skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The language surrounding these topics is so nebulous that I often have no clue what they mean.

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And beyond the general topic discussing these things generally I've had one anecdotal incident involving such nebulous concepts of "safe". I worked at a place where HR notified us that a member of our team "did not feel safe or welcome". I had no idea what to do with this information. They obviously didn't want to identify the person, or what happened (i can understand the desire to do so) ... but then what does that mean, what of any helpful things could we even do if we don't know what is going on?

Then we got a second notice just as vague as the first about someone (it seemed to be implied it was the same person) still felt that way. This notice (sent to a few hundred people) had a more finger wagging tone to it.

At that point I was actually angry. I responded that I did not feel safe working in an environment with vague notices that someone(s), maybe, did something to make someone(s) else uncomfortable or feel something ... and that to some unknown extent I and others were now on notice in some vague way about it. Maybe I did it, heck if I know, if so what could I do!??!

Shortly after a clarification email went out that nobody was in trouble and any specific incidents would be handled with those involved only and no further group emails would go out.

Someone did leave the company not long after. I was told (not sure if it was true) they were the source of the complaints. That person was "sensitive" to the extent that they seemed upset by every little thing. They were pretty hard to be around, every day events upset them, and frankly they were an asshole too. It struck me how such nebulous language in that case allows someone to impose on others.

I suspect that someone expressing that they did not feel "safe or welcome" in such a vague way contributed to the equally vague and weird "solution" to just spam out a warning(s) to everyone. The result was absurd. It really illustrates how this kind of language can be very confusing.

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Now the Mastercard thing isn't that exactly, and I hope it helps someone. But the vague language always throws me off a bit.
Xmos [0] still exists which, whilst not the same as the Transputer, does fabricate MCUs with hardware parallelism and a variant of C called xC with CSP primitives.

[0] - https://www.xmos.com/
It is possible to criticize the Israeli government without lashing out against individual students because they happen to be Jewish or Israeli.

Incidents like this seem pretty antisemitic: https://nypost.com/2024/01/03/news/school-of-art-institute-o...

> Two days after Shiran informed the attorneys of her decision, however, professor Sandie Yi — one of the faculty members Shiran complained about to the school and who is also named as a defendant in the suit — altered her course’s final assignment in ways that “uniquely targeted Shiran,” the suit claimed.
I can't speak for wherever you are.

But in most countries they don't require ID in order to make a credit card purchase.
With Ruby, you have many different, expressive ways of saying the same thing. Examples that come to mind off the top of my head: deciding to vertically align keyword arguments sometimes. Wrapping code differently to meet a line length limit. Breaking the rule of "never making a variable one letter long" in tiny, clear code snippets to make everything read better. Choosing to use double vs single quotes (single quotes signal that the string has no interpolation). Putting a space at the start/end of array and hash literals in some cases. Using .call() or .() or [] to call a lambda. There are many other little things like that. Each one seems insignificant, but together they replace all human consideration. And since Ruby is very concise and efficient (small amount of code gets a lot done), expressing your "hows", "whats", and "whys"[1] in the most readable way should be where you spend some of your time.

[1]: https://max.engineer/maintainable-code
Trans people are victims of hate crimes. It’s not “minor psychological discomfort.” For many people, it’s life-and-death. Giving people control to share this very sensitive information when and how they see fit makes trans people safer.

It’s not for you to decide.
They will only be out of preview when Valhala ships, as per roadmap.

Then there is the whole issue when will they reach other implementations beyond OpenJDK, specially a very important alternative implementation running on many phones across the globe.

Nevertheless the need to explicitly being allowed to write vector code is there.
> So, I argue, the objectivity of mainstream empirical science requires the existence of objective rationality external to it. But, for that rationality to truly be objective, it must be an innate feature of reality, not something simply arbitrarily ascribed to it by the human mind.

I partly agree with that. The universe has a specific set of rules humans have observed, on which we base our understanding of it. What I disagree with is that these observations are proof that the universe itself is rational. There are many aspects of the universe of which we're still completely oblivious, and where our understanding breaks down. The fact we can observe some degree of logic in our observations points to survivorship bias, i.e. the anthropic principle. Simply, we wouldn't be able to make sense of the universe if the conditions didn't exist for us to observe it.

