skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's hard to take that objection seriously, though. His pen name and his real name are already strongly linked in search engine space. The only thing that will change as a result of the NYT article is that there will be additional scrutiny of his ideas.

"strongly linked" is doing a lot of work. They're linked in that if you're a tech professional, you can figure out his last name with five minutes of dedicated digging. A casual searcher would not make the connection without knowing it beforehand.

> I also agree that protecting his patients and his business is something he should have seen to, but it is a problem he should have addressed six years ago, not after building a minor media ecosystem around himself, including books, published articles, and con appearances.

Kind of victim-blaming, but yeah, he should have used better opsec six years ago. That boat has sailed. But what's the public benefit of the NYT outing his real name? The public costs are clear: primarily hurting a provider of healthcare services and secondarily making it more dangerous to entertain even slightly heterodox ideas in public.
The next post about the relation between LessWrong itself and conceptual engineering is up too: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8GiTowD6XqTNzgCz7/situating-...
I don’t support bailouts of mismanaged companies, and I do think that sending money directly to the people helps substantially. A company not doing well during COVID-19 isn’t necessarily because they were poorly managed. Giving people money, and also keeping companies afloat helps on two fronts. People can survive now, and people still have a job to walk back to once this is all over.
Perhaps it was because you were pointing the finger at others while manifesting obvious prejudice yourself. (The comment originally read "Is he also".)
IE11 is still an OS component and can't be uninstalled. The running of it can be disabled, but it's still needed by various programs.
Cherry picked whataboutism is really boring.
You believe censorship works?
That seems like a reasonable threshold? I should feel like this is a forum for nuanced discussion so long as nobody seeks to harm me personally? I hadn't even thought of that, but now that you raise it, I think I'll sign off.
Incredible book. Got me building simple neural nets out of 74AC240s rather than code before it was cool. Plan to build a 5 motor walker yet this year for old times sake.
Countries that criticized or defended China's security law for Hong Kong at UN
If it didn't work, no one would be opposed to it.
The founding population is 90% of the battle, and it's far narrower than people who _claim_ they want high-quality discussion.

To say nothing of the burgeoning portion of the left for whom the existence of open-mindedness anywhere is an affront and actively seek to change fora that don't conform to their narrow worldview.
Rebel Wisdom’s community has been gaining momentum for a couple of years, and particularly the past few months.

Its subject matter is somewhat different to the rationalist theme of SSC, but there is some crossover.

RW explores what they term the “crisis of meaning” in the modern world, the decay of institutions and social cohesion, and the challenges individuals face through trauma, mental illness and alienation.

Their forums on Discord and Google Groups host ongoing discussions about ways of overcoming these issues and finding a path to a better world.

It has a less materialistic and more spiritual ethos than SSC, so it won’t be every SSC exile’s cup of tea, but some may find it appealing.

They’ve done some excellent interviews with a broad range of folks including Gabor Mate, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jordan Hall, Eric Weinstein, Brett Weinstein, Heather Heying, Douglas Rushkoff, Stanislav Grof, Diana Fleischmann, Ken Wilbur, Iain McGilchrist, John Vervaeke and Charles Einsenstein.

https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk

https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW
Appreciate the article, but a few points I feel are off the mark a bit:

> But despite his killer getting fired and arrested, the protests became more violent, more destructive, and more divisive.

A lot of rioting and violence came in the early days, even before the arrest and murder charges. The vast majority of protests were peaceful. And this seems to insinuate that the protesters and rioters were the same people, which I don't think is a widely held belief.

And maybe the protests are about more than just the murder of George Floyd... If this was an isolated incident, maybe expectations of a quick return to civility would make sense, but it's almost like people (including white people) are tired of this happening.

> If you aren't posting #BLM, you’re racist. If you ARE posting #BLM but you say it in the wrong way, you're racist. If you're white and you're silent, that's violence. If you're white and you're speaking up, you're talking over black voices and only they should be heard.

Maybe this is several folks trying to take the culture wheel. The debate is messy right now and that's OK. It's a messy topic and people are tossing out their ideas.

If you want to post #BLM great. If you don't that's fine too. I'm glad we're having a conversation about it even if it's just to simply say we're all confused.

Props to the author for sharing her views. If folks take issue with what you've said, don't sweat it. And if you're looking for other folks on direction on how to "do it right", you're looking in the wrong direction.
You need to realize that no one (edit: except some, but not all, of the people you hire) will look out for your interests. If you are in California, the local government is set up to protect existing residents from people attempting to move in.

We bought a fixer-upper. After the sale, we found were discrepancies between what various people told us and reality. It ended up costing us 50% of the price we paid for the property.

The property was obviously distressed, so we knew it was a risk.

