skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an unhelpful exaggeration to suggest that speech is being suppressed in the conventional sense that the threat or use of coercion is being employed to restrict speech.

But we care not only about whether debate is suppressed. We also care about the quality of debate, the culture, values and practices through which we engage with one another in the public sphere.

The concern over 'cancel culture' would be, I think:

(1) certain arguments are beyond the pale of legitimate debate

(2) those arguments should not be engaged with, or their proponents persuaded, but should be met with opprobrium and abuse

(3) we can safely infer that someone has a malignant character if they make an individual statement which is considered illegitimate

(4) if someone makes an illegitimate statement then we should ostracise them, deplatform them, and agitate their employer to fire them

Obviously 'cancel culture' is internally varied, and this list presents some of its worst aspects, while ignoring what can be said in favour of it. But my point is that we can reasonably argue over several of its features. The problem as I see it is how to criticise unreflective and exclusionary discourses, while engaging in debate, persuading rather than abusing, avoiding heavy-handed retributivism, and thinking for ourselves.

It is also worth asking whether cancel culture is more of a problem online that it is offline because it is encouraged by the design of several platforms, most egregiously Twitter.
I don't think immigration/multiculturalism is the cause of that (though maybe it’s an accelerator). The world is homogenizing. Travel to any city in the developed world and all coffee shops, fashion, etc look the same.
Ohio state lawmaker calls for people to stop getting tested
I still remember the inconveniently tall keyboard templates (e.g. https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&q=wor...) for WordPerfect to tell users where all the function were. Give me the ribbon bar anyday.
> Speech has consequences and hate speech rightfully has more consequences.

And you define what "hate speech" is and how severe the "consequences" are supposed to be. If you feel that something that was said about you is hate speech and you feel that only beating up the person would be an adequate consequence, then by all means, go for it?
>you people

what is this ambiguous group you speak of?

>Offensive Without Consequence

is being offended a protected class? why is the "right to be offended" more important than the "right to offend"?
>As well as people not being able to get the necessary treatment due to hospitals being overloaded, the study authors also speculate that people may have stayed at home due to the virus despite experiencing worsening symptoms of another condition they may have had.

OK, I read this as two separate things that should not be described in the same "35%" statistic.

In the former, the virus caused hospital overload specifically due to rising cases of the virus, or virus-related exacerbation of underlying disease.

In the latter, people's perception of the threat of hospitals, which were hotbeds for the virus, caused them not to seek treatment in hospitals.

Case #1 is attributable to the virus. Case #2 is indirect, but I'd argue that those same people would have also been somewhat impacted given that A) it's possible the hospital they avoided was overloaded and B) it's possible the hospital they avoided was a hotbed where they could have contracted the virus. There's also that C) they could have received successful treatment, but how can we measure that? For (A) and (B), the outcome was still death.
When you mention it that way, a one year trial seems like a really good way to smooth out that drop rate. It takes a while before people notice that recurring charge.
Furthermore, a lot of that overhead are people like social workers and so forth. Even if one accepts the principle of reducing means testing and so forth, is it really the proposal that everyone gets sent a check once a month along with a note that basically says "You'll get another one next month. Until then you're on your own. Enjoy."
>> require an internet connection... in order for multiplayer to work

Failing to see the problem here.
Yes, new devs get to choose laptop or desktop (err, at least before quarantine they did...), and their choice of OS. We're probably 60/40 macOS/Windows. There might be one developer using Linux as the host, but most of us just use it in a VM when we need it.
Assuming that developers of these apps get the same license we plebs get (i.e. NO WARRANTY), then I see very little recourse.

Facebook are big enough to blow this off, and they know it. At least... they hope so.
Not everyone is interested in jetsetting and going to all the socialite events, there are a lot of people that are just comfortable, some of those people invest in people.
Ceejayoz come on. That's not a positive claim. You literally have a 'NOT' statement in there. You can't distort language to fit your narrative like this.

And you can see the intrinsic impossibility of the burden you're placing to disprove this claim. Besides the fact that you posited no mechanism by which this racist discrimination takes place, what if the racist discrimination in the banking system did affect the PPP program, but was only a minor factor. That is, racist discrimination only explained 5% (or 10% or 30%) of the discrepancy and other factors dominated (racist or otherwise). Is that a possibility? It sure is.

That's why you need to do the legwork. This is especially true when you're talking about politically and culturally sensitive matters. The left typically makes a similar point around social studies research. Certain kind of research results may be used by racists, so you have to take extra care to qualify and frame the results. I agree with both. This is too important to be sloppy with.