But even if I could concede this rational universe premise, my main objection is the leap of logic to then assert that humans are somehow special, and that our existence wouldn't have a meaning unless we can fulfill some sort of purpose, for which a human lifetime is not sufficient, and therefore, immortality. It's completely absurd. Gödel wraps this in pseudological premises, but it reads to me like he started with the conclusion that God exists, and is trying to arrive to that conclusion with philosophical mumbo jumbo. This is the complete opposite of the scientific method, and is therefore no different than "creation science", and all the other ontological arguments throughout history. I don't see why any _rational_ human being would give it more than the bare minimum of attention it deserves.
I remember using WordPad as a poor destitute kid forced to learn how to type in school and couldn't afford to fork over money for Word so my formatting and spacing was all fucked.

And then I learned that sometimes software is freely available online if you know where to look.
Step 1. Go to google news or whatever news aggregation website you want.

Step 2. Search for "transgender attack".

Step 3. Take some time to digest the horrible news you're reading.

Step 4. Try to figure out the common thread between these stories. The people in question usually get outed in public during some kind of ID check, and got jumped by some intolerant moron who witnessed it.

This is happening. Today. Including in "North America and Europe". The people who say they feel unsafe because they feel unsafe for their physical integrity and safety. Not because of "awkwardness or very minor psychological discomfort".
American banking (including point-of-sale and credit cards) is largely a decade behind Western Europe.

But, apart from restaurants (which continue to inexplicably swipe cards out of sight), most major retailers use chip/pin or chip/signature (and the sig is only ever checked if the salesperson feels a need, which is rare).
While I can understand your concerns here, there is something profoundly damaging about thinking a democratically-led military is no longer serving the public interest. Essentially it's a no-confidence vote in the political system, which if you really consider from a moral perspective, requires correcting the system. What's wild to me is that people can essentially have no confidence in their political system, but do almost nothing to change it.

It seems deeply wrong to continue to participate and to pay taxes into a system that one has no confidence in. What seems more likely is that morality never played a role in this decision, and instead its a scapegoat for not taking personal responsibility for one's role in the system.
> who looks at the name on a credit card?

Hotels. All of them.
This has to be a USA thing right? In the 15 years i have had debit/credit cards in the EU nobody has ever checked the name on it. In fact, since the rise of contactless all the card info is now on the backside and not on front as before. Not to mention the fact that quite a few people today pay by phone contactless.
Made me look.
Some cool new words for me and some favorites.

Made me think of Military vocabulary and I found this top search result: http://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/military-terms-and...

If you’re still in the mood for word hash
In music, there is a 'compulsory license', you can't prevent someone from playing your music but you do have to get paid for it. AI will need something like that, we are going to have to reinvent IP law. And big tech will write those laws since that's how our democracy currently works. Will be a big fight between Microsoft and Disney with maybe tiny input from actual creators.
Basically, yes. Boeing has proven unreliable time and again.
Yes. Some of us like to imagine trans* people as those drag like personas, a clownish caricatures of their genders. This isn't the case though: most are just, you know, people. You wouldn't know they are trans*, except for their name. And unlike that Johnny Cash song, being a boy named Sue doesn't build character. It just makes your life miserable.
I fully agree. We do too much to keep people who are already safe from feeling slightly awkward or experiencing minor psychological discomfort.

We should do what we can to make life easier for everyone. If that makes a majority of people aware of the suffering of a particular group, ultimately I think it helps cultivate compassion, and compassion benefits us all.

I applaud your progressive, optimistic, and compassionate position, author

Edit: I’m being told I’m misconstruing your comments and not at all what you meant
> Apple has and (probably is still) extending unpublished entitlements to developers that allow for behavior that is not publicly documented.

Sure, but that's fine. You bought a product that the manufacturer claims does "X", but someone else with the same device has access to feature "Y" because they paid more or whatever. Totally legal market segmentation, no different for a phone than a dishwasher or car or whatever.

Apple got in trouble here because they secretly modified phones (that it turned out couldn't do "X" without crashing) to do "Z" instead, which was slightly inferior, and didn't tell the owners (presumably to avoid having to compensate them). Can't do that with a dishwasher or car either.
For what it’s worth, everywhere else in the world they just bring a small hand held terminal over to your table and you just insert or tap your card yourself.
boycott phys.org
I always read about people going on about synching Desktop and Mobile as this killer feature, and it always puzzled me.

I tried using it for a while to check if it would fundamentally make me feel different, but after a couple of years I saw zero benefit.

What are people using that they really need this for?
Why? Who cares about this and what's the reason they must care?? Affirmative action? Race "quotas"?? How do you know it will not be used in the exact opposite manner? It's simply better to treat everyone equally (I know, radical notion) and stop this madness.
In Europe they just bring the handheld payment terminal to your table...
Not just that but totally different culture.

