skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of people are offended every day and they don't coalesce into slanderous mobs who demand the offender's termination. Further, these largely ignored offenses are generally much more overt than "accidentally making an 'ok' sign", "interviewing a black man who wishes there was more focus on violence in his community", "citing a prominent black researcher", "opening an Asian restaurant", "wearing a Chinese-inspired prom dress", "whatever the Covington Catholic students did to piss of the national media and their legions", etc. Moreover, I strongly suspect that the offended are largely progressives and not the minority groups on whose behalf they claim to take offense. This seems like a pretty novel phenomenon, isolated to one more-or-less distinct group (notable exceptions include Kaepernick or Dixie Chicks circa 2005, but these are anomalies and also "punching up" and not downward or laterally).
That's just as true of GitHub though, and isn't the problem. The problem is the related services, like issues, PRs and now CI/CD which all sit with the code but don't come down on a clone. That problem still hasn't been solved, which could mean your whole knowledge base goes missing if you lose access to the server. CI/CD can maybe be replicated from what's on your laptop, but if you don't have the PR history it could spell doom for big codebases that don't use extended commit messages a lot.
This.

Take any social media app and there is something toxic, mean, snarky about it. Twitter is optimized for snark and shit storms. Facebook has your crazy uncle sharing fake news. Instagram posts are fake and pretentiousness. Reddit has their subreddit drama.

TikTok is just fun. Even wholesome fun.

I tried if I could find one mean tiktok video, but there was not one bullying video. Even if the girl making a dance video was ugly/fat the comments on that were encouraging and positive.
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Hope you get your account back soon.
> I could guess that this lower circulation is, at least partly, the result of readers who don’t appreciate a false reality being reported as truth.

The NYT's subscription rates are way up since Trump was elected.

> I’m already surprised how long they’ve lasted.

You already stated why they're seeing such success. "the result of readers who don’t appreciate a false reality being reported as truth."
this is funny to read as I have five instagram accounts connected,

and the one I have curated the least has TikTok teenage lip sync videos as default.

Its literally Charlie De Malio all over the explore page. And no, this is not based on things I have liked. Its Hype House stuff promoted straight from Bytedance.
Writing feature requests and bug reports that get results (2012)
My team ran about 50% of a Fortune 500 software company on CoreOS up until a few months ago when we migrated to Flatcar. We even paid a lucrative support contract while we ran it. I can count the number of major OS issues we had with it over several years on one hand- and we've had even better success with Flatcar so far.

Calling CoreOS unsuccessful is a massive misunderstanding of the market.
aarch64 is actually worse as far as I can tell because reading from that register is restricted and cannot be done from userspace (hence "EL1") and thus doing this portably is a huge pain. On Linux I think some of this is exported via /proc/cpuinfo and auxval, so that's what most people use…

Edit: Also there's a ton of them, this lists a couple: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/arm64/cpu-feature-reg...
There is so much wrong with this statement. Nowadays, you can label anyone a racist, or a misogynist, or a bigot, and get them fired. That's how discrimination works. It's a label.
If you read my comment and assumed I was making an argument of absolutism, ie, that you should never consider the speaker in any way, you should re-read it and consider how it may have led you there.

In any case, a person’s background should be fair to consider when an argument by that person is raised. The anti-pattern is to use that, among other things, at the exclusion of any direct engagement of the argument, as was done by the comment I was replying to.

We are not living in a world plagued by people ignoring the background of authors or the subtext of writing they disagree with, and blindly focusing on arguments. We are living in a world where arguments themselves are routinely ignored by focusing exclusively on their authors and presumed subtext.

Unlike the former scenario, which doesn’t exist from my vantage point, the latter scenario seems more difficult to unwind since it terminates in unfalsifiability. If you stand firm that a certain phrase signals some kind of latent subtext, and that can be used to discredit the whole thing, then that tactic basically results in an equilibrium where arguments can not stand on their own under any circumstance since a clever reframing, which cannot be disproven, is fatal to them.
Relevant to the topic of political propaganda and in particular conspiracy theories, the leftist blogger Digby wrote a good post [1] critical of TikTok even though she was sympathetic to the punking of the Trump rally in Tulsa. In particular, she cites reporting from the Daily Beast that Pizzagate conspiracy theories are circulating widely on the platform. I'm not endorsing this reporting as fact, but do think it is good food for thought. In any case, the platform seems to be very poorly optimized for critical thinking, which is fine for "laughter and dancing" but less fine in other domains.

