skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People always self-censored. Far worse, people were censored. Really censored, not "oh, I cannot write on my platform of choice, so I have to use another one which can reach the whole world" censored. You wrote something the people in charge didn't like? No distribution for you, cause all printing was censored. You wrote against your king? Prison for you. You were politically inconvenient for your patron? Hope you have fun on the streets. Your book wasn't like by the book publishers? Sucks to be you. Probably ended up as an unread manuscript in an attic. Oh, and to mirror the words of the article: There were (and are, though less common) real lynch mobs when someone wrote something people didn't like. I have a feeling they are a bit more scary than getting screamed at on Twitter.

Fact: It was never as easy as it is today to reach an audience. All the people who have been "cancelled" or whatever the word of the week is, they still have reach people in ages ago would have killed for. Some even got bigger audiences because they were "cancelled". If you self-censor that is a decision. Maybe it is a wise decision. But is it not something people never had to deal with before.
Yes, they are both spyware. Call a spade a spade.
The actual survey is nowhere to be found at that foundations website, does someone have a direct link to it?

Edit; https://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/surveys_and_po...
Okay, that's a more fair and balanced point of view.

However, let's not forget one of the main points of original article: nobody promised those people that their dependency's dependencies will never change. The crypto authors made a decision to go with Rust. If dependents want to continue using it, they have to adapt or stop using it.

As I've said above: backwards compatibility is an admirable goal but it doesn't override everything.
There is a movement, extending even to Congress, to take Fox News off the air, or to have ISPs block it.
I would like to work on scientific software. There are many things that can be done to help scientists focus less on software making and more on doing science this includes for example building solutions to run/chain models, report results, data management.. etc. I'm not sure if this can generate income easily, so I would love a partner who has some experience in marketing and maybe web development would also help.
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Indeed, but you are thinking on the business/supplier side.

My point is that while many said by the time that smokers would simply not comply, especially considering how difficult it would be for the government to enforce such law.

However, people not only complied, but also quit smoking. The law had more positive impacts than anticipated by its most optimistic supporters.
Cancel culture is McCarthyism, just driven by the left. Millenials are barely in power. I'd say GenX has more of a say.
That's a non-problem. Politics is a team sport. If there's someone I don't like, the real question why is does the rest of the party get along with them? That usually indicates a bigger problem than some personal beef.

Because of coalitions, there is little penalty to making a smaller party.
No, we live in an era of McCarthyism
> they said it was impossible

What reasons did they name?
that this is posted on hn is rich indeed :D
Most Xiaomi phones are relatively easy to root/unlock and install a new rom on.
The conclusion is that it is a class problem, and there are many mechanisms at play that keep the rich rich and the poor poor.

That's the compassionate read on it.
Even if it were only white males suffering from cancel culture, this wouldn't be an argument that justifies the modern environment. That said, it isn't simply white, straight, upper class males being targeted:

* The dutch translator for Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem quit after backlash due to the fact that they are a white, nonbinary individual rather than a "spoken-word artist, young, female and unapologetically Black". This despite the fact that they were specifically chosen by Gorman, herself a black female. [0]

* Back in 2018, a black female student at Smith College complained of being discriminated against for "eating while black" because she was asked to leave an area that had been marked as off-limits to everyone. Subsequent investigations revealed the employees involved did nothing wrong and did not target the student. Despite this, the New York Times reported last week that they continue to receive harassment and threats. One woman, a cafeteria worker who suffers from chronic health issues, can't find employment because of it. The ACLU has continued to insist that the employees wronged the student, despite the result of the investigations. [1]

* The YA fiction scene is constantly embroiled in controversy, often due to perceived crimes against woke culture. In one notable instance, the author Amelie Wen Zhao, a Chinese-American immigrant, had her upcoming novel cancelled and her career derailed due to the story involving a society in which people could be enslaved on a basis not involving the color of their skin. [2]

* A highly praised science fiction short story published in Clarksworld magazine called "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter", written by a trans author who was repurposing the meme, was pulled (along with all of the author's future submissions) after intense public backlash towards the author by the Twitter woke mob. [3]

* Glenn Greenwald, a gay journalist, has been targeted in recent weeks as a "transphobe" for drawing attention to recent study defending a book questioning if young people are being pressured into transitioning too strongly against an ACLU lawyer who was publicly arguing the book should be censored, and for drawing attention to recent research regarding the skyrocketing rates of those who identify as LGBTQ in the youngest generations [4] [5]

Plenty of women, people of color, members of the LGBT community, and the poor are being targeted and harmed for not toeing the cultural party line. This cultish group think is dangerous for individuals, and it's dangerous for our society, regardless of who you are.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/01/amanda-gorman-...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/smith-college-race.htm...