I cannot stress this enough, you are hurting your case, because some individuals will believe you, they will do a deeper dive, and they may become disillusioned if they see you lied to them. Trust is so easily broken.
> Who said it and what views they hold is important for distinguishing between what they technically said and what they actually said.

Would you mind clarifying the difference between the two for me? It sounds an awful lot like we're talking about thought crimes.
I dunno, doing short vertical videos with low production value was the huge innovation of TikTok? (Not counting its predecessor, Vine)

But I accept that launching it as a paid service was extremely risky. Better to start with something free and attention-getting.
Yes, since ages ago the ribbon is customizable. You can create a new tab with exactly what you want in it.

There is also a search feature now, so its not like you need to know where rarely-used things are.
How is this worth noting at all? Either he's correct or he's not, ad hominem is fallacious.

Please engage with ideas on their merits rather than by reading through the author's tweets until you eventually find something unfashionable and unrelated.
> Asrock has announced availability of one starting august

For others, I believe this is the board in question: https://www.asrock.com/asrockrack/general/productdetail.asp?...
> Energy - Crazy price increases

I certainly agree that a lot of privatisations were messed up, but but in the late 1970s the UK's nationalised industry literally only managed to produce enough electricity to keep the lights on three days a week.

It was pretty easy for Thatcher and Blair to sell the concept of privatisation when that was in widespread living memory.
People need to realize that there's as much political correctness on the right as there is on the left.
As much as it has been tortured and mutated there are still market forces driving things. Supply of housing stock, supply of renters, their ability to pay at all levels of the economy from jumbo mortgages down to section 8 housing are all factors driving the marketplace.
> It goes together with other great ideas like a minimum livable wage[0]

Isn't that redundant with UBI? If UBI is already providing a minimum standard of living, then it's mathematically impossible for any wage combined with UBI to be below that standard.
There's a blockchain startup called arweave which is trying to do exactly this.
At this point it seems like basically everything and anything is being attributed to this virus, often without any kind of study or robust evidence.

Occam's Razor can help here. We know that there are treatments for these ailments that can help people. We know these treatments stopped due to lockdown and people being afraid to go to hospitals. We know this must, but implication, increase deaths from these ailments.

The alternative explanation is far more complex, actually it's of unbounded complexity because as far as I know there isn't any clear known mechanism of action that shows how this type of virus can cause all these different kinds of problems. Is there even a robust set of studies that show how this type of virus causes blood clots? As far as I know there is some evidence that blood thinners can help a bit with flu, sometimes, so it's not entirely implausible, but I think it's also unknown what exactly happens there and why. And people keep saying this virus is totally unlike flu so that similarity should maybe be discarded.
Alyx really is fantastic looking. Unfortunately, that's all that is fantastic about it.
The Big Sur UI being more spaced out hints at it. The fact it runs iOS apps unmodified only really works flawlessly if the user can touch the screen otherwise there will be some multitouch functionality only phone users can use and would require devs to put in extra work.

Most of the rumor mill close to Apple (John Gruber, atp.fm etc) all believe it's coming.

The devices (iPad/MBP) are clearly starting to converge and I think the next MBP is going to be genetically closer to an iPad than it is todays MBP, you can tell they've been leaving a ton of enhancements out of the current lineup waiting for an evolution, MBP lags behind all other premium laptops in webcam quality, LTE, touch support, pen support and screen bezel and the ARM transition is definitely the time to push this evolutionary update.
I dunno, what are the recent stats? The 2011 census apparently had 37% [0] of London being born outside the UK. It isn't unreasonable statement, particularly on a trend basis natives might be <50% by now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London#Ethnic...
Venice tests Mose flood barrier in full for first time
In those examples, would you say they're all examples of privatization without competition, where the incumbent effectively owned the existing infrastructure and the barriers to entry for newcomers were high?
There's a blockchain startup called arweave which is trying to do exactly this
Practice, a lot. On real projects when possible. There's no shortcut and no substitute for experience.

You need peers and mentors. Practice only gets you so far if you don't have people telling you what you are doing right and wrong. Don't take criticisms of your code personally.

Read lots of code. Learn to run code in your head.

Don't just learn languages and tools. You have to master some subset of available tools, but you also need domain expertise, people skills, and judgment to succeed.

Master Unix/Linux and the shell and command line tools. Master a text editor. Understand version control (git) and collaboration.
How well do sites that use JavaScript frameworks perform in the wild?
Obviously, born in the UK. What other definition could there be?
And that's fine, and I'd imagine people using your service voluntarily would have no problem with that.

It's the ads though, and the calibre of people who create ads...
Sure, I will have a shot at describing some change.

I am a blond male who has a bit of a feminine hairstyle, which imho matches my body type.

In the last month I have been called cancer whore ( Dutch: kankerhoer ) twice, this is new for me.

