind. It didn't explicitly reference color, but it didn't have to--everyone knew what it was talking about.

> Why wouldn't police officers be afforded the same kinds of protections from microagressions that are given to other people in this country.

Microaggressions are one thing. Criminalizing microaggressions is quite another.

> Doesn't a police officer have a right to a safe working environment, and aggression free interactions with 'customers' (citizens), and laws saying as much?

No. No cop goes into the profession expecting puppies and rainbows. Going into potentially unsafe environments with potentially aggressive people is what they signed up for.

As a retail employee, you have to put up with microaggressions from customers. It's just part of dealing with the public. And those microaggressions aren't criminalized. Why do cops get to criminalize their feelings getting hurt?
I don't think that we're understanding each other, so I'm going to leave it for this post. But this supports what I am saying. This does not say "For a programming language, it must have an ISO standard, and the implementation must be in full compliance with the standard."

> Afaik rust has no documentation which satisfies those requirements in any way.

That is correct, Rust does not. Ferrocene does. And that's perfectly fine according to the requirements.
I am not sure I believe the results from models like SSIMULACRA.

It might be I am not encoding properly but when I did trials with a small number of photos with the goal of compressing pictures I took with my Sony α7ii at high quality I came to the conclusion that WEBP was consistently better than JPEG but AVIF was not better than WEBP. I did think AVIF came out ahead at lower qualities as you might use for a hero image for a blog.

Lately I've been thinking about publishing wide color gamut images to the web, this started out with my discovery that a (roughly) Adobe RGB monitor adds red when you ask for an sRGB green because the sRGB green is yellower than the Adobe RGB green and this is disasterous if you are making red-cyan stereograms.

Once I got this phenomenon under control I got interested in publishing my flat photos in wide color gamut, I usually process in ProPhotoRGB so the first part is straightforward. A lot of mobile devices are close to Display P3, many TV sets and newer monitors approach Rec 2020 but I don't think cover it that well except for a crazy expensive monitor from Dolby.

Color space diagram here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._2020#/media/File:CIE1931x...

Adobe RGB and Display P3 aren't much bigger than the sRGB space so they still work OK with 8-bit color channels but if you want to work in ProPhotoRGB or Rec 2020 you really need more bits, my mastering is done in 16 bits but to publish people usually use 10-bit or 12-bit formats which has re-awakened my interest in AVIF and JPEG XL.

I'm not so sure if it is worth it though because the space of colors that appear in natural scenes is a only bit bigger than sRGB

https://tftcentral.co.uk/articles/pointers_gamut

but much smaller than space of colors that you could perceive in theory (like the green of a green laser pointer. Definitely Adobe RGB covers the colors you can print with a CMYK process well, but people aren't screaming out for extreme colors although I expect to increasingly be able to deliver them. So on one hand I am thinking of how to use those colors in a meaningful way but also the risk of screwing up my images with glitchy software.
We all know what the real argument is: NIH.
If you're relying on file formats to preserve your privacy you've already lost.
Calling BS in CSAM as the reason. Clearly it’s their government wanting to have easier ability to spy on it’s citizens.
FFS NASA, the word is 'quintillion'.
I think we are mostly in agreement.

Even though I started in computers like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36801868

I “pivoted” to Enterprise Dev - and really restarted a stagnant career - in 2008-2012 (muddled my way through the recession)

Career projection for an enterprise dev is just like a BigTech dev to a smaller degree.

Junior engineer - learning the ropes and learning how to be a real professional developer. They will learn the then current frameworks and learn how to turn requirements into code. A boot camp grad has a leg up here.

Mid level - they can work mostly independently and by now they can take a relatively complicated feature from requirements to production following standard best practices. They may even be able to lead a team of developers working on a feature.

Senior - they can figure out what needs to be done (high ambiguity), lead multiple teams (scope and impact).

(After this I happened to pivot slightly and fell into a role at BigTech in the cloud consulting department.)

Senior+ - they can have an organizational impact and lead corporate technical strategy.

At higher levels, you need to know more about architecture and design. Even in large tech companies, being a good developer and knowing algorithms only distinguishes junior and a mid level developer

College wouldn’t help anyone after they pass the L5 level.
The US bank security system confuses me. To accept money, I need to give out my routing number and account number. Using those numbers, someone could theoretically withdraw money... Maybe... The whole system is built upon obscurity. Why do some stores need a pin on my debit card, and some do not? Why do online stores need my name and address, but IRL ones do not? How did that one online store charge me without my CVV? How can restaurants swipe my card now and charge me later?