[1]: https://digbysblog.net/2020/06/tiktok-isnt-the-answer-folks/
They aren't the only two options, but they're our actual history.

So be aware of that.
Looks nice, but $20k??
I don't know about OP's intention, but I always took and intended "someone you grab a beer with after work" to mean something along the lines of "close acquaintance" or "casual friend". Someone you more than incidentally hang out with via group meets or mutual friends, but not quite someone you would invite to a small intimate event.

It doesn't necessarily imply co-workers, but usually that's where that sort of friendship develops; given forced proximity.
My theoretical answer would be that we can regulate American companies more effectively and have them be held accountable, like when Zuckerberg had to go before Congress. I doubt you'd be able to get the CEO of a large Chinese company to do that.

In reality we don't regulate them nearly as much as we can, so the end result is that FB and Tiktok both invade your privacy.
I will when they actually solve my problem, but invariably I want something the bots can't understand.
Maybe I'm just old, but can someone explain the connection between the NYT and Twitter?
Vessel depth (draught) is usually (or always) a static number;hard coded in the ais transponder and never again uodated and thus provides zero information. The only somewhat reliable data are position and heading and their derivatives. Next to that you can get something out of the broadcast frequency, and that's about it. Of course the data can and is easily manipulated by some, and the broadcast is lossy so sometimes a few bits get lost or mangled in transit, there is no proper error correction in the protocol
From an administrator's perspective it's the same problem with every declarative run control system: there is a layer of indirection between what's written in the configuration files and what the machine does (as opposed to an imperative system, where it's a bunch of shell commands that are literally the actions the machine takes).

With systemd in particular the indirection is notably (needlessly) opaque, with a big spaghetti mess of unit files symlinked in 18 different places, some of which have semantic meaning to the init system and some of which do not.
Simple picture to demonstrate: [1]. Simply put, ECB does not use different salt every block.

[1] https://ctf-wiki.github.io/ctf-wiki/crypto/blockcipher/mode/...
Joe Rogan is pretty much Oprah for dudes. Sure he is extremely popular but I'm not sure there's a relationship between what 'normal Americans' think of journalism and the success of his podcast, other than that people for some reason keep asserting it because he on occasion has public intellectuals on his show, but so have talk show hosts for eons.

The New York times these days has 6 million digital subscribers, that's about six times more than they had in print circulation during their heyday. They've also consistently grown in revenue and are in way better financial situation than they were during the slump a few years ago. So just going by your market story this narrative just doesn't check out. Rogan is doing well, but so is the times. And so is WaPo and the WSJ.

I think it's noteworthy to point out that all the major newspapers have shifted their revenue model towards subscriptions, away from ads. That means there's been a real increase in engagement with readers who pay for content.
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It's not just about the death rate, the long-term/permanent damage being caused (lung damage, senses, brain damage) and the fact that immunity doesn't seem to help much (perhaps a year) are other factors to consider. Long-term damage (months or maybe forever) are, unlike fatal complications, being seen extensively in non-vulnerable populations.
Not only that but also special interest on your part. There are more gentle but effective ways to learn about one's culture. Choosing the hardest is not going to be very productive at all!!
Beautiful and wonderful, thank you for building and sharing this! I use these sort of websites all the time so this is very useful for me.

Congrats on the launch!
The US is turning away the world’s best minds. This time, they may not come back
Maybe he shouldn't have poured liquid nitrogen next to the cat.
hardly new, Matt Simmons coined the term in 2014.

https://standalone-sysadmin.com/the-difference-between-site-...
11 seconds of revenue, maybe 45 of profit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple-precision_floating-p... shows (non IEEE) 128-bit floats existed in the 1970s, and that IEEE ones were added to Power in 2015, and the clang, gcc and Intel C compilers support them in software. There clearly is a market for them.

Truth is that successive rounding errors accumulate complex calculations can lose a lot of bits of precision. That’s why you sometimes need to do calculations in a lot more bits than needed in the answer.

Also, the x87 had 80 bits floats, but not all instructions computed all of them correctly (https://www.infania.net/misc/coproc.html)

I don’t know how current FPUs fare there, but would hope they have become optimal.
Most of the achievements people ascribe to him aren't even his. Musk bought the company then gave himself the title of 'founder'. He's a businessman, not a scientist
> everyone to be able to simply fly and land anywhere they want...

One big difference between the old money and new money neighbourhoods in a former city of mine is that the latter was the only one which allowed helicopter landings.
The larger the vehicle, the less sensitive it ought to be. I'm no aviator but I've been on plenty of military flights where people and gear were just tossed in at the LZ.
Etymologically though, the co-pilot is pilot along with you and supports you, while the auto-pilot is a pilot by itself, independently (dare I say: autonomously).

