skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inclusivity is one of those things that you just have to do, and not talk about. I sincerely hope the irony of excluding this man in the name of inclusivity is not lost on the crowd. What a mess.

I think more people would do well to practice the tolerance and acceptance that they preach. As a gay man, I've run into my fair share of loud mouthed, biggoted people, who say incredibly mean things about me without realizing that they're affecting someone in the same room. A good deal of my friends are Christians, and a good deal of my family is as well. At least in our churches, being gay is considered quite a heavy sin. Somewhat intuitively then, when I came out to my family, I was simultaneously declaring that I would no longer be a part of their religion.

And you know? We didn't fight about it. They understand my limitations, and I still love them. I'm still friends with my Christian friends, and I'm still on great terms with my family. We disagree on certain things but that's OK, because they've learned to see the good in my unique outlook on life, and I've learned to understand the love tolerance that their Jesus teaches, because I watch them practice it every day. We've learned to accept one another, despite our differences.

Inclusivity is not hard, but it starts with avoiding conflict. You're going to have to tolerate that which occasionally offends you, and learn to let it go. Learn to love people despite their flaws, because goodness do people have flaws. We're not perfect. Nowhere near it. But all people still have some good in them, and it's worth making the effort to see past that which you dislike to appreciate the human being underneath it all.
Go check the price of JAWS.
By your logic anyone making great is just doing that for PR.
Pumped full of chemicals/hormones when farmed at alarming rates, often mislabeled e.g., Tiger Shrimp not being the real deal
It may sail through months long ABX test.
Not TillE, but I suspect the point is you can exchange data with Lua tables just as easily as JSON and because you would do it by just embedding the Lua interpreter you can also send Lua functions around with the data and/or process the data in Lua before making it accessible from the actual program.
I'm guessing even the hardcore Victorians would consider this whole thing "a bit much".
Who says a lot of that previous physical world won't return? The Gods of the Copybook Headings and all that?

E.g. how long can the US Federal government continue to borrow "a trillion dollars a year" to fund continuing operations? Not forever, I submit to you.

(And, yes, I know it's dropped to around half of that, but there's no plan to drop it further, and that's not counting things like the Fed keeping interest rates so low.)
I wonder if it's possible to increase readability or fun factor or programming code by adding animations. Like an evaluation to color highlighting. I'm sure you will hate the idea but is there actually any R&D in this area?
As a horse owner, I see teens who don't use phones very much. They all have smartphones, and some even have riding breeches (traditionally pocketless) with smartphone pockets on the thigh. They make and receive calls, and they text, but they don't use their phones much unless communicating. They talk to each other, the adults, and the horses. It's the total opposite of the nearby Starbucks near the high school, which is full of teens quietly looking at screens.

Some of this is situational awareness. Everyone who spends a lot of time around horses is very aware of what's moving around them. You have to be, with thousand pound animals capable of moving fast all around you. Giving all your attention to a small screen is dangerous. Horse kids don't do that.

Some of the inattention may be an overparenting thing. There are kids who seem to have no sense of self-preservation or threat awareness. They've never been in a situation where they had to look out for themselves. I've seen this at barns when non-horse kids visit. They don't even notice the huge animals moving around them and
get in the way. That's just dangerous. Send your kids to a horse barn, or dance class, or martial arts, or a bad neighborhood, so they get some survival skills.
I don't really see much of a problem here in the example linked, except that some people sometimes move a little too fast towards loaded exclusionary tactics with talk of sanctions against some poor attitudes - an easy thing to do when one is inexperienced with moderation (I believe I am qualified to comment on that due to having almost 15 years of experience with online moderation in various communities in some fashion). Otherwise, they exert good patience in the comment threads in response to some with not well meaning intentions with regards to having a productive discussion. A productive discussion would be to try to assist in coming up with a good balance in terms of being inclusive of those who have legitimate concerns with certain tone/terminology/etc. and those who don't want to appear too stifled in terms of having to be overly watchful in what is said to avoid undue public shaming for an accident.

These sort of social problems don't have unilateral solutions, so the sooner that is recognized by all parties, the better the end result can be.
You don't seem to be aware of it, but the Norwegian model is frequently criticised as being too severe.

There's probably some court case about to happen to protect the rights of children because the Norwegian model is too severe.

Here's one example of international concern about the severity of the system: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36026458

Those parents hit their children, and so the parents need punishment for that bit of abuse, and the children need to be protected, but that protection should not be removal from the family because that's a significant interference with the rights of the child.
SJWs
Some highlights:

"terminology sensitivity"

"host may be insensitive, use presenter, entertainer instead"

"disabled may be insensitive, use turned off, person with a disability, people with disabilities instead"

"psychotic may be insensitive, use person with a psychotic condition, person with psychosis instead"

F--- that.

