skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it seems worse. Let's see here, the first 10 things on the page are all political, and right-wing or extreme libertarian memes:

* A stonetoss comic about the relationship between race and IQ. This was the top post on the page. It was posted by a user with the username "NationalSocialism".

* A comic caricaturing an asexual person who decries Christmas but celbrates a silly celebration of their own, supposed to show hypocrisy

* A comic showing a caricature of a fat black woman shouting in a white woman's face, and the white woman pushing her away. The title is "At this point if a White woman looks at a Black wrong she is a "karen""

* A post from the "Controlavirus" sub-forum, arguing that lockdowns mean life has lost its color. (One of the only non-caricature comic and reasonable posts I could see on the front page)

Even on a bad day, load up the Reddit front page and it's nothing like this, even if you were to browse for hours, you wouldn't see an endless stream of reductionist memes a 14 year old might find funny.

Reddit is a worse version of HN for nuanced and well-argued discussion. Ruqquus seems to be a caricature meme sharing board, and even one which lacks even the pretense of a varied userbase. At least Reddit pretends. When I visit a site that's supposed to be better than Voat, I don't expect to be greeted with the exact same thing but with more memes and less news sources.
Came to say the same. I've found it to be a really great productive combination. I can sprinkle in React components where the UI is especially rich and use Rails for everything else.
I don't know, this is the first I'm hearing of it. After reading your comment and looking that up, apparently others are saying all of that is normal.

(Sorry, I didn't mean to make this a political thread.)
Retired Man Solves Decades-Old Maths Problems While Brushing His Teeth
The 33 vs 66 is in reference to the percentage chance that a prediction is correct. But if you have no way to tell if a given prediction is correct or not without doing the tests that you were trying to avoid in the first place then it's not really worthwhile except for perhaps some exploratory research.

I'm not really sure what your point is.
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
> That would be idiotic. We are well off because we can make cheap things (including food). To make things arbitrarily more expensive would make everybody worse off.

It would make the ultra rich a tiny less richer, but hey you can't have that. There is wealth in this world so that every single kid on that planet can go to school instead of working at the factory, it's just insanely badly distributed.
I’m more interested in whether it’s interpreted as an actual ultimatum, or just an emphasis.
It’s this thinking about how things can be abused that is behind calls to ban encryption or for ISPs to be filtered, or for Torrents to be banned.

Every powerful tool can be abused. In fact, the more powerful it is, the more it can be abused. The abuse of the tool is the responsibility of the person abusing it.

We don’t require baseball bat or hammer manufacturers to think about how their product can be abused, even though baseball bats and hammers have been used to murder people before.
Well, I agree that if you're weak and need yes-men working for you, that's certainly the way to manage. Another way to do it is hire dumb & docile.
What I do is with the -man switch:

command -man

it opens the browser on the manual page for the command, such as for dmd it's https://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html

The result so convenient I added -man to the other command line tools. I thought about adding clickable urls to the error messages, but it just made the output too cluttery.
"We can't meet your demand. But sure please hang around and let us know your end date at your liking. I know you are unhappy with the company. But that's okay. Nobody cares about security anyway."

It's just unreasonable.
The EU minimum does not include bank holidays. The UK in practice has 20 vacation days (matching the EU minimum) plus 8 public holidays. It's just that the law is written that 28 days is the minimum including the 8 public holidays. The net effect is the same.

And by that metric, all Australian employees (excluding casual workers) get at least 32 days off a year (20 vacation days, plus 12 or more public holidays). The UK has 28, but that's because they have fewer public holidays. Seems like the US is still behind on time off, especially since none of your vacation time is actually guaranteed by law. I hope the situation improves over there.