I only send and receive money with Google/Apple Pay & PayPal at this point. This flow is reasonable (every transaction is authorised in a trusted location (ie: PayPal). Further transactions are impossible without additional authorization). It boggles my mind that banks & CC companies haven't made some standard for this. Would save them so much money in fraud protection.
This is marketing though.

PRISM for the US, giving personal data to China, and Russia are examples of them not respecting privacy.
The parent post defined “human rights” as something from holy scriptures. What I can see from being part of highly functional societies is that they require me to give up a big part of my privacy. Like, I can’t get salary without bank account. Which I can’t get without submitting a whole lot of personal information to the bank. There’re many essential services which you can’t access anonymously. At a very least “privacy” isn’t a binary category. There could be more privacy or less privacy, but not 100%.

One more example: some societies will require you to disclose any relation to politically exposed persons. Which is beneficial to society, but I can’t withhold even if I wanted.
> Truly stable countries don’t have coups at all.

A failed coup attempt is not a coup.
25% of the entire population is a pretty popular application! Not “hardly anyone”. Also, I’d like to know the volume of messages shared, I have WhatsApp, but wouldn’t miss it it it disappeared. iMessage disappearing would be very inconvenient.
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With its brokenness, those days were more enjoyable to many. The web was more interesting with the variety. Personal sites were a place for each mouth to speak. Today's sites are a place to be force fed pure junk.
Yes, that’s the play on (or expansion of) definitions that he is making.

The dictionary gives you a moment in time, but if a monopoly had a lifecycle, what is the earliest thing you can call a monopoly? Even at the earliest stage it technically excludes competition because they don’t know about it yet, and there is inertia in them constructing and making the same offering. Not a great barrier, but really not very far removed from the concept of a trade secret.
DocuSign is free for 3 signatures a month - did you need more or were you using more advanced features?
Is it bad that PASSPORT.MID began playing in my head? It has been so many years and I still remember it note for note. Maybe I need therapy.
You're not wrong. It shows in the state of PLC/HMI Development tools. Even simple things like Revision Control is decades behind in some cases.

I've basically found my niche in the industry as a Software Engineer though I can't say I see myself staying in the industry much longer. The amount of time's I've gotten my hands on code published by my EE coworkers only to rewrite it to work 10x faster at half the size with less bugs? Yikes. HMI/PLC work is almost like working in C++ at times, there's so many potential pitfalls for people that don't really understand the entire system, but the mentality by EE/ME types in the industry is to treat the software as a second class citizen.

Even the clients treat their IT/OT systems that way. A production mill has super strict service intervals with very defined procedures to make sure there is NO downtime to production. But get the very same management team to build a redundant SCADA server? Or even have them schedule regular reboots? God no.
Premeditation and planning is the difference between federal first and second degree murder.
I Like My Code Damp
Like the cool retro terminal it appears this is also in VoidLinux. Any other distros also have this?

xbps-query -Rs no-more-sec
[-] no-more-secrets-1.0.1_1 Recreate the famous decryption scene from Sneakers
Legacy admission preference is obviously contrary to equality of opportunity but I guess people will argue about everything.

I say this as a legacy admit
> No sane person believes that there aren't really nasty, organized criminals in the world, and no sane person believes that said criminals have a right to absolute privacy, including e.g. (the moral equivalent of) search warrants.

That's just a strawman.

Plenty of sane people believe that the threat of criminals doesn't outweigh the threat to individual liberty posed by the state. Additionally, plenty of sane people wouldn't support a ban on locks and safes because it makes it harder to search criminals.

I'm pretty sure I have my sanity in check, and I don't think there's any reason for the government to require private enterprise to break encryption to ease prosecution. It should be hard or impossible for governments to spy on their citizens.
>I think more research needs to go into designing new programming languages

It was my understanding that golang supports multi-core?

[0] https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/jeffdecola/my-go-examples/goro...
How facial age-estimation technology can help protect children's privacy
HSBC has voice recognition on their call center and they announce it by saying "Your voice is your passport" or maybe "password". I forget now.
disappointed, title hints at how to become ungoogleable as a person, was hoping to see something like the right to be forgotten which doesn't work in the US and would be useful, but instead just a bunch of whining and deindexing a website, nothing new.
The government already has the power to do this — just ask any trans person in the South
I just tried it out and it was totally unintuitive how to add fields to a PDF. I tried to chat with support, but it wants you to use WhatsApp. (?!) Then I went to their youtube channel to see if I could see a walk through and every video is in Spanish. I guess they aren't interested in other geos like the US.
Teaching abstinence doesn't create an actual barrier/obstacle to sex so it's not a fair comparison. I think abstinence only education is stupid and we should teach what's needed to prevent pregnancy rather than doing some sort of moral grandstanding that ruins lives.
I think magical, positive thinking is protective even in the most dire times or atrocities. This is an intuition that's based on anecdotes from watching the documentary Shoah and reading Man's Search for Meaning, both of which cover how survivors dealt with the Holocaust.
I think parent wrote that because nowadays many projects are for JavaScript or Python with lots of dependencies.
The UK and China are not comparable. China is the worlds most populous country (for now). The UK has a population of under 70m. China is a totalitarian regime where even an imperfect freedom is preferable to no freedom at all. The UK is a democratic country which should be upholding the right to privacy.