The seller, and, separately, the seller‘s agent withheld information, the home inspector found stuff but said it would be easy to fix, and the county permit office flat-out lied to us about our prospects to fix things up.

After we spent six months figuring out how to play by the book, the planning office added a further delay of construction of over six months by processing permits slowly.

For no good reason, PG&E probably won’t hook up power until well after we are ready to move in.
favicons should be SVGs and done with it. This is really insane!
I'd urge you to read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23719797 and its replies. I think that's a misleading sentence, because BLM, etc., are absolutely irrelevant to the substance of the complaint about her posts.
The moderation system seemed well designed, especially the meta-moderation idea, but I stopped bothering with Slashdot years ago because it didn’t seem to be working. Specifically, too many useless or trivially incorrect comments were modded up to +5, so that the moderation system was almost useless in helping you find worthwhile comments. This was because the moderators were simply too gullible, modding up absurdly wrong and useless comments whose authors had figured out how to mimic an authoritative voice.

EDIT: [because the above might seem vague]. I’m not talking about opinions that I found worthless because I disagreed with them. I’m talking about 500-word essays about how red speaker wires give you better stereo separation because of quantum mechanics, modded up to +5. That kind of thing.
that's not cancel culture, friend. keep trying.
My 38 yo healthy coworker died from it. It's not just the elderly at risk.
Holding an equity stake in a freelancer's earnings is a very common form of slavery, including slavery in the American South.
No, I was making a point with a bit more depth to it than that. If the point you're trying to make is that both sides are guilty of mob cancel culture, then you don't need to. Nobody here is pretending or claiming otherwise. Your comment is just another example of jumping into partisan politics for absolutely no reason.
First thing I looked for was JSON.stringify and yep there it is. Gonna be limited to databases that are V8's maximum string length, which changes every once in awhile and I believe is currently 2^58 (bytes). You may say that no JSON-based database should be that large and might be right, but still.
Respectfully, that's missing the forest for the trees and isn't the point at all.

Nothing happened here just because she went off on some random rant on Instagram.

If that was the whole story, we wouldn't be talking about it right now.

Rough Example: Imagine your CEO forced everyone to take paycuts and work during Christmas while they posted pics of themselves on the beach and didn't show up to the office that week.

That CEO wouldn't lose trust because they posted pictures on the beach. The pictures or social media isn't the point. It's something much deeper.
You haven't been to McDonald's in a while it seems.

$5-8? At a food truck? The ones that make burgers of an extremely varied quality?
blink Yes it does. That's the defining characteristic.
Taiwan did not lockdown and minimised the economic impact by not acting like a pack of muppets in office.
i've said since early 2015 this new breed or uber-progressive liberal is just the new fascist. oh wait sorry, you're a fascist if you vote for trump, i forgot.
This is a valid point. Cancel culture cuts both ways, and I find it unacceptable in either direction. The one claim I'll give conservatives is that they did not say they fired him over this it was a lack of performance. I don't buy that story, but there are nuances that show the different tactics conservatives use for canceling things.

I do not support what happened to Kapernick, I don't think cancel culture is any better when disguised as something else. But the scale at which things are happening now is insane.
I trust that that's true and appreciate it. All we can do is each work on this.
Chromium Edge includes IE mode, which uses the Trident engine to render the page:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-mode
QI is purely about the civil side. People currently win civil suits against the city for police officers' actions, with settlements coming out of taxpayers' general fund rather than anything affecting the miscreants. Ending QI would make the officers personally liable. Indemnify means the city agreeing to pay all damages suffers by the officers, and would mean essentially restoring the conditions we have now.
If your employees are so unaccountable and the work they do is so untraceable and often neglected, then there’s a management problem.
There's like 10 different types of burgers at McDonald's, excluding specials
BEAM the VM seems like a great platform for BEAM the robot design philosophy. :-)
You're still free to write whatever you want, no one is taking that away. However, just because you have something to say doesn't mean that I or anyone else has give it the time of day.

I am also free to respond however I'd like, and in some cases there may be many more people that share my opinion rather than yours!
Those are more like "allocating the stack in the GC nursery" than they are "allocating objects on the stack." They store the actual chain of function activation records as GC objects, and only "pop" the machine stack as part of running the GC.

C2 has two separate spaces in memory- one for the stack and another for the GC nursery (and the rest of the heap). It pops the machine stack when a Java function returns, and clears out the nursery as part of running the GC.

The difference is that the C2 approach to managing the stack (shared by C, etc.) loses some flexibility to increase performance. When the machine stack maps 1:1 with the call stack like that, objects that are allocated on the stack incur no GC cost- they are always freed automatically on function return simply by moving the stack pointer, never kept alive and promoted, the way they can be in Chicken Scheme's approach.
Big difference between open sourcing an Atom clone vs a browser engine and operating system. Microsoft only open sources the minimum to try to attract developers away from Linux and get them working in a Microsoft bubble.
I'm on W10 with the latest Firefox, Chrome and Edge.