The "at will" work concept (where employees can be fired without notice or compensation) is also very strange to me. That's not legal here.
Whether it's seen as a failing or a victory is probably a matter of perspective. Republicans probably feel they've been somewhat successful with this obstructionism.
The use cases shown on the page https://www.pixeltrue.com/frontliner-heroes are all derivative works. BY-SA means you can sell the picture but as so as you add text it's now a new derivative work (like every example on the page)
So you only buy foam bats and rubber mallets since they have less potential to hurt people?
> > ...optimizing only for engagement was never a good idea for humanity at large.

> I don't trust companies to have this as an incentive. Profit and revenue are the incentives, and if caring about humanity helps those, then it will considered.

Wait, are you saying that you prefer for corporations to act like amoral psychopathic profit maximizers?
At Home with Kubernetes, MetalLB and BGP [2019]
> Writing HTML/Markdown/whatever feels mostly the same

That's because those languages are designed to be edited by Nano. docx files aren't.
I stopped using cards for this reason among many.
This is wrong because many uses of the work, like adding it on the front page your your site with some caption, is a derivative work. Putting it on a page by itself or printing on a t-shirt would not be derivative but using it as a logo with text would.
+1 I look at programs not supplying man pages as carelessly coded ones with little discipline.
> Is HN being invaded by trolls? I see more comments like the above than I used to.

No HN has always been extremely classist like that, it's the startup world where "we're just an app" and humans that aren't engineers or entrepreneurs are seen as yet another disposable resource to be exploited in order to fake it till you IPO...

This is not the worst dehumanizing comment I've seen on this website, unfortunately.
Agreed. It's a controversial opinion that opinionated languages/formatters are the way to go. :)
No, you lose all access to the hardware. Not only is it impossible to sideload games without a Facebook account in good standing, you can't even connect it to a PC and use the device as a mere headset.
If you're looking for a low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit or Twitter that's focused on live conversation, check out https://sqwok.im

Disclaimer I am building it.

Key Points:

- Minimalist design with focus on readability & usability.

- Real-time messaging meets news aggregator - All posts have a built-in chat room including presence, typing activity, etc.

- Fast, open, simple - Anyone can view posts simply by opening the url, minimal click to start talking. Create sharable chat rooms on the fly essentially

- Follow other users in real time & join them in conversation.

- No voting - Relevance is based on chat activity and excluded voting entirely.
Don't the citations end up leading straight back to said journalists?
Old clothes aren't the issue, it's the resources needed to make new clothes.
There are quite a few risk increases associated with general shutdown. This is one with large impact. Another large impact is mental illness, in particular presenting in suicide and substance abuse. On the other side, many other common risks are reduced: workplace injury, other transmissible ailments.

If the purpose of the analysis is to determine whether the preventive measure is effective and not overwrought, an excess deaths analysis is a good one because it helps infer what the toll would be in absence of the measure.

If the purpose is to attribute cause of death, it’s just a heuristic. But a useful one when other methodologies are (rightly or wrongly) suspect.
Manufacturers that cater to EMS and Military produce some very durable clothes. Propper's emt pants are currently my go-to.
Since it's not spelled out in the article, what is a better mental model for how the world works?
Thank you, that worked. Plus on that multi-teddit page is a convenient table of each sub sorted by name, so one can open it e.g. in a tab.
Alright, here's my substantive criticism of how CRT affects various groups in practice (not doxxing my membership in any of these groups):

Elite coastal white: Absolutely not threatened. Beneficiary of the system and knows how to navigate all of the social codes.

Less elite or poor white: Takes the bullet that was aimed at the elite white.

Asian: Scores way too high on tests for their % of the population and this is a problem for a worldview that cares about what % of college slots go to which races

Professional class black or latin: Does great, huge beneficiary of CRT activism

Working class black or latin: Invisible and accidentally hurt despite good intentions. CRT proponents tried to pass a referendum legalizing racial discrimination in hiring in California this year, which would have helped professional class POC and probably hurt this class. Fortunately it failed.