[2] https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/in-ya-where-is-...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/17/sci-fi-magazin...

[4] https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-ongoing-death-of-free-s...

[5] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1364617687423471621
I didn't really hear much about outrage mobs and repeated celebrity firings over unpopular political opinions 10 years ago. Hear about them all the time now.
If the company has full-time employees (ie, it’s big enough to pay salaries) and is already considering building it, the “I’ll save them money building it” value proposition doesn’t seem very compelling.

If you’re really committed to this, convince them you’ll run and grow it bigger than they would internally - probably by being able to raise outside capital for it with them as a significant shareholder (alongside the VCs and you and this PM as founders). Tie your compensation to success - which means equity, not salary (at least until you’ve raised new capital). Get the PM onboard.

I think the odds of that working are still low, but “You have a shot at owning 30% of something valued at, and exiting for, millions” is at least interesting and would be hard to execute internally.
It's starting [0]. Andrew Neil is a guy who DESTROYED Ben Shapiro btw [1]

[0] https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1395314/Andrew-Ne...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VixqvOcK8E
I forked fish for fun into ghoti
Did you really need to investigate this to realize it's spyware?

This and chrome and most web browsers are spyware at this point.
I wonder if there's something like archive.is/fo/vn/??, but built on IPFS.
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This seems to assume some background knowledge of the situation, of which I had none. Here's a quick primer:

> He left The New York Times in 2021 following public reports of making racist remarks, including use of the word "nigger", during a 2019 trip to Peru with high school students. McNeil claims he intended to quote the word in a discussion about the use of the slur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McNeil_Jr.
From your article:

> Shor is still consulting in Democratic politics, but he is no longer working for a firm that restricts his freedom to publicly opine.

This is why claims of "cancel culture" aren't taken seriously. If he was "cancelled", but is still gainfully employed in the field of his choice and expertise what does "cancelled" really mean?
I truly don't understand, from a security and privacy perspective, why would anyone outside of China would voluntarily choose to run closed-source software from a company that's subject to domestic laws and regulations in China. The MSS is no joke.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=china+mss...

This is the same reason that Zoom is banned at my workplace and many other partner companies.

You've actually got two problems here. One is the commercial advertising/for-profit related data sharing problem described in the article. The second is that Xiaomi, as a company with that collected data resident in China on its servers, is obliged to provide a pipeline for a copy of their database to the MSS upon request.
Blacklisting and excommunication are exactly what is happening today, but the difference is that it's much worse in a global world.

In 200 BC, if you were excommunicated from a tribe, it would be horrible, but you could walk 20 miles and join another tribe that hasn't heard or bought into the ostracization.

In 2021 AD, if you are excommunicated from an industry on the internet, there's nowhere else you can physically go. The entire intellectual globe is connected online. Excommunication is now worse than it used to be -- it's global.
Surcase is often slower than ESBuild since it is single-threaded. The benchmark posted on its README forces ESBuild to run single-threaded, and is thus a bit misleading.
Its game over once you apologize. Never seen anyone recover from an apology. Never apologize to anyone who is unwilling to forgive you.
Honestly it was a lazy comment and I should've deleted it. Rather than derail this thread with an argument about Musk, I genuinely encourage you to downvote that comment (if you hadn't already replied to it I'd delete it).
I won't respond to every point, but I will say that yes - none of the responses I articulated are guaranteed outcomes, it' not black and white, however, they are rational, moreover there is a 100% chance that effective monetary policy is better than no monetary policy.

There is 100% chance of economic calamity if there is an external shock.

You can tie your boat to the dock with rope (flexible) or you can use boards and nail them to the dock and the boat (inflexible). As long as the boat stays in the same place, the planks are probably better than rope. But the moment the tide comes in or leaves (i.e. cycles in the economy) or a big wave hits (existential shock) - your planks are going to break and the ship will be wayward.

It is not an 'opinion' that as an economy expands, it needs 'more currency' or else prices get weird and the entire point of the currency fails.

And yes, as I said straight off in my comments, currency debasement is a legit problem.

As for 'trusting crypto' - it's pointless because BTC 'numbers' are completely worthless.

I would rather trust the a poorly managed 'World Bank Dollar' that maps 'Global Dollars' to assets in some roughly transparent way, then a 'distributed network of numbers' - which is basically ridiculous.

Bitcoin is a neat idea, worthy of experimentation, but most of the Bitcoin people a) don't understand currency or b) are on some level of the Ponzi koolaid latter or both.