Edge is the ONLY browser that doesnt consistently freeze my entire computer (and require a hard reset) when I watch Netflix. I have no idea why but its a common issue if you Google it.

For that alone I am glad Edge exists.
Id say the stance on platforms is stifiling free speech.

Private companies should not be able to moderate speech and claim to be a platform.

You're either a publisher or your not. If you're a public platform, your users should be protected by public laws.

For rhe most part the current state of affairs has worked so far but i would suggest it hasnt for some and is starting to show its weaknesses in a more polarized environment.

For the downvoters, this isnt some new opinion of mine because of the talking points from trump, ive had this view since the torrent debates of the early 2000s and other similar situations with people like snowden.

If you disagree because with what i have to say, please explain.
Again, how exactly do you propose that "get a message when CTRL-V is clicked" would work with:

- raw keyboard modes (in which an application gets input straight off the keyboard because it wants to do its own keyboard processing)

- graphical context menus (user clicks on a paste button within the app, or even uses a voice or other control - how does the application communicate to the OS "my user wants to paste"? Or does your back-of-the-napkin fix require users to only use devices with keyboards and only use the keyboard?)

Amongst other technical considerations. It's almost as if pretty much every major OS/windowing system has ways of programmatically accessing the shared clipboard for a reason.
It's far more than free speech being killed. "If you're not with us, you're against us". "Silence is violence". Remember Pol Pot? If you're not a revolutionist, then you're counter-revolutionary.

That said, isn't this logical under the moral framework of our political correctness? You're either correct or you are not, after all. It's a binary decision. If you're not correct, why do you insist staying incorrect? If you do, of course you're a bigot, a racist, a xenophobia, a fascist, or an evil person. So, all conservatives "should be jailed". All republicans "are evil". A black police is a "black Judas", as yelled by a protester. A group of protestors can trespass private property, and the property owner is public enemy no. 1 if he stands in front of his house with a rifle. Residents in Seattle CHAZ have nothing and "should not have nothing to complain" because CHAZ "is Summer of Love", and because "personal loss is nothing compared with fighting justice". Really, there's really no boundary under the current moral framework of the US progressives.

And isn't this what we really want? All the media I read or used to read, be it The Atlantic, the WAPO, the New Yorker, the NYT, the NBC, the CNN, the ABC. They all tell me that we should brace such moral framework. We should join such progressive movement. We should ditch law and order when a nation is hurt and sinned. We should examine what we believe and cancel what's evil. See, if "math is racist", what else is not?

And really, isn't this what we choose? We chose to vote Kshama Sawant, for instance. Then, it shouldn't be a surprise that she led hundreds of people to break into Seattle City Hall, and why is it a surprise that she or someone leaked the mayor's home address even though the address is classified by law?

Either we have a better moral framework, or we probably will have to accept what we have now and more in the future.
This is getting very close to the Universal Language that Umberto Eco describes in his book The Search for the Perfect Language. I wonder what he would think about this if he were alive today...
Also, the way Chrome got on most people's computers was originally some pretty dark patterns. Two wrongs don't make a right, but Microsoft isn't alone in this constantly escalating grab.

I'll be honest, I think most popups with user information are useless and annoying. The majority of people think "I didn't ask for a pop-up" and click the x without reading, not even knowing what cancel does.

Despite normally thinking "info" popups do more people bad than good, completely stopping all os interaction for a full screen "the blue e is changing to a wave" is absolutely necessary. How many people only know the internet as "the blue e" or "google"? After 25 years of a blue e, it's a staple of computer interaction, one you can't just quietly yank away.

With old edge going away, they obviously have to ship a replacement.

The fight between these companies to be set to default is ridiculous, and they are both abusing their positions because people can't be depended on to know how to undo a defaul protocol handler change. Microsoft's "are you sure" pop-up when trying to change your default PDF viewer, should be illegal. If you're in the menu changing it, is not the time for a weird passive aggressive manipulative popup.
But. But, it's also not good for Microsoft to just cede full control to Google.