EDIT: I removed some cattiness above. Not trying to pull the rug out from under you but I'm rate-limited and wanted to focus on my actual points. I don't think I'm a caricature of 'unwoke' person who never thought about or dealt with these things before.
jQuery is a relatively small dependency and it's still more expressive than vanilla JS so I wouldn't hesitate to use it if it felt appropriate.

One could also reach for something like Preact if some components are too complicated for manual imperative updates. You can use it without a build step and only for some parts of your pages. For compatibility you can ship a server-rendered component that you then throw away if the client has JS enabled (although that would require you to implement it twice).
It really depends. My outdoor activity levels are way down. I used to hit 2-3 miles a day just going to work, lunch, the grocery store, meetings, etc which I don’t get anymore.

It’s not that I don’t have the Time to make it up, but there’s a lot of days where I only left the house because I had somewhere to go (cold, rainy, busy, etc). There’s a huge difference between “I have to walk to the store because we’re out of bread” and “I have to walk around the block because I need exercise”
I would live minimally and work on my favorite problems at my own pace. That's enough money to last a comfortable lifetime or more.

You don't feel it in your 20s unless you pay attention, but later on the overwork will take its toll no less than alcoholism or heavy drug use.
> 1-based indexing is superior to 0-based indexing.

Yes! But programmers are weird like that,I understand the rationale in case of C(Nothing that couldnt be solved then and there) but for high level or scientific computing? How many off by one bugs caused by this?

> If you use spaces to indent code, or in any way rely on a fixed width font to "line things up", you have a fundamental misunderstanding.

Agree, that's one of the things I hate about python, the indentation are probably the worst solution to the problem of scoping code.

> Relatedly, the 80 column "rule" is as stupid in code as it would be in prose. Use your aesthetic sense.

Agree

> Vim and Emacs both have terrible user interfaces, and are an inferior experience to even a normal text editor let alone a decent IDE. Users have Stockholm Syndrome.

Agree, both are very good pieces of software but I feel 99% of the new people swearing by them just do it to try to appear l33t

> For beginners, BASIC is great and Python is terrible.

In 1995? Perhaps. Now? Hell, no.

> Source code should liberally use Unicode symbols.

Hell no.

> There are many languages with a 'mystique', like Lisp and APL. The correlation between 'mystique' and practical utility is inverse.

More or less, great, but difficult, programming languages would never become mainstream, and like good old Joe Stalin used to say "quantity is a quality on its own"

> Let the flames begin!

As always with these type of comment OP is not as alone as they think they are.
Lemmy looks good. Here's a link to the software. https://lemmy.ml/docs/about.html
It's not app's cache I believe, but rather app's data. I think they're different? It's indeed 39MB on Play Store, but after I installed it and used it for a month, it's using 1GB+ storage on my phone (after I deleted app's cache).
That's not true at all. You can say you'll (go to the media/refuse to sign off on the regulatory paperwork/refuse to change the code that way and they don't have anyone else who can do it/refuse to change the password) or any of a number of other things.
PM is all about impact and effort. Priority goes to the high impact low effort stuff first, and low impact high effort generally goes the way of the bin. Strategic alignment is also import whenever priority is evaluated.

> Hint: good PMs won't just base it on gut feelings or anecdotal evidence.

Sure, good PMs tend to collect great evidence from customer interviews, usage data etc. However, getting too hung up on data is sometimes a trap. I've seen some great ideas from teams - some even fully implemented - shot down by other PMs because there was no research.

What if you don't have the data, but the idea is something you know will generate massive value? This is the exact issue startup ideas face... no one knows if an idea is valuable until it's tested and a product hits the market. But early stage founders and great product managers might just know something is the right idea yet have zero data to back it.

Any product a product manager has ever worked on was initially created from nothing. Data wasn't generated until people took a risk and delivered.
Ryzen 9 5900HX: Cezanne May Bring Overclocking to AMD Mobile CPUs
Anyone can look up her tweets and her interactions with, eg, Yann Lecun, and make a pretty good inference.
One of the front-page posts right now is from the "JewishQuestion" community, so uh... yeah, that's pretty damn bad.
They shut down r/bigchungus.
We just went through a mini-version of it: the go-to move is that any criticism is immediately labelled as closet white supremacy.

