skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wish I could say is the goodness of my heart, but is honestly out of guilt and boredom.

It's good to be self-aware enough to recognise this. If you're privileged enough to be able to afford yourself a sabbatical or if you belong to the 1% the best use of your time if you want to give back probably isn't to volunteer for a local cause.

At best it's only a drop in the ocean. At worst it's a self-serving effort to absolve yourself from the 'sin' of privilege.

If you're well off one way to help is Effective Altruism ( https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ ), particularly the pledge to give: https://app.effectivealtruism.org/pledge

That isn't to say that helping others around you by putting in time and effort isn't a worthwhile, rewarding endeavour but one probably shouldn't trick oneself into believing that by doing so one automatically has made a considerable difference.
I failed my first driving test for similar reasons! In fact, driving is the elephant in the room when it comes to common stressful activities. Even if you follow the rules, not everyone else will and you always need to be ready. In addition, the stakes are high... Lifetime odds of dying in a car crash are 1/102 (source: https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-o...)
Apple to Australia: “This is no time to weaken encryption”
Somebody promote this guy.
I could probably write a book on this subject!

In interest of keeping things short though I would just say this:

1) You are young, so young. You are much younger than you think you are. When you hit 56 like me you'll realize that.

2) Keep a positive, problem-solver mindset. In the words (roughly) of Henry Ford "If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you can't".

3) Go for a walk daily (30 to 60 minutes) and get 8 hours sleep a night - not negotiable.

4) Keep reading, keep learning.

5) Travel. Pick somewhere that will surprise you and try and live there for a while. I lived in Thailand in 2003 and it changed my life.

6) Worry less. You won't get out alive anyway.

7) Stay frugal (read Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin).

8) Watch "The Sunscreen Song - 10 Year Tribute (Everybody's Free)" on YouTube! Great advice!

In many respects my 40s were the best years of my life. Good luck!
This is a common misconception. A lot of role-model bootstrap startups got a small, but crucial, investment at the beginning to focus on their endeavor without to worry about bills all the time. A famous one is Basecamp (https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-deal-jeff-bezos-got-on-baseca...).
Any wave that can be modulated and detected lends itself to data transfer, in principle. The question would be how practical it is.
You’re asked to provide dinner for a family of four. (In) What situations would you decide that dumpster diving for leftovers is not a good choice?
The technology hype cycle over the last decade has been pretty disappointing. I was promised by now, I'd be 3D printing my sneakers, spend my time killing zombies in VR, and paying for DLC with crypto

Of these, only VR seems even remotely close to reaching its original promise
"You should've just used Oriental country."

Among North Americans and perhaps native English speakers elsewhere, the term "Oriental" has been increasingly taboo and claimed to be offensive for decades now. I am not sure whether this is entirely down to Said’s Orientalism, or if opponents of the term have other grounds, but often saying “oriental” gets you a scolding these days and an encouragement to say “Asian” instead.
For me it's about creating a personal connection and telling a good story. I dunno I just have a belief in my ability to do that from past experience.

This is new territory for me though, so we'll see.

I'm not in the US on, so I don't play the whole unicorn game. I imagine that's a whole different ball game.
The FCC consent order they signed in 2012.
I’ve never believed this idea that we will all be somehow teleconferencing with AR goggles in the near future.

Primarily because I think a lot of teleconferences end up being a waste of productive time but also why would I want to see AR repsentations of people also with their faces covered with a HMD? The solution is a digital avatar of them which is equally daft.

/grumble
Really well written article, especially as someone who is interested in the topic but not an expert.
I'm not sure what makes you think commercial endeavours are less susceptible to human frailty than government.

The problem here is not which type of organisation holds the data; it's the fact that individual humans are involved in using it.
With GDPR, you actually MUST inform government institutions within 48 hours when personal information is leaked.

The penalty are potentially very hefty fines. (up to 2% of annual revenue, IIRC)
Scribble's styles might have been touched by Matthew Butterick, whose online-book “Practical Typography” may IMO be the most beautiful site on the whole web, owing to the masterful application of fonts and margins: https://practicaltypography.com/

(The list of MB's commits is not telling much, but Flatt having written the foreword to MB's other book “Beautiful Racket” is more suggestive.)
Wow, really succinct comment and you seemed to sum up a lot of what i'm feeling re: this whole thing.
Why is 1.6 billion in relief for a hurricane placed in an aviation bill?
Where does mathematics come from? Good question. How about a not so satisfactory answer - we like to make sense of the world around us and we also have the ability to map the world around into patterns.