You guys are psychotic....er, people with psychosis.
Or have a feature phone with no Bluetooth.
I believe that inclusivity is important.

I believe that speech should be moderated to make the tech community more welcoming. Not as a matter of law, but as a matter of civility and culture.

I believe that we can and should have a discussion about this without implying that the other person is mentally incompetent.

So if that's how you define a troll, then I'm proud to be one.
Maybe doing charging through a data connector wasn't such a good idea after all.

We need more dumb inductive charging. And no, the charger does not need a data connection.
They really need to have a "rental car mode" in the infotainment center that provides a good UX for not leaking user information.

I've seen TVs with a "kiosk mode" option that do things like disable channel switching.

My most recent rental car (a Dodge Caravan) had a USB port on the center console that mounted the phone as a USB drive for media playback.
LGBT activists tend to deliberately exaggregate this number to increase their perceived importance. If you have a political ambitions then you'd better represent 5% of society, not 1.97 %.
These types of issues come up a lot in well-meaning organizations. What they don't realize is: "You an include the most people by having the narrowest platform."

So if you're a "privacy technology" group, anything not related to privacy technology should not be part of your focus.

Ever Civil War, for example, has two (or more sides). Now the Tor group has to pick one. If they were simply interested in privacy technology, they wouldn't have to.

You see a similar thing with Codes of Conduct, or "inclusiveness" initiatives. Why can't a Python conference be about Python and only about Python?
I completely agree with this. I use YAML as a way to write structured data that may be serialized into JSON at another endpoint (mostly because JSON is much more universal and what does it matter to me how exactly my data is serialized by another machine). I know of its other features but haven't found the need to try them, yet every security hole those features make possible ends up limiting the acceptance of YAML.
In the list of recommended articles this image pops up:

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*TvRN5dsh-PlvHyS7a3...

linking to this article:

https://medium.com/@CloudCityIO/fostering-diversity-and-incl...

With the tagline: Want to Change the Technology? Focus on Inclusion and not Diversity.

Which tells you everything you need to know about "inclusivity". It's just the latest name for "let's get a representative of each positive label to be the most positivest of all".
If you're not going to be a user anymore, then what's the point in reversing the client anyway?
Despite being a nice readable language if you use it right, the spec is rife with disgusting features and nasty surprises.

This was my attempt to cut out 90% of the crap, leaving the nice, readable core (which maps on to JSON pretty neatly):

https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml
> non sweet food

'savoury'?
Maybe it's because I live in a country where I am not afraid of the government and see the state of the US Vs. countries here in Europe where having a firearm is prohibited; I just don't get it. It feels the same like telling a 3 year old it's not allowed to handle a chefs knife on their own, but it gets mad because dad said it was OK, it will get mad if you take it way because someone said it was OK before, even though it's not the smart thing to do or in the best interest of the child.
When you are the dns root record and in many cases hosting too for some 60-70 million domains, someone in the internet is wanting to attack someone at godaddy all the time. There isn't a time they aren't being attacked somehow in all reality, and I'd presume it's much the same for Linode.

The means of really combating a ddos is costly and extensive, this is why most use a service like prolexic or silverline, and typically with some massive infrastructures that comes with it. Anything less than n-by 40gb disposable internet pipes, preferably regional as you are, you can/will be smited at will.
It's also managed by someone who thinks RC4 is a reasonable choice for a modern crypto application. No thanks.
While in principle I agree with you, I think at a certain level people need to just learn how to deal with stuff that offends them. I hear things that offend me on a regular basis, including inflammatory (and absurd) remarks about people I care about and groups I am a part of. At the end of the day, I just brush these speakers off as assholes who don't know what they are talking about and go about my day.
APT-X is a proprietary codec that performs far better than the original bluetooth audio codec & can be used for things that said codec really was’t up to. (It also includes a lossless mode for the audio purists amongst us.)

Modern bluetooth devices can also negotiate various other codecs as part of the A2DP spec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bluetooth_profiles#Adv... including mpeg3/mpeg4 encodings but only SBC is mandatory and it seems to be impossible to tell what codec any particular Bluetooth audio device is using on any platform: I’ve not seen anything that will tell you what it’s really sending over the air.
> This kind of shit is also why you see people like /r/the_donald

I'm not sure if you just referred to a subreddit as a person, or referred to a ridiculously famous man by the path to the subreddit about him?

Either way, wtf.
Well but then that mangles the symbol names, which would make programming a pain.
> The part of this article that highlights what Douglas Crockford did to get him removed from Nodevember is fine. A bit boring, but fine.

