skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the most eloquent version of the larger argument against “term cleansing” that I’ve seen.
I’ll give my version, via a series of statements:

1) love your neighbor as you love yourself

2) as an individual, try to speak words that reflect your heart

3) language is messy and as it evolves, semantics of innocent words can sometimes collide with the other semantics of the same words (eg black as in blacklist, or black as in the recent terminology for having more melanin)

4) giving a small vocal/powerful minority the power to retroactively redefine and police the semantics of words can be dangerous and should be considered an anti-pattern when trying to change peoples hearts.

5) in conclusion, focus one’s individual efforts mostly on #1 and #2 and ignore the haters on both sides until one day as a society we look back and find this all very silly.

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> by reading both Fox and CNN

Most of us don't have time for that. I mostly prefer news oriented at business people, where too much bias would cost their readers real money, so the reporting tends to be more factual. So read WSJ rather than watch FoxNews, since even though both are owned by Murdoch, the former is for rich conservatives who have less time for idealistic BS.
> federate

But I think the problem quickly turns to over-fragmentation, even with something like matrix, mastodon or lemmy today, there are so many different instances and many of them are blocking several other instances from federating with them, people don't know where to go and have too many different places to look for stuff that they simply won't even try.
I honestly think that the sorts of experiences that break kids are things like parents breaking up, not 'not having the newest toy' or 'not going on vacation'. In the sense that material poverty can cause family stress, I completely agree. I fully support programs to feed kids, provide medical insurance, etc. I even support it for adults. I'm just not sure how any of that at the end of the day is going to fix daddy cheating. Unless you're suggesting a crackdown on prostitution and/or making adultery a crime again (in which case sure! as a social conservative, I'm down)... but good luck getting that passed today!
> why are we even bothering with this BS and just not using another service

Considering it's an antitrust suit, the answer should be self-evident.
You just experience the social consequences of being on the right, which is what "centrist" has always been a euphemism for.
It's perplexing that the article makes very little mention of what Justin Frankel did after Winamp - founding Cockos and creating REAPER, LICECap. As you note there's nothing quite as fully scriptable/customize-able as REAPER in Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)-land.

I've not found a media player I like as much as the original Winamp - especially the ability to use plugins, and how devs and users could easily change the look/feel. I've never understood how literally the worst media app I've encountered (especially on Windows) - iTunes - took over, aside from the fact that it made it easy to buy music and load it onto your iDevices.
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Where do statutes or court decisions say that? To my eye, none of the authorities quoted in the article do. It's merely implied.
I took these types of surveys in junior high. All my friends did heroin and were prostitutes. (it was funny). I wouldn't trust a survey like that more than toilet paper and tea leaves. The truly horrifying thing is adults thinking the data is real and making decisions.
I read his post which led to this. You should consider reading it, he cites specific examples. I think he had some good points.
Enough with all the web frameworks.
Well, of course, because that statement is deeply incorrect—the described mistake would cause the most recent reading to have more weight.

If you have a set of readings, say, [0.1, 0.02, 0.3, 0.05, 0.08], normally when you average them you would get 0.55—the mean of the set.

Calculating the average by "averaging the new reading with the previous average" would mean new + old / 2 every time. That means that for each reading after the first, your "averages" would be: [0.06, 0.18, 0.115, 0.195].

If we add a new reading of 0.01 to each of these, in the first case, we would get an average of 0.46, and in the second case, 0.1025. As you can see, even taking into account the already-very-skewed numbers, the second case biases it much further in favor of the new reading (which, in this case, is very low compared to the existing readings).
Switzerland is also French and Italian-speaking (and English is becoming the linga franca more and more, as even Swiss-Germans don't like to speak actual German ("Hochdeutsch") and prefer Schwyzerdütsch).
Even if it shall have general application, in all EU countries it is illegal for it have to general application.

There can be no justification for violating the ECHR, and that includes EC directives.

"The High Contracting Parties shall secure to everyone within their jurisdiction the rights and freedoms defined in Section I of this Convention"

The EC can give what directives it wants, but no EU member state may implement it if it goes against the ECHR.
Yep, there's a better "timeline" where Vanguard were the ones to make an app with a super easy onboarding experience, and used gamification to create a giant boom in young people buying and holding boring index fund ETFs (which is already commission-free on Vanguard itself).
NeuReality Launches Developer Portal for NR1 AI Inference Platform
> This is because UK gas prices are given on an HHV basis. Either convention can be used as long as all of our fuel consumptions, efficiencies and energy prices are given on the same basis. Consistency is crucial.

