skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on the situation.

Sticking with the hiring situation, if you notice that a recruiter only ever recommends hiring people with say the last name Pandit then ask them about it. A lot of times people are not ashamed of their views and will just straight up tell you that they could tell the other candidates were inferior because of their name.

But as somebody else mentioned, there is no silver bullet here. Racism varies from instance to instance. A solution to fix racism in hiring isn't going to fix red-lining. You need to be keeping an eye of things and looking for patterns that don't make sense for the given sample size.
> over being called 'racist' by hateful strangers

Straw man [1]. You're the only one in this thread levelling this charge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
> This is a weird hill to die on for a billionaire

But that's the thing, it's not a hill to die on for him. This is simply 'anti-woke' virtue signalling intended to show his alignment with the growing right-wing sentiments that seem to be a backlash to certain perceptions of the American left-wing, without really contributing anything novel to the discourse. To me, this 'anti-woke' sentiment is as much of a mind-virus as 'wokeness' supposedly is, and it's a convenient distraction from many of the underlying issues that the 'woke left' actually care about.
> that whole "Latinx" thing which seems to be nearly universally reviled outside of US

Well, there are a few things to clear up:

1. Latino is an American word that's only useful in the US to summarize people south of the US in Latam. People in Latam don't use the word since that grouping isn't otherwise useful to them.

2. There definitely are Spanish speakers who do use the -x or -@ suffix like "tod@s" and "todxs".

The mass confusion between these two facts is responsible for most of the discourse you'll read about latinx.

Americans don't understand that #2 exists. "Woke" Mexicans, for example, do use the -x suffix.

"Non-woke" Spanish speakers think the -x suffix is dumb in their own language. But they don't represent all Spanish speakers.
It seems this is America's version of the resource curse. I suppose something must be done with the infinite sugar our farms generate?
> The left isn’t talking about “wokeness”.

They are (or were throughout the 2010s), but they have a way of talking about it where they do it, but then claim it doesn't exist if anyone tries to give a name to it. So "wokeness isn't real" is a popular way to say "wokeness is real and I think it's good". Sometimes this is called Voldemorting.

I personally think it's good but also think it's real.
The answer is that sugar is addictive _and_ suppresses satiety.

The Bliss Point [1] is a well-known factor in developing food products, and when you can reach it with a high amount of sugar, you generate a food or drink that people find delicious but aren't sated by (i.e. they still feel hungry), which makes them eat/drink whatever it is in greater quantities. This becomes a virtuous(?) cycle for the producer because people will then buy more.

Another classic technique is adding salt to beverages (check the salt content of Coca Cola for example). Salt is designed to make you thirsty, which makes you drink more of the beverage. The reason Coca Cola (as an example) doesn't taste salty? It's been saturated by all the sugar.

I highly recommend Dr Robert Lustig's talk on sugar [2]. While it's an old presentation at this point, most of the content is evergreen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
it is GREAT time to slowly get into the consulting side of our industry. there will be so much mess that I think there will be troves of opportunity to come in on a contract and fix messes. there always was but there will be a ton more!
I provided a link to the first quack because it showed the nature of what I was talking about: a "positive" education on quality, namely what to look for.

One can digress into arguments about Levi's or nit pick any particular website/video all day.

But quality is just one factor, and if locally produced goods were of inferior quality to imported goods, it might be still be preferable to buy domestically produced goods.
You're saying that the heretics will be suppressed?
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Politicians do not belong in curriculum discussions unless they are content area experts.
> This does not increase the cost to ISPs.

> It does marginally decrease their profits.

Right because they wont claw that back when all ISPs are also suffering the same fate.
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Much harder to install a key logger or other such shenanigans.
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PEP-8 says 4 spaces. No one should be using tabs.
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It's not just the USA. Vietnam and Turkiye use lots of sugar in non-traditional foods while Thailand has included palm sugar in even their traditional foods for as long as I can remember.
So you a re proposing to manually manage all transitive dependencies?
Well said. It surprises me so many people don't see the danger inherent in anointing 'fact checkers' who are supposed to adjudicate some objective "truth" around complex culture war issues along with the power to suppress other viewpoints.

