skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly why we should cherish the standard of moderation and equality that has been achieved, because it is that rare and precious and is so very easily lost. There are significant threats to this both from the left and the right, and they must be carefully guarded against. Cancel Culture hasn't destroyed it yet, but the people driving cancellations most definitely aim to suppress the voices of at least 40% of the country, and add insult to injury by falsely claiming that "only racists/fascists/etc. are canceled". As if Twitter mobs phoning in death threats were composed of good, rational people who can be trusted with the power to decide whether a person deserves to be seen as a human being or as scum.
I also spent much of my youth on Wotmud. :)
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What do you think of the claims of user "corty" elsewhere in this thread, who seems to say that nuclear isn't unsuitable for this situation?
This is built on IPFS. Almost all of the data is stored in ipfs. All the data is stored in IPLD format. We encrypt all the data, and hide as much metadata as we can (file names, file sizes, directory topology, the social graph). For this web hosting application we publish a read capability into the website root directory, which is what the gateway reads.

We have a fast implementation of mutable pointers (similar to IPNS - we plan to back it up to actual IPNS) which is what facilitates the instant updates.
I thought about this too when I was reading Crime and Punishment recently. The protagonist is described as very poor, but they still have a room in a house, and their room even includes house meals. Similarly with other poor characters; sometimes their space was just a sectioned off area of a bigger room (maybe like a floor-ceiling cubical). But hey, that's gotta be better than sleeping under a freeway for most people.
Relevant related post: A data pipeline is just a materialized view: https://nchammas.com/writing/data-pipeline-materialized-view
I'd argue the opposite.

The revenue potential of selling to the entire US government far outweighs the revenue potential of the rest of the world combined as Europe, China, and Russian already have national champions and closed launch markets.

Going with ITAR, and US sales, and US investors, is exactly why RocketLab became a US company. If you look at their flight manifest so far, it's certainly worked out for them!

Indeed, you can argue that ITAR is the single most effective industrial policy in the US by comparing the health of the US rocket manufacturing base to the relative health of all other US manufacturing industries.
> America's uniqueness is not democracy. There are many other countries are democratic and have free press and have journalists.

Most of those countries developed those things after America. Democracy, free press, etc. are absolutely vital to American identity. You can't take them away and be left with something recognizably "American."
Jailing anyone who owns a C++ compiler will stop all hackers, that would also seem to work.
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Well, my initial gut feeling is that SBCL should treat the internal recursion as a regular jump, just as the loop macro gets expanded to TAGBODY.
Sounds like a feature if you don't want people sticking their head in.
All of these risks existed in the past, but it was more difficult for opposition to organize into a sustained movement, because asynchronous communication was limited by the physics of time and space and the processes of gatekeepers.

The Web brought ease of publishing to anyone, and search engines and social networks brought fast keyword-based and topic-based discovery (sometimes automatically), so like-minded individuals can find themselves quicker than they could before. Your fans can organize fast, but so can your critics.

Having loud critics (or even detractors) isn't a problem in itself. But organized opposition can boycott businesses and make demands involving you that endanger your current livelihood and make it risky for others to work with you in the future. There is an unequal relationship between unproven authors and their publishers, promoters, and others who work with them. An author has a few publishers, but a publisher works with many authors. Given sustained publicity and economic pressure, most publishers will drop an author if keeping them results in harm to the publisher.

This lays bare the fact that authors were never truly free to say what they want to say, because they were frequently dependent on the goodwill, social support, and business support of others. It may appear that in the past, publishers were more principled and didn't cave to sustained loud demands, but it was more difficult to organized sustained loud demands, and various factors made such movements more vulnerable to be dismissed as fringe protests of an upset few instead of the legitimate will of the people.

What changed is the globalization of culture, aided by TV and the web, which made faraway events relevant and remote social movements compatible; the globalization of news enabled by the globalization of culture and aided by the 24/7 news cycle perpetuated by commercial TV news and commercial internet news organizations; and the willingness to people to take direct (in-)action against corporations (i.e. boycotts) that are easy to avoid, in pursuit of a cause framed by like-minded thought leaders as moral.

There is a lot to unpack in all of this. This is why boycotting your electricity company is much harder and significantly more rare than boycotting a publisher or an entertainment studio or some random company that worked with someone you don't like. This is why it seems like things were different in the past.

The fact is, in order to succeed in this changed world, authors must adapt too. Partition writing on different topics and different works by pen names. Self-publish. Market directly. Network with other authors in loose confederations; publish your future works under a new pen name in the same circles. Insulate your personal life from your professional life, and your professional authorships from each other. Reduce your risk that one upset about one thing in one work will wipe your entire life's work.
There were some orbital concepts that basically inflated a living space inside of an orange tank and stuck a few solar panels and radiators on the side. Shuttle trips were just too expensive to make it practical and with the ISS it would have been redundant.
I don't think most "corporate" programmers would consider themselves passionate. The nature of the work isn't something that passionate people would find fulfilling. As such, I'd venture to say that the vast majority of programmers aren't passionate (or they used to be, but now see it as a job).