If your audience is global, perhaps consider adding a toggle to switch the efficiency calculation to HHV. Think of it like the °C/°F toggle on some sites and apps.
>The future is still a function of the past

If you don't believe in conscious choice the whole debate is moot anyway.
mLab/MongoLab, which MongoDB acquired when they started to seriously pursue their own cloud offering.
Also, weirdly, it seems that the years following Trump's election, the people in the group did better, made more money, etc. So I'm not clear on how presidents being demeaning to people is relevant. That's not to say it's alright for them to do so, just, seems like a strange interjection when everything else is talking about the data itself.
Interesting podcast on SPIFFE/SPIRE adoption at Uber
I have a secret book with some attached articles and notes that I found in a bookshop.

e: Seriously.. I have the most insider information about this and a bad initial condition due to someone not finding the link makes no one interested to ask about the insider information book that I bought specifically for dopamine hits when someone happens to discuss things about these topics
It is not my impression that debate in most representative democracies are led by academics and experts. Many high-level decisions are not one of expertise in the first place; take the whole business with the anti-smoking bill in the UK: of course you can and should consult experts on the effects of it all, but in the end the decision is not really a matter of expertise.
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I think it would be easier to get some Taylor Swift fans to chew their own arms off than it would to get them to sue her for anything. I've never known a group of people that better fit the word "fanatic" :-)
Former Intel Exec Thomas Lantzsch Joins Canatu Board
I think you are both right? amazon did pause or at least slow building due to WFH, during the pandemic. now WFH is over, but they are still doing layoffs. obviously both are sensitive subjects, but it doesn't make sense to immediately resume large construction projects while headcount is trending downward.

there's one more factor being missed here. obviously they won't say so publicly, but there's a case to be made that the entire HQ2 was as much about calling Seattle's bluff as it was about establishing a second company HQ for its own sake. now that that particular piece of legislation has been repealed, there's not as much reason to follow through on the original plan for HQ2. see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_head_tax
Here Justin Frankel is talking with Paul Davis (the Ardour developer) about... developing DAWs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94rP7lWnnxI
I feel like there is one more level of detail that is needed in many categories of "firepower" and that is the relative age of the platforms. The groupings are just a bit too high level with something like "tanks" or "fighter aircraft" not really being sufficient for any kind of understanding of capabilities. Even if the deeper numbers were even more estimations for some nations, it would still make this more useful.
Do you remember the age ranges of those foster kids?
This comment thread is almost entirely people who think NPR of today is worse than it used to be (with some exceptions for local news).

It makes me wonder if NPR news leadership thinks they are doing a good job? Is there an audience out there that think NPR is doing a good job in absolute terms? It's easy to say they are better than Newsmax or some other outlet, but that's not the same as saying NPR is good all by itself.
it's a good idea but in practice i'm find it really annoying. i typed out the full definition and it highlighted it red and won't say why. does it expect me to type the accent marks? :/ it's also weird that i have to hit enter instead of the line wrapping automatically.
This seems like a great idea, nicely implemented.

Minor bug report: the pronunciation button pronounced Spanish "adaptar" as "ajaptar".
They already kind of did once:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis

It was the turning point in US Iran relations.
She is big enough to build her mega-church like venues, or just rent a mega church. The has way to many of those anyway, so some actual use might come from them. The important thing would be for Taylor and a few others to give the middle finger to live nation / ticketmaster, but like mentioned earlier, its not in her or her labels interest.
McDondalds Hamburgers have always been 100% ground beef. The hamburger in a happy meal is 1/10th a pound 80% ground beef. So about $0.55 worth of ground beef; the bun is $.33, pickle, onion, ketchup, and mustard - $.05 (probably less but I don't know how to calculate), cheese $.15 (I can't find how many slices are in a large block so I estimated). Potato $.25 (again I'm not sure how many potatoes in a fry but this seems right). Soda - $.01 sugar/flavor, $.05 ice (they are selling Coke products not making the soda directly but even still $.10 is about all soda costs in bulk).

So $1.30 if you buy the food yourself and make it all at home from scratch. Add $.70 for a cheap toy and you have a happy meal (McDonald's buys toys in bulk - you can't get toys for that price unless you are buying thousands)

Above prices are what I'd pay at my local higher priced grocery store online - I can get better deals at other stores but they don't have a good online prices to look up.
I think internet was way awesome before digital advertising era. There should be areas of internet which should try to replicate the early internet i.e text-only design, bring back forums and no advertising revenue.
> It this a punishment that is always applied; or used selectively?

Steve Inskeep, a fellow NPR journalist, published a rebuttal on his own Substack[0] to Uri Berliner's article. Considering that Inskeep's Substack is also for profit (meaning people must pay a subscription to read non-public articles), it seems that unless he is also suspended, there is in fact selective enforcement.

[0]: https://steveinskeep.substack.com/p/how-my-npr-colleague-fai...
No, definitely not. The intersection of people who would think to do that, have the skill for it, and the inclination to view me personally as their target is probably zero.
> But your position starts from the basis that we were race-neutral to begin with

No, it starts from the position that race is not the most important facet of a human being's life.