With that, we try to put what we observe into some possibly useful form. Now those attempts at making patterns can take a number of different forms, of which one is mathematics.

In the case of mathematics, we create axioms as a basic framework on which we build the various mathematical edifices that we use. We have applicable rules that are used and from that people come up with all the various fields in mathematics that exist today.

However, as part of a challenge that I accepted some time ago, I am finding that everything we use in mathematics is but a map of reality and not reality itself. No matter what mathematics one uses in whatever area one uses mathematics, it is only an approximation to the reality around us. When the rubber hits the road, our mathematics often fails us. Forty years ago, one of my engineering lecturers advised all of us students at the time that though mathematics could give precise answers, reality had a penchant for not being precise at all, as in, there is much variation in the physical mediums in which we would work. Always treat all mathematical results obtained as only being approximate and design for the worst case scenario.

Every map in existence is but an inaccurate description of the observable universe. From the very small to the very large, from the very simple to the very complex, mathematics gives us a possible way of inadequately describing what we see. Though, in its inadequacy, mathematics provides a means of studying and manipulating the universe around us from which we can get useful results.

So we have all sorts of interesting technology and science with which we manipulate our environments.

The problem I see is that there are those who attribute an unwarranted "honour" (I suppose) to mathematics without stopping and seeing its limitations and that it is a tool which we have created or invented so that we can make sense of the universe around us. Studying the Metamath system is interesting for me in that by using some very simple rules we can build all the mathematics of today.

What I find interesting in your last paragraph is that you, yourself, seem to make the distinction between reality and mathematics, which would indicate, at least to me, that you recognise that it is but a tool created for a use and not something that had a pre-existence that we could discover. However, I may be completely misunderstanding your argument at this point.
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Proper training, required. That person presumably is legally liable as they've breeched the providers security by giving information; and maybe given away PII.
I'm not sure it would've been mentioned quite so often if these guys had also been a barbershop quartet in their spare time.
I think side projects can make a difference if it's relevant to the business that your applying for. For example, in college I did a lot of Amateur Radio and was part of a club there. I did a lot of Amateur Radio related things, building circuits, programming microcontrollers, etc. This helped me get a job at a Radio company working on SDRs. However, I think a lot of my ability to get that job was because I networked a lot with the recruiters.

Side projects aren't the be all end all to gainful employment. You need to use your network to build relationships and engage with people you know that can help you get employed.
Thankfully, Google exists. Let me help you:

https://www.google.com/search?q=political+correctness&ie=utf...
The point is who will not say they dislike something defined to be a pejorative?
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Since "PC Culture" is primarily intended to protect minorities, that shouldn't be surprising at all.

Bear in mind that any working democracy has to actively protect minorities, because otherwise it would decline into a tyranny of the majority.

Edit: There was a bit of a misunderstanding here, I'm afraid. Please see me other post about it. In a nutshell, you need to take the actual victims of discrimination seriously or have a lot of empathy, otherwise it will be difficult to judge the many arguments for and against some particular form of PC.
A lot of people are still under the impression that using Heroin daily has extremely damaging physical effects along the lines of a serious meth habit. A lack of education about the issue is what leads to this kind of outrage, ime.
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How is this easier or better than using Lets Encrypt?
You might not in the top 1% of devs but probably in the top 1% of your country. Also by being near Amsterdam you are already in the top 1% of the world.
You do realise that heroin is still used in hospitals all across the world on a daily basis for routine surgeries. A company is making and selling that heroin.
YC has always sound to me like something very odd and very wrong (invest on a few to get a lottery winner). It is also so much boilerplate mumbo-jumbo startup lingo. I like to talk about business, not unicorns, valuation, lean startup, etc. This approach is much better and sounds right. Every startup counts for a healthy ecosystem. Looking forward to the next steps.
In the UK, "Asian" means people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.

In the US it seems to mean Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and a few others.

As for "Oriental" it's not universal that it's offensive. It's not used much in Britain, due to there not being a lot fewer Far Eastern people than Indians.
Your answer is condescending and you failed to even attempt to understand what the study said.

Just because you managed to Google ONE definition of PC culture, it does not mean the people answering the study poll had the same thing in mind. Which is a bit of problem for methodology and the result itself. Especially in such a wide social topic like political correctness.
That's like saying "this study of people saying they like the red colour is worthless because they haven't defined what the red colour is"

PC has one definition, but of course you can make up others
"Political correctness" is almost always used as a pejorative. So saying that surveyed Americans dislike it its about as surprising as saying that Americans think racism is bad in principle in surveys - it does not mean that Americans don't on-mass practice it even if in principle they violently oppose it. The only "political correctness" people identify is the language of their political opponents.