Free speech isn't free. We pay for it by tolerating speech that's unpleasant, uncomfortable, wrong, insulting, offensive or hateful.
Percentage means everything, and yet here we have two things which obviously have different sodium content per mL and yet have the same %DV.

The percentage DV isn't telling you how much of the food is sodium, it's some reference to some "ideal" diet and food intake.

If the percentage of the drink was the same, the larger serving would have a higher amount in milligrams. But despite being almost 240mL more it has fewer total milligrams of sodium! .13mg/mL (US), the other is .24mg/mL(MX).

Is .24 == .13? Which is a bigger number?

So repeat after me, the %DV is meaningless. It's not telling you what you think it is.
> Personally, I think the issue is mostly about behavior, and not specific ideas. "Let's all make an effort to move culture in a better direction" became "If you don't wholly endorse these specific changes we've decided are necessary, that makes you a bigot, you're not a true progressive, etc.".

> 2. Those who would actively judge/shame/label you if you weren't 100% up to speed on every hot-button issue and hadn't fully implemented the desired changes

Who are you talking about? It seems to me that you are using very general and broad language so avoid having to defend any specific points. Who exactly shamed you and for what? Give some examples. Who exactly are you paraphrasing with "that makes you a bigot, you're not a true progressive"? For the record, my experience of left-wing politics (two decades+) is very different from yours and I haven't noticed the phenomena you speak of. In fact, left-wing people are generally open to divergent ideas and will debate them ad nauseam.

That's the boogeyman. People on the left are generally very tolerant of diverging ideas.

You are using quotation marks so you must be paraphrasing someone, right? If so can you give some examples of this phenomena?
Hmmm maybe I should re-read A Fire Upon the Deep.
NGL 3DO Blaster (and NV1 Stuff to an extent) is a good call out. I also almost listed MPEG cards but I think they had various industrial uses (maybe?)
The political coalition there is "people of color" - the point of this was to fight anti-black racism by making a unified group containing them and everyone else who was "not white". This is an improvement over the previous system where groups like Italians/Irish became white by being anti-black. (or were thought to have)

Activists then forgot this was the point and changed the name to "BIPOC" to de-emphasize half the "POC" group (the ones who aren't "BI"), but the whole point was to keep them in the group.
Even if that's a concern in a doomsday scenario, self-hosting gitlab is super easy and a good (some would argue better) alternative.
Doubtful we could build it, get everyone signed up, rebuild audiences, and monetize it for the company and users and not be Meta or Musk before the 19th.

It's lower friction just to switch to something you already know.
Right. Which underscores my point that awaiting a culture change is not a formula for progress.
Not the parent but some actual practitioners. A change is based on the gut feeling, and it's usually correct, but the internal politics require to demonstrate impartiality, so an "A/B test" is run, to show that the change is "objectively better", whether statistics show that or not.
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There's a guy on X named Gad Saad writing a book called "suicidal empathy". I think this term captures it better than "wokeness".
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> though I don't know how it works. It's called a "12v trigger."

THX introduced the trigger port to allow one amp to start other amps. Before that amps would have a 110V passthrough socket.

THX trigger is a mono 1/8th inch / 3.5mm TS plug. Each device usually has one 12V in and a 12V out. While it's on, it'll output 12V at up to 30mA[1]. Due to current fluctuation and the low max amp it's recommended to use an opto-electronic isolator at the input.

THX originally introduced it to allow for home cinema surround. At the time commercially available amps only supported 2 channels, so the first THX systems had one receiver decoding the dolby signal, providing a line level output that you'd connect to multiple stereo amps. Due to the currents required the 110V passthrough wasn't an option, so 12V trigger was born.

Before 12V trigger existed the IR/Remote port, which allowed you to connect an external IR receiver to TVs, VHS recorders and Amps. This used the same plug, but would modulate the IR remote signal directly.