I also find that lunch and coffee are great ice breakers - otherwise an office can feel quite sterile and disconnected.
Based on their quoted response at the bottom, I'll be striking all WHYY's podcasts off my donations list. Is it really that hard to eat some crow?
If nobody knows what "Satoshi" is, it could be a person, it could also be an agency, it could also probably be the NSA, or perhaps the FED

https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/884

https://www.tsa.gov/digital-id

If that's a governmental agency, it's perhaps to

- crowdfund the development of multiple technologies

- harden the security by allowing people to make money (to attract evil entities)

- mainstream the idea of a digital wallet/identity

The "bottom up" psyop
Not parent, but I agree with the general point. Leaving this specific example aside which is a real world interaction, we (America) have gone to far to redefine what "safety" is. Ben Shapiro speaking at your school is not "putting you in danger".
Chuck Moore's https://www.greenarraychips.com/ for example?
One would hope that the outcome would be that NYT would be immediately delisted from all search engines, as being included requires AI learning from their content to index it. We don't need the NYT as a source to build AI systems.
One of the most important features to get right for tools like this is collaborative editing. It's incredibly difficult to get this right (live preview, conflict resolution, history management, etc), especially given how the vast majority of users are non-technical folks (which aren't used to toolks like git). Could you expand a bit on how you intend to tackle this problem in Nino?
In europe they bring the pos to your table once done with your custom. Although in the uk table service is uncommon and people queue up at the till to order. No one checks the name as it would be a waste of time anyway.
In South Africa, I tap to pay practically everywhere and no one ever looks at my phone (or prior to my getting Apple Pay, my physical card). In the last 12 months I had to insert my card for chip and PIN maybe twice.

Speaking of chip and PIN, before tap to pay became prominent, people actually never touched my card, I would insert it myself (reducing risk of fraud) enter my PIN and all the merchant cared about was whether the the machine said “approved” or “declined” after doing an online check.
A quick comparison: first Google result says we'd need to sequester 20 billion tonnes of CO2 a year to achieve net zero without any other reductions. Another first Google result says the total worldwide reserves of copper amount to 890 million tonnes.

Essentially it's either going to be so cheap that trying to use it as currency is impractical, like carrying around pennies, or so overvalued that you'd surely destroy the economy? You'd have to use paper currency backed by tonnes of carbon - which is just a roundabout way to arrive at carbon credits!
> People who disable JS are virtually non-existent in the real world, outside of bubbles like HN comments.

Except for all the microbrowsers[0] and crawlers that don't have JavaScript enabled or don't run all the JavaScript bullshit on a page. Building accessible sites that can be used in the widest possible context is good engineering.

[0] https://24ways.org/2019/microbrowsers-are-everywhere/
Interesting, is this some US thing? Because in Europe for VISA/Mastercard payments I'm quite sure the name of the card owner is never transmitted to the vendor. Not in the past, and not now. It would also be quite in conflict with data protection laws.

Also it's a risk for stolen credit card information. I think the vendor doesn't even get the credit card number when processing a payment, otherwise shop clerks could just take screenshots and abuse a credit card for online shopping.
Animals do not become thinking beings, by human standards, just because we wish it to be so. I have had cats for most of my life. They are wonderful conscious and sentient beings. But they have limitations. As far as I can tell, they are a type of biological machine. They have a brain that is essentially some very advanced hardware. On that hardware is running very advanced software, that provides the cat with e.g. sensory functions, memory, processing and body control. Which means it can sense, see, feel, react and decide based on stimuli, sensory inputs, memory, programmed reactions, inherent drives, instincts etc. Does that make the cat an automaton? Maybe so, probably so. But it is an automaton, and a learning-adaptive one at that, so advanced that it is conscious and sentient. I think the cat very much feels and experiences that it is alive, feels and makes decisions.

As we observe the natural world, it seems that various types of animals have different levels of "consciousness" and "sentience". I don't think the caterpillar is very conscious and thinking, it is running a smaller program on less hardware, but I think it may be more living than biology in general gives it credit for. I think we have the same functions as described, and more. Including limitations that we don't think about most of the time. As the cat also does not. This "more" is what separates us from animals. We have the same basic system, but we also have more than this. Which, among many things, gives rise to us contemplating what consciousness and sentience is, both in ourselves and in the animal world. And makes us perceive good and evil and have morals. For the cat good and evil is irrelevant. It does not have morals. It has a nature, which is the program running for that type of animal. The nature of the cat is to kill and eat the mouse. Good and evil is not involved. The wasp lays eggs in the caterpillar. Good and evil is not involved. It is nature and it is their programming. Where we humans may be able to use our consciousnes to change our programming to some extent, the animals cannot change their programming. It evolves indirectly over time and generations.
Why do people assume that to have fun one need alcohol or some other unhealthy stuff?
Not only that, as Orwell says in Politics and the English Language [0]

> The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice, have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of régime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using that word if it were tied down to any one meaning. Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way.