The passionate ones are those who work on their own stuff. Either by figuring out how to monetize their passion projects, or working for Big Tech where you can get paid to continue your research. The passionate ones who don't future out how to work on their own projects are probably poor hires, since clearly they are missing some critical component to success in the industry.

I would argue that this particular attitude is probably going to stagnate your career.

> You can still be a quality developer even if:

> You don't tweet, or read blogs, or spend your free time learning new frameworks and languages.

The march of technology never stops. Either you:

- get lucky and work in a sub-field that doesn't have much change year-to-year, so you can stay there indefinitely.

- get lucky and work a job that offers enough flexibility that upskilling at work is possible.

- don't get lucky and have to upskill in your free time.

- slowly lose employment prospects.

Those first and last points are kind of related. I've seen people work at a company for years, then those years turn to decades, and they realize that they have no marketable skills outside of their current role because they never needed to grow.

Plus, if you don't stay abreast of technology trends, then the people you work with who do keep up will be the ones deciding the future technology of your company and you won't be in a position to gauge how good of a fit it will be or what your personal opinions of it are.

I do as much upskilling at work as possible, but there's just not enough time in the day to do billable work, while staying relevant. Especially since products aren't simple anymore. Most new products you'll be introduced to as a dev are complicated enough to warrant some training time before using.
AIM was actually a proto-social network. You had your buddy list and friends group, and a profile you could fill out. Your away message could be used as your status or to tweet your mood.
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I recall the scares about D&D and Satanism back in the day. The shoe is on the other foot now, weirdly backed by the corporations. Do you think it's organic or inculcated?
First of all I never said or implied that it was a "bastion of free speech"

> In the general case, you're not allowed to teach at Liberty unless you're a very specific type of conservative christian.

Let's not pretend that you are allowed to teach at Harvard, at least in certain departments, without a very specific political leaning. And certain other political leanings are not allowed in any department.

> A statement of faith is a required component of the faculty application packet.

UC requires a mandatory "diversity statement" for faculty job applications:

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There are even things like bass and replay.fish to deal with sourcing bash scripts
This pattern is kind of like what MicroSoft did in the ninties with their license agreement: it was contained in the shrink-wrapped box and the agreement said that by opening the shrink-wrap you've accepted the terms.

These accept-only 'consents' do the same type of trolling. Sometimes they even say on top of that that by using the site you accept their use of cookies. (Which is OK, as long as they only use essential, e.g. session cookies, but a lot of the time it's not the case.)
Some of that is that they don't have systems like maven or npm that would make it really easy to incorporate libraries into the build.

That said, what I like about C is that it is a simple language where you can throw out the standard library and start anew: it makes me think of the old versions of ALGOL that didn't specify mechanisms for I/O, and now we know you can specify that behavior in libraries and leave the language pure.
Id's would be more than good enough, and super easy to implement. Something like this

1. hello
2. [foo] This line is Foo
3. This line is Bar and connects to Foo
4. (foo)
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This is very well-put! But how do you reconcile this with people losing or being suspended from their jobs, for instance, for what they say? [1] [2]

It's hard to say that these people don't have the conviction to stand by their ideas. They are losing the right to speak in front of others because they are standing by their ideas.

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[2] https://www.bschools.org/blog/ucla-anderson-professor-suspen...
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Really interesting. But whether what Xiaomi browser does it's a spyware, what's is Google?

Does Google collects our navigation data? (Yes if we are using chrome or android and logged in)

Does Google knows what videos and what kind of videos do we watch? (Do you need an answer?)

Call it's a spyware because is a chinese company? Really? Nah. Google does the same or at least worst than it.

I'm neither defending Xiami nor Google. The question is: almost every application does data collection. And if you call it as spyware, therefore every app which does data collection is a spyware.
Apparently they emailed customers, see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/g11uuj/scaleway...
Thorough explanation, thank you.
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The accusers seem to be the students themselves and so were and may still be minors. If that is the case I don't think naming them in this situation would be the best thing to do.
Then stop it, or support the people who are. Vote with your feet and your wallet to the extent you can, and add your voice to the clamour. Don't just complain about the problem; complain about its instigation too. See if you can get just one change made; there are enough of us that that could add up.
>It screams to me "Let's have a Universal Basic Income" already.