But that is the important part though. He got removed because he used words like "promiscuous" and "weak" ? How can anyone think a group behind this kind of censoring is a good thing?
It is sad to watch the Tor Project implode. While it in no way impacts the project as I was a very very very very minor user of Tor in the first place, I have removed any and all installations of Tor from my systems, and will no longer donate to or support them in any way

Tor has lost their mission, which should have been Privacy above all else.

Today they seem to be more focused on Social Justice, and less about privacy.
Maybe the idea of communities in tech should just go away. People who share similar ideas on tech should just get together to share those ideas without having to setup a bunch of arbitrary rules and gatekeepers.

Some brilliant people might also have offensive ideas. Why not have a system that allows that brilliance to shine through?

The larger problem here is that these are not communities of hobbyists. Saying something silly or having someone misinterpret what you are saying within the community could cost you your living. Crockford will be okay because he is already well established, but what if he wasn't as well established?
I've sometimes contemplated creating Offence-as-a-Service. If these groups can't find the precise thing they want to be outraged against, I'll provide them with the exact thing they want to be outraged against to build their political platform.
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"This success in the skies above London, which saw him awarded the Victoria Cross just 48 hours later, was due to a mixture of the 21-year-old's own bravery, an improved
defence strategy and a revolutionary flammable bullet."

I've always found it interesting how you virtually never see stories with this sort of tone or content (using positively charged words like "bravery" or talking about military honors) from the BBC about soldiers on the German side, unless they were effectively acting on their side.

Similarly, you virtually never see articles detailing the lives and "bravery" of Vietnamese soldiers, or Iraqi soldiers in the US mainstream media.

This is understandable (if not excusable) during the wars themselves, when censorship and "patriotic" pro-war sentiment is rife, but now, decades after those wars, it's interesting that the taboo still holds strong.

I'm sure there were many "brave" and interesting people and actions to write about on all sides of any war, considering the number of people involved and the historical drama of the events. But you really only hear from the mainstream media of these countries about the "bravery" and "heroic" actions of people on their own sides.

That may vary in Germany, considering the collective guilt many Germans feel over their country's role in WW2. So stories of "heroic" Nazis are probably not very prevalent there.

On the other hand, considering the allegedly unrepentant and arguably revisionist views of many Japanese about Japan's role in WW2, there may be more stories about "heroic" and "brave" Japanese soldiers still told in Japanese mainstream media.

I don't read enough German or Japanese media to say, though it would be very interesting to know if my guesses about them are right.

It would be similarly interesting to know how many stories of "brave" Iraqi soldiers are told in the Iranian media, and of "brave" Iranian soldiers in the Iraqi mainstream media, etc.

Because of this tendency, people who rely on only their own country's mainstream news to paint them a picture of what happened during that war tend to get a very one-sided and incomplete view. I personally see this as a great failing of the mainstream media to educate and inform their viewers and listeners on history. They could be doing a much better job.
I think OP means foods that aren't classified as "sweets" (candies, cookies, cake, etc) also have sugar. High carbohydrate foods like pasta, bread, tomato sauce, all metabolize quickly to sugar, which acts on insulin levels in the same way "sweets" do.
Probably unhelpful sounding and possibly verging on overzealous but my general rule now is if it's in a packet and tastes good, it's probably over-indexed in any combination of fat, salt and sugar.

We have evolved to seek out these flavours as some time in our biological history, food and energy were scarce and we needed a means to efficiently target energy and nutrient-rich foods.

Nowadays R&D labs in food companies are testing the optimum combination of these flavours to exploit our most base of instincts tied to survival to keep us addicted to their products.[0] As long as food companies measure their performance with profit (which depends on volumes) they have a vested interest in getting us to eat more and not act out responsibly. For them not only is injecting fat/sugar/salt extremely effective - it's also extremely cheap.

Until we have even stronger guidelines from government and more encouragement for companies to sell healthy food, I don't see this problem going away - we regulate gambling, tobacco and alcohol yet food seems to have so far passed-by under the radar.

For now, cooking seems to be the safest way to stay healthy. For people who are looking to cut out fat and sugar from their cooking, spices and herbs are a great way to get great taste - chilli, garlic, onions, ginger, basil, lemongrass, lime and lemons are great sources of flavour that are pretty good for you!

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)
If you don't mind me asking, what experience did you have?
How can "host" ever be sensitive? I'm struggling to find a meaning of it that'd be problematic in any context.
It's so stupid. Obviously you'd have the espresso machine in a central location and deliver the product by drone, not haul the machines around. Idiots!
brainstorming: Make async calls appear like it's on the way and make hot code restless maybe it will reduce cognitive load and help write better code. A global variable would be like hey look at me
Weasel words. What exactly is "safe" and "friendly"? What exactly does an "unsafe" project look like in the context? "Friendly" is practically entirely subjective. And frankly, I can make an argument that for group over certain size, the only way "friendly" is a goal would be a censored-ridden groupthink environment. People are different, and like it or not, they are not gonna be friendly toward one another.