Is that what you truly believe I did above? That I am labeling you, and think you to be a white supremacist?

If so then allow me to be clear for a moment: I have literally no way of knowing if you're a white supremacist. I have no way of knowing if you're not actually an armada of ants collectively working to actuate the keys of a mechanical keyboard or a Boltzmann brain sending these messages through some strange and baffling form of quantum entanglement. What I am trying to expose is the very real reality that these are uncomfortable conversations, that's just intrinsic to this topic and the climate we are in.

This is fine. It is fine to admit being uncomfortable trying to process where we are, how we got here, and how we got out of it.

But one has to start by looking that beast in the face first in order to reckon with it. For some, that uncomfort gets unwittingly channeled into anger and frustration and they might not even know why or even realize it, but that can be focused, and turned into knowledge and wisdom on the issues. One's just gotta start, like I said: see it for what it is, and working from there.

If you took that to be me associating you with white supremacy, I'll try to find other ways of seeking out clarity from people next time.
I recommend Atom One Dark. It's provides nice contrast without being hard on the eyes.
> I hear that in the US people will lose their healthcare when they lose a job and it could cost $1000 a month (which is more than my monthly rent)! Here it's simply free. That brings a lot of peace of mind.

That's not true in most of the states where people actually live. For example where I live in Maryland: https://www.marylandhealthconnection.gov/lost-your-job-you-c...

> Yes, you have 60 days from the date of losing your job to enroll in health coverage through Maryland Health Connection. You do not have to wait for open enrollment. A special enrollment period allows you to enroll in a health plan

Eligibility for free or subsidized healthcare depends on income. Here are the income limits in Maryland: https://www.marylandhealthconnection.gov/how-to-enroll/medic.... For a family of 4, if you earn less than about $36,000 a year you qualify for Medicaid, which provides free healthcare, including prescription drugs. For a family of four, you can enroll your kids in Medicaid if your family makes under $55,000 per year.

Above that it's a sliding scale based on household income.
I believe this excerpt is actually what led to her firing on such short notice. Actually, I find it surprising that this is going largely unnoticed.

Jeff's emails, which were surely also crafted with sign off from PR and legal, attempt to frame this "resignation" as an issue of the paper's content, as well as the inability to meet Timnit's demands. However, this framing does not seem to align with the experiences of other Google researchers, and does not explain why she was terminated in this particular manner. If that were really the case, why didn't they just wait for Timnit to return from vacation, try to resolve the issue, and if unsuccessful, accept her resignation? Why not try to deescalate and handle the situation more tactfully?

Timnit's account of the email she received also seems to confirm this:

"we believe the end of your employment should happen faster than your email reflects because certain aspects of the email you sent last night to non-management employees in the brain group reflect behavior that is inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager. As a result, we are accepting your resignation immediately ..." [1]

So, what aspects of that email triggered such a prompt termination? Well, Jeff's first email says that Timnit was telling employees to "stop work on critical DEI programs", and I've similarly seen some comments focus on the part of her email that reads, "What I want to say is stop writing your documents because it doesn't make a difference," but Timnit is clearly not saying to stop DEI work, she's saying to "focus on leadership accountability" and to apply external pressure.

That seems to me to be the real issue, and the sort of thing that would trigger pressure from legal. The fact that the tone of the email is frustrated, and it airs some dirty laundry, would not necessarily result in firing, if leadership really wanted to keep her on, they could work something out. According to Timnit, her own manager was not informed, she's well liked by her academic community and her Google reports (who are expressing their dismay on Twitter), and Jeff has regularly praised Timnit in the past. So, the mention of congressional pressure in her email really seems to me to be the real catalyst here.