However, young females have been called cancer whore for years now, and it is the political correctness which supresses discussion about this.

Because that would be racist.
Those supporting china use downvotes as a way of trying to suppress other opinions. I'm getting sick of it. It goes against the HN guidelines and is just a dishonest tactic.
Can be done one handed (opt+shift+vol) but it wasn't needed to fix inaccuracy in the default interface as the post I replied to suggested
(disclaimer - I haven't watched the video, because a. it's a video, come on, and b. John Cleese's attitudes are already well-known to me from many other sources, interviews, etc.)

> If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behaviour.

Yes, this statement is exactly true - but not in the way that John, and you, seem to think.

One interpretation - yours, if I may be forgiven for assuming - is "PC-culture only exists because people do not have a thick-enough skin to simply regulate their own emotional well-being. If they would only toughen up, then there would be no need for all this nonsense - we could finally express ourselves freely once again".

The alternative interpretation - and one that I really hope you can find your way to understanding - is "some people are subjected to so much pain, aggression, discrimination, and hatred - or, some other people witness so much of that pain in others - that, no matter how hard they try, they simply cannot suppress their responses to it - nor should they. Rather, they speak up about the injustices they see, and try to change them."

The classic anti-PC attitude of "toughen up and stop complaining" is so monumentally selfish and short-sighted that it feels like parody. If someone is stepping on your foot, the appropriate response is not to "control your response" - it's to ask them to stop stepping on your foot. If their response is "I'm not" - then you either need to educate them that they are, in fact, doing so (and you would know better than them), or take the initiative to physically prevent them from continuing to do so.
I think the 15 mins is to allow sufficient time to dry so that you don't immediately sweat it off and/or wash if off in the pool/lake/ocean. It's got to stay on your skin to be effective.
Apple, Quibi, Amazon are trying to plan the perfect breakout show.

It doesn’t work like that. A lot of the networks’s and Netflix’s breakout shows were not planned to be great. That’s why they just greenlight a bunch of random pilots and see what sticks to the wall.

It’s extremely hard to create hits.
Come visit, they have a great Roman museum and ruins.
On the other hand I found it instantly more productive, even right after it was introduced. No longer did I have to remember which menu an option was in. It was all right there.
Corgi is a novel framework for testing emergent properties of bitcoind networks
Jim Keller once said randomness was baked in the modern computer chip design. The execution routes were almost always different even if you ran the same deterministic code for multiple times. But in the end you got the same result almost every single time (“almost” has many 9s after the decimal point). But this layer of operations has been abstracted away from most of us. So don’t feel too sad... maybe the world has been like this for a long time
Criminal justice officials urge California to release prisoners
They need TS incremental compilation for their TS problems. Which exists. And is used by other large projects to achieve milisecond compiles. But I guess they couldn't figure it out, not clear to me why.
I'm curious how to be intolerant of an idea while being tolerant of people?

Because practically, aren't ideas tied to people? I don't think you can have an idea survive without people keeping it alive. So how do you express intolerance for "bad" ideas without letting that expression bleed into an intolerance for the people propagating the "bad" idea?
Since all of these things are comorbidities to covid, it sure seems possible that they just tested negative, despite having the disease. 35% seems to be about the false negative rate.

Maybe the author is forgetting that this is the reason people wanted to track excess deaths in the first place.
Can you elaborate? What does this mean?
> Who said buying pack of Pokemon cards wasn't gambling?

Me. A pack of Pokemon cards is a tangible investment. As are, as far as I understand them, "loot boxes." The trading value may be probabilistic, but it's not quite the same as making a financial bet as in the stock market, lottery, traditional casino "gambling"

It used to be that you'd get toys with McDonald's happy meals. I believe the toy you'd end up with was also a matter of probability. There was also a candy phenomenon in the late 90s/early 00s called the "Wonder Ball." The commercials, imploring you to consider "What's in the Wonder Ball?" Also probabilistic. I wouldn't say either of these examples is gambling.

At this point it seems appropriate to mention that it actually doesn't matter whether something qualifies is "gambling" or not. It matters only to the extent that in 2020 people are fixated on labeling things, as if the word we've crafted to describe something is itself meaningful. These words tend to be trendy and suitable for e-propagation on Twitter words like "incel" or "autistic." Or "That's gambling! #gambling-bad"

There are lots of dumb things people can invest in. And investing in dumb things has gotten easier. That doesn't mean every purchase with a probabilistic value on the market is gambling, or that "gambling bad" and "not-gambling good."

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Ball
Can you see how firing somebody because they use hate speech isn't the same thing as killing someone because they are a Russian language professor?
There is more complexity in this.