[0] https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Ask the user what?

“Do you want your phone to crash because your battery is old - yes or no?”

The issue here was not that the battery life was shorter. It was that the batteries could not deliver enough current to run the processor at full speed. There’s no choice to “empower” the users with.
tl;dr:

Mastercard: "We've found that some people's name could different from what their government ID says their name is, and offer a solution for that problem"

Many HN commenters: "I don't have this problem, therefore it isn't a real problem"
We get a 1 hour lunch break required by law and yet people still do this willingly.
Marijuana was mentioned as enjoyed, but not as quit.
Mildly offtopic:

I've always thought of distributions (whether they are BSD or Linux) as:

bootloader

kernel/initrd of some sort

/sbin/init

libc

shell / userspace tools

package manager

I think a lot of "noise" is made off of such slight distinction between these

Back on topic:

From the article

> Nope, no match — FreeBSD's performance on the Pi is still way better, even without overclocking

How? Like, it's the same hardware, the same processor executing instructions. The Linux kernel/Linux compiled applications are that much slower? That's surprising. I wonder if that could be fixed easily with some kind of config tweaks somewhere. That would strike me as "something is broken" if the performance isn't within 1-3% of each other Linux vs BSD

I find it hyperbolic/probably untrue to say "oh, I ran Linux on my RaspberryPi, it was so slow I couldn't use the web browser. I switch to FreeBSD and it was so much faster it was usable"
Guess we'll have to do it ourselves. First VAX in 3 years!
Dumb question: has the word “gate” just become synonymous any scandal because it’s a play on the word “Watergate” (which references the office building of the Nixon scandal)?
A simple BIOS for my breadboard computer [video]
Criticizing Narendra Modi isn't "anti-India," and the fact that it's framed that way only makes the country seem more cultish and backward.
> More of a parallel universe that didn’t work out

Neuromorphic chips are built essentially the same way. The individual compute units are dog slow and only have tiny scratchpad memories (just like the elementary "SoC's" of a transputer), but you can etch many more of them on any given piece of silicon and they sip power compared to a standard CPU or even GPU, so the total amount of compute is significantly increased.
That could keep track of feeds you're subbed to, but the problem is keeping track of which posts you've already read. Once you're having to sync all of that, it might as well be a web app.
I don't think much time is spent in this code.
Is this something you've seen IRL or just in sensational online footage? I have not notice this IRL in the USA, although I've noticed overall driving get slightly more aggressive and ignorant since the pandemic
What frustrates me the most are comments like yours that contribute nothing whatsoever to the debate about the limits of copyright. Humans are not special, get over it.
You're being disingenuous. This is the quote:

> It harms everyone when we redefine safety

He is saying it harms everyone when being called by the name you don't want is redefined as unsafe because it makes it difficult to differentiate between significant issues.
As a kid I never understood how many of the other kids were starting to smoke, given how incredibly addictive it is. The warnings were everywhere. Like, why would you ever start when you know perfectly well it is both addictive and bad for you? It doesn't even make you sociable like alcohol.

Unfortunately, nowadays I instead get addicted a lot to various websites, like YouTube and ... Hacker News.
> All the other Boeing plane models are quite flight proven.

Until they install a half-assed update coded by some underpaid Indian freelancer.
It's an interesting suggestion but I think given what we know of life it's unlikely. I guess (obviously this is all speculation - none of us were there!) the origin of life can sort of be thought of as going from chemistry/geochemistry to biochemistry. And purely from a rate of reactions perspective, in a nice solvent like water that's likely to be more conducive to the origin of life than deep underground (in solids/highly viscous liquid at best).

Then there's also flux - do you have temporal/spatial variation in your various chemical constituents that might give rise to potential gradients (as we find in life - chemiosmosis in mitochondria for an obvious example). These are very prevalent at the sort of Lost City hydrothermal vents, where you have a very nice solvent coming into contact with a large mineral flux, with large energetic and chemical gradients. Again, less likely to be found underground.

If you're interested in this kind of thing I'd heartily recommend Nick Lane's book 'The Vital Question' or 'Transformer'. He tends to frame the issue not so much as just having the chemicals available (we find these on asteroids/meteorites!) but in having the energetic flux to get life started. Sort of akin I guess to how the components of a lightbulb don't do anything until you add an electron flux.
Are you saying these "pet social problems" and the like are not real world social problems?

I think / am assuming that you're so used to western/American comics that you can't see the underlying themes in them.