> So without intention you'll simply perpetuate the negative voices.

Almost none of a person's daily life is dominated by racial issues, except maybe people who specifically work in that field of course, and so very little news would have racial relevance. Going out of your way to use race as a lens on every issue is why it's forced.
> Who's the judge of similarity?

The judge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it

The justice system is a computer made out of humans executing written programs called laws. As we've seen from decades of computer vision research, writing out an image classifier in a finite set of symbols is intractable. So instead the justice system queries an oracle (a human) to do the image classification.

Maybe in the future there will be a way to compile a learned image classifier into a set of directions in English and we will have laws that are followed by pages of what is essentially a small artificial neural network represented as an English flowchart, but I doubt it, that sounds dumber than asking a person to do it. You just have to make sure you're picking the right person to do the deciding.
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By in part, you mean < 1%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#:~:text=NPR%20receives%20a....
2 lb of ground beef is way more beef than a happy meal. A kids meal patty is only 1/10 of a lb, you've given enough for 20 kids meals.

The rest of your numbers are similarly off:
- you are giving each happy meal 1.25 lbs of potato!?
- apple serving size is 1.2 ozs - An average apple is 8-10 ozs, 4 apples = 26 happy meals minimum.

You realize how expensive fast food is if you are at all used to cooking at home from scratch all the time.
Have you literally ever been shopping before that wasn't a Trader Joes or a Whole foods?

It boggles my mind anyone can think that fast food is cheaper than grocery store food for the dollar. Its basically on the level of flat earthers to me.
This would be a bug,I’ll check it right away, hope you like the platform
I don't listen to NPR directly, but I think RadioLab and This American Life are generally pretty good. I don't know how much those are NPR as a whole or works by affiliate stations, but they are media that I enjoy, so I kind of see why people would listen.

I will say, though, PBS is generally better. I think Frontline is very consistently excellent.
Get shared hosting.
Great example of how simply allowing a market to exist can result in inequality, compared to if the market were illegal.
For me, the less-complicated client called "DVD" is more reliable for downloading than the client called "Newpipe"; the later stops working intermittently. YMMV.

Neither are as reliable as using own custom command line programs on desktop, or mobile via Termux. If Google makes a change I can fix/workaround immediately. No waiting for app developers.

For me, Newpipe works well as a Soundcloud client.

From the Kotlin source for "dvd":

Video downloader app powered by yt-dlp (formerly youtube-dl).

Features

Download video/audio from 1000+ sites supported by yt-dlp.

Run custom yt-dlp commands.

Update yt-dlp version from settings.

Share link via other apps.

References

dvd - https://github.com/yausername/dvd

youtubedl-android - https://github.com/yausername/youtubedl-android

yt-dlp - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (formerly youtube-dl - https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl)
xooglers.. fixed it
di.fm is focused on electronic dance music. They serve currated 'channels' based on genres (radio style). I've never been impressed with mainstream services when listening to electronic dance music, and I stopped trying; for me, it's better to let someone else do the picking. Sometimes, a local FM station does well; I like my local station c895.org and there was a nice station in Los Angeles for a while when I was living there around 2003, but it got bought by a more mainstream competitor and then format switched to something completely different.

If you want mainstream music, di.fm has a sister site https://www.radiotunes.com/ with more mainstream genres; but listen for a while with the free browser based streams to see if you like it; sometimes I want to listen to dad rock and it's not exactly what I'm looking for. If you enjoy picking specific songs, this isn't the service for you.

They've also got some other affiliated sites for classical, jazz, and rock, which I haven't used in quite some time. It looks like they all share accounts now, but classical used to require separate membership for ad free streams.
WSJ is hilariously biased. It might as well be the financial arm of the NY Post at this point.
> Canada also have horrific city planning, so when I say people need to travel far I mean they need to spend up to 3 hours in some major (major for us) cities just to get groceries.

I can't imagine anyone in a major US city spending 3 hours. Maybe rurally, but even the so-called 'food deserts' in a big city like LA ... it's just a few miles.

At the end of the day, look... my mother taught in inner-city public schools. I know the problems these kids have. They're given meals and such (and they should be), but that is not going to solve a cheating father, a mother too depressed by said cheating to lift a finger to do anything (and maybe whoring herself out or doing drugs to damp the pain?), and a family that sees the child as a cash bag. I mean what are we possibly to do? You give the food and still the child doesn't get it.

I feel these policies end up failing because the policy makers are from whole families (And are likely extremely socially conservative in their own life) and can't imagine anything so debased.
> A good programmer can be good in any language.

But will good programmer be equally productive in all languages?