Proximate Issues

The app makers cannot easily prevent the crash since it is happening in Facebook provided code. Perhaps the only thing they could do is to code in kill switches. Another possibility would be to modify the Facebook code. That introduces maintainability issues.

The crash happened because of a server side change that triggered roughly the Objective-C equivalent of a null pointer exception.

Objective-C is an old unsafe language.

Ultimate Issues

Client-side libraries have a poor history in the industry. They are often written by server engineers who aren’t expert on the platform.

For instance, if it was really a static load method that called the server, then this was a poor design decision.

Furthermore, weaker server engineers are notorious for breaking backward compatibility. They don’t design nor build in tests to ensure backward compatibility. The backward compatibility must include backward data compatibility.

The above issues are indicative of organizational issues.

Facebook is a little bit of an outlier. It was notorious for badly written client libraries stretching back to the Facebook platform days. The joke was that their libraries may have been written by interns even though so many companies were dependent on them.

The Facebook libraries and the ilk are used for sign on through Facebook and ad attribution. The trade off an app maker needs to make it a whether to run ads on Facebook and whether to support sign in.

Facebook is not the only big company with these issues. Google’s equivalent also crashed albeit at a much lower rate due to a much more convoluted issue.

Apple introduced the Swift programming language to address the deficiencies in Objective-C. That these companies are running into these issues makes me wonder if they never transitioned to Swift. They are certainly way behind the latest version of the libraries.

To summarize, it is a cascade of issues some technical and some organizational rather than a single coding error. These issues span companies.
Seems like FB way of forcing devs to use the latest SDK, unless FB shares technical details on what happened.

This is what FB for dev says:

"To make your app compatible with the latest iOS, be sure to use the latest Facebook SDKs for iOS."

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios
Relying on the star power of the voice talent roster was also a significant part of Katzenberg's animated feature film strategy.
Healthy Self-Doubt
Street abuse is never OK regardless of who it's from, you don't have to pretend there's a racial conspiracy to stop you discussing it.
Problem is that inactivity is also known to cause blood clots and subsequent problems, hence deep vein thrombosis being linked with long distance flights. What happens during lockdown, people stop moving about and spend all day sitting at home.

I think we need to be apply critical thinking to claims of the form, "some one recovered fully but then was struck down by covid19 a second time". That can easily be a correlation/causation fallacy.
I think only in the context of identity politics.

Those subtleties of messaging can certainly indicate affiliation.

But that's exactly what I'm saying. If that's become more important than the actual arguments, were headed down.
Communism: The Flaw of the Land
Sport coats are descended from the kind of thing well to do Europeans wore wear while shooting clays, riding horses, shooting at foxes while riding on horses, saying nasty things about the slavs, or whatever else well to do Europeans a century ago did for recreation. They aren't descended from shooting specific gear.
I'm a little confused how the author could come to the conclusion Deno is not ready for AWS Gateway integration, when they openly admit the main reason for this is that Deno is downloading all packages on a cold start, and that there are "probably some mechanisms to speed this up".

To their credit, the author does point out another potential flaw in the disclaimers section - the Node.js AWS SDK is optimized for node, and AFAIK they haven't released a version for Deno.
I wonder if we could pinpoint when this awful trend got started (in France and elsewhere).
>but the amount of "Hey there campers, dont forget to subscribe" almost outweighs actual content.

The "Hey guys, blahblahblah" is insufferable but you quickly learn hammering L about 4 times gets you to the real meat of the video.
1. Mock dependency

2. Throw exceptions

Don't tell me "No amount of testing" just because you aren't responsible for your own dependencies.
Mostly ECC UDIMMs are limited in clock speed, but many can be comfortably overclocked. I presently have four 2666 MHz ECC UDIMMs overclocked to 3200 MHz in my TRX40 workstation (M391A2K43BB1-CTD if anyone is curious).
It is exceptionally well written.

Cultivating a Democratic Spirit is very hard to do, and harder still 20 years on since he wrote it.
this perspective is exactly right. I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on our resume software - https://rezi.io
I think the main difference is that far too many people eat sugar, and even more importantly, far too many people can proudly admit in public that they eat sugar.
There are few rational choices given the lack of current transparency and future information that hasn't happened yet. There is no Market without immediate consequences. Dole Foods often has salad recalls due to ppl getting sick with e coli... Are they really a bad actor? Or just a poor one that can do better? Do you have time to make your own rating of which company, manufacturing plant, farm it was supplied from? What's a credible dinner alternative given your context and available time and guests? A bad actor can last a long time.
There are examples that don't side-step the conversation.

Should it be required to wear a helmet when you are riding a motorcycle, for example? That's a pretty direct example that bifurcates freedom-loving libertarians from other folk.