Political correctness is most often used as a criticism of the politically sensitive language used by different groups. As a very American example, you just need to look at the terms "Pro Life" and "Pro Choice". From the perspective of the opposing groups "Pro Life" amounts to "Pro subjugation of women at the cost of their individual health and political power", and "Pro Choice" amounts to "Pro infanticide sinful hedonists". Both groups have significant political power in American, and wielding that power they demand respect behind these "PC" labels.

Political correctness isn't new or some kind of distinct ideology, its an exercise or attempted exercise in political power to shape the language and outcomes of our politics. Its our basic civility and the structure of power. What is new maybe is the pace of social and political change of the past 100 years that has made people notice the exercise in new political power more often.
Law is a bit like programming. Imagine reviewing commits to a vast codebase on a tight deadline.

This feature seems to belong in a different package. It should be factored out. But the code builds, and rejecting the whole pull request would delay shipment.
What's the state of this file system? Is it in the Linux kernel? In some BSDs? Both the main page in the FAQ talk about "the kernel" without saying which kernel it is.

How reliable is it? Are there file system checkers for it? Does it support snapshots?
I feel like you're making a pretty big assumption here: that people care or want to think about the details of these types of jobs at all, let alone do anything themselves.

Part of the reason why a plumber or mechanic is so expensive is that you're buying not only the solution to the problem, but also your own time and energy that you would have spent thinking about and implementing that solution.
I haven’t read the article but as someone who has suffered from generalized anxiety (primarily manifested through hypochondria) for a vast portion of my life, I can conclude most definitely yes.

It’s hard to pay attention when your mind is telling you that you need to go to the hospital for some random reason at all times.

For the most part I’ve learned to keep it in check. But it took 30 years so it greatly affected my learning years, I believe. I also always make sure to carry around Xanax just in case.
Since "PC Culture" is primarily intended to protect minorities

I am a minority. No it isn't. It is simply one faction of the dominant caste using us as pawns in its war on another faction.
Another thing about snake plants is that you can cut a few inches of a leaf off and plant it. Within 3-9 months or so it will sprout some new shoots.
It looks like SIGKILL too, now.
a) please don't publish it here (it's an arm board) and b) no, those are not Lispworks screenshots
In my experience as someone who started and ran a small business for a few years now- entrepreneurship carries a lot of risks. Financial, social, and emotional. If you have a business background or previous professional experience with a valid business model - in that you can just execute building a profitable business from the get go and delegate the parts needed - you're set. But if you don't have capital or experience delegating, it can be a very painful process because you are now responsible for everything from hiring/management, operations, finance, product, etc.
Apple opposes new bill by the Australian govt that would weaken encryption
I agree it would be nice to have a clearer picture of what anti-PC folks think of themselves as being against (and what pro-PC folk think of themselves as being for).

However, it's also useful to know people's feelings towards a phrase _without_ defining it, to understand what they feel about the term as _they_ interpret it. This gives a sense of the political atmosphere surrounding a term, which can be just as important as what the term actually means.

This isn't how things would work in some "ideal", perfectly rational world; but that's politics for you.
Personal Computer is probably what most people think, especially here.
> PC has one definition

And definitions are never complex, multifaceted or problematic, eh? Thank goodness language is so simple and clear.
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That first link is pretty inapplicable - the numbers it shows are total fatalities and total accidents since 1945, not scaled for population of the country, not scaled for the quantity of air travel (in a time range where, especially early on where air travel was least safe, there were vast regional differences in wealth and frequency of flying), and over a long enough period that it doesn't really reflect the current reality.

Your second link is exactly the same kind of anecdotal BS you're complaining about - a list compiled by English-speaking editors on a Western-centric website of pilot errors they've personally heard about.

Discussion with actual numbers is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18206505
Inability to apply enough force to the brake pedal at the right moment.
I think it might actually be worse, because the govt is constrained in collecting some data, but they can query company databases where it is collected (either on a fee basis or a third party record search). This is the case with the cell phone location database in the US.
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I'm also from the rest of the world but what you are saying doesn't match my reality.

In every flight I find plenty of people (myself included) that don't want to check in baggage, due to mishandling, possibility of loss, delays at the destination, and/or problems with connections. So even in airlines where you get a checked bag with the ticket, I regularly see all those things you say don't happen. Maybe it depends on which part of the rest of the world. I'm from Spain, for the record. At the Madrid airport you will see plenty of people queuing at boarding gates half an hour before they open. Most Spanish airlines even have a paid "priority boarding" option to board first, so people very much want to get into the hell tube sooner...