"Autopilot" remains a very misleading term in the car context.
Thanks, bought the book.
I would have expected the Go compiler to emit the POPCNT instruction on it's own.
Most current C compilers will even detect if you implement a popcount in software and replace it with a single POPCNT instruction - why does Go not do something like that as well?
The Release of Apollo Client 3.0
Google spends ~2.5B in operating expenses per week, so that's a rounding error.
>> Can't anyone there see past the current insanity and think? "To be inclusive, we have to get rid of her"? Don't they even hear the words coming out of their own mouths?

This confuses a lot of people, but the explanation is simple: it is the Paradox of Tolerance.

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

Namely, not tolerating someone, who themselves espouse intolerant views and give voice to intolerant extremists, is not itself intolerance. And Bari Weiss is the perfect example.
How can Twitter destroy the idea of Vine? Twitter can destroy Vine.co, but why is there no competitor with the same idea?

The moment they had shut down vine.co, a new site with the same idea could have gone life and absorbed all the users.

Why does this not happen? There are Facebook user groups, reddits and other social networks, even Twitter itself. A replacement for something that popular should be known instantly and take over without friction. Why does 'The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it' not work here?
It's the user's choice to use a cloud-hosted security system. They can weigh the trade-offs and risks for themselves, same as with any other system.

Whether that data is accessible by law enforcement is a completely separate issue. A proper solution would be limiting this access and requiring consent and transparency, not removing infrastructure options because you think you know better than everyone else about what's best for them.
expm1 is the modern equivalent. That (plus the related log1p) are probably some of the most underutilized standard library math functions. They can substantially improve the accuracy of tons of calculations.
This. I cannot tell you the number of times where I've seen teams use Mongo and then reinvent a schema as part of the development contracts. It's enraging.
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I procrastinated switching to CSS sprites until HTTP/2 came around and made it superfluous, so I don't agree.
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For most. I wouldn’t call the parts of rural America that failed to transition okay.
Bhagvad Gita for spirituality which generally isn’t taught or considered in the Eastern bloc
I don't think this statement is primary about Weiss herself. Rather, less established writers are the ones that are most constrained by this environment.
> The cost per mile was just too high.

That's why I specified "in large metropolitan areas". I can see that it's impractical to outfit anything outside dense cities with such beacons, but inside the city they could augment, if not replace autonomous driving systems. Or so I imagine.

> GPS, A-GPS, and RTK

Thanks for telling me about RTK, I did not know about this!
But that subsidy shows up as higher prices for people who want to switch to a paying account.

So the question I think is: is it cheaper for the customer to upgrade to a paid account or switch to another provider that only has paid accounts?

There are a lot of Dark Patterns around this. I'm not sure we should be supporting that behavior. Objectively, it's better for me to have a paid account at a place that charges $10 a year to entry level customers.
> he hopes to see the robot deployed in home environments,

It will need bigger wheels or legs then because it would be stuck in one room in my house because of the thresholds at each doorway and the rugs and carpets.

And my house has three stories so I would need three of them because it can't climb stairs.

It's getting tiresome to read crap like this because while it might work in a dwelling purpose built for it it is guaranteed useless in most dwellings occupied by real people right now.
Sure, but to even mention it now is disingenuous because they’re not even close to having a solution that their own engineering department would be willing to ship.

You and I have no idea whether it’s possible to get close to level 5 with their currently shipping hardware. Neither do they. And this stuff about being 10-100x safer than a human is pure fantasy right now. The industry is incredibly far away from that and there’s no evidence to suggest Tesla is years ahead of other teams working on the problem.
> pro-fact views are going to be anti-racist by default, if the facts are presented honestly

Could you say the opposite, if you believed it to be true?
> They work REALLY REALLY hard to get people to use the website.

And the telcos make it REALLY REALLY hard to use the damn website.
I wouldn't say it doesn't matter, just that there are many paths to the same destination. And yes, anyone who tells you that your decisions are the primary determinant in how your life goes is a liar. 1% inspiration, 9% persperation, 90% dumb luck.
Yeah - talk with a couple scientists after a liquid nitrogen experiments demonstration. They mentioned even just liquid air is dangerous, as the liquid oxygen in it makes many hydrocarbon materials flamable and even explosive in some cases.
Sometimes it seems hype is the main fuel driving Elon's businesses. Self driving and self driving taxis for Tesla, Starlink for SpaceX,...