If Apple weakens crypto for the UK, it affects people in other countries as well. iMessage is not exactly popular in the UK, so it is disproportionately used for transatlantic communication compared to WhatsApp. If Apple complies with the law, they are violating the privacy of users in the US as well.
> Bad behavior leading to "consequences" for one group should also be considered bad behavior for the other group, which doesn't get to complain about the same "consequences" as well.

And it does.

This whole "cancel culture" debate is and always has been just a poor attempt at propaganda.

There is no such thing as "cancel culture", just this generational trend of using the word "cancel" interchangeably with "boycott". Boycotts have existed since the dawn of time, but there is no good way of personalizing a rival group as "boycotters", and that is the reason why we have this stupid "cancel culture" term.

Now, there are a myriad of reasons why a cop should not be treated like any other individual, first of all being that they are legally and factually protected from facing many of the consequences of the same bad behaviour that would put most other people behind bars.

But specifically and putting it into context, isn't having a government sponsored, paramilitary law enforcement group, that is immune to many law precepts by design, dangerous enough already?

In a world where cops have all their current privileges and conserve all their rights as individuals, there is no room for first amendment rights. There cannot be.
Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
I use an app called "Open In WhatsApp" which lets you paste / write a phone number and it will open a conversation with that number (by using android intents). You can also share contacts from the Phone app to this App, so you don't have to copy/paste manually.

https://github.com/SubhamTyagi/openinwa (I recommend downloading from f-droid)
What the heck is “$10,000 quadrillion”? For anyone who dropped out of grade school, you would write that as “$10 quintillion”.
You realize saying "please" doesn't magically make it polite, right?
The sort of propaganda circling on these platforms is sophisticated in its misuse of facts. One could, for instance, speak completely factually about Canada's history of colonization and genocide - TikTok, interestingly, does - but if one is doing so as a representative of a government whose current policies are genocidal (ref. "Uyghur"), is that a representation of what you think of as truth telling?

I am endlessly amused by myself these days, because I was literally raised as a Marxist, with literally Karl Marx on the bookshelf and Reagan was a satan to me as a kid, but wouldn't know you know it, when I talk about Communists these, dirty fucking communist rats who cannot make their own society worth living in and therefore need to tear down the good ones, boy do I sound like Joe fucking McCarthy.
I beg to differ. iMessage is definitely quite common in Europe as well.
Llama-2 is going to make people forget that OpenAI ever existed.
Well, I did accomplish a lot in the past too. But using subpotimal methods, lol. I'd have been 10x more if I had that energy with today's knowledge.
It entirely depends on the project. For about 2/3rds of the ones that I do, I don't really need much grunt. A 50 cent microcontroller can do the job as well (sometimes better) as a full R-Pi, but at a fraction of the cost ("cost" including power usage, size, etc.). I frequently see projects using a hefty system like an R-Pi that could have been done equally well with a tiny microcontroller.

And having a full OS running means that more code is running. More code means more potential points of failure.

Of course, if your project is something that needs a larger processor or more advanced software, then what you say can be very true.

Also, if your skillset is more in line with programming larger systems than smaller ones, the development time will be shorter for you by going with a full OS.
People say this, not sure what it is based on, unless by “many other”s you just mean Michigan, UC, and UNC.
It doesn't have to deal with compliance issues, which are not only getting more complicated, but also increasing in number.

"Sorry guv, I don't have the keys for that, so I'm not responsible for what went on as I couldn't have known".

Though the biggest money maker is the idea itself. Many believe that Apple is "on their side", and these kinds of plays re-enforce that. The moment it's more profitable to sell you out than "stand up for privacy", they'll do it.
This is marketing.