I don't think people want poor people to exist. However no-one has solved the supply side of "Give everyone free money". Every time I ask if someone has actually figured out how to do this that isn't 3-4 times the current Federal Budget you get a bunch of hand waving.

Handing everyone $10,000/year (not even UBI levels) requires gathering $10,000/year in either service cuts, or increased taxation.

Even if we presume everyone over the poverty line gets $10,000 added to their taxes to cancel the benefit out. That still leaves us with a $10,000 hole for every person under the poverty line.

12.5% of American's live below the poverty line. That's 41,025,000 people. Which is an insane number. The $10,000 a year would be around $410 billion per year.

So if America eliminated the Military budget, they could pay for $10,000 to each person below the poverty line... however odds are laying off 70% of the Military would result in more people living below the poverty line.

It's possible, however no-one wants to highlight what 410 billion dollars a year can be cut from a budget, or who wants to pay 410 billion dollars a year in extra taxes.. additionally that number is based on a _very_ low amount of $10,000. If you wanted to hand out top ups to the poverty line in America it would cost even more money.
- retarded is a slur, people with special needs don't want to be called that. not sure why this is controversial

- this is just normal language change. we use different words than we did in the 50s.

- queer and gay are both still used, and in fact are both part of LGBTQ, so this doesn't actually fit the pattern youre trying to show.

- native american is just a better term? indian is confusing given that there is also a country called "india"

- can a person be "illegal"? undocumented worker is just a more correct term.

- this and the undocumented worker one are probably the only ones in here that actually fit the pattern youre trying to show.

- people ask not to be called he/she and we oblige. I don't see how this is similar to newspeak.

- bum is clearly a pejorative term, and because many of us don't dislike homeless people a priori, we don't use this term.

there's nothing sinister going on here. It's crazy to me that people are really clutching their pearls over not being able to call people "retards" and "negroes"
I totally agree, the same way many games are. But in the context of saying "x is by far most successful y on the planet" I think we have to stop somewhere. Otherwise an open game like GTA V becomes the most successful game (in terms of copies sold) in pretty much every category you can't reasonably stick Minecraft in. I don't think there's much value in that.
> The world has enough resources to feed, clothe, and house everyone.

this is kind of reductive claim. in one sense, it's trivially true that the earth has more raw resources than humans can consume even over the course of centuries. AFAIK it's also true that, under the current system of organization, the global economy produces enough finished goods to feed, clothe, and house everyone (though people often bring up logistical caveats here, eg, distributing stuff in places where there are no paved roads or airfields).

the real question here is whether we would still have that quantity of finished goods under a different system of organization with different incentives. to be clear, I don't discount the possibility that we might have even more! but it seems more likely to me that people would simply produce less stuff if they didn't get to keep the surplus by default.
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The article was changed since my original comment.
> Most of these essays about "passion not required" are missing the point.

I'd argue that they're aiming for the idiots who are selectively hiring for someone's passion for software development.

So long as these people exist, these essays have value. If only one person is convinced that maybe, just maybe, selecting for passion is a bad idea when hiring, the essay has done its job admirably.
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I'm using a firewall to block tens of IP addresses and several apps.

Why would Xiaomi tell me to download a 26MB update from their store if the one from Google Play, where I downloaded the app it's less than 15MB?

I'll be getting rid of this phone by the end of the month.
If you had a gay character in a sitcom in the 70s-80s you would similarly get a bunch of people calling your employer.

There's totally a difference, but you honestly think that this is a new thing that never used to happen?
$750, right on SolidRun’s website. Given the specs it’s a fair price, although a 8-core Ryzen CPU would indeed run circles around 16 Cortex A72 cores.
Cool, can you link to prior projects you built?
When did you honestly reach for 'Negro' and feel impeded?

In my opinion, trying to use less intentionally hurtful terms when identifying other human beings seems a far cry from erasing all 'potentially dangerous' concepts from our thoughts, even things as mundane as the word 'bad'.

But, uh, interesting list of specific gripes.
Read an article on this last week. With the internet sucking up all the advertising revenue, journalism is turning into propaganda in order to try to retain patronage. It's eating them from the inside out.

https://thedispatch.com/p/words-as-weapons-how-activist-jour...
the freemium in itself is certainly legal. In the case of spiegel though it's really accepting tracking for the free articles. sz.de e.g. has the usual toggle option for the different cookies.
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me as it is.

I open it and at least on desktop I get the author's full thread (3 tweets) which was him just sharing a thought with his followers, and then each tweet has optional context with people and the author making further comments. Then you just dig in or you drop out.

Let me know if I'm wrong, but I think you just expected a full article out of someone who was just simply briefly sharing an experience where a tool that's still fairly unknown in the industry proves its usefulness for everyday usecases. IMO that's valuable on its own.