But I have to admit, marketing wise he is a genius.
Depends on your play through
Only in the context of "for the economy" (moral and humanitarian perspective not withstanding) this sounds like the parable of the broken window. ~95% of death is age 60+? This group largely consumes without producing. Parts of the economy that would be hit the hardest by this would include the health care industry not getting 10 more years of spending from them?

I'm not sure calculations of economic spending is the best way to make the argument "we need to protect the most vulnerable, at the expense of the least," precisely because the least vulnerable are the ones producing most of the economic output, and that output is what is being curtailed to protect those not working. Almost any argument for shutdown would be better than trying to quantify the economic cost/gain of losing a double digit percentage of the elderly, because at the end of the day, I don't think that calculation would go the way the people making the economic argument think it will.
The performance benefits are aimed squarely at the large, entrenched interests who can absorb the increased costs as a rounding error. HTTP/2 and SPDY/QUIC look, to me, to be about decreasing costs and increasing efficiency for large web hosts and erecting barriers-to-entry for competitors.
The Go Language.
I've thought about this a lot and I can think of two ways but I am too lazy to implement either of them.

The first is to use Javascript to dynamically move the footnotes, or to hide them behind a dynamic interface. I've seen other sites use similar techniques. However, one of my original goals was to avoid JavaScript where possible and there are always some users who don't run js.

The second is just to include the footnotes and sidenotes twice in the document in different places and use css media queries to select between them. This wouldn't be a big deal since I am already generating the document from markdown anyway.
Haha brilliant! Haven't read C&H in decades and I forgot about how he inadvertently accomplished his goal.
According to lumendatabase the defamation complaints were filed 8 times by her lawyer about a private video (that seemingly was uploaded without her consent to porn websites) where she appeared as a "hooker from Brussels".

I think this is a serious human rights issue, in times where not everybody knows what's actually going on on their mobile devices, where Android malware is not a joke anymore and commonly spread around.

I mean, just imagine the same case that your private pictures or videos get uploaded to a porn website and Google simply ignores your legal complaints to take those down ... social- and work-life must be a living hell from that point on.
They are getting low level employees fired from their jobs, though. They have a lot of power in educational institutes, media organizations and HR departments.
It doesn't matter what kind of discovery they do if it's all framed by a predetermined worldview and agenda, but yeah. All the big outlets are obviously trash these days. No escaping, you're right.
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> GPS is already beacon infrastructure that tells cars where they are on the streets :)

Yeah, but it doesn't say where the streets are, or where the traffic lights are, or (officially) what's the speed limit on this stretch of road, etc. All those are via the layer that's applied by a private company, and may differ substantially from how the city itself intends to direct traffic.
They dropped the ball on the demo. If they really wanted to blow me away they'd have demonstrated the robot opening the fridge and bringing me a beer.

A bit more seriously, this is a research platform. Maybe in 5-10 years it'll prove to be the seed of some interesting tech, but right now it's just a lab experiment. If you buy this and expect it to do basic housework for you, you are destined to be disappointed.
The whole working-from-home thing – Apple
Undertale is pretty intense. Spoiler at the end of the comment.

Disco Elysium is a narrative masterpiece.

Outer Wilds has the most balanced story/exploration loop I can think of.

Baba is You because it screws with your brain nicely.

Spoiler:

-- when you realise your actions carry over across reloads
Again:

> Initially, I was criticizing the content, which is on its face false: we are discussing multiple widely–read pieces from prominent people who claim they are being "canceled" for their views.

If Alice makes a claim about herself, it is not "attacking the source" to say the claim is false. That also doesn't mean that the same claim would be false if Bob made it about himself.

So, yes: if smaller writers who had actually been marginalized or excluded wrote an open letter claiming as much in a publication with a track record of publishing such voices, I might have supported it, because their claims might have actually been credible.

Instead, a publication that works to homogenize journalism published a letter signed by powerful writers about how they are being "silenced". By virtue of the fact that millions of people are now discussing their views, that claim is self–evidently false.
From like buttons to message bubbles: The UX designs you can't use (2019)
I'm not actually a listener, I might watch a clip from a guest I'm interested in once in a great while. But I've never listened to an entire episode. I don't like the lack of structure in his interviews, and I don't have 2-4 hours to listen to unstructured rambling, with the occasional useful tangent.

I think you mistook my comment as saying "Joe Rogan podcast is great and everyone should listen." I was only saying that it is a source of "opinions that are vital, and debate that is sincere," and that he has obtained a remarkable amount of working class listeners.