It's true that all of this is amplified for airlines that charge for checked luggage, though, so I'd rather they don't charge even if I don't want to check in myself. Competition for overhead space gets absolutely crazy when they don't charge.
There's an article from 14 years ago that I remember to this day, mainly for the immortal line "RSS 2.0 is incompatible with itself": http://www.diveintomark.link/2004/the-myth-of-rss-compatibil...

It goes into some detail about the various RSS incompatibilities and is well worth the read, because RSS never really got any better even afterwards.
attempted exercise in political power to shape the language and outcomes of our politics.

Manipulating language doesn't really work tho', because everyone understands what's really meant. As an example we all actually know that a "full stack engineer" is just a webdev, and a "senior" one probably only has 2 years experience.

I mean back in the days of client-server, you would have developers do a GUI in Delphi or Visual Basic and also write the SQL to run on the server, and noone ever bragged about being "full stack" back then, it was just a normal part of the job. In the early days of the web the same people would write the HTML and the Perl CGIs and no-one ever used the term "full stack". I was there.

It's baffling why people even try these tricks because they're so transparent and in fact only hurt their own credibility.
WhatsApp and other messaging apps have practically killed sms for personal one on one communications. The only thing still prepping up SMS is the bulk messaging such as notifications and marketing.
This is really interesting...

... so I'm really a bit bewildered and sad by some of the engineering choices they made along the way, like requiring a modified kernel: https://github.com/oscarlab/betrfs/blob/master/README.md#com...

The reasons are detailed just above that link target, but are somewhat absurd IMHO: they modified the kernel's `struct task_struct` to pass error values, rather than fixing one of their libraries to handle its own error values. In return, nobody ever gets to use this without patching a kernel (which is, by the way, so ancient of a fork at this point that Forget It).

I know it's unfair of a random internetfolk to complain about the engineering choices of a project like this, I'm sure I don't know the influences and tradeoffs first hand, etc, etc, but... Ow. I would've tried this.

But not on a 3.11 kernel fork.

I hope someone can take all the awesome research here and get it to veer towards something slightly closer to product.
Apologies. I should have been more clear.

I don't like any of it. But the interplay back and forth of nations doing horrible things like this to the other citizens is what has created all of these international norms in the first place. We don't want the Iranians grabbing people off the streets of DC and killing them in their embassy. We shouldn't do it to other countries.

I agree with you. Once we started doing it, then it's okay for everybody and there's no clear delimiter of what's okay and what's not.

It's not okay. This is the reason we're supposed to declare war before we use force overseas. You can't continue to do this semi-war thing for very long.

My only point was that in reality things aren't perfect. That's fine. If the Soviets kidnapped some person from Nevada and tortured and killed them in 1960 it was a horrible thing. But the international order continued. It continued because we had established norms. Countries knew that if they had to do things like this, it should be hidden.

What happened after 9-11 is that we've systematize a lot of things that should be done by exception-only. And now we gotta go back and re-learn why all of those norms were there in the first place.
If you were I've of the unlucky ones then check your security data at banks and any other place that has financial info, or ability to spend money (Amazon, etc.).

More important is perhaps to warn less savvy people to be vigilant about phishing attempts.
The minimum income to be in the 1% in the United States is $421,926. That seems highly optimistic to say that most HN'ers are in that category or ever will be.
It buys you more time when the engines fail and you turn into a glider. If structural failure occurs, it just takes you longer to fall to the ground.
Did you read further than the title though?

"Whites are ever so slightly less likely than average to believe that political correctness is a problem in the country: 79 percent of them share this sentiment. Instead, it is Asians (82 percent), Hispanics (87percent), and American Indians (88 percent) who are most likely to oppose political correctness."

"Three quarters of African Americans oppose political correctness. This means that they are only four percentage points less likely than whites, and only five percentage points less likely than the average, to believe that political correctness is a problem.

If age and race do not predict support for political correctness, what does? Income and education."

"Progressive activists are the only group that strongly backs political correctness: Only 30 percent see it as a problem.

So what does this group look like? Compared with the rest of the (nationally representative) polling sample, progressive activists are much more likely to be rich, highly educated—and white. They are nearly twice as likely as the average to make more than $100,000 a year. They are nearly three times as likely to have a postgraduate degree. And while 12 percent of the overall sample in the study is African American, only 3 percent of progressive activists are."