You could also use this to connect multiple devices and allow them to send remote control codes to one another. But that feature disappeared quickly due to limited compatibility.

In computers 12V trigger and remote ports inspired the I²C based DDC standard for VGA monitors, which allowed turning them on or off or changing settings. DVI and DisplayPort kept DDC as is, while HDMI expanded DDC into the CEC standard, which also allows controlling volume or sending media controls in a standardized way. Nowadays 12V trigger is mostly being replaced by HDMI CEC.

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1. Some devices support up to 80mA, Sonos even provides 100mA
Spoiler: it won't help much.

Liberalizing zoning and taxing land would do more to improve housing affordability.
It’s a company that makes speakers. Unbelievable that it can have such value to be able to be listed on NASDAQ.

My Google Home costs $30 second hand, don’t sound as good, but I’ve not spent a single cent on it after setting it up. What is SONOS doing?
wow, somehow you jumped to some next level conspiracy garbage more extravagant than the rest of the comments. 20 million people participating in protests was not a “state sponsored attack”
> In January 2021, CNN wrote that Howells "has offered to pay the council a quarter of the current value of the hoard, which he says could be distributed to local residents."

Perhaps if he had offered to pay in advance...
> What about when the "prigs" were right?

I think the big take away is that being right via a lecture doesn't do anything.

If you are morally right, and your aim is social justice, you should stop lecturing people, because it doesn't actually achieve what you are aiming for or really even advance the cause (in fact it may run backwards).

Instead, go out and do something. For example, defer typing up that long comment about how [x] is right and [y] is wrong, volunteer for some community service. Build shelters for people who need it. Offer pro bono services to marginalized groups.

If nothing else, simply live your way of life and out compete the people who were wrong.

But that 1000th internet comment you posted, even if it was "right", it didn't make a single lick of difference. So ask yourself why you really put it up.
What's their ranking on SWEBench?
> That explains why Musk and now Zuckerberg are so happy to throw away the last concept of accountability that society tried to create in the last decades.

This is only a tiny part of the reason.

The main reason is that fact-checking works so well against the right, and has almost no benefit for the right.

Why?

Because almost everything the right says is a lie of one kind or another, but almost everything the left says is either mostly or wholly grounded in fact.

So “fact checking” is an almost useless tool for the right, since it rarely ever contradicts what the left says. And yet, the right can get very severely corrected by fact-checkers with almost everything they say.

Musk and Zuckerberg are killing fact checking because they NEED misinformation to carry the day. Because if we truly understood how badly the Parasite Class were bleeding the Working Class dry just for a few extra thousandths of a percentage point of wealth accumulation, we would all rise up and bring out the guillotines to dispose of them once and for all.

Misinformation is the way they control the working class.
There is not actually a need to choose between a single centralised monopoly and going full-on techno-prepper and running all your own services in your garage as an individual . We could have intermediate points, such as having services run by professionals but based on portable open standards.
I'm not a fan of Floyd at all. Garner was the far better martyr for that cause.
Pauly G. such a fortunate one. Just a defensive old white man. Not a good look, son.
So you missed one more: religion. If you were going to reappropriate the internet into existing - I take it that you mean, human - structure, then you might as well add religion here too. There have been no other factors beyond religion and national geographies, that have bound humans at a larger scale. IMHO, this is/was not the original intent when DARPA unleashed Internet beyond it's laboratory. Sure, we can reappropriate as we move along. But there is no precedence of a promised land here. The nation-states and/or religions have been at wars since the beginning of time. What's there to prove that a technology like Internet (throw AI of the future into it) would make things better for human nature to adopt. Just because we can scale does not mean that we may be scaling to something better.
And a `git remote add name url` and you are setup to use another remote server.
As a beneficiary of sequestered municipal internet. We need this or co-ops. I have the best internet for a LONG way in any direction.
Pronouns are pretty useful when you have a lot of Chinese and Indian coworkers and don't know what to call them by their names. People from HK tend to give themselves English names, but mainland Chinese I know don't.