Finally, none of this is to say that BTC won't take hold. If enough people want to use it for whatever, it will be used for that whatever. That doesn't mean it makes any sense, but we do a lot of things in this world that make no sense.
When your friend Steve comes to you to "borrow" $100 (that he'll never return), because he's short on rent, and he blew last of his cash on hookers and booze, it seems pretty reasonable and perfectly morally justified to either refuse outright, or condition your help on requirement that Steve gets a job, and quits his hookers and booze habit. Certainly, nobody would ever suggest that you have any obligation to enable Steve to live his desired lifestyle of leisure, hookers and booze.

However, when it's the government that comes and asks you to give them $100, so that they could in turn give it to Joe, an acquaintance of Steve living the same lifestyle that you have never even met, somehow now it is your moral obligation to pay up, as Joe clearly deserves your money. How does that work?
What does Google have to do with Xiaomi spyware?

Or Google being spyware somehow makes Xiaomi spyware less shitty?
I know this will get downvoted, but in the current state of affairs, I would rather have no press or journalists at all than this woke sanctimonious ministry of truth.
Apple’s increasing garden walls is better hiding places for elite hackers
It is advertised as a workstation board, so the lack of design considerations for a rack mounted chassis isn’t surprising. That said, with the power draw of the entire board a 2U chassis with a standard circular fan on the CPU and modest chassis airflow is likely to be sufficient.
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This would be better as a site (not a chrome extension– too much friction) that lets you follow your favorite HN users and see their posts, filtering by score optionally.

"Favoriting" a comment or HN post on HN ( a native HN feature ) could automatically follow the user. Just enter your username and go.
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The claim here isn't environmental impact (though that is also strongly correlated with cost), it's mass of waste. Moving mass around costs money. Making a factor of "hundreds" disappear would be extremely unusual, and in fact does not occur in this case.
Good point. That's why I don't have much of an issue with the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and blacklisting. Those people were accused by multiple colleagues...so there had to be a little more to the situation than what those people tried to explain.

edit: My original comment was something along the lines that if 4 people accuse someone of being a witch, then there must be something there. I edited my post within a minute, and no one had replied to it yet(from my perspective). Maybe HN should support append-only edits, because I didn't realize what I was doing was wrong. In my mind I was just rephrasing my point without using cliches("witch hunt")
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SNC's Dream Chaser is the only active vehicle I can think of that can fly on any rocket. But Dream Chaser is more like a 3rd stage than a 2nd stage, so it's not a direct comp.
Uber's referendum won in California.

I'm sure that people 'care', and I suppose I'm straw-manning those people.. I'm not straw-manning the system. Time and again, challenges to monetary order aren't permitted but puritanical word-propriety is encouraged. It's an energy outlet.
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It happened to Goya.
A few meters? That's the scenario where there's some runaway global warming and all the poles melt, right? Actual observed sea level rises are measured in millimeters per year. Historical trends can't lead to Miami needing to move several meters up unless you're talking about, like, 1000 years from now.

There are some problems with the assumption of a flooding crisis. The historical record from tide gauges have been retroactively altered over time, to make apparent level rises in modern times worse and level rises in older times less so (this seems to be a common theme with data from climatologists - they rewrite historical datasets to make the magnitude of changes seem larger).

Additionally at some point they switched to satellites and stopped using tide gauges but it's not clear that's more accurate and may actually be less accurate (but it did make the rises seem larger, so there's a conflict of interest there). In particular, NOAA and NASA disagree by a large amount on what the actual level of rise is. NOAA say it's about half what NASA say it is.
Interesting to see the quite loaded (and slightly archaic in 2020?) term "spyware" used to refer to Chinese software. I haven't seen it used to describe Facebook or Google software, even alongside all of the recent news stories highlighting their apps' tracking footprint by Apple's newer iPhone AppStore requirements.
Ignorant, zealous, eager to impress each other, and easily impressed by each other.
The article mentions C++ three times, all in contexts equating it with C. But C++, as it is coded today, is a very different language from C, and does not suffer from the problems that make C an extremely poor choice for starting any new project that might matter.

All the article's arguments for C apply substantially moreso to C++. Thus, the article leaves us with no objectively plausible reason ever to code in C, except where artificial constraints mandate it, or where merit doesn't matter. (I leave to the reader to decide where Linux and BSD kernels fit in that.)

There is especially no excuse for systemd to be coded in C.
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I am not sure what kind of word game are we playing here, but let me make it simple:

1) journalists are important to free press

2) free press is important to democracy

3) democracy is important to America

because of 1->2->3, journalists make America what it is.

Do you understand by this logic, basically any profession can fit "xxx make America what it is". At least "programmers make America what it is" is certainly true.