[1] https://www.twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/13343647354463313...
Here is a brand new F# course on Udemy. Highly recommended!
https://www.udemy.com/course/fsharp-from-the-ground-up/
When a dealer sells one of any car they have a list of replacement parts that the manufacturer requires they buy (and keep in stock for a few years), along with training for the mechanics (not all, but at least one needs training in anything specific to the car). Thus the first sale of any loses money. They make it up with more sales over time. Actually many lose money on new car sales, but make it up on parts and maintenance.
Treats. Sorry for a mistake.
Easily the worst time of my life was during a 1 year eviction. I even dated a girl for a brief period who told me the ' you can always have a good attitude' thing.

Years later when a met someone else struggling to find safe housing, I told them 'always stay positive, attitude' is bullshit. Allow yourself to be upset.

Money buys security.
Security means one less thing to worry about.

I'm very grateful for the career I have now. Started with trying to copy Unity scripts from youtube videos and I'm a senior level dev now. Paying my rent early gives me an endorphin rush
I am not political and honestly don't care much which one wins...

I have no confidence in the voting system based on what I see.

My guess is both sides are doing a bunch of underhanded shit and the ease with which electronic voting can be rigged makes it an occam's razor issue.
More people are dying per month from overdoses in BC, Canada right now than from COVID...
Sometimes, especially in B2B Saas, it's as simple as looking at potential short-term and long-term revenue (building something that is more sellable).
Actually, the opposite. Speaking personally, I have been a fan boy of Dean's work on a number of fronts for a decade. I had awareness of her work but more superficially, and saw it as largely pissing into the wind. Reading hers more closely now, her papers and her communication, she has my complete respect. I better understand the way in which she was scaling this incredibly difficult mountain. Deeply, deeply impressive.

And Jeff has lost mine. Even if his comments are not just bad faith, his blindness borders on incompetence for the role he has. Yet another clever, blind white man.

I hope a position in the Biden administration can be found for her, and her vision can have a larger societal impact.
But those deaths of despair are measurable and also comparable against “normal” levels, and can be easily separated from deaths where the cause is less certain but where symptoms may have aligned with potential covid infection. They track more than the body count. There will be studies of the mental health toll of the pandemic and its response. We won’t just tally those as likely disease.
Aren't you still discussing it in the form of a linear arrow of time? That initial decay is also the annihilation that forms a photon, when "reversed".
I agree. All of my consulting interviews have gone on tangents here, there and everywhere.. And focused more on ability to think, problem solve and be a human. Whereas engineering and software jobs are rote.
Let's just say that it is a strong tell that one's ethics may not be defensible if your ethics watchdog is threatening to resign.

Consider for instance the exit of Walter Shaub from the Trump Administration.

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/06/535781749/ethics-office-direc...
What's disingenuous is assuming people who disagree with you (and who present supporting arguments) are knowingly bad actors. Actually, they're much more likely to be normal people with sincere beliefs.

And we all know that nobody is going to "go do their own research" because you snarkily disagreed with them. People do research when you make it easy for them to do, not when you drive-by insult them with an unreasonable reply. Drawing conclusions without providing reasons is literally being unreasonable.

There are billions of people with bad opinions on the internet. Nobody is forcing you to educate all of them. If you decide to try, it's predictable that you will at some point become tired of repeating yourself. At that point, you have two choices:

A) take a break

B) post crappy comments and justify it by saying you're tired
The command line, in terms of the terminal emulator, really needs to evolve to more of a Meta-X mini-buffer pattern.

People keep circling around the sweet spot which is a fixed location command input area that outputs, in addition to text streams, any variety of multi-media.

On one end you've got a set of people doing heroic designs in the terminal with all variety of UTF-8 characters. On the other end you've got things like Jupiter Notebook.

What I'm looking for is something like the Mattermost UI without the chat aspect being front and center. Or Emacs, but with the ability to embed Youtube videos in a buffer.