What if good programmer + good lang/ecosystem = 1.25x productivity of good programmer + worse language/ecosystem?
The real issue is that a few people have accumulated a lot of wealth and property, and they use it as a tool to extract even more money. It's basically the late stage capitalism money vacuum hoovering up everything. In the past the only levers we had against this were breaking up firms and enforcing anti-monopoly and preventing capital from even entering certain parts of our economy. We could, for example, ban private equity companies from buying houses and healthcare companies, break up national monopolies into regional companies, and eliminate a lot of the consolidation that has traditionally enhanced the bargaining power of the company owner against the employees.

In the short term it would make a lot of stuff less efficient, but when people talk about "efficiency" they really mean driving costs down and driving income up. So we really don't want an efficient capitalist economy, we want a capitalist economy that is just efficient enough to meet our needs while not being so efficient that a few people can exploit that efficiency and run away with our things.
> My point was specifically that foreigners who learn "vanilla" German might end up needing translators when they hear some of those dialects.

With respect to that map though it doesn't matter because someone learning German for traveling to Germany and someone learning German for traveling to Austria will learn the same language, so it doesn't make sense to color it differently.

The dialect is something you acquire while being embedded in the region after you already know German
I already have plenty of hobbies, though -- the ones I want to write about on my blog. I don't need self-hosting to be a new hobby.

I would love if I could pay a "gardener" to maintain my self-hosted stuff. My hardware (that's one hobby!), my bandwidth, my choice of non-invasive species (informed by consultation with the gardener, which ones they'd like to maintain), but ultimately someone else does the planting, the weeding, the single sign-on integration, the updates.
> did it actually control and had the capacity to use them

A major worry at the time was that individuals in Ukraine could sell those weapons and the know how to the highest bidders.

It wasn't an unlikely prospect - China, Pakistan, and India all bought defense IP from individuals in Ukraine during the collapse of the USSR and before post-Soviet states governance were formalized (eg. China and India can now manufacture Aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, and turbofan jet engines because of IP they bought using questionable methods in Ukraine in the 1990s)
> radicalised, far left, activist .. Her social media history is just crazy.

I looked this up. Apparently she once tweeted that Trump is racist, and posted a photo of herself wearing a Biden hat.

Just crazy.
Dragon Range (e.g., 7945HX) is a laptop/mobile workstation Ryzen with up to 16 cores, but power inefficient compared to the 8000-series due to the chiplet design. Already in market, mostly in gaming laptops.
Ok, we've put that in the title above. Thanks!

If someone has a better (i.e. more accurate and neutral) title to suggest, we can change it again.
I always find it on the nose when “diversity” is used to mean “aligned with modern leftist political ideals”. That’s just not what that word means.

If NPR wants actual diversity (of opinion), they should consider tracking the political affiliation of the people they interview in their database. But in my experience, DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) never seems to include a diversity of political views. I find that very suspicious.
> Ironically, the more that a news organization pretends this purist ideal of unbiased news exists, the more biased it becomes in its effort to hide its natural biases.

Strong disagree. You're saying that the more someone tries to be unbiased, the more they end being biased? This seems like an excuse to embrace bias and push a narrative. I've never agreed with that regarding news.
Not sure why I got downvoted for that. It seems only rational that private actors may want to privatise and buy any public service that is profitable. Because private actors seek profit.

Now many times I don't think it is a good idea (why in the world would one privatise public transports? "Public" is in the title...), but that is another question.
Kind of true, and very false.

Don't think of "bias" as a boolean. Think of it as a real value between 0 and 1.

You can't get perfectly unbiased. (I actually think I agree - you can't.) But you can get more biased and less biased, and the difference really matters.

Was Walter Cronkite perfectly unbiased? No. But he tried. Was the result better than, say, Fox News? Yes, it was.

There was an editor of the New York Times who, recognizing that his reporters leaned left, deliberately leaned the editorial stance of the paper somewhat to the right, in order to keep the results closer to neutral. He literally had "He kept the paper straight" put on his tombstone. The results were not perfect - they never are - but they were better than the results of "bias is inevitable, so we won't bother even trying" (which quickly transforms into "bias is inevitable, so we might as well run with our biases").
The binary model of political alignment that you're perpetuating isn't accurate and doesn't help. There are 300M+ people in America and their feelings about issues and politicians are all over the place.
If anyone is interested, here is Frankel's personal blog → https://1014.org/
Ha, except, to go full circle, then if you're using that legal definition of a "gift" requiring a transfer of ownership, it's clear that open source software is not actually a gift, because there is no transfer of ownership.

You can't have it both ways! If it's a "gift" in the colloquial sense of something freely given, then it breaks social convention to claw it back, but it is not illegal. If you want to use the legal definition of a "gift" - ie. for tax purposes, implying a transfer of ownership - then contributions to open source software are not at all a "gift" in that sense.