PRISM in the US is proof they don't really care. China and Russia also have data collection on iphones.
the sheer overuse of scare-quotes in this article turned me away from it almost immediately. do you really have to quote the word 'items' as if it's that much of a foreign, unprecedented concept
Link to actual paper:

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/...
>It's harder to get a gun as a citizen anywhere in the US than it is to become a cop.

I'm normally the last one to be licking boots when it comes to discussions of the role of law enforcement in our society. With that said, this is hyperbole and obviously falsifiable. There are lots of places in the US where it is very easy to get a gun and at least somewhat difficult to become a cop.
Of course they were made up. It's a legal construct. "Hate crimes" did not exist as a legal charge fifty years ago. Why are you using language as if you did not know this?
4tb? Wow you don’t watch much eh? I’m currently trying to figure out what to do bec I have one machine with esxi, 18tb that are almost full and I wanna separate it off, with data being in a NAS and OS’s/containers staying on the hypervisor. But I have no clue how to do that in a way that doesn’t end up basically wasting a few hdds or taking a very long to copy everything.

Also I don’t wanna spend another $1000, though it looks like that’s what it’ll take. Between HDDs and a new case (I already have a good enough mb,cpu,ram,psu config that I can canabalize from elsewhere). Biggest issue is finding a cheap case that has the expansion available for more drives. They just don’t make cases like that anymore and all the people near me wanna sell a full pc for 100s. I just don’t need that.
I have a friend who has worked for a contractor for the military who was doing JCL at least as late as 2015.

I think another friend is still doing mainframe type stuff today.
FedNow is a replacement for ACH which is an ancient, creaking monstrosity. If we can't ever replace or fix old, busted infrastructure because of conspiratorial rambling, we are fucked as a civilization.
That isn't really a literal comparison being made -- it's maximally exaggerated, to emphasize the main point: that the negative thing being conceded vastly outweighs the positive thing being lauded.

"OK, yeah, our buddy Louis does beat his wife, and totally deserved to get arrested last weekend, don't get me wrong -- but man does that guy make a delicious lasagna!"

The piece of shit known as RFK isn't just your normal crackpot science-denier uncle. I mean, he actually is very much like that in many ways, but because of the famous family name he banks on, and perhaps the credulous idiotism of our modern media landscape and/or celebrity-worship cultural defect, he is responsible for enormous suffering, including the deaths of many children. It's hard to put a precise number on, because the parents are truly responsible, and he only convinced them not to vaccinate -- but if bringing back measles to kill children was a sport, he'd be the Joe Rogan color commentator for it.

He's repudiated by his family, and those with at least a rudimentary high school understanding of science, for a reason.

So, yes, toxic chemicals in our environment or in consumer products is a problem, and one that the US political system isn't doing well addressing. But even if Jeffrey Dahmer agrees with you, and can pithily and eloquently summarize the risks -- you still need to find a different spokesperson.
In this case CBDCs (the interest bearing kind) actually have the potential of disintermediating banks. Or atleast reducing credit/liquidity risk. Grandma's savings/deposits arent going to evaporate the next time a bank collapses. Cause her CBDCs are going to be sitting in her wallet.
Just want to throw this out there: in a business context, "secret sauce" can also just mean experience, a bunch of incumbent advantages, and successful ways of working. For example, people often talk about Apple's secret sauce, which in my mind is "just" the fact that they control the whole stack from silicon to services, and do a good job making it feel cohesive. It's not really a secret, nor is it a sauce you could use anywhere else.
Now, if this thing supported sixels, it would be a great tool for giving eye-catching interactive presentations.
edit oops wrong article - Venmo is only “instant” requiring behind the scenes smoke and mirrors and also requires carrying balances
Reward schemes are funded by interchange fees funded by higher product prices. They are a tax on the entire economy. Merchants can push the CC fees to customers who opt to pay with CCs vs cheap or free instant payment systems. T-Mobile has dropped autopay discounts if you use a credit card vs deposit/bank accounts for payment, for example. Walmart wrote public comments on this topic supporting the FedNow implementation.

Reward systems won’t last as merchants push towards FedNow as a payment alternative and charge you to use a credit card. Nor should they last.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36012866

> Walmart has observed a severe misalignment of incentives that has plagued the payments system in the United States for decades. Certain incumbents and large participants enjoy massive profits by stifling innovation in payments, ensuring that account access is limited to a small number of networks, and perpetuating barriers to entry for alternative solutions. Controlling this access allows the dominant players to extract rents from other payments system participants, ultimately resulting in higher costs for all consumers, particularly consumers who are unbanked or underbanked.
>That doesn't matter in the end.

Doesn't matter to who?

I'm pretty sure it matters a lot to people working in a newsroom