It's also a bit ridiculous for people to be conflating pinning an icon to a taskbar with violating people's privacy. If you know what it is, un pin it. If you don't know what edge or new edge are, the pin is probably useful.
Removal of PC culture will be seen as a weakness and a concession so it's not going to happen. It has been going on for so long, that parts of the spectrum of opinion have stopped caring about the mainstream. There's a lot of silent minorities that have just left - and removal of Cancel Culture won't bring them back. The concept of Voice has been abused to toxic levels, and some groups have simply chosen Exit (E.g. isnt it interesting how the reddit , the frontpage of the internet, has been left devoid of right-of-center economics?). What's going to happen is that more groups will choose to Exit, bringing the end to mass mainstream culture
I started a filament brand based on developed at garage tech:
https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

I feel really good knowing that I am competing with others who are using machines made by real engineers and also I get free filament for my hobbies and money from which I am able to buy more machinery and tools than I'll ever need.
Cancel culture is completely unnecessary for the examples you gave. Supporting slavery was essentially unutterable long before cancel culture existed.
> Culture cancels abhorrent ideas

My issue with cancel culture, is that social media and the general "outrage culture" has magnified beyond all proportion, what constitutes an "abhorrent idea". Slavery and child labor is a very different level of abhorrent to "I prefer my sexual partners to have vaginas" (which is not abhorrent at all to any sensible person). This article is calling out the latter. This isn't about saying society should tolerate every single possible opinion there is to have. It's about bringing back some common sense to discourse, and not allowing the mob outrage of social media to dominate our society.
Yes, this. Bullseye.
> There are only a few code bases out there that are massive enough that compilation time on a modern machine is a major impediment to productivity.

Depends upon what you mean by "major impediment to productivity". I think someone like Bret Victor would argue that if your feedback loop is greater than a couple of seconds, you're toast.

From that perspective, _the majority_ of _all_ codebases are an impediment to productivity.

https://vimeo.com/36579366
Ok, I’ll err on the side of not saying this kind of thing, however I note that simply ignoring the conversation so far and making an assertion that is clearly contradicted by an earlier commenter’s personal experience is at least as much of a violation of the spirit of decent conversational standards as expressing mild frustration at such behavior.
No, of course they wouldn't. You or I would, sure, but a regular user is pretty much conditioned to accept whatever to make the page load.
Here is one way to think of it:

I think of the US invasion of Iraq as probably the biggest strategic mistake in the world since some WW2 decisions. It's arguably the start of the end of the US super power era.

Was there a particular adviser we can blame for that?

Maybe Cheney? If it was more of a unified team decision, it doesn't fit the question.
I am not anti-protest at all and actually support the BLM cause. To be honest I have nothing to gain from taking any side anyway.

However, I am very concerned that not posting something can now be seen as a bad thing. It used to be that as long as you don't post "bad" things you'll be fine, now it seems that you have to post certain things (potentially contrary to your interests, opinions or the primary purpose of that particular social media feed) otherwise you'll be labelled as a "bad" person.

When does it end? Does not having any significant social media presence on which to post this stuff now also make you a "bad" person?
That's the most liberal reading of a statement I've heard in a long time.
Same discussion at same link.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23717964
Yep, of course their solution to that problem is equally terrible
It's more like 'Minimalism ended up the same position we had before it* , Finklestein's research programme was a bust and he can't admit that'.

* Basically: We have no archeological evidence for Exodus and conquest. In fact, what we have doesn't seem to match conquest at all. However, once monarchy and actual government sets in (around David's time), we get bookkeeping and the record is accurate once one takes into account the significant authorial slant.
> 130K Covid deaths is like 3 or 4 years worth of flu deaths, which no one really cares about?

That's one way to put it. Another is it's already more American deaths than total in WWI in just a handful of months and we're not over the biggest hump yet.
> One thing I'm doing from the start is removing voting entirely.

What makes you think this is a good approach? I strongly suspect that voting (as it clumsily currently exists) was essential for HN to get to where it is. Are there examples of other communities that have accomplished what you want without voting?
Agreed, but it starts to be a public interest issue when real harm is done to people, such as getting them fired.

I also think there is genuine psychological harm being done by mobs online. This is not so hard to see in other contexts, where it would be called bullying or harassment. Consider the cases of high school students publicly informing on their peers and denouncing them. Unfortunately, for political reasons people are trivializing that right now
and acting like it's no problem at all, just everyday communication and no one has a right to expect different. That's ironic since I assume most of these people would say that they believe in a politics of empathy.

I also think that, contrary to a common objection, there is a genuine free speech issue with denying access to the social media platforms which have grown so large as to become de facto standards for public communication. It's popular right now to say "it's not a free speech issue because they're not the government". But Facebook, Twitter, etc. are the public squares of our time. Private institutions that become that large and monopolistic begin to encroach on the public sector in importance, and it's too legalistic an argument to say that doesn't count because e.g. the first amendment only applies to the government.

Those are three areas that go beyond just expressing disagreement with someone, and have elements of actual harm in them. Also, all three are escalating and the logical next steps are worse.
Too many Elon Musk posts. No thanks.
Boycott Facebook