Of course that's not their original purpose and they aren't very fit for their original purpose. (it's to include trans people, but trans women don't want you to ask what their pronouns are, they want to be addressed like women.)
They're very generous toward citizens, and they're very stingy with who is called a citizen. They're all filled with modern-day slavery in the form if indentured servants.
Speaking only as myself, usually when I find myself having the scrolling problem the function/method is crying out to be broken down and refactored anyway.
What if AI companies control the government, like they do in the US now?
"paper" value does not simply translate to material value, and when it does, it is simply inflationary.

Imagine every company cut buybacks and raised salary 50%. There would still be the same number of hamburgers and houses, and the same number of labor hours would be required to produce them. As a result, you would simply have an inflation on the order of 50%.

There would only be more tax and circulation in a nominal sense, not in real currency.
Once in a blue moon? It’s like, monthly at best.
ok fine, ill thank the nerds in that case.
Yes yes thanks
Maybe if you change that to "armed bodyguard services employ ex KGB assassins"
We is my employer.
> There is no situation in which adding foreign money results in more houses for locals

Assuming fixed supply, yes, it's (probably) a zero-sum game.

> eliminating the ability for foreigners to buy materials for renovations will move the curve intersection down to a lower price and volume

Assuming a frictionless market and no economies of scale, yes. In reality, you'll have a smaller set of options for locals at a slightly (but not dramatically) lower price. (Again, for an example look at all the markets foreign investors shun.)

> will be fewer renovation crews, because some crew will not be profitable at the lower rate, but more crews working to renovate houses for Spaniards

You absolutely cannot conclude this from first principles.

You make valid points. They just need to be followed up with data. The systems you're talking about are too sensitive to generalise like this.
The limitations of tokenization does not stop with LLMs it seems for bob.

Please don't down-vote the kids karma, as for me it is more important people feel comfortable having conversations (especially when they are almost 99% sure I'm a turnip connected to a USB port.) =3
Firmly? Come on
>I don't quite get how Americans love sugar so much.

It's not that we love sugar so much (we do), but it's in just about every processed food. Go to the grocery story and try to find boxed food without some sort of sugar in it, it's a chore. Even spaghetti sauce has it.

"Subway, eat fresh?" Ireland classified their bread as cake because it has so much sugar in it.

https://www.eater.com/2020/10/1/21496848/irish-supreme-court...

As another poster mention, add salt and fat and you break the satiety mechanism in our brains.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/02/26/172969363/ho...
So I've driven Route 50 between Tahoe and Placerville a few times. Many of these times the weather has been quite bad. Many of these times I've had to wait for hours while an accident was cleared, or 12 foot snow drifts were plowed.

When I'm traveling in mountain snow, I'm always very neurotic about prep. AWD or 4x4, water, chains, food, emergency kits, etc ... I always assume I could be stuck for 24 hours or more.

In the meantime, I am constantly shocked by how many people make this trek with little or no respect for how deadly snow can be. The worst of it is when it puts others in danger: I'll never forget seeing a front-wheel drive sedan repeatedly driving up, then slipping back on a steep hill, while a line of 20 cars waited behind it.

Part of it is just not knowing (I grew up in the east coast), but part of it is just human nature to not understand some things to be inherently dangerous. Snow and cold looks so serene, but cold in it's various forms has killed many more people than heat.
The fastest energy change in history continues
I found the same. It's impressive how much bluesky resembles twitter, but I'm not sure if that's a compliment.

On Mastadon I find much smaller circles, but much more engaged.

I think bluesky is winning at discovery. If I want to feel the pulse on a topic, bluesky is winning. If I'm not even aware there's a topic that I want to feel the pulse on, bluesky is winning. But I think mastadon has been successful at curating a very different 'vibe', and I appreciate it. So I catch up on mastadon first, and then doomscroll bluesky if I need to find work for idle hands.