Note that the opposite of "friendly" isn't just "hostile" or "animosity". It could also just be "respectful" or "professional".

Oh hey, if I am playing the twist-your-word game, that goal could be rewritten as: "Increasing inclusivity means making the Node.js project a safe and unprofessional place for people from diverse backgrounds."

When they are excluding someone (Crockford in this case), they are excluding people. And the onus is on them to prove that this will be more beneficial in the long run. The bigger problem is that for those feel-good org and goal, there is no accountability ever, and it seems like they are externalizing a lot of troubles to the larger community who doesn't care much about their cause.

Finally, I don't care about their stated goal: sounds like a witch hunt, acts like a witch hunt and you can't stop me from questioning your goal.
A bowl of cereal and a can of pop and you're way over the budget. If you then add some processed food, you'll consume even more sugar.

Even seemingly harmless stuff like baked beans, pasta sauce, or toast contain quite a bit of sugar.
Holy tamole you're not even remotely kidding about this.

I spent several weeks working on a project that had to pass an accessibility audit. Came in partway through, spent weeks getting things to pass (and there were false positives with their scanning tool). Finally we were 'done', but we then learned that just meant the next step of the audit, where they'd use JAWS to pick random app screens and 'just see how things work'.

They worked horribly. But... I didn't have JAWS to test against. I used the company's one license of JAWS on a remote desktop (everything had to be remote - we were not allowed to pull the code local at all). JAWS installed, then died. Wouldn't really work on remote desktop properly. Used NVDA - that worked (awkward, but it worked). Spent days trying to 'patch stuff', and it made everything worse under JAWS.

The 'solution' was "make changes, then email someone at company X to run it through JAWS, and they'll email back what it said, then you can fix things based on that". That was really their solution. Project was put on hold shortly after that, and it was sunset a few months ago (after ... literally millions of dollars poured in over several years).

One of the big lessons from that - build accessibility in from the start - you can't arbitrarily graft this on years later and expect anything to actually 'work'.
> It's a real shame when anyone at the first stage overdoses and dies.

Yeah, it's bad for business. Good consumers must sink all their money and all money of their relatives to drug dealer, drug clinics, etc.
I read only the beginning of that discussion. One idea that came to my mind is that they are really looking for a strict linter that do not allow many custom options, something that approaches the strictness of Crockford's JSLint, perhaps.

It was really difficult for me to understand that nodejs (internal?) source code could be that offensive to anyone to require this level of PC commitment, and I am not even a WASP...

It is also quite ironic that they do it on GitHub.
And when they say they want "critical thinkers" what they mean is that they want people who can criticize their coworkers while thoughtfully praising their managers' foresight.
>Well, it basically came from some very vocal bullying from “inclusivity” folks, incidentally also a part of the Node.js inclusivity group.

The problem with "inclusivity groups" is that they have to find work for themselves -- even if that means busywork.
A bit of a technical question about blind people, especially birth-blind people. Does the spatiality of the screen cease to be a factor? How do they "visualize" internally a computer interface, especially a GUI one? Thanks.
Persistence modules for the invesdwin-context module system
Because the criteria for paywalls are publisher-dependent, and can involve reader's country, IP range, referral source, browser history or some quota of free articles available per month. Articles from sources with extremely restrictive paywalls (ft.com, nature.com) just don't get many upvotes, so the problem is self-correcting.

Alternative solution would be to link to a paywall-free blog post rehashing the contents of the article that includes a token link to the original (huffingtonpost.com or businessinsider.com), but HN's policy at this point expresses strong preference for the original.
I think it's because it's a word that used to be "gendered" (in the correct use of the word gender). There was "host" and "hostess."
It's gender-specific (male).

The female counterpart is hostess.
If you stick the language agnostic core, yaml is great.

We use it for:

1. test case specifications we use for unit tests suits that must run across multiple languages.

2. DSL for business processes
This reminds me of the privacy concerns surrounding printers/copiers, which can hold onto sensitive data after you or your organization are done using them [1].

This also begs the question of how secure these "infotainment" systems are in the first place. Physical access to individual cars' data histories is relatively limited, but if these connected machines are remotely accessible then the resulting attack surface might be scary.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/cop...
I'm pretty sure they are paying their taxes. To pay the minimum allowed by law is their fiduciary duty.
"Reuse" of SSNs is not a 'leak' of privacy by government. They're not the ones giving